Legendary guitarist Pat Metheny has done something übergeek , and way too cool
"The Orchestrion"
It is like a mechanical orchestra he can control .....you have got to see this
Be sure to see the seven Orchestrion You Tube videos where Pat is talking and explaining what it is.
Link to the Pat Metheny - Orchestrion videos
Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 19-02-2010 18:41:04
Full PostI had never touched the inside of Quickr (or Quickplace) until last week.
First Impression: Wauw, the people who created this beast, must really have been smoking crack or something....
This is really one ugly poorly documented MFKR.
Beauty on the outside, but the inside....
Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 17-02-2010 23:56:55
Full PostNevertheless quite striking and funny :-)
http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/it-personality-types-8-profiles-in-geekdom-313?page=0,0
Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 11-01-2010 20:18:50
Full PostNo, I did not write Java Lotus Notes ...just Java Notes :-)
It is great little website for anyone who is using Java or want to use Java.
Really useful, packed with examples and code snippets.
Link to Java Notes
Another great site is of course "Java Developers Almanac". It contains all the code samples from the book and more.
It is java 1.4, but it is still very good and packed with great examples.
Link to Java Almanac
(the site has been updated with new layout and features I see)
Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 07-01-2010 11:04:05
Full PostLike many others I have worked my way thru Print and Msgbox statements in LotusScript Agents when debugging.
Why do that when we have a LS debugger?
Because it is a horrible arcane debugger. So many times it is just easier to do Print and Msgbox.
In Java agents you can at least open up a standard Java console and do a Println to it.
Still if you want to use the console to present information when running agents in the users Notes client, the Java debug console would have to be opened first
So a couple of years ago I thought I would create my own Console library.
Nothing fancy, I just wanted it to be:
- simple
- useful
- and work for both LotusScript and Java
Otherwise I knew I would not be using it.
So I came up with SimpleConsole.
It is a really simple no-nonsense console for both LotusScript and Java and it works down to at least version 6.5.
This is how you would use it:
Java:
The very simple version:
SimpleConsole console = new SimpleConsole();
console.addText("It is working!");
That is it! :-)
Add a different icon and a title:
Session session = getSession();
AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();
SimpleConsole console = new SimpleConsole();
console.setConsoleTitle("Yeeehah..");
String notesdata = session.getEnvironmentString("directory", true);
console.setConsoleIcon("file:///" + notesdata + "/domino/icons/actn151.gif");
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
Thread.currentThread().sleep(0, 0100);
console.addText("test" + i);
}
The icon can come from an URL as well:
If you want the console to close just add:
LotusScript:
It is almost as easy to use it in LotusScript
You just use LS2J to call the java class
Option Public
Option Declare
UseLSX "*javacon"
Use "SimpleConsole"
Sub Initialize
Dim jSession As JavaSession
Dim SimpleConsole As JavaClass
Dim console As JavaObject
Dim jObj2 As JavaObject
Dim jMethod As JavaMethod
Dim jError As JavaError
Dim counter As Long
On Error GoTo errorHandler
Set jSession = New JavaSession()
Set SimpleConsole = jSession.GetClass("SimpleConsole")
Set console = SimpleConsole.CreateObject
console.setConsoleTitle("SimpleConsole...a simple console For LS too!")
console.setConsoleIcon("http://nevermind.dk/nevermind/blog.nsf/comment.gif");
For counter=1 To 1000
Yield
console.addText("test " + CStr(counter))
Next
Call console.exitConsole()
Exit Sub
errorHandler:
Set jError = jSession.getLastJavaError()
MessageBox jError.StackTrace,, Error
Exit Sub
End Sub
Caveats:
Lotus Notes (not talking about Eclipse) doesn't play well with Java Swing, anyone who has ever done any Swing GUI has had the experience that the Java GUI "disappears".
Or rather it is not moved to the front when created, but stays behind the Notes client, and nobody knows it is there.
Trial and error has helped me to fix this and the SimpleConsole should move to the front, when run from the Notes Client, ....but might not not when the agent is run from the Designer.
You will have to click on the icon on the taskbar to bring it to the front
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I use SimpleConsole mainly in Agents, but you can of course use it anywhere you use Java or LS.
There is no Notes specifics in the library so you can use it in any other Java project too.
All I ask is to keep the reference to me and my company in the code :-)
Download:
SimpleConsole Demo Database
Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 05-01-2010 10:52:00
Full Post2009 Year in Review: Robots
Other great robot stuff
Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 04-01-2010 11:36:10
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