Archive for July, 2006

CruiseControl != Continuous Integration

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

We’ve been doing a lot of recruiting at “Wotif”:http://www.wotif.com/AboutCareersPositionDetails.jsp?jobId=7 recently, so I’ve been doing a lot of resume skimming and interviews of late. And I’ve noticed, amongst many other things, statements like this: “Oh, yes, we did continuous integration; we used CruiseControl!”

Folks, using “CruiseControl”:http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net is not continuous integration. And that’s coming from a former committer on the CruiseControl project.

(more…)

Posted in Agile Development | 4 Comments »

How not to handle exceptions from static code block in Java

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Saw a “post at taragana.com”:http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-handle-exceptions-from-static-code-block-in-java on “How To Handle Exceptions From Static Code Block in Java”. It came down to advocating logging it and rethrowing a runtime exception which would “normally ends the program execution”. Sorry, but I couldn’t let this piece of extremely bad advice slide…

(more…)

Posted in Java | 2 Comments »