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Wednesday, 9 October 2002

hahaha one of the funniest things I've read all week - Danno tells the story of his foosball table and those who dislike it. So when we had a problem with one of the adjoining confrence rooms being busy with sales meetings (the table was lound enought to cause problems in that room) some of us decided to move the table. Of all of the places we could choose we moved it into the old VPs office. The good part is that now we are more productive. With the table so much closer we don't waste as much time going there. We have a foosball table in the office but it's been gathering dust recently, it never really got a following amongst the new people. We must change this. [And They Shall Know Me By My Speling Errors] 2:14:09 PM  comment []      Java persistence frameworks. I've decided to bite the bullet, stop putting SQL statements in my code and use a suitable persistence framework for Java object. My initial examination has screened five candidates [...] [Be Blogging] Ugo is admiring different persistence frameworks. There are a bunch of others. (Oh, and LGPL isn't a problem for commercial developments?) We chose OFBiz EE mainly for two reasons - it's is very liberal which fits with our development style (Webwork and "SiteMesh" are two tools in the same vein) and it handles creating / updating of the data model very well. Not everyone like liberality (sp?) - some people complain you lose type safety - bah! Think of the things you can do instead! :) 12:56:32 PM  comment []