Archives for Januar, 2009

Clean Code – Review, Part I


As I have twittered already, I am reading “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin right now. I expected the book to be a very fundamental one. Although there are a few parts I do not entirely agree with, I just rummaged throught chapter 11 “Systems” on my way home and was surprised how condensed Robert [...]

The DAO is dead! Long live the DAO!


Episode 121 of Software Engineering Radio deals with the topic of OR Mappers. Michael Plöd introduces the concept of object-relational mapping technologies, discusses advantages and disadvantages. The content of the episode is very basic to a large extend, which makes it ideal to get an introducing idea of the topic.
The reason I discuss this here [...]

Subtleties on java.lang.Enum


As i twittered a few days ago, I stumbled over a subtle issue in the core Java library. Not as extreme as here but one to raise ones eyebrows, too.
I just wanted to write a small method to access an enum value by its String representation or use a default, if the conversion fails:
public static [...]