I am in the beginning stages of getting familiar with MongoDB as I will be using it in some near future projects. I have been curious about it for a while, particularly since it seems to buck the idea of your standard data constraint requirements. Back in my day (yup, I think that statement qualifies me for being old), my college courses always taught that 3NF (3rd Normal Form) was the only way. Then I started hearing about a new way for certain data scenarios. … [Read more...] about MongoDB addUser Not Working
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SQL Code Formatting
This is going to be a post that has been spawned from a rant that sometimes go on quietly to myself when reviewing someone else’s SQL code. Day in and day out I live in code, be it Java, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, and so on and so forth. When you live in code, you tend to want that code to be clean and today. You know, like the house you live in. If you don’t want the house that you live in looking like a sty, why in the world would you let your code become a disorganized train wreck. … [Read more...] about SQL Code Formatting
Goodbye Developer Design
As a Java web developer I find myself constantly at odds with the face of my applications. I mean, I have no problem doing full stack development. Building up from my database, on through my middle and service layers all go fairly well. I even have no problems implementing functionality on the front end. All of that happens easily enough for me, but my UI/UX skills are still basically at a level I call, “developer design.” This is NOT a good label to be saddled with in a world of minimal … [Read more...] about Goodbye Developer Design
Java Date API’s vs. Joda Time – What month is it?
As a java developer, I have a special place in my heart for the Java Date object and it's related utility classes. In a series of posts I am going to exhort the benefits of using the Joda Time library and abandoning the Java date and time objects. From their site, the Joda Project is "...a Java open-source project that seeks to improve core Java functionality." While they have a couple of other projects, the most active appears to be the Joda-Time project where the current version 1.6.1 was … [Read more...] about Java Date API’s vs. Joda Time – What month is it?