Silly Programming screw ups (funny)

[Mike Mahar]

In 2007 we couldn't download to the robot using any of our laptops. We had no problem with our desktops, however. We tried everything. Whenever anyone would start to help us they would always ask if we were using the right version of the IFI loader. (version 1.1.0) We'd look at the IFI loader and, sure enough, it would say that it was v1.1.

We didn't figure it out until the start oft he 2008 season. When we looked at the IFI loader is was displaying the version of the RC's firmware on the main panel which happened to to be v1.1. When we looked at the version using the About menu, we found out that the loader was actually version 1.0.9. The desktops had the new version and worked just fine. We did have the 1.1.0 version on the laptops but the quick start button on the task bar was pointing at the 1.0.9 version which was still loaded on the system.

This problem was missed by at least 8 experianced programmers, including two from IFI.