Technology, *sigh*

Recently, we bought a Honda Odyssey minivan, the 2024 model. It is more or less fully loaded. Against our will. We prefer basic vehicles, with no bells and whistles, as we generally treat vehicles as tools to go from A to B. But, we could not get anything less belled-and-whistled (is there such…

The Quest for ORM

Many years ago, in 1995, I believe, I was still working in a huge telecom company. The main languages we used were C and C++. Relational databases were just getting mainstream.

The project I worked for, a real-time system that coordinated long-distance telephone calls in…

How I do “ORM”, Part 1

Well, I guess it might be interesting to talk about one specific way I have been using for years, ever since I discovered jOOQ, to bridge Java and Postgres databases I use in quite few projects I wrote by now.

Methods

How I do “ORM”, Part 2

Even though I don’t believe in mapping a relational database into a object-oriented hierarchy, because that is fundamentally not a good idea, I do want some kind of simple mapping that does not try to create a object-oriented version of a relational database. The easiest way is to map a…

Age and Programming

I used to work for a large bank, in the treasury department. That is where the bank trades with house money. That means they are trading with their own money. There are many reasons for that, hedging, for instance. Banks deal with interest-bearing instruments a lot. So, they tend to trade…