Reality Loop

September 26, 2011
Promotion: Usabilty-to-Go for Developers

Claudia and Stefan from TechTalk are presenting their Usabilty-to-Go Workshop on 3.11.2011 in the Technopark Zurich. In this one day workshop developers can learn how to apply efficient usability-design in their enterprise project. Check it out:...
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September 13, 2011
Using the JPA metamodel annotation processor

Some time ago I claimed that the JPA 2.0 metamodel API has the potential to revolutionize Java development.I still think that the concept is very interesting by showing an approach to strongly typed meta programming in Java. However I think it doe...
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September 09, 2011
Quotes of the Week: Bashing Hibernate

Abstracting SQL often isn't a good idea from my experience.- @codemonkeyism Hibernate should be to programmers what cake mixes are to bakers: beneath their dignity. [...] As professional programmers, we should be more sceptical of generic framewor...
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September 07, 2011
QuickTip: Logging SQL statements in EclipseLink

Documentation for EclipseLink is quite lacking.While for Hibernate it is quite easy to find out how to log SQL statements, I had some trouble to find out how to accomplish this in EclipseLink.The solution are the following properties in persistenc...
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September 01, 2011
Programming Humor: Private Coder Soundtrack

A while back on a dysfunctional project some colleagues of mine started being creative and adapted the lyrics of the famous Tina Turner song "Private Dancer" (lyrics) to our sad project environment: WELL THE Managers COME IN THESE PLACES A...
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