Posts tagged “software”

The worst thing making software is when you go to fix a bug — a critical blocker — and there is a TODO waiting for you. It makes me laugh out loud and die inside, both at the same time.

My Favorite Lines of Java Code

In the middle of a 553-line Java file…
129      if (TRANSACTION_BREAKER.equals(username)) {
130       // Convenient to test rollback here and only allowed for same package
131       throw new RuntimeException("The transaction is broken by: " + username);

You can’t make this stuff up.

DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl

An actual Java class name. I’ve never seen one that’s more Java than this. (Thanks for finding this, Mike.)

Resolving a Jira issue as invalid is like filing a bug against QA.
— Jeff P.
oh, office life.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Dijkstra (via inky, nikography)