The Little Bug

Sunday, April 23. 2006

Earlier today I had an application I'm building working beautifully. I was a little surprise that I'd finished it already and that it was working so well. I left it for a few hours to do some other things. Before I left I changed the name of the application and changed the directory of the application to reflect the application's new name.

I come back and it isn't working. I look into my code, see nothing wrong. I think oh no, I must have some fundamental flaw that is throwing it off. I was scared of finding the bug because it would probably take many hours of programming to fix. I can't even find the bug.

I found the bug. I'd changed the directory name the application resides in. A url in the program was mapped to the old directory name. Fixed one line of code and everything works again. Man, those little intimidating bugs -- which are really nothing at all -- are annoying.

Posted by Nick Mudge in programming at 21:07 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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I wonder if using PHP Constants (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php) would help avoid these kind of bugs in the future? I usually go farther and define a variable in my main config file to keep track of any directory names I'm going to need to use, that way nothing is hard-coded into the code.

#1 Aaron Parecki (Link) on 2006-04-25 20:26 (Reply)

Yea Aaron, thanks. I think I need to use constants more . I haven't been using them like at all. I guess this is an example of why it should be done.

Writing little programs has made me think I can be really sloppy, but I'm realizing that if you write a lot of little programs and have to manage all of them, similar to a bigger project, it matters.

#2 Nick Mudge (Link) on 2006-04-25 21:30 (Reply)

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