Hibernate at work

The project I’m working on at work is gaining momentum, and we are nearly starting with the proof-of-concept architecture solution. While I’ve used ORM [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping]‘s for data objects and domain persistence in the past, we have been playing with NHibernate [http:…

Google Mashup Editor vs Yahoo Pipes

There’s a huge amount of data (raw and processed) on the Internet, which makes it a uber-database of sorts. What we always needed were tools we could use to fetch or mix this data, and create other useful streams of information. Technically, this mechanism combines data mining (scraping) and…

DIY Online Web App Builders

What if the next time you longed for a piece of software to help you do your job, you could simply create the software yourself, in a few easy steps? That’s the promise of some do-it-yourself online web application builder tools, like Coghead [http://www.coghead.com], Dabble DB…

MySQL has the lowest TCO

While I was looking for some data replication [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication-intro.html] stuff over at the MySQL web site, I noticed a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) comparison chart [http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/tco.html] for the leading database servers. Here’s…

Developer Cheat Sheets

Databases: MySQL Cheat Sheet [http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/mysql-cheat-sheet/] MySQL Reference List [http://www.nparikh.org/unix/mysql.php] SQL Server Cheat Sheet [http://www.3gwt.net/demo/SQL_redux.html] SQL Server 2005 Commands [http://www.ss64.com/sql/index.html] Programming: ASP/VBScript Cheat Sheet [http://www.…

Web-based SQL Designer

JavaScript and AJAX are gaining wide-spread audience, and lots of creative applications are emerging from this set of client-side technologies. For instance, checkout this cool SQL Designer [http://ondras.praha12.net/sql/] totally written in DHTML/JavaScript. It has plenty of expert features including schema import & export.…