Bob McCune

I’d like to say thanks to everyone who attended my Spring 2.5 presentation at last week’s TCJUG meeting. We had another good turnout, which is always nice to see. Jeff Jensen at Intertech is always a great host and I had a fun time presenting. I hope the info was useful to [...]

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I’d like to say thanks to everyone who attended my JPA presentation at last night’s TCJUG meeting. It was a full house and there was a lot of good conversation during and after the presentation. As always, Jeff Jensen at Intertech is a great host and I had a fun time. I [...]

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Yes, 2007 is almost here. My greatest goal for the year is to simply be more productive. It seems that every year my list of tasks and responsibilities grows and it’s becoming more difficult to stay on top of everything. At any given moment I’ve got about 50 things that I need [...]

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I was recently compiling a list of Test-driven Development (TDD) “Best Practices” for my client project’s wiki site and thought this would probably be useful to the community at large. I’ve been an avid practitioner and proponent of test-driven development for a few years now and have found it to be one of the [...]

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I just finished giving a presentation on Hibernate 3.2 at the first Twin Cities Code Camp event in Edina, MN. You can grab a copy of the presentation and source code examples below.
As I was attempting to get set up I realized I had forgotten to bring my DVI to VGA adapter for my [...]

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The long awaited update to Hibernate in Action has been released! HiA was the definitive guide on all things Hibernate, but unfortunately was written for version 2.x. The new version has been updated for version 3.x and additionally covers using Hibernate as the persistence provider for JPA and EJB3. I’ve been reading [...]

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I’m going to be giving a presentation about Hibernate at the Twin Cities Code Camp event coming up on November 11th. Check out the website for the for all the details. It looks like it should be fun. Hope to see you there.

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Continuing with the better late than never, here are a couple of links to check out. The first is to an article I wrote for Java.net on a very cool testing tool called Mockrunner. This tool really doesn’t get the attention it deserves. It a great tool for testing various J2EE technologies. [...]

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