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Dodge Hibernate coding mistakes with Scertify’s code analysis – Part 2

This article is about checking Hibernate's best practices through static code analysis. In the post Dodge Hibernate coding mistakes with Scertify’s code...

0 replies - 518 views - 05/14/13 by Armel Gouriou in Articles

Analysis of Techdebt.org, the Open Database on Technical Debt

TechDebt.org is the first collaborative & open benchmarking dashboard on Technical Debt and Software Quality. The site provides you with several metrics...

0 replies - 3513 views - 04/26/13 by Armel Gouriou in Articles

Dodge Hibernate Coding Mistakes with Scertify's Code Analysis

Hibernate is one of the most used ORM Java frameworks out there. It is really simple to use, just add few annotations and you're ready to go. However, it is...

0 replies - 1360 views - 04/11/13 by Armel Gouriou in Articles

Unit Testing Best Practices: JUnit Reference Guide

Before writing this post, I am assuming that you know the basics of JUnit. If you do not have the basic knowledge, first read this link. Further, in this post,...

1 replies - 4820 views - 03/12/13 by Lokesh Gupta in Articles

Best Practices to Make Life Easier for the Programmer

Writing code has never been easy.Well, let me re-phrase that: Writing readable code has never been easy.Many programmers work on their code alone. They define...

0 replies - 11617 views - 08/22/12 by Kristiono Setyadi in Articles

5 Best Practices for Commenting Your Code

One of the first things you learn to do incorrectly as a programmer is commenting your code. My experience with student and recently graduated programmers...

6 replies - 12609 views - 07/08/11 by John Fuex in Articles

The Next Level of the Don't Repeat Yourself(DRY) Principle

We have been building software applications using various languages for several years. Over this time new frameworks, new tools, new methodologies have...

3 replies - 6263 views - 02/04/11 by Sivaprasadreddy... in Articles

Death to Best Practices

Can we please put the whole term “Best Practices” to rest now? Apparently, according to this link (forwarded to me by John Dietz, thanks!), the very...

18 replies - 25619 views - 08/10/10 by Ted Neward in News

JSP are more than templates

The concept of Java Server Pages is simple: submerge Java code and some special directives into an HTML page to add dynamic capabilities to it. Obviously, this...

3 replies - 7079 views - 07/20/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Secrets of a JDBC Master

Jesse Davis explains many of the JDBC development pitfalls he's come across in production environments.  Davis also recommends some best practices, such as...

1 replies - 11554 views - 05/18/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Evolution of a programmer

As a software developer, it's common to learn new practices every day. Although there are jokes about how the more a programmer ages, the more his lines of...

4 replies - 21352 views - 05/04/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Performance Tuning Resources For Web Clients

Recently I have been doing some research on tweaking websites to make them faster (either in reality, or at least in appearance to the client). Specifically...

1 replies - 9793 views - 12/09/09 by Craig Dickson in Articles

My PHP Naming Convention

0 replies - 2058 views - 06/22/09 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

What's the Best Way to Handle Exceptions?

It seems, given my limited experience, that handling exceptions depends entirely on the context in which you are developing. As a fan of "rules" that...

16 replies - 10008 views - 10/03/08 by Riyad Kalla in News

Omitting Braces: Not Just A Matter Of Style

According to our analysis of more than 100 Java projects, one of the most violated rules from static analysis, is 'missing braces in If statement'. Although...

17 replies - 12007 views - 07/30/08 by Richard Sharpe in News