Programmers Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, January 29, 2015

Top new questions this week: Leaving intentional bugs in code for testers to find We don't do this at our firm, but one of my friends says that his project manager asked every dev to add intentional bugs just before the product goes to QA. This is how it works: Just before the ... testing teamwork debugging bug   asked by Krishnabhadra 91 votes answered by James McLeod 146 votes Throw exception or let code fail I am wondering if there are any pros and cons against this style: private void LoadMaterial(string name) { if (_Materials.ContainsKey(name)) { throw new ArgumentException("The ... exceptions   asked by user16547 48 votes answered by Ixrec 96 votes What's the best way to avoid catastrophe caused by negligence? I have been a programmer for almost 1 year. As an ADHD adult, naturally I don't have the same strength of attention on ordinary stuffs as my colleagues do. And I find the catastrophe made by me are ... programming-practices debugging bug   asked by Zen 10 votes answered by Doc Brown 31 votes Is this a good pattern: replacing a long function with a series of lambdas? I recently run into the following situation. class A{ public: void calculate(T inputs); } Firstly, A represents an object in the physical world, which is a strong argument for not splitting the ... c++11 lambda   asked by Vorac 10 votes answered by Cort Ammon 6 votes How to avoid chatty interfaces Background: I am designing a server application and creating separate dll's for different subsystems. To simplify things, let's say I have two subsystems: 1) Users 2) Projects Users's public ... c# design scalability server-side   asked by Eren Ersönmez 8 votes answered by MainMa 10 votes Should I keep email addresses as plaintext in database? It's clear to everyone (I hope) that storing passwords without at least salting/hashing them is a terrible idea. What about emails? Let's say you keep the subscription email address, if you encrypt ... database security email   asked by Pierre Arlaud 6 votes answered by manlio 2 votes Designing a REST api by URI vs query string Let's say I have three resources that are related like so: Grandparent (collection) -> Parent (collection) -> and Child (collection) The above depicts the relationship among these resources ... design rest api   asked by acspd7 6 votes answered by Lie Ryan 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Stack and Heap memory in Java As I understand, in Java, stack memory holds primitives and method invocations and heap memory is used to store objects. Suppose I have a class class A { int a ; String b; ... java memory garbage-collection stack heap   asked by Vinoth Kumar 27 votes answered by back2dos 37 votes What's the difference between stateful and stateless? The books and documentation on the MVC just heap on using the Stateful and Stateless terms. To be honest, i am just unable to grab the idea of it, what the books are talking about. They don't give an ... asp.net-mvc   asked by Pankaj Upadhyay 24 votes answered by jgauffin 18 votes Can you answer these? Is there some structured format for drawing source control branching diagrams? Everyone on my team draws branch diagrams differently, including how branches exit or reintegrate to the parent, how cherry-pick merges are shown, and a host of other aesthetic choices. Is there some ... version-control graph diagrams   asked by Anthony Mastrean 1 vote Java MVC: multiple use of the same event for different actions I am working on a large Java project which employs the model-view-controller pattern. Should I use a different event for each action (to let the views communicate with their respective controllers)? ... java programming-practices mvc practical-application   asked by ben 1 vote Using Haskell type classes to enforce commutativity I want to define a type class for geometric objects that can be intersected together: class Intersect a b c | a b -> c where intersect :: a -> b -> c -- Language extensions: ... haskell type-systems typeclass   asked by Herng Yi 2 votes

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