July 2011
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JPA: Ensuring versioning of entities when using...
The persistence layer for our code at The Law Wizard makes use of optimistic locking to determine if an entity has changed during the period where a user has been working on it. This helps to ensure that the view the user sees is always consistent with what is in the database.
One problem I came across is how to update multiple versioned entities in a single query whilst ensuring the benefits of...
February 2011
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An elegy for the technical book
I’ve been doing a lot of technical investigation over the last few months as part of our plans for The Law Wizard. Part of that means that I’ve been doing a fair bit of technical reading whilst playing around with lots of new technology.
Brain..not..working
For some reason I really struggle to start with a technology when reading a computer screen. My brain seems to shut down and...