I love E-Mail. E-Mail doesn’t interrupt, it quietly sits there until you have time for it. E-Mail allows you to carefully think about what you want to say, and edit it if you change your mind. E-Mail is permanent, so you can look up what you were asked and what you replied and if necessary [...]
Once upon a time I was a little software developer underling. When I was done with something I walked to my boss and said “Hey boss, what shall I do?” and my boss said “Go write that program”. And I wrote that program until I was done, just to start over. But these simple times [...]
I am a big fan of creating at least the basic structure of your database from the domain model using hibernate. But if you work with Oracle you know on problem with this approach: the length of names is seriously limited for tables and columns. So if you have a inner class with embeddables you [...]