Using the New Blogger !beta :)

So now its 2007, I have visited all my relevant relatives and friends, I ate the fat (but very nice) Swedish Christmas food and (probably even added a few ponds to cover my layer of strong and hunky six pack) and are on my way back to Singapore. I have been waiting here at Heathrow since 11 am and the flight takes of 22 pm tonight... AARGHHHHH :) Its was a really great and relaxed holiday but now I feel refreshed and energized for the tasks ahead.

This new Blogger works like a charm, I am really happy with it. Expect at least a few postings a week, he he.

This year will be very exiting as we are getting closer and closer to the release date of the product we are developing. I have organized the various tasks evenly among the team members and hopefully with some hard work we will be done with the 1st version by end Q1. There are very few outstanding requirements left to resolve so that should allow us to get the major outstanding issues out of the way by end January.

The major one right now that I will try to have done by next week is to programmatically configure Hibernate with mapping information so that I can generate proper HQL based on the map structures I pass in. This will be powerful and tremendously flexible. I finalized the work on the PDA before I left on holiday 1 week ahead of plan so that is sweet. I will have to add some more tests on the Java side but that should be pretty easy. I cant wait until I get all done end Next week to see how much faster the synchronization will be.

Furthermore I will have to add code to dynamically generate the schema (DDL code) based on the Book metadata passed in to the LibraryService when associating a Book to a User but I will defer that until later. Right now I have hand coded the tables and that should enough for now.

I have also come up with an upgrade plan for the metadata and code on the PDA. I will write more about that later but its pretty sweet I think. Its based on the path of least resistance (one of my favorite design approaches.)