Archive for October, 2006

Happy Deepavali


2006
10.20

This weekend is the Hindu festival Deepavali.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepavali

InvocationTargetException


2006
10.17

Today while working on some Junit’s I came across this exception.

The java compiler checks that exceptions thrown by methods called are caught or thrown by the calling method. Because the compiler cannot analyze methods call through reflection, the reflection runtime wraps any errors thrown in the called routines in a predictable exception.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/InvocationTargetException.html

No fluff Just Stuff


2006
10.16

http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/

Might be attending this conference next month.  I am intersted in learning more about Ruby & Spring web flow.

Refactoring


2006
10.06

I am reading a book on “Refactoring” by Martin Fowler. It is a good book for every developer to have in their tech shelf. I have used many of the refactoring patterns previously however, now I have a name of the pattern to associate it with. For example

Extract method

Pull up class

Extract Class

While u work u sometimes don’t tend to associate it with patterns. However when you read about them you realize that you have used those so many times.

Ruby


2006
10.02

I am in the process of trying out ruby. It seems more like python to me at a first glace. However as per the http://www.ruby-lang.org website & its author it is 2 parts perl 1 part python & 1 part smaltalk.

I guess I need to spend more time with it to figure it out.