Software is too expensive to build cheaply...

Hibernate has long had a feature known as "query caches" - you can run a query, cache the result, and thus avoid running it repeatedly. The only problem is that it doesn't do what you think it does.

I've long been interested in decent ways of expressing tests in a human-readable format. Not just any humans, but BAs and business reps in particular - the kind of people who will not be interested in slugging through piles of language syntax. I tried Fit sometime ago, and was impressed, but when I came back and revisited it recently, it looked a lot like the community had kind of faded away. Accordingly, I looked around at what else was available, and stumbled across RSpec. Now, I want to test Java code, and RSpec is for Ruby (as the R kind of hints), but I was able to get this going under JRuby fairly easily. I couldn't find any examples of other people doing that, so I thought I'd write it up.

Today our Prime Minister made an important step in Australian history, by apologising to indigenous Australians for past injustices. However, I think the focus on the so-called Stolen Generation was wrong.