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From ColdFusion to PHP posted on: 3/28/07
Secure Copy using Ant's SCP Task posted on: 7/26/07
Accessing Subversion Using SvnAnt and JavaHL posted on: 7/23/07
Performance vs. Readability posted on: 7/31/07
Improving Application Performance posted on: 5/11/07
Page Introspection with XRAY posted on: 8/22/07
Learning OOP posted on: 9/4/07
Choosing JSON Over XML posted on: 5/9/07
Fail Now, Fail Loud, Fail Proud posted on: 1/30/08
Description:
I write less code than I used to (particularly during the daylight hours), but I inherit a lot of code and I review a lot of code in addition to that which I still write. Today I read something that reminded me to write about a trend - or maybe it's an oversight - I've noticed in the last few years. It seems that a lot of developers are afraid of errors. Somewhere, somehow, it seems like it became the norm to create "bug-free" software by masking bugs and failing silently. Why? Or, more assertively...stop that.
Contrary to popular belief, errors are user-friendly (at least in the long run). Errors are certainly developer-friendly. In almost every case, the latter begets the former, I've found.
If You're Not Using Ant...Maybe You Should Be posted on: 7/19/07
Implementing the Singleton Design Pattern in PHP posted on: 7/20/07
Tracking Down an Unexpected jQuery Error posted on: 5/10/07
Six Ways to Write More Comprehensible Code posted on: 6/1/07
Data Abstraction vs. Data Access posted on: 9/18/07
On the One Hand, Google APIs posted on: 4/23/07
The Forest and the Trees posted on: 6/21/07
Revisited: An Alternative OS X Development Environment posted on: 4/24/07
An Alternative OS X Development Environment posted on: 3/31/07
