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Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that companies are running up against a dearth of mobile software developers.  But is there really a shortage of developers, or a shortage of companies willing to help train existing developers in new technologies?

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Anyone who reads my blogs knows that I rarely just redirect readers to another article or blog.  But Paul Codding has done such an excellent job of detailing exactly what needs to be done to get rid of the annoying LazyInitializationException message when using Hibernate and Spring that I simply can’t do it any more justice.

There is a LOT of information about needing to use the OpenSessionInView strategy with Spring and Hibernate… but very little information about HOW to use it.  Kudos to you Paul!

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Sometime I hate to admit how long I have been writing code - it tends to give away my age. The first program I wrote was in Apple Basic on the brand new Apple IIc (insert joke about my age here). But coding for as long as I have been has given me an interesting prospective on the tools and methodologies we use to develop software. The occasional look back to the ways we used to code makes you appreciate the current practices that much more.

Today I revisit the arduous task of debugging…

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Planning Poker is an incredibly useful consensus based estimation tool that has become a household word in Agile shops around the world. Personally I love it - when it is used correctly. However, as I have participated in estimation sessions across several different projects and teams, I have noticed three common mistakes that team leaders are making. One mistake takes away from the efficiency of planning poker, and the other two compromise the integrity of the estimates. All are easily avoidable.

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Time to pass along another gem from our friends out at DZone.  Alberto Gutierrez brings us the 10 commandments for creating good code.  While I encourage you to follow the link to read all of the commandments, there are a couple that I feel deserve special mention.

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