Category: Software Development

Java has this feature, that allows you to deprecate stuff. The compiler will then issue warnings, if those elements are used by non deprecated elements. While this seems to be a good idea in fact it isn’t. If you have to change something, just do it and get immediately rid of all the crap or…

Just did a utility class in Java that takes two tables, a field map, and two connections in order to copy data from one db to another. It’s probably fairly buggy and I’m once again wondering, why I have to implement such helpers, they should be around. Which led me to another thought. These days…

I’m quite fond of metrics, if they are useful. Today I’ve seen some numbers that were completely useless, so that Novalis came to mind.

Last night I had to learn that you have to use the SHUTDOWN command to shutdown the in-process HSQLDB. The bad news is, that I knew this before. I found the call in code from three years back.

A colleague just pointed me to http://www.soapui.org/. Good stuff.

For some time I had this impression that sometimes just copying over stuff to the plugins folder doesn’t necessarily do the trick. So today I found out that there is a cache of jars in eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles. It seems like this is updated when doing an installation from an update site. At some point I have…

My colleague Graham just pointed me to gotapi.com. Interesting stuff.