As you might have read, I am lately doing a lot of stuff in .NET with DB2 as a database server. In the past, the only way to connect to a DB2 database from .NET environment was via ODBC. Nowadays, IBM provides us with DB2 data provider for .NET. On top of that, launch of […]
Recently, I have been working on a .NET application that uses DB2 as a database engine. On top of that, I needed transactions as I didn’t want for SQL statements to commit if one of them failed. Needless to say, DB2 uses it’s own principle to handling transactions.
This past month I was really really silent. Reason is quite simple. After 11 years, I have decided it was time to jump ship. It wasn’t a decision one would make lightly and you can trust me, it caused several sleepless nights. Specially as this was my first real gig. Lotus Notes development will now […]
I have upgraded company’s Sametime server recently. Yes, that is correct. Sametime server. Singular. We are not that big of a company per IBM measures and even if we were, we are only using IM function of it anyway, so there is no point of using more than one server. But that is not important.
A few days hence, I had an interesting debate with one of my best friends about data used in a demo. He is convinced that real user data (e.g. Name, Surname, email etc.) should be used even in a demo. I, on the other hand, am impervious to weather you use fake, real-enough or real […]
Due to personal interest, I installed Android SDK and emulator on my machine. Now, since I am a programmer, I am most interested in actually developing applications for Android. Hence, I installed Eclipse ADT plug-in.
1. Your direct superior believes unit tests can replace technical documentation 2. No matter how convincing your arguments are, project manager is always right. 3. There is no sign of a bug tracking software. 3a. In a chance there is, it is not used. 3b. If it is used, it is used in totally wrong […]
Lately I tried to integrate some C# application with Lotus Notes application data. Hence, I needed to display view contents in some way. Naturally I googled for solution on how to display view contents as JSON and came across Domino URL Cheat sheet. Even though I lately decided to go with XML display (mostly because […]
Before I begin, let me explain that I am a big Mercurial and Visual studio fan. Sure, there could be some improvements made in both, but all in all they are a decent product, which I gladly use on daily basis. Recently, however, I stumbled upon a nasty problem. I had to make some modifications […]