What’s Your Recent ‘Gotcha?’
Published: July 9th, 2008I hate “Gotcha’s”; unfortunately, it’s part of the programming career. Over the years I’ve had a ton that made me want to pull the hair right off of my head!
The Idea
I think it would be a cool idea for everyone to share their latest “Gotcha’s”. Either for knowledge, entertainment, or downright pity.
My Scenario
My latest gotcha deserves a “special programmer award”, and by special, I mean short-bus special. I was doing some work on one of my projects and for some reason none of the changes were taking place when I refreshed the page. Changes in the model, changes in HTML, and it’s not updating live? What the heck? It shouldn’t need a server restart at this point, I thought to myself. Oh well, what the hey, I’ll go ahead and restart the server. Any luck? You guessed it, no. So “WTF” could be going on? Well, it finally dawned on me.
The Gotcha
I was refreshing the staging server of the project, instead of the local development version. Talk about a homer-doh moment.
Your Turn
What’s your latest “Gotcha?”
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