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Warrior Women

April 30th, 2009
Posted in My Experience

In one of my favorite TV shows of all time Firefly Wash is being intensely interrogated, and the interrogator asks Wash about his relationship with his wife Zoe, Wash responds rhetorically with a look of pride, “Have you ever been with a warrior woman?” I personally have never been with a warrior woman, but [ READ MORE ]

Class Cast Exception is a Proxy Problem

April 30th, 2009
Posted in Software Development

I often face the following exception in Hibernate not on my local developer machine, but in production across several servers: java.lang.ClassCastException: mint.hibernate.MathCourse$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$ed898f0d This happens when I try to do something like this: Set<Courses> courses = getCoursesDao().getCourses(userId); for (Course c : courses) { MathCourse mc = (MathCourse) course; // do something with mc } Assume MathCourse is a subclass of the abstract [ READ MORE ]

15 Ways to Speed Up Your Front-End

April 28th, 2009
Posted in Software Development

Last week I attend the Percona conference in Santa Clara. The purpose of this conference was to talk about performance related to databases specifically mySQL. Most of the talks went over my head. However, there was one talk I attended “Website on Speed” by Philip Tellis from Yahoo! that I thought was outstanding. In his [ READ MORE ]

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