What does it mean for an object to die? In C++, there are several distinct and well-defined stages in the death of an object. Other languages do this a little differently, but the general concepts remain the same. This is the basic chain of events for an item on the stack. Object becomes inaccessible Object… Read More »
When talking about Object Oriented Programming, there are several principles that are normally associated with the paradigm: polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation, etc. I feel that people tend to forget the first, most important principle of OOP: object lifetime. One of the first things that struck me when I was learning OOP in the C++ programming language… Read More »
Java Cookbook Ian F. Darwin O’Reilly, 2001 In spite of the fact that it is supposedly written in the style of the Perl Cookbook, this book was a real disappointment. The cookbook format is intended for showing solutions to common problems. However, the author of this book appeared to be trying to force a tutorial… Read More »
In the past year, I’ve had to move my Java programming skills from recognize the language at twenty paces to professional Java programmer. In the process, I’ve been reading a number of books on the language. This has been my approach to learning every language I’ve ever worked with. Almost all of the Java books… Read More »
I was doing a little research on the Java JUnit test framework and ran across the article The Third State of your Binary JUnit Tests. The author points out that in many test sets there are ignored tests as well as the passing and failing tests. As the author says, you may want to ignore… Read More »