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Temporary Fixes Are Permanent Fixes

Published: 6/11/2009 | Updated: 6/11/2009 |  Discuss

A somber reminder that temporary (aka “quick and dirty”) fixes almost always become permanent:

/*
* Note: this problem may have been fixed already.
* I stopped using the session array method for handling things.
* This may have fixed it. I’ll test later.
*/

And “later” never came…

Comments

Comment permalink 1 Scott Muc | Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Sad yet so true. I've been guilty of that so many times. I refuse to do a quick hack now, but it usually ends up in an argument where someone says "getting it out is the priority". My usual rebuke is to say "agreed, but let's not deploy crap".

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