Thursday, March 27, 2008

Spring, best thing since sliced bread?

I've been reading a lot about the Spring Framework lately. It's been aggravating me... realizing how much easier it could have made the last 2 years of my life, if I'd dug into it before starting on my last big project.

I'm enjoying Spring in Action. Only a few chapters into it. So far a good introductory book. I like the light tone of the examples, but the jokes are becoming grating.

I also picked up Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB. I'm pretty sure it wins for the creepiest cover on a technical book ever. Kids, if he pulls up to your playground in a ice cream truck, RUN AWAY!

what? just because we don't have a customer we have to stop working?

The job switch has been... odd. Spent the first week and a half scrambling, reading non-stop to catch up with the rest of the team on the Java frameworks we'll be using.

Spent the second week and a half wondering what I'll be working on. The original project was put 'on hold' due to lack of business funding. We'll be shuffled off onto different projects for the time being, likely never to return to the original project.

It's good times.