Blogging Roller

In the evenings, I've been making progress on the Hibernate impementation of the Roller business tier (a.k.a backend) and I completed a Hibernate version of NewsfeedManager, but I keep getting bogged down in refactoring. I can't resist making some improvements to the Roller object model and when I make improvements in the objects, I have to make the corresponding changes in Castor. Then I get diverted into refeactoring the Castor implementation.

This is the drawback of having JUnit tests in place: it makes refactoring so easy that you do it just because you can. Sometimes, I'm not sure if I'm making useful changes or just macdinking. The only think that is holding me back is the lack of unit tests in the Roller presentation tier.

I need to put my nose to the grindstone and wrap this stuff up. I want to get back to the cool stuff, like fixing Roller's comments features and stealing <a href= "http://www.blojsom.com/blog/blojsom/?permalink=A480AB5244E2F1A1656518EA87A4801C.txt">Trackback and <a href= "http://www.blojsom.com/blog/blojsom/?permalink=blojsom-metaweblog.html">MetaWeblog API support from Blojsom.