Overview of Exceptions In Java and Some SonarQube Recommendations

...So I had a chat with SonarQube earlier today. She was a little unhappy with the way things were in a project I was working on, and since I can't push this conversation away forever, I decided to bite the bullet and just hear her out. I figure that, apart from hearing what she has to say and making her happy, I could learn one or two things from her recommendations...

And sure I did. Especially when it came to Exception Handling. Got reminded about stuff I already know. Also picked up some one or two good things to always keep in mind when thinking/working with Exceptions in Java.

Since I have been able to get her Rules Compliance to 99.3%, I guess I could penned down some of the wisdom I gleaned from her: some new, some already known.

Two Life Hacks: Dump Your Smart Phone. Eradicate Facebook's News Feed

I latch on to things; mentally: sometimes, I suspect it bothers on being obsessive. If a concept catches my fancy, I could latch on to it till I wear myself out. If I am confronted by a problem which I can't immediately solve, I find it really hard to get it out of my mind until I have it figured out.

This tendency is not necessarily a bad thing; at least it guarantees the tenacity and tunnel vision often required to crack through problems and grok non trivial concepts...

But...

it also has it's downsides: I realized that, yes, I could develop tunnel vision easily and focus on stuff, paradoxical as it may sounds, it also leads to a state where I find it hard to concentrate. It seems I get so consumed over a thing, the patience required for the state of mind needed to concentrate flies off the window.  And as everybody soon get to discover, tunnel vision isn't always the answer: sometimes you need to let go, take a step back and look at things from a different point of view; a thing that may not come easily when locked in a latching mode I am quick to slip into.

And then when you find yourself latching on to activities that benefits little, then the mental and emotional exhaustion comes real quick and swift.

Remote Debugging Of Tomcat Via Intellij

A couple of moons back, I put fingers to keyboard and punched out a post on how to debug, from asunder, a running tomcat application, from within Intellij IDEA.

The post shall remained chronicled, for as long as it is possible, over on the company's blog.

For your perusal and to gain of the wisdom shared, hesitate not, and proceed to HOW TO REMOTELY DEBUG APPLICATION RUNNING ON TOMCAT FROM WITHIN INTELLIJ IDEA