http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:53:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've ever had to work on a legacy application with a HUGE code base, you might get faced with this situation: Manager: "Hey journeyman can you fix this address on this page so that it knows to take a system configuration?" Journeyman:  "Sure, give me a second for an estimate." You ... http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com/?p=134 Now this is interesting.We were trying to debug some Hibernate rich objects we had converted from hbm files to annotations, and the objects were blowing up.  One of our more expertish developers with some Hibernate experience insisted that default fetching was lazy.  We decided to accept that as the word ... http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com/?p=119 DECLARE   tokenString      VARCHAR2 (256) := 'Jim,Jerry,Jordan';   tokenLength      NUMBER := 0;   tokenDelimiter   VARCHAR2 (1) := ',';   tokenChar        VARCHAR2 (1) := '';   tokenIzed        VARCHAR (30) := '';BEGIN   SELECT LENGTH (tokenString) INTO tokenLength FROM DUAL;   FOR i IN 1 .. tokenLength   LOOP      SELECT SUBSTR (tokenString, i, 1) INTO tokenChar FROM DUAL;      IF tokenChar ... http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com/?p=109 I read articles on Tech Republic from time to time. They're . . . . OK. But I don't remember signing up for this kind of email notification. You'd think a self proclaimed tech site would show a little more ethical behavior. Just goes to show ... http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com/?p=104 I had to write an Oracle script template for work to kind of create a guideline for our developers since we are getting inputs from ourselves, DBA standards, and business requirements from our BA's and customers. Anyway, one thing they wanted was batch commits . . . so I wrote this ... http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com/?p=81 I am not a proponent of TDD, but I will admit it has its place.  And sometimes that place is not to use it, if the ultimate outcome will be of less value to the purpose of your software. Some reasons not to use TDD if the conditions warrant are: More code ... http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com/?p=71 I was creating a setup of PortableApps on my XP machine with some of the great stuff you can port around in that framework: Open Office, VLC etc. without installing them into the OS. I didn't have a USB drive with me, and thought hey, maybe I can just ... http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com/?p=59 When you are updating from jdk 1.5 to jdk 1.6 in Eclipse 3.5, make sure you hit all of these  touchpoints: On your machine, install jdk 1.6 and change your environment path variables to point to the 1.6 directories. In Eclipse, Under Windows->Preferences->Java->Installed JREs make sure jdk 1.6 is  added, and select ... http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com/?p=49 It's not in the nature of most people, developers even more so with our huge egos, to admit we don't know something.  But if you have a life outside of your compiler, you know that some things can't be read about; they have to be experienced. For a while recently at ... http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com/?p=45 In my search for easy to use technology I decided to use the darcs distributed revision control code repository to maintain some of my work-usbstick-website--home files. What darcs is: It's an easy to use, distributed, code repository.  It falls into the same category as Mercurial,GIT or Bazaar. Distributed?  Yes, patches are exchanged between ... http://journeyman.ivystreetinc.com/?p=3