--- On Sun, 3/28/10, Adam Heath <[email protected]> wrote: > Adrian Crum wrote: > > --- On Sun, 3/28/10, Adam Heath <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> That's not a useful response. "Just trust > me" is not > >> helpful. If you > >> know why something will work, and someone obvious > >> doesn't(me), then > >> just go ahead and explain it. Doing a bunch > of > >> hand-waving just gives > >> the hand-waver a feeling of superiority, and makes > the > >> receiver feel > >> inferior. > > > > One of the things I try to do whenever the opportunity > presents > > itself, is to meet other OFBiz developers in person. I > believe > > doing so helps us understand each other better. > > > > One of the drawbacks with mailing list collaboration > is the > > inability to know the other collaborators personally. > That leads > > to messages having feelings and motives assigned to > them that > > don't belong there. This is one of those cases. > > You're on my short list......... > > > > > > of people I'd like to meet in person. > > > I don't feel superior to any other developer. In my > mind we are > > all peers. In this particular reply, I was viewing > *you* as being > > superior - you are a programming guru in my opinion. > When you > > seemed puzzled by (what I thought was) a very simple > code > > construct, I *assumed* you just hadn't looked at it > carefully > > enough and I was sure it would make sense if you just > looked at > > it again, or tried it out on your local copy. I would > have > > explained it in more detail to anyone else. > > I wasn't puzzled by it. From a very quick glance, I > knew that it > would have problems with real-world parameters. I was > just trying to > get you to explain to me what you were trying to do.
Understood. You pointed out a flaw in the logic, I agreed with you and reverted it. Then I took a little break and asked myself how I can prevent that from happening again. It boils down to me having worked as a one man programming team for so long. It was common for me to commit code like that because I knew how it worked and I understood what not to do with it. Of course, that approach doesn't fly in this project. I try not to allow myself to commit code like that, but it still happens anyway. Maybe after enough embarrassing reverts I'll finally learn my lesson. :-) -Adrian
