Software is too expensive to build cheaply…

I’m now working on my second project with Hibernate, having delivered the first, and I’m playing with some of the features I didn’t have time to figure out last time. And I have to say: named queries rock, big time.

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Tags: design, Hibernate

I was reading Alan Kay’s Early History of Smalltalk recently. Quite an interesting article.
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Tags: language des, smalltalk

That’s the title for my blog, and it’s a philosophy I believe in 100%. Software, like many other areas of life, is not a place to cut corners (at least, certain corners). There are certain expenses you have to be willing to pay if you want a quality product that will stand the test of time; avoiding them simply pushes immediate cost now to bigger nastier costs later.
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Tags: admin, personal

I figured out why the web app I was trying to build before broken when I used the exported build script. Turns out that you need to run a setup script to get your environment “just right” before running the build.
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Tags: ant, bea, ide, weblogic, weblogic workshop

It just makes things break!!

(Followup at end)
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Tags: bea, ide, weblogic, weblogic workshop

I did a silly thing last week. I’ve been avoiding being given a task for the last nine months, and then all of a sudden I ended up volunteering to do it, for all sorts of reasons. The task: work out how to use WebLogic Workshop as a real tool, in conjunction with our other standard practices (like, oh, source control unit tests command-line builds and daily/continuous builds And I’m realizing why I tried so hard to avoid it.
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Tags: bea, ide, suncorp, weblogic, weblogic workshop