In Training

Most of my projects have reached a natural stopping point. There is still more that could be done to make it even better as there always is in these sorts of projects, but the project is stable the latest design release is integrated so it looks fantastic and there are other projects that need my attention. That is where I am directing myself now, for the next few days I am delving into hibernate, no that's not what bears do in winter (well it is but it is not that type of hibernate I am talking about). "Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service." Their words not mine. Hibernate is as different to traditional programming as object orientated programming is to functional programming, there is a logical leap, a mental bridge to get a cross (sorry for all the euphemisms).

Though for all the differences there are key principles what relate to what I already know, and I can definitely see the power. Especially the speed of development, with this structure up and running we should be able to build a test driven platform (so we can know it won't fail), quickly, reducing duplication of effort, and easily make the resulting code multiplatform. Literally if this works, as the materials I am going through lead me to believe, if we need to develop code for a different type of database or operating system, that would be considerably easier than it is with the current system, just add in a plug-in for the database of choice and away you go.

Posted by Christopher Chestnut on 2010-02-08 10:02:04

Intense Saving mode enabled

Seven months today will be the wedding day and I have started saving intensively, well tell a lie I have been saving constantly for a while but a large whack, pretty much all of that disappeared over Christmas , new year, and booking the honeymoon. So reduced back down to zero savings again it was time to re-assess my savings and start saving intensively, especially as certain key items have to be bought soon. Combine that with buying a house we probably won't be having any holidays for a while, well apart from the honeymoon.

Posted by Christopher Chestnut on 2010-02-08 09:48:21