Always one character away from perfetcion
I’m very happy to announce that we made a new release of Intalio|BPMS.
We have fixed bugs in this release, introduced a new tool named “Insert space” (it deserves a separate blog post that should come soon).
Overall the modeling experience is now even smoother.
We also upgraded Designer and Server to support java 6.
You can get all this new stuff for free right now on our community web site.
Happy holidays!
I will be talking about the BPMN modeler in a tutorial session, along with Hugues Malphettes and Alex Boisvert. You can chat with us on this mailing list if you have questions, or would like to help with the tutorial.
Please leave a comment if you want to meet for a beer!
I was surprised to find in the M4 News And Noteworthy list a shortcut to change a concatenated String to StringBuffer.
At first, it looks like a good idea.
String s = "offset " + offset + " is at line " + line;
is changed to:
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
stringBuffer.append("offset ");
stringBuffer.append(offset);
stringBuffer.append(" is at line ");
stringBuffer.append(line);
I know using StringBuffers is better for performance UPDATE: I confused StringBuffer with StringBuilder! look at this bug for changing StringBuffer to StringBuilder.
I would have rather been going for this:
NLS.bind("offset {0} is at line {1}", offset, line);
Just because this is so much easier to internationalize.
I have almost finished doing i18n for the BPMN modeler, a component of the STP project, and I really lost time on such cases.
Just my $0.02!
Adrian Skehill and Matt just finished the migration of the STP project to Subversion.
Thanks for the awesome work guys!
Bad surprise this morning:
trying to look for all the open bugs of GMF is just not possible apparently.
If you try to work around the limitation by searching for a space ” “, it results into an error:
You may not search, or create saved searches, without any search terms.
The help links look broken: I created the bug 205151 for that.
As for the listing of all open bugs, any workaround or fix is welcome.
I started working for Intalio more than a year ago.
At the time I was a young software engineer with some skills regarding the Eclipse platform.
I grabbed a seat, and stayed there learning how to code with a team, parsing XML, understanding BPEL, hacking WSDL and groking Ruby.
Working for Intalio is fun. I personally feel like I am constantly rewarding myself. Every feature we bring in is a new skill, a new technology we master.
There is no forbidden path to achievement, we always take the shortest one, and that means slashing into code, rewriting, beautifying, migrating fearlessly.
In a small structure like this one, one thing continues to astonish me: we don’t discuss objectives. We all know where we fit and bend together to make it work.
For the last year we have been running a marathon, rewriting most of the Designer. I am proud of announcing to you that it is available for everyone and for free out there.
Ismael thanks all the persons that made it possible, and I’d like to thank them too, not only the team today, but the team I did not have the chance to know two or three years ago.
After this release, nothing has changed. We are still focused on the product and delivering the best experience to our customers.
We already started digging and have some finds for 5.1.
More on all this very soon.
There is a particular point in Eclipse I dislike.
Importing projects.
Well actually that is not true, importing a project directly from an archive or a directory is awesome.
The thing is, sometimes you found the archive, you double-click on it, and then:
nothing.
The wizard detected that another project in your workspace was bearing the same name. So it just didn’t show it.
The current workaround consists of opening the archive and look at the same of the folder. Then it’s time to come back in Eclipse and delete the project to replace it.
This is rather a problem for me as our QA team at Intalio has a huge panel of tests, and attaches its processes to the bugs.
So I am confronted to this problem, if no quite everyday, at least two or three times a week. And as QA tests always have the same name, I have taken the (bad) habit to delete projects as soon as I suspect that I am experiencing the bug - sometimes I get it right, and the “Test” project was guilty, sometimes I just lose time…
If you are in the same case and feel compelled to see this bug closed, feel free to comment the bug 173994.
Scala is a Java based language that combines the best of Ruby with strong types.
Sean McDirmid just released a new beta version of the plugin.
It is available through an update site: http://lamp.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/scala.update
Congratulations to Sean for this achievement ! I look forward to dive into Scala and help on this front.
The complete announcement is available here.
Apologies to my readers: I am being egoistic as I want to work with great people with deep interest in IT and software in general, so there it is:
Intalio offers an internship to manage and extend our IT infrastructure. Feel free to send us a resume, we have some challenges for you!
I am looking for programmers living in or near
.
I am eager to start a programming user group down here, with technical presentations, meetups, and hum, beers.
If you are interested, please contact me.
Bad surprise this morning:
trying to look for all the open bugs of GMF is just not possible apparently.
If you try to work around the limitation by searching for a space ” “, it results into an error:
You may not search, or create saved searches, without any search terms.
The help links look broken: I created the bug 205151 for that.
As for the listing of all open bugs, any workaround or fix is welcome.