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my most humbling moment

October 19, 2007 - 2:02 PM

As programmers we spend a large amount of time debugging our applications. Once we find the bug we look back and say "Of course! It is so obvious. I can't believe I didn't see that before." While it is never something as simple as a missing semi-colon, we often joke that it is. Now I know why.

After spending the better part of six hours debugging a manually written HTTP POST the missing semi-colon has been found and a good portion of my sanity lost.

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