Developer Fails of the day

[AndiS]

A friend made me use GIT for the first time. I must say that versioning tools like that can be great. A bit of an effort to set them up, and if you forget to regularly check in your changes, you are as shot as you are if you don't save. But if you manage to make that your second nature, you get nice stuff like coloured comparisons of file versions. That would have drawn your attention to the deleted name, or any entered 7.

It should also be fine for route building. You feed it with Tracks.bin and the Track Tiles folder all the time and it stores all these versions. Until now, I rename them to keep multiple copies which is important as you never know how long it will take until you find your mistake, so the good copy could get overwritten.

[Nobkins]

I use SVN for TPR. Works a treat but have to be careful with the track files as only one person can edit at once without corruption.

Jim

[JamesLit]

I've got a great fail to post here when I'm back at home later... hehehe. Complete with pics, of course.

[Smokebox]

I use SVN for TPR. Works a treat but have to be careful with the track files as only one person can edit at once without corruption.

Jim

At work, I used to use SVN, with the Tortoise client for Windows. I really ought to set it up on the computers at home. I've just been too lazy.

[AndiS]

I've just been too lazy.

Me too. But often I wonder if this was a mistake. But then again, learning all the GIT terminology was exactly what I did not want to do back then.

And just to be clear, any version control tool will do. I have no idea how many tribes of them there are out there, I just saw that as always there are different ones, threatening to multiply my learning effort - what a waste. So I stuck with the web interface of Bitbucket in that case, but that was just a handful of text files we worked on for just a little while.

[Nobkins]

Tortoise client for Windows and any SVN server on the T'internet works very well. If doing this just for one person route building (or anything else) then an excellent backup system.

For multi-people route building you just have to ensure that everyone works in their own area of the route (so that no one edits the same route tile at the same time and that only one person ever edits the track at once (because it uses a single track database file).

[cjbarnes5294]

A regular fail for me is remembering to use the correct syntax for the correct language. Writing "if else" in lua just now obviously broke it, but I'm so used to writing that these days for C++. Likewise, forgetting to add parentheses in C++ because you don't need them in lua for if-else statements or loops, but at least Visual Studio will flag that up, whereas I can be completely oblivious to errors in lua in Notepad++. A nice lua IDE wouldn't go amiss.

Chris

[Smokebox]

A regular fail for me is remembering to use the correct syntax for the correct language. Writing "if else" in lua just now obviously broke it, but I'm so used to writing that these days for C++. Likewise, forgetting to add parentheses in C++ because you don't need them in lua for if-else statements or loops, but at least Visual Studio will flag that up, whereas I can be completely oblivious to errors in lua in Notepad++. A nice lua IDE wouldn't go amiss.

Chris

I started using SciTE recently. Just seeing keywords and comments in different colours is an improvement.

[cjbarnes5294]

A regular fail for me is remembering to use the correct syntax for the correct language. Writing "if else" in lua just now obviously broke it, but I'm so used to writing that these days for C++. Likewise, forgetting to add parentheses in C++ because you don't need them in lua for if-else statements or loops, but at least Visual Studio will flag that up, whereas I can be completely oblivious to errors in lua in Notepad++. A nice lua IDE wouldn't go amiss.

Chris

I started using SciTE recently. Just seeing keywords and comments in different colours is an improvement.

Ooooh, cheers, I'll have a look!

Chris

[Kernow]

I'm not a developer but wanted to confess my latest C--k up on the photography front.
Sir Nigel Gresley , resplendent in the South Devon sunshine, came to Kingswear last week (I live in Paignton) wow - fantastic! Off with my DSLR to capture the moment! Went to a fav vantage point with the sun in the right place, got stung to bits by nettles however the scene was set.
Train came.. fantastic - many pictures taken rushed home to see the results.. and...

My memory card was still sat in the card reader and so the event went unrecorded by me and my stinging nettle wounds began to throb..

David Bailey rtd.