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Saturday is the big day for Japan as consumers will be able to buy the much awaited PS3 from Sony. Sony have also annouced that a 1.10 OS upgrade will also be available for download on the same day, which together with a 3.0 upgrade for the PSP which presumably adds support for connectivity between the PS3 and the PSP.
Potential consumers are being discouraged from lining up outside stores, since large public gatherings in Japan are seen as a public nuisanse.
Grails 0.3 has been released and it now includes support for Hibernate’s n:m mapping support (although in reality this is nearly always better if mapped as n:1 and 1:m with an association table in the middle – this was possible in previous versions of Grails anyway), plus additional simplification for developing your Entities.
Normally you would generate a new Entity using ‘grails generate-domain-class’ which would put in the necessary ‘equals()’, ‘hashcode()’ and ‘toString()’ methods, but these are no longer needed (unless you need to override them) as they are generated for you at runtime. This leads to very concise Entity classes.
If you’re currently developing on or about to move to SE 5, this article on java.net gives some useful info and tips on how to best use the new ‘for each’ loop.
Since Sony has announced limited shipping volumes between when the PS3 goes on sale in the US on Nov 17 and the end of the year, there are some determined people who have already started camping outside stores to ensure they get their hands on one on day one.
Since stores also only had guarantee of a limited number machines for day one, preorders were also limited at a number of stores (10 per store), like EB Games and GameStop.
Looks like if you’re not already in line then there’s probaby no chance of getting one on day one at this point.