Comments on: Zen and the Art of Bugfixing http://www.sifry.com/alerts/2003/03/zen-and-the-art-of-bugfixing/ Dave Sifry's Musings Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:38:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: SkipK http://www.sifry.com/alerts/2003/03/zen-and-the-art-of-bugfixing/comment-page-1/#comment-2792 SkipK Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:39:38 +0000 http://www.sifry.org/alerts/?p=137#comment-2792 Very interesting article, David. Usually when I finally fix a tough bug, I don't have the patience to sit down and analyze the process I went through to fix it. I see now that doing that can be very beneficial, not only to me but to others as well. I'm also going to run out and buy "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"! Very interesting article, David.
Usually when I finally fix a tough bug, I don’t have the patience to sit down and analyze the process I went through to fix it. I see now that doing that can be very beneficial, not only to me but to others as well.
I’m also going to run out and buy “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”!

]]> By: Tim http://www.sifry.com/alerts/2003/03/zen-and-the-art-of-bugfixing/comment-page-1/#comment-2791 Tim Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:00:41 +0000 http://www.sifry.org/alerts/?p=137#comment-2791 Pirsig has a 10 page section, somewhere around pg 95 if I recall correctly (I am doing this from 20 year old memory), that has one of the best descriptions of the scientific method and of debugging that I have ever read. I assume your quote comes from somewhere in that section. My old Geology professor, Bruce Simonson, used to hand out those 10 pages at the beginning of the semester in every class he taught. I remember it supposedly talking about how to find what is causing a problem with a motorcycle, but it talking about a lot more. Thanks for the memory flashback. Pirsig has a 10 page section, somewhere around pg 95 if I recall correctly (I am doing this from 20 year old memory), that has one of the best descriptions of the scientific method and of debugging that I have ever read. I assume your quote comes from somewhere in that section.
My old Geology professor, Bruce Simonson, used to hand out those 10 pages at the beginning of the semester in every class he taught. I remember it supposedly talking about how to find what is causing a problem with a motorcycle, but it talking about a lot more.
Thanks for the memory flashback.

]]> By: Peter http://www.sifry.com/alerts/2003/03/zen-and-the-art-of-bugfixing/comment-page-1/#comment-2790 Peter Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:08:20 +0000 http://www.sifry.org/alerts/?p=137#comment-2790 Nice work. I just kicked myself this morning for calling the telephone repair guy regarding something I surely could have figured out with more patience. Of course, I still haven't resolved why the police came to my house twice responding to 911 calls when the phone service was totally dead. Excuse me while I go figure. Nice work. I just kicked myself this morning for calling the telephone repair guy regarding something I surely could have figured out with more patience. Of course, I still haven’t resolved why the police came to my house twice responding to 911 calls when the phone service was totally dead. Excuse me while I go figure.

]]> By: Peter http://www.sifry.com/alerts/2003/03/zen-and-the-art-of-bugfixing/comment-page-1/#comment-2789 Peter Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:08:08 +0000 http://www.sifry.org/alerts/?p=137#comment-2789 Nice work. I just kicked myself this morning for calling the telephone repair guy regarding something I surely could have figured out with more patience. Of course, I still haven't resolved why the police came to my house twice responding to 911 calls when the phone service was totally dead. Excuse me while I go figure. Nice work. I just kicked myself this morning for calling the telephone repair guy regarding something I surely could have figured out with more patience. Of course, I still haven’t resolved why the police came to my house twice responding to 911 calls when the phone service was totally dead. Excuse me while I go figure.

]]> By: David Sifry http://www.sifry.com/alerts/2003/03/zen-and-the-art-of-bugfixing/comment-page-1/#comment-2788 David Sifry Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:26:41 +0000 http://www.sifry.org/alerts/?p=137#comment-2788 Heh. Basically, I did a regex search looking for underscores and percent marks, and them made sure to escape them with a single backslash. HTH! Dave Heh. Basically, I did a regex search looking for underscores and percent marks, and them made sure to escape them with a single backslash.
HTH!
Dave

]]> By: Jason D- http://www.sifry.com/alerts/2003/03/zen-and-the-art-of-bugfixing/comment-page-1/#comment-2787 Jason D- Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:32:33 +0000 http://www.sifry.org/alerts/?p=137#comment-2787 How did you tell MySQL to ignore the wildcards? I think you just solved one of my pesky blogrolling problems ;-) How did you tell MySQL to ignore the wildcards? I think you just solved one of my pesky blogrolling problems ;-)

]]> By: Jason D- http://www.sifry.com/alerts/2003/03/zen-and-the-art-of-bugfixing/comment-page-1/#comment-3182 Jason D- Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:32:33 +0000 http://www.sifry.org/alerts/?p=137#comment-3182 How did you tell MySQL to ignore the wildcards? I think you just solved one of my pesky blogrolling problems ;-) How did you tell MySQL to ignore the wildcards? I think you just solved one of my pesky blogrolling problems ;-)

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