Anyone who slings code for a living knows the feeling all too well: your code is running fine and dandy one minute, and the next minute is throwing exceptions. You’d swear on a stack of O’Reilly books ...

When debugging a program, instead of quietly struggling in front of the screen, there is a technique called ' rubber duck debugging ' in which you explain the code line by line to a rubber duck doll ...

You’re neck-deep in IKEA assembly instructions. Furniture parts lie strewn across the floor. Your new purchase sits half-complete in front of you, mocking your fruitless hours. As an uninterested ...

Mike Couch is a Managing Partner at Couch & Associates where he tackles marketing and technology challenges for brands around the world. At our martech agency, where I serve as CEO and managing ...

Have you ever started asking someone to help you solve a problem, and halfway through, you figure it out yourself? It feels great. It feels even better when you learn to do it on purpose—and when you ...

All software has bugs. This is a fact that anyone who has been in the software development business knows. It would be incredibly cost prohibitive to try and root out every minor defect in an ...

A yellow rubber duck as a problem solver — a tried and tested trick from the IT scene: In so-called rubber duck debugging, you explain your own problem to a plastic bird step by step and often ...