Category Archives: Programming

Useful tips on programming ideas, paradigms, and idioms.

Retweet October 2011

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe. Software Development To checkin or not to checkin a large changelist five [...]

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jQuery Mobile + PhoneGap = Awesome Mobile Development Platform

I’m currently prototyping an iPad application and I’ve just found working with jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap to be a breeze for mobile application development. I’ve used iOS SDK before and I’ve experimented on test applications with Android and I’ve always found issues with both the iOS and Android development frameworks. I’ve also looked into cross [...]

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Retweet September 2011

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe. Software Development Code. Money. Respect. Software bugs don’t take anything personally. Code [...]

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Worst Software Bugs

We all have heard of missiles blowing up in midair because of the wrong unit was used in calculating the trajectory or bank software that misplaced millions of dollars because of a decimal place. It might not compare against blowing up a multi-million dollar missile but here are some of the worst software bugs I’ve [...]

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Fix Common Java Exceptions

ClassCastException – The most common reason for getting a ClassCastException is because the code in question is accessing an object from a List or Map and casting to an particular class, but the List or Map may have different types of classes. If you are not using generics and allow your List to contain any [...]

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Common Causes for Memory Leaks

You’ll always have to deal with memory issues, no matter the programming language. Even with the Java programming language, if the right precautions are not taken, you will have some sort of memory leaks, memory issue, out of memory exception, or heap size problem. I’ve seen two common types of memory issues in every application [...]

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