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• Talking JavaOne with Rock Star Martijn Verburg

  - by Janice J. Heiss

  JavaOne Rock Stars, conceived in 2005, are the top-rated speakers at each JavaOne Conference. They are awarded by their peers, who, through conference surveys, recognize them for their outstanding sessions and speaking ability. Over the years many of the world’s leading Java developers have been so recognized. Martijn Verburg has, in recent years, established himself as an important mover and shaker in the Java community. His “Diabolical Developer” session at the JavaOne 2011 Conference got people’s attention by identifying some of the worst practices Java developers are prone to engage in. Among other things, he is co-leader and organizer of the thriving London Java User Group (JUG) which has more than 2,500 members, co-represents the London JUG on the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process, and leads the global effort for the Java User Group “Adopt a JSR” and “Adopt OpenJDK” programs. Career highlights include overhauling technology stacks and SDLC practices at Mizuho International, mentoring Oracle on technical community management, and running off shore development teams for AIG. He is currently CTO at jClarity, a start-up focusing on automating optimization for Java/JVM related technologies, and Product Advisor at ZeroTurnaround. He co-authored, with Ben Evans, "The Well-Grounded Java Developer" published by Manning and, as a leading authority on technical team optimization, he is in high demand at major software conferences.Verburg is participating in five sessions, a busy man indeed. Here they are: CON6152 - Modern Software Development Antipatterns (with Ben Evans) UGF10434 - JCP and OpenJDK: Using the JUGs’ “Adopt” Programs in Your Group (with Csaba Toth) BOF4047 - OpenJDK Building and Testing: Case Study—Java User Group OpenJDK Bugathon (with Ben Evans and Cecilia Borg) BOF6283 - 101 Ways to Improve Java: Why Developer Participation Matters (with Bruno Souza and Heather Vancura-Chilson) HOL6500 - Finding and Solving Java Deadlocks (with Heinz Kabutz, Kirk Pepperdine, Ellen Kraffmiller and Henri Tremblay) When I asked Verburg about the biggest mistakes Java developers tend to make, he listed three: A lack of communication -- Software development is far more a social activity than a technical one; most projects fail because of communication issues and social dynamics, not because of a bad technical decision. Sadly, many developers never learn this lesson. No source control -- Developers simply storing code in local filesystems and emailing code in order to integrate Design-driven Design -- The need for some developers to cram every design pattern from the Gang of Four (GoF) book into their source code All of which raises the question: If these practices are so bad, why do developers engage in them? “I've seen a wide gamut of reasons,” said Verburg, who lists them as: * They were never taught at high school/university that their bad habits were harmful.* They weren't mentored in their first professional roles.* They've lost passion for their craft.* They're being deliberately malicious!* They think software development is a technical activity and not a social one.* They think that they'll be able to tidy it up later.A couple of key confusions and misconceptions beset Java developers, according to Verburg. “With Java and the JVM in particular I've seen a couple of trends,” he remarked. “One is that developers think that the JVM is a magic box that will clean up their memory, make their code run fast, as well as make them cups of coffee. The JVM does help in a lot of cases, but bad code can and will still lead to terrible results! The other trend is to try and force Java (the language) to do something it's not very good at, such as rapid web development. So you get a proliferation of overly complex frameworks, libraries and techniques trying to get around the fact that Java is a monolithic, statically typed, compiled, OO environment. It's not a Golden Hammer!”I asked him about the keys to running a good Java User Group. “You need to have a ‘Why,’” he observed. “Many user groups know what they do (typically, events) and how they do it (the logistics), but what really drives users to join your group and to stay is to give them a purpose. For example, within the LJC we constantly talk about the ‘Why,’ which in our case is several whys:* Re-ignite the passion that developers have for their craft* Raise the bar of Java developers in London* We want developers to have a voice in deciding the future of Java* We want to inspire the next generation of tech leaders* To bring the disparate tech groups in London together* So we could learn from each other* We believe that the Java ecosystem forms a cornerstone of our society today -- we want to protect that for the futureLooking ahead to Java 8 Verburg expressed excitement about Lambdas. “I cannot wait for Lambdas,” he enthused. “Brian Goetz and his group are doing a great job, especially given some of the backwards compatibility that they have to maintain. It's going to remove a lot of boiler plate and yet maintain readability, plus enable massive scaling.”Check out Martijn Verburg at JavaOne if you get a chance, and, stay tuned for a longer interview yours truly did with Martijn to be publish on otn/java some time after JavaOne.

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• Unit testing is… well, flawed.

  - by Dewald Galjaard

  Hey someone had to say it. I clearly recall my first IT job. I was appointed Systems Co-coordinator for a leading South African retailer at store level. Don’t get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with an honest day’s labor and in fact I highly recommend it, however I’m obliged to refer to the designation cautiously; in reality all I had to do was monitor in-store prices and two UNIX front line controllers. If anything went wrong – I only had to phone it in… Luckily that wasn’t all I did. My duties extended to some other interesting annual occurrence – stock take. Despite a bit more curious affair, it was still a tedious process that took weeks of preparation and several nights to complete.  Then also I remember that no matter how elaborate our planning was, the entire exercise would be rendered useless if we couldn’t get the basics right – that being the act of counting. Sounds simple right? We’ll with a store which could potentially carry over tens of thousands of different items… we’ll let’s just say I believe that’s when I first became a coffee addict. In those days the act of counting stock was a very humble process. Nothing like we have today. A staff member would be assigned a bin or shelve filled with items he or she had to sort then count. Thereafter they had to record their findings on a complementary piece of paper. Every night I would manage several teams. Each team was divided into two groups - counters and auditors. Both groups had the same task, only auditors followed shortly on the heels of the counters, recounting stock levels, making sure the original count correspond to their findings. It was a simple yet hugely responsible orchestration of people and thankfully there was one fundamental and golden rule I could always abide by to ensure things run smoothly – No-one was allowed to audit their own work. Nope, not even on nights when I didn’t have enough staff available. This meant I too at times had to get up there and get counting, or have the audit stand over until the next evening. The reason for this was obvious - late at night and with so much to do we were prone to make some mistakes, then on the recount, without a fresh set of eyes, you were likely to repeat the offence. Now years later this rule or guideline still holds true as we develop software (as far removed as software development from counting stock may be). For some reason it is a fundamental guideline we’re simply ignorant of. We write our code, we write our tests and thus commit the same horrendous offence. Yes, the procedure of writing unit tests as practiced in most development houses today – is flawed. Most if not all of the tests we write today exercise application logic – our logic. They are based on the way we believe an application or method should/may/will behave or function. As we write our tests, our unit tests mirror our best understanding of the inner workings of our application code. Unfortunately these tests will therefore also include (or be unaware of) any imperfections and errors on our part. If your logic is flawed as you write your initial code, chances are, without a fresh set of eyes, you will commit the same error second time around too. Not even experience seems to be a suitable solution. It certainly helps to have deeper insight, but is that really the answer we should be looking for? Is that really failsafe? What about code review? Code review is certainly an answer. You could have one developer coding away and another (or team) making sure the logic is sound. The practice however has its obvious drawbacks. Firstly and mainly it is resource intensive and from what I’ve seen in most development houses, given heavy deadlines, this guideline is seldom adhered to. Hardly ever do we have the resources, money or time readily available. So what other options are out there? A quest to find some solution revealed a project by Microsoft Research called PEX. PEX is a framework which creates several test scenarios for each method or class you write, automatically. Think of it as your own personal auditor. Within a few clicks the framework will auto generate several unit tests for a given class or method and save them to a single project. PEX help to audit your work. It lends a fresh set of eyes to any project you’re working on and best of all; it is cost effective and fast. Check them out at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/ In upcoming posts we’ll dive deeper into how it works and how it can help you.   Certainly there are more similar frameworks out there and I would love to hear from you. Please share your experiences and insights.

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• JavaOne Afterglow by Simon Ritter

  - by JuergenKress

  Last week was the eighteenth JavaOne conference and I thought it would be a good idea to write up my thoughts about how things went. Firstly thanks to Yoshio Terada for the photos, I didn't bother bringing a camera with me so it's good to have some pictures to add to the words. Things kicked off full-throttle on Sunday.  We had the Java Champions and JUG leaders breakfast, which was a great way to meet up with a lot of familiar faces and start talking all things Java.  At midday the show really started with the Strategy and Technical Keynotes.  This was always going to be tougher job than some years because there was no big shiny ball to reveal to the audience.  With the Java EE 7 spec being finalised a few months ago and Java SE 8, Java ME 8 and JDK8 not due until the start of next year there was not going to be any big announcement.  I thought both keynotes worked really well each focusing on the things most important to Java developers: Strategy One of the things that is becoming more and more prominent in many companies marketing is the Internet of Things (IoT).  We've moved from the conventional desktop/laptop environment to much more mobile connected computing with smart phones and tablets.  The next wave of the internet is not just billions of people connected, but 10s or 100s of billions of devices connected to the network, all generating data and providing much more precise control of almost any process you can imagine.  This ties into the ideas of Big Data and Cloud Computing, but implementation is certainly not without its challenges.  As Peter Utzschneider explained it's about three Vs: Volume, Velocity and Value.  All these devices will create huge volumes of data at very high speed; to avoid being overloaded these devices will need some sort of processing capabilities that can filter the useful data from the redundant.  The raw data then needs to be turned into useful information that has value.  To make this happen will require applications on devices, at gateways and on the back-end servers, all very tightly integrated.  This is where Java plays a pivotal role, write once, run everywhere becomes essential, having nine million developers fluent in the language makes it the defacto lingua franca of IoT.  There will be lots more information on how this will become a reality, so watch this space. Technical How do we make the IoT a reality, technically?  Using the game of chess Mark Reinhold, with the help of people like John Ceccarelli, Jasper Potts and Richard Bair, showed what you could do.  Using Java EE on the back end, Java SE and JavaFX on the desktop and Java ME Embedded and JavaFX on devices they showed a complete end-to-end demo. This was really impressive, using 3D features from JavaFX 8 (that's included with JDK8) to make a 3D animated Duke chess board.  Jasper also unveiled the "DukePad" a home made tablet using a Raspberry Pi, touch screen and accelerometer. Although the Raspberry Pi doesn't have earth shattering CPU performance (about the same level as a mid 1990s Pentium), it does have really quite good GPU performance so the GUI works really well.  The plans are all open sourced and available here.  One small, but very significant announcement was that Java SE will now be included with the NOOB and Raspbian Linux distros provided by the Raspberry Pi foundation (these can be found here).  No more hassle having to download and install the JDK after you've flashed your SD card OS image.  The finale was the Raspberry Pi powered chess playing robot.  Really very, very cool.  I talked to Jasper about this and he told me each of the chess pieces had been 3D printed and then he had to use acetone to give them a glossy finish (not sure what his wife thought of him spending hours in the kitchen in a gas mask!)  The way the robot arm worked was very impressive as it did not have any positioning data (like a potentiometer connected to each motor), but relied purely on carefully calibrated timings to get the arm to the right place.  Having done things like this myself in the past I know how easy it is to find a small error gets magnified into very big mistakes. Here's some pictures from the keynote: The "Dukepad" architecture Nice clear perspex case so you can see the innards. The very nice 3D chess set.  Maya's obviously a great tool. Read the full article here. WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Wiki Technorati Tags: Simon Ritter,Java One,OOW,Oracle OpenWorld,WebLogic,WebLogic Community,Oracle,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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• Solaris 11 pkg fix is my new friend

  - by user12611829

  While putting together some examples of the Solaris 11 Automated Installer (AI), I managed to really mess up my system, to the point where AI was completely unusable. This was my fault as a combination of unfortunate incidents left some remnants that were causing problems, so I tried to clean things up. Unsuccessfully. Perhaps that was a bad idea (OK, it was a terrible idea), but this is Solaris 11 and there are a few more tricks in the sysadmin toolbox. Here's what I did. # rm -rf /install/* # rm -rf /var/ai # installadm create-service -n solaris11-x86 --imagepath /install/solaris11-x86 \ -s [email protected] Warning: Service svc:/network/dns/multicast:default is not online. Installation services will not be advertised via multicast DNS. Creating service from: [email protected] DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) SPEED Completed 1/1 130/130 264.4/264.4 0B/s PHASE ITEMS Installing new actions 284/284 Updating package state database Done Updating image state Done Creating fast lookup database Done Reading search index Done Updating search index 1/1 Creating i386 service: solaris11-x86 Image path: /install/solaris11-x86 So far so good. Then comes an oops..... setup-service[168]: cd: /var/ai//service/.conf-templ: [No such file or directory] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is where you generally say a few things to yourself, and then promise to quit deleting configuration files and directories when you don't know what you are doing. Then you recall that the new Solaris 11 packaging system has some ability to correct common mistakes (like the one I just made). Let's give it a try. # pkg fix installadm Verifying: pkg://solaris/install/installadm ERROR dir: var/ai Group: 'root (0)' should be 'sys (3)' dir: var/ai/ai-webserver Missing: directory does not exist dir: var/ai/ai-webserver/compatibility-configuration Missing: directory does not exist dir: var/ai/ai-webserver/conf.d Missing: directory does not exist dir: var/ai/image-server Group: 'root (0)' should be 'sys (3)' dir: var/ai/image-server/cgi-bin Missing: directory does not exist dir: var/ai/image-server/images Group: 'root (0)' should be 'sys (3)' dir: var/ai/image-server/logs Missing: directory does not exist dir: var/ai/profile Missing: directory does not exist dir: var/ai/service Group: 'root (0)' should be 'sys (3)' dir: var/ai/service/.conf-templ Missing: directory does not exist dir: var/ai/service/.conf-templ/AI_data Missing: directory does not exist dir: var/ai/service/.conf-templ/AI_files Missing: directory does not exist file: var/ai/ai-webserver/ai-httpd-templ.conf Missing: regular file does not exist file: var/ai/service/.conf-templ/AI.db Missing: regular file does not exist file: var/ai/image-server/cgi-bin/cgi_get_manifest.py Missing: regular file does not exist Created ZFS snapshot: 2012-12-11-21:09:53 Repairing: pkg://solaris/install/installadm Creating Plan (Evaluating mediators): | DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) SPEED Completed 1/1 3/3 0.0/0.0 0B/s PHASE ITEMS Updating modified actions 16/16 Updating image state Done Creating fast lookup database Done In just a few moments, IPS found the missing files and incorrect ownerships/permissions. Instead of reinstalling the system, or falling back to an earlier Live Upgrade boot environment, I was able to create my AI services and now all is well. # installadm create-service -n solaris11-x86 --imagepath /install/solaris11-x86 \ -s [email protected] Warning: Service svc:/network/dns/multicast:default is not online. Installation services will not be advertised via multicast DNS. Creating service from: [email protected] DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) SPEED Completed 1/1 130/130 264.4/264.4 0B/s PHASE ITEMS Installing new actions 284/284 Updating package state database Done Updating image state Done Creating fast lookup database Done Reading search index Done Updating search index 1/1 Creating i386 service: solaris11-x86 Image path: /install/solaris11-x86 Refreshing install services Warning: mDNS registry of service solaris11-x86 could not be verified. Creating default-i386 alias Setting the default PXE bootfile(s) in the local DHCP configuration to: bios clients (arch 00:00): default-i386/boot/grub/pxegrub Refreshing install services Warning: mDNS registry of service default-i386 could not be verified. # installadm create-service -n solaris11u1-x86 --imagepath /install/solaris11u1-x86 \ -s [email protected] Warning: Service svc:/network/dns/multicast:default is not online. Installation services will not be advertised via multicast DNS. Creating service from: [email protected] DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) SPEED Completed 1/1 514/514 292.3/292.3 0B/s PHASE ITEMS Installing new actions 661/661 Updating package state database Done Updating image state Done Creating fast lookup database Done Reading search index Done Updating search index 1/1 Creating i386 service: solaris11u1-x86 Image path: /install/solaris11u1-x86 Refreshing install services Warning: mDNS registry of service solaris11u1-x86 could not be verified. # installadm list Service Name Alias Of Status Arch Image Path ------------ -------- ------ ---- ---------- default-i386 solaris11-x86 on i386 /install/solaris11-x86 solaris11-x86 - on i386 /install/solaris11-x86 solaris11u1-x86 - on i386 /install/solaris11u1-x86 This is way way better than pkgchk -f in Solaris 10. I'm really beginning to like this new IPS packaging system.

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• ORACLE RIGHTNOW DYNAMIC AGENT DESKTOP CLOUD SERVICE - Putting the Dynamite into Dynamic Agent Desktop

  - by Andreea Vaduva

  Untitled Document There’s a mountain of evidence to prove that a great contact centre experience results in happy, profitable and loyal customers. The very best Contact Centres are those with high first contact resolution, customer satisfaction and agent productivity. But how many companies really believe they are the best? And how many believe that they can be? We know that with the right tools, companies can aspire to greatness – and achieve it. Core to this is ensuring their agents have the best tools that give them the right information at the right time, so they can focus on the customer and provide a personalised, professional and efficient service. Today there are multiple channels through which customers can communicate with you; phone, web, chat, social to name a few but regardless of how they communicate, customers expect a seamless, quality experience. Most contact centre agents need to switch between lots of different systems to locate the right information. This hampers their productivity, frustrates both the agent and the customer and increases call handling times. With this in mind, Oracle RightNow has designed and refined a suite of add-ins to optimize the Agent Desktop. Each is designed to simplify and adapt the agent experience for any given situation and unify the customer experience across your media channels. Let’s take a brief look at some of the most useful tools available and see how they make a difference. Contextual Workspaces: The screen where agents do their job. Agents don’t want to be slowed down by busy screens, scrolling through endless tabs or links to find what they’re looking for. They want quick, accurate and easy. Contextual Workspaces are fully configurable and through workspace rules apply if, then, else logic to display only the information the agent needs for the issue at hand . Assigned at the Profile level, different levels of agent, from a novice to the most experienced, get a screen that is relevant to their role and responsibilities and ensures their job is done quickly and efficiently the first time round. Agent Scripting: Sometimes, agents need to deliver difficult or sensitive messages while maximising the opportunity to cross-sell and up-sell. After all, contact centres are now increasingly viewed as revenue generators. Containing sophisticated branching logic, scripting helps agents to capture the right level of information and guides the agent step by step, ensuring no mistakes, inconsistencies or missed opportunities. Guided Assistance: This is typically used to solve common troubleshooting issues, displaying a series of question and answer sets in a decision-tree structure. This means agents avoid having to bookmark favourites or rely on written notes. Agents find particular value in these guides - to quickly craft chat and email responses. What’s more, by publishing guides in answers on support pages customers, can resolve issues themselves, without needing to contact your agents. And b ecause it can also accelerate agent ramp-up time, it ensures that even novice agents can solve customer problems like an expert. Desktop Workflow: Take a step back and look at the full customer interaction of your agents. It probably spans multiple systems and multiple tasks. With Desktop Workflows you control the design workflows that span the full customer interaction from start to finish. As sequences of decisions and actions, workflows are unique in that they can create or modify different records and provide automation behind the scenes. This means your agents can save time and provide better quality of service by having the tools they need and the relevant information as required. And doing this boosts satisfaction among your customers, your agents and you – so win, win, win! I have highlighted above some of the tools which can be used to optimise the desktop; however, this is by no means an exhaustive list. In approaching your design, it’s important to understand why and how your customers contact you in the first place. Once you have this list of “whys” and “hows”, you can design effective policies and procedures to handle each category of problem, and then implement the right agent desktop user interface to support them. This will avoid duplication and wasted effort. Five Top Tips to take away: Start by working out “why” and “how” customers are contacting you. Implement a clean and relevant agent desktop to support your agents. If your workspaces are getting complicated consider using Desktop Workflow to streamline the interaction. Enhance your Knowledgebase with Guides. Agents can access them proactively and can be published on your web pages for customers to help themselves. Script any complex, critical or sensitive interactions to ensure consistency and accuracy. Desktop optimization is an ongoing process so continue to monitor and incorporate feedback from your agents and your customers to keep your Contact Centre successful.   Want to learn more? Having attending the 3-day Oracle RightNow Customer Service Administration class your next step is to attend the Oracle RightNow Customer Portal Design and 2-day Dynamic Agent Desktop Administration class. Here you’ll learn not only how to leverage the Agent Desktop tools but also how to optimise your self-service pages to enhance your customers’ web experience.   Useful resources: Review the Best Practice Guide Review the tune-up guide   About the Author: Angela Chandler joined Oracle University as a Senior Instructor through the RightNow Customer Experience Acquisition. Her other areas of expertise include Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management.  She currently delivers the following Oracle RightNow courses in the classroom and as a Live Virtual Class: RightNow Customer Service Administration (3 days) RightNow Customer Portal Design and Dynamic Agent Desktop Administration (2 days) RightNow Analytics (2 days) Rightnow Chat Cloud Service Administration (2 days)

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• Take Advantage of Oracle's Ongoing Assurance Effort!

  - by eric.maurice

  Hi, this is Eric Maurice again! A few years ago, I posted a blog entry, which discussed the psychology of patching. The point of this blog entry was that a natural tendency existed for systems and database administrators to be reluctant to apply patches, even security patches, because of the fear of "breaking" the system. Unfortunately, this belief in the principle "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" creates significant risks for organizations. Running systems without applying the proper security patches can greatly compromise the security posture of the organization because the security controls available in the affected system may be compromised as a result of the existence of the unfixed vulnerabilities. As a result, Oracle continues to strongly recommend that customers apply all security fixes as soon as possible. Most recently, I have had a number of conversations with customers who questioned the need to upgrade their highly stable but otherwise unsupported Oracle systems. These customers wanted to know more about the kind of security risks they were exposed to, by running obsolete versions of Oracle software. As per Oracle Support Policies, Critical Patch Updates are produced for currently supported products. In other words, Critical Patch Updates are not created by Oracle for product versions that are no longer covered under the Premier Support or Extended Support phases of the Lifetime Support Policy. One statement used in each Critical Patch Update Advisory is particularly important: "We recommend that customers upgrade to a supported version of Oracle products in order to obtain patches. Unsupported products, releases and versions are not tested for the presence of vulnerabilities addressed by this Critical Patch Update. However, it is likely that earlier versions of affected releases are also affected by these vulnerabilities." The purpose of this warning is to inform Oracle customers that a number of the vulnerabilities fixed in each Critical Patch Update may affect older versions of a specific product line. In other words, each Critical Patch Update provides a number of fixes for currently supported versions of a given product line (this information is listed for each bug in the Risk Matrices of the Critical Patch Update Advisory), but the unsupported versions in the same product line, while they may be affected by the vulnerabilities, will not receive the fixes, and are therefore vulnerable to attacks. The risk assumed by organizations wishing to remain on unsupported versions is amplified by the behavior of malicious hackers, who typically will attempt to, and sometimes succeed in, reverse-engineering the content of vendors' security fixes. As a result, it is not uncommon for exploits to be published soon after Oracle discloses vulnerabilities with the release of a Critical Patch Update or Security Alert. Let's consider now the nature of the vulnerabilities that may exist in obsolete versions of Oracle software. A number of severe vulnerabilities have been fixed by Oracle over the years. While Oracle does not test unsupported products, releases and versions for the presence of vulnerabilities addressed by each Critical Patch Update, it should be assumed that a number of the vulnerabilities fixed with the Critical Patch Update program do exist in unsupported versions (regardless of the product considered). The most severe vulnerabilities fixed in past Critical Patch Updates may result in full compromise of the targeted systems, down to the OS level, by remote and unauthenticated users (these vulnerabilities receive a CVSS Base Score of 10.0) or almost as critically, may result in the compromise of the affected systems (without compromising the underlying OS) by a remote and unauthenticated users (these vulnerabilities receive a CVSS Base Score of 7.5). Such vulnerabilities may result in complete takeover of the targeted machine (for the CVSS 10.0), or may result in allowing the attacker the ability to create a denial of service against the affected system or even hijacking or stealing all the data hosted by the compromised system (for the CVSS 7.5). The bottom line is that organizations should assume the worst case: that the most critical vulnerabilities are present in their unsupported version; therefore, it is Oracle's recommendation that all organizations move to supported systems and apply security patches in a timely fashion. Organizations that currently run supported versions but may be late in their security patch release level can quickly catch up because most Critical Patch Updates are cumulative. With a few exceptions noted in Oracle's Critical Patch Update Advisory, the application of the most recent Critical Patch Update will bring these products to current security patch level and provide the organization with the best possible security posture for their patch level. Furthermore, organizations are encouraged to upgrade to most recent versions as this will greatly improve their security posture. At Oracle, our security fixing policies state that security fixes are produced for the main code line first, and as a result, our products benefit from the mistakes made in previous version(s). Our ongoing assurance effort ensures that we work diligently to fix the vulnerabilities we find, and aim at constantly improving the security posture our products provide by default. Patch sets include numerous in-depth fixes in addition to those delivered through the Critical Patch Update and, in certain instances, important security fixes require major architectural changes that can only be included in new product releases (and cannot be backported through the Critical Patch Update program). For More Information: • Mary Ann Davidson is giving a webcast interview on Oracle Software Security Assurance on February 24th. The registration link for attending this webcast is located at http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=280304&s=1&k=6A7152F62313CA09F77EBCEEA9B6294F&partnerref=EricMblog • A blog entry discussing Oracle's practices for ensuring the quality of Critical patch Updates can be found at http://blogs.oracle.com/security/2009/07/ensuring_critical_patch_update_quality.html • The blog entry "To patch or not to patch" is located at http://blogs.oracle.com/security/2008/01/to_patch_or_not_to_patch.html • Oracle's Support Policies are located at http://www.oracle.com/us/support/policies/index.html • The Critical Patch Update & Security Alert page is located at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html

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• SQL SERVER – Recover the Accidentally Renamed Table

  - by pinaldave

  I have no answer to following question. I saw a desperate email marked as urgent delivered in my mailbox. “I accidentally renamed table in my SSMS. I was scrolling very fast and I made mistakes. It was either because I double clicked or clicked on F2 (shortcut key for renaming). However, I have made the mistake and now I have no idea how to fix this. I am in big trouble. Help me get my original tablename.” I have seen many similar scenarios in my life and they give me a very good opportunity to preach wisdom but when the house is burning, we cannot talk about how we should have conserved the water earlier. The goal at that point is to put off the fire as fast as we can. I decided to answer this email with my best knowledge. If you have renamed the table, I think you pretty much is out of luck. Here are few things which you can do which can give you idea about what your tablename can be if you are lucky. Method 1: (Not Recommended but try your luck) Check your naming convention of your system. I have often seen that many organizations name their index as IX_TableName_Colms or name their keys as FK_TableName1_TableName2_Cols. If your organization is following the same you can get the name from your table, you may refer your keys. Again, note that this is quite possible that your tablename was already renamed and your keys were not updated. This can easily lead you to select incorrect name. I think follow this if you are confident or move to the next method. Method 2: (Not Recommended but try your luck) This method is also based on your orgs naming convention. If you use the name of the table in any columnname (some organizations use tablename in their incremental identity column name), you can get that name from there. Method 3: (Not Recommended but try your luck) If you know where your table was used in your stored procedures, you can script your stored procedure and find the name of the table back. Method 4: (Try your luck) All the best organizations first create a data model of the schema and there is good chance that this table is used there, you should take your chances and refer original document. If your organization is good at managing docs or source code, you will get the name of the table back for sure. Method 5: (It WORKS but try on a development server) There is no sure way to get you the name of the table which you accidentally renamed however, there is one way which will work for sure. You need to take your latest full backup and restore it on your development server (remember not on production or where you have renamed this column). Now restore latest differential file of the full backup. Now restore all the log files one by one making sure that you are restoring before the point of time of you renamed the tablename. Now go to explore and this will give you the name of the table which you have renamed. If you are confident that the same table existed with the same name when the last full backup was made, you do not have to go to all the steps. You can just get the name of the table directly from last backup’s restore. Read the article about Backup Timeline. Wisdom: How can I miss to preach wisdom when I get the opportunity to do so? Here are a few points to remember. Use a different account to explore production environment. Do not use the same account which have all the rights and permissions all the time. Use the account which has read only permissions if there are no modification required. Use policy based management to prevent changes which are accidental. If there was policy of valid names, the accidental change of the table was not possible unless it was intentional delibarate changes. Have a proper auditing of the system in place. You can use DDL triggers but be careful with its usage (get it reviewed properly first). (Add your suggestion here) I guess Method 5 will work all the time (using point in time restore). Everything else is chance of luck and if you are lucky are bad – you will get further incorrect name. Now go back and read the first line of this blog. Out of five method four methods are just lucky guesses. The method 5 will work but again it is a lengthy process if the size of the database is huge or if you do not have full backup. Did I miss anything obvious? Please leave a comment and I will publish your answer with due credit. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) Filed under: PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Puzzle, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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• Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 1 &ndash; The failed Sprint

  - by Martin Hinshelwood

  I recently had a conversation with a product owner that wanted to have the Scrum team broken up into smaller units so that less time was wasted on the Scrum Ceremonies! Their complaint was around the need in Scrum to have the entire “Team” (7+-2) involved in the sizing of the work during the “Sprint Planning Meeting”.  The standard flippant answer of all Scrum professionals, “Well that's not Scrum”, does not get you any brownie points in these situations. The response could be “Well we are not doing Scrum then” which in turn leads to “We are doing Scrum…But, we have split the scrum team into units of 2/3 so that they can concentrate on a specific area of work”. While this may work, it is not Scrum and should not be called so… It is just a form of Agile. Don’t get me wrong at this stage, there is nothing wrong with Agile, just don’t call it Scrum. The reason that the Product Owner wants to do this is that, in effect, through a number of miscommunications and failings in our implementation of Scrum, there was NO unit of potentially Shippable software at the end of the first sprint. It does not matter to them that most Scrum teams will fail the first Sprint, even those that are high performing teams. Remember it is the product owners their money! We should NOT break up scrum teams into smaller units for the purpose of having less people tied up in the Scrum Ceremonies. The amount of backlog the Team selects is solely up to the Team… Only the Team can assess what it can accomplish over the upcoming Sprint. - Scrum Guide, Scrum.org The entire team must accept the work and in order to understand what they can accept they must be free to size it as a team. This both encourages common understanding and increases visibility on why team members think a task is of a particular size. This has the benefit of increasing the knowledge of the entire team in the problem domain. A new Team often first realizes that it will either sink or swim as a Team, not individually, in this meeting. The Team realizes that it must rely on itself. As it realizes this, it starts to self-organize to take on the characteristics and behaviour of a real Team. - Scrum Guide, Scrum.org This paragraph goes to the why of having the whole team at the meeting; The goal of Scrum it to produce a unit of potentially shippable software at the end of every Sprint. In order to achieve this we need high performing teams and this is what Scrum as a framework has been optimised to produce. I think that our Product Owner is understandably upset over loosing two weeks work and is losing sight the end goal of Scrum in the failures of the moment. As the man spending the money, I completely understand his perspective and I think that we should not have started Scrum on an internal project, but selected a customer  that is open to the ideas and complications of Scrum. So, what should we have NOT done on our first Scrum project: Should not have had 3 interns as the only on site resource – This lead to bad practices as the experienced guys were not there helping and correcting as they usually would. Should not have had the only experienced guys offsite – With both the experienced technical guys in completely different time zones it was difficult to get time for questions. Helping the guys on site was just plain impossible. Should not have used a part time ScrumMaster – Although the ScrumMaster attended all of the Ceremonies, because they are only in 2 full days of the week it makes it difficult for the team to raise impediments as they go. Should not have used a proxy product owner. – This was probably the worst decision that was made. Mainly because the proxy product owner did not have the same vision as the product owner. While Scrum does not explicitly reject the idea of a Proxy Product Owner, I do not think it works very well in practice. The “single wringable neck” needs to contain both the Money and the Vision as well as attending the required meetings. I will be brining all of these things up at the Sprint Retrospective and we will learn from our mistakes and move on. Do, Inspect then Adapt…   Technorati Tags: Scrum,Sprint Planing,Sprint Retrospective,Scrum.org,Scrum Guide,Scrum Ceremonies,Scrummaster,Product Owner Need Help? Professional Scrum Developer Training SSW has six Professional Scrum Developer Trainers who specialise in training your developers in implementing Scrum with Microsoft's Visual Studio ALM tools.

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• What Counts For A DBA: Foresight

  - by drsql

  Of all the valuable attributes of a DBA covered so far in this series, ranging from passion to humility to practicality, perhaps one of the most important attributes may turn out to be the most seemingly-nebulous: foresight. According to Free Dictionary foresight is the "perception of the significance and nature of events before they have occurred". Foresight does not come naturally to most people, as the parent of any teenager will attest. No matter how clearly you see their problems coming they won't listen, and have to fail before eventually (hopefully) learning for themselves. Having graduated from the school of hard knocks, the DBA, the naive teenager no longer, acquires the ability to foretell how events will unfold in response to certain actions or attitudes with the unerring accuracy of a doom-laden prophet. Like Simba in the Lion King, after a few blows to the head, we foretell that a sore head that will be the inevitable consequence of a swing of Rafiki's stick, and we take evasive action. However, foresight is about more than simply learning when to duck. It's about taking the time to understand and prevent the habits that caused the stick to swing in the first place. And based on this definition, I often think there is a lot less foresight on display in my industry than there ought to be. Most DBAs reading this blog will spot a line such as the following in a piece of "working" code, understand immediately why it is less than optimimum, and take evasive action. …WHERE CAST (columnName as int) = 1 However, the programmers who regularly write this sort of code clearly lack that foresight, and this and numerous other examples of similarly-malodorous code prevail throughout our industry (and provide premium-grade fertilizer for the healthy growth of many a consultant's bank account). Sometimes, perhaps harried by impatient managers and painfully tight deadlines, everyone makes mistakes. Yes, I too occasionally write code that "works", but basically stinks. When the problems manifest, it is sometimes accompanied by a sense of grim recognition that somewhere in me existed the foresight to know that that approach would lead to this problem. However, in the headlong rush, warning signs got overlooked, lessons learned previously, which could supply the foresight to the current project, were lost and not applied.   Of course, the problem often is a simple lack of skills, training and knowledge in the relevant technology and/or business space; programmers and DBAs forced to do their best in the face of inadequate training, or to apply their skills in areas where they lack experience. However, often the problem goes deeper than this; I detect in some DBAs and programmers a certain laziness of attitude.   They veer from one project to the next, going with "whatever works", unwilling or unable to take the time to understand where their actions are leading them. Of course, the whole "Agile" mindset is often interpreted to favor flexibility and rapid production over aiming to get things right the first time. The faster you try to travel in the dark, frequently changing direction, the more important it is to have someone who has the foresight to know at least roughly where you are heading. This is doubly true for the data tier which, no matter how you try to deny it, simply cannot be "redone" every month as you learn aspects of the world you are trying to model that, with a little bit of foresight, you would have seen coming.   Sometimes, when as a DBA you can glance briefly at 200 lines of working SQL code and know instinctively why it will cause problems, foresight can feel like magic, but it isn't; it's more like muscle memory. It is acquired as the consequence of good experience, useful communication with those around you, and a willingness to learn continually, through continued education as well as from failure. Foresight can be deployed only by finding time to understand how the lessons learned from other DBAs, and other projects, can help steer the current project in the right direction.   C.S. Lewis once said "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." It cannot be avoided; the quality of what you build now is going to affect you, and others, at some point in the future. Take the time to acquire foresight; it is a love letter to your future self, to say you cared.

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• Simple Scripting for your Exalogic Storage

  - by Trond Strømme

  As part of my job in Oracle ACS (Advanced Customer Services) I'm handling lots of different systems and customers. Among the recent systems I worked with have been Oracle's Exalogic engineered systems. One of the things I'd never had much exposure to as a system developer/architect/middleware guy/Java dude has been storage; outside of consuming it for my photography needs.. Well, I'm always ready for a new challenge... I'd downloaded the 7000 series storage simulator when it was released in the good old Sun days, found it fun and instructive to play around with, but as I never touched storage in any way (besides consuming it..) I forgot about it. A couple of years ago when I started working with Exalogic engineered systems it again came into light as an invaluable learning and testing tool for the embedded storage in an Exalogic;  Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage 7320 Appliance.  aaaanyway... I've been "booted" into a part-time role as the interim storage/system admin/middleware/Java guy for a client and found I needed to create the occasional report or summary or whatever.. of what's using the storage in the 7320 (as default configured for an Exalogic, 40T of disk in a mirrored configuration, yielding 18T of actual space.) Reading the nice documentation and some articles on the Oracle Technology Network I saw great possibilities with the embedded ECMAScript3/JavaScript engine in the 7000 series.  In my personal opinion anyone who's dealing with Exalogic administration, or exposed to any of the 7000 series of storage appliances and servers that Oracle offers should have a VirtualBox instance of it kicking around. For development and testing it's a fantastic tool. (It can save you from explaining (most) of the embarrassing FAILS you can do if you test something in a production system to your management...) So download, and install.  A small sidestep, if after firing up the 7000 series simulator in VirtualBox you've forgotten what it's IP address is, the following will sort you out if you log in directly via the running VirtualBox VM. So in my case I can ssh to 192.168.56.101 or point a browser to https://192.168.56.101:215 to log into the storage appliance. One simple way of executing a script on the 7320 is to ssh to the device and redirecting a file with the script in it to ssh. ssh [email protected] < myscript.js One question I got from my client and the people who will take over the systems was: "how can we see the quotas and allocations for all projects/shares in one easy go so we don't have to go navigating around in the BUI for all the hundreds of shares the 7320 is hosting just to check if anything is running dry?" Easy! JavaScript time, VirtualBox and emacs! //NOTE! this script is available 'as is' It has ben run on a couple of 7320's, (running 2010.08.17.3.0,1-1.25 & // 2011.04.24.1.0,1-1.8) a 7420 and the VB image, but I personally //offer no guarantee whatsoever that it won't make your server topple, catch fire or in any way go pear shaped.. //run at your own risk or learn from my code and or mistakes.. script run('cd /'); run('shares'); //get all projects: proj = list(); function spaceToGig(bytes){ return bytes/1073741824; //convert bytes to GB } function fullInPercent(quota, space_data){ tmp = (space_data/quota)*100; return tmp; } //print header, slightly good looking printf(" %s/%-15s %8s(GB) %7s(GB) %5s(GB) %7s(GB) %3s\n","Project", "Share","Quota","Ref", "Snap", "Total","%full"); printf("-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n") //for each project, get all shares. check for quota and calculate percentage and human readable figures.. for (i=0;i<proj.length;i++){ run('select ' + proj[i]); //get all shares for a project var pshares = list(); //for each share get quota properties for (j=0;j<pshares.length;j++){ run('select ' + pshares[j]); quota = get('quota'); //properties associated with a share or inherited from a project spaceData = get('space_data'); spaceSnap = get('space_snapshots'); spaceTotal = get('space_total'); if(quota>0){ //has quota printf(" %s/%-15s \t%4.2fGB\t%.2fGB\t%.2fGB\t%.2fGB\t%5.2f%%\n",proj[i], pshares[j],spaceToGig(quota),spaceToGig(spaceData),spaceToGig(spaceSnap),spaceToGig(spaceTotal),fullInPercent(quota,spaceTotal)); }else{ //no quota printf(" %s/%-15s \t%8s\t%.2fGB\t%.2fGB\t%.2fGB\t%s\n",proj[i],pshares[j], "N/A", spaceToGig(spaceData),spaceToGig(spaceSnap),spaceToGig(spaceTotal),"N/A"); } run('cd ..'); } run('done'); } The resulting output should look something like this: Project/Share Quota(GB) Ref(GB) Snap(GB) Total(GB) %full ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACSExalogicSystem/domains N/A 0.04GB 0.00GB 0.04GB N/A ACSExalogicSystem/logs N/A 0.01GB 0.00GB 0.01GB N/A ACSExalogicSystem/nodemgrs N/A 0.00GB 0.00GB 0.00GB N/A ACSExalogicSystem/stores N/A 0.04GB 0.00GB 0.04GB N/A ***_dev/FMW_***_1 133GB 4.24GB 0.01GB 4.25GB 3.19% ***_dev/FMW_***_2 N/A 4.25GB 0.01GB 4.26GB N/A ***_dev/applications 10GB 0.00GB 0.00GB 0.00GB 0.00% ***_dev/domains 50GB 10.75GB 3.55GB 14.30GB 28.61% ***_dev/logs 20GB 0.32GB 0.01GB 0.33GB 1.66% ***_dev/softwaredepot 20GB 4.15GB 0.00GB 4.15GB 20.73% ***_dev/stores 20GB 0.01GB 0.00GB 0.01GB 0.05% ###_dev/FMW_###_1 400GB 17.63GB 0.12GB 17.75GB 4.44% ###_dev/applications N/A 0.00GB 0.00GB 0.00GB N/A ###_dev/domains 120GB 14.21GB 5.53GB 19.74GB 16.45% ###_dev/logs 15GB 0.00GB 0.00GB 0.00GB 0.00% ###_dev/softwaredepot 250GB 73.55GB 0.02GB 73.57GB 29.43% …snip My apologies if the output is a bit mis-aligned here and there, I only bothered making it look good, not perfect :/ I also removed some of the project names (*,#)

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• My Red Gate Experience

  - by Colin Rothwell

  I’m Colin, and I’ve been an intern working with Mike in publishing on Simple-Talk and SQLServerCentral for the past ten weeks. I’ve mostly been working “behind the scenes”, making improvements to the spam filtering, along with various other small tweaks. When I arrived at Red Gate, one of the first things Mike asked me was what I wanted to get out of the internship. It wasn’t a question I’d given a great deal of thought to, but my immediate response was the same as almost anybody: to support my growing family. Well, ok, not quite that, but money was certainly a motivator, along with simply making sure that I didn’t get bored over the summer. Three months is a long time to fill, and many of my friends end up getting bored, or worse, knitting obsessively. With the arrogance which seems fairly common among Cambridge people, I wasn’t expecting to really learn much here! In my mind, the part of the year where I am at Uni is the part where I learn things, whilst Red Gate would be an opportunity to apply what I’d learnt. Thankfully, the opposite is true: I’ve learnt a lot during my time here, and there has been a definite positive impact on the way I write code. The first thing I’ve really learnt is that test-driven development is, in general, a sensible way of working. Before coming, I didn’t really get it: how could you test something you hadn’t yet written? It didn’t make sense! My problem was seeing a test as having to test all the behaviour of a given function. Writing tests which test the bare minimum possible and building them up is a really good way of crystallising the direction the code needs to grow in, and ensures you never attempt to write too much code at time. One really good experience of this was early on in my internship when Mike and I were working on the query used to list active authors: I’d written something which I thought would do the trick, but by starting again using TDD we grew something which revealed that there were several subtle mistakes in the query I’d written. I’ve also been awakened to the value of pair programming. Whilst I could sort of see the point before coming, I also thought that it was impossible that two people would ever get more done at the same computer than if they were working separately. I still think that this is true for projects with pieces that developers can easily work on independently, and with developers who both know the codebase, but I’ve found that pair programming can be really good for learning a code base, and for building up small projects to the point where you can start working on separate components, as well as solving particularly difficult problems. Later on in my internship, for my down tools week project, I was working on adding Python support to Glimpse. Another intern and I we pair programmed the entire project, using ping pong pair programming as much as possible. One bonus that this brought which I wasn’t expecting was that I found myself less prone to distraction: with someone else peering over my shoulder, I didn’t have the ever-present temptation to open gmail, or facebook, or yammer, or twitter, or hacker news, or reddit, and so on, and so forth. I’m quite proud of this project: I think it’s some of the best code I’ve written. I’ve also been really won over to the value of descriptive variables names. In my pre-Red Gate life, as a lone-ranger style cowboy programmer, I’d developed a tendency towards laziness in variable names, sometimes abbreviating or, worse, using acronyms. I’ve swiftly realised that this is a bad idea when working with a team: saving a few key strokes is inevitably not worth it when it comes to reading code again in the future. Longer names also mean you can do away with a majority of comments. I appreciate that if you’ve come up with an O(n*log n) algorithm for something which seemed O(n^2), you probably want to explain how it works, but explaining what a variable name means is a big no no: it’s so very easy to change the behaviour of the code, whilst forgetting about the comments. Whilst at Red Gate, I took the opportunity to attend a code retreat, which really helped me to solidify all the things I’d learnt. To be completely free of any existing code base really lets you focus on best practises and think about how you write code. If you get a chance to go on a similar event, I’d highly recommend it! Cycling to Red Gate, I’ve also become much better at fitting inner tubes: if you’re struggling to get the tube out, or re-fit the tire, letting a bit of air out usually helps. I’ve also become quite a bit better at foosball and will miss having a foosball table! I’d like to finish off by saying thank you to everyone at Red Gate for having me. I’ve really enjoyed working with, and learning from, the team that brings you this web site. If you meet any of them, buy them a drink!

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• 5 Android Keyboard Replacements to Help You Type Faster

  - by Chris Hoffman

  Android allows developers to replace its keyboard with their own keyboard apps. This has led to experimentation and great new features, like the gesture-typing feature that’s made its way into Android’s official keyboard after proving itself in third-party keyboards. This sort of customization isn’t possible on Apple’s iOS or even Microsoft’s modern Windows environments. Installing a third-party keyboard is easy — install it from Google Play, launch it like another app, and it will explain how to enable it. Google Keyboard Google Keyboard is Android’s official keyboard, as seen on Google’s Nexus devices. However, there’s a good chance your Android smartphone or tablet comes with a keyboard designed by its manufacturer instead. You can install the Google Keyboard from Google Play, even if your device doesn’t come with it. This keyboard offers a wide variety of features, including a built-in gesture-typing feature, as popularized by Swype. It also offers prediction, including full next-word prediction based on your previous word, and includes voice recognition that works offline on modern versions of Android. Google’s keyboard may not offer the most accurate swiping feature or the best autocorrection, but it’s a great keyboard that feels like it belongs in Android. SwiftKey SwiftKey costs $4, although you can try it free for one month. In spite of its price, many people who rarely buy apps have been sold on SwiftKey. It offers amazing auto-correction and word-prediction features. Just mash away on your touch-screen keyboard, typing as fast as possible, and SwiftKey will notice your mistakes and type what you actually meant to type. SwiftKey also now has built-in support for gesture-typing via SwiftKey Flow, so you get a lot of flexibility. At $4, SwiftKey may seem a bit pricey, but give the month-long trial a try. A great keyboard makes all the typing you do everywhere on your phone better. SwiftKey is an amazing keyboard if you tap-to-type rather than swipe-to-type. Swype While other keyboards have copied Swype’s swipe-to-type feature, none have completely matched its accuracy. Swype has been designing a gesture-typing keyboard for longer than anyone else and its gesture feature still seems more accurate than its competitors’ gesture support. If you use gesture-typing all the time, you’ll probably want to use Swype. Swype can now be installed directly from Google Play without the old, tedious process of registering a beta account and sideloading the Swype app. Swype offers a month-long free trial and the full version is available for $1 afterwards. Minuum Minuum is a crowdfunded keyboard that is currently still in beta and only supports English. We include it here because it’s so interesting — it’s a great example of the kind of creativity and experimentation that happens when you allow developers to experiment with their own forms of keyboard. Minuum uses a tiny, minimum keyboard that frees up your screen space, so your touch-screen keyboard doesn’t hog your device’s screen. Rather than displaying a full keyboard on your screen, Minuum displays a single row of letters.  Each letter is small and may be difficult to hit, but that doesn’t matter — Minuum’s smart autocorrection algorithms interpret what you intended to type rather than typing the exact letters you press. Just swipe to the right to type a space and accept Minuum’s suggestion. At $4 for a beta version with no trial, Minuum may seem a bit pricy. But it’s a great example of the flexibility Android allows. If there’s a problem with this keyboard, it’s that it’s a bit late — in an age of 5″ smartphones with 1080p screens, full-size keyboards no longer feel as cramped. MessagEase MessagEase is another example of a new take on text input. Thankfully, this keyboard is available for free. MessagEase presents all letters in a nine-button grid. To type a common letter, you’d tap the button. To type an uncommon letter, you’d tap the button, hold down, and swipe in the appropriate direction. This gives you large buttons that can work well as touch targets, especially when typing with one hand. Like any other unique twist on a traditional keyboard, you’d have to give it a few minutes to get used to where the letters are and the new way it works. After giving it some practice, you may find this is a faster way to type on a touch-screen — especially with one hand, as the targets are so large. Google Play is full of replacement keyboards for Android phones and tablets. Keyboards are just another type of app that you can swap in. Leave a comment if you’ve found another great keyboard that you prefer using. Image Credit: Cheon Fong Liew on Flickr     

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• Dealing with "I-am-cool-and-you-are-dumb" manager [closed]

  - by Software Guy

  I have been working with a software company for about 6 months now. I like the projects I work on there and I really like all the people there except for 1 guy. That guy is technically smart, and he is a co-founder of the company. He is an okay guy in person (the kind you wouldn't want to care about much) but things get tricky when he is your manager. In general I am all okay but there are times when I feel I am not being treated fairly: He doesn't give much thought to when he makes mistakes and when I do something similar, he is super critical. Recently he went as far as to say "I am not sure if I can trust you with this feature". The detais of this specific case are this: I was working on this feature, and I was already a couple of hours over my normal working hours, and then I decided to stop and continue tomorrow. We use git, and I like to commit changes locally and only push when I feel they are ready. This manager insists that I push all the changes to the central repo (in case my hard drive crashes). So I push the change, and the ticket is marked as "to be tested". Next day I come in, he sits next to me and starts complaining and says that I posted above. I really didn't know what to say, I tried to explain to him that the ticket is still being worked upon but he didn't seem to listen. He interrupts me in-between when I am coding, which I do not mind, but when I do that same, his face turns like this :| and reacts as if his work was super important and I am just wasting his time. He asks me to accumulate all questions, and then ask him altogether which is not always possible, as you need a clarification before you can continue on a feature implementation. And when I am coding, he talks on the phone with his customers next to me (when he can go to the meeting room with his laptop) and doesn't care. He made me switch to a whole new IDE (from Netbeans to a commercial IDE costing a lot of money) for a really tiny feature (which I later found out was in Netbeans as well!). I didn't make a big deal out of it as I am equally comfortable working with this new IDE, but I couldn't get the science behind his obsession. He said this feature makes sure that if any method is updated by a programmer, the IDE will turn the method name to red in places where it is used. I told him that I do not have a problem since I always search for method usage in the project and make sure its updated. IDEs even have refactoring features for exactly that, but... I recently implemented a feature for a project, and I was happy about it and considering him a senior, I asked him his comments about the implementation quality.. he thought long and hard, made a few funny faces, and when he couldn't find anything, he said "ummm, your program will crash if JS is disabled" - he was wrong, since I had made sure it would work fine with default values even if JS was disabled. I told him that and then he said "oh okay". BUT, the funny thing is, a few days back, he implemented something and I objected with "But that would not run if JS is disabled" and his response was "We don't have to care about people who disable JS" :-/ Once he asked me to investigate if there was a way to modify a CMS generated menu programmatically by extending the CMS, I did my research and told him that the only was is to inject a menu item using JavaScript / jQuery and his reaction was "ah that's ugly, and hacky, not acceptable" and two days later, I see that feature implemented in the same way as I had suggested. The point is, his reaction was not respectful at all, even if what I proposed was hacky, he should be respectful, that I know what's hacky and if I am suggesting something hacky, there must be a reason for it. There are plenty of other reasons / examples where I feel I am not being treated fairly. I want your advice as to what is it that I am doing wrong and how to deal with such a situation. The other guys in the team are actually very good people, and I do not want to leave the job either (although I could, if I want to). All I want is respect and equal treatment. I have thought about talking to this guy in a face to face meeting, but that worries me that his attitude might get worse and make things more difficult for me (since he doesn't seem to be the guy who thinks he can be wrong too). I am also considering talking to the other co-founder but I am not sure how he will take it (as both founders have been friends forever). Thanks for reading the long message, I really appreciate your help.

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• Taking a Flying Leap

  - by Lance Shaw

  Yesterday, I went skydiving with three of my children.  It was thrilling, scary, invigorating and exciting. While there is obvious risk involved, the reward and feeling of success was well worth it. You might already be wondering what skydiving would have to with WebCenter, so let me explain. Implementing a skydiving program and becoming an instructor does not happen overnight.  It does not happen with the purchase of the needed technology. Not one of us would go out, buy a parachute, the harnesses, helmet and all the gear and be able to convince anyone that we are now ready to be a skydiving instructor. The fact is that obtaining the technology is merely a small piece of the overall process and so is the case with managing content in your company. You don't just buy the right software (Oracle WebCenter Content) and go to your boss and declare information management success. There is planning, research and effort that goes into deploying software of any kind and especially when it is as mission-critical to the success of your business as Enterprise Content Management. To become a certified skydiving instructor takes at least 3 years of commitment and often longer. In the United States, candidates must complete over 500 solo jumps of their own over a minimum of 36 months and then must complete additional rigorous training under observation.  When you consider the amount of time and effort involved, it's not unlike getting a college degree and anyone that has trusted their lives to one of these instructors will no doubt appreciate their dedication to the curriculum.  Implementing an ECM system won't take that long, but it certainly requires commitment, analysis and consideration. But guess what?  Humans are involved and that means that mistakes can happen and that rules change.  This struck me while reading an excellent post on darkreading.com by Glenn S. Phillips entitled "Mission Impossible: 4 Reasons Compliance is Impossible".  His over-arching point was that with information management and security, environments change and people are involved meaning the work is never done.  He stated that you can never claim your compliance efforts are complete because of the following reasons. People are involved.  And lets face it, some are more trustworthy than others. Change is Constant. There is always some new technology coming along that is disruptive. Consumer grade cloud file sharing and sync tools come to mind here. Compliance is interpreted, not defined.  Laws and the judges that read them are always on the move. Technology is a tool, not a complete solution. There is no magic pill. The skydiving analogy holds true here as well.  Ultimately, a single person packs your parachute.  For obvious reasons, you prefer that this person be trustworthy but there are no absolute guarantees of a 100% error-free scenario.  Weather and wind conditions are never a constant and the best-laid plans for a great day of skydiving are easily disrupted by forces outside of your control.  Rules and regulations vary by location and may be updated at any time and as I mentioned early on, even the best technology on its own will only get you started. The good news is that, like skydiving, with the right technology, the right planning, the right team and a proper understanding of the rules and regulations that govern your industry, your ECM deployment can be a great success.  Failure to plan for any of the 4 factors that Glenn outlined in his article will certainly put your deployment and maybe even your company at risk, so consider them carefully. As a final aside, for those of you who consider skydiving an incredibly dangerous and risky pastime, consider this comparative statistic.  In 2012, the U.S. Parachute Association recorded 19 fatal skydiving accidents in the U.S. out of roughly 3.1 million jumps.  That’s 0.006 fatalities per 1,000 jumps. By comparison, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that there were 34,080 deaths due to car accidents in 2012.  Based on the percentages, one could argue that it is safer to jump out of a plane than to drive to the airport where the skydiving will take place. While the way you manage, secure, classify, control, retain and dispose of company files may not carry as much risk as driving or skydiving, it certainly carries risk for the organization when not planned and deployed appropriately.  Consider all the factors involved in your organization as you make your content management plans.  For additional areas of consideration, be sure to download our free whitepaper on the topic entitled "The Top 10 Criteria for Choosing an ECM System" which is available for download here.

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• How do I dig myself out of this DEEP hole? [closed]

  - by user74847

  I may be a bit bias in the way i word this but any opinions and suggestions are welcome. I should start by saying i have a MSc in CS and a degree in new media +6 years expereince and im probably around a middleweight developer. I started a web development company with my friend from uni a year ago, there was a 4 month gap in the middle where i went miles away work on a big project. Ive since returned and picked up where we left off. A year on though i find im still staying up til 5am and getting up at 9 sometimes 2-3 days without sleep. While i was away i was working 9-5 and struggling to keep up with doing stuff for my clients 8 hours ahead, after work, so things stagnated. We currently have about 12 active projects, with one other part time developer and a full time freelancer who is dealing with one of our major projects. I am solely responsible for concurrently developing 2 big sites similar to gumtree in functionality, at the same time as about 5-6+ small WordPress based 5-10page sites. a lot of the content isnt in yet or the client is delaying so i chop and change project every other day which does my head in. Is it reasonable to expect myself to remember the intricate details of each project when i come back to it a week later? and remember the details of a task which hasnt been written down? my business partner seems to think so. or am i just forgetful? Im particularly bad at estimating timescales which doesnt help, added to that a lot of the technologies im am using are new to me (a magento site took weeks to theme rather than days and was full of bugs, even after 1000's of google searches and hours reading forums) im still trying to learn and find the best CMS for us to use and getting my head around the likes of Bootstrap and jquery, Cpanel / Linux (we just got a blank vps for me to set up with no experience) even installing an SSL certificate caused everyone's mail clients to go down which was more stress for me to sort out. I find the pressure of the workload and timescales and trying to learn this stuff so fast is beginning to turn me against my career path. The fact that i never seem to get anything done really winds up my business partner and iv come to associate him with the stress and pain of the whole situation especially when I get berated or a look that says "oh you retard" when I forget something. Even today i spent hours learning how a particular themeforest theme worked with wordpress and how i could twist it to work for our partiuclar needs, on the surface had done no work, that triggered a 30 minute tirade of anger and stress and questioning what i had done from my business partner. had i taken too long to work on that? shoudl i have done it in 2 hours instead of 6? i told him i would take 2 hours. i was wrong. I feel like im running myself into the ground. My sleeping pattern has got so bad that when im working im half asleep and making mistakes, my eyes are constantly purple underneath, i literally fall asleep at my desk, its affecting my social life too, ive not slept more than lightly for the last year and grind through impossible code puzzles in my half sleep wich keeps me awake, when im already exhausted. plus the work is rushed and buggy when it does get done so drags on into the next project. I also procrastinate quite badly, pacing the livingroom, looking out the window when Im alone for three days straight in the flat and start to get cabin fever which means i do even less work and the negative feedback loop continues. I get told im the only one with the problem when i say that i cant work from home any more, and examples of other freelancers get brought up. an office wouldnt bring any extra cash in to the company but im convinced having that moving more than 2 meters away from my bed to go to "work" would get me working, at the moment i feel guilty like i should be working 24-7. It is important that we do all this work to raise enough cash to get our business to the next level but every month still feels like a struggle to pay the rent (there is about £20K coming in by Jan) and i have to borrow money from friends often to buy food or get a taxi to a meeting, so it is vital the money keeps coming in. (im also 20 mins late for nearly all meetings but thats a different issue) have you experienced anything similar? how can i deal with the issues ive raised? is it realistic to develop 10 sites at once? how can i improve my relationship with my business partner? do you struggle to work at home? how do you deal with that? i think if i dont get my life on track by feb i will seriously consider giving it all up, but that seems like such a waste. any ideas!!? i need help! Thanks.

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• C++ strongly typed typedef

  - by Kian

  I've been trying to think of a way of declaring strongly typed typedefs, to catch a certain class of bugs in the compilation stage. It's often the case that I'll typedef an int into several types of ids, or a vector to position or velocity: typedef int EntityID; typedef int ModelID; typedef Vector3 Position; typedef Vector3 Velocity; This can make the intent of code more clear, but after a long night of coding one might make silly mistakes like comparing different kinds of ids, or adding a position to a velocity perhaps. EntityID eID; ModelID mID; if ( eID == mID ) // <- Compiler sees nothing wrong { /*bug*/ } Position p; Velocity v; Position newP = p + v; // bug, meant p + v*s but compiler sees nothing wrong Unfortunately, suggestions I've found for strongly typed typedefs include using boost, which at least for me isn't a possibility (I do have c++11 at least). So after a bit of thinking, I came upon this idea, and wanted to run it by someone. First, you declare the base type as a template. The template parameter isn't used for anything in the definition, however: template < typename T > class IDType { unsigned int m_id; public: IDType( unsigned int const& i_id ): m_id {i_id} {}; friend bool operator==<T>( IDType<T> const& i_lhs, IDType<T> const& i_rhs ); }; Friend functions actually need to be forward declared before the class definition, which requires a forward declaration of the template class. We then define all the members for the base type, just remembering that it's a template class. Finally, when we want to use it, we typedef it as: class EntityT; typedef IDType<EntityT> EntityID; class ModelT; typedef IDType<ModelT> ModelID; The types are now entirely separate. Functions that take an EntityID will throw a compiler error if you try to feed them a ModelID instead, for example. Aside from having to declare the base types as templates, with the issues that entails, it's also fairly compact. I was hoping anyone had comments or critiques about this idea? One issue that came to mind while writing this, in the case of positions and velocities for example, would be that I can't convert between types as freely as before. Where before multiplying a vector by a scalar would give another vector, so I could do: typedef float Time; typedef Vector3 Position; typedef Vector3 Velocity; Time t = 1.0f; Position p = { 0.0f }; Velocity v = { 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f }; Position newP = p + v*t; With my strongly typed typedef I'd have to tell the compiler that multypling a Velocity by a Time results in a Position. class TimeT; typedef Float<TimeT> Time; class PositionT; typedef Vector3<PositionT> Position; class VelocityT; typedef Vector3<VelocityT> Velocity; Time t = 1.0f; Position p = { 0.0f }; Velocity v = { 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f }; Position newP = p + v*t; // Compiler error To solve this, I think I'd have to specialize every conversion explicitly, which can be kind of a bother. On the other hand, this limitation can help prevent other kinds of errors (say, multiplying a Velocity by a Distance, perhaps, which wouldn't make sense in this domain). So I'm torn, and wondering if people have any opinions on my original issue, or my approach to solving it.

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• Django Deploy trouble

  - by i-Malignus

  Well, i've walking around this for a couples of days now... I think is time to ask for some help, i think my installation is ok... Server OS: Centos 5 Python -v 2.6.5 Django -v (1, 1, 1, 'final', 0) my apache conf: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/workshop ServerName taller.antell.com.py WSGIScriptAlias / /opt/workshop/workshop.wsgi WSGIDaemonProcess taller.antell.com.py user=ignacio group=ignacio processes=2 threads=25 ErrorLog /opt/workshop/apache.error.log CustomLog /opt/workshop/apache.custom.log combined <Directory "/opt/workshop"> Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks -Indexes -MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> my mod_wsgi conf: import os import sys sys.path.append('/opt/workshop') os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'workshop.settings' os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/tmp/.python-eggs' import django.core.handlers.wsgi application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler( ) the error that i'm getting on my apache error log is: [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] mod_wsgi (pid=11459): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/opt/workshop/workshop.wsgi'. [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] Traceback (most recent call last): [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 241, in __call__ [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] response = self.get_response(request) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 134, in get_response [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver, exc_info) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 154, in handle_uncaught_exception [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return debug.technical_500_response(request, *exc_info) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/views/debug.py", line 40, in technical_500_response [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] html = reporter.get_traceback_html() [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/views/debug.py", line 114, in get_traceback_html [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return t.render(c) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", line 178, in render [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return self.nodelist.render(context) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", line 779, in render [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] bits.append(self.render_node(node, context)) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/template/debug.py", line 81, in render_node [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] raise wrapped [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] TemplateSyntaxError: Caught an exception while rendering: No module named vehicles [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] Original Traceback (most recent call last): [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/template/debug.py", line 71, in render_node [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] result = node.render(context) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/template/debug.py", line 87, in render [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] output = force_unicode(self.filter_expression.resolve(context)) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", line 572, in resolve [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] new_obj = func(obj, *arg_vals) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/template/defaultfilters.py", line 687, in date [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return format(value, arg) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/dateformat.py", line 269, in format [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return df.format(format_string) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/dateformat.py", line 30, in format [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] pieces.append(force_unicode(getattr(self, piece)())) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/dateformat.py", line 175, in r [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return self.format('D, j M Y H:i:s O') [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/dateformat.py", line 30, in format [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] pieces.append(force_unicode(getattr(self, piece)())) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py", line 71, in force_unicode [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] s = unicode(s) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 201, in __unicode_cast [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return self.__func(*self.__args, **self.__kw) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/translation/__init__.py", line 62, in ugettext [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return real_ugettext(message) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 286, in ugettext [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return do_translate(message, 'ugettext') [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 276, in do_translate [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] _default = translation(settings.LANGUAGE_CODE) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 194, in translation [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] default_translation = _fetch(settings.LANGUAGE_CODE) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 180, in _fetch [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] app = import_module(appname) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] __import__(name) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] ImportError: No module named vehicles [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] mod_wsgi (pid=11463): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/opt/workshop/workshop.wsgi'. [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] Traceback (most recent call last): [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 241, in __call__ [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] response = self.get_response(request) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 73, in get_response [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] response = middleware_method(request) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/middleware/common.py", line 56, in process_request [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] if (not _is_valid_path(request.path_info) and [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/middleware/common.py", line 142, in _is_valid_path [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] urlresolvers.resolve(path) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 303, in resolve [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] return get_resolver(urlconf).resolve(path) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 218, in resolve [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] sub_match = pattern.resolve(new_path) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 216, in resolve [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] for pattern in self.url_patterns: [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 245, in _get_url_patterns [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 240, in _get_urlconf_module [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] self._urlconf_module = import_module(self.urlconf_name) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] File "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] __import__(name) [Wed Apr 21 15:17:48 2010] [error] [client 190.128.226.122] ImportError: No module named vehicles.urls Please give my a hand, i stuck... Obviously is a problem with my vehicle module (the only one in the app), another thing is that when i try: [root@localhost workshop]# python manage.py runserver 0:8000 The app runs perfectly, i think that the problem is something near the wsgi conf, something is not clicking.... Tks... Update: workshop dir looks like... [root@localhost workshop]# ls -l total 504 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22706 Apr 21 15:17 apache.custom.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 408141 Apr 21 15:17 apache.error.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 10:56 __init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124 Apr 21 11:09 __init__.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 542 Apr 17 10:56 manage.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3326 Apr 17 10:56 settings.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2522 Apr 21 11:09 settings.pyc drw-r--r-- 4 root root 4096 Apr 17 10:56 templates -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 381 Apr 21 13:42 urls.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 398 Apr 21 13:00 urls.pyc drw-r--r-- 2 root root 4096 Apr 21 13:44 vehicles -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38912 Apr 17 10:56 workshop.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 263 Apr 21 15:30 workshop.wsgi vehicles dir [root@localhost vehicles]# ls -l total 52 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 390 Apr 17 10:56 admin.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 967 Apr 21 13:00 admin.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 732 Apr 17 10:56 forms.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2086 Apr 21 13:00 forms.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 10:56 __init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133 Apr 21 11:36 __init__.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 936 Apr 17 10:56 models.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1827 Apr 21 11:36 models.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 514 Apr 17 10:56 tests.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 989 Apr 21 13:44 tests.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1035 Apr 17 10:56 urls.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1935 Apr 21 13:00 urls.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3164 Apr 17 10:56 views.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4081 Apr 21 13:00 views.pyc Update 2: this is my settings.py # Django settings for workshop project. DEBUG = True TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG ADMINS = ( ('Ignacio Rojas', '[email protected]'), ('Fabian Biedermann', '[email protected]'), ) MANAGERS = ADMINS DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3' DATABASE_NAME = '/opt/workshop/workshop.db' DATABASE_USER = '' DATABASE_PASSWORD = '' DATABASE_HOST = '' DATABASE_PORT = '' # Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here: # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name # although not all choices may be available on all operating systems. # If running in a Windows environment this must be set to the same as your # system time zone. TIME_ZONE = 'America/Asuncion' # Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here: # http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html LANGUAGE_CODE = 'es-py' SITE_ID = 1 # If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not # to load the internationalization machinery. USE_I18N = True # Absolute path to the directory that holds media. # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/" MEDIA_ROOT = '' # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a # trailing slash if there is a path component (optional in other cases). # Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com", "http://example.com/media/" MEDIA_URL = '' # URL prefix for admin media -- CSS, JavaScript and images. Make sure to use a # trailing slash. # Examples: "http://foo.com/media/", "/media/". ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/' # Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody. SECRET_KEY = '11y0_jb=+b4^nq@2-fo#g$-ihk5*v&d5-8hg_y0i@*9$w8jalp' MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', ) ROOT_URLCONF = 'workshop.urls' TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates". # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows. # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths. "/opt/workshop/templates" ) INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'workshop.vehicles', ) TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ( 'django.core.context_processors.auth', 'django.core.context_processors.debug', 'django.core.context_processors.i18n', 'django.core.context_processors.media', )

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• Clustering on WebLogic exception on Failover

  - by Markos Fragkakis

  Hi all, I deploy an application on a WebLogic 10.3.2 cluster with two nodes, and a load balancer in front of the cluster. I have set the <core:init distributable="true" debug="true" /> My Session and Conversation classes implement Serializable. I start using the application being served by the first node. The console shows that the session replication is working. <Jun 17, 2010 11:43:50 AM EEST> <Info> <Cluster> <BEA-000128> <Updating 5903057688359791237S:xxx.yyy.gr:[7002,7002,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1]:xxx.yyy.gr:7002,xxx.yyy.gr:7002:prs_domain:PRS_Server_2 in the cluster.> <Jun 17, 2010 11:43:50 AM EEST> <Info> <Cluster> <BEA-000128> <Updating 5903057688359791237S:xxx.yyy.gr:[7002,7002,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1]:xxx.yyy.gr:7002,xxx.yyy.gr:7002:prs_domain:PRS_Server_2 in the cluster.> When I shutdown the first node from the Administration console, I get this in the other node: <Jun 17, 2010 11:23:46 AM EEST> <Error> <Kernel> <BEA-000802> <ExecuteRequest failed java.lang.NullPointerException. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.seam.intercept.JavaBeanInterceptor.callPostActivate(JavaBeanInterceptor.java:165) at org.jboss.seam.intercept.JavaBeanInterceptor.invoke(JavaBeanInterceptor.java:73) at com.myproj.beans.SortingFilteringBean_$$_javassist_seam_2.sessionDidActivate(SortingFilteringBean_$$_javassist_seam_2.java) at weblogic.servlet.internal.session.SessionData.notifyActivated(SessionData.java:2258) at weblogic.servlet.internal.session.SessionData.notifyActivated(SessionData.java:2222) at weblogic.servlet.internal.session.ReplicatedSessionData.becomePrimary(ReplicatedSessionData.java:231) at weblogic.cluster.replication.WrappedRO.changeStatus(WrappedRO.java:142) at weblogic.cluster.replication.WrappedRO.ensureStatus(WrappedRO.java:129) at weblogic.cluster.replication.LocalSecondarySelector$ChangeSecondaryInfo.run(LocalSecondarySelector.java:542) at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:516) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:201) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:173) > What am I doing wrong? This is the SortingFilteringBean: import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.LinkedHashMap; import org.jboss.seam.ScopeType; import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name; import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Scope; import com.myproj.model.crud.Filtering; import com.myproj.model.crud.Sorting; import com.myproj.model.crud.SortingOrder; /** * Managed bean aggregating the sorting and filtering values for all the * application's lists. A light-weight bean to always keep in the session with * minimum impact. */ @Name("sortingFilteringBean") @Scope(ScopeType.SESSION) public class SortingFilteringBean extends BaseManagedBean { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; private Sorting applicantProductListSorting; private Filtering applicantProductListFiltering; private Sorting homePageSorting; private Filtering homePageFiltering; /** * Creates a new instance of SortingFilteringBean. */ public SortingFilteringBean() { // ********************** // Applicant Product List // ********************** // Sorting LinkedHashMap<String, SortingOrder> applicantProductListSortingValues = new LinkedHashMap<String, SortingOrder>(); applicantProductListSortingValues.put("applicantName", SortingOrder.ASCENDING); applicantProductListSortingValues.put("applicantEmail", SortingOrder.ASCENDING); applicantProductListSortingValues.put("productName", SortingOrder.ASCENDING); applicantProductListSortingValues.put("productEmail", SortingOrder.ASCENDING); applicantProductListSorting = new Sorting( applicantProductListSortingValues); // Filtering HashMap<String, String> applicantProductListFilteringValues = new HashMap<String, String>(); applicantProductListFilteringValues.put("applicantName", ""); applicantProductListFilteringValues.put("applicantEmail", ""); applicantProductListFilteringValues.put("productName", ""); applicantProductListFilteringValues.put("productEmail", ""); applicantProductListFiltering = new Filtering( applicantProductListFilteringValues); // ********* // Home page // ********* // Sorting LinkedHashMap<String, SortingOrder> homePageSortingValues = new LinkedHashMap<String, SortingOrder>(); homePageSortingValues.put("productName", SortingOrder.ASCENDING); homePageSortingValues.put("productId", SortingOrder.ASCENDING); homePageSortingValues.put("productAtcCode", SortingOrder.UNSORTED); homePageSortingValues.put("productEmaNumber", SortingOrder.UNSORTED); homePageSortingValues.put("productOrphan", SortingOrder.UNSORTED); homePageSortingValues.put("productRap", SortingOrder.UNSORTED); homePageSortingValues.put("productCorap", SortingOrder.UNSORTED); homePageSortingValues.put("applicationTypeDescription", SortingOrder.ASCENDING); homePageSortingValues.put("applicationId", SortingOrder.ASCENDING); homePageSortingValues .put("applicationEmaNumber", SortingOrder.UNSORTED); homePageSortingValues .put("piVersionImportDate", SortingOrder.ASCENDING); homePageSortingValues.put("piVersionId", SortingOrder.ASCENDING); homePageSorting = new Sorting(homePageSortingValues); // Filtering HashMap<String, String> homePageFilteringValues = new HashMap<String, String>(); homePageFilteringValues.put("productName", ""); homePageFilteringValues.put("productAtcCode", ""); homePageFilteringValues.put("productEmaNumber", ""); homePageFilteringValues.put("applicationTypeId", ""); homePageFilteringValues.put("applicationEmaNumber", ""); homePageFilteringValues.put("piVersionImportDate", ""); homePageFiltering = new Filtering(homePageFilteringValues); } /** * @return the applicantProductListFiltering */ public Filtering getApplicantProductListFiltering() { return applicantProductListFiltering; } /** * @param applicantProductListFiltering * the applicantProductListFiltering to set */ public void setApplicantProductListFiltering( Filtering applicantProductListFiltering) { this.applicantProductListFiltering = applicantProductListFiltering; } /** * @return the applicantProductListSorting */ public Sorting getApplicantProductListSorting() { return applicantProductListSorting; } /** * @param applicantProductListSorting * the applicantProductListSorting to set */ public void setApplicantProductListSorting( Sorting applicantProductListSorting) { this.applicantProductListSorting = applicantProductListSorting; } /** * @return the homePageSorting */ public Sorting getHomePageSorting() { return homePageSorting; } /** * @param homePageSorting * the homePageSorting to set */ public void setHomePageSorting(Sorting homePageSorting) { this.homePageSorting = homePageSorting; } /** * @return the homePageFiltering */ public Filtering getHomePageFiltering() { return homePageFiltering; } /** * @param homePageFiltering * the homePageFiltering to set */ public void setHomePageFiltering(Filtering homePageFiltering) { this.homePageFiltering = homePageFiltering; } /** * For convenience to view in the Seam Debug page. * * @see java.lang.Object#toString() */ @Override public String toString() { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(""); sb.append("\n\n"); sb.append("applicantProductListSorting"); sb.append(applicantProductListSorting); sb.append("\n\n"); sb.append("applicantProductListFiltering"); sb.append(applicantProductListFiltering); sb.append("\n\n"); sb.append("homePageSorting"); sb.append(homePageSorting); sb.append("\n\n"); sb.append("homePageFiltering"); sb.append(homePageFiltering); return sb.toString(); } } And this is the BaseManagedBean, inheriting the AbstractMutable. import java.io.IOException; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.util.List; import javax.faces.application.FacesMessage; import javax.faces.application.FacesMessage.Severity; import javax.faces.context.FacesContext; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils; import org.jboss.seam.core.AbstractMutable; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; import com.myproj.common.exceptions.WebException; import com.myproj.common.util.FileUtils; import com.myproj.common.util.StringUtils; import com.myproj.web.messages.Messages; public abstract class BaseManagedBean extends AbstractMutable { private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory .getLogger(BaseManagedBean.class); private FacesContext facesContext; /** * Set a message to be displayed for a specific component. * * @param resourceBundle * the resource bundle where the message appears. Either base or * id may be used. * @param summaryResourceId * the id of the resource to be used as summary. For the detail * of the element, the element to be used will be the same with * the suffix {@code _detail}. * @param parameters * the parameters, in case the string is parameterizable * @param severity * the severity of the message * @param componentId * the component id for which the message is destined. Note that * an appropriate JSF {@code <h:message for="myComponentId">} tag * is required for the to appear, or alternatively a {@code * <h:messages>} tag. */ protected void setMessage(String resourceBundle, String summaryResourceId, List<Object> parameters, Severity severity, String componentId, Messages messages) { FacesContext context = getFacesContext(); FacesMessage message = messages.getMessage(resourceBundle, summaryResourceId, parameters); if (severity != null) { message.setSeverity(severity); } context.addMessage(componentId, message); } /** * Copies a byte array to the response output stream with the appropriate * MIME type and content disposition. The response output stream is closed * after this method. * * @param response * the HTTP response * @param bytes * the data * @param filename * the suggested file name for the client * @param mimeType * the MIME type; will be overridden if the filename suggests a * different MIME type * @throws IllegalArgumentException * if the data array is <code>null</code>/empty or both filename * and mimeType are <code>null</code>/empty */ protected void printBytesToResponse(HttpServletResponse response, byte[] bytes, String filename, String mimeType) throws WebException, IllegalArgumentException { if (response.isCommitted()) { throw new WebException("HTTP response is already committed"); } if (ArrayUtils.isEmpty(bytes)) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Data buffer is empty"); } if (StringUtils.isEmpty(filename) && StringUtils.isEmpty(mimeType)) { throw new IllegalArgumentException( "Filename and MIME type are both null/empty"); } // Set content type (mime type) String calculatedMimeType = FileUtils.getMimeType(filename); // not among the known ones String newMimeType = mimeType; if (calculatedMimeType == null) { // given mime type passed if (mimeType == null) { // none available put default mime-type newMimeType = "application/download"; } else { if ("application/octet-stream".equals(mimeType)) { // small modification newMimeType = "application/download"; } } } else { // calculated mime type has precedence over given mime type newMimeType = calculatedMimeType; } response.setContentType(newMimeType); // Set content disposition and other headers String contentDisposition = "attachment;filename=\"" + filename + "\""; response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", contentDisposition); response.setHeader("Expires", "0"); response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "max-age=30"); response.setHeader("Pragma", "public"); // Set content length response.setContentLength(bytes.length); // Write bytes to response OutputStream out = null; try { out = response.getOutputStream(); out.write(bytes); } catch (IOException e) { throw new WebException("Error writing data to HTTP response", e); } finally { try { out.close(); } catch (Exception e) { logger.error("Error closing HTTP stream", e); } } } /** * Retrieve a session-scoped managed bean. * * @param sessionBeanName * the session-scoped managed bean name * @return the session-scoped managed bean */ protected Object getSessionBean(String sessionBeanName) { Object sessionScopedBean = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance() .getExternalContext().getSessionMap().get(sessionBeanName); if (sessionScopedBean == null) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("No such object in Session"); } else { return sessionScopedBean; } } /** * Set a session-scoped managed bean * * @param sessionBeanName * the session-scoped managed bean name * @return the session-scoped managed bean */ protected boolean setSessionBean(String sessionBeanName, Object sessionBean) { Object sessionScopedBean = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance() .getExternalContext().getSessionMap().get(sessionBeanName); if (sessionScopedBean == null) { FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext() .getSessionMap().put(sessionBeanName, sessionBean); } else { throw new IllegalArgumentException( "This session-scoped bean was already initialized"); } return true; } /** * For testing (enables mock of FacesContext) * * @return the faces context */ public FacesContext getFacesContext() { if (facesContext == null) { return FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(); } return facesContext; } /** * For testing (enables mocking of FacesContext). * * @param aFacesContext * a - possibly mock - faces context. */ public void setFacesContext(FacesContext aFacesContext) { this.facesContext = aFacesContext; } }

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• My sample app is getting crash while registering to Filechangeinfo notification

  - by Solitaire

  public partial class Form1 : Form { [DllImport("coredll.dll")] static extern int SetWindowLong(IntPtr hWnd, int nIndex, IntPtr dwNewLong); [DllImport("coredll.dll")] static extern IntPtr CallWindowProc(IntPtr lpPrevWndFunc, IntPtr hWnd, int Msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam); [DllImport("coredll.dll")] public static extern IntPtr GetWindowLong(IntPtr hWnd, int nIndex); //public struct tagSHCHANGENOTIFYENTRY //{ // [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.SysUInt)] // public ulong dwEventMask; // [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = 4096)] // public string WatchDir; // [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)] // public bool fRecursive; //} //tagSHCHANGENOTIFYENTRY test; //[DllImport("aygshell.dll")] //static extern bool SHChangeNotifyRegister(IntPtr hwnd, ref tagSHCHANGENOTIFYENTRY test); const int GWL_WNDPROC = -4; public delegate int WindProc(IntPtr hWnd, int msg, IntPtr Wparam, IntPtr lparam); static private WindProc SampleProc; IntPtr OldDefProc = IntPtr.Zero; public enum SHCNE : uint { SHCNE_RENAMEITEM = 0x00000001, SHCNE_CREATE = 0x00000002, SHCNE_DELETE = 0x00000004, SHCNE_MKDIR = 0x00000008, SHCNE_RMDIR = 0x00000010, SHCNE_MEDIAINSERTED = 0x00000020, SHCNE_MEDIAREMOVED = 0x00000040, SHCNE_DRIVEREMOVED = 0x00000080, SHCNE_DRIVEADD = 0x00000100, SHCNE_NETSHARE = 0x00000200, SHCNE_NETUNSHARE = 0x00000400, SHCNE_ATTRIBUTES = 0x00000800, SHCNE_UPDATEDIR = 0x00001000, SHCNE_UPDATEITEM = 0x00002000, SHCNE_SERVERDISCONNECT = 0x00004000, SHCNE_UPDATEIMAGE = 0x00008000, SHCNE_DRIVEADDGUI = 0x00010000, SHCNE_RENAMEFOLDER = 0x00020000, SHCNE_FREESPACE = 0x00040000, SHCNE_EXTENDED_EVENT = 0x04000000, SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED = 0x08000000, SHCNE_DISKEVENTS = 0x0002381F, SHCNE_GLOBALEVENTS = 0x0C0581E0, SHCNE_ALLEVENTS = 0x7FFFFFFF, SHCNE_INTERRUPT = 0x80000000, } public enum SHCNF { SHCNF_IDLIST = 0x0000, SHCNF_PATHA = 0x0001, SHCNF_PRINTERA = 0x0002, SHCNF_DWORD = 0x0003, SHCNF_PATHW = 0x0005, SHCNF_PRINTERW = 0x0006, SHCNF_TYPE = 0x00FF, SHCNF_FLUSH = 0x1000, SHCNF_FLUSHNOWAIT = 0x2000 } public const uint WM_SHNOTIFY = 0x0401; private const int WM_FILECHANGEINFO = (0x8000 + 0x101); public struct SHChangeNotifyEntry { public IntPtr pIdl; [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)] public Boolean Recursively; } [DllImport("coredll.dll", EntryPoint = "#2", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] private static extern uint SHChangeNotifyRegister( IntPtr hWnd, SHCNF fSources, SHCNE fEvents, uint wMsg, int cEntries, ref SHChangeNotifyEntry pFsne); [DllImport("Ceshell.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] private static extern uint SHGetSpecialFolderLocation( IntPtr hWnd, CSIDL nFolder, out IntPtr Pidl); public enum CSIDL { /// <summary> /// Desktop /// </summary> CSIDL_DESKTOP = 0x0000, /// <summary> /// Internet Explorer (icon on desktop) /// </summary> CSIDL_INTERNET = 0x0001, /// <summary> /// Start Menu\Programs /// </summary> CSIDL_PROGRAMS = 0x0002, /// <summary> /// My Computer\Control Panel /// </summary> CSIDL_CONTROLS = 0x0003, /// <summary> /// My Computer\Printers /// </summary> CSIDL_PRINTERS = 0x0004, /// <summary> /// My Documents /// </summary> CSIDL_PERSONAL = 0x0005, /// <summary> /// user name\Favorites /// </summary> CSIDL_FAVORITES = 0x0006, /// <summary> /// Start Menu\Programs\Startup /// </summary> CSIDL_STARTUP = 0x0007, /// <summary> /// user name\Recent /// </summary> CSIDL_RECENT = 0x0008, /// <summary> /// user name\SendTo /// </summary> CSIDL_SENDTO = 0x0009, /// <summary> /// desktop\Recycle Bin /// </summary> CSIDL_BITBUCKET = 0x000a, /// <summary> /// user name\Start Menu /// </summary> CSIDL_STARTMENU = 0x000b, /// <summary> /// logical "My Documents" desktop icon /// </summary> CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS = 0x000c, /// <summary> /// "My Music" folder /// </summary> CSIDL_MYMUSIC = 0x000d, /// <summary> /// "My Videos" folder /// </summary> CSIDL_MYVIDEO = 0x000e, /// <summary> /// user name\Desktop /// </summary> CSIDL_DESKTOPDIRECTORY = 0x0010, /// <summary> /// My Computer /// </summary> CSIDL_DRIVES = 0x0011, /// <summary> /// Network Neighborhood (My Network Places) /// </summary> CSIDL_NETWORK = 0x0012, /// <summary> /// user name>nethood /// </summary> CSIDL_NETHOOD = 0x0013, /// <summary> /// windows\fonts /// </summary> CSIDL_FONTS = 0x0014, CSIDL_TEMPLATES = 0x0015, /// <summary> /// All Users\Start Menu /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_STARTMENU = 0x0016, /// <summary> /// All Users\Start Menu\Programs /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS = 0X0017, /// <summary> /// All Users\Startup /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_STARTUP = 0x0018, /// <summary> /// All Users\Desktop /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY = 0x0019, /// <summary> /// user name\Application Data /// </summary> CSIDL_APPDATA = 0x001a, /// <summary> /// user name\PrintHood /// </summary> CSIDL_PRINTHOOD = 0x001b, /// <summary> /// user name\Local Settings\Applicaiton Data (non roaming) /// </summary> CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA = 0x001c, /// <summary> /// non localized startup /// </summary> CSIDL_ALTSTARTUP = 0x001d, /// <summary> /// non localized common startup /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_ALTSTARTUP = 0x001e, CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES = 0x001f, CSIDL_INTERNET_CACHE = 0x0020, CSIDL_COOKIES = 0x0021, CSIDL_HISTORY = 0x0022, /// <summary> /// All Users\Application Data /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA = 0x0023, /// <summary> /// GetWindowsDirectory() /// </summary> CSIDL_WINDOWS = 0x0024, /// <summary> /// GetSystemDirectory() /// </summary> CSIDL_SYSTEM = 0x0025, /// <summary> /// C:\Program Files /// </summary> CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES = 0x0026, /// <summary> /// C:\Program Files\My Pictures /// </summary> CSIDL_MYPICTURES = 0x0027, /// <summary> /// USERPROFILE /// </summary> CSIDL_PROFILE = 0x0028, /// <summary> /// x86 system directory on RISC /// </summary> CSIDL_SYSTEMX86 = 0x0029, /// <summary> /// x86 C:\Program Files on RISC /// </summary> CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILESX86 = 0x002a, /// <summary> /// C:\Program Files\Common /// </summary> CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES_COMMON = 0x002b, /// <summary> /// x86 Program Files\Common on RISC /// </summary> CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES_COMMONX86 = 0x002c, /// <summary> /// All Users\Templates /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_TEMPLATES = 0x002d, /// <summary> /// All Users\Documents /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS = 0x002e, /// <summary> /// All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_ADMINTOOLS = 0x002f, /// <summary> /// user name\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools /// </summary> CSIDL_ADMINTOOLS = 0x0030, /// <summary> /// Network and Dial-up Connections /// </summary> CSIDL_CONNECTIONS = 0x0031, /// <summary> /// All Users\My Music /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_MUSIC = 0x0035, /// <summary> /// All Users\My Pictures /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_PICTURES = 0x0036, /// <summary> /// All Users\My Video /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_VIDEO = 0x0037, /// <summary> /// Resource Direcotry /// </summary> CSIDL_RESOURCES = 0x0038, /// <summary> /// Localized Resource Direcotry /// </summary> CSIDL_RESOURCES_LOCALIZED = 0x0039, /// <summary> /// Links to All Users OEM specific apps /// </summary> CSIDL_COMMON_OEM_LINKS = 0x003a, /// <summary> /// USERPROFILE\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning /// </summary> CSIDL_CDBURN_AREA = 0x003b, /// <summary> /// Computers Near Me (computered from Workgroup membership) /// </summary> CSIDL_COMPUTERSNEARME = 0x003d, /// <summary> /// combine with CSIDL_ value to force folder creation in SHGetFolderPath() /// </summary> CSIDL_FLAG_CREATE = 0x8000, /// <summary> /// combine with CSIDL_ value to return an unverified folder path /// </summary> CSIDL_FLAG_DONT_VERIFY = 0x4000, /// <summary> /// combine with CSIDL_ value to insure non-alias versions of the pidl /// </summary> CSIDL_FLAG_NO_ALIAS = 0x1000, /// <summary> /// combine with CSIDL_ value to indicate per-user init (eg. upgrade) /// </summary> CSIDL_FLAG_PER_USER_INIT = 0x0800, /// <summary> /// mask for all possible /// </summary> CSIDL_FLAG_MASK = 0xFF00, } public enum SHGetFolderLocationReturnValues : uint { /// <summary> /// Success /// </summary> S_OK = 0x00000000, /// <summary> /// The CSIDL in nFolder is valid but the folder does not exist /// </summary> S_FALSE = 0x00000001, /// <summary> /// The CSIDL in nFolder is not valid /// </summary> E_INVALIDARG = 0x80070057 } public static IntPtr GetPidlFromFolderID(IntPtr hWnd, CSIDL Id) { IntPtr pIdl = IntPtr.Zero; SHGetFolderLocationReturnValues res = (SHGetFolderLocationReturnValues) SHGetSpecialFolderLocation( hWnd, Id, out pIdl); return (pIdl); } public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); SampleProc = new WindProc (SubclassWndProc); OldDefProc = GetWindowLong(this.Handle, GWL_WNDPROC); SetWindowLong(this.Handle, GWL_WNDPROC, Marshal.GetFunctionPointerForDelegate(SampleProc)/*SampleProc.Method.MethodHandle.Value.ToInt32()*/); //tagSHCHANGENOTIFYENTRY changeentry = new tagSHCHANGENOTIFYENTRY(); //changeentry.dwEventMask = (ulong)SHCNE.SHCNE_ALLEVENTS; //changeentry.fRecursive = true; //changeentry.WatchDir = null; //SHChangeNotifyRegister(this.Handle, ref changeentry); SHChangeNotifyEntry changeentry = new SHChangeNotifyEntry(); changeentry.pIdl = GetPidlFromFolderID(this.Handle, CSIDL.CSIDL_DESKTOP); changeentry.Recursively = true; try { uint notifyid = SHChangeNotifyRegister( this.Handle, SHCNF.SHCNF_TYPE | SHCNF.SHCNF_IDLIST, SHCNE.SHCNE_ALLEVENTS, WM_FILECHANGEINFO, 1, ref changeentry); } catch (Exception ee) { } i am failing in SHChangeNotifyRegister please help me.. tell me the reason why i am crashing..same code work fine for desktop.. please help Thanks.

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• fatal: git-http-push-failed (return code 22)

  - by Mariusz

  Hello, that's me again. After having problem with estabilishing connection to github.com now I have a problem with next step - pushing. I need to mention, that I am novice at GIT service, and this whole Distributed Subversion Checking Systems world.. I have done git init, then git add *.h and git add *.cpp, but currently git status does not print anything in "# On branch master" section? Previously It was correctly printing whole list of added files, now this list is gone. Nextly, I have executed: git remote add origin https://github.com/mgeeky/disasm.git and error has occured after: git push origin master Username: Password: error: Cannot access URL https://github.com/mgeeky/disasm.git/, return code 22 fatal: git-http-push failed What should I do now? I've tried: git push origin Username: Password: No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing. Perhaps you should specify a branch such as 'master'. Everything up-to-date But it seems to be okey.

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• Excel error "This workbook contains Excel 4.0 macros or Excel 5.0 modules"

  - by James

  I have a workbook that was protected via the Protect Workbook feature. It was sent to someone else to modify. When they sent it back, it was unprotected and when I try to reprotect it I get this error, "This workbook contains Excel 4.0 macros or Excel 5.0 modules. If you would like to password protect or restrict permission to this document, you need to remove these macros." I looked and there are no new macros in the edited file. The original file contained the same macros and it was able to be write protected, so I'm not sure why the modified file is having a problem. What are common causes and solutions for this error and does it make sense for the modified file to have the error when the original doesn't?

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• "Error encountered while BER decoding" in Adobe Acrobat Pro X when applying timestamp

  - by djechelon

  I have a tedious problem with Acrobat Pro X 10.1.3.23: when I want to apply a timestamp to a document I always get that error. I have configured VeriSign TSA server http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll and it returns that error. I have tried Comodo CA http://timestamp.comodoca.com/authenticode and Aruba https://servizi.arubapec.it/tsa/ngrequest.php but all three returned the same exact error. My PDFs are now signed without a certified timestamp and this is a problem for me. I'm obliged to sign documents and apply a certified timestamp at the same time. This seems to be a common error in Acrobat, but I found no solution to it. Can somebody help me?

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• MySQL error: Can't find symbol '_mysql_plugin_interface_version_' in library

  - by Josh Smith

  The boring, necessary details: I'm on Snow Leopard running MySQL locally. I'm trying to install the Sphinx engine for MySQL like so: mysql> install plugin sphinx soname 'sphinx.so'; ERROR 1127 (HY000): Can't find symbol '_mysql_plugin_interface_version_' in library I've Googled everywhere and can't seem to find an actual solution to this problem. For example this issue on the Sphinx forums seems unresolved. Someone else also raised this issue with similar results. The first post linked to an O'Reilly article which says: There is a common problem that might occur at this point: ERROR 1127 (HY000): Can't find symbol '_mysql_plugin_interface_version_' in library If you see a message like this, it is likely that you forgot to include the -DMYSQL_DYNAMIC_PLUGIN option when compiling the plugin. Adding this option to the g++ compile line is required to create a dynamically loadable plug-in. But the article ends on that point; I have no idea what this means or how to resolve the issue.

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• Mixing SSL and non-SSL content in an Apache2 virtual host

  - by gravyface

  I have a (hopefully) common scenario for one of my sites that I just can't seem to figure out how to deploy correctly. I have the following site and directories for example.com: These need to require SSL: /var/www/example.com/admin /var/www/example.com/order These need to be non-SSL: /var/www/example.com/maps These need to support both: /var/www/example.com/css /var/www/example.com/js /var/www/example.com/img I have two virtual host declarations for the one site in my /sites-available/example.com file; the top one is *:443 the second one is *:80. Since I have two sites, and if a request comes in on 443, the top virtualhost is used, same with the bottom if it's a port 80 request. However, I can't seem to enforce my SSL requirements using SSLRequireSSL because I'm assuming a port 80 request to /admin or /order is not even hitting the *:443 vhost. Should I just Deny All to /order and /admin within the *:80 virtual host so that if you try to request it on 80, you'll get a 403 Forbidden?

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• Windows 7, IIS 7.5, Selfssl

  - by Steve

  The windows iis6 resource kit won't install on Windows 7 (Home Premium) so I copied it from another machine and selfssl.exe is giving me: Failed to generate the cryptographic key: 0x5 I tried the instructions here but am still getting the above error. I'm trying to set the common name of the certificate to a name other than the machine name so I can avoid the certificate errors in the browser. This is a test web application. I know I can just test with the browser errors, but I'd like to mimic real world conditions as much as possible. Is there any other way to generate your own ssl certificates for iis7.5?

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