From an internal email of a very very big corporate company

Incident Background: BIGPROJECT has been unavailable since APAC SOD due to a data refresh activity being wrongly triggered in from UAT to Production environments.

Business Impact

1. BIGPROJECT is unavailable for all users in the bank
2. BIGPROJECT2 platform which sits on BIGPROJECT is unavailable this includes the Click-to-chat serviceCurrent Status
3. Initial attempt of flashback Database to restore from the last good restore point failed due to errors due to absence of flashback logs– this was a quicker option, but now ruled out.

• Currently going ahead with full restoration in the Primary database – this activity is tentatively supposed to take 8-9 hours (in place of 6 hours earlier mentioned)

[...manual recovery instruction follows... ]

After 5 hours in another email they dare to say:

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After some trial and error, I decided to switch to a new syntax highlighter library, mostly because the old one stopped working. I am very satisfied with Crayon because it is backward compatible with  the previous plugin based on SyntaxHighlighter3 and offer also a nice in-line editor.

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Sometimes I need a very very fast start on emacs. If you have the same need, put this in your init.el and live happy:

(cua-mode)
(setq select-active-region nil)
(setq mouse-drag-copy-region t)
(global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-at-click)

Assembly: the only way

In principle there was only one: assembly machine language. Hardware and software engineer was a one-role.

The guy who was able to project a chip, was the one who was able to program it.

Then Fortan (1957), the first high level language compiler was created.

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After months of esp8266 experimentation, I “just” discovered this little chip has also a I2S Audio digital interface. To discover it you must install the Arduino IDE adapter and code directly in C++ (brr, ok not a breeze but not boring like Java :)

I2S is a digital protocol to send your digital  music to a DAC decoder. Esp8266 has a 16bit DAC.

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Language based on JVM are the new trend in Java World. It seems everyone dislike Oracle on these days.

Kotlin score some point on these days because it will be supported officially on Android (Mid-May announce):

Starting now, Android Studio 3.0 ships with Kotlin out of the box, meaning Android developers no longer need to install any extras or worry about compatibility. It also means that moving forward, you can rest assured that both JetBrains and Google will be supporting Android development in Kotlin.

It is a good news for an huble language with good IDE support like this.

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A small, relaxing news was published some days ago:

It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”.  [...]

Today, I want  to share our results.  In addition, we’re announcing the next steps in our GVFS journey for customers, including expanded open sourcing to start taking contributions and improving how it works for us at Microsoft, as well as for partners and customers.

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Some “new” shiny IDE feature smart multi line editing, for instance for easily copy-past a block of code and then modifying it “live”. Sublime text has some feature like this…. and Emacs?

Emacs has a package for it called…Multiple cursors!

This video on “EmacsRocks” shows you some powerful use

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In Italian language we have accent words like àèéìòù

They are quite important because for instance “is” is spelled

è

whereas “and” is spelled

e

Accent are bad guys even today: if you copy them from MS-Word inside an Oracle sql script you can end up with different UTF-8 values. Also the accent are likely to be destroyed if you past them in your html page without using the correct html entity (i.e. è )

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