Archive for October, 2004

Ant + Hibernate = Confusion and Pain

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Once again, an attempt to get two stable, mature, well-documented open source Java tools to talk to each other has resulted in several hours of frustration, as well as all the bad karma associated with using Those Words (as my Grade 3 teacher called them) out loud. I finally ...

Ten Big Ones

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

I've written more than fifty book review columns for Doctor Dobb's Journal since 1997, covering more than two hundred books. Here are ten I think every serious software developer should read: Andrew Hunt and David Thomas: The Pragmatic Programmer. Everyone I give this book to comes back and says, ...