I tried running Parasoft’s JTest against the modified JForum use by JavaRanch. The first thing I did was run all the static analysis rules and got over 47 thousand hits.  Now this doesn’t mean much as some of the rules are cosmetic things and some directly confict with each other. (Use “*” for imports and [...]

Overall, I still think that Ted Nelson had the best idea when he wrote this in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (Aperture, 1974): The best way to start programming is to have a terminal running an interactive language, and a friend sitting nearby who already knows the language, and has something else to do but can be [...]

Don’t you just hate threading errors?  They are hard or impossible to reproduce.  It’s hard to figure out exactly what’s going on.  It’s hard to tell if you fixed it. The problem We’ve had a problem at JavaRanch for about a month where some posts mysteriously didn’t appear.  The problem was at its worst early [...]