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  • Is the development of CLI apps considered "backward"?

    - by user61852
    I am a DBA fledgling with a lot of experience in programming. I have developed several CLI, non interactive apps that solve some daily repetitive tasks or eliminate the human error from more complex albeit not so daily tasks. These tools are now part of our tool box. I find CLI apps are great because you can include them in an automated workflow. Also the Unix philosophy of doing a single thing but doing it well, and letting the output of a process be the input of another, is a great way of building a set of tools than would consolidate into an strategic advantage. My boss recently commented that developing CLI tools is "backward", or constitutes a "regression". I told him I disagreed, because most CLI tools that exist now are not legacy but are live projects with improved versions being released all the time. Is this kind of development considered "backwards" in the market? Does it look bad on a rèsumè? I also considered all solutions whether they are web or desktop, should have command line, non-interactive options. Some people consider this a waste of programming resources. Is this goal a worthy one in a software project?

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  • Is the development of CLI apps considered "backwards"?

    - by user61852
    I am a DBA fledgling with a lot of experience in programming. I have developed several CLI, non interactive apps that solve some daily repetitive tasks or eliminate the human error from more complex albeit not so daily tasks. These tools are now part of our tool box. I find CLI apps are great because you can include them in an automated workflow. Also the Unix philosophy of doing a single thing but doing it well, and letting the output of a process be the input of another, is a great way of building a set of tools than would consolidate into an strategic advantage. My boss recently commented that developing CLI tools is "backwards", or constitutes a "regression". I told him I disagreed, because most CLI tools that exist now are not legacy but are live projects with improved versions being released all the time. Is this kind of development considered "backwards" in the market? Does it look bad on a rèsumè? I also considered all solutions whether they are web or desktop, should have command line, non-interactive options. Some people consider this a waste of programming resources. Is this goal a worthy one in a software project?

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  • Itautec Accelerates Profitable High Tech Customer Service

    - by charles.knapp
    Itautec is a Brazilian-based global high technology products and services firm with strong performance in the global market of banking and commercial automation, with more than 2,300 global clients. It recently deployed Siebel CRM for sales, customer support, and field service. In the first year of use, Siebel CRM enabled a 30% growth in services revenue. Siebel CRM also reduced support costs. "Oracle's Siebel CRM has minimized costs and made our customer service more agile," said Adriano Rodrigues da Silva, IT Manager. "Before deployment, 95% of our customer service contacts were made by phone. Siebel CRM made it possible to expand' choices, so that now 55% of our customers contact our helpdesk through the newer communications channels." Read more here about Itautec's success, and learn more here about how Siebel CRM can help your firm to grow customer service revenues, improve service levels, and reduce costs.

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  • eLearning event on HTML5 for Mobile with jQuery Mobile

    - by Wallym
    I'll be doing an eLearning event on HTML5 for Mobile with jQuery Mobile. There will also be a few items sprinkled in on ASP.NET Razor. Mobile development is a hot item. Customers are buying iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and many other mobile computing devices at an ever increasing record pace. Devices based on iOS and Android are nearly 80 percent of the marketplace. RIM continues to be dominant in the business area across the world. Nokia's growth with Windows Phone will grow on a worldwide basis. At the same time, clearly web development is a tremendous driver of applications, both on the public Internet and on private networks. How can developers target these various mobile platforms with web technologies? Developers can write web applications that take advantage of each mobile platform, but that is a lot of work. Into this space, the jQuery Mobile framework was developed. This eLearning series will provide an overview of mobile web development with jQuery Mobile, a detailed look at what the jQuery Mobile framework provides for us, how we can customize jQuery Mobile, and how we can use jQuery Mobile inside of ASP.NET.Link: http://elearning.left-brain.com/event/mobile-web-development

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  • Advice for a computer science sophomore in college?

    - by RDas
    Hi Everyone! I'm a sophomore in college majoring in Computer Science and Math. I have always loved programming. I started programming in C when I was nine years old and over the years I've picked up Visual Basic, C#, Java, C++, JavaScript, Objective-C, Python, Ruby, elementary Haskell and elementary Erlang, and I learned Perl back in the day which I've mostly forgotten. I have not done much network programming. I have done CGI programming, but that was about six/seven years ago. I've done some socket programming and written (school) programs to do interprocess communication, which I understood and liked. I'm taking a course on client/server programming and another one on network security next semester, which I am really looking forward to. I'm seeking advice on how to proceed with future learning. I've mostly done application (mobile and desktop) development, not much of web development. I'd like to pick up some web development this coming semester. Since I know Ruby and Python, should I start by learning Django and/or Rails? Any other suggestions on starting web development? I have a good understanding of HTML and CSS. Also, I'd also like to know how hard it is to pick up and be good (read: productive) in functional programming languages coming from a purely structured/object oriented background? I've been reading up on Erlang and Haskell, and I'd like to know your opinions on whether it's worth my time trying to learn them. What about Lisp, Scheme and other functional languages? Any help/ideas would be really appreciated.

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  • What do the 4 keyboard input method systems in 10.04 mean?

    - by Android Eve
    I am trying to install another language support (in addition to the default US). Checking that language checkbox in "Install / Remove Languages..." wasn't too difficult. :) But now I want to add keyboard support, too, for that language. Again, I am prompted with a nice listbox with the following 4 options: none ibus lo-gtk th-gtk But I have no idea what these mean. I googled "ubuntu 10.04 keyboard input method system none ibus lo-gtk th-gtk" but all I could find was descriptions of problems, not an actual definition. Could you please point me to a webpage where I can learn about the meanings of these 4 different methods and +'s and -'s of each?

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  • A list of pros and cons to giving developers “Local Admin” privileges to their machines? [closed]

    - by Boden
    Possible Duplicate: Is local “User” rights enough or do developers need Local Administrator or Power User while coding? I currently work for a large utilities company which currently does not grant “Local Admin” access to developers. This is causing a lot of grief as anything that requires elevated privileges needs to be done by the Desktop Support/Server Teams. In some cases this can take several days and requires our developers to have to show why they need this access. I personally think that all developers should have local administration rights and are currently fighting with management to achieve this but I would like to know what other people think about this. To achieve this I would like to hear what people believe are the pros and cons of letting developers have local admin access to their machines. Here are some I have come up with: Pros Loss time is keep low as developers can resolve issues that would normally require Local Admin Evaluation of tools and software are possible to improve productivity Desktop support time not wasted installing services and software on developers PC Cons Developers install software on local PC that could be malicious to others or inappropriate in a business environment Desktop Support required to support a PC that is not the norm Development done with admin access that then fails when promoted to another environment that does not have the same access level

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  • Effective versus efficient code

    - by Todd Williamson
    TL;DR: Quick and dirty code, or "correct" (insert your definition of this term) code? There is often a tension between "efficient" and "effective" in software development. "Efficient" often means code that is "correct" from the point of view of adhering to standards, using widely-accepted patterns/approaches for structures, regardless of project size, budget, etc. "Effective" is not about being "right", but about getting things done. This often results in code that falls outside the bounds of commonly accepted "correct" standards, usage, etc. Usually the people paying for the development effort have dictated ahead of time what it is that they value more. An organization that lives in a technical space will tend towards the efficient end, others will tend towards the effective. Developers often refuse to compromise their favored approach for the other. In my own experience I have found that people with formal education in software development tend towards the Efficient camp. Those that picked up software development more or less as a tool to get things done tend towards the Effective camp. These camps don't get along very well. When managing a team of developers who are not all in one camp it is challenging. In your own experience, which camp do you land in, and do you find yourself having to justify your approach to others? To management? To other developers?

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  • How Service Component Architecture (SCA) Can Be Incorporated Into Existing Enterprise Systems

    After viewing Rob High’s presentation “The SOA Component Model” hosted on InfoQ.com, I can foresee how Service Component Architecture (SCA) can be incorporated in to an existing enterprise. According to IBM’s DeveloperWorks website, SCA is a set of conditions which outline a model for constructing applications/systems using a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In addition, SCA builds on open standards such as Web services. In the future, I can easily see how some large IT shops could potently divide development teams or work groups up into Component/Data Object Groups, and Standard Development Groups. The Component/Data Object Group would only work on creating and maintaining components that are reused throughout the entire enterprise. The Standard Development Group would work on new and existing projects that incorporate the use of various components to accomplish various business tasks. In my opinion the incorporation of SCA in to any IT department will initially slow down the number of new features developed due to the time needed to create the new and loosely-coupled components. However once a company becomes more mature in its SCA process then the number of program features developed will greatly increase. I feel this is due to the fact that the loosely-coupled components needed in order to add the new features will already be built and ready to incorporate into any new development feature request. References: BEA Systems, Cape Clear Software, IBM, Interface21, IONA Technologies PLC, Oracle, Primeton Technologies Ltd, Progress Software, Red Hat Inc., Rogue Wave Software, SAP AG, Siebel Systems, Software AG, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, TIBCO Software Inc. (2006). Service Component Architecture. Retrieved 11 27, 2011, from DeveloperWorks: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-sca/ High, R. (2007). The SOA Component Model. Retrieved 11 26, 2011, from InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/rob-high-sca-sdo-soa-programming-model

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  • Tracking feature requests for small-scale components

    - by DXM
    I'm curious how other development teams (especially those that work in moderate to large development groups) track "future" features/wishlists for functionality for internally developed frameworks or components. I know the standard advice is that a development team should find one good tool for tracking bugs/features and use that for everything and I agree with that if the future requests are for the product itself. In my company we have an engineering department, which is broken up into multiple groups and within each there can be one to several agile teams. The bug tracking product we use has been "a leader since 1997" (their UI/usability seems to also be evaluated against that year even today) but my agile team or even group doesn't really control what is being used by the whole department. What we are looking to track is not necessarily product features but expansion/nice to have functionality for internal components that go into our product. So to name a few for example... framework/utility library on top of CppUnit which our developers share low-level IPC communications framework Common development SDK that myself and several other team leads started to help share some common code/tools at the department-wide level (this SDK is released as internal "product" to each of the groups). Is the standard practice to use the one bug tracking tool? Or would it make more sense to setup something more localized specifically for our needs and maintain it ourselves? It's also unclear how management will feel if developers start performing "IT" roles of maintaining software and servers. At the same time, right now, we use excel files, internal wiki and MS OneNote for this kind of stuff and that just doesn't feel right. (I'm afraid to ask for actual software recommendations, since that might make this question more localized or something. Also developers needs this way more than management, so it would be nice to find something either free or no more than the cost of a happy hour).

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  • What are the common mistakes in 'tailored Scrum approaches'?

    - by Clark Gable
    I have seen this before. Management wants to be agile and be scrummified, but does not want to step out of the status quo. My latest observation is no different; here, the Scrum is 'tailored' to the organization; specifically into a weird many-people-process. The diagram showing the different participants. I am putting together a document listing why this will not work. Here are the obvious ones: 1. There are product owner agents (an obvious WTF), who report to the product owner: causing dilution of decision making capability 2. There is a role that looks similar to a manager in the traditional approach - development manager: an obvious attempt at command-and-control model 3. The ScrumMaster's role includes collecting timesheets, which are used to track progress instead of burndown charts: detrimental to agile's efforts to build teams with motivated individuals Leaving the question "how would you convince the management?", my question is more at, "what else do you see as failures in this/similar 'tailored Scrum approaches'? EDIT: The diagram might use a few more details 1. The development manager is not part of the development team, with not very clearly defined responsibilities, except: developer performance assessemnt, recruitment, etc., 2. There are more than two teams (with ScrumMaster+development manager+dev team) with the same product owner for all teams!

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  • Not getting paid for hours you've worked?

    - by Sauron
    So I was reading from a previous thread about App vs Game Development: If it was for you to chose Game Development vs Application Development, which will you chose? Which brought me to this site: EA: The Human Story A lot of it talked about developers working something like 85 hours a week, and not getting paid overtime, or anything. Just getting paid for the 40 hours. Is this normal for most software companies? I mean where I work I'm only an entry level guy but I get overtime, and anything over 40 hours is considered this. But it got me thinking "Holy crap" I could never do that. My FREE time is important to me. But is this commonplace in most software companies? Or is more a rarity to certain types (game development, etc)? Because it got me scared! Like I understand having to put some extra hours in for a project... but like 80! that's ridiculous.

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  • Apache server still running but user can not connect website, after "sudo apachectl restart" user can connect website, what'r wrong? [on hold]

    - by Tinyfool
    My website is http://ourcoders.com/, recently I found sometime user report can not connect to my website, but I ssh to server, I found Apache still running, like this: root@AY1401261057077842eaZ:~# ps aux|grep apache root 873 0.0 1.3 290496 13528 ? Ss Aug18 0:28 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 3490 0.0 1.8 299004 18764 ? S Aug21 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 3612 0.0 1.5 296008 15540 ? S Aug21 0:03 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 3860 0.0 1.5 296636 16268 ? S Aug21 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 3913 0.0 1.2 295468 13084 ? S Aug21 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 3931 0.0 1.7 298488 18228 ? S 16:02 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 3938 0.0 1.9 299128 19724 ? S 16:02 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 4465 0.0 1.6 296688 16404 ? S Aug21 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 5075 0.0 1.2 295468 13044 ? S 16:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 5153 0.0 1.5 295880 15612 ? S 16:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 5770 0.0 1.5 296608 16016 ? S 16:30 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 5773 0.0 1.6 296948 16640 ? S 16:30 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 5816 0.0 1.6 297216 16976 ? S 16:31 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 5918 0.0 1.7 298228 17820 ? S 16:33 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 6023 0.0 1.9 299864 19840 ? S 16:35 0:13 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 6073 0.0 1.7 298480 18120 ? S 16:36 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 6088 0.0 2.0 300488 21008 ? S 16:36 0:12 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 6114 0.0 1.7 298548 18268 ? S 16:37 0:12 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 6134 0.0 1.6 296688 16532 ? S 16:37 0:04 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 6193 0.0 1.7 297908 17420 ? S 16:38 0:08 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 6821 0.0 1.8 299556 19072 ? S 16:43 0:11 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 7058 0.0 1.7 298676 18204 ? S 16:48 0:10 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 7065 0.0 1.8 299028 18868 ? S 16:48 0:11 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 7084 0.0 1.8 299508 19020 ? S 16:48 0:11 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 7221 0.0 1.8 299160 18768 ? S 16:51 0:09 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 11453 0.0 1.7 298484 18256 ? S 09:39 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start root 26324 0.0 0.0 8084 920 pts/0 S+ 22:52 0:00 grep --color=auto apache root 28517 0.0 0.0 4404 612 ? S Aug21 0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/cocoa/%Y/%m/access-%Y-%m-%d.log root 28518 0.0 0.0 4404 616 ? S Aug21 0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/cocoa/%Y/%m/access-%Y-%m-%d.log root 28519 0.0 0.0 4404 612 ? S Aug21 0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/cocoa/%Y/%m/access-%Y-%m-%d.log root 28520 0.0 0.0 4404 616 ? S Aug21 0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/cocoa/%Y/%m/access-%Y-%m-%d.log root 28521 0.0 0.0 4312 552 ? S Aug21 0:00 /usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/cocoa/%Y/%m/access-%Y-%m-%d.log root 28522 0.0 0.0 4308 548 ? S Aug21 0:07 /usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/cocoa/%Y/%m/access-%Y-%m-%d.log root 28523 0.0 0.0 4176 352 ? S Aug21 0:00 /usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/cocoa/%Y/%m/access-%Y-%m-%d.log root 28524 0.0 0.0 4180 356 ? S Aug21 0:00 /usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/cocoa/%Y/%m/access-%Y-%m-%d.log Today's only error log is blow. [Sat Aug 23 22:52:47 2014] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart [Sat Aug 23 22:52:47 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations traffic information: cat access-2014-08-23.log | cut -d " " -f4 |cut -d":" -f2 |sort|uniq -c |sort -nr 5692 14 5291 15 5083 16 4723 23 4463 12 4057 17 4011 11 3926 13 3852 10 3187 05 3176 09 3055 06 2790 07 2672 00 2608 02 2591 01 2577 04 2514 03 2497 08 707 22 88 18 After I use "sudo apachectl restart", user can connect my website. So I want to know? What is the problem? And if "sudo apachectl restart" is needed, can I automate run this command? Today this kind struts appear again, and I run netstat -a -n Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 125.39.208.120:50708 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 125.39.208.158:50278 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 220.173.142.152:23320 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 60.173.247.132:52851 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 125.39.208.158:39397 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 125.39.208.158:56894 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 183.129.174.2:21291 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 125.39.208.120:44499 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 125.39.208.120:34017 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 124.65.50.210:3774 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:15770 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 14.127.65.219:61633 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 305 0 115.28.146.116:80 125.39.208.120:37593 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52866 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52873 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52868 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 343 0 115.28.146.116:80 182.118.20.215:50709 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:54784 173.194.127.243:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 116.192.2.185:41253 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52876 10.146.6.61:3306 ESTABLISHED tcp 559 0 115.28.146.116:80 218.241.144.114:54501 ESTABLISHED tcp 376 0 115.28.146.116:80 116.213.196.119:50604 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59339 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 214 0 115.28.146.116:80 142.4.215.40:34443 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:48635 115.28.146.116:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 187 0 115.28.146.116:80 115.28.146.116:48635 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52853 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 594 0 115.28.146.116:80 183.129.174.2:7090 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52874 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 182.118.20.166:44081 TIME_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59028 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 14.127.65.219:61665 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52860 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:46983 10.146.6.61:3306 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 2290 115.28.146.116:80 14.154.179.243:41049 FIN_WAIT1 tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:42900 10.146.6.61:3306 ESTABLISHED tcp 571 0 115.28.146.116:80 220.173.142.152:23295 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59337 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 438 0 115.28.146.116:80 42.120.74.202:31567 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59498 ESTABLISHED tcp 259 0 115.28.146.116:80 66.249.65.56:36739 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59341 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 142.4.215.40:34267 FIN_WAIT2 tcp 799 0 115.28.146.116:80 180.173.88.1:52779 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 117.136.25.132:25207 FIN_WAIT2 tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 220.181.108.186:42540 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:59902 10.242.174.13:80 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 1820 115.28.146.116:80 218.22.140.90:39266 LAST_ACK tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 66.249.65.64:56977 TIME_WAIT tcp 669 0 115.28.146.116:80 83.251.90.61:49664 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52872 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 233 0 115.28.146.116:80 54.202.88.0:43398 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 479 0 115.28.146.116:80 65.49.44.149:25739 ESTABLISHED tcp 378 0 115.28.146.116:80 148.251.124.173:39313 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 14.127.65.219:61697 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 49.4.158.2:52986 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 769 0 115.28.146.116:80 14.127.65.219:61537 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52859 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:55734 10.164.2.163:9200 TIME_WAIT tcp 563 0 115.28.146.116:80 202.55.20.10:22577 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 194 0 115.28.146.116:80 37.58.100.165:50908 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 791 0 115.28.146.116:80 116.192.2.185:45628 ESTABLISHED tcp 709 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.116.61.178:65209 ESTABLISHED tcp 706 0 115.28.146.116:80 183.227.44.237:54519 ESTABLISHED tcp 301 0 115.28.146.116:80 118.198.243.127:31180 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:55721 10.164.2.163:9200 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:55726 10.164.2.163:9200 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:55723 10.164.2.163:9200 TIME_WAIT tcp 681 0 115.28.146.116:80 83.251.90.61:49662 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 83.251.90.61:65274 TIME_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59022 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 180.173.88.1:52781 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59037 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:55728 10.164.2.163:9200 TIME_WAIT tcp 231 0 115.28.146.116:37596 110.75.102.62:80 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 14.127.65.219:61569 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:51310 10.146.6.61:3306 ESTABLISHED tcp 299 0 115.28.146.116:80 123.125.71.16:36281 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:48620 115.28.146.116:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 183.227.44.237:54520 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59026 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 479 0 115.28.146.116:80 65.49.44.149:5490 ESTABLISHED tcp 665 0 115.28.146.116:80 83.251.90.61:49663 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:53744 173.194.127.147:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59023 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:22 116.192.2.185:34205 ESTABLISHED tcp 333 0 115.28.146.116:80 149.174.113.111:54338 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52861 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52863 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 116.192.2.185:43272 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 767 0 115.28.146.116:80 49.4.158.2:52947 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 668 0 115.28.146.116:80 83.251.90.61:49665 ESTABLISHED tcp 642 0 115.28.146.116:80 222.78.185.50:55788 ESTABLISHED tcp 710 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.116.61.178:65264 ESTABLISHED tcp 284 0 115.28.146.116:80 157.55.39.243:65185 ESTABLISHED tcp 450 0 115.28.146.116:80 65.49.44.149:55496 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 116.192.2.185:36629 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 233 0 115.28.146.116:80 54.202.88.0:42424 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 187 0 115.28.146.116:80 115.28.146.116:48620 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 14.127.65.219:61601 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 776 0 115.28.146.116:80 202.118.253.102:64883 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 841 0 115.28.146.116:80 37.228.105.28:49472 ESTABLISHED tcp 787 0 115.28.146.116:80 112.65.226.198:52192 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:55717 10.164.2.163:9200 TIME_WAIT tcp 233 0 115.28.146.116:80 54.202.88.0:42855 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 379 0 115.28.146.116:80 101.226.166.219:2322 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:80 183.60.212.152:43063 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 180.173.88.1:52780 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 784 0 115.28.146.116:80 101.95.29.26:63094 ESTABLISHED tcp 463 0 115.28.146.116:80 65.49.44.149:53876 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 116.192.2.185:37946 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 479 0 115.28.146.116:80 65.49.44.149:41157 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59036 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 49.4.158.2:52984 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 116.192.2.185:38100 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52865 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59027 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:36508 173.194.127.81:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 210 0 115.28.146.116:80 188.143.232.123:47775 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 115.28.146.116:80 113.36.238.28:59025 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 10.144.142.201:52857 10.146.6.61:3306 TIME_WAIT tcp 654 0 115.28.146.116:80 49.4.158.2:52985 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 115.28.146.116:58627 110.75.102.62:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 782 0 115.28.146.116:80 180.153.219.13:40293 ESTABLISHED tcp 792 0 115.28.146.116:80 116.192.2.185:48187 CLOSE_WAIT tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN udp 0 0 115.28.146.116:123 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 10.144.142.201:123 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:123 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:123 0.0.0.0:* udp6 0 0 :::123 :::* Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 8447 /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock unix 2 [ ACC ] SEQPACKET LISTENING 6678 /run/udev/control unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6482 @/com/ubuntu/upstart unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7543 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket unix 7 [ ] DGRAM 7551 /dev/log unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7650 /var/run/nscd/socket unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 7156424 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 7156137 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 7156136 unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 7156135 unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 7155834 unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 9734 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 9151 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 9150 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 9136 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 9135 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 9106 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 9105 unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 9073 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 7575 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 7574 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 7565 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 7564 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 7332 @/com/ubuntu/upstart unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 7330 unix 3 [ ] DGRAM 6712 unix 3 [ ] DGRAM 6711 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6662 @/com/ubuntu/upstart unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6635

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  • Autoloading Development or Production configs (best practices)

    - by Xeoncross
    When programming sites you usually have one set of config files for the development environment and another set for the production server (or one file with both settings). I am assuming all projects should be handled by version control like git or svn. Manual file transfers (like FTP) is wrong on so many levels. How you enable/disable the correct settings (so that your system knows which ones to use) is a problem for me. Each system I work on just kind of jimmy-rigs a solution. Below are the 3 methods I know of and I am hoping that someone can submit a more elegant solutions. 1) File Based The system loads a folder structure based on the URL requested. /site.com /site.fakeTLD /lib index.php For example, if the url is http://site.com then the system loads the production config files located in the site.com folder. However, if I'm working on the site locally I visit http://site.fakeTLD to work on the local copy of the site. To setup this I edit my hosts file and add site.fakeTLD to point to my own computer (127.0.0.1/localhost) and then create a vhost in apache. So now I can work on the codebase locally and then push to the server without any trouble. The problem is that this is susceptible to a "host" injection attack. So someone loading site.com could set the host to site.fakeTLD and then the system would load my development config files instead of production. 2) Config Based The config files contain on section for development - and one for production. The problem is that each time you go to push your changes to the repo you have to edit the file to specify which set of config options should be used. $use = 'production'; //'development'; This leaves the repo open to human error should one of the developers forget to enable the right setting. 3) File System Check Based All the development machines have an extra empty file called "development.txt" or something. Each time the system loads it checks for this file - if found then it knows it is in development mode - if missing then it knows it is in production mode. Since the file is NEVER ADDED to the repo then it will never be pushed (and checked out) on the production machine. However, this just doesn't feel right and causes a slight slow down since all filesystem checks are slow.

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  • mysql: Bind on unix socket: Permission denied

    - by Alex
    Can't start mysql with: sudo /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/srv/mysql/myDB --log-error=/srv/mysql/logs/mysqld-myDB.log --pid-file=/srv/mysql/pids/mysqld-myDB.pid --user=mysql --socket=/srv/mysql/sockets/mysql-myDB.sock --port=3700 120222 13:40:48 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /srv/mysql/myDB 120222 13:40:54 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /srv/mysql/pids/mysqld-myDB.pid ended /srv/mysql/logs/mysqld-myDB.log: 120222 13:43:53 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /srv/mysql/myDB 120222 13:43:53 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'plugin' is read only 120222 13:43:53 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. 120222 13:43:53 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 120222 13:43:53 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 32 4232720908 120222 13:43:53 [ERROR] Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 120222 13:43:53 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /srv/mysql/sockets/mysql-myDB.sock ? 120222 13:43:53 [ERROR] Aborting 120222 13:43:53 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... One instance mysqld is running: $ ps aux | grep mysql mysql 1093 0.0 0.2 169972 18700 ? Ssl 11:50 0:02 /usr/sbin/mysqld $ Port 3700 is available: $ netstat -a | grep 3700 $ Directory with sockets is empty: $ ls /srv/mysql/sockets/ $ There are all permissions: $ ls -l /srv/mysql/ total 20 drwxrwxrwx 2 mysql mysql 4096 2012-02-22 13:28 logs drwxrwxrwx 13 mysql mysql 4096 2012-02-22 13:44 myDB drwxrwxrwx 2 mysql mysql 4096 2012-02-22 12:55 pids drwxrwxrwx 2 mysql mysql 4096 2012-02-22 12:55 sockets drwxrwxrwx 2 mysql mysql 4096 2012-02-22 13:25 version Apparmor config: $cat /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld # vim:syntax=apparmor # Last Modified: Tue Jun 19 17:37:30 2007 #include <tunables/global> /usr/sbin/mysqld flags=(complain) { #include <abstractions/base> #include <abstractions/nameservice> #include <abstractions/user-tmp> #include <abstractions/mysql> #include <abstractions/winbind> capability dac_override, capability sys_resource, capability setgid, capability setuid, network tcp, /etc/hosts.allow r, /etc/hosts.deny r, /etc/mysql/*.pem r, /etc/mysql/conf.d/ r, /etc/mysql/conf.d/* r, /etc/mysql/*.cnf r, /usr/lib/mysql/plugin/ r, /usr/lib/mysql/plugin/*.so* mr, /usr/sbin/mysqld mr, /usr/share/mysql/** r, /var/log/mysql.log rw, /var/log/mysql.err rw, /var/lib/mysql/ r, /var/lib/mysql/** rwk, /var/log/mysql/ r, /var/log/mysql/* rw, /{,var/}run/mysqld/mysqld.pid w, /{,var/}run/mysqld/mysqld.sock w, /srv/mysql/ r, /srv/mysql/** rwk, /sys/devices/system/cpu/ r, # Site-specific additions and overrides. See local/README for details. #include <local/usr.sbin.mysqld> } Any suggestions? UPD1: $ touch /srv/mysql/sockets/mysql-myDB.sock $ sudo chown mysql:mysql /srv/mysql/sockets/mysql-myDB.sock $ ls -l /srv/mysql/sockets/mysql-myDB.sock -rw-rw-r-- 1 mysql mysql 0 2012-02-22 14:29 /srv/mysql/sockets/mysql-myDB.sock $ sudo /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/srv/mysql/myDB --log-error=/srv/mysql/logs/mysqld-myDB.log --pid-file=/srv/mysql/pids/mysqld-myDB.pid --user=mysql --socket=/srv/mysql/sockets/mysql-myDB.sock --port=3700 120222 14:30:18 mysqld_safe Can't log to error log and syslog at the same time. Remove all --log-error configuration options for --syslog to take effect. 120222 14:30:18 mysqld_safe Logging to '/srv/mysql/logs/mysqld-myDB.log'. 120222 14:30:18 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /srv/mysqlmyDB 120222 14:30:24 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /srv/mysql/pids/mysqld-myDB.pid ended $ ls -l /srv/mysql/sockets/mysql-myDB.sock ls: cannot access /srv/mysql/sockets/mysql-myDB.sock: No such file or directory $ UPD2: $ sudo netstat -lnp | grep mysql tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1093/mysqld unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 5912 1093/mysqld /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock $ sudo lsof | grep /srv/mysql/sockets/mysql-myDB.sock lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/sears/.gvfs Output information may be incomplete. UPD3: $ cat /etc/mysql/my.cnf # # The MySQL database server configuration file. # # You can copy this to one of: # - "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" to set global options, # - "~/.my.cnf" to set user-specific options. # # One can use all long options that the program supports. # Run program with --help to get a list of available options and with # --print-defaults to see which it would actually understand and use. # # For explanations see # http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html # This will be passed to all mysql clients # It has been reported that passwords should be enclosed with ticks/quotes # escpecially if they contain "#" chars... # Remember to edit /etc/mysql/debian.cnf when changing the socket location. [client] port = 3306 socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock # Here is entries for some specific programs # The following values assume you have at least 32M ram # This was formally known as [safe_mysqld]. Both versions are currently parsed. [mysqld_safe] socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock nice = 0 [mysqld] # # * Basic Settings # # # * IMPORTANT # If you make changes to these settings and your system uses apparmor, you may # also need to also adjust /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld. # user = mysql socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock port = 3306 basedir = /usr datadir = /var/lib/mysql tmpdir = /tmp skip-external-locking # # Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on # localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure. #bind-address = 127.0.0.1 # # * Fine Tuning # key_buffer = 16M max_allowed_packet = 16M thread_stack = 192K thread_cache_size = 8 # This replaces the startup script and checks MyISAM tables if needed # the first time they are touched myisam-recover = BACKUP #max_connections = 100 #table_cache = 64 #thread_concurrency = 10 # # * Query Cache Configuration # query_cache_limit = 1M query_cache_size = 16M # # * Logging and Replication # # Both location gets rotated by the cronjob. # Be aware that this log type is a performance killer. # As of 5.1 you can enable the log at runtime! #general_log_file = /var/log/mysql/mysql.log #general_log = 1 log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log # Here you can see queries with especially long duration #log_slow_queries = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log #long_query_time = 2 #log-queries-not-using-indexes # # The following can be used as easy to replay backup logs or for replication. # note: if you are setting up a replication slave, see README.Debian about # other settings you may need to change. #server-id = 1 #log_bin = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log expire_logs_days = 10 max_binlog_size = 100M #binlog_do_db = include_database_name #binlog_ignore_db = include_database_name # # * InnoDB # # InnoDB is enabled by default with a 10MB datafile in /var/lib/mysql/. # Read the manual for more InnoDB related options. There are many! # # * Security Features # # Read the manual, too, if you want chroot! # chroot = /var/lib/mysql/ # # For generating SSL certificates I recommend the OpenSSL GUI "tinyca". # # ssl-ca=/etc/mysql/cacert.pem # ssl-cert=/etc/mysql/server-cert.pem # ssl-key=/etc/mysql/server-key.pem [mysqldump] quick quote-names max_allowed_packet = 16M [mysql] #no-auto-rehash # faster start of mysql but no tab completition [isamchk] key_buffer = 16M # # * IMPORTANT: Additional settings that can override those from this file! # The files must end with '.cnf', otherwise they'll be ignored. # !includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/

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  • SQLAuthority News – Professional Development and Community

    - by pinaldave
    I was recently invited by Hyderabad Techies to deliver a keynote for their 16-day online session called TECH THUNDERS. This event has been running from May 15 and will continue up to the end of the month May 30). There would be a total of 30 sessions. In every evening of those 16 day, there will be either one or two sessions from several noted industry experts. It is the same group which has received the Microsoft Community Impact Award as the Best User Group in India as for developers. I have never talked about Professional Development before. Even if this was my first time to do so, I still accepted the wonderful challenge for the sake of the thousands of audience who were expected to attend this online event. Time is of the essence; I had 15 minutes to deliver the keynote and open the event. The reason why I was nervous was because I had to cover precisely only 15 minutes- no more, no less. If I had an hour, I would have been very confident because I knew I could do a good job for sure. However, I still needed to open the event as great as it can be even if the time was short. I finally created a 6-slide small presentation. In reality, there were only two pages which had the main contents of my keynote, and the remaining slides were just wrappers and decors. You can download the complete slide deck from here. The image used in the slide deck is a curtsy of blog reader Roger Smith who sent it to me. The slide in which I spent a good amount of time is the slide which talks about Professional Development. The content of the slide is as follows: Today, Technology and You Keep your eyes, ears and senses open – Stay Active! You are not the first one who faced the problem – Search Online! Learn the web – Blogs, Forums and Friends! Trust the Technology, Not Print – Test Everything! Community and You! I had a very little time creating the slide deck as I was busy the whole day doing the Advanced SQL Server Training. I had put together these slides during the tea/coffee break of my session. Though it was just a six-bullet point, I had received quite a few emails right after keynote requesting me to talk more about this subject and share the details of my slide deck. I have talked with the event organizer and he will put the keynote online very soon. The subject of the talk is very simple; it revolves around the community. Time has changed, and Internet has come a long way from where it was many years ago. Now that we are all connected, help via the Internet and useful software is easily available around us. In fact, RSS, Newletters and few other technologies have progressed so much that the help through news is now being delivered to our door steps, instead of going out and seeking them. Sometimes, a simple search online solves a lot of problems of many developers. The community is now the first stop for any developer when he or she needs help or just wants to hang around and share some thoughts. I strongly suggest everybody to be a part of the Tech Community. Be it online, offline community or just a local user group, I strongly advise all of you to get involved. I am active in the Community, and I must say I recommend getting drawn into it. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: MVP, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL User Group, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology Tagged: Community

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  • Book Review: Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide

    - by Grant Ronald
    Packt Publishing asked me to review Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide by Vinod Krishnan, so on a couple of long flights I managed to get through the book in a couple of sittings. One point to make clear before I go into the review.  Having authored "The Quick Start Guide to Fusion Development: JDeveloper and Oracle ADF", I've written a book which covers the same topic/beginner level.  I also think that its worth stating up front that I applaud anyone who has gone  through the effort of writing a technical book. So well done Vinod.  But on to the review: The book itself is a good break down of topic areas.  Vinod starts with a quick tour around the IDE, which is an important step given all the work you do will be through the IDE.  The book then goes through the general path that I tend to always teach: a quick overview demo, ADF BC, validation, binding, UI, task flows and then the various "add on" topics like security, MDS and advanced topics.  So it covers the right topics in, IMO, the right order.  I also think the writing style flows nicely as well - Its a relatively easy book to read, it doesn't get too formal and the "Have a go hero" hands on sections will be useful for many. That said, I did pick out a number of styles/themes to the writing that I found went against the idea of a beginners guide.  For example, in writing my book, I tried to carefully avoid talking about topics not yet covered or not yet relevant at that point in someone's learning.  So, if I was a new ADF developer reading this book, did I really need to know about ADFBindingFilter and DataBindings.cpx file on page 58 - I've only just learned how to do a drag and drop simple application so showing me XML configuration files relevant to JSF/ADF lifecycle is probably going to scare me off! I found this in a couple of places, for example, the security chapter starts on page 219 but by page 222 (and most of the preceding pages are hands-on steps) we're diving into the web.xml, weblogic.xml, adf-config.xml, jsp-config.xml and jazn-data.xml.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you shouldn't know this, but I feel you have to get people on a strong grounding of the concepts before showing them implementation files.  If having just learned what ADF Security is will "The initialization parameter remove.anonymous.role is set to false for the JpsFilter filter as this filter is the first filter defined in the file" really going to help me? The other theme I found which I felt didn't work was that a couple of the chapters descended into a reference guide.  For example page 159 onwards basically lists UI components and their properties.  And page 87 onwards list the attributes of ADF BC in pretty much the same way as the on line help or developer guide, and I've a personal aversion to any sort of help that says pretty much what the attribute name is e.g. "Precision Rule: this option is used to set a strict precision rule", or "Property Set: this is the property set that has to be applied to the attribute". Hmmm, I think I could have worked that out myself, what I would want to know in a beginners guide are what are these for, what might I use them for...and if I don't need to use them to create an emp/dept example them maybe it’s better to leave them out. All that said, would the book help me - yes it would.  It’s obvious that Vinod knows ADF and his style is relatively easy going and the book covers all that it has to, but I think the book could have done a better job in the educational side of guiding beginners.

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  • Minimum team development sizes

    - by MarkPearl
    Disclaimer - these are observations that I have had, I am not sure if this follows the philosophy of scrum, agile or whatever, but most of these insights were gained while implementing a scrum scenario. Two is a partnership, three starts a team For a while I thought that a team was anything more than one and that scrum could be effective methodology with even two people. I have recently adjusted my thinking to a scrum team being a minimum of three, so what happened to two and what do you call it? For me I consider a group of two people working together a partnership - there is value in having a partnership, but some of the dynamics and value that you get from having a team is lost with a partnership. Avoidance of a one on one confrontation The first dynamic I see missing in a partnership is the team motivation to do better and how this is delivered to individuals that are not performing. Take two highly motivated individuals and put them together and you will typically see them continue to perform. Now take a situation where you have two individuals, one performing and one not and the behaviour is totally different compared to a team of three or more individuals. With two people, if one feels the other is not performing it becomes a one on one confrontation. Most people avoid confrontations and so nothing changes. Compare this to a situation where you have three people in a team, 2 performing and 1 not the dynamic is totally different, it is no longer a personal one on one confrontation but a team concern and people seem more willing to encourage the individual not performing and express their dissatisfaction as a team if they do not improve. Avoiding the effects of Tuckman’s Group Development Theory If you are not familiar with Tuckman’s group development theory give it a read (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman's_stages_of_group_development) In a nutshell with Tuckman’s theory teams go through these stages of Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing. You want your team to reach and remain in the Performing stage for as long as possible - this is where you get the most value. When you have a partnership of two and you change the individuals in the partnership you basically do a hard reset on the partnership and go back to the beginning of Tuckman’s model each time. This has a major effect on the performance of a team and what they can deliver. What I have seen is that you reduce the effects of Tuckman's theory the more individuals you have in the team (until you hit the maximum team size in which other problems kick in). While you will still experience Tuckman's theory with a team of three, the impact will be greatly reduced compared to two where it is guaranteed every time a change occurs. It's not just in the numbers, it's in the people One final comment - while the actual numbers of a team do play a role, the individuals in the team are even more important - ideally you want to keep individuals working together for an extended period. That doesn't mean that you never change the individuals in a team, or that once someone joins a team they are stuck there - there is value in an individual moving from team to team and getting cross pollination, but the period of time that an individual moves should be in month's or years, not days or weeks. Why? So why is it important to know this? Why is it important to know how a team works and what motivates them? I have been asking myself this question for a while and where I am at right now is this… the aim is to achieve the stage where the sum of the total (team) is greater than the sum of the parts (team members). This is why we form teams and why understanding how they work is a challenge and also extremely stimulating.

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  • Incentivizing Work with Development Teams

    - by MarkPearl
    Recently I saw someone on twitter asking about incentives and if anyone had past experience with incentivizing work. I promised to respond with some of the experiences I have had in the past so here goes... **Disclaimer** - these are my experiences with incentives, generally in software development - in some other industries this may not be applicable – this is also my thinking at this point in time, with more experience my opinion may change. Incentivize at the level that you want people to group at If you are wanting to promote a team mentality, incentivize teams. If you want to promote an individual mentality, incentivize individuals. There is nothing worse than mixing this up. Some organizations put a lot of effort in establishing teams and team mentalities but reward individuals. This has a counter effect on the resources they have put towards establishing a team mentality. In the software projects that I work with we want promote cross functional teams that collaborate. Personally, if I was on a team and knew that there was an opportunity to work on a critical component of the system, and that by doing so I would get a bigger bonus, then I would be hesitant to include other people in solving that problem. Thus, I would hinder the teams efforts in being cross functional and reduce collaboration levels. Does that mean everyone in the team should get an even share of an incentive? In most situations I would say yes - even though this may feel counter-intuitive. I have heard arguments put forward that if “person x contributed more than person Y then they should be rewarded more” – This may sound controversial but I would rather treat people how would you like them to perform, not where they currently are at. To add to this approach, if someone is free loading, you bet your bottom dollar that the team is going to make this a lot more transparent if they feel that individual is going to be rewarded at the same level that everyone else is. Bad incentives promote destructive work If you are going to incentivize people, pick you incentives very carefully. I had an experience once with a sales person who was told they would get a bonus provided that they met an ordering target with a particular supplier. What did this person do? They sold everything at cost for the next month or so. They reached the goal, but the company didn't gain anything from it. It was a bad incentive. Expect the same with development teams, if you incentivize zero bug levels, you will get zero code committed to the solution. If you incentivize lines of code, you will get many many lines of bad code. Is there such a thing as a good incentives? Monetary wise, I am not sure there is. I would much rather encourage organizations to pay their people what they are worth upfront. I would also advise against paying money to teams as an incentive or even a bonus or reward for reaching a milestone. Rather have a breakaway for the team that promotes team building as a reward if they reach a milestone than pay them more money. I would also advise against making the incentive the reason for them to reach the milestone. If this becomes the norm it promotes people to begin to only do their job if there is an incentive at the end of the line. This is not a behaviour one wants to encourage. If the team or individual is in the right mind-set, they should not work any harder than they are right now with normal pay.

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  • Some help needed with setting up the PERFECT workflow for web development with 2-3 guys using subver

    - by Roeland
    Hey guys! I run a small web development company along side with my brother and friend. After doing extensive research I have decided on using subversion for version control. Here is how I currently plan on running typical development. Keep in mind there are 3 of us each in a separate location. I set up an account with springloops (springloops.com) subversion hosting. Each time I work on a new project, I create a repository for it. So lets say in this case I am working on site1. I want to have 3 versions of the site on the internet: Web Development - This is the server me and the other developers publish to. (site1.dev.bythepixel.com) Client Preview - This is the server that we update every few days with a good revision for the client to see. (site1.bythepixel.com) Live Site - The site I publish to when going live (site1.com) Each web development machine (at each location) will have a local copy of xamp running virtual host to allow multiple websites to be worked on. The root of the local copy is set up to be the same as the local copy of the subversion repository. This is set up so we can make small tweaks and preview them immediately. When some work has been done, a commit is made to the repository for the site. I will have the dev site automatically be pushed (its an option in springloops). Then, whenever I feel ready to push to the client site I will do so. Now, I have a few concerns with those work flow: I am using codeigniter currently, and in the config file I generally set the root of the site. Ex. http://www.site1.com. So, it looks like each time I publish to one of the internet servers, I will have to modify the config file? Is there any way to make it so certain files are set for each server? So when I hit publish to client preview it just uploads the config file for the client preview server. I don't want the live site , the client preview site and the dev site to share the same mysql server for a variety of reasons. So does this once again mean that I have to adjust the db server info each time I push to a different site? Does this workflow make sense? If you have any suggestion please let me know. I plan for this to be the work flow I use for the next few year. I just need to put a system in place that allows for future expansion! Thanks a bunch!!

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  • Are there any new/updated Java web development frameworks to watch for?

    - by predhme
    I know recently Spring 3.0 was released which brought about a nice new set of features and ease of web development with their MVC package. However are there any new frameworks on the horizon and/or new versions of other frameworks that a web developer should have their eyes on? I heard about the Stripes framework, but it seems as though development has stopped. It also seems grails has a new release coming out as well which that looks like it is just an update to support the new features in the latest groovy release.

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  • Suggest me which web development technology i gotta use?

    - by shyam-daniel
    I am a newbie to the web application development. I have to start with a Framework which will make me grow up higher in my career. So please suggest which technology i have to choose? Lot of technologies for web development is articulating in this field like PHP,JSP,Stuts,JSF,Flex,ColdFusion etc. Give me some suggestions to how to start?

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