Breaking your brain and wasting your back

How do you feel at the end of an IT day? Does your body wonder if you ever got out of bed while your brain questions why you did? Tech jobs today seem to consist of an excessive number of time wasting meetings where we are breaking brains. Interns coming into corporate office jobs start to believe this is all part of the "real gig" and are slowly sucked onto the crazy train. This often results in working after hours and weekends to actually deliver the half-baked software products everyone has been droning about in these meetings! Corporate America seems to have shifted into group think mode where decisions take months to be handed down while customers slowly disappear into obscurity.

Is this happening where you work? I am starting to wonder if I might just have an overactive resistance gene to mediocrity.

Scott

Saving objects with db4o

I downloaded the db4o open source object database and started experimenting with it on a recent Struts 2 web application. After writing JDBC and Hibernate for many years, I was in disbelief when I discovered my object graphs were being saved without any XML files or configuration! I had my objects persisted in less code than it would take to initialize an ArrayList!

Let me know if you have experience with this database. I think it was created for mobile computing, but it is serving my EE application very nicely. It has been a real breath of fresh air.

P.S. I added a couple properties to an object this morning and figured this would break everything. When I moved the new object into production, I figured I would be repairing collateral damage the rest of the day. In fact, there were no problems and I now have the time to blog about it.

Peace,
Scott

The book

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