Helpful Error Messages

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Monday, May 21, 2007

Bug fixing web services at 8.30am on a Monday morning is not really that much fun. The first 2 coffees haven’t even started kicking in yet. And a crashing IDE doesn’t usually help the situation along either.

Usually doesn’t – but the error message returned to me today has added a slight spring to my (normally lifeless) Monday morning step:

Helpful Resharper error message
Thank you ReSharper, you’ve given me hope for an enjoyable week ahead…

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3 Comments

kay wrote:

That is *awesome*. I bet that wasn’t ever meant to make it into release code :)

Monday, May 21, 2007 at 4:06 pm | Permalink
s wrote:

need to share with a larger audience
http://worsethanfailure.com/Default.aspx

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 9:38 am | Permalink
stubbs wrote:

thats what my brain tells me most mornings

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 11:51 am | Permalink

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