Dev Tool Bugs, Assumptions, and a Tiny Bit of Advice

[jbv]

Dan Shafer a *crit :

>  or even by asking my
> wife to sit patiently while I go over my code line by line
> (incomprehensible jibberish to her), during the course of which it is
> amazing how many things suddenly crystallize.
>

if by that you mean that the action of explaining step by step
what you are trying to do to someone else (even someone who
doesn't understand a word) often helps finding the origin of the
problem and/or a solution, I must say that it's a well known fact
in psychology : putting a problem into words for a third party is
a very efficient way to solve it (or at least get closer to the solution)
and I've been practicing it for years (and not only in coding).

JB