31 Oct
2007

Are named queries outside of your DAO layer bad?

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: , :2 Comments on Are named queries outside of your DAO layer bad?

Both Hibernate and JPA support named queries and I would typically recommend keeping them inside your DAOs. However, using a typesafe Generic DAO implementation, you can have one class support all of your CRUD operations, and use named queries to support finder methods. But this approach requires that your service/manager layer know your named queries […]

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27 Oct
2007

Elegance Awaits

By: Jason Grundy Category:General PostTag: , :

On Friday morning over breakfast we had the idea of expanding David Starr’s excellent Elegant Code brand into more of a community along the lines of Los Techies or Code Better (we are aiming high here). I had only one slightly negative thought – why didn’t we think of this before! I am really looking […]

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8 Oct
2007

10 Ways to Stop Context Switching

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: , , , , :

Context switching is rapidly changing from one focused task to another in a short amount of time. Back when we were ignorant of such things, we called this multi-tasking and thought it was good. While multi-tasking is handy in computers, it is not possible in humans. True multitasking looks more like walking and chewing bubblegum than switching quickly between […]

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17 Dec
2006

dasBlog 1.9 on Vista

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: , :

I appreciate every keystroke of work that has gone into the development of this blog engine. I also appreciate that moving forward with Windows is a fact of life. I am not going to complain for a moment about the fact that a new OS caused an error event. I will, however, use it as […]

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15 Oct
2006

2006 Seattle Code Camp

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: , :

Code Camps have gotten frustratingly little press lately.  These grass roots gatherings are the open source of technical conferences, and have accordingly little fanfare. but remain the best free training opportunity available for developers.  The rub is simple; You have to be passionate enough about tech to actually spend time on a weekend (gasp) honing your […]

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26 Sep
2006

We Are Hiring

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: , :

This is the ad that will be up on Monster and Career Builder this week.  We don’t do paper ads anymore. Healthwise Logo   Software Development and Test Healthwise, Incorporated, a global developer of consumer health information in Boise , Idaho , is recruiting for software development professionals who are passionate about their work and […]

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