Solving Stuff
Posted: Fri 24 March, 2006 Filed under: Geeky 3 Comments »As yet I’m still undecided about this one. I don’t know if it’s a) really, really sad, or b) no bad thing to be able to do it.
Anyway – on Wednesday, Gordon sent me a piece of PHP code he couldn’t get working, and asked if I could help. Bear in mind that the first mail I got was at half eleven at night, and Gordon got a response within about 10-15 minutes, and you’ll begin to realise just how sad I actually am on occasion…
However, the first fix didn’t work. Well, it did, but not in the way Gordon wanted. So another idea came to me, and got sent off, and that didn’t work either – but gave me some more information on what needed doing.
And lo, Fix The Third worked perfectly. So everyone’s happy.
I do find, though, that I actually enjoy fixing this kind of thing though – it’s something I’m good at, and – and this is the sad bit – get quite a sense of satisfaction out of. So, is it sad, or no bad thing?
Obviously I”m not going to contradict you but I will say this. You obviously take pleasure and have enthusiasm for this kind of thing, evidenced by the follow up email to explain how the code worked. I work with software developers every day and I wish more of them had your kind of attitude. And no, I’m not just saying this to keep you sweet for the next time I run into problems (well… not ONLY….)
Not sad, not sad at all.
No bad thing Lyle.