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Hibernate and Inheritance Mapping

27-May-08

Hibernate supports multiple types of inheritance mapping, some of them (Table per class, Table per subclass) using a discriminator column to decide the class. The type of the discriminator can be one of string, character, integer, byte, short, boolean, yes_no, true_false In case you need to use any other than string or character, i.e. integer, […]

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Division by zero

26-May-08

Just a quick reminder for myself: int a = 0/0; // Throws ArithmeticException double d1 = 0/0.0; // d1 is NaN double d2 = 1/0.0; // d2 is Infinity double d3 = -1/0.0; // d3 is -Infinityint a = 0/0; // Throws ArithmeticException double d1 = 0/0.0; // d1 is NaN double d2 = 1/0.0; […]

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Ampersands and XHTML

25-May-08

A regular expression to replace all ampersands (&) in a text that are not part of an entity: t = t.gsub(/&(?!#?\w+;)/, ‘&’)t = t.gsub(/&(?!#?\w+;)/, ‘&’) Language is ruby. The regexp feature used is called a negative lookahead.

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SCJP, finally!

06-May-08

More than a year ago i decided to do the Sun Certified Java Programmer. Shortly after i bought this book, the projects at work and at home were somewhat overwhelming and after all, i realized that a big part of the SCJP is about some weird, crazy and sometimes wrong design decisions of the Java […]

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Tired of all the powerpoint presentations…

23-Apr-08

Right now i’m in Wiesbaden, attending the JAX 2008 conference. The mood is somewhat different compared to the DOAG i used to visit the last years. The people are more open minded, partially much younger and generally try to be much cooler. And for the sake of it, some are even more interesting and after […]

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