Lotushints

So working as I always do with Firefox – you know, several windows, kazillion of tabs – I have lately discovered that my PC was running slow nearing the end of a working day. Now, for first 100 times, I just ignored the fact that my 3,33 GHz Core i5 Workstation with 4GB of RAM running windows XP shouldn’t be running like this. At least it was not a week or two ago. Yesterday however, I had quite enough of it and decided to consult task manager and see what is eating up my RAM. Two processes stood out:
a) Visual studio (three instances of it to be exact) that ate up about 700MB of RAM and
b) Firefox 6 (two instances) eating up a nice sum of 520MB of RAM.

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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 DB2 data provider kind of made ODBC connection unsupported. Fine. Data provider is slicker anyway.

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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.

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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 be put aside. My expertise and knowledge in C++ and .NET development will be challenged and I look forward to it.

What does this mean for this blog? This blog was meant to be a Lotus Notes tips & tricks repository. Even in the past that was about 50% of my posts. In the future, Lotus Notes tips & tricks will probably drop significantly. They will be replaced by .NET tips and experiences I gain in my further escapades.

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.

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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 data. As long as it is visible that e.g. email is an email.
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…and a happy new year 2011 to everyone.

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.
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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 purpose.
4. Doxygen is yet another open source project you don’t need.
5. No way in hell you are getting training in software development.

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 you have XMLDataSource in ASP.net), I still found it useful and with loads of great tips I might use in the future.