Special

Introducing the “Welcome to Xojo” Bundle!

New to Xojo and looking for guidance? We've put together a terrific bundle to welcome you! Xojo Bundle

This bundle includes six back issues of the magazine -- all of year 21 in printed book and digital formats -- plus a one-year subscription (beginning with 22.1) so you'll be learning all about Xojo for the next year. It's the perfect way to get started programming with Xojo. And you save as much as $35 over the non-bundle price!

This offer is only available for a limited time as supplies are limited, so hurry today and order this special bundle before the offer goes away!

Article Preview


Buy Now

Issue 8.6

COLUMN

Failure is Always an Option

Just make sure you learn from it

Issue: 8.6 (September/October 2010)
Author Bio: Bob is the owner of BKeeney Software. In addition to providing REALbasic consulting, he provides REALbasic training videos (currently over 20 hours worth), and sells software to consumers and developers. He is the current President of the Association of REALbasic Professionals.
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 4,812
Starting Page Number: 78
Article Number: 8611
Related Link(s): None

Excerpt of article text...

I recently read an interview of Fred Brooks who wrote the 1975 classic, The Mythical Man Month. In the interview he is quoted as saying, "You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work."

If you are a MythBusters fan, like me, you know that "Failure is Always an Option" is one of their slogans. Because the show is exploring if weird accidents are possible, failure is instructive, and perhaps more so, than a successful test. I believe this to be absolutely true and not just for the MythBusters but for us REALbasic developers as well.

In my engineering days, failures happened (hopefully with no one getting hurt) and when it did we performed some intense research to figure out how to eliminate the failure so that it didn't happen again or how to warn people when it failed again (because sometimes you can't stop things from failing).

...End of Excerpt. Please purchase the magazine to read the full article.