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Not a summer blog challenge post
If you use TortoiseSVN like we do at the office, and you get a chance to upgrade, you probably should. However, if you’re like me, you might find that all of your icons disappear, and the TortoiseSVN context menu items disappear. Don’t panic. Re-run the installer and [...]

Local Man Takes Animal Without Paying

EDMONTON, AB
*Albert French, a 47-year-old welder living in the “Alberta Ave.” district of Edmonton left the Edmonton Humane Society in possession of a cat this afternoon. The pair left in French’s 1987 Chevrolet truck to begin a new life together.
The cat was 17 months old.
When reached for comment, French was friendly with reporters, even [...]

Sub-Classes, Shared IDs, and Hibernate

Finding common functionality and shoving it into a superclass can be extremely helpful in Java, particularly when you want a list of things that have that stuff in common and don’t particularly care (at the time) about the special properties those objects have. Heck, that’s what Object Oriented Programming is all about.
Hibernate does a [...]