Altuure Java Blog

Ruby on Rails experience of a java developer

altuure — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:37:34 +0000

Although it has not been a long time since I started to develop a small rails application, I would like to share notes. the first point ,for me and for all the Java developers like me, should be: “what kind of language is this ???” yes it is not structured and well defined like Java [...]

Executors.newFixedThreadPool(n) – Suspended Threads

altuure — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:30:58 +0000

Yesterday while I am trying to organize threads in Java I noticed something strange !! Simply the default ExecutorService could not manage to recover suspended threads. After a small investigation, it looks like if any of the running thread throws any RuntimeException, ExecutorService may not recover and could not start any waiting runnable. You can [...]

Focus on:Refactoring

altuure — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:38:06 +0000

Seperation of Concepts Inversion Of Control Desing patterns They are all trying to tell you one common thing. Please Make It Simple and Organized No matter what size is your project and how many teams/developers involved, the complexity if the code has tendency to be more complex. And after awhile it turn in to a [...]

On track again

altuure — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:33:22 +0000

After a silent year , it is good to be back on bloging again Related posts:top posts 2008 at altuure.com

Just show me what you have done

altuure — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:25:29 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Software development is one of the mysterious processes for the people who know little or nothing about the process. But when talking about the quality, it is not the colors or the make up of the screens you should be talking. (I am not under estimating how important it is, but I [...]

it (doesn’t) worth it

altuure — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:01:05 +0000

Image via Wikipedia When I graduated from college I was really dreaming software companies as the utopia companies. They should be different then any other sector or firm. They are full of highly graduated people with lots of ideas and future projects. It took not much time too see the truth. Software Companies are full [...]

Grails Productivity Tip: Depend on Your Plugin

altuure — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:00:33 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Grails has amazing plugin infrastructure. In short it enables almost everything the core application can do and has really good list of plugins: http://grails.org/Plugins Here what I want to say is something a little bit different: Do all your business in your application plugin Reminder: Plugins are enabled in Grails You can [...]

hibernate tip: smart id generator

altuure — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:00:30 +0000

A small tip to generate more meaningful Id. Instead of 32 for OrderID use O000000032. Simple implementations: SmartIdTableGenerator SmartIdSequenceGenerator SmartIdTableGenerator simple Table Generator Based SmartID generator. it extends TableGenerator and simply returns the formatted value. you can use format parameter for format option public class SmartIdTableGenerator extends org.hibernate.id.TableGenerator{ private DecimalFormat format; /**read configuration parameters*/ @Override [...]

Clean database schema with inheritance

altuure — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:00:24 +0000

It is very common way of usage that when ever you need some new attribute for your model objects/table you add a new column to the related database table. After several requirements you will notice: there will be lots of column in the same table most of them are not always used there is key [...]

Reverse Engineering is not easy

altuure — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:42:56 +0000

Image via Wikipedia In most cases we are developing something that has been done before. We are either enhancing some software or simply rewriting the whole system for some inadequate points. Analysts gather user requests, organize them, make multiple discussions with customers/users and write user requirement documents. That is the standard procedure for most cases. [...]