Altuure Java Blog

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 am talking [...]

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 of upset [...]

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 reuse all implementation in your [...]

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 public void configure( Type type, Properties params, Dialect dialect) { super.configure( type, [...]

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 columns you have [...]

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. However [...]

Re:WordPress Plugin Developer Day

altuure — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:06:49 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Thanks to Lester Chan and wp-wassup team for their greatest plugins Thank a Plugin Developer Day Related posts:Grails Productivity Tip: Depend on Your Pluginwordpress 2.7 upgradeTop 100 Developer Blogs-2008

Grails 101:GroovyBlogs.org

altuure — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:00:20 +0000

If you are trying to learn groovy and grails like me you should visit http://groovyblogs.org . Really nice aggregator for grails and groovy blogs and posts. But the most important part this site is, it is open-source !!! thanks to Glen Smith, you can browse and download its source from the SVN. http://code.google.com/p/groovyblogs/ Once you download the project you [...]

Web Beans (JSR 299): Yet Another EJB Dependency

altuure — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:00:03 +0000

Image by perldude via Flickr In the last weeks first draft of another JSR has been released: JSR-299. Will java and our projects go one more step further??? There is an interview about Web Beans with Gavin King link He is talking about some new features on JEE like Event notification mechanism this is the best part of the API. [...]

tweetback plugin bug patch

altuure — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:05:00 +0000

I have been suffering from a known bug of tweetback plugin of wordpress for a week. Tweetback Counter does not update its count if a tweetback is deleted in the admininterface or database update wp_postmeta set meta_value='0' where meta_key='tweetcount'; update wp_postmeta set meta_value='a:0:{}' where meta_key='twittercomments'; I executed the above sql and fixed the post page errors at least but left [...]