Monthly Archives: March 2006

e.printStackTrace() is not for you

Posted on 3/21/2006 by Moses

While reading through another team’s Java codebase recently, I came across a disturbing proclivity for code like this public SomeType aMethod() { SomeType result = null; try { anObject.thatDoesSomething(); result = anObject.getSomethingElse(); } catch (SomeTypeOfException e) { e.printStackTrace(); // or, … Continue reading →

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A few more thoughts on communication, tech posts to come

Posted on 3/21/2006 by Moses

I discovered recently on postgenomic.com that mine is one of the wordiest life science blogs around, so I’m going to try to be a little pithier. We’ll see if I can constrain myself. In my last post I argued for … Continue reading →

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The promise of bioinformatics

Posted on 3/3/2006 by Moses

Now and again, you hear the concern that bioinformatics will fail to “fulfill its promise”. I find this statement to be both a bit scary and a little preposterous. Scary because the success of the field will have an effect … Continue reading →

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