Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer

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Today's deep thought

In the absence of any other compelling knowledge, take the message of an exception at face value. Don't make up elaborate reasons in your own mind. If it says the .Net 2.0 SDK isn't installed, just go install it. Doh.

Also remember Occam's Razor too.

Published Apr 23 2007, 12:02 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

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jdn said:

Amen.

Just last week, I had a SQL script tell me "either the object doesn't exist or you don't have permissions."

So, I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out why I suddenly didn't have permissions to something I had previously. Called over the DBA to look at it with me.

Of course, I was executing the script in the wrong DB, so the object it was looking for didn't exist.

# April 23, 2007 2:37 PM

Jeremy D. Miller said:

Oh man, I've done that one a few times.

# April 23, 2007 3:13 PM

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About Jeremy D. Miller

Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.

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