Nelz' Blog
Ruminations on Development
Tuesday Apr 01, 2008
Front-Line Learnings
Okay... I want to try to be a bit more open about what my day-to-day involves... So, I'm going to try to post little learnings I make throughout my job to this here blog.
Here's a couple I've seen recently:
- Primary Keys
- Primary Keys should be numeric types. This ends up showing itself once you've got ~1 million rows joining with another ~1 million rows.
- I haven't proved this out with time metrics, but when I do I will try to share them.
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Yeah, I've heard all the fanatics rave about it, but as a long-time Eclipse user, I feel like I'm working through molasses. I know I'm only 1 week in really, and I expect my productivity to get better. I just hope it is soon!
- java.util.concurrent Package
- Some of the object in this package are REALLY cool!
- Quartz Scheduler
- This framework looks really cool for scheduling. I'm hoping I get to put my hands on it really soon.
- Ehcache
- Around here, Ehcache has a reputation for being the slowest (read: worst) distributed caching technology out there.
- All I can tell you is their documentation is VERY yawn-inspiring.
Posted at 03:37PM Apr 01, 2008 by Nelson "Nelz" Carpentier in Java | Comments[0]