This is the last part of my series on exception handling which will deal with logging exceptions and other noteworthy events.
A summary of the series:
Throwing Exceptions Using Assertions Catching Exceptions Logging Exceptions (this one)
General guidelines
We’ll start off with a few general guidelines for [...]
This is the third installment in my series on sensible exception handling and will cover when and how to catch exceptions.
To quickly summarize, the series looks as follows:
Throwing Exceptions Using Assertions Catching Exceptions (this one) Logging Exceptions
The information in this post is divided [...]
This is the second part in a series of four on exception handling and it focuses on an area related to exceptions — assertions.
A quick summary of posts in this series:
Throwing Exceptions Using Assertions (this one) Catching Exceptions Logging Exceptions
Guidelines for assertions
An assertion [...]
This is the first post in a series of four on exception handling.
The series will cover what I think is a good and sound strategy for handling exceptions and errors in your application.
It is written with Java in mind, but is applicable to most languages which feature exceptions.
A quick summary of the coming posts:
Throwing Exceptions [...]
Again, the book Test-Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck provides me with an eye-opening experience. It explains how test-driven development is useful for scope control when developing.
The thought popped up into my mind a while ago, that there is actually a striking similarity between refactoring and performance optimization.
When I read Ron Jeffries Soduko articles, I was wondering why he was writing such sloppy unit tests. He didn’t seem to test even half of the code he wrote. A short email conversation later I had realized that he of course wasn’t sloppy, but rather just much more clever than I was (not that surprising, really). 
Visual Basic 6 programmers are protected from the “real world”. The upside is that VB programmers really can get much more useful things done in less time, the downside is that there are limits for what you can do in VB… and the fact that VB’s behavior sometimes can be really, really strange.