Excellent advice on Java exceptions- June 12, 2007 Excellent advice on avoiding exception anti-patterns in Java from Tim McCune, Exception-Handling Antipatterns. Particularly noxious are the anti-patterns which swallow exceptions. Quick trivial quiz. Does this code compile If it compiles, what happens at runtime try throw null; catch (final Throwable t) System.out.println("t = " + t); Before you chuckle too hard, recall that this is a perfectly valid C++ program, if contrived, and prints Something integral: 0: include...http://binkley.blogspot.com/2007/06/excellent-advice-on-java-exceptionsev.html Style, taste, sensibilities in coding- June 8, 2007 Chris Aston has an eminently sensible post on programming in the small (not his words), Coding Against the Grain, on some coding style and taste points that have been part of my habits nearly as long as I have programmed. He emphasizes balance and clarity and cautions against turning objects into stand-ins for global variables: the function is given its due. To elaborate on his points, I often treat objects as small bundles of encapsulated state with public methods that tie private fields to...http://binkley.blogspot.com/2007/06/style-taste-sensibilities-in-coding.html The all-dancing, all-singing LockSmith plugin for IntelliJ- June 8, 2007 I've never been willing to pay for IntelliJ plugins, but LockSmith from the very clever Sixth & Red River may change my mind. This is a list of features which made me look twice: Split Lock Merge Locks Make Class Thread-Safe Convert Field to Atomic Convert Field to ThreadLocal Lock Call-Sites of Method Convert Simple Lock to Read-Write Lock Convert Read-Write Lock to Simple Lock Convert Synchronization Field to Lock Split Critical Section Shrink Critical Section Merge Critical Sections ...http://binkley.blogspot.com/2007/06/all-dancing-all-singing-locksmith.html |