In the world of software development, reliability and stability are the bedrock of an application’s success. Both qualities can be hampered significantly by memory leaks, which result in a gradual ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally ...

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I get to work on a number of fairly large vb6 applications, I've run into a situation where there was a pretty major overhaul of one of the applications. Now I think there is a pretty big memory leak ...

As a programmer, I’m aware that I tend to make mistakes — and why not? Even programmers are human. Some errors are detected during code compilation, while others ...