Little Tutorials
Blog URL http://littletutorials.com/
Located Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Tags programming, software, java, agile, uml, design, tutorials, code, samples
This site hosts, as the domain name declares, Little Tutorials about programming in general. In the beginning the main focus is the Java programming language, APIs and techniques but other languages will follow.
Latest Blog Posts
- Thought Driven Development a Methodology of Abile Development on Sep 29, 2008 in Opinions Software Design Software Development agile critique methodology opinion rant tdd
Warning: This is a rant against TDD extremism! Sensitive TDD people better step out of this dark sleazy communist place right now! I used to believe in Agile Programming. I tried XP and Scrum. But at some moment the Agile movement moved onto milking...
- Bad advice on exceptions from Joel on Aug 23, 2008 in Java Exceptions Opinions People exception handling
Starting from some comments on my exception handling series of articles I run into a couple of blogs pointing to this post on joelonsoftware.com. I think this is the worst advice on exception handling I have ever read, sorry Joel. I know this is an o...
- Software development dogmata - good practices gone bad on Aug 2, 2008 in Opinions Software Development agile code comments code review design patterns exception handling open concept rigid process software dogma tdd test driven uml
Many practices in the software development world are widely accepted at some moment in time as the “true way”. The trouble starts when the “true way” is forced down the throats of people who need a “new wa
- How bad comments are born in your code on Jul 30, 2008 in Opinions Software Development code comments code maintenance comments developer good comments good programmer good software maintenance practices programmer software practices
Many programmers mention their support for “good” comments in the code. A significant percentage of all developers think the quality of the comments is one of the traits that separate good experienced programmers from the rest. But the
- Code review - The meaningless ritual on Jul 19, 2008 in Opinions Software Development code inspection code review design design verification lines of code LOC mentoring software process
Most of the time code reviews are a meaningless ritual. Everybody pays lip service to the importance of code reviews and a lot of people, especially in the management, are convinced that code reviews very effectively reduce the number of shipped bugs...
- StringBuffer vs. StringBuilder performance comparison on Jul 16, 2008 in Java API Java Tips java java performance java string java tutorial performance stringbuffer stringbuilder tutorial
Even if the StringBuilder was around for a while now, many people still use StringBuffer in single threaded applications. The main difference is stated in the StringBuffer comments: “As of release JDK 5, this class has been supplemented with a.
- The 10 minutes “Getting started with RMI” tutorial on Jul 14, 2008 in Java API client java remote rmi server tutorial
Since Java 5 working with RMI (Remote Method Invocation) is very easy. You don’t need the rmic compiler unless you work with legacy RMI clients. Now stubs are generated automatically at runtime. As a result, writing distributed or client-server...
