(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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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I do JEE development for my day job, but lately have been doing a lot of Ruby on Rails development on the side for some financial websites I’ve been building. I’ve used PHP in the past for these, and see Rails as a better alternative.
One minor issue with Ruby on Rails is that it still […]

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I’ve spent the last 10 years doing web development and little else. This year, I’ve vowed to get more experience outside of web development. After hearing some of the cool stuff happening in the mobile space, I decided I’d like to do some mobile programming. There are tons of cool applications for this that I […]

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One of my long-term goals is to make enough money off the internet to enable to me to quit my job while still enjoying the same level of income. Many people have similar goals, I think. It isn’t so much that we hate out jobs (I personally love mine), but rather that we’d like the […]

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With all the buzz about iTunes not working properly on Windows Vista, I was worried when I decided to upgrade over the weekend. I found some instructions from Apple that recommended I deauthorize all of my accounts and uninstall iTunes prior to installing Vista, which I followed.
The actual Vista upgrade was somewhat harrowing - my […]

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Despite using Eclipse for several years now, I’ve only recently started to use a really cool feature - templates. It may seem a bit silly at first, but it has been a very useful feature for us. Why?
- Saves a small amount of typing - it adds up though
- It helps cut down typos or […]

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