http://blog.codehangover.com Go ahead, have another Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:31:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's an underused feature of Hibernate that I've been using recently called "auxiliary database objects". With these guys, you can finally let Hibernate manage all of your schema creation and deletion. No more using Hibernate to generate mapped tables and then coming behind with another tool to finish the job. A ... http://blog.codehangover.com/536/ I wrote this for consideration for the upcoming 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know book. Alas, I didn't submit it before the deadline. I'm OK with that that because I had another submission that I think has a good chance to make it in the book. I particularly like to apply this phrase in every-day ... http://blog.codehangover.com/if-you-want-to-have-cities-youve-got-to-build-roads/ Book on Amazon Outliers "The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell is a popular book. I heard about the book in a freelance discussion group at a developer conference. I quickly ordered a used copy from Amazon. It's popularity became very apparent when multiple people, that saw me ... http://blog.codehangover.com/outliers-a-non-technical-book-every-freelancerdeveloper-should-read/ I was looking for a good prototyping tool the other day and I came across ForeUI. This little gem packs quite a punch. Whether you want to create mockups of a desktop application or a web application, ForeUI has everything you need. A six minute demo of the application is ... http://blog.codehangover.com/foreui-review/ My notes and thoughts about day two of strange loop 2009. Also be sure to check out my Day one notes. jQuery - Matt Taylor http://weblog.dangertree.net/ Showed numerous examples how easy jQuery makes it to select and edit HTML elements. Made me realize I should use jQuery even in small apps. Also showed examples of ... http://blog.codehangover.com/strange-loop-2009-day-2/ A new developer conference has started in St Louis this year named Strange Loop. Normally I don't go to developer conferences because they are either in a different country or on the coasts. This one was close by in St Louis, MO. And from the quality of ... http://blog.codehangover.com/strange-loop-2009-day-1/ Book on Amazon All summer I meant to read the book "NHibernate In Action". I finally got around to it, better late than never I guess. In my opinion this book is aimed at higher level programmers such as lead developers or architects. The book does not contain clear ... http://blog.codehangover.com/nhibernate-in-action-book-review/ Well, as I related in a post on my personal blog before this shared blog came into being, I was going to read a book every two weeks and give a review of it. I should have said that I'd read 200-300 pages per week instead. My latest book is ... http://blog.codehangover.com/book-review-xunit-test-patterns/ I recently had to setup NHibernate in a multiple project c#, asp.net MVC solution. Since most of the tutorials and books only show a basic single project layout I thought I would post an example of how to configure NHiberate with a multi-project solution. The main problem I had was ... http://blog.codehangover.com/configuring-nhibernate-in-a-multiple-project-layout/ This is a book review of Pro Java™ EE Spring Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies Implementing Java EE Patterns with the Spring Framework About the Book Apress describes this book as Pro Java™ EE Spring Patterns focuses on enterprise patterns, best practices, design strategies, and proven solutions using key Java EE technologies ... http://blog.codehangover.com/spring-patterns-best-practices-and-design-strategies-book-review/