You would not believe how much time I have wasted. Sometime last night I made a modification to the embedded code that I am writing. What I did was to have two identical define statments. Basically a line like ‘#DEFINE ABC 123’ which says that in the code replace every instance of ABC in the code with 123. The problem was that I had two lines like this in the code

And then what was happening was that the code refused to compile properly with an error. This would have been fine, except that the although the compiler saw an error, the IDE editor did not. And it thought that things had worked. And then decided to upload the code anyway.

I must have spent a few hours this morning editing code, and not getting anywhere… And more last night… all because of a minor error… Where is that subsistence farm for me to work on?

ARS Technical have places a disection of the Video iPod on their WWW site. Very interesting read.