After 3 years of working with ClearCase SCM tool I came to the point that you should not use it for developing software. Surely it has its moments: The branching and merging capabilities are good and the graphical version tree is nice. Also the concept of the config-spec, which is a kind of query-language for [...]

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As software engineers we get overwhelmed by the masses of bad-quality source code we work with each day. At this stage improvement of all these source code artifacts is a never ending story. To tackle this problem IntelliJ IDE goes the step-by-step improvement approach, where it runs actions and includes its powerfull code inspections on [...]

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Exception constructs in modern languages have replaced the way to map an error condition by a return value (like for instance in C). If used properly analyzation of error conditions and their handling can be performed very well. Never the less in Java, the so called checked exceptions are annoying since long (as a side [...]

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