Linked Questions

I have read at many places including this - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/seyhszts.aspx - that you should use exception handling when something is truly exceptional. The .Net File.Open ...

I have a function returning an Either such as GetUserFromDb(int id). If the database is offline, should I catch the error in the function and wrap it in a failure / Left case or should I let it ...

A lot of code that's designed to convert or parse some data of type Foo into a Bar is written with the assumption that one wouldn't intentionally pass it invalid inputs. As such, it assumes that ...

I have a Windows service with a fluent interface like this: aRequest = Repository.getRequest() .createProcess() .validate(); Sometimes getRequest() could ...

How would one know if the code one has created is easily readable, understandable, and maintainable? Of course from the author's point of view, the code is readable and maintainable, because the ...

I've been thinking about that for quite a while actually. I am not a native english speaker myself but still I have years of programming experience and I always asked me this. Why is it named as ...

I just had a discussion over a design choice after a code review. I wonder what your opinions are. There's this Preferences class, which is a bucket for key-value pairs. Null values are legal (that'...

Let's say I have a MediaPlayer class which has play() and stop() methods. What is the best strategy to use when implementing the stop method in case when the play method has not been called before. I ...

I have a piece of code that can be represented as: public class ItemService { public void DeleteItems(IEnumerable<Item> items) { // Save us from possible NullReferenceException ...

The main languages I use are C++ and Java. Both languages support exception handling. I confess, I may not actually understand exception handling, at least, I certainly don't understand why you ...

Given an onion architecture, what are the advantages and disadvantages of throwing exceptions in the business logic (which is in the center of the onion) for invalid parameters provided by the user? ...

Which is preferable for both solid technique and secure coding? Example #1: function_one() blah; function_two() blah; print blah; exit; ... Example #2: ...