I guess this is old for many developers but it is new to me. I have been asked to join an investigation of OutOfMemoryError issue occurred in a project outside my division. Actually, it was a brief involvement. My colleague who was handling the issue already got a possible root cause. He believed that it’s… Continue reading →

I have been thinking about this for quite sometime. An event occurred last week prompted me to finally write about it. It is about the problem investigating approach that my former group leader taught me when I was still in the early period of my working life. The approach goes like this Sometimes, we just… Continue reading →

Debugger has always been a big help for me. It is one of the main tools I uses in my day-to-day work, both in coding and troubleshooting. One great thing about debugger is that you can get big benefit form it just by using some simple features like step-over or step-into. I don’t quite get… Continue reading →

came across javax.xml.bind.Binder when I was reading SOA Using Java Web Services (excellent book). I had never used this class before so I set out to find how the class could be used. I found that the class hadn’t been mentioned as much as the classes like Marshaller or UnMarshaller but it was very useful Binder is usually used… Continue reading →

I have finished reading Effective Java long time ago. It is such a great book. The more I passed through each page the more I realized how little I know about java programming. The distance between “coder” and “developer” is really far I read most of the item listed in the book. One of the items I have… Continue reading →