Reality Loop

June 11, 2008
News from the Palahniuk fandom

Chuck Palahniuk just keeps going and going... I bought his latest piece two days ago: ... and I am looking forward to reading it. Although critics on Amazon seem not to be the best... maybe he has played his trick too many times... Just...
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June 10, 2008
When maven starts to pay off...

I have an existing maven project. For QA I have to document it. Maven is a big help here: I just included the following snippet in my pom.xml: <reporting> <plugins> <plugin...
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June 05, 2008
Hibernate Annotations: what they don't tell you about mapping a package

I just spent some time setting up a project using hibernate-annotations. In the reference documentation you find the following example for hibernate.cfg.xml:<hibernate-configuration> <session-factory> <mapping packag...
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June 05, 2008
Striving for professionalism?

I don't think you can count someone even as a semi-decent java dev until he wrote his very own web framework at least once in his life. -- comment on this blog post
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May 31, 2008
Agile is for developers?

Consultancies used to provide a service by managing the entire project so you didn’t have to do much. Now with Agile and Pair Programming the consulting firms can dupe clients into helping them make the sausage, provide little to no serv...
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