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By: Two thoughts from class

Two thoughts from class — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:42:57 +0000

[...] Very quickly the students had the idea of using the Error Console as a way of logging debug info. The code where we were working was all C++ instead of JavaScript (all examples on how to use the Error Console from code are in JavaScript), so we had to start by understanding how to use it from native code. Doing this without the help of MXR makes the work more painful, since you can’t go and look for examples in the code. However, we worked slowly, and by the end of the class had 80% of the solution done. All that remained was to figure out some tricky bits of the string API. [...]

By: Machinations

Machinations — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:18:47 +0000

[...] doing the same thing. I’ll have much to say in the coming weeks about the importance of failure, and also how to succeed. But both failure and success look the same from the proper [...]

By: Living on the Edge « Test Blog

Living on the Edge « Test Blog — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:06:25 +0000

[...] In a web of blogs relating to each other via the topic of failure, I came across this quote from here: “I’ve come to understand that if I’m not making mistakes it means I’m not trying hard [...]

By: Bread and Circuits » Mozilla Education: what getting involved looks like

Bread and Circuits » Mozilla Education: what getting involved looks like — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:03:55 +0000

[...] get to the end of a project, and the conclusion was, “This can’t be done.” Failure is data, and good failure will have a long paper trail and evidence of participation and honest [...]

By: Bread and Circuits » Toward an understanding of failure and coping

Bread and Circuits » Toward an understanding of failure and coping — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:44:11 +0000

[...] wrote previously about a personal experience of failure as a way of exploring ideas that I want to elaborate on [...]