Kristian Lyngstøl's Blog

Expensive debugging

Posted on 2009-02-05

So a friend of mine from the Beryl-days is working on GNOME Do (http://do.davebsd.com/index.shtml), and had this to say:

< DBO> so I wrote a pizza party plugin for GNOME Do that orders
       pizza's from pizza hut right from Do. Fantastic stuff, I
       worked on it and finally tried it.  And low and behold, 45
       minutes later I had a pizza
< DBO> and then 2 minutes later I had the same pizza guy back
       curious why I had ordered two pizzas on separate tickets
< DBO> and then I realized that this could become very expensive to
       debug...