Don't worry, List<Map<String, SometimesStringSometimesNot>> happens to me too ;-)
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Carl Jokl <carl.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > The demonstration domain classes that I had been working on went down > like a lead balloon. My supervisor thought the whole endeavour was a > waste of time and could not see any benefit. I was in the wrong > genuinely for having spent too much time on it. Not that I originally > intended to but it took a bit longer because I knew I could not use an > ORM and so experimented a bit with creating my own lazy loading proxy > class to get a referenced domain. Also working on it without > consulting him. I didn't because if feared he would shoot down the > whole idea before I had a proof of concept from which to demonstrate > how much easier it would be to code to an object with all the types > preserved than mess around with arrays of Strings or random String > values stored in the session. Also I might have been able to get some > other developers to back me up if I could demonstrate what I had in > mind rather than just talk about it. I am still fairly new and have > been working on bug fixes while learning the system. It seemed to be a > point in my employment when I would have more time to work on things > like this than later when I am up against pressing deadlines. Still > hindsight is always 20/20. I did a lot of work on it out of hours but > some of it was in hours. > > I think the discussion is probably not going to go further from my Job > perspective. If I cannot seem to convince my technical manager of the > benefit then I can't very well keep working on the prototype and he > would see the commits to subversion even if I did it out of hours > (albeit I could work purely on it as a local copy) and I have lost > enthusiasm to be honest given how badly it went town. > > If I thought the face to face conversation was sufficiently awkward, > today I found the scathing remarks made on JIRA when he first > discovered the classes and it had caused some problem on the test > server due to a missing dependency. I blame that partially on the > fragility of the build process using make and declaring every file and > directory individually which is both tedious and error prone. > > I have taken my work out of subversion but made a local backup first > so I have not lost it. > > I am annoyed at myself for things I see I did wrong but it did achieve > one thing which is answering my question about how much hope I can > have about making the system significantly better in the future. Sorry > for the tone of the post but I am in a perfectly foul mood right now > (and thinking of updating my Monster profile over Christmas). In the > mean time I will just have to take my String arrays and like it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- ags -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
