Andy Palmer

I can’t get no satisfaction, I can’t get no satisfaction
‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
Checked vs. Unchecked Exceptions
It’s a controversial subject; searching Google for checked versus unchecked exceptions reveals a lot of heated discussions both for and against Checked Exceptions.
Charles Lowell [...]

Background
Antony Marcano and I have just started running a coding design workshop. Most of the audience are new to coding and we are trying to focus on good habits that are applicable across all programming languages.In our first session, we created a vending machine. By the end of 90 minutes, it was able to dispense [...]

I’ve been playing about with a code base that has a large number of singletons, for what appears to be no apparent reason.Something about singletons doesn’t sit quite right with me, but in the most part, if they’re not misbehaving, I’ll probably leave them be.
The thing that bothers me a lot more though, is the [...]

A few of us were chatting about static methods the other day.I’m not a big fan. I think that they tie you unnecessarily to a concrete class.
Most people were saying that there is no harm in having static methods in utility classes, and this is one place where I would disagree.The example used was the [...]