A Dev Mindset

Error Handling by Marvin

Filed under geeky, douglas-adams,

If you're into IT, you're probably familiar with the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by the immortal Douglas Adams.

In case you've never heard of the above book, please, if you're into development, uninstall any IDEs that you might have installed in your attempt to get on the IT train, and close the browser.

Just kidding, you may keep the browser open ;)

Now, when you have read the Guide, you must remember the paranoid android Marvin, that's always depressed and complains about life, the universe and everything in it.

Also, imagine that your application has developed a personality like Marvin's, and it handles all the errors in your application. You might come up with something like this:

http://jugmk-academy-preview.appspot.com/createNPE.do

In case you're wondering what just happened, the error handling mechanism triggered up, in a Marvin like fashion. If you want to see the source code you may find it here.

And yes, it is true:

It's not pretty when a cloud application cries!