In our team we use JPA, EclipseLink to be precise. Now we start stress testing we notice something weird. The child relations of a entity are not updated if we only save the child. Probably we can prevent it by some configuration/annotation or other way, but we use an ORM to make sure we don’t have to think about these things.

Yesterday I spoke to @MMz_ about my Space invaders quine. As is was a general meeting and a lot of people attended we didn’t have time to look into the solution properly. So I promised him to explain the details on a later moment. I think more people would like to know how the technical solution works so I decided to write this blog.

As a participant in Devnology Code Fest Space Invaders, I immediately knew what the solution should be: A Space Invaders quine.

A while ago I read the pragmatic programmer. In the book are many tips listed. In the back of the book there is an tear-out card with all the tips collected. As I’m working on different locations all the time I rarely look at the card. The tips however seem very useful to me. Therefore I created a small Google App engine application that sends me a random tip every day. TDD-ing my way through the requirements I now get a tip every day. During the development I ran into one little problem with stubbing my randomizer method.

Last week I finished reading the clean coder written by @unclebobmartin. The book’s subtitle: “A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers”, summarizes the book quite good.