2:00 PM

Max: The bug that was holding me is now fixed. Like a lot of bugs, it turned out to be just a stupid mistake. Generally when I run into a bug that like this I spend a little time to thinking about what I can do to prevent a similar problem in the future. In this case there's a code change I could make that would auto-detect the problem if I made the same mistake again, but that add some ugliness to the code so I'm not going to do that.

Instead I realize that an approach the my partner Charlie uses would have caught this problem and others like it. His technique is to watch line-by-line the execution of any new code he writes so that he knows it's doing exactly what he intends. I've always recognized the value of doing that, but I've often dismissed it as not worth the effort. In this case that would have been difficult because of the Visual Studio issues I mentioned previously, but I'm going to adopt that as standard practice whenever possible. I consider myself an experienced programmer, but that doesn't mean you can't learn new things and continue to grow!

Charlie: Fixed Paypal donation problem that was appeared when moving from the test environment to the production environment. Hung out with Keith in chat to help him get started and answer his questions.