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Posted: Tue 30 Mar 2010, 17:45
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InfoCentral4Wine -- a Relational Database & File Manager
Subject description: An Object Oriented File & DB Manager
Edited: April 10, 2010
Hi All:
Below are links from which you can download InfoCentral4Wine. Note the name. You need to install Wine to run either pet. Loading a wine SFS wouldn't work. There are two versions: a .pet named infocentral4wine-.943, and a .pet named infocentral4wine-.94. Version ".943" can be used in Puppy Version 4.3, and Puplets based on it. Version ".94" has been tested and work in Puppies and Puplets versions 4.12 and 4.2, and may work in Puppies and Puplets based on prior versions. See next post. SFSes are no longer available. For an explanation, see next post. There is also a link from which you can download the "building blocks" with which you may be able to build either your own pet (for prior or later Puppies) or a combine InfoCentral-Wine SFS. See next post for explanation. Lastly, there's a Portable Infocentral which will work, but only as a relational database manager, with XP and some versions of wine. If after reading the following you decide that InfoCentral as a relational database manager may be useful, but that you have no need for its file management capabilities, try the Portable Version first since, as any portable, it can potentially be used with any operating system.
To use the .pet InfoCentral's Object-related File management capabilities, after installation, you must run the infoc4sys script, located in the hidden .wine folder, about which more later. (And see next post). After running infoc4sys, a reboot is necessary.
The Links:
For use with Puppy 4.3 and Derivatives:
For use with Puppies 4.12, 4.20, their derivatives, perhaps prior builds:
InfoCentral Portable including documentation:
The Building Blocks with Instructions:
InfoCentral was created as both a relational database, and an object-oriented file management system. Unlike an ordinary database where you are limited to defining fields in a record, InfoCentral gives you some flexibility in defining records, themselves, and great flexibility both in defining the fields within a record and how each record relates to any (or all) other records.
Why use a relational database? We live in a complex world. And regrettably, we all suffer memory lapses. InfoCentral is an information management system which doesn't. Just to provide a slightly absurd example, assume you're in middle management: it pays for your to know about your boss's personal life. He's been married three time, currently via civil union to Sam. He's on friendly terms with his first wife, Joan. Not so much his second, Gloria. With Joan he had four children, Ted, Fred, Jed, and Glynis. But his favorite child is Claire, the daughter of his second wife, Gloria, by her previous marriage to William. Claire is a Junior at Rider College. Sam has two children, Rhona and Mona. Their birthdays are, respectively, June 14th and November 21st. Can you're PIM keep track of each of the foregoing persons, their birthdays, anniversaries, up-coming-important-events, their important business and social contacts, and each member of the "family's" relationships with each other? InfoCentral can.
Are you a soccer/football/baseball fan? Keeping track of players, their statistics, what teams they played for, what positions they played, which teammates and managers they got along with, or didn't?
Are you engaged in researching the history of The King's Sixth Fusileers, taking notes of important battles fought, awards received, enemies encountered, terrain covered, weapons and tactics used, not yet certain which soldiers, tactics or events you will 'spotlight,' but also have to keep track of the sources you'll refer to in your notes and bibliography?
InfoCental can. And when fully functional -see below- it can do more because it is also an object oriented operating system. As such, each file on your computer is just another object which can be connected to a record in InfoCentral. InfoCentral can call the application to create, open and modify a file. Not sure if it's Rhona or Mona visiting their step-father (or worse you can't remember their names): click on Sam, Click on Family, Click on Mona, Click on Photo and if that's not her, click on Rhona, click on photo. [Explanation of the foregoing is in InfoC_README file].
Engaged in a project involving multiple people, schedules, letters, emails, formal reports, spread-sheets, databases, presentations, slide-shows, pictures, vids, what-have-you? If you set up InfoCentral to run as an file manager, it can link them all together. Of course, you could just keep everything in one folder, but what do you do when you need to use some of the above for your next project? With infoCentral, each file is an object that can be linked to an almost limitless number of other objects.
[Frankly, I've never used InfoCentral as a file manager. I acquired my first version while still running DOS, and when I migrated to Windows 98 and XP --thinking I already understood the program-- didn't read the manual. I only learned of the file management capability while analyzing Hilary BH Wright's port to Linux. See Footnote as to why I consider the utility of that capability somewhat limited but have tried to preserve it}.
Regardless of which version of InfoCentral you choose to download, within the my-documents folder you'll find a copy of Corel's User's Manual, and an "InfoC_README" in rtf-format providing a Quick-Guide and Technical Instructions. "my-documents" Folder is found in your Home Folder.
While the pets will work "out of the box" as a relational database manager, to enable their use as object-oriented file managers, the script file "infoc4sys" found in the hidden ".wine" directory must be left-clicked and the Puplet rebooted. Clicking infoc4sys installs to the wine registry the classes needed by InfoCentral to operate as a file manager.
Once those classes have been added to wine's registry, as presently configured, InfoCentral can use Abiword, Gnumeric, OpenOffice, and Koffice, with the following limitations: InfoCentral was developed in the hay-day of DOS. To open the application associated with a file, InfoCentral uses such file's 3-digit file extension, e.g., the "abw" in "myfile.abw" identifies it as an Abiword document. Both OpenOffice and Koffice use the file extensions odf, odp and ods for their Formula, Presentation and Spreadsheet Modules. On the assumption that more people will use OpenOffice, those file extensions have been associated with OpenOffice. The InfoC_README file contains instructions for changing those associations (very simple) and for adding other applications -such as graphics and Multimedia-- to InfoCentral's repertoire (fairly complex). Gnumeric and many of the Koffice modules use DEFAULT file extensions greater than 3-digits. In order to overcome that problem, I've associated those applications with 3-digit extensions. A Table is provided in the README file.
(i.e., from Puppy's Menu or a desktop icon), however, if you save a file using the application's default extension, InfoCentral will not be able to open it. [A file saved with the 'proper' extension while using the application directly can later be added by InfoCentral to its records]. The default file-extension for gnumeric is "gnumeric." Its most logical reduction may have been "gnu." Unfortunately, under Puppy Linux -but I am advised not some other distributions- that extension seems to be associated with archiving applications. Rather than break something, gnumeric has been associated with both "xls" and "slk." Gnumeric appears happy with that arrangement. ('
Location. Location. Location.
Under Puppy, InfoCentral can utilize Puppy's ability to write to and read from any partition. The InfoCentral pets install to wine's drive_c:\Program Files. When InfoCentral STARTS FOR THE FIRST TIME, it will look for a file "Standard.ica." If it doesn't find it, it will offer to create one using a compressed file, "STANDARD.ZIB." STANDARD.ZIB is located in the Templates directory within the ICwin7 folder. Also in that folder is another directory named "Local" which is where InfoCentral, when first started expected to find Standard.ica. If you look in the Local folder you will find a series of files named Standard with various file endings. These are the indexes used by InfoCentral, of which Standard.ica is the master index.
They Will Grow as You Add Data.
After several years of research, I have one which uses 2.3 Megs of hard-drive.
Although you must keep the entire series of indexes together, they can be located in any folder, having any name, anywhere on your computer. This means you can copy, move or create a database anywhere, and InfoCentral can open its .ica file from there.
[When creating a new database, you get to name it/its Indexes]. However, as an Operating System
InfoCentral uses Hard-links to locate data files.
after creating a link to a file from, or within, InfoCentral,
you move the File or the Database, the Links Will Be Broken
. [Because InfoCental uses bash-scripts and associated "Templates" found in its LinuxProgramLinks folder to open Linux applications, it can find such applications]. Accordingly, it is recomended that you locate your InfoCentral databases in a separate partition before using InfoCentral to create links to datafiles.
If, when you try to start InfoCentral for the first time it complains "Ole 2" wasn't found, the problem lies not with InfoCentral but rather with the version of wine you're using. The only solution is to replace your version of wine. It worked well with technosaurus's versions thru 1.1.20 but didn't work with 1.1.24. I'm currently using green_dome's 1.1.39.
On the other hand, the Portable Version of InfoCentral works fine using the wine-1.1.20-i486.pet, but complains of an ole2 problem under 1.1.39.
I am not the developer of InfoCentral. I am just someone who has found InfoCentral invaluable for over 20 years, learned that it could be run under Linux and decided to make it easily usable by the Puppy Community. 'Though if I knew when I decided to "package" InfoCentral what I know now, I would have followed that invaluable advice surreptitiously handed down in every military establishment: "Never volunteer!" On the other hand, while working on this project I've learned a great deal about BASH, Linux, and XP. The real credit for this application goes to:
Bruce Bastian and Alan Ashton who developed InfoCentral, an outgrowth of DataPerfect, as a module for use with WordPerfect Suite 7.
Corel(Tm) which, after its acquisition of WordPerfect from Novell, has graciously made Infocentral available to the public free-of-charge. <ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/Suites/infocentral/> If you still run Windows 95, 98 or Millenium, your OS may be able to use that version.
Michael Koenecke, who has supported Infocentral since its appearance, developed very useful macros (regretfully the macro function doesn't work under Linux) and maintains a website, <http://www.macros.koenecke.us/> , pertaining to InfoCentral, including links to the NT-enabled version of InfoCentral that runs natively under XP and, I believe, Windows 2K. It was from that link that all versions I've packaged are derived. Also on that site is a link to other ZIB files I have not included, and the User Guide I have.
Kevin Krammer, Jeremy White and A. Tres Finocchiaro, who developed xdg-open so that programs running under wine could open Linux applications.
Hilary BH Wright, who adapted xdg-open for use with InfoCentral.
Ralf Treu, who developed the code enabling the use of xdg-open when Rox is employed as the file manager.
Barry Kauler, who created a Linux distribution, simple-enough for a newbie to use, resource friendly-enough to be used on my Pentium II, 160 Meg Thinkpad when I became exasperated by XP, and so easily customizable that I had to begin to experiment.
Trio, who developed Petmaker, relieving me of a great deal of drudgery and confusion.
ttuuxxx, whose enthusiasm and perseverance continues to inspire.
Mu, technosaurus, tempestuous, and a host of other Devs from whose comments and insights even a newbie can learn.
And JohnMurga, Flash, Ian, Lobster, GuestToo, and deshlab, without whose dedication the Puppy Linux Forum could not served so successfully as the vehicle for the exchange of information, ideas, and enthusiasm.
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Posted: Sat 10 Apr 2010, 15:52
Post subject: InfoCentral -- Considerations & problems in building
As a relational database, InfoCentral is a great program for organizing all types of information. I have serious doubts regarding its utility as a file manager because of its dependence upon hard-links. It was created with the assumption that there would only be one operating system found at C:\. While the database indexes can be located anywhere on your computer, if you use more than one operating system (dual-boot) the paths from an index to the file it indexed will not be identical if your operating systems are not on the same partition. Similarly, moving your databases to a different location (something you may want to do when installing an up-grade or another OS) will also break the links. Despite those limitations, I have tried to preserve the file management capabilities because, while I do not expect to use them, others may find them of value despite the limitations. And, InfoCentral may soon be only a program of use under Linux. It will not run under Vista, and may only run under those more expensive versions of Windows7 which provide XP compatibility via a form of virtualware.
Note to "petmakers": The InfoCentral Pet I made under 4.31 could not be started via the Menu under Puppies based on Versions 4.12 or 4.2. Apparently, the 4.31 desktop file wasn't recognized as such, and had to be re-created, even though the re-created desktop file used the same arguments. Ergo, there are now two different pets.
SFSes, their potential, and problems with building them:
Like all SFSes, an InfoCentral SFS would have advantages over a pet. Not requiring installation, it would not use SAVE file space, and if you dual-boot different Puppies each can use the same SFS at least as a relational database. [Because InfoCentral File-management capability depends on the use of hard-links, that use is conditional: each Operating System must be on the same partition otherwise it may "see" a file's location as requiring a different route. While creating files from within InfoCentral remains possible, to open a file created while using a different Puppy or XP would require browsing to it, which would redefine the path to that file such that the same problem would arise when you tried to open it using a different OS. In short, more trouble than its worth.]
Despite the foregoing, I created SFSes using both version 3 and version 4 compression only to discover that they didn't work with SFS versions of wine. There appears to be a "timing problem." The default fonts used by InfoCentral were not recognized (an inconvenience, as InfoCentral would still open after complaining of their absence) but after running infoc4sys (to install the classes necessary for InfoCentral to operate as a file manager) and rebooting, either InfoCentral would not open, complaining of an Ole2 problem previously not present, or would fail to open files complaining that the necessary classes were not found in the registry, even though the registry showed they were present.
So I tried to create a "Combo" wine-with-infoCentral-installed SFS but discovered that it is beyond my level of knowledge. When a wine pet is installed, it creates both a drive_c folder, and within that a 'Program Files' folder. InfoCentral installs its ICWin7 folder into the latter. Wine SFSes apparently create the above folders "on-the-fly," or at least they are not present if the SFS is mounted and dissembled. So I wasn't sure where to place the ICWin7 folder in a build. Similarly, the system.reg and user.reg files present in the .wine folder of a loaded SFS don't appear in the build, leaving me with questions how to add the classes required by InfoCentral to operate as a file manager. Accordingly, I've made the InfoCentral Building Blocks available if anyone else wants to try.
It should also be noted that the SFS problems only concern the use of InfoCentral's file management functions. An SFS without those is less useful than the portable version of InfoCentral. The latter provides InfoCentral's as a Relational Database Manager under wine, and is fully functional under XP. Along the same lines, Trio's Petmaker can be used to convert the pets provided into SFSes, which should run, but only as relational database managers, (after complaining of missing fonts) when used with a wine SFS (as long as you don't try to add the now unnecessary classes to wine's registry).
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Posted: Sun 09 May 2010, 16:34
Post subject: Partial solution to Wine not finding fonts
I've been exploring Puppeee on an Asus 701SD. After installing green_dome's wine 1.1.43, I examined system.reg and discovered that the default fonts were in /usr/share/fonts. Earlier versions of wine looked for fonts in drive_c/windows/fonts, which is where the pets (and build instructions) placed those required by InfoCentral. I don't know in which version of wine the structural change occurred. Moving or copying the fonts from there to /usr/share/fonts resolved all but one of the "missing fonts" messages. Fixedsys.ttf is still reported as absent. However, I noticed that the message referred to it with a capital F, while the font, itself, was named with a fixedsys.ttf, with a small f. Renaming it did not solve the problem. Perhaps a reboot is necessary.
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Posted: Sun 09 May 2010, 20:43
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Hi mikesir,
I am running wine-1.1.38 converted to and loaded as an SFS.
I downloaded and extracted the portable version, infocentral.tar.gz. It extracted to a folder called
in my download folder.
Entering this folder I clicked
and received several font error messages and clicked through them. I then received an error message
The iBase file Z:\mnt\home\infocNew\Local\Standard.ica cannot be found
I moved the
folder to /mnt/home/infocentral and renamed it to /mnt/home/
. I then symlinked the TTF fonts in /mnt/home/infocNew/Fonts to /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/ and all the fonts to /root/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts/.
Now when I click
I get a nice looking database for a Mr. John Doe. All I need to do now is learn how to use this. I'm not a database expert by any means but I am fluent in msaccess.
This looks promising.
BTW, I should mention that I am running Quirky21 and my /mnt/home is ext3, although I doubt that makes a difference.
Thanks for this, J
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Posted: Sun 09 May 2010, 21:46
Post subject:
It was created with the assumption that there would only be one operating system found at C:\. While the database indexes can be located anywhere on your computer, if you use more than one operating system (dual-boot) the paths from an index to the file it indexed will not be identical if your operating systems are not on the same partition. Similarly, moving your databases to a different location (something you may want to do when installing an up-grade or another OS) will also break the links
I'm writing as someone who uses WINE (I actually have set the HOME directory for it on a tmpfs RAMDrive). I can state that WINE (unlike native Windows) reads ext2 type filesystems as it would a VFAT one.. The important difference however is that the Windows programs seem to be unaware of symlinks. It will open a symlink's destination seamlessly.
On my system, I have symlinked the /tmp/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 directory to a directory on a VFAT partition.
This might be a solution to differing boot configurations as symlinks can be reassigned on the fly and are themselves very small files and that means little IO is involved.
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Posted: Tue 11 May 2010, 16:47
Post subject: Thanks for the feedback
Hi Peterm321 and jrb,
Thanks for the feedback.
@ Peterm321: I'm not sure I understood your suggestion completely. As I mentioned above, I'm just the packager and drew heavily on the work done by others. While I know wine has no problem with symlinks, I think InfoCentral running under wine employs wine's implementation of Explorer (with all XP Explorer's limitations) to carry out its file management functions.
There may another way to overcome the "hard-link problem," all of which are beyond my level of competence. For example, opening applications uses xdg, which might be extended to also open files other than the Templates located in LinuxProgramLinks. But unlike the open program routine which was written into InfoCentral as extensible via modification of WPICRUN.INI, the open file routine might require modification of the program's code. Under XP, that's possible as InfoCentral --like all WordPerfect programs circa 1998-/+ --was developed using a programming script which, at that time, was freely available. [As far as I know, the script doesn't run under wine, so modifications would have to be made under Windows, maybe 98Se or XP running in compatibility mode].
Actually, the beauty of a relational database is that you don't have to learn much. You modify it to reflect how your mind works. Of course, there's always the problems of a programs capability and limitations. Hopefully, the ICManual.pdf and the first half of README.rtf --located in the Documents Folder within the same folder where you found ICWIN.EXE --will be of help.
If you find InfoCentral useful, consider it a partial repayment for the great debt we all owe you for your exceptional development of the ChoicePups and the sfs-linkers.
If you have the time, you might test the below modification. While it worked with the portable version, I can't be certain it would have had I not modified system.reg (as is the case on all my OSes). While I've expressed my doubts as the utility of using InfoCentral as a file manager in general, it might be useful if the portable version could create and open simple text files. Under the Tool section of InfoCentral's Menu is an item "Notepad" which opens a Notepad text editor. I guess it is the Notepad installed by wine as InfoCentral does not have its own. Use of that Notepad does not require modification of system.reg, with the potential for creating a OLE2 problem, since the installation of wine included the required classes. But files created by starting Notepad from the Tools menu are not indexed by InfoCentral. So, I did the following:
In the same folder where you found the InfoCentral executable, there's a file called WPICRUN.INI. Open it in a text editor.
Add the following:
Then, to the defined Templates add:
Description=Notepad Document
(You can cut & paste the above).
Save the changes, close the text editor and reboot.
Restart InfoCentral. On the Infopad tab, with the cursor on and highlighting an object, such as John Doe, Right-click and select Create Related File. In the top window, type something like Basic Memo (Notepad) and click New Type. Click Add. Responding to the question
"Would you like to initialize the newly created ...?" Click No. Under Windows Application, select "Notepad Document".
Under Connection Description, click "Document". Click Advanced and then click "Specify Location". Click Browse, and browse to
/root/drive_c/windows/ and click notepad.exe, then click OK. In the dialogue box which opens, you can click the browse button
pertaining to "Data File Folder" to select your default folder. Click OK, twice (3 times?) until the dialogue box for naming the document appears. Give the document a name and, if you want, a description. Click OK and then, to the question regarding creation of the file, click Yes. Type something, and then click File>Save. Close the file. There should now be an object on your Infopad tab window with the name you gave it, linked to the object you originally highlighted. Now, with the cursor on the notepad object you created, highlighting it, right-click and select open. If things worked, the notepad file you created should open. Let me know either way.
Thanks for trying InfoCentral.
If I get a chance, I'll repackage the pets, moving the required fonts to usr/share/fonts.
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Posted: Wed 12 May 2010, 12:05
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Hi mikesir,
there's a file called WPICRUN.INI. Open it in a text editor. Add the following:
highlighting an object, such as John Doe, Right-click and select Create Related File
Right-click didn't produce menu so I clicked create related object button.
In the top window, type something like Basic Memo (Notepad) and click New Type. Click Add. Responding to the question
"Would you like to initialize the newly created ...?" Click No. Under Windows Application, select "Notepad Document".
Under Connection Description, click "Document". Click Advanced and then click "Specify Location". Click Browse, and browse to
/root/drive_c/windows/ and click notepad.exe, then click OK. In the dialogue box which opens, you can click the browse button
pertaining to "Data File Folder" to select your default folder. Click OK, twice (3 times?) until the dialogue box for naming the document appears. Give the document a name and, if you want, a description.
At this point the following message appeared:
Before you can use this command you need to create a field called "File Tracking ID." Make it an Alpha/Numeric field with a length of 4.
I don't see any obvious place to do this.
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Posted: Fri 14 May 2010, 11:53
Post subject: Portable vs. Build Your Own Version
@ jrb,
Thanks for running the experiment. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Ordinarily, the InfoCentral setup program installs to C:\ (or wine's drive_c:) and writes to the windows/wine's registry. Desiring to make "installation" of a portable version as painless as possible, I ran the InfoCentral setup program thru Portable Apps Creator,
. That enabled me to "install" it to a folder on a Flash Drive, without writing to the registry. That folder then can be copied anywhere and was used in the portable version that you downloaded. The process apparently looses some functionalities beyond those which wine, itself, is unable to perform.
The original InfoCentral setup program is contained in the Building Block's version. After running setup, adding the Notepad definition to WPICRUN.INI should ('
') enable the ability to call Notepad via "Create Related File" so that resulting files will be indexed.
Or maybe not.('
Of course, anyone installing InfoCentral via its setup program one can still move/create databases anywhere on their computer.
Before trying that, back up wine's three registry files.
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This week was a week of obsession with numbers. I think it had something to do with the release of Prince's 3121, which I am listening to as I type. I apologize to my neighbors for the liberties I have taken with the volume control on my computer speakers.
But I digress.
I have taken to keeping track of all the buses I ride in a day and (for reasons I cannot fully explain) adding up the numbers. I assign the final sum to the day–a sort of reverse numerology. A higher number usually means that it was a fairly busy bus day, but not necessarily. Suburban routes are three-digit numbers, so they add up quickly. In the days when I worked in Redmond, it would have been possible for me to ride to work and back only and still "earn" a 1090. Yesterday, on the other hand, I ran around from morning to night and earned a paltry 234. Here's how I did it:
I also did a fair amount of walking. Which reminds me: So far, today's been a zero. On sunny days when I don't have to go to work or anyplace in particular, I like to rely on my feet.

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Parsing Power, Part 3
For the past several posts, I've been showing how you can customize the appearance of the parsing window to show specific information or to parse certain parts of speech. But what if you want to parse specific words or forms in a passage? Believe it or not, you can do that too.
For example, let's say you're using Basics of Biblical Greek, and you're faithfully learning your vocabulary. You want to parse all the words in a passage that you don't yet know, but you want to force yourself to recognize the lemma, parsing, and meaning of the words you've already learned.
As we'll see in a moment, the Parsing window has an option to Parse only the Hit words which have been found by a search. So if we want to parse every word except our vocabulary words, we simply need to construct a search to find all those words.
When you're searching the Greek New Testament by Words, simply entering an asterisk wildcard will find every word in your text. While it may seem silly to search for every word, doing so can be extremely useful when you want to use Accordance's various statistical tools to analyze a passage. See this post from earlier this year for an example of that.
In this case, we want to find (and parse) every word except our vocabulary words, so we'll start with the asterisk, then exclude words by entering them after a minus sign. Like this:
These are the words from the first two vocab lists in Mounce, and you can see that I've just strung them all together after the asterisk. Because the definite article is also included in those vocabulary lists from Mounce, I've excluded that part of speech by entering an at sign (@), followed by a minus sign (-), followed by the [ARTICLE] tag. When I perform this search, every word except those I've excluded is highlighted.
I can then select the text I want to parse, click the Parse button on the Resource palette, and use command-T to open up the display options for the Parsing window. In the Parse pop-up menu, I'll choose Hit words only and click OK. This is what I get for John 1:1:
Obviously, as the number of vocab words you want to exclude grows, the search we used here will become increasingly unwieldy. At that point, instead of excluding each individual word, you might use the COUNT command to exclude words appearing more than a certain number of times, or you might exclude specific forms like nominative and accusative nouns. The possibilities are as endless as Accordance's powerful search capabilities allow, and however you choose to construct your search, you can parse only those words that are found.


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The presumption that Italy remains in compliance with its EU and International Law obligations related to the reception and integration of asylum seekers and Beneficiaries of International Protection has not been rebutted. Asylum seekers and BIPs suffering from severe psychological trauma can be returned to Italy with no real risk of breaching article 3 ECHR, or 4 CFREU, since the Country's reception capacities have not been exceeded, while effective medical treatment is available under the same terms as to Italian nationals.
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A Brief Introduction to Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) - Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) is the representative body of Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers and represents approximately 40,000 Licensed Engineers from National Associations and trade unions worldwide. AEI was formed in 1972 as a direct result of pressure being applied by the aviation industry, particularly airlines, to remove the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer. Over the past 40 years AEI has been the only international body able to provide the aircraft maintenance engineer/technician with an opportunity to influence global rulemaking whilst promoting the highest levels of aviation safety and standards. Read more...
|AEI Secretary of the Americas Update
July 17, 2020 -- I wanted to share with you how our colleagues in aviation maintenance around the world are dealing with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As the virus has spread and countries across the globe have closed their boarders to foreign travellers and domestic travel being severely reduced, we have seen commercial aviation come to a relative standstill compared to what it was previously.
|AEI COVID-19 Update
March 24, 2020 -- As the Coronavirus (Covid-19) has swept the world and brought about an unprecedented change to our understanding of circumstances as normal, the aviation industry has experienced sweeping changes of huge proportions. The result has been a grounding of aircraft at many of the global carriers that surpasses the scale of any previous event. The parking of aircraft brings on a whole new set of maintenance requirements that must be strictly followed to ensure the aircraft's continued airworthiness. Aircraft Maintenance Technicians, as always one of the main pillars of aviation safety, must ensure that these requirements are being followed.
|Alaska Airlines Flight 261 -- 20 Year Anniversary
January 27, 2020 -- Friday, January 31, 2020, marks the 20 Year Anniversary of the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 accident. The accident occurred at approximately 4:22 pm off the southern California coast, just north of Los Angeles, where 88 people lost their lives. Almost half of those on board were non-revenue passengers that were connected with Alaska Air Group, with Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air.
|2019 AEI Annual Congress Report
October 23, 2019 -- This month the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) held their 47th Annual Congress in Berlin, Germany on October 8-11, 2019. Aircraft Maintenance Technicians/Engineers from around the world gathered again to address the business of AEI: amending the AEI Constitution, electing members of the Executive Board, and attending presentations on a variety of relevant topics for our craft. Approximately 44 delegates from four continents, 15 countries, and 17 affiliate organizations attended this year. Our host was the German Professional Association of Aircraft Engineers, Berufsverband Prufer von Luftfahrtgerat e.V (BPvL).
|AEI Calls on EU Commission and EASA to Tighten Aircraft Safety Oversight
August 1, 2019 -- The Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) issued a press release this week exposing the continued failings of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). EASA is the European Union's (EU) equivalent of the FAA. The press release details lapses of EASA's enforcement of their own regulations.
Download: 20190715_AEI_Ltr_to_Bulc_LBA.pdf , 20190801_PR_AEI_Calls_on_EU_Commission_and_EASA_to_Tighten_Aircraft_Safety_Oversight.pdf
|Passing of one of AEI's Founding Members - Mr. John Alldis (1935-2019)
August 1, 2019 -- AEI is saddened to announce the recent passing of one of its founding members and most staunch supporters, Mr. John Alldis. At about the same time that O.V. Delle-Femine was forming AMFA in the early 1960s, John was a licensed aircraft maintenance engineer working in Austrailia and was represented by the metals union.
Download: Passing_of_John_Alldis_1935-2019.pdf
|Norway CHC Helicopter Rescue
March 28, 2019 -- I would like to share a very interesting and exciting story with you, one that involves great professionalism and courage during "treacherous conditions." You likely saw in the media the Viking Ocean Cruises' ship – the Viking Sky – experiencing engine trouble off the coast of Norway starting on Saturday afternoon, March 23, 2019, and the subsequent evacuation.
|Passing of Ahamed Mohamed, Former AEI Secretary Europe, Africa and Middle East and UNSA National Secretary
Dear AMFA Members:
It is with much sorrow that I share the news of the passing this week of Ahamed Mohamed, one of our dear AEI colleagues and friends. Ahamed was AEI's Secretary Europe, Africa and Middle East and was the National Secretary for UNSA, a French Aviation Union.
|AEI Secretary of the Americas Regarding Aviation Safety
February 20, 2019 -- Our affiliation with the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) has benefits that flow in both directions. As an affiliate, AMFA participates with AEI and learns about global aviation issues that pertain to licensed aircraft maintenance technician/engineers worldwide. Likewise, we share information from the United States regarding aviation issues that we face, from contract negotiations to maintenance practices. Most recently, we have shared AIR21 Whistleblower filings and subsequent safety issues that have been the subject of so much media attention at Southwest and American Airlines.
|2018 AEI Annual Congress Report
October 16, 2018 -- Last month the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) held their 46th Annual Congress in Stockholm, Sweden. Aircraft Maintenance Technicians/Engineers from around the world gathered to address the business of AEI, including: amending the AEI Constitution; electing members of the Executive Board; attending presentations on a variety of topics; and developing strategies for responding to the pressures being pushed onto our craft by air carriers looking to cut costs, government agencies inconsistently enforcing regulations and a growing trend of "atypical employment" in response to a shortage of qualified licensed personnel.
Download: 2018 EASA Presentation AEI Congress.pptx , 2018 Swedish Transport Agency Presentation AEI.pptx , 2018 ECA AEI Congress Presentation.pptx
|Passing of Paul Cousins, Former ALAEA and AEI President
May 7, 2018 -- It saddens me greatly to share the news of the passing of Mr. Paul Cousins, one of the most passionate advocates of the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Technician I have had the pleasure of knowing. Many in AMFA know Paul from attending the Aircraft Maintenance Skills Competition; both Alaska and Southwest Airlines Team members met Paul and his team of "Aussies" at the annual event and a close bond immediately formed. We also worked with Paul, and the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers (ALAEA), in our affiliation with the Aircraft Engineers International Association (AEI).
Download: Passsing_of_Paul_Cousins_Former_AEI_President.pdf
|AEI Takes Action Notifying the Aviation Authorities of the EU That Some Member Countries are Eroding Aviation Safety by Diminishing the Oversight of the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer
Please see the attached letters from Robert Alway, AEI Secretary General, calling all affiliate members that are in the European Union (EU) to take immediate action to reach out to their aviation regulators and legislators. This call to action is in response to an increase from member countries to diminish the oversight and responsibilities of the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer. This continued effort, as mentioned in earlier updates, will threaten aviation safety by removing the oversight that only licensed aircraft maintenance technicians provide.
Please direct questions to: Louie Key, AIE Secretary of The Americas (email@example.com)
Download: AEI Letter to EU Commissioner.pdf , AEI_Release_to_Service_EASA_Letter.pdf , CRS_Briefing_Document.pdf
|2017 AEI Annual Congress Report
November 27, 2017 -- Aircraft Maintenance Technicians/Engineers from around the world gathered this month to attend the 45th Annual Congress of the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) in Lisbon, Portugal. Our host was the Aviation Maintenance Technician's Union of Air Portugal (SITEMA). Approximately 43 delegates from four continents, 15 countries, and 14 affiliate organizations attended the Congress to address business of AEI.
|3rd Quarter 2017 AEI Update
September 14, 2017 -- As the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) prepares for their 45th Annual Congress in November 2017, I would take this opportunity to update the AMFA membership on AEI's activities over the past several months. As you may know AMFA has been an active affiliate of AEI for more than ten (10) years.
|1st Quarter 2017 AEI Update
March 31, 2017 -- For the first Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) quarterly update for AMFA in 2017, I thought it would be a good idea to invite the new Aircraft Engineers International President, Mr. Paul Cousins of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers' Association (ALAEA) to provide the update. Please see Mr. Cousins' attached letter.
Download: 20170330_AEI_Update_for_AMFA.pdf
|4th Quarter 2016 AEI Update
November 1, 2016 -- October 11-14, 2016, Aircraft Maintenance Technicians/Engineers from around the world gathered to attend the 44th Annual Congress of the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) in Reykjavik, Iceland. Approximately 40 delegates from four continents, 13 countries, and 14 affiliate organizations attended the Congress to address the business of AEI: amending the AEI Constitution; electing members of the Executive Board; attending plenary sessions on an array of relevant topics and gaining genuine insight into the challenges that we, and our peers, face as we uphold the demanding safety standards required for ensuring the airworthiness of the aircraft we maintain.
|3rd Quarter 2016 AEI Update
September 1, 2016 -- The AEI Executive Board continues to work on focus items. With the recent change in the Secretary General position, discussions continue on better defining the job duties and responsibilities with a focus on evening out the workload.
|Released to Service, AEI Safety Newsletter, 2016 Issue 2
|AEI Report to the AMFA National Convention from the Secretary of the Americas
May 3, 2016 -- AEI, our International Affiliate remains working diligently on many of our common issues. It's with great pride that I'm able to present this report to the AMFA National Convention.
|4th Quarter 2015 AEI Update
Over the last several months we have had two Executive Board Conference Calls. We issued a press release following the Air Asia accident report highlighting safety lessons not being learned by the aviation industry, and created AEI's new e-publication "Released to Service."
|AEI Launches E-Publication "Released To Service"
Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) has launched a new e-publication dedicated to aircraft maintenance engineers titled, "Released To Service.
|Air Asia Press Release
December 9, 2015 -- Our affiliate Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) has recently distributed a press release in response to the Air Asia accident and are calling for the following reforms: "that a genuine culture of safety before operational needs must be enforced from the very top; that aviation must respect and create a culture where the responsibilities of our licenses can be properly exercised, free from reprisal; that doing it right the first time must become every technician, pilot, regulator and managers mantra; that governments must invest in regulators in order to ensure effective oversight; and that training at all levels within industry must be improved and increased." See press release for more information.
Download: Air_Asia_PR_20151208.pdf
|2015 AEI Annual Congress Report
The AEI Congress, hosted by AMFA, took place in Seattle, Washington USA on September 22-25th at the Hilton Seattle downtown. It was attended by Representatives from 14 Countries and 18 organizations. This is the first time in AEI's 42 year history that their Annual Congress has been held in the United States.
|2nd Quarter 2015 AEI Update
There were two AEI Executive Board (EB) meeting in Q2 2015, the first I attended via Skype, and the second I attended in person in conjunction with an emergency meeting called by AEI to address great concerns regarding newly leaked documents on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA).
|1st Quarter 2015 AEI Update
There have been two AEI Executive Board (EB) meetings since the Congress. We continue to deal with the Ombudsman ruling and EASA's over edited response to the original request for information. There is concern over EASA's interpretation of Certified Release to Service (CRS) with some in the industry trying to push the idea that it is simply an administrative function. AEI is standing firm that a CRS requires certificated personnel directly involved in the maintenance performed.
|2014 AEI Annual Congress Report
I was honored to attend the 42dnd annual AEI congress in Le Bourget France. I was accompanied by our own AMFA National Director Louie Key. The Congress was graciously hosted by our friends at SNMSAC, our French affiliate and attended by 14 countries and 16 organizations. Here is a breakdown and synopsis of this years Congress.
|2nd Quarter 2014 AEI Update
I attended the 2014 FAA/EASA Safety Conference on June 17-19, 2014, on behalf of the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) and the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA).
After working my regular shift in Seattle, WA on June 16, the night before the conference, I travelled to Washington, DC. I took the Metrorail train from the airport to an inexpensive motel several exits away from the Bethesda Hyatt. The following morning I began my daily trek from the motel to the conference via the Metrorail. The conference began with an introduction and plenary session titled "Beyond the Bi-lateral Agreement- Collaborative Approaches to Aviation Safety" moderated by Margaret "Peggy" Gillian, FAA Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety.
|1st Quarter 2014 AEI Update
In late February I was elected as the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) Secretary of the Americas by the AMFA Joint Advisory Council (JAC). It's with much pride that I've assumed this role, and am working hard to increase AMFA's participation. AEI is a group of Union represented Aircraft Maintenance Engineers that have come together with a focus on safety, regulations, solidarity, and upgrading the status of the licensed aircraft maintenance engineer.
|2013 AEI Annual Congress Report
From November 20-23, 2013, I was given the opportunity to attend the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) 2013 Annual Congress. Before the congress began, I was somewhat familiar with AMFA's involvement with the AEI. I knew that AMFA was the only AEI representative in the Americas, and I was aware of our membership's differing opinions as to whether AMFA's affiliation with the AEI was a good use of our members' dues and AMFA's resources. By the Congress' conclusion, I learned much more about this organization, and through this report I will share what I learned with our membership.
|AMFA Officers Attend AEI Annual Congress
In November the AMFA delegation composed of Louie Key, National Director; Dave Brooks, National Safety & Standards Director and AEI Secretary of the Americas; and Brad Fornelius, Local 14 VP and "Delegate at Large" attended the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) 41st Annual Congress in Melbourne, Australia. AEI is the only global aircraft maintenance technician craft-specific affiliation.
|Aviation Industry in Need of Wake Up Call over Safety
Delegates attending the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) 41st Annual Congress 2013 in Melbourne, Australia have been informed that known but unreported aircraft defects remains the biggest single threat to passenger safety. "Airline passengers are unknowingly facing higher levels of risks due to the dangerous practice of not documenting aircraft system defects until reaching an airport where maintenance can be performed. In other words defects are typically reported "only when commercially convenient for the operator to repair, rather than when they actually occur," says AEI President Robert Alway.
|Aviation Regulators Failing Passenger Safety
AEI Secretary General Fred Bruggeman has informed delegates ahead of AEI's 41st Annual Congress that "regulators are failing to uphold and protect passenger safety". Evidence provided to congress revealed that more than 90% of aircraft defects only occur during a flight to home base, in other words on a flight to an airport where maintenance can be provided. "Are we missing something?" Mr Bruggeman asked "or is someone not doing their job properly?"


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Patterson Hood is responsible for this music blog existing. We've probably never told the story, but Woody and I met at a business event in Chicago where things like insurance, mortgage, real estate, home security systems, outsourced HR, search engine optimization or similar such bullshit was being discussed. I think we were both wearing slacks. As we were filling up our coffee cups, one of us asked the other what we were into in real life. "I like music" said the other. "What type of music?" asked the other. "Have you ever heard of Drive-By Truckers…"
Have you ever heard of Drive-By Truckers? That became my qualifier for anyone that I met at a party or on an airplane if music entered conversation. I'd ask a stranger, "What type of music do you like?" and they'd reply, "I like everything!" When they asked me, I'd say "Have you heard of a band called Drive-By Truckers?" On one or two occasions I got a "yes" response. I still keep in touch with those people.
So Patterson Hood walking through the doors of Shirk Music + Sound to lay down a HearYa session? Kind of like Justin Beiber walking into an all-girls middle school. Patterson Hood's side projects have always been worthwhile departures from his core DBT body of work and with each album, he has matured as a solo artist. For me, last year's Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance proved that Patterson Hood can firmly stand on his own. It shows that his songwriting isn't restricted to the southern rock DBT sound and that he can weave in graceful piano ballads and deeply moving (and very personal lyrics) without making the die hard Truckers fans flinch. At the session, Woody asked Patterson about why he decided to use the piano as a centerpiece on Heat Lightning and his response was simple: "Because I have Jay."
The Downtown Rumblers include the aforementioned Jay Gonzalez and Brad Morgan from DBT, Page and Claire Campbell from an Athens band called Hope For a Golden Summer, and Jacob Morris on cello. The songs performed in session with us are three of my favorites from the album – "Come Back Little Star" was on of my favorites all year. It was co-written by Kelly Hogan in tribute to the tragic loss of their friend and Athens music icon, Vic Chesnutt, who died in 2009. I'll leave you with the opening lines and you can hear the rest below.
Heaven blue eyes
Those long black lashes
Razor tongue and Southern drawl
Pouring out like molasses
That trail of silver mercury
To show us all where you've been
You always have a drink in your hand
But your liver ain't what it used to be
I'm really not mad
I'm just trying hard to understand
We both had these dreams too long
to let them slip through your hands
I've had a drink or two myself to control the sting
This town got blown to tatters
when you traded in your wheels for wings
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Katy's mom, an evangelical wife of a pastor, doesn't like the way her 26-year-old daughter is dressing, and is hoping to capitalize on her criticisms.
"No mother wants to see the top of her daughter's boobs," Mary Perry Hudson wrote in a book proposal, Page Six reports.
Hudson's been on the warpath against her daughter's lewd lyrics and "foul-mouthed fiancée," now-husband Russell Brand for a while, Page Six says.
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But Hudson isn't the first to speak up about Perry's buxom figure. Back in September, Perry's segment for the children's show "Sesame Street" was pulled because parents deemed her décolletage too sexy.
Back in 2001, Perry was known as Katy Hudson and released a self-titled Gospel album, but changed her image, as well as taking her mother's maiden name for her public persona.
Hudson also holds hopes for Perry to become an evangelist herself. "I recognized the psalmist gift in her performance," she said, "but she sang out, 'I kissed a girl, and I liked it.'"


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Lawrence woman charged with animal cruelty for starving dogs
MSPCA officer finds one dog dead inside home
The Massachusetts Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced Monday that it has charged a Lawrence woman with animal cruelty after she allegedly starved two of her dogs -- one of them to death.
MSPCA officer Martha Parkhurst went to the home of Raisa Reyes on Oct. 4 after receiving a complaint from the Lawrence Animal Control office. Upon entering the home, Parkhurst said she was nearly overcome with a foul odor and found a deceased dog wrapped in a plastic bag.
The 1-year-old Havanese named Niko had been severely underweight. The officer said another dog at the home, a 2-year-old pit bull named Jada, was also underweight and dehydrated.
After Reyes agreed to surrender Jada, the dog was transferred to the MSPCA-Nevins Farm Animal Care and Adoption Center in Methuen where a veterinarian examined her. The decision was made to humanely euthanize her because of her grave condition.
MSPCA officials said Reyes failed to provide sufficient food and water which ultimately led to the death of the dogs.
Reyes is scheduled to be arraigned in Lawrence District Court on Nov. 28 where she will face two counts of felony animal cruelty charges.
"I'm pleased that we are at the stage where we are seeking justice for Jada and Niko," said Parkhurst.


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Hi all,
There is a couple of components in several projects that have a shared, but duplicate code base, notably 'org.xmpp' and Whack. I propose to remove this code from these projects, and create a dedicated project for each.
There would be a couple of advantages to this:
- Obviously, remove duplicate code. This will make it easier to maintain and develop the code properly.
- It'll be a lot easier to "do things" with these light-weight projects - not only for us, but also for developers of third-party products. For example, having a lightweight XMPP stanza implementation project (what's now org.xmpp) could be very interesting for a variety of projects. The value of a stand-alone Whack project might even be more obvious in this light (note that the Whack project itself would use the 'org.xmpp' project).
- Lastly, as these are 'core' libraries, they deserves a bit of 'dedicated' attention (unit tests, bugtracking, stuff like that). This would benefit any attempt to really fine-tune the code, for example for high-performance tuning. Currently, the code is a bit put in the shadows of the other projects (of which they are part of).
The amount of effort and resources to go into this change are limited, while the benefits will be considerable. As development of other projects is a bit at a stand-still right now, this might be a good moment to perform these changes (as they currently wouldn't interfere with any other development).
I would suggest a set-up like this:
Move the "org.xmpp" and "whack" projects into SVN repositories (a new one will need to be created for 'org.xmpp'). Let's create a tag for the current trunk of 'Whack' for future reference. Simultaniously, rip out the org.xmpp and whack sources from all other projectsto remove any duplicate code. Replace it with a jar, produced by the new project. As we currently have duplicate code, I expect some oddities to pop up here.
Next, lets get an "org.xmpp" project in JIRA. Finally, IgniteRealtime.org should get a new project as well. The Whack project documentation should be modified to reflect the changes.
After the SVN and JIRA projects are in place, we should develop some unit tests that verify and validate both projects. Now that we've seperated the build process from any other project, these tests can go in easily. As the projects are now 'stand-alone', developers should be encouraged to actually pick up development. If they do, the new tests should help making sure that nothing gets tipped over.
I've made the code modifications before (I've suggested this before, but that attempt died a silent death somewhere) - it's all pretty do-able without to much effort.
I'm aware that proposing something like this often equals to volunteering for the job I'm perfectly willing to take this on, although I need some help with Jive people to get the JIRA, SVN and SBS set-ups in place.
I intentionally left one idea that I'm having out of this proposal. Although I think it'd be beneficial to implement, I think we should discuss this outside the scope of the above proposal: add proper dependency management (including perhaps a continuous integeration setup) to the IgniteRealtime projects. This would have a number of benefits, both for us, as for developers that might want to use our products. As I said, I rather discuss these in some other place. I'm mentioning them here, because I proposed to create a couple of new projects. With easy dependency management in mind, I would like to create these projects in the default Maven directory structure. This doesn't require us to actually use Maven (it's simply a directory structure that I'm proposing) but it would make it very easy to switch to Maven later, if we would like to do that somewhere in the future.


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Morrissey's response to whether or not he is a fan of Lady Gaga:
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The 52-year-old musician went on to target Madonna, contrasting the popstar against Edith Piaf.
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Spencer asks:
I started working at a company that is primarily C# oriented. We have a few people who like Java and JRuby, but a majority of programmers here like C#. I was hired because I have a lot of experience building Web applications and because I lean towards newer technologies like JRuby on Rails or nodejs.
I have recently started on a project building a Web application with a focus on getting a lot of stuff done in a short amount of time. The software lead has dictated that I use MVC 4 instead of rails. That might be OK, except I don't know MVC 4, I don't know C#, and I am the only one responsible for creating the Web application server and front-end UI.
Wouldn't it make sense to use a framework that I already know extremely well (Rails) instead of using mvc4? The reasoning behind the decision was that the tech lead doesn't know Jruby/rails and there would be no way to reuse the code.
Counter arguments:
- He won't be contributing to the code and is, frankly, not needed on this project. So, it doesn't really matter if he knows JRuby/rails or not.
- We actually can reuse the code since we have a lot of java apps that JRuby can pull code from and vice-versa. In fact, he has dedicated some resources to convert a Java library to C#, instead of just running the Java library on the JRuby on Rails app. All because he doesn't like Java or JRuby.
I have built many Web applications, but using something unfamiliar is causing some spin-up and I am unable to build an awesome application in as short of a time as I'm used to. This would be fine; learning new technologies is important in this field. The problem is, for this project we need to get a lot done fast.
At what point should a developer be allowed to choose his tools? Is this dependent on the company? Does my company suck or is this considered normal? Do greener pastures exist? Am I looking at this the wrong way?
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Telastyn answers (111 votes):
At what point should a developer be allowed to choose his tools?
When they don't impact your team.
Am I looking at this the wrong way?
Yes, you have a short deadline. Yes, you could get it done faster in Rails. But the company as a whole needs to deploy and maintain the application. If the company has a stable of good C# developers, then it will probably be cheaper (and yield better quality) to have a C# app to maintain.
Your DBAs and other admin staff are probably familiar with that stack and have processes in place to deploy and update that particular stack. Even if you can get the code done faster, it might take longer once you account for all of the overhead needed to get a professional Web app up and running.
Remember, you're going to spend way more time maintaining your app than writing it. Optimize for that cost.
Related: "How to determine if a language, technology or framework is 'future-proof'?"
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Ampt answers (19 votes):
Arguments for staying with Java/JRuby
Chances are, your boss wants you to produce. They hired you so that you could add value to the company. Ensure that they understand that by forcing you to use a framework that you aren't familiar with they will cause you to:
- Produce results at a slower rate.
- Create lower quality code.
Even the best programmers require warm up time with new languages/frameworks.
Arguments for Learning MVC4 and C#
Learning new languages is good. Investing in your skills as a programmer is only a risk if the language/platform you're learning is going to disappear in the near future, and with Microsoft chugging along, I don't think that that's an issue. C# and MVC have had recent updates improving them both, with even more updates in the pipeline.
Becoming a more well-rounded developer will keep you from being put in this situation ever again. The best part? Your boss will be paying you to learn these things, meaning that you get paid to make yourself worth more money.
The Bottom Line
You may end up winning this fight, but you'll be left working with disgruntled colleagues. Just explain the pros and cons of each to your manager and then you'll both come out the other end happier.
Talk it out
FrustratedWithFormsDesign answers (87 votes):
I'd say you have to talk to the team lead and say something like:
"I know you guys are a .NET shop, but I was actually hired for my Java/JRubyRails skills. I can build this new application in X amount of time using those tools that I already know. I could learn C#/mvc4 like you want, but it will take >X amount of time. What do you want?"
This raises the issue of "skills you were (ostensibly) hired for" vs. "skills you need now" and also shows that you're willing to learn the new skills, but that it will take longer to develop the new application as you are new to this tool-set. And you do want to show that you're willing to learn new skills. Not being open to learning new skills is a good way to ensure your employment ends when your skills are no longer needed.
As to your question at the end:
At what point should a developer be allowed to choose his tools? Is this dependent on the company? Does my company suck or is this considered normal? Do greener pastures exist? Am I looking at this the wrong way?
It usually depends on the company. If a company buys MS tools and standardizes everything on the VisualStudio platform and .NET framework, it could get very awkward if one developer insists on using Linux and C. That is normal. Exceptions might exist where the company is less fussy about the editors, such as letting developers choose Vi vs. Emacs, as long as the output is the same. I know some companies even let developers choose Windows vs. Linux, but the language they work in has very good support and runtimes for both OSs.
Why do companies do this? Consistency is one reason. It can be very difficult to debug things when the application is a patchwork of binaries built in the favorite languages/frameworks of various developers, built in different tools, and tested on very different systems. If all developers work on mostly similar set ups, those sorts of problems are resolved.
In your case, it sounds like you were hired to work in technology that is non-standard in this company. This seems strange to me, and you might want to talk to the person who hired you about why they wanted that.
Find more answers or leave your own answer at the original post. See more Q&A like this at Programmers, a question and answer site for professional programmers interested in conceptual questions about software development. If you've got your own programming problem that requires a solution, log in to Programmers and **ask** a question (it's free).


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A Little Bit of Craftiness.Well during my absence from blogland I spent many, many hours making stuff (as David calls it) and feel that it is about time I showed you a little.
A couple of weekends ago it was the ATDML Cybercrop and I made pages for two of the challenges. As it was music themed I chose:-
Black and Gold (Sam Sparro)
A photo of my mum and her brother taken 85 years ago!
and Yellow (Coldplay) although this challenge was to use a long title on a page.
Apologies for the bad iPhone photo.
I also taught two classes but I will save those for later in the week.
Reason to be cheerful:
Spending a happy half hour catching up with blog posts from this week. I had quite forgotten how much I enjoy doing this.


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A federal audit shows that five Veterans Affairs medical facilities in Ohio scheduled most of their patients for appointments within 30 days, and two of those sites have been flagged for further review.
The VA says more than 57,000 patients nationwide have been waiting three months or more for initial medical appointments at VA hospitals and clinics.
The VA audit released Monday shows medical centers in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chillicothe and Dayton saw all but 2 percent of their patients within 30 days. The Cincinnati and Cleveland facilities are on the list for further review.
The Chalmers P. Wylie VA Ambulatory Center in Columbus scheduled 94 percent of more than 36,700 appointments within a month. The Columbus center had more than 1,700 patients waiting between 31 and 60 days.


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Anecdotal evidence shows more people are taking advantage of the system.
May 16, 2013 -- Off the heels of a report that the uber-wealthy hire disabled tour guides to cut the lines at a famous Florida theme park comes another story about able-bodied people gaming a system set up for people with limited mobility.
ABC Houston affiliate KTRK reported an increase in the number of wheelchair requests at Houston-area airports. An airport manager was quoted as telling the station, "We've handled maybe a hundred wheelchairs a year. Now there are some certain times we can handle a hundred wheelchairs in a day."
American Airlines told ABC News that while they haven't seen a noticable uptick in wheelchair requests in Houston, the number of requests at New York's John F. Kennedy airport -- now about 600 per day -- has increased recently.
Anecdotal evidence from frequent fliers and advocates for people with disabilities suggests more people are taking advantage of the system. CEO of FareCompare.com and frequent flier Rick Seaney said he's seen an increase in the number of wheelchairs at the airport.
"I would put it on par with a variety of issues like abusing handicap status for parking, disability," he said. "There are always going to be a few that game the system potentially ruining it for the truly needy."
And that's really the heart of the matter: Not whether an able-bodied person has to wait a little longer in a security line at the airport for a person with a wheelchair to go ahead of them, but the fact that people who abuse the system limit resources for people who actually need them. What's worse, there's the potential that abuse of the system could become so rampant that lawmakers may actually dial back accommodations overall, hurting the people who actually need them.
"We've tried to be very careful about disability policy rights with lawmakers and have tried to find a balance," said Curt Decker, executive director of the National Disability Rights Network. "There should be reasonable service provided to people with disabilities so they can participate in society, but those services shouldn't be a burden to the rest of the community.
"When the system is exploited it raises questions about how services should be restricted [for people who truly need them]."
Travelers request wheelchair services and other special accommodations directly from the airline. For example, the American Airlines web site has several pages dedicated assisting to travelers who need special accommodation. But there's no one-size-fits-all policy, which leaves room for people inclined to take advantage to do just that.
"Every person with a challenge or disability is different, and you are the best judge of the service you require," the website reads.
Decker said the airlines don't want to get too deep into their customer's personal lives, which may prevent them from asking probing questions regarding the person's claims about a disability. Plus, "there are a lot of hidden disabilities, sometimes you just don't know."
In other words, don't assume the person in the wheelchair cutting the security line doesn't truly need the assistance, even if they look perfectly capable to stand in line like everyone else.
But if you're tempted to game the system, keep in mind it's not a victimless crime. "If people who don't need the services use them, they take up resources and people who actually do need them won't have them available," said Decker.
"Whenever I'm at the airport I see airline personnel scrambling to find wheelchairs for all the people who need them. Especially on the flights to Florida."


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Hello All,
Very new to the ARM world. I'm currently used to Atmel AVRs and PICs.
I'm very keen to get into ARMs over the summer...
I've got some stupid questions.
How does one actually program an AT91? I don't want to run linux on it (not initially anyway or boot from an SD card, etc)
are there In-Circuit programmers available?
Is there a universal programmer that does most of them (equivalent to something like an Atmel ISP-MKII?)
What is the connection from the computer (e.g. can it be connected with an FTDI interface , etc)?
As I'm used to AVR-GCC Plus Eclipse under both Linux and Windows and would want to use a similar setup; ARM-GCC + Eclipse. Primarily under Linux.
Thanks for your help.
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