Op-Ed: Show me the skills and show me the money
Wed, Nov 2nd 2011 7:11p Jake Ochs Note to folks interviewing for a senior developer position: I see you have been productively working as a consultant for quite some time and you have broad experiential knowledge. I respect that, coming from a similar background, really, I do! You are not interviewing for a consulting position anymore, though, with an esoteric and fleeting requirement that pretty much paves the way for a generalist. Even though you have a great breadth of knowledge, show me that you are an SME in at least one di [read] Keywords: ibm
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JavaScript tip - Implicit conversion
Fri, Aug 5th 2011 8:08a Jake Ochs isSomething = function(val) { if (val == undefined || val == null || val == "") return false; return true; };
Spot the problem? Give up? This JavaScript function is being used to test if passed objects contain (useful) data. But what about zero? is that useful? This function says not - passing a zero will result in a return value of false. Why? Because when comparing two objects using the == comparator, JavaScript uses implicit conversion. So a 0 == false comparison [read] Keywords: javascript
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I concur
Tue, Feb 1st 2011 9:11p Jake Ochs Just a quick return from the dead to point out Dare Obasanjo’s fantastic read – Learning from our Mistakes: the Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web. An insightful article that ring true to me through personal experience in each domain. Mind you, I still utilize all three technologies in useful scenarios every day and find them all to be elegant solutions to my specific problem domains, but I wholeheartedly agree with Dare’s conclusions. Enough blather, go read.
Coming soon: a lon [read] Keywords: ibm
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PLUGIN DEVS, THIS IS HUGE: Google sets Instantiations tools free
Fri, Sep 17th 2010 7:27a Jake Ochs pNotes/Symphony plugin developers: Google has made all the tools of recently acquired Instantiations free. This includes the excellent SWT Designer, which is a RAD layout tool for SWT widgets. a href=http://java.dzone.com/articles/instantiations-tools-free-allDetails here/a. Have a great weekend./p
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NOTES PLUGIN DEV QUICK TIP: upgrading to 8.5.2
Sun, Sep 12th 2010 2:25p Jake Ochs pIf you are having trouble running your plugin apps in Eclipse after having upgraded your Notes client to 8.5.2 from 8.5.1, navigate to the desired run configuration and select all for the target platform category. Some new plugins were aded in 8.5.2 that weren't there in 8.5.1 and not selecting them prevents the Notes client from starting up from the OSGi console. Also, use a href=http://lekkimworld.com/pages/eclipse35_notes852.htmlMikkel’s post/a as a checksum for your client configuration. [read] Keywords: notes
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QUICK NOTE: Getting XDEBUG to work in a 64-bit Windows environment (PHP)
Tue, Jul 6th 2010 3:24p Jake Ochs The bane of my existence has been for quite some time the inability to get XDebug to work in a 64-bit Windows environment. I've had to resort to running my development AMP stack (Apache, MySQL, NetBeans) in either an Ubuntu x32 or XP 32 bit VM to work around this defect. Of course, I'd much rather not have to start a resource heavy VM to do dev work and this inability to step through a script on my native 64-bit desktop (formerly Vista, now -Halleluja!- Windows 7) always vexed me. I just revis [read] Keywords: desktop
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DISPLAYING PROGRESS IN ECLIPSE UI: WWUD
Tue, Jun 29th 2010 6:18p Jake Ochs That’s What Would You Do. I’d write WWJD in the title but I don’t want to offend…
I’ve been struggling to retrofit some pretty deeply nested Java code that was originally written implicitly as a Notes agent into the multithreaded environment of an Eclipse plugin. Specifically, I have a pretty long running thread that I’d like to be able to monitor the progress of in the UI as well as cancel interactively. Ordinarily, I’d write a Job that breaks the work up into units, emits a Stat [read] Keywords: agent
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STACK VS. HEAP: Why it matters in Notes
Mon, Jun 14th 2010 5:13p Jake Ochs Excuse me for the pedantic nature of this post, but I recently had an issue with developing a fairly complex agent for Notes coded in Java that caused me to revisit a basic understanding of how Java in Notes works. You see, the Java Virtual Machine, JVM for short, is essentially a stack-based emulator that runs bytecode compiled from the Java language source. Without getting into too much detail, the JVM has two memory pools to speak of, the stack and the heap, that can impact the performance an [read] Keywords: agent
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PILING IT ON II: Getting started with plugin development
Fri, Mar 19th 2010 9:17a Jake Ochs As an extension of Mikkel's post on how to get started with plugin development, I submit the following:
Symphony Developer's Guide PDF (in Symphony SDK) -even though it's not Domino development, it can get a beginner up to speed on creating plugins in the Expeditor platform.
Instantiations SWT Designer (for easily slogging through the GUI portions of the plugin development.)
On the Job: The Eclipse Jobs API - for when you start running into threading issues
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