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While working on a recent project, I found a piece of code that performed resource cleanup. Because it had many diverse calls, it could potentially throw six different exceptions. The original ...

Take advantage of the NULL Object pattern to avoid writing too much boilerplate code in your application when checking for null values A null object is one that doesn’t have any referenced value. The ...

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