The Seapine View

Did you know you’re automatically entered to win an Apple iPod every time you complete a Seapine Software support survey? René Routhier completed the survey last quarter and was randomly selected as the winner of the iPod this quarter. Congratulations René!

Every time you complete a Seapine Software support survey, you are entered into a quarterly drawing for an Apple iPod. Jeff Boehm completed the survey last quarter and was randomly selected as the winner of the iPod. Congratulations Jeff!

Every time you complete a Seapine Software support survey, you are entered into a quarterly drawing for an Apple iPod. Janis Hickman completed the survey last quarter and was randomly selected as the winner of the iPod. Congratulations Janis!

I worked with a developer once who was troubleshooting a defect I found, and after trying to duplicate it his response was “it works fine on my machine.” He was technically correct (it did work fine on his machine), and he wasn’t trying to avoid solving the problem, he was merely commenting that the code was functioning properly on his system. After working on it for some time, we found that at one point in the past he had an older version of the software on his machine which included a library file that was missing from the new version. Hence, when he ran the program it functioned properly, yet on a new install it would fail.

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