As a git neophyte I approve of this post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2970637
UPDATE: I also found this helpful site: gitref.org
This is a tip that I’ve kept forgetting to write down so here it is:
During a system’s life cycle requirements change and components are refactored. This includes databases as well and particularly as data grows. Decisions and assumptions are made at the beginning of a system’s life cycle that may or may not hold up over years of operation and it’s good practice to continually analyze how well the initial design is working.
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In a recent project, we introduced Generics and Spring into an application. In developing the Generic DAO implementation I was trying to find a way to get a record count from the database. It’s a simple enough task with HQL or Spring’s JdbcTemplate.queryForInt(String sql), however the Generics made it a little tricky. The solution I came up with was using HibernateCallback. A reference to the persistent type is a member of GenericDAOHibernate as is the SessionFactory and an instance of Spring’s HibernateTemplate.