Exceptional Exception Handling Behavior
We ran into a weird issue at work today. Take a look at the following code...
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Why good open source PHP CMS developers are hard to find
So why is it so hard to find really good PHP programmers that can do wonders with an open source CMS? Why do developers jump ship, disappear or simply... more »
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Sun Microsystems: A Lesson in Failed Cosmetic Surgery
Sun Microsystems, one of the world’s largest server and software makers, finds itself in an awkward position: It might soon have enough cash to buy... more »
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Old Code, New Testing Tricks - breaking old habits
I ran into a variation on an old threading problem the other day that I found nearly impossible to unit test. When I say impossible, getting my test... more »
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Microsoft Next Killer OS is… SharePoint?
Could Microsoft’s next killer OS be SharePoint? Instead of being quite so blatant, Microsoft has taken a quieter back route to achieving the... more »
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The Future of C#, Part One
An attentive reader pointed me at this long thread on a third-party forum where some people are musing about possible future features of C#. There is... more »
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Windows 7 M3 Build 6801 Screenshots!
Keeping it "short 'n sweet," WinFuture has posted some screenshots of build 6801. Check out the image below with the spiffy new wallpaper, then go... more »
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Most Programming Interviews are a Waste of Time
Interviewing a candidate is so much fun because you get to passively assert your superiority and be professorial enough that you can justify those... more »
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I/O in Google Chrome
One of our early goals for Google Chrome was to make the browser as fast as we possibly could. But in addition to raw speed, we wanted it to be highly... more »
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Comparing popular Ajax Frameworks in YSlow
Note that this is comparing mostly the Landing Pages (and in some cases the samples) of the given Ajax Frameworks. Ajax Frameworks included are... more »
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25+ Incredibly Useful Twitter Tools and Firefox Plugins
Twitter is an amazing service that we all love, everyday we notice a new twitter tool or service that makes using it more easy and fun. Today we... more »
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Design Patterns – Part 5
In this part of the design patterns series we investigate the command pattern and its uses.
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25 Amazing Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials
3D Typographic design is now more popular and we can notice a surge for 3D Type work on portfolio sites. Here we have collected 25 of the cool 3D... more »
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Object Oriented Architecture as it should have been - Taking Architecture into the Agile World
This is a writeup of Jim Copliens talk at JAOO about "Taking Architecture into the Agile World" - and Jim did say some controversial things like "Java... more »
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Outsourced Testing – Friend or Foe?
A practical guide on when and how to outsource some of your software testing activities
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Mozilla Labs : Introducing Geode
Introducing Geode, an experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release.... more »
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Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele: Concurrency and Language Design
In this conversation Microsoft Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of C# Anders Hejlsberg sits down with programming language design legend and... more »
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5 Trends of Popular WordPress Blogs
5 WordPress trends and how-to for web developers: User Contributed Link Feed, Post Thumbnail, Tabbed Content and more.
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The Repository Pattern – I’m Sold!
Lately, I've been playing with NHibernate and the Repository pattern - and struggling with it a bit. I understand the concept, but it's the... more »
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What's the Best Way to Handle Exceptions???
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... more »
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15 High Quality Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes
15 Free Premium-like WordPress Themes that are truly impressive and you might be willing to use for your next project.
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Is MapReduce going mainstream?
Compares MapReduce to other parallel processing approaches and suggests new paradigm for clouds and grids.
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Engineering Windows 7 : User Interface: Managing Windows windows
We’ve booted the machine, displayed stuff on the screen, launched programs, so next up we’re going to look at a pretty complex topic that sort of gets... more »
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State-of-the-art architecture for web content management systems
There are similarities in current WCMS rewrites like Typo3 and Day Communique. These common themes can be considered as state-of-the-art in designing... more »
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