Daily Archive for June 3rd, 2008

Argh! Programmer Stupidity!

So, I’ve been trying to run down a problem with a web app I’m working on since about 2 p.m. today. Since then I’ve probably put about five hours into finding the “problem.”

This particular app stores its data in an XML database. I thought that the app wasn’t saving part of the data, because every time I updated the data on my local copy and checked the XML file, the file didn’t reflect the changes I’d made.

I just discovered the problem. Although I was testing the app locally, I was checking the XML data from the development VPS at the datacenter. Kind of hard for my local copy to update the database at the datacenter.

I think this means it’s time for a break …