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 [...]

Windows Vista MySQL Connection Problems

I like, and use, JetBrains’s wonderful IDE, IntelliJ IDEA. I think it’s better, more stable, and more professional than Eclipse. This isn’t an article aimed at Eclipse fans. It’s not an opinion-piece on which IDE is better. The point is that I prefer to use IntelliJ. The reason this is [...]