Comments on: Programming is like sex http://www.twobraincells.com/2006/07/09/programming-is-like-sex/ Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:12:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: wild electrons http://www.twobraincells.com/2006/07/09/programming-is-like-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-23 wild electrons Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:28:17 +0000 http://www.twobraincells.com/2006/07/09/programming-is-like-sex/#comment-23 "One little thing going wrong can ruin everything." The first time I incorporated a system (client-side and server-side) to check for (and then download and install) program updates automatically, I got one tiny little detail completely wrong. And this caused much havoc for me and much havoc for my users :) Until the day I stopped supporting that program, I had to create hugely inelegant work-arounds on the server side code (and in subsequent versions' client-side code), and wished I'd never done that silly (1-line) mistake... “One little thing going wrong can ruin everything.”

The first time I incorporated a system (client-side and server-side) to check for (and then download and install) program updates automatically, I got one tiny little detail completely wrong. And this caused much havoc for me and much havoc for my users :) Until the day I stopped supporting that program, I had to create hugely inelegant work-arounds on the server side code (and in subsequent versions’ client-side code), and wished I’d never done that silly (1-line) mistake…

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