<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3339316202894508517.post2320472138872950035..comments</id><updated>2009-09-02T19:59:17.185-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Duffblog 2.0: Check parameters for validity... good advice!</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.dubh.org/feeds/2320472138872950035/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3339316202894508517/2320472138872950035/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.dubh.org/2007/03/check-parameters-for-validity-good.html'/><author><name>Brian Duff</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15591692569924908268</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3339316202894508517.post-7415618419605770857</id><published>2009-08-15T05:26:38.100-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-15T05:26:38.100-07:00</updated><title type='text'>For the first advice about adding null checks, I a...</title><content type='html'>For the first advice about adding null checks, I agree that it would help out in debugging and identifying the problems quickly but would it be a good practice to add code (in our case if checks) which would get executed only once or to say it in different words is it a good practice to add code because the caller is not obeying the api contract which is clearly mentioned in the java docs?</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3339316202894508517/2320472138872950035/comments/default/7415618419605770857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3339316202894508517/2320472138872950035/comments/default/7415618419605770857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.dubh.org/2007/03/check-parameters-for-validity-good.html?showComment=1250339198100#c7415618419605770857' title=''/><author><name>Amit</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.dubh.org/2007/03/check-parameters-for-validity-good.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3339316202894508517.post-2320472138872950035' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3339316202894508517/posts/default/2320472138872950035' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>