Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Scripting languages often have the weakness of silent failure, which pays for the "robustness" value. Configuration-based "languages", particularly XML (the latest magic cool-ade) ones have a similar silent-failure weakness.
Flex 3.0 adds these two together plus a minimal amount of available documentation, provides loads of power, but also a huge ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Chased a bug down today, a simple one really. But first I had to load in the source code for the hibernate persistence (i was trekking through PersistentSet). Then I had to dig up the Java 1.5 (5.0?) source from the Apple developer site so I could chase ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
This was my favorite exception that was thrown at me today:
javax.persistence.PersistenceException: org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: java.util.List, for columns: [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(otherNames)]
at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:720)
The type was very clearly stated as List<PersonName> otherNames. I'm sure there's either something obvious I'm missing, or it's broken. Regardless it will surely cost me hours ...
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