Reality-Loop

  • November 19, 2008

    Fowler, a Werewolf and no Silver Bullets

    Fowler as a werewolf is just hilarious: This is from the No Silver Bullet Reloaded Retrospective OOPSLA Panel 2007. There are a lot of gems in the quote from this discussion! The sarcastic comments from Fowler alone are worth the read of ...

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  • November 19, 2008

    IntelliJ IDEA 8 on OSX crashes on 64-bit JVM

    Smart Java Beans 3.0 Ready IDE for Error Free EJB Development I am playing around with IntelliJ IDEA 8. The IDE kept crashing on me after building a project. The problem did not occur any more after configuring the default JVM to J2SE 5.0 32-...

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  • November 18, 2008

    Alternatives to Hibernate updated

    Recently I stumbled over another ActiveRecord implementation for Java: activeobjects. Instead of updating the list from my last blog post, I decided to start a Wiki-page: ORM solutions for Java The goal is not to list every existing framework...

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  • November 11, 2008

    Work smart not hard: another step in the right direction

    Today SpringSource acquired G2One, THE company behind Grails. Read the announcement from SpringSource. ... and the blog posts from the Graeme Rocher and Guillaume Laforge. I think this is a very pleasant step for getting Groovy and Grails i...

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  • November 07, 2008

    Two views on the importance of code

    Today I had some time catching up with my podcast-backlog. Here the two most memorable quotes: Code Quality is very low on the list of things that matter. - Jeff Atwood on Hanselminutes #135 You have nothing to do in Software engineering...

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