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My co-worker, Artur Bergman, gave a talk today at the Web 2.0 Expo.

He highlighted these rules of debugging, and they were great, so I wanted to share.

1. Understand the system
2. Make it fail
3. Quit thinking and look
4. Divide and conquer
5. Change one thing at a time
6. Keep an audit trail
7. Check the plug
8. Get a fresh view
9. If you didn’t fix it, it ain’t fixed.

Brilliant! See http://www.debuggingrules.com/

I left Yahoo recently, Friday was my last day. After taking some time off for family travel, I’m going to work for Wikia.com. Wikia is building niche community sites on the wiki concept, using the Mediawiki software.

They are also working on Wikia Search, a community driven search engine and crawling effort. If Jimmy Wales and Wikia can do what they did for Wikipedia, and apply that concept to search, I think has a decent chance of taking on Google.