This afternoon I taught the team lead at ClientCo how to use a debugger properly - breakpoints, working out where to actually put the breakpoints, conditional breakpoints. I think he's now convinced that it's actually better than sprinkling print statements everywhere
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostThis afternoon I taught the team lead at ClientCo how to use a debugger properly - breakpoints, working out where to actually put the breakpoints, conditional breakpoints. I think he's now convinced that it's actually better than sprinkling print statements everywhere"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostIt's a thing.
FFS you can watch YouTube videos on EVERYTHING technical and if it's not on YouTube it's on Stack Exchange."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostThis afternoon I taught the team lead at ClientCo how to use a debugger properly - breakpoints, working out where to actually put the breakpoints, conditional breakpoints. I think he's now convinced that it's actually better than sprinkling print statements everywhere
There is definitely a time and place for "got here" debug method but only when you have zero control over the environment....merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostI know how to use a debugger I'm just puzzled how someone can get to be a team leader without learning that skill.
FFS you can watch YouTube videos on EVERYTHING technical and if it's not on YouTube it's on Stack Exchange.
So there are various things that you'd think any developer would know that they haven't really come across, and a number of weird practices that I keep railing against, such as sharing one database among us rather than us each running our own - they're finally giving way on that one though.
I still haven't convinced him that the idea behind the Django ORM is that you define the model classes and let the system generate the database schema from them, rather than his approach of defining the schema and then beating the model classes into a shape that kind-of-fits. Still, I managed to correct his belief that foreign keys were probably more trouble than they're worth, so there's still hopeComment
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I should add, however, that they're actually turning out some very impressive work by any standards, even if some of the approaches used at the start, and some still lingering, were a bit weirdComment
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