For those of you who keep track of this sort of thing (or, in fact, care at all), I'm a software developer. We use Outlook at work for scheduling meetings and whatnot. I've been using the Outlook tasks to keep track of things that I want to deal with in my projects (since our bug tracking system is very official, and it would be a nightmare if I were actually to use it for an unreleased code base under active development).
Anyway, I just found the following task in there:
"There is probably a bug"
I mean, I will admit that I found one and fixed it, but I'm not sure that I can justifiably remove that from my task list. Ever. It's like a dime that got glued to the bottom of the change jar by the sublimation of a starlight mint that you dropped in by accident last year, and never bothered pulling out. I mean, there's always a bug. That's one of the things that keep programmers in their jobs!
Potentially that's a bad belief for me to have. But still, there we are.
Comments (1)
Plan for removing the dime glued to the jar:
Add a known bug to the project, or if that is too much against your instinct just hope to find another, then before attending to the problem revisit your outlook tasks and hey - this item can be removed, for it is no longer merely probable there is a bug, it is a given.
Keep posting - your blog is huge.
Posted by armadillo | June 1, 2007 6:02 PM
Posted on June 1, 2007 18:02