In a late blog post Stephan Schmidt vents his problems with hibernate and declares “ORMs are a thing of the past” I agree to some extend: – The SQL generated by Hibernate by default is horrible. Huge joins, with hundreds of columns, many unneeded. – Annotations feel like dirt in your code, and maintaining XML [...]
Some days ago I was asked to set up a tomcat server for SSL. You’d think this is a no brainer. And it actually is when you proceed along the paved path. But if you deviate only a little, you are in big trouble. I solved the trouble I got in, and here is my [...]
I found a new (at least for me) metaphor: people are like water. The cool thing about this metaphor is: When you manage people you can use it to learn from the engineers building channels and dams. So here are the things you can learn: If you want to stop a certain behavior, build a [...]
