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Tag Archives: structure
Lots of Folders != Project more Organized
Making a development project with lots of folders does not mean that the project is more organized. However, there is a seemingly irresistible desire to make a folder for every possible purpose, and then put the one or two files … Continue reading
Error-First Design in JSON/REST/AngularJS integration
You have heard about “mobile-first” when creating your UI, but there is something you should do before you start designing the UI: you should design the error handling/display mechanism first.
Storing Date Values in Files
XML and JSON files store and transport data. What is the best way to store a Date-Time value? Always, always, always use the integer epoch format: the number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970 UTC. This post tells you why.
Method Exception Signature
In short, all interface methods, if they throw anything, should be declared to throw ‘java.lang.Exception’ and never a specialized exception class. Find this surprising? then please read on. The original goal to allow methods to declare the type of exceptions … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Design Tagged changes, declarations, errors, exceptions, Java, structure, types 3 Comments
#33 Eliminate Exceptional Cases before the Main Logic
When writing code, you naturally want the code to be readable so it can be maintained easily. Generally, you try to reduce the cognitive load, and one recommendation is to handle exception cases that might occur up front, in a small, localized … Continue reading
#27 Don't Declare Variables at the Top
Somewhere long ago you attended a course that said that all variables should be declared at the top of the method. Modern languages allow you to declare the variable at the point in the code that it is initialized and … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Example Code Tagged compiler warnings, initialization, Java, structure Leave a comment
#19 Reduce Cognitive Load
Deeply nested IF statements can be hard for the brain to unwind and process correctly. In many cases, the branch statements are selecting for a single, or a small set of conditions for which processing will be done, and outside … Continue reading