Ian P. Christian's personal blog

In the last part of my hibernate tutorials I showed how to get a simple application inserting data into a database. This part doesn't expand on that in terms of features, in fact, this tutorial actually does less! However, the last tutorial required you to download a whole load of JAR files, and manage all dependencies. I did make this easy for you, by providing a single download and telling you exactly what you needed - but this time, I'm going to make it even easier! The purpose of this is to get you started with Hibernate annotations, and Maven. All you need is a text editor, a working Java 5 or higher install, and Maven.

Symfony Camp 2008 ( symfonycamp2008 ) was good fun, even if I did have a hang over for my presentation. As promised, here is my slides and the demo setup containing sfExtJsThemePlugin - I also have an online demo that's currently working, found here:

http://www5.pookey.co.uk/farm , the dev controller is in place at http://www5.pookey.co.uk/backend_dev.php/farm

my slides are here:

The whole app can be downloaded here: htdocs.tgz. I know that it seems there's a database password in, but I've changed it since, so don't bother trying

This guide is a quick introduction to getting started with Maven and Spring, and shows the making of a "Hello World" application

The only requirements for this project is a text editor, a Java install, and Maven.

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.

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

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!

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.

I don't usually write this kind of blog post - but for once I think I have something useful to say. Today someone came into the symfony user channel, and asked if they should learn a framework. It's an interesting question, to which I think the answer is unquestionably 'yes'.

I've started work on intergrating Phorum into symfony. It's working pretty well so far, but there's still work to do.

If you want to help out, please feel free to email me, my work so far is in SVN at http://svn.two-pebbles.com/sfPhorumPlugin/, and there's an example that's currently at http://garden.pookey.co.uk/frontend_dev.php/forum. There's a few todo items in the README file in the SVN repos if you do want to help out

I did a presentation on Doctrine at the PHPLondon user meeting last night, here are the slides:

My Doctrine Presentation