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• Two interesting big data sessions around Openworld

  - by Jean-Pierre Dijcks

  For those who want to talk (not listen) about big data, here are 2 very cool sessions: BOF9877 - A birds of a feather session around all things big data. It is on Monday, Oct 1, 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM - Marriott Marquis - Golden Gate. While all guests on the panel are special, we will have very special guest on the panel. He is a proud owner of a Big Data Appliance (see here). Then there is a Big Data SIG meeting (the invite from Gwen): I'd like to invite everyone to our OOW12 meet up. We'll meet on Tuesday, October 2nd, 8:45 to 9:45 at Moscone West Level 3, Overlook 3. We will network, socialize and discuss plans for the group. Which topics interest us for webinars? Which conferences do we want to meet in? What other activities we are interested in? We can also discuss big data topics, show off our great work, and seek advice on the challenges. Other than figuring out what we are collectively interested in, the discussion will be pretty open. Here is the official invite. See you at Openworld!!

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• I'm a SubVersion geek, why I should consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DRCS?

  - by Pierre 303

  I tried to understand the benefits of DRCS. I must recognize I still doesn't get it. Here are my current beliefs. I'm ready to destroy them thanks to your expertise. I know I'm probably resisting to change. I just want to evaluate how much that change will cost me. Merging hell can be solved by just applying good practices such as continuous integration. There is no such good practice than having a private branch for a few days when you are in a self managing team with real collaboration. I use branching for that for very rare cases, and I keep a branch for every major version, in which I fix bugs merged from the trunk. I see the value of committing offline then pushing online. But continuous integration can help on this too. I work on very large projects, and I never noticed SubVersion to be slow even when the server is 5000km away on the internet and my small connection (less than 1024D/128U). Harddisk space is cheap, so having a copy of source code locally doesn't look like a problem to me. I already have a full copy of the last version on my disk. I don't understand the distributed thing there (maybe THIS IS the key to my understanding?) I not new in the industry, and judging by my difficulty to understand, I don't think DRCS are easier to understand than SubVersion like. If fact, I don't understand... Doctor, give me your diagnostic.

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• Call for Paper: Oracle OpenWorld 2011

  - by jean-pierre.dijcks

  OpenWorld 2011 is now open for the public to submit session proposals. We would like to encourage our customers, and partners to participate in this ‘call for papers” (CFP) process. CFP for the general public, non-Oracle employee submitters, closes on March 27, 2011. Here are the details: Conference Location: Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA. Conference Date: Sunday - Thursday, October 2 - 6, 2011 Conference Website: http://www.oracle.com/us/openworld CFP Website: https://oracleus.wingateweb.com/portal/cfp/ Paper submission key dates: Deliverables Due Dates Call for Papers Begins Wednesday, March 9 Call for Papers Ends Sunday, March 27 – 11:59 pm PDT Notifications for Accepted and Declined Submissions Sent End of May Questions regarding the Call for Papers, send an email to [email protected]

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• Globacom and mCentric Deploy BDA and NoSQL Database to analyze network traffic 40x faster

  - by Jean-Pierre Dijcks

  In a fast evolving market, speed is of the essence. mCentric and Globacom leveraged Big Data Appliance, Oracle NoSQL Database to save over 35,000 Call-Processing minutes daily and analyze network traffic 40x faster.  Here are some highlights from the profile: Why Oracle “Oracle Big Data Appliance works well for very large amounts of structured and unstructured data. It is the most agile events-storage system for our collect-it-now and analyze-it-later set of business requirements. Moreover, choosing a prebuilt solution drastically reduced implementation time. We got the big data benefits without needing to assemble and tune a custom-built system, and without the hidden costs required to maintain a large number of servers in our data center. A single support license covers both the hardware and the integrated software, and we have one central point of contact for support,” said Sanjib Roy, CTO, Globacom. Implementation Process It took only five days for Oracle partner mCentric to deploy Oracle Big Data Appliance, perform the software install and configuration, certification, and resiliency testing. The entire process—from site planning to phase-I, go-live—was executed in just over ten weeks, well ahead of the four months allocated to complete the project. Oracle partner mCentric leveraged Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services’ implementation methodology to ensure configurations are tailored for peak performance, all patches are applied, and software and communications are consistently tested using proven methodologies and best practices. Read the entire profile here.

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• Speak now! Call for Papers at Oracle Openworld is now open

  - by Jean-Pierre Dijcks

  Present Your Thoughts to Thousands of Oracle Customers, Developers, and Partners Do you have an idea that could improve best practices? A real-world experience that could shed new light on IT? The Oracle OpenWorld call for papers is now open. This is your opportunity to speak your mind to the world’s largest gathering of the most-knowledgeable IT decision-makers, leading-edge developers, and advanced technologists. So take a look at our criteria and join us at Oracle OpenWorld. We look forward to hearing from you. Register Early and Save See and learn about the newest products. Meet experts and business leaders. All for less. Register for Oracle OpenWorld before March 30, 2012, and you’ll save up to US$800 off the registration. Register now.

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• E-Book on big data (featuring Analysts, Customers and more)

  - by Jean-Pierre Dijcks

  As we are gearing up for Openworld, here is a nice E-book on big data to start paging through. It contains Gartner's take on big data, customer and partner interviews and a lot more good info. Enjoy the read so you come prepared for Openworld!! Read the E-Book here. For those coming to Oracle Openworld (or the Americas Cup races around the same time), you can find big data sessions via this URL. Enjoy!!

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• If you were the manager of a team of 25 developers, how would you motivate them?

  - by Pierre 303

  Imagine yourself hired by a new startup backed with few millions coming from venture capitalists. Your mission: organize the development of the next killer app. 25 developers is too much to take care of each individually, so what decision(s) you would make to motivate them? I will appreciate any answers from stock options to free cookies ;) Of course the trick here (unless you are really a manager of a such startup), is put yourself in the shoes of one of those programmers. EDIT: it's an imaginary context. The purpose of this story is to stimulate your wishes. I want to capture what motivates developers.

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• Using R on your Oracle Data Warehouse

  - by jean-pierre.dijcks

  Since it is Predictive Analytics World in our backyard (or are we San Francisco’s backyard…?) I figured it is well worth the time to dust of some old but important news. With big data (should we start calling it “any data analytics” instead?) being the buzz word and analytics the key operative goal, not moving data around is becoming more and more critical to the business users. Why? Because instead of spending time on moving data around into your next analytics server you should be running analytics on those CPUs. You could always do this with Oracle Data Mining within the Oracle Database. But a lot of folks want to leverage R as their main tool. Well, this article describes how you can do this, since 2010… As Casimir Saternos concludes in the article; “There is a growing awareness of the need to effectively analyze astronomical amounts of data, much of which is stored in Oracle databases. Statistics and modeling techniques are used to improve a wide variety of business functions. ODM accessed using the R language increases the value of your data by uncovering additional information. RODM is a powerful tool to enable your organization to make predictions, classify data, and create visualizations that maximize effectiveness and efficiencies.” Happy Analysis!

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• Read how a customer uses Oracle NoSQL Database

  - by Jean-Pierre Dijcks

  For those who have had the pleasure to be in SF for Oracle Openworld, you might have seen or heard about this story already. If you did not, here is a great story on how to use Oracle NoSQL Database. Apart from all the cool technology, I'm just excited that this is a company founded by a football international and dealing with sports data, games and other cool things. Like an all things cool combo in one place.

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• When it's more productive to build your own framework than using an existing one?

  - by Pierre 303

  I would like to know why you decided to build your own framework in your company. By framework, I don't mean few libraries you use often. I mean a specific way of building applications on top of it, with base classes, convention, etc. So why did you built your own framework? How could you justify that to the person that employs you. Have you measure the positive and negative impact of it? Regarding your experiences, did you notice that in some case a company framework produced real benefits, or on the other hand, increased costs of development (learning curve, debugging, maintenance, ...)?

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• If you had the power to remove one thing in your daily job, what would it be?

  - by Pierre 303

  With nearly 60 answers to this question it's highly likely that your answer has already been posted. Please don't post an answer unless you have something new to say This can be a particular task you find not very useful, a manager behavior, your canteen, some security rule you must comply to, tools they want you to use, commuting, schedules, a customer, a technical problem you encouter all the time, anything, ... please be creative ;) One answer per thing. Explain why. Please vote up on other answers if appropriate.

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• Does your team develop their supporting tools or this should be outsourced out of it?

  - by Pierre 303

  By supporting tools, I mean: reference data manager, like virus definition for anti-virus software test data generator level builders for games simulators or advanced mocking systems Does the team building the core product (in the case above, the game or the anti-virus) should be part of the development of the supporting tools significantly, or this is a task you would outsourced out of the team to help it focus on the product? I don't have enough experience to evaluate the pros & cons of each, so I'm hopping you would come up with personal experiences to share, or even studies or papers you read on the subject.

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• What did he or she do to enchant you? What was the feeling like? [closed]

  - by Pierre 303

  Guy Kawasaki, the famous author of The Art Of The Start is writing a new book about Enchantment (will be called Art Of Enchantment). He is asking stories about your employees, your things or even websites you visit. What about your colleagues? I need examples of a programmer (you), getting enchanted by another colleague, programmer, analyst, tester (must be within your team). UPDATE: The book is out! http://www.amazon.com/Enchantment-Changing-Hearts-Minds-Actions/dp/1591843790/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1298106612&sr=8-2

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• Big Data Sessions at Openworld 2012

  - by Jean-Pierre Dijcks

  If you are coming to San Francisco, and you are interested in all the aspects to big data, this Focus On Big Data is a must have document.  Some (other) highlights: A performance demo of a full rack Big Data Appliance in the engineered systems showcase A set of handson labs on how to go from a NoSQL DB to an effective analytics play on big data Much, much more See you all in a few weeks in SF!

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• In a specification, should I describe what a product does (ideally) or what it should/must do?

  - by Arlaud Pierre

  I'm writting a German specification (I'm not German). Differences may appear for this process in different cultures, especially in the terminology, but usually here's the idea: The client writes his needs and wishes in a document, called a scope statement or requirements document. The supplier tries to understand the actual need of the client (which might be different to what was written and to what the client meant to say and to what the client thinks he needs, etc.) The supplier writes a specification for the product, which should fill the client's need. The specification needs to be precise enough for the product to be made (ambiguity problems occur). The client and the supplier can check whether they have understood each other, and discuss details of the product. The client agrees with the specification (or at least its current iteration) and the supplier is ready to start the work. (it may of course be expected of you to disagree with this process, but this is irrelevant to my problem): I'm now somewhere around the last two steps and I've been criticized because I wrote what the product must do, and not what it will do ideally. Usually along the lines of The product must be able to perform task A And I was expected to write The product performs task A This is a simple word play, but I feel saying what the product does, while the product isn't even on the way to be made yet, is wrong. I would tend to consider a specification as a contract of what the product is expected to do (what it must do and how it should do it), and not what it does. Said differently, I feel this is the specification and not the manual of the end product…… Should I say what the product must do or what it does?

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• Rythmbox library set to: multiple locations and no way to edit/change

  - by Pierre

  I previously set Rhythmbox to include a few different locations. Now following changes to my directory structure, I'd like to reflect these changes in Rhythmbox. But when I go to "Library Location", I see "Multiple locations Set" and I can only add to the list; no way to edit/remove. I Googled this problem and the only relevant results I get date back to 2006, probably referring to a previous version of Rhythmbox and specifying components/locations that I can't find on my system. Give a look at the documentation...kind of minimal. Any clues? Ubuntu 12.04 Rhythmbox 2.96

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• Iframe src set dynamically through JavaScript is being executed twice on Internet Explorer

  - by Pierre

  Hello Everyone, I am encountering a very annoying problem with IE. Basically I need to set the source of an IFrame using JavaScript, however the source document is being executed twice not once during each call. The simplified HTML code is pasted below (I simplified it so that readers can understand it quickly. The source is being set through JavaScript since it will contain dynamic content): <html> <head> <title>Iframe test</title> </head> <body> <iframe id="testIframe" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="" width="800" height="600"></iframe> <script language="JavaScript"> document.getElementById("testIframe").src = "http://localhost/test.php"; </script> </body> </html> In this example, test.php inserts a record inside a local database once called. Whenever the page above is called using IE, two rows are being inserted on most occasions (sometimes only 1 row is inserted but this is not the norm). I tested the same script on Chrome and Opera and it works correctly on them so this must be an IE issue. If is set the src directly inside the iframe tag IE starts behaving correctly, however I need to be able to build the URL using javascript. Has anyone encountered this issue? and does anyone know of a solution/workaround? Thanks and Regards Pierre

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• Importing a WebService:

  - by Pierre

  Hi all, I'm trying to import the following web service: http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martwsdl Using curl for the service getResistry() : everything is OK: curl --header 'Content-Type: text/xml' --data '<?xml version="1.0"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:mar="http://www.biomart.org:80/MartServiceSoap"> <soapenv:Header/> <soapenv:Body> <mar:getRegistry/> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>' http://www.biomart.org:80/biomart/martsoap it returns: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.o rg/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/ envelope/" soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <soap:Body> <getRegistryResponse xmlns="http://www.biomart.org:80/MartServiceSoap"> <mart> <name xsi:type="xsd:string">ensembl</name> <displayName xsi:type="xsd:string">ENSEMBL GENES 57 (SANGER UK)</displayName> <database xsi:type="xsd:string">ensembl_mart_57</database> (...) OK. But when this service is generated using CXF/wsdl2java ( or even wsimport) mkdir src wsdl2java -keep -d src -client "http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martwsdl" javac -g -d src -sourcepath src src/org/biomart/_80/martservicesoap/MartServiceSoap_BioMartSoapPort_Client.java java -cp src org.biomart._80.martservicesoap.MartServiceSoap_BioMartSoapPort_Client the generated client returns an empty list for getRegistry(): Invoking getRegistry... getRegistry.result=[] why ? what should I do, to make this code work ? Many thanks Pierre

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• CURL C API: callback was not called

  - by Pierre

  Hi all, The code below is a test for the CURL C API . The problem is that the callback function write_callback is never called. Why ? /** compilation: g++ source.cpp -lcurl */ #include <assert.h> #include <iostream> #include <cstdlib> #include <cstring> #include <cassert> #include <curl/curl.h> using namespace std; static size_t write_callback(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp) { std::cerr << "CALLBACK WAS CALLED" << endl; exit(-1); return size*nmemb; } static void test_curl() { int any_data=1; CURLM* multi_handle=NULL; CURL* handle_curl = ::curl_easy_init(); assert(handle_curl!=NULL); ::curl_easy_setopt(handle_curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page"); ::curl_easy_setopt(handle_curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &any_data); ::curl_easy_setopt(handle_curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); ::curl_easy_setopt(handle_curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_callback); ::curl_easy_setopt(handle_curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0"); multi_handle = ::curl_multi_init(); assert(multi_handle!=NULL); ::curl_multi_add_handle(multi_handle, handle_curl); int still_running=0; /* lets start the fetch */ while(::curl_multi_perform(multi_handle, &still_running) == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM ); std::cerr << "End of curl_multi_perform."<< endl; //cleanup should go here ::exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } int main(int argc,char** argv) { test_curl(); return 0; } Many thanks Pierre

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• FBML tag to detect user language in a tab

  - by Pierre Olivier Martel

  I have a custom tab for a fan page that need to display a JPEG image. I have an image in English and one in French. Is there a way to detect the user locale in FBML to display the right image? I know how to do this server side using the Facebook fb_sig_locale param but I was planning on just using the Static FBML app which is much simpler than setting up a whole custom application.

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• Accessing Facebook Likes and Interests with the old rest api

  - by Pierre Olivier Martel

  In their recent changes, Facebook now links your likes and interests with community and fan pages. How can I retrieve this information using the old rest API and Facebooker. I tried things like this to get the music preferences : facebook_session.user.music but I get a blank string instead of the relevant connections. Is it mandatory to use the new Graph API in order to make this work?

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• Facebook dialogs keep popping up in Firefox

  - by Pierre Olivier Martel

  I have a facebook application running in a FBML canvas and I have a problem with dialogs (either extended permissions or stream publish dialogs). Once they popup, they keep popping up for every subsequent requests. I've tested it in Chrome and everything works fine. It seems that the URL is chained in Firefox, which gives cryptic long urls like : http://apps.facebook.com/webdweller-po/discover?_fb_q=1&_fb_qsub=apps.facebook.com#!/webdweller-dev/?_fb_q=1&_fb_qsub=apps.facebook.com Did anybody experienced such a bug?

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• Navigate from facebook tab to canvas page

  - by Pierre Olivier Martel

  My facebook application has a tab the user can install. On this tab, there is links that are suppose to link to application canvas (ex.: apps.facebook.com/my-app). It seems that when I'm on my user profile tab and click on a link, Facebook loads the page inside the tab. How do I force it to navigate out of the tab and into the canvas page?

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• How do you assign a variable with the result of a if..else block?

  - by Pierre Olivier Martel

  I had an argument with a colleague about the best way to assign a variable in an if..else block. His orignal code was : @products = if params[:category] Category.find(params[:category]).products else Product.all end I rewrote it this way : if params[:category] @products = Category.find(params[:category]).products else @products = Product.all end This could also be rewritten with a one-liner using a ternery operator (? :) but let's pretend that product assignment was longer than a 100 character and couldn't fit in one line. Which of the two is clearer to you? The first solution takes a little less space but I thought that declaring a variable and assigning it three lines after can be more error prone. I also like to see my if and else aligned, makes it easier for my brain to parse it!

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• QGraphicsView and custom Cursors

  - by Etienne de Martel

  I am trying to make use of a mix of custom cursors and preset cursors for my QGraphicsView. In my implementation we have created a notion of "modes" for the view. Meaning that depending on what "mode" the user is in, different things will happen on the left-click, or left-click drag. Anyway, none of that is the problem, just the context. The problem arises when I try to change the cursor for each mode. For instance, for mode 1 we want to show the regular Arrow cursor, but for mode 2, we want to use a custom pixmap. Seemingly simple we call graphicsview->viewport()->setCursor(Qt::QArrowCursor)  when we are switching to mode 1, and graphicsview->viewport()->setCursor(our custom cursor) for mode 2. Except it doesn't work at all. Firstly, the cursor does not change to the custom cursor. That is the first problem. However, if through another operation the drag mode of the graphics view gets set to ScrollHandDrag, the cursor will switch to the custom cursor once the drag operation is complete. Weird. But the plot thickens... Once we switch to the custom cursor, it can never be changed back to the ArrorCursor no matter how many times we call setCursor(Qt::QArrowCursor). it also doesn't seem to matter whether I call setCursor on the viewport or the graphics view itself. So, just for fun, I added a call to graphicsview->unsetCursor() just before we want to change the cursor, and that at least rectifies the second problem. The cursor changes just fine so long as we do a little HandDragging in between. Better, but certainly not optimal. However it should be noted, that doing the unsetCursor on the viewport doesn't work. it must absolutely be done on the graphicsview - regardless of the fact that we are setting the cursor on the viewport. To completely patch over the problem I have added these two lines after I set the cursor: graphicsview->setDragMode(QGraphicsView::ScrollHandDrag); graphicsview->setDragMode(QGraphicsView::NoDrag); Which works, but ye gads!! So something magical is happening inside these two methods that fixes the problem, but glancing at the code I don't see what. Something to do with the fact that the drag mode is changing the cursor I imagine. Just for completeness, I should also mention that the thing that triggers the mode change, is a QPushButton that has been added to the scene using QGraphicsScene->addWidget(). I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but you never know. I am hoping that either someone could clarify why I need to make these seemingly random calls. I don't think I am doing anything wrong anywhere. Thanks in advance for any help. EDIT: Here is an actual code example with the cursor patches as described above. You can look at and/or download them from the link below. It was a little long to paste here. I included the framework around which the cursors are changed, because I have a funny feeling that that is important somehow. https://gist.github.com/712654 The code where the problem lies is in MyGraphicsView.cpp starting at line 104. This is where the cursor is set in the graphics view. It is exactly as described above. Keep in mind, with the very ugly patches in place the cursors do work - more or less. Without those lines you will see very clearly the problems listed in the post above. Also included in the link, is all the code for a mainWindow that uses the view, etc... the only thing missing are the images I am using. But the images themselves don't matter, any 16x16 pngs will do.

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