This article explains three techniques for generating primary keys when using Hibernate and Oracle.

You are ready to start sprints for your project and are deciding what day of the week to start.   It would be a natural choice to start on a Monday and end on a Friday, right?   For most of us, individuals have been accustomed and have a rhythm of thinking of Monday at the start [...]

I think Joel was the first I heard this sage advice from – you can live with a cheap desk, but you need an expensive chair. Yes, I too want that really impressive desk in the corner office. But day-in and day-out what I need is a really expensive (read well designed) desk chair.  What [...]

What’s the guy that invented the Web up to theses days?  No, not Al Gore, he’s saving the world one climate at a time (Repower America). I’m referring to Tim. It has only been 20 years ago that Tim Berners-Lee had this crazy idea of hyper linked documents that became a paper, then an implementation, [...]