Side comment: it's curious how the author went from "not my code", to "the problem was in the code". I say this because as a low level/system developer, I ofte

Side comment: it's curious how the author went from "not my code", to "the problem was in the code". I say this because as a low level/system developer, I often have to solve problems for the people integrating my platforms from higher level languages. When something doesn't work they come to me, and it often goes like this (with quotes from the article): First stage: someone else's fault. "the problem is environmental: a network topology issue, a bad or missing connection string" Second stage: magical things, but not my code. "Not my code ... the problem occurs somewhere in the framework" Third stage: acceptance. "Global variables are evil. Who knew? ... It took me hours to find the bug, and ten seconds to fix it."