My Life With IT

After resolving my site problem, I decided that all my sites will be re-installed. Major re-do. I wonder if I will actually get down to it. I have a problem. The user wants all the categories in the view to be collapsed. Not a problem.

The user also wants the selected view name to be highlighted if the view is being viewed. Not a problem either. The problem is combining both. I used a text with the following:

@Command([ViewCollapseAll])

I cannot use the same in an Outline. The Outline is able to highlight the selected view name but is unable to comprehend Formula and I don’t want to do such a complex code for a simple menu. It’s silly.

The headaches of using Lotus Notes. It’s a bane when I’m faced with conflicting interests. If anyone has an idea or alternative, do leave your comments so that I can try it out.

I feel a sense of lost. Caught in the middle of something that I could be imagining myself. I’ve been in development for close to 4 years. IT for nearly 7 years. During these years, I thought I was in love with IT and thus, continued myself in it while trying to get higher pay. Pay increment within the company is low. Everyone knows that.

However, after a while, I realised that I’m not that good, neither am I that bad in my current job scope. Just mediocre. It feels as if I’m doing it because it’s part of my job responsibilities. I seem to have lost that passion, or I didn’t have it in the first place.

I was hoping to have a change this year in terms of my job scope but unfortunately, I was rejected. After waiting for 2 months. Not that I didn’t expect it, just disappointed that they didn’t even want to consider. Can’t blame them since it has always been like that. No related certifications, not a chance at that job you would dearly love to have.

So, in other words, go be an entrepreneur or technopreneur. This part is partially joking, you won’t succeed if you don’t try again when you have failed. You need the perseverance, strength and passion to pursue this.

I’m digressing. What I’m trying to find out is that if I am selling myself short. There is this potential change in company, nothing new in my life since I have been changing within 2 years ever since I left my 1st company. It’s the same scope but with wider technologies to play with. It’s going to be expensive just working there because food will cost a lot more than what I’m paying for now.

I wanted to stay on and renew the contract for a short term at this current one as I want to build up a profile. It’s easier to stay here to build a profile since I’m familiar here. At the new place, I may not be able to build my profile since I may be doing lots of OT (not my favourite part and that was the reason why I left the other one too). This new place would have a large salary every month but I don’t know if it’s worth it.

I don’t want to sell myself short since I have more or less settled down in this current place. I don’t want to receive another call a few months down the road saying I have this offer, the one that I have been hoping to get for a long time. It’s not the 1st time that I have such calls and unable to take them up due to my short time spent at the workplace at that time.

Life, is a paradox.

I seem to have lost touch with looping. The codes look fine to me. However, the final count is wrong. I can’t figure out why. Perhaps I have really lost passion for coding at this point in time. Maybe I’m just bored with the programming and yearning for changes in my life. Or perhaps I yearn to fulfill my childhood dreams.

Anyway, this set of codes is supposed to check for the category then the location and finally count if the document belongs to the set. Unfortunately, the count is off. With 2 or 3 loops, I can’t help but wonder if I had been programming the codes all wrong from the start. Or the conditions need another way to work around.

Arrays and variables have to be used. It’s going to be tough.

Have been trying to populate a table but the last cell at the bottom right often end up with all the information in the array backwards. I’m not sure what is wrong here. Using 2 arrays to store the information and creating a table looked easy. Unfortunately, the information being populated looked awkward.

Code used:

Set rtFld = New NotesRichTextItem (nDoc, “sRptResults”)
tblRow = divCnt
tblCol = 3

Set rtNav = rtFld.CreateNavigator
Call rtFld.AppendTable(tblRow, tblCol)
Call rtNav.FindFirstElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TABLECELL)

For i = 1 To tblCol
For k = 1 To tblRow While k <= tblRow
Call rtFld.BeginInsert(rtNav)
Call rtFld.AppendText (k)
Call rtFld.EndInsert
Call rtNav.FindNextElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TABLECELL)
Call rtFld.BeginInsert(rtNav)
Call rtFld.AppendText (divNameList(k))
Call rtFld.EndInsert
Call rtNav.FindNextElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TABLECELL)
Call rtFld.BeginInsert(rtNav)
Call rtFld.AppendText (divCntList(k))
Call rtFld.EndInsert
Call rtNav.FindNextElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TABLECELL)
Next Wend
Next

Call nDoc.Save (False, False)

Wonder what is wrong.

Update: Just change the inner loop to a While loop and it works find!

I’ve come quite a long way since I have been doing IT. 7 years is a long time with me being in the support group for 4 years and development started in the 4th year. I have been demoralised in the past (from year 5) and changing companies doing the same thing didn’t help at all. It came to the point when I didn’t want to look for any job. I just wanted to stay at home and do absolutely nothing.

Just eat, sleep, surf the net and meeting friends or travel. With quite a number of years doing what I’m currently doing, I have started to get bore. Somewhere along the way, I lost my interest in Lotus Notes development. I got depressed at the thought of going to work every morning.

I want to cry when I’m sitting in front of the computer and the task that I have been assigned. I wanted to go home immediately. I felt that I didn’t want to have anything to do with development or support.

Finally, today, I nearly cried while sitting at my cubicle. I had been feeling low for 2 days and this was the last straw. There was no way I could programme anything while in that mood. I had to talk to someone. That someone was my manager, the one who interviewed me.

I spoke of my interest to pursue another path. The discussion was a load of my chest. I just have to update my resume and forward it and see if there’s any openings within the company. I have finally taken a step towards a change.

After installing Lotus Domino Designer, I often get this error, “Task Loader Error: File not found (nhkdaemn.dll)” after opening Notes.

Does this happen after installing Designer when Notes is already installed? I can’t find much information about this DLL file. Except that it seems to be safe.

Domino Version: R6.5.4 CCH4
Windows: XP Pro

Anyone had this problem before? How did you resolve it?

I’ve been asked during lunch “If they are going to renew your contract, will you be continuing?” Frankly speaking, I don’t know. I’m not sure if I want to continue because I’ve been seriously thinking about my career path. I’ve been neglecting another part of me for too long.
Maybe I should negotiate with them if they really want to renew it.

With all the hype on FaceBook, I’ve yet to register myself on it. It doesn’t seem to attract me. Not even MySpace too. Not sure why but perhaps could be due to the hype and I tend to draw away from such hypes. Just like the big hoo haa on Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.

I’m pretty impressed that FaceBook has quite a number of applications going on like FBFactory.

I think the resistance to join MySpace could be also be due to the sex offenders on the rise. Scary. The net has provided such a useful platform for them to prowl and hunt their victims.

Now, let’s move on to something less scary, shall we? Microsoft is planning to launch a system that will rival Google Analytics, called, what else? Microsoft Analytics or so I heard. I must say, the screenshot of the graph is cool.

While most of us use social network sites, Respectance is a site that remembers the dearly departed. A moment of silence please.

With my intention still on moving to my own domain, this set of plugins for Wordpress comments will come in handy. I wonder when I will actually move. Harping about it doesn’t help, does it?
I have never used Sametime until I started this current job. The demo explains quite a number of things that goes with Lotus Notes.

And now, the announcement of PSP Slim caught my interest. I wonder if it functions the same as PSP except it’s lighter.

I’m starting to wonder if I should get a Walkman, Sony NWD-B100 Walkman. Oh, I can’t buy it even if I like to, it’s sold in Europe only. Rats.

I admit it, I’m lazy to post anything in a story because I have been spending time going through my RSS feeds. However, I do hope you’ll enjoy reading them as I had.