Another boring response to "javatips"

Hello my friends. Well it seems some people dont like my tips. To them I say that they should not read them. The tips work for me and I have many words of encouragement from my friends, so if you want to be negativity then go to the bile BLOG or something.

Well.... the tips work for you because you don't actually go into them very much. You're testing corner cases, finding them satisfactory for those cases, and then offering general advice based on that.

It's almost as if you'd made out with your cousin, found it titillating, and then advocated incest as a way of life, without any understanding of genetics. You also make some anecdotal claims without backing them up, and offer advice that's clearly unworkable (to anyone who's actually done work in the arenas in which your advice applies) which makes your "tips" often negative in nature - sort of "here's what not to do, although not why" - and you're not offering them as negative tips or even things to be corrected.

For those of us who have tried to educate other Java programmers, you're almost offensive, because you're working directly against everything we're trying to do, by offering immature (and, very often, wrong) advice, with bad reasoning.

It's really sad, too, because you could do so much good by changing your "tips" to questions. "I want to manage threads... how?" "I want to have more efficient database connections... how?" "I've seen commons-* from Jakarta... they seem great. Are they as good as Jakarta says they are?"

Your enthusiasm is fine, but your tips are atrocious.