A Drop In The Stream

To Hibernate or not to Hibernate that is the persistence question! Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous SQL statements Or to take arms against a sea of result sets and by opposing iterate them? This post is about my ambivalence about the Hibernate framework and its frequent [...]

The big caveat to my new-found respect for Windows is that I’m running Windows 7 on a very, very fast machine. Due to the hefty requirements of WebSphere and Java tooling my company sprung for 64 bit Windows 7 running on a Dell Precision M4400 with 8 Gigs of RAM and a solid state hard [...]

There’s lots of religious disputes over how to measure programmer productivity. Language selection, platform, and tool set all have something to do with how fast a problem is converted into a solution. As a coder, I view writing code as my principal measure of productivity. I’m not really talking about a count of lines but [...]

I suppose my vast audience may be getting IBM bashing fatigue but if I don’t vent here I may not have the necessary self-restraint at my office to avoid getting reprimanded or worse. So, I’m installing applications on our spanking new Process Server 6.1 installation using our Maven automation. The list of applications I’m deploying [...]