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psudo  ·  3487 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you working on today?

I'm currently working on trying to figure out how to actually use the newish communication protocol another department wrote. There's only rudimentary documentation and a lot of the core knowledge owners left, so it is a lot of banging my head against NullPointers in code I can't see and running around and asking the few people who aren't afraid of it for help.

Once I have that to a fairly stable point I'll go back to putting the finishing touches on a shell script that has grown from just calling Java to parsing files and piping things between sed and awk.





caelum19  ·  3487 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Why didn't they make it throw detailed exceptions when things went wrong, instead of forcing you to go on a error quest?

psudo  ·  3486 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It threw the right exception, as I did pass a null, it just was non-obvious as the error came out far from where the null actually was. I don't know that they could have really saved me from myself without an unacceptably large delay.