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Null pointers everywhere because data is suddenly sparse.

Someone designed code that relied on full data; the XML always had every element. The data source is now sending sparse XML; if it would have been empty before, it's missing now. So, it's time to refactor while fixing bugs. There's 100+ lines of code like this: functionDoSomething(foo, bar, getRoot().getChild("1").getChild("A"). ...

Svn merging trunk and branches

Hi All, I have a huge project. I need to make a branch - this will be version 2 of the project, but I also need to keep the trunk and change it in parallel with the branch 1 as bug fix to the version 1. I need to merge bug fixes from the trunk to the branch 1 while adding new features to the branch. At the end I need to merge all cha...

Fix bugs in library code, or abandom them?

Assume i have a function in a code library with a bug in it i've found a bug in a code library: class Physics { public static Float CalculateDistance(float initialDistance, float initialSpeed, float acceleration, float time) { //d = d0 + v0t + 1/2*at^2 return initialDistance + (initialSpeed*time)+ (acceleration*P...