Archive for December, 2007

On Maven

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Charles has a long track record of coming up with entertaining, succinct and accurate posts, but having read his latest on the topic of Maven, all I can say is AMEN.
Read it for yourself: Maven: Broken by Design.
“But there has to be something fundamentally wrong with any tool that, whenever I use it, seems to [...]

The Single Return Rule

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

In typical Friday-afternoon style, the long week caught up with me and I ended up getting distracted in a side conversation with three other people at work. The topic of this conversation was that old program adage:
“There should only ever be one return statement for a method”
This is one of those things that everyone seems [...]