There is no doubt that Hibernate is the dominant ORM for Java applications. There are Hibernate conferences and Hibernate user groups. It even has its own shelf at Barnes and Nobel. However, I have always found it suffering from a fatal flaw: it’s incredibly complex. Even accomplishing the simplest of functionality […]
So I was talking earlier today with my good friend, Lowell Heddings, regarding certain annoyances we had with web frameworks. The conversation started talking about the difficulties of developing PHP applications due to the lack of a debugger, but (as conversations on web frameworks are wont to do) eventually the migrated to Rails.
I mentioned […]
One of the things which really which annoys me about JRuby is the lack of a clean syntax corresponding to Java’s anonymous inner classes. Now, Ruby has a neat little syntax trick called blocks. It really would be the ultimate solution if you could use Ruby blocks in things like Java event listeners […]
For this entry, let’s consider a situation which arises fairly frequently in real world development: the need to quickly prototype something. Now, when I say prototype, I mean something even more atomic than building a demo of an application or feature. What I’m talking about is trying out a certain aspect of an […]