Tired of prepared statement written down on the code?

Tired of Hibernate, and willing to come back to crude SQL debugging?

No problem, dudes!

We tried Elvyx, a  JDBC probe, without a full success. Our quality vote is 5, because of the following bad aspects:

• Very poor documentation. It is unclear if timings are returned in milliseconds or in seconds: no word about it!
• Returned value are often inconsistent, so we cannot use it very well.

Anyway, for a "quality oriented" sampling of data, for finding out most used calls and so on, Elvyx can help a bit.

From the website:

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Oracle buys BEA and Sun buys MySql.

In reply,Migrosoft is hungry and is watching Yahoo :-)

<joking> 

Any bets on the next money-based-news?

I'm going for

• Oracle buys Sun: "We need more hardware to run Oracle and WebLogic together! "
  
• Google buys Oracle: "We have *even* more hardware...come on!"
  
• Apple buys Google: "So nice LOGO", retrodating a bunch of stock options, I suppose.
  
• Microsoft buys Apple ("So annoied their are more cool then us!") and shut down all them all so you will end up using their search engine, I hope.

</joking> 

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Biblio Wolf (Bwolf for firends) is a webapp app for managing a book collection. BWolf is written in python using the Django web framework, and it is born from a Customer request. BWolf is open source, and you can get a full description here including links to downloads. I will mantain a blog of all the work I will do. In the last two months I set up a Subversion Repository and played a little with Django.

 

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