Tag Archive | "Bad Code"

What kind of error handling is this?

October 17, 2008 No comments yet

You’d be surprised the things that can be found during basic code reviews :) Once I found a pen I thought I’d lost … :) in all seriousness though, nothing drives me more crazy than seeing the following. try { // some code } catch (Exception e) { throw e; } I could scream! and [...]

Don’t do this: Exception Handling

November 23, 2007 No comments yet

I work with a lot of .NET developers and hey even some Java ones from time to time ;) We’ve all done some dumb things and we all write bugs but the following is a recurring issue I find and I wish I knew where people were learning this. try { // do something bad [...]

My Vista nightmare loop

November 9, 2007 No comments yet

Mostly a rant …. one of those days ;-) So we all know that networking in Vista is screwed up and I am amazed that 1 year after release it still doesn’t work. What happens to me? well after about 8 hours of use most applications loose their internet connection (wireless and lan) – Most? [...]