Are your skills upto date?

I came across this website which rates the Programming languages, Interesting read!. Also helps in finding out if your skills are upto date:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Abstract:

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity
of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are
based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party
vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to
calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best
programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been
written.
The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are
still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language
should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition
of the TIOBE index can be found here.

How to dynamically edit a website content on your browser

I was scrolling through a blog and found this cool tip, it lets you edit a webpage online in browser (I tested on Internet Explorer but I think this works with Firefox and Opera as well). Its very useful when you
want to comment/note a webpage and store it for future. You can also edit the website and take a screenshot of it. Here are the steps:

1. Open any website (eg., www.google.com)
2. Enter this line in the URL of the browser:
javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true';
document.designMode='on'; void 0
3. Go ahead and edit the website!

See this blog to know more about this idea and various comments on it.

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/cut-and-paste-one-line-of-code-to-make-any-website-editable

How to move the thunderbird mails to Outlook

I have written a post earlier to do this, I found a new way to do it. This way is better if you have few emails to be transferred from Thunderbird to Outlook. Again, this is not a direct way and is not straightforward. Here are the steps:

1. Open Thunderbird
2. Select all the mails to be transferred
3. Right-click and select "Forward all mails" (or something like that)
4. A new mail window opens with all the selected mails as attachment
5. Send this mail to your own account (Thats why this method is not good to transfer heavy mails!)
6. Open outlook and check mail, dran-and-drop the attached mails to your desktop
7. Drag-and-drop the attached mails from your desktop to Outlook folder.

Done! Take care while moving the mails, better to take a backup.

C++ coding standards at Google

I was going through an interesting blog ( http://1-800-magic.blogspot.com/2008/06/back-to-microsoft.html) by an ex-Google employee and found this link to google C++ coding standards.

Its good to use it as a reference for good programming tips, or just an interesting go-through. Here is the link to Google coding standards (http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml )

Solaris 10 commands: How to see Documentum Server logs

Checking documentum server logs while a workflow is running is very useful, also while debugging the content server methods. Here are the steps:

1. Login to Solaris 10 (From windows, I use putty or SSH client, both are good)
2. Type bash to change the shell (I find bash is very convenient shell than ksh)
3. Change to documentum folder: type cd $DOCUMENTUM/dba/log
4. Open the log: type tail -100f <<docbase_name>>.log

The above tail command lists out last 100 lines from the log file. As and when the log file is updated by the server, the refresh happens automatically enabling to see last 100 lines always. This is very useful when the server is throwing lot of log messages.

First Impressions on Documentum 6 (D6) Contd..

These are some of the differences I saw in D6 when compared to earlier version (5.3)…

* dfc.properties file is used instead of DMCL.ini
* DMCL emulator for backward compatibility for DMCL API calls (probably desktop client uses this)
* Global registry is made mandatory
* Aspects (on the lines of TBOs and SBOs)
* D6 install comes with its own DFC.jar, which means that D5 and D6 can exist on same box
* Presets (in Webtop)
* DocApp Archive becomes a DAR and is installed from Composer (Need to analyse what a DAR format is..is it just a zip of DocApp Archive? )
* McLaren Docloader doesn’t work with D6?
* Conditional value assistance
* Classification of Search results in Webtop
* Indexing can be restricted to object type

First Thoughts on Documentum Composer (D6)

During my 2 day workshop on D6, I had a hands-on on Documentum Composer which is a replacement of Documentum Application Builder (DAB) and Installer. I liked Documentum Composer for 3 main reasons:
1. It has better interface than DAB, and its easy to use.
2. Its combined with DAB and DAI, this is very good because you can create a DocApp and Install it there itself.
3. Since it is built in eclipse, you can identify the issues at the DocApp development level instead of installation level. Any Error in DocApp is immediately highlighted with a red mark.

I tried a few things with Composer... creating objects, types, value-assistance, life-cycles.It all seemed very simple and easy to create a DocApp. Installation also went fine without any issues.

Best thing about Composer is, once you have a DocApp you can install it in multiple docbases without exiting the Composer.

One drawback according to me is, it doesn't show workflows. I saw that BPM is there under artifacts but workflows can neither be created there nor the existing workflows are displayed there. To create and manage workflows, Process Builder is needed.

(This post is composed from ScribeFire, a Firefox Extension)