Posts Tagged ‘crash’

Windows Focus Rikard Edgren No Comments

That applications have focus on the right place is essential to a good user experience. You have to trust that pressing Del on keyboard will have the intended effect. Problems with this is very common, at least on Windows, and especially in applications with dialogs and panels and stuff of different types. Addressing symptoms agressively […]

Author: Rikard Edgren
Date: November 4, 2010
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Soft crashes give a false sense of safety Henrik Emilsson 5 Comments

At my former company we had a vision of removing/fixing all unhandled exceptions that we found (and that we thought a customer might encounter). After some discussions we decided that the unhandled exceptions should be treated in the same way as we had treated severe errors on previous platforms. I.e. Crashes in C++; NullPointerExceptions in […]

Author: Henrik Emilsson
Date: February 13, 2009
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