Got up this morning: Switched mobile on, put in pocket. Turned laptop on: No internet; modem broken. Get mobile to call provider, mobile locked, puk code needed (8 year old SIM, so what are the chances on finding that?) Builder came to tear down some walls, he poked a bit, measured a bit and informed us the wall could not be taken down.
But luckily things turned for the better after I actually found the unlock code for the mobile: Called the provider new modem due monday morning Rerouted my network to use my IP phone modem as internet router (slow but it works :)) And finally the builder came up with a solution to remove the walls without compromising the structural integrity.
I know it's still Friday the 13th, but so far so good :)
Spring project part5: Batch and e-mail
Sat, Apr 13th 2013 3:48p Vince Schuurman As part of the project we need to send both individual e-mails from the website and newsletters using batch processing. Using Thymeleaf e-mail templates sending Rich HTML emails is very simple. The only thing that was disappointing to me is the handling of inline images. But since the 'old' environment uses internet based images that is not an issue now. For newsletters and other batch processes we decided to use Spring Batch.... no suprise there :P. Spring Batch is a highly configurable and [read] Keywords: java
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Spring project part 4: Random observations
Tue, Apr 2nd 2013 7:28a Vince Schuurman I am afraid there is not much to tell at this point, because I am currently half sidetracked. First we had a serious problem with our infrastructure and after that the management decided they wanted new functionality in production that could not wait until the new infrastructure was finished. What I did learn however is that the datatables4j however cool does not offer enough functionality for me so I changed my code to call the underlying jQuery datatables directly. The main issue for me was th [read] Keywords:
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All servers upgraded to ND9 (Social Edition)
Fri, Mar 22nd 2013 8:29a Vince Schuurman Windows was not a problem, but when I tried to install ND9 on Debian all hell broke loose. The install itself did work, but the server wouldn't start anymore. After changing some file settings it kept complaining about libnotes.so, yes that old thing again :(. After several attempts the error message changed from libnotes.so: cannot open shared object file: to ldconfig: /libnotes.so.sym is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. You can imagine my frustration when at that p [read] Keywords: domino
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Performance gain after SAN crash
Tue, Mar 19th 2013 10:09a Vince Schuurman Due to Harddisk faillure a customer had to move his Domino webservers to other hardware. This particular piece of hardware runs on SSD disks and there was only room for one server, so we kept our fingers crossed. I knew moving to SSD is a performance boost especially for heavy Domino sites, but seeing it in your own production environment is something else! The one server can easily handle the load that we used to divide among three Domino servers. In fact their site runs 50% faster now. So if [read] Keywords: domino
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SOS? Dear
Sat, Mar 16th 2013 6:25p Vince Schuurman Full Text message: /data/notesdata/news.ft/ftgi/Itemsupp/gtr.SOS Open error. errcode = 3351 errno = 0 Oh well, nothing a recreation of the FT-index can't solve I hope... [read] Keywords:
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Spring project part 3: First deliverables
Fri, Mar 8th 2013 1:02p Vince Schuurman And after only 3 weeks it is time for the first milestone on Monday; Presenting several related views populated with data imported via scheduled webservices and entered via inline forms. My experiences so far: - Spring Tools Suite is a monster of an application development tool. Run it on a VM and it wants 2 cores and consumes all the memory it can find. If you think Domino Designer 8.5 is bad you better leave this one alone. - Starting a project without first finishing the prerequisites is not [read] Keywords: domino
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Spring project part 2: View Layer
Thu, Feb 28th 2013 2:05p Vince Schuurman First an update regarding the Spring project part 1: Modelling bit. As it turns out Spring provides the 'Generic Repository' natively, so with some configuration we can get rid of the bottom class. Now for the view layer; I looked into the Thymeleaf library and it looks very promising. Thymeleaf is a Java library. It is an XML / XHTML / HTML5 template engine (extensible to other formats) that can work both in web and non-web environments. It is better suited for serving XHTML/HTML5 at the [read] Keywords: applications
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Spring project part 1: Modelling
Fri, Feb 22nd 2013 7:02a Vince Schuurman This is the first part of the Migration project from Domino to JEE We started with installing and configuring VM's with our development environments using the Springsource Tool Suite (STS), GIT repositories, VPN etc. After that we starting on a data model in line with our Code 'bible' We agreed on loosely coupled modules, but that makes it hard to get classes persistent over all the modules. For example in Domino we could show data from the database using a single line of code: @DbLookup( [read] Keywords: dblookup
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Migration project from Domino to JEE
Thu, Feb 14th 2013 3:20a Vince Schuurman After months of preparation, I will join a small team on Monday, to develop a new infrastructure for a customer currently running an extensive Domino platform. The goal is to move the data to MySQL and design elements to JEE using Springsource, Hibernate and JPA. The frontend has to be decided upon, but for now we will go with jsp. The current infrastructure consists of 154 databases with terabytes of data and many connections to 3rd party websites and webservices. To keep the project under con [read] Keywords: connections
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