Archive for November, 2009
There’s no doubt that Joda time is now the defacto date time library for java. And a well written library it is. You get almost everything you can ever want to do with Date objects and best of all, almost all operations are dummy-proof. By dummy proof I mean that programmers making silly mistakes can’t [...]
Over the last couple of years I have had various discussions about this with my colleagues. I myself favoured foreign keys relationships rather than join tables till a little while ago. If you’re not aware of how to do one or the other, the eamples below should explain that. Consider a very simple parent child [...]
I had an interesting discussion with a colleague of mine regarding the differences between the proxy and the decorator pattern which made me give it some thought. To the untrained eye (that includes my eye!), they seem exactly the same. Infact you sometimes wonder, why the heck are there two names for the same pattern. [...]