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December 26, 2008
Using JPA and Hibernate with Maven
I have been fighting a bit to set up a Maven project with JPA and Hibernate as persistence provider. The final solution is very simple. But when you get on a wrong track at the beginning, you end up in a terrible maze... So here the most impor...
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December 24, 2008
Don't be too clever...
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. --Brian Kernighan
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December 24, 2008
Take it slow ...
A unit test that takes 1/10th of a second to run is a slow unit test. - Michael C. Feathers Working effectively with legacy code
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December 18, 2008
If programming languages were ...
After Web Framework Trolling and Language Wars now come the comparisons: If programming languages were religions... If programming languages were cars... My favorites: APL would be Scientology - There are many people who claim to fol...
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December 17, 2008
Go go java! ... play catch-up with C#!
I am reading Stephen Colebourne's JDK 7 language changes - Devoxx votes!. At the devoxx conference people voted on possible future features of the Java language. As a developer with a .NET background, I can't help to compare with C# ... ...
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