Sometimes it is easier than you think...

Just this week a developer who was building his first application with Morfik looked me up and was really eager to get me to look over his project because of some problems he was having. He had convinced himself that the trouble he was having was because he didn't really know Morfik AppsBuilder and that that was holding back his progress.

I can understand the feeling. I believe we all can as most developers have started to use a new set of tools more than once in his/her life. As it turned out, in this case, it was mostly the preconception that the problem was due to lack of specialized knowledge that was keeping him from moving forward.

Of the two problems he showed me, the first was just a simple error in the logic of the procedure he had coded. The problem was so obvious when you looked at it that he was embarrassed. (I can sympathize as I did something similar just two weeks ago.)

The second problem was indeed something that was specific to Morfik, but again, the solution was quite obvious as it was pretty much stated in the error message he was getting and on the screen where he had to check to try to understand the problem. He wanted images embedded in the database fields but had defined them as linked. Again, in this case, he wasn't really looking for the solution as he pretty much assumed that he wouldn't find it.

Sometimes you need to relax and realize that things really can be that easy.