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 tells me that college is a really good place to
learn really bad code commenting techniques. This is...
5 replies - 7323 views - 07/08/11 by John Fuex in Articles
We have been building software applications using various languages
for several years. Over this time new frameworks, new tools, new
methodologies have appeared. Especially in the Java platform, where we
have plenty of choices in each area following...
3 replies - 4810 views - 02/04/11 by Sivaprasadreddy... in Articles
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 place where it
originated (or was best popularized, depending on your interpretation of
history) has...
17 replies - 18774 views - 08/10/10 by Ted Neward in News
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 process can go out of hand when complex logic scatters into an untestable JSP, with operations like...
3 replies - 5157 views - 07/20/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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 - 10524 views - 05/18/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos
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 code counter goes sky high even to accomplish simple tasks, usually this process results in an overall...
4 replies - 18781 views - 05/04/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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 the research has been focused on the actual client tier interaction - requesting the page, downloading...
1 replies - 7834 views - 12/09/09 by Craig Dickson in Articles
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 can be applied to different scenarios I wanted to hit you guys up and see what the rules-of-thumb...
16 replies - 7740 views - 10/03/08 by Riyad Kalla in News
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 often considered to be merely a stylistic preference, we found that omitting braces is actually a good...
16 replies - 8958 views - 07/30/08 by Richard Sharpe in News
