cyranoVR's Journal: Interesting Java Stuff

Whitepaper: About Microsoft's "Delegates" - an analysis of why Sun decided not to include function references in Java.

Napkin Look-and-Feel - this was mentioned in a footnote of Prefactoring. Pretty neat.

Five Habits of Hightly Profitable Software Developers (well, OOP developers). I can't stress Habit #1 enough. I'm just finishing up a project where the developers did everything possible in the constructor of the "main" class - hundreds of lines, concrete dependencies...ugh.

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Rule #1, taught in my first Programming Class

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The constructors job is to ensure the object is in a valid state, in other words, that all instance variables have been initialized and that no unexpected behavior will occur when functions are called on the object.

I do commit the sin of calling an initialize GUI method in the main class of my constructor though. ^_^