Ian P. Christian's Personal Blog Random witterings from pookey

7Aug/08100

BeBook review

This review is from a technical perspective. I got my BeBook mostly for reading things like RFCs, rather then for reading novels. Most reviews seemed to cover what the device looks like, and where the buttons are, which wasn't very helpful when I looked into buying one, I wanted to know how it preformed.

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1Aug/089

Hibernate with MySQL – a beginners guide – part 3

In part 1 and part 2 I showed how to get up and running with hibernate. This part continues from where we left off.

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1Aug/0820

Hibernate with MySQL – a beginners guide – part 2

This post is a follow on from my previous post Hibernate with MySQL - a beginners guide - part 1. Having followed part 1, you should have a simple java application that prints 'ok', an ant build script, and downloaded hibernate and the MySQL connector. Now it's time to do something useful!

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1Aug/0810

Hibernate with MySQL – a beginners guide

This article is an introduction from getting hibernate working from scratch. The only dependency is that you have a text editor, a working Java install, and ant. In this part of my guide, we will simply setup our environment, download some needed jar files and ensure that we can build an run a simple Java application. In the follow up part to this article, I will cover connecting to a database and doing a few interesting things with Hibernate.

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