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Saw a post at taragana.com 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...
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We've been doing a lot of recruiting at Wotif 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 is not continuous integration. And that's coming from a former committer on the CruiseControl project.
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