Learn in the quiet times

I had a comment lodged on an older article recently. The poster was complaining about the poor quality of the JWebFit sub-project of JWebUnit In particular, he was complaining about how it meant their project wasn’t delivered on time. There’s an anti-pattern here.
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I’m not a Hungarian Notation user

Joel Spolsky wrote an interesting article which had a brief history of Hungarian notation, amongst other things. Cedric Beust’s picked it up and made the claim that We are all Hungarian Notation users. I’m not buying it.
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Differences in behaviour between Hibernate delete queries and the old way

In Hibernate 2, you could sort-of do a bulk delete via the Session interface. In Hibernate 3, they have true bulk deletes, ala Section 3.11 of the EJB 3 Persistence API. However, they have some significant differences which people migrating to the new functionality need to be aware of.

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Upgrading to Hibernate 3 – a war story

I finally got a chance to try out upgrading to Hibernate 3 at work. It wasn’t the smoothest of rides, but I got there in the end.
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How the new Hibernate bulk queries work

When I gave my talk on Monday I’d sort of hurried over the new bulk queries in Hibernate, largely because I didn’t have much luck finding doco on them.

Now I know how they work.

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Deleting code gives me a warm fuzzy feeling…

I love it when I get to delete code. Deleting code, particularly dead code, is such a wonderfully therapeutic exercise. You should try it some time.

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Granularity of types

Elizabeth Keogh has been writing a couple of articles on naming of interfaces. In the process, she’s highlighted a more important issue: granularity of types.
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