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(Note: This article is a bunch of high-level thoughts and tips I’ve come up with over the last little while. For more in-depth and comprehensive Hibernate information, I highly recommend Java Persistence with Hibernate)
A little over a year ago, I joined the project in part to add some Hibernate expertise. Since then, we have been […]

I think I’ve gotten the art of deploying a rails app on a DreamHost down, and a few friends have asked for a quick tutorial, so here it is. Once you learn how to do it, you can get a new app up and running in 5 minutes or less.
This assumes you know how to […]

I use Java almost 100% of the time in my day job. I think it is perfectly suited for what we do and love working with it. I also do work on the side and am really struggling to use Java for that stuff.
I actually think that with some really cool developments made over the […]

Agile has been a popular software development methodology for some time now. I think Agile methodologies typically work quite well for most projects and see this as a generally good thing. That said, how Agile is implemented makes more of a difference than the simple decision to use it.
Unfortunately, I’ve seen Agile implemented poorly more […]