http://www.markvandenbergh.com I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident... thinking "What the hell is this guy doing?" (bash.org) Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:00:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While reading Code Complete 2nd Edition I ran into a chapter which covers defensive programming. Defensive programming includes debugging, but not to any price of course. We don't want performance of the application to suffer from debugging statements, at least not in production fase. Debugging is mainly used during development. Implementation ... http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/41/fast-debugging-statements/ I told a colleague “I'm going to use JMS topics to solve this problem”. His answer was: “SAP in combination with JMS... you don't want to go there.”. Based on the fact that several SAP applications which use JMS seem to have complications... Is JMS and SAP a bad ... http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/4/jms-and-sap-avoid-this-combination/ Comments, the more the better... right? Well I thought so too, in fact this is some of my code of a few days ago: // handle the initialization of jobs if (request.getParameter("initiateJobs") != null && request.getParameter("initiateJobs").equalsIgnoreCase("true")) { initializeJobs(); } // get the trigger info, which will be displayed on the jsp page List triggerInfo = getTriggerInfo(); request.setAttribute("triggerInfo", ... http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/21/no-more-comments-in-your-code/ A few days ago I was trying to open my gmail on a rather unstable Wifi connection, it was loading... loading... and suddenly it showed an error page saying: Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page... You win!! Pretty funny if you ask me. But what if I ... http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/7/google-exception-humor/