One of the problems I’ve suffered from all my working life is an inability to sleep when something is bugging me about the program I’m working on. Currently, it’s 3:56 am and I’m at my computer because I was tossing and turning thinking of various things I had to try to figure out what’s going wrong, and so I had to get up to try them. Unfortunately, those things didn’t work, so I had to try other things, and here it is 2 hours later and I’m not closer to fixing the original problem, and no closer to going to sleep.
I’d say this inability to shut out a problem and go to sleep was a major problem, but by the same token I like to tell myself that it’s this single minded determination to get things right that makes me so good at programming, so I guess I have to take the one with the other.
And now it’s 4:03, and my latest test is getting
fetch of http://localhost/Documents/pharma/DocSamples/CHINA.doc failed with: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem.getRoot()Lorg/apache/poi/poifs/filesystem/DirectoryNode;
so it looks like sleep isn’t any closer.