happiness is sleep - i am a coding monkey

I am at that stage where I'm working harder and harder to make up for how tired I am from working so hard, and the work just keeps getting harder to do.

I need a monkey.

Maybe a banana.

I'm not sure that I'm getting anywhere, as I am working around a major new implmentation and trying to glue things together.. ant scripts, shell scripts, automating cvs backups, checkouts, directory server migrations and the fun part; the mbean server engine that I want to be able to do everything the client might possibly imagine; utilizing spring beans, standard DAOs with c3p0 connection pooling plus hibernate.

Hooking it all together into someone else's server framework is the bitch - why didn't they use spring? I'll stabby stabby all of you if you don't start right now!

I took my first foray into using hibernate in a non-trivial fashion.. then I realized my dataset had no key.. none.. I thought about making a composite key out of the 6 fields it would take to find uniqueness..

Then I put a shot of kahlua in my coffee and went back to DAOs and standard JDBC.

Temporarily beaten, but not defeated.

names that make me smile

as if "rod johnson" isn't enough.. there's some guy in a database i'm migrating right now named Burkhard Aßmann. obviously european..

i know those germanics have a sense of humour, but burk-hard ass-mann? please tell me it's the german equivalent of "joe tester"??

roftl