A Quick update

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Its been ages since i posted, so a quick update for thoese few readers i have that don’t have to put up with my “mutant goat” antics on a daily personal basis, and might have been wondered if my sole social media interaction is deranged twitter conversations with Mr Poole

Soooooo…..

1) Work is at an amazing level of learning, last week i realised i was sitting in Myeclipse, working on a webservice client/middleware interface that is using hibernate via JPA against MS SQL and DB2, to a Local test Jboss server running an app with Spring elements that updates a custom interface on AS400, the client will run on Redhat Linux 64bit (the other part sadly being normally on Windows 2003), it was built using ANT scripts, and im testing it using JUnit, while my my boss is asking me for updates on a Flex 3 client facing app, and this for someone who a year ago spend most of his time in domino designer.

2) LDC is got its first proper maintenance client, its a slow start admittedly but the system is working, and we hope its the start of more to come.

3) Personal life is a strange mix of extremes with the under control and perfectly happy at one end and the deranged and misery causing at the other, but I’m trying to take a karmic view of it and quite frankly even if the bad bits are worse that i feel i deserve, so are the good bits. 🙂

Will put some proper entries on here soon, but clients and the UKlug talk I’m doing with Mr Poole come first

The different types of domino development

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RAD – The official name for domino development

RABID – Domino development with a insanely demanding project manager and when devs have designer access to live

RANCID – When you have to fix/update databases that MS Access level programmers have written to make their CV look better i.e “i wrote a custom HR solution”

REWARDING – Then you can produce a great solution using domino in half the time it would take using something else, PARTICULARLY if some daft a**e is playing silly political B***ox and saying domino is ‘legacy’

RED-EYE – when a project manager sells a RABID solution as RAD and you have one night to save the world (or Domino’s name is mud)

REALISTIC – When domino developers start writing in JAVA,Flex,Hibernate on Jboss to keep their jobs.

Back to fencing comps (end of week 2 and 3) – 34 days to go

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Real life has attacked my fencing preparation, so little to report

First Monday
Good Game of Squash

First Tuesday
Even better Game of Squash (although my squash partner badly damaged his wrist hitting me with his squash racket, which put him out for a couple of weeks)

Second Friday
2k rowing (as level 10 in 8mins) – Fail (1.5K)
10 mins punch bag – Fail (6 mins just)
10 mins Stepper (at level 13 speed) – Fail (level 6 speed)
10 mins undetermined!! – PASS (stretched out properly and press-ups and sit ups done )

All other days Scruff ALLLLLL

however Steve is now back, so i have a lesson booked for this coming week!!

SCORE FOR WEEK …MAJOR FAIL (cries)

Eclipse search on XP

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This is a REAL old one, but as so many of us corporate developers are still on xp its worth the mention, I was trying to do the same as Ben Poole is doing here with mac stuff, to get over the terriable seach features in eclipse, but on windows alas the same feature does not search the contents of ‘unknown’ file types ie .Java (mutter Microsoft mutter), you fix this as follows (providing you have SP2 installed):

  1. Click Start, and then click Search (or point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders).
  2. Click Change preferences, and then click With Indexing Service (for faster local searches).
  3. Click Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced). Note that you do not have to turn on the Index service.
  4. On the toolbar, click Show/Hide Console Tree.
  5. In the left pane, right-click Indexing Service on Local Machine, and then click Properties.
  6. On the Generation tab, click to select the Index files with unknown extensions check box, and then click OK.
  7. Close the Indexing Service console.Now the search will stop being such an as and will search the contents of Java files.
    Update**
    turns out on more modern eclipse instances you get the same with the ‘Search’ –> ‘File’ Option, hmmmmm did i miss that coming in??