Dazed & Confused

I linked to an article outlining a generic DAO design a little while back. It had some good points, but today as I was reading some mail from the Domain Driven Design group I started thinking again. One of the guys there suggested to view the Repository/DAO as a collection. You can’t just narrow it [...]

Oracle has a BPEL cookbock here. The SOA guys at work will love it I guess.

JavaZone is over. I only got to attend the second day this year, but I caught some good presentations. I think their intentions are to put up videos of most talks on the site. Some highlights:

Pragmatic SOA, John Crupi – A good presentation of SOA. Still no warm and cuddly feelings from me, but he [...]

Ah, my purchase of the excellent EOS 350D is going to cost me a lot of money eventually. I already contemplate some new lenses, and I really need to get a decent screen for editing. I currently only have 1024×768 capable screens, which is pretty much just stoneage.

Great explanations and tips for handling digital photos in Photoshop here.

Getting the DAO layer right isn’t as easy as one might think. Especially with stateful persistence techonlogies like Hibernate and TopLink. There is a good article on the Hibernate blog here on how to do this in Java 5. For those of us still using 1.4 at least the standard operations is good input for [...]

I did a lot of bad things when setting up Maven for my current project. I learnt a lot, and it did work in the end, but I certainly would do stuff a lot different next time around. It will probably look something like what is described in this article.

I recently bought myself a Canon EOS 350D. Sweeeeet. I have a little experience from using my old EOS 300, and still looking to learn. One of the thing’s I know very little about is filters, so I dug up a good decription here.
I’ll might be looking into posting some pics here later.

Fowler has a long article about Domain Specific Language Workbenches. Good introduction to DSLs and the challenges.