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Can You Spot the Infinite Loop?

By TechKnow | April 29, 2011

Can you spot the infinite loop in the following snippet of code? The above code caused a critical bug in a application I was working on. At first sight, the code looks okay, especially since it compiles. It’s a do-while loop with a condition that seems that it would break when the variable i is [...]

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Java String Conversion Puzzlers

By TechKnow | April 25, 2011

In Java, object coercion from one type to another can led to interesting results, and possible bugs when done implicitly. For example, a common type conversion bug is when you have a method that accepts a primitive boolean but pass it an an object of type Boolean. If the object is null, the conversion from [...]

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Top Worst Java Errors

By TechKnow | March 8, 2010

I’ve had my fair share of Java bugs. There is a stage in a programmer’s career that he or she either knows that they rather manage a convenience store or that they can debug common Java errors just by the way the code smells. Here are my list of worst common Java bugs I have [...]

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World’s Most Famous Developer Excuse

By TechKnow | September 10, 2009

I have to say that the World’s most commonly used excuse is “it works on my machine“. Amongst programmers this excuse must rank up there with other famous excuses like “It’s not you, it’s me” and “sorry, I guess I didn’t get reception.” When ever I hear a developer explain away broken builds, compilation errors, [...]

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Retweet August 2009

By TechKnow | September 8, 2009

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 and I’ll be sure to follow back. Software Development sudo gem install [...]

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