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View the full archive of Zdot--Thinking out Loud Zdot Podcast: Jupiter Review Plugin for Eclipse Listen now with the Flash player.Download Jupiter Review Plugin for Eclipse.This week we’re looking at peer reviews.Show NotesThis show’s topic was the Jupiter Review Plugin for Eclipse [Open Source]. In my view this is by far the best peer review tool available. The major resource used was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Why Subversion Rocks Listen now with the Flash player. This week is version control. Today’s show is simple: Subversion Rocks. Check out why. Download Why Subversion Rocks. Show Notes Check out Subversion for the command-line and the server installation. TortoiseSVN is an excellent Windows client that plugs into Windows Explorer. We use the Apache [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JSF: Leaky Abstractions (Grab a Mop) In part two of my series of podcasts on why I’m not interested in using JSF in the future, I focus on the Leaky Abstraction that it provides. I feel like the leaks get in the way of getting actual work done; they confuse new developers, and cause headaches for everyone. Users even [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JSF: The 7-Layer Burrito I Won’t Eat Again Our team has used JSF for the better part of a year. My vote: skip it. Check out the first of a long list of reasons why the JSF 7-layer burrito won’t be on my round for seconds. In this podcast, I stick close to our experiences with JSF as a team, and my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ruby Infiltration Ruby has been a growing blip on my radar for a while. In this show I describe my first real production Ruby application at work — and it’s small enough to talk about a few details. I cover how we use Ruby to automate some interactions with Subversion and Maven. I’ve done [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modular Builds with Maven Maven is an interesting tool. It can be both wonderful and viciously annoying. Today's show discusses one of its strengths - modularizing the build process. I give a brief overview of the basic components of our build system, which includes CruiseControl and how the pieces depend upon each other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unit Testing Your Database Code with Hibernate and Spring You’ve got database code that uses both Hibernate and Spring. You need to test it. In this podcast I talk about how you can use DBUnit and HSQLDB along with some Spring test classes to create a setup that will let you test database code fast, and in isolation. Just what good [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Standardizing Eclipse Plugins, Take 2 Almost a year ago I wrote a blog entry about one way to standardize Eclipse plugins across your team. It represented our team’s best guess on how to share plugins. Now that some time has gone by, how good has our experience been with it? I’d give it an 8 overall, but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Eclipse 3.1 Release Listen now with the Flash player.Download Eclipse 3.1 Release."A triumph my dear, another triumph." -A Christmas CarolShow NotesEclipse 3.1 has some excellent new features. Chief among them for me is the JDK 1.5 support. They've got everything from enums to annotations supported, and done very well. Also of particular note is the first class support to the Rich Client Platform (RCP). Watch for the Web Tools Platform to finalize very soon as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Key Hibernate Features Listen now with the Flash player.Download Key Hibernate Features.This show wraps up the intro to Hibernate with a discussion of some of its key features including directly using POJOs, detaching objects from a Session, lazy loading, using Hibernate's "user types" to map custom objects to column values, and its support for mapping class hierarchies. It's a long one today - 26 minutes - but a bit more focused. Enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Why You Need Hibernate Listen now with the Flash player.Download Why You Need Hibernate.Show NotesThis week's on ORM in Java, and I'll focus on Hibernate. Today is all about why you need a persistence framework, and a quick intro to Hibernate and why you need it now. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Why You Should Use a Money Class Listen now with the Flash player.Download Why You Should Use a Money Class.This week is focused on some of the business constructs useful in your code.Show NotesMost of the ideas from today's show came from the following sources:Martin Fowler's Money Class from Patterns of Enterprise Application ArchitectureThe IEEE Software article When to Make a Type, by Martin FowlerUPDATE: I found some sample code for a Money class, by some guy Jody Garnett (can't find it on Google again, I'll update it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Accounting Patterns in Java Listen now with the Flash player.Download Accounting Patterns.Structuring your Java code for business is this week's focus.Show NotesToday's show focuses on structuring your program to handle accounting concepts properly. Martin Fowler has an introductory article to the topic called Accounting Patterns (PDF) in his analysis patterns section of articles. He uses Java examples to illustrate the basic ideas behind application design that makes accounting much easier. Today's show highlights ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Version Control Attributes Listen now with the Flash player.Download Version Control Attributes.This week is focused on version control.Show NotesToday's show covered a few basic attributes important to using version control successfully with Java. The principles covered in Software Configuration Management Patterns are excellent. The two books from the Pragmatic Programmer Bookshelf, on Subversion and CVS, are excellent references to the tools that tightly weave excellent principles into the book. There's also gr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spring and Dependencies Podcast This podcast focuses on a quick intro to Spring and how it affects your code dependencies.If don't want to listen to it with the player above, you can download Spring and Dependencies podcast.Show NotesHere's the outline I worked from while recording the podcast. It's sketchy, so don't take it for hard information. I've woven in a couple links, though.Who I amJava developer since 90'sJ2EE since Struts 0.5Worked as programmer for university, .com, governmentWhat the show format isCover int ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Spring Template Classes Download Spring Template Classes.Today's podcasts gives takes brief look at a couple template classes provided by Spring, and why the idea is really important. I'm still working on a good format for show notes. Here's a bare bones version.Show NotesSpring Live by Matt RaibleManning's Spring In ActionDesign PatternsPortland Pattern Repository Template Pattern description, better known as the Template Method Pattern Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Spring Transactions and Interception Download Spring Transactions and Interception.Spring's support for declarative transactions and it's interception work are the subject of this podcast. I've got a quick high-level overview of AOP as well.Show NotesUsing Spring Transactions with HibernateThe Spring Live Book Sample, Chapter 2, covers declarative transactions with Spring.The AspectJ Project hosted by Eclipse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Peer Review Techniques Download A Survey of Peer Review Techniques.This week we're looking at peer reviews.Show NotesToday's podcast brushes over several techniques described by Karl Wiegers and Steve McConnell, including:inspectionsteam reviewswalkthroughspair programmingcode readingdog and pony shows or client demospeer deskchecks or pass-aroundsad hoc reviewsThere were two major sources for this podcast. First is the article When Two Eyes Aren't Enough, by Karl Wiegers and available from his website, processi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zdot Podcast: Team Reviews, Intro to the Jupiter Eclipse Plugin Listen with the Flash player.Download Team Reviews and Intro to Jupiter Plugin.This week we're looking at peer reviews.Show NotesThis show discusses how we use the Team Review technique talked about in the last show, how I've seen it done, and touches on how the Jupiter plugin supports those efforts.There a few resources mentioned in this podcast. First is the article When Two Eyes Aren't Enough, by Karl Wiegers that we touched on last time. The next is the CSDL code review standards docu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website