Posted by: pureessence on: June 8, 2011
After the cijug presentation on Grails, I’ve decided I will not use it. I know Grails is hot and cool but I don’t like it. It’s probably just a personal preference. Why don’t I want to use Grails It’s built on spring and hibernate, so why not just use them directly? It’s just adding another [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: June 6, 2011
So I upgraded to jQuery UI version 1.8.2 at work and thought that I should instead of using the autocomplete plugin which is deprecated, switch over to use the jQuery UI build-in autocomplete widget. jQuery UI autocomplete widget is NOTHING like the original jQuery autocomplete plugin!!! At least by jQuery UI version 1.8.2 it’s not. [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: May 25, 2011
It’s always annoying when you do a search (ctrl+h) in Eclipse and it produces results from directories you do not care about. In my particular case, the project’s ant build expands the built war files into a directory named target. Since this directory duplicates the files in the regular WebContent directory, often times I end [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: May 21, 2011
I’m just went through all of my 10 years of posts on pure-essence.net one by one to correct its syntax so I can use this super awesome sourcecode shortcode on wordpress.com. Yea I know I’m crazily obsessed with my blog. Sentiment from going through all of my posts I’m proud that my oriental wordpress theme [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: May 18, 2011
A coworker and I were chatting regarding spring rowMappers and I did a little more research and found the following: Spring’s simpleJdbcTemplate deprecated methods with parameterizedRowMapper in spring 3. The class ParameterizedRowMapper is not deprecated. Spring’s jdbcTemplate however only has methods that take RowMapper<T> so it will continue to work with parameterizedRowMapper. But it seems [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: May 12, 2011
If you have a strange requirement in the rowMapper to check if a column exists or not, you could try to catch a SQLException of invalid column name or you could try:
Posted by: pureessence on: March 25, 2011
A business rule at work requires some flexible configurations. I attempted to fulfill the need by create different spring batch steps/tasklets to execute each requirement based on a property value. For example, step 1 will need to execute methodOne on the class Repository with the appropriate parameters. The method signature & parameters are determined by [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: March 16, 2011
So for a long time, I wondered how you’d do the sql IN() using spring jdbcTemplate. Today I had an opportunity to work it out. Normally I used It’s not too friendly if you do If you wish to use the “where in” sql, there is a pretty elegant way to do it in spring [...]
Eclipse 3.6 toggle comment findings
Posted by: pureessence on: May 20, 2011
Despite of the usual convention of using ctrl+/, I found ctrl+shift+c is actually the way to go if you want it to work on everything. I care mostly about being able to toggle comment in the following file types: source code – comment with // or /* and */ block markup e.g. xml/html – comment [...]