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Explanations of Common Java Exceptions

by Riyad Kalla on 24. Feb, 2009 in Programming

Huge thanks to Marc Chung for sending along this great reference. It’s a breakdown of all the JDK exceptions and textual descriptions of what they represent — so if you are designing your own API or just working on your own app and want to make sure your use of particular exceptions (e.g. IllegalArgumentException) is [...]

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Handling Exceptions in Ruby

by Ray Gomez on 28. Oct, 2008 in Technology

Dealing with exceptions is a big part of any object oriented programmer’s job. We need to be able to recover from things like connect failures or syntax errors, and do so gracefully. Thankfully, raising and “rescuing” exceptions in Ruby is a fairly easy task. Let’s start with a basic example. We all know [...]

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What's the Best Way to Handle Exceptions?

by Riyad Kalla on 03. Oct, 2008 in Programming

It seems, given my limited experience, that handling exceptions depends entirely on the context in which you are developing. As a fan of “rules” that can be applied to different scenarios I wanted to hit you guys up and see what the rules-of-thumb were with regards to exception handling.
Some approaches to exception handling sort of [...]

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