Along with SQLsheet, I’m open sourcing another library that I’ve written: lodi (Local Dispatch).
A lot of my work lately has relied on generating XML using templates (I’m using Velocity). The XML is mostly used to either drive an ETL process,
specify some XHTML to get rendered, or to configure some internal subsystem.
It gets complicated, though:
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There are a number of JDBC-Excel drivers out there, but most seem to be nearly abandoned. Moreover, they all either use native pieces, are read-only, or do disconcerting things with in-memory databases, none of which work for me.
So, what is a self-respecting hacker to do besides write their own? Here’s the nutshell:
SQLSheet [...]
While I can’t think of anything much more boring than blogging about blogging, I will do it just briefly because here there might be a few useful bits of information here that are useful…
I just switched from MovableType 4 to WordPress and am overall very pleased. It’s faster, cleaner, simpler, and seems to have [...]
I have long had this irritating problem with .properties. It goes something like this:
I like to use .properties files for configuration unless there is a compelling reason to use something more complicated.
I’m pretty uptight about using constants in my code. This includes using constants to refer to the names of properties in [...]