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April 20, 2010

Spring : inject proxy instead of proxied object

Today i found a neat trick.

Typically when you inject an AnnotationSessionFactoryBean into one of your classes you end up with a SessionFactory on the other side. This is because Spring is doing its magic inside, proxying stuff so you end up with an easy way to instantiate hibernate (…)
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April 13, 2010

Sproutcore on OSX snow leopard

It recently came to my attention the existence of this heavily-client-based web framework to develop desktop-like applications called Sproutcore and is backed up by Apple (there is another cool alternative called Capuccino). Basically it relies on Javascript to create nice desktop-like applications, but on the web.

Ever since i (…)
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March 31, 2010

Software does not evolve; software degenerates

Today at lunch i felt taken by this concept once again. A long time ago it came to me that software, au contraire of living beings, does not evolve; the best description for it, in my not-so-humble opinion, is of a big tower of LEGOs building blocks: You start (…)
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February 16, 2010

Bomb This Country

After an awesome Japanese dinner with my good friend Luizzz , we came to the conclusion that the website that was missing was one where you could bomb any country in the world. … So over the course of about 8 hours – the next day – we came up with bombthiscountry.com , a meaningless website where you can bomb any country in the world (yes, China, Tibet is a country). (…)
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February 4, 2010

Pair programming

I recently came across an article entitled “Pair programming works“. To be honest, the first thing that crossed my mind was that this would be a cartoon mocking the concept.

Fortunately, i was wrong as the article gives very compelling arguments on why “Pair programming” has a lot of (…)
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