Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The easiest way to map a CLOB type of Oracle to a pojo in Hibernate, is to setup a user defined type in Hibernate, which converts Oracle’s ClobType to a String and vice versa. So you’re pojo’s property is going to be a “String” type. There are only two steps to setting this up: 1) [...]
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Scenario: A simple jsp page with a standard drop down box. A Selection criteria (could be another drop down box and a couple of check boxes) to change the values in these drop down box dynamically, without submitting the page. What you will learn: Configure dwr.xml with spring beans Configure application contexts for dwr beans [...]
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
This is a follow up article to First Steps Toward a More Managed Process I wrote at the end of last month. I’ve been using Trac with the Timing and Estimation plugin now for about a month. I tried to promote it to my team for our next product but they never considered it and [...]
I hate to say I’m moving toward an agile process and risk becoming too buzzword-focused. But I’m quickly realizing how important it is to have an effective methodology for managing yourself as a consultant. I’ve used task lists for quite a while as a developer, and that’s fine for the most part. But as a [...]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
I’ve been reading up on eXtreme programming practices. I’ve really been in a world of hurt at my current project. The engineering team is adequate, the technology I understand, but the management and requirements are a nightmare. I’m thinking that if I don’t act I’ll really find myself in trouble; the use cases are a [...]
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Ok, any developer that’s been working for more than a few years has probably snickered at the business analysts who check word docs into version control with tags such as use_case_012106.doc, or use_case_12252006_old.doc… It’s obvious that they just don’t understand that version control is already keeping track of that for them. But today, while painfully [...]
Thursday, November 30, 2006
A friend sent this link to a horror story development environment at Microsoft. It was a story about the development of the Vista shutdown menu: Here’s a quote: So that nets us a conservative estimate of 24 people involved in this feature. Also each team of 8 was separated by 6 layers of management from [...]
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
//***************************************************************** //The best method I have ever seen. //***************************************************************** public boolean isBlakeRasmussenViewable(int code);
Ok now I’m actually trying to do the synchronization of my work directory… here’s my initial experience: >5:57pm – begin synchronization by right-clicking and selecting “Update All”. >5:58pm – Explorer begins “Not Responding” mode… >6:01pm – Entire screen blacks out >6:04pm – Explorer flashes at the bottom of my screen, and it’s no longer in [...]
At my current assignment, I’m allowed to take code home and work on it, but I don’t have remote access. I only have one ethernet port, so bringing my laptop in to synch is a PITA. The solution I’ve found is to use a $20 flashdrive and the windows briefcase option to synchronize. Steps: Create [...]