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No ORM: The simplest solution?

Posted by: Regina Lynch on Thu Aug 10 13:36:33 EDT 2006    1 comment    last post: Thu Aug 10 15:01:39 EDT 2006
In this blog entry, Angsuman Chakraborty, a self-declared ORM-free developer, describes the "framework" solution that he claims puts him at his most productive. Chakraborty believes that ORM frameworks "have a steep learning curve and tend to shoe horn your architecture into their model." As a SQL-happy developer, he uses just two facilities over JDBC.

Brain Dead Code Award Given to Cameron Purdy

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Fri Aug 04 09:04:12 EDT 2006    5 comments    last post: Wed Aug 09 13:56:48 EDT 2006
In his blog, long time active member of the TSS community Cameron Purdy has given himself the Brain Dead Code award. However there seems to be a conflict of interest here as Cameron Purdy wrote the code, tested the code and now sometime later has discovered the defect in the code.

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10 Questions to 10 Luminaries

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Wed Aug 02 05:37:00 EDT 2006    0 comments    last post: Wed Aug 02 05:37:00 EDT 2006
In his blog, Stiff has published the answers to 10 questions he put to a very well-known set of programmers. One of the more interesting points to come out in the interview is the number of luminaries that were (initially) self-taught.

To have or not have a template language

Posted by: Regina Lynch on Mon Jul 31 15:29:43 EDT 2006    3 comments    last post: Thu Aug 10 13:29:30 EDT 2006
In response to a comparison of Rails and Django, Richard McMahon has posted a blog entry on taglibs versus scriptlets.

Problems with design pattern "Singleton"

Posted by: Regina Lynch on Fri Jul 28 11:25:36 EDT 2006    1 comment    last post: Wed Aug 09 05:30:25 EDT 2006
According to Guy Korland, the problem with the "Singleton" design pattern is that many times it leaves "floating garbage that is not in use." As a solution, the extension WeakSingleton has been introduced.

Tom White: Adding pluralization with Inflector

Posted by: Regina Lynch on Fri Jul 28 11:07:41 EDT 2006    0 comments    last post: Fri Jul 28 11:07:41 EDT 2006
Tom White's blog entry on adding pluralization to tools with Inflector, a new Java library hosted on java.net, includes a call for help in the effort to internationalize Inflector's implementations of pluralization algorithms.

Technologies to Learn

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Fri Jul 28 06:53:55 EDT 2006    4 comments    last post: Wed Aug 02 05:00:14 EDT 2006
The question that faces all technologies is where should we invest our learning time. This was the question posed to participants at a recent Virtual Java Meetup. In his blog, Paul Browne summerizes the results of the discussion.

Bill Roth on Ubuntu and BEA Workshop Studio

Posted by: Regina Lynch on Thu Jul 27 13:58:24 EDT 2006    0 comments    last post: Thu Jul 27 13:58:24 EDT 2006
In his blog, Bill Roth describes his surprising experience with Ubuntu - which turned out to be not just "another Linux distro."

From Agile to Lean?

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Thu Jun 15 06:51:34 EDT 2006    1 comment    last post: Sun Jul 16 01:00:50 EDT 2006
In his blog, George Malamidis asks the question, has Agile run its course? He starts the blog describing the symptoms displayed by any technology that has been over-hyped, understood and subsequently mis-used.

Coding Dojo

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Wed Jun 14 05:55:23 EDT 2006    2 comments    last post: Wed Jul 12 05:20:02 EDT 2006
If you're going to be in Finland you may want to sign up for a Coding Dojo. The weekly session is based on Dave Thomas' idea of Code Kata. In the three hour session, up to fifteen developers take turns solving some small programming problem.

Programming Without a Call Stack

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Fri Jun 09 06:51:57 EDT 2006    5 comments    last post: Tue Jul 11 17:50:01 EDT 2006
In his blog, Bruce Snyder reviews Programming Without a Call Stack – Event-driven Architectures by Gregor Hohpe. Gregor is a co-author of Enterprise Integration Patterns which is support by a website to which the document was linked. What Bruce likes about the article is that it really explains the differences between the two models.

SOA redefined?

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Wed Jun 07 04:12:19 EDT 2006    1 comment    last post: Sun Jul 16 06:24:02 EDT 2006
Paul Brown is grumpy. Why is Paul grumpy? He attributes it to buzzwords and analyst predictions but his strongest objection is to Gartner analyst Yefim Natis creating a new version of SOA.



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