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Archive for November, 2003

Hibernate DOES scale

I'm being part of the development team for migration of a mainframe ERP to Java technology. A preliminary version of the app shows no less than 878 tables (see image). It could be much more, knowing that quite a lot of “lists of values” - which are not supposed to change frequently during the application's [...]

Acrobat Reader killed my Palm

You can tell that my Palm m105 is not exactly bleeding edge. Both by its rather bland dark ugly look (completely out of fashion compared with today's shiny brigh colored semi-transparent PDAs) and its feature list which does not include webcam, MP3 player, Internet browsing and Office compatibility. However, back to 2001 when I received [...]

This rocks : Bugzilla plugin for Eclipse !

This evening, I was searching for something completely unrelated. In the lines of how to use Eclipse CVS library (ccvs.core) in a standalone “eclipse-less” context (is this possible, by the way ?). Stumbled upon this interesting project called Hipikat, from the Software Practices Lab of University of British Columbia, CA, Computer Science department, of course.
I [...]