I use a Macintosh (a PowerBook G4) as my development system at one of my jobs. For the most part I find MacOS X pretty smooth sailing, but there are a few niggling little things that irritate me on a daily basis.
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Like many people, I use a coverage analysis tool to measure how much of my code is covered by my unit tests. (For my hobby projects, Coverlipse is my tool of choice; it’s free and reasonably capable.) And I always hate to see my coverage numbers drop just because I’m not bothering to test trivial getter/setter methods. So I wrote a helper class to test the getters and setters for me. Download it here and read on to learn how to use it.
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Has anyone out there ever gotten a decent response from filing a Hibernate bug? I sure haven’t. Here’s my latest one, on the subject of support for JOINED entities with discriminator columns in Hibernate’s EJB3 implementation. I ran into a situation that was handled fine in other EJB3 implementations but not Hibernate. In his inimitable fashion, Gavin King claims it’s not really a problem “because Hibernate is better than these other inferior implementations.” But I think he’s wrong.
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For a while I was dual-booting my desktop PC between Windows and Linux. I even figured out how to get Thunderbird and Firefox to share profiles between the two OSes. But I’m not using that setup any more.
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