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on languages, numbers, and creating time: ... just write *what* down?
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Monday, August 12, 2013. Just write *what* down? In a previous post about the importance of reducing documentation-related technical debt in the near term, I said Just write it down. But what's the it. If someone vaguely suggests you need to document your code better - what? How, where, when? Here are a few ways to answer that question. Explaining to yourself and others. Is precisely what you need to write down now. But 6 months from now hasn't happened yet!
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: Threw an exception from a method that throws no exceptions -- wait, what?
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Thursday, January 17, 2013. Threw an exception from a method that throws no exceptions - wait, what? Here's a fun little false positive I ran into recently. Believes Library ( ClassBeingMocked. Throws an exception, but Library really does not. Yet Application's unit-test case passes! This takes an interplay of JUnit, Jmock, and their use of reflection. Public class MyTest { private Mockery mockery; private ClassBeingMocked mockedInstance; private ClassBeingTested...
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: Java 7, ulimit, and non-heap memory
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Thursday, January 24, 2013. Java 7, ulimit, and non-heap memory. A couple of co-workers of mine found the following problem:. Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap Could not create the Java virtual machine. It happened in a batch-job environment where we use. For all programs, Java or not), in addition to Java's heap specification with. And it only started happening on a test switch from Java 6 to Java 7. Bin/ba...
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: August 2013
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Monday, August 12, 2013. Just write *what* down? In a previous post about the importance of reducing documentation-related technical debt in the near term, I said Just write it down. But what's the it. If someone vaguely suggests you need to document your code better - what? How, where, when? Here are a few ways to answer that question. Explaining to yourself and others. Is precisely what you need to write down now. But 6 months from now hasn't happened yet!
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: April 2013
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Thursday, April 4, 2013. Just write it down. A friend of yours walks into a local software firm at 2:30 on a Tuesday afternoon. Never having been there before, they won't know what's going on. They'll see people working; they'll see people typing. It'll be pretty quiet - there'll be some people talking over an idea here and there but mainly people are facing their terminals with their hands on their keyboards, and they're working really hard. The reason we don't ...
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: Just write it down
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Thursday, April 4, 2013. Just write it down. A friend of yours walks into a local software firm at 2:30 on a Tuesday afternoon. Never having been there before, they won't know what's going on. They'll see people working; they'll see people typing. It'll be pretty quiet - there'll be some people talking over an idea here and there but mainly people are facing their terminals with their hands on their keyboards, and they're working really hard. The reason we don't ...
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