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I call them Rules, but these are rather best practices we (all Starscriber developers) should adopt when writing code. If you don't agree with some Rule or like an alternate way, please feel free to discuss with me. (- Umer Mansoor)

Rule #1: The Thing About Constants

Rule #2: Constants Are Good

Rule #3: Use a Logger

Rule #4: Apache Commons Is Also Your Friend

Rules #5: Use Maven For All Your Dependency Needs

Rule #6: Comments, Quality Matters

Rule #7: Be Careful Of Strings

Rule #8: Override toString() Method

Rule #9: Throw Exceptions

Rule #10: Don't Throw Exception

Rule #11: When Overiding equals(), Always Override hasCode() As Well

Rule #12: Mutators And Accessors Get Special Treatment

Rule #13: Don't Ignore InterruptedExceptions

Rule #14: Use Perf4J for Calculating Performance

Rule #15: Do not use Timer or TimerTask

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