isaac on the inkrunway

good cnet article; http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20000133-248.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

I’ve been working on a perl based Jira SOAP perl script to add versions to a project. thought i would share

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#!/usr/bin/perl
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use SOAP::Lite;
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my $username = "ijohnson";
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my $password = 'password';
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#this took a bit.  the ID i know is 10000
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#so i kept trying to push that, but it wants the short textual name (for the QA group here it's TEST)
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#e.g. http://10.10.10.172:8080/jira/browse/TEST
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my $projectNum = "TEST"; #10000
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#for reference, jira is exposed like http://10.10.10.172:8080/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa
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my $soap = SOAP::Lite->proxy("http://10.10.10.172:8080/jira/rpc/soap/jirasoapservice-v2?wsdl");
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my $auth = $soap->login(
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SOAP::Data->type(string => $username),
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SOAP::Data->type(string => $password)
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);
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#Example one (releaseDate is optional).
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my %versionInfo = ( 'name' => '2.7.37.11',
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'releaseDate' => "2010-03-02T00:00:00.000Z");
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my $newVersion = $soap->addVersion($auth->result(),
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$projectNum,
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\%versionInfo);
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#Example two
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# note:
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# releaseDate => SOAP::Data->type(string => "2010-03-02T00:00:01.000Z"),
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# didnt work, someone can probably fix this example.  works without releaseDate though
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my $versionInfo2 = {
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name => SOAP::Data->type(string => "2.7.37.12"),
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};
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my $newVersion = $soap->addVersion($auth->result(),
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$projectNum,
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$versionInfo2);
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#example three
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my $vName = "2.7.37.13";
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my $rDate = "2010-03-02T00:00:03.000Z";
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my $newVersion = $soap->addVersion($auth->result(),
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$projectNum,
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SOAP::Data->type(
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versionInfo => {
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name => $vName,
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releaseDate => $rDate
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},
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)
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);
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exit 0;

during our trip thus far Anna and I have seen two theligically rooted action movies; Legion and Book of Eli. Legion is a pseudo-end-of-days movie set in the desert. while it uses some Christian concepts, it’s mostly just a brainless zombie movie. we were both rather bored and by the end, laughing at it’s dumb plot line.

Book of Eli is a post-apocolyptical western, so devoid of color it’s almost a black and white. The acting on a whole was good and the concept well thought out. I didn’t see what was coming in many instances. we didn’t see the end coming. the role of solara was weak but other than that, a good matinee worthy flick.

if you follow the instructions to the T with ubuntu 9.10 you get a damn “cannot connect to database” error when you go to localhost/wordpress. To solve it open /etc/wordpress/config-localhost.php and get your temp password (e.g. ABCD1234)
then log into mysql with mysql -u root -p and type your password. when you get the mysql> prompt, set the password:
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR ‘wordpress’@'localhost’ = OLD_PASSWORD(’ABCD1234′);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

it should be fixed

I’ve had this conversation a few times now with people in different businesses but all have experienced trying to outsource to China: It doesn’t work. It’s this bizarre Emporer-has-no-clothes scenerio; everyone on the ground knows it and only now is management getting it. Google finally stepped out, pointed and shouted “hey, they’re phony”.

I’ve worked at a few companies, not a lot, but a few; those that do PDM/PLM to Biotech to Medical Devices, always in SCM which means I always have to interface with remote developers; including offshore ones. Indian developers have some problems, but really, if you integrate them as equals, just remote, they perform quite well. My best collegues (and bosses) have been Indian (though highly American-ized). I have had some very positive experiences there and personally found that if you pay them right (you get what you pay for), you get really dedicated people.

Now China is completely different… it’s like the wild west. At one employer i worked at, the China QA had been failing … they had 4 times the people (they offshored QA for the same price… getting 4 times as many people) but bugs, really nasty showstoppers, were getting through over and over and delaying the release. Their computer network, despite being pretty built up, was slower than molasses. Eventually two of the best people on our team; one architect one manager were put in charge.

After about a month and a visit out there, the architect pulled me aside one day.
“This is political, understand” he cautioned. “They just surf and download movies and music all day. Nothing gets done. I walked around casually and could see bittorrent running on all their machines”. No matter what they tried, they couldn’t get a turn around. And I didn’t understand the politics but there is something unusual with the doing business in China; maybe it’s payoffs or something else. But when I read Google had their IP stolen, it didn’t surprise me in the least.

The guy i mentioned eventually got canned; no manager wants to own the problem of their cheap offshore team failing and needing to hire back local QA, but the tide is changing. I’m now hearing stories from various collegues about software companies pulling back on China; either stopping growth or moving back to Singapore and India.

Hopefully Google’s sounding bell will free other companies to step forward and admit what everyone knows: China is not good for offshoring technology development. You can spin it any way you like, but a culture lead from the top not to respect IP and allows piracy will also see piracy pervade legitimate enterprise.

#———————————
# WebClient for SVN (2.0)
#———————————
linkformat.changeset=http://svn.mycompany.net/websvn-2.2.1/revision.php?repname=source&location=/&rev=${rev}
linkformat.file.added=http://svn.mycompany.net/websvn-2.2.1/filedetails.php?repname=source&path=${path}&rev=${rev}
linkformat.file.modified=http://svn.mycompany.net/websvn-2.2.1/diff.php?repname=source&path=${path}&rev=${rev}&sc=0
linkformat.file.replaced=http://svn.mycompany.net/websvn-2.2.1/filedetails.php?repname=source&path=${path}&rev=${rev-1}&sc=0
linkformat.file.deleted=http://svn.mycompany.net/websvn-2.2.1/filedetails.php?repname=source&path=${path}&rev=${rev-1}&sc=0
linkformat.copyfrom=http://svn.mycompany.net/websvn-2.2.1/filedetails.php?repname=source&path=${path}&rev=${rev-1}&sc=0

I went to the sharing control panel and chose the 3rd checkbox for “File Sharing” and then “Share files and folders using FTP”. I then logged into the remote linux box and did an FTP back “ftp 10.10.10.10″ where 10.10.10.10 is my IP… i used my username i log into the mac with (not the linux server) and password. then i did a “put /opt/mydumpfile” but it kept saying “Permission Denied”.. I was thinking i somehow hosed a permission… long story short.. you need to specify both FROM and TO when using PUT with Mac OS X FTP.. when i changed the command to “put /opt/mydumpfile mydumpfile” then it worked like a champ.

I had a good start today with a great sunrise coming into work. I then found out from Anna that out Christmas presents arrived Dec 24th and the dumbass UPS driver left them at our front door, which is right on the sidewalk for our whole building and in plain sight for the apartment complex. obviuosly they were stolen but there isn’t much to be done. I’m pissed off right now with nowhere to direct my rage…

so far it’s as good as the pc. I don’t recall the subtle transparency change in pulling out tabs in the windows version. very light, only 53 mb

So i was struggling to burn some images. My Roxio 2009 didnt install well so i removed it. However, I was left with the fact that the slick native ISO burning in Windows 7 didn’t work. I would double click and it wanted me to select a program or go to the web. There was no right click burn image option. So if you double click, select “select program” then the “Windows Disc Image Burner” is at the top. Select it and now you can right click ISOs and burn them natively in windows.