Cakue by Yohan Yudanara

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

Worry doesn’t make situation better. Only IDR can make situation better. What? Indonesian Rupiahs? Money? NO..

IDR is an abbreviation of “Iman, Doa, Rencana” which means Faith, Pray, and Plan.

• Iman - Faith is complete trust and positive confidence that the situation happened because the best is yet to come. We need faith to always think and say positive words because what we think and said will happened in our life. This is now become popular as NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming)

• Doa - Pray. Although Our God is a mighty One who understands what we need, we still need to pray. Why? Because that’s the law said. “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you”.

• Rencana - Plan. If we don’t have plan, it means we plan to fail. “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?” We need to align our plan with God’s plan. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Keep IDR and do not worry in any situation.

Posted by Yohan Yudanara at 8:27 PM | Permalink | Comments

Lately, I found myself really attracted to learn about Enterprise Resource Planning. I've join APICS-ID management mailing list and learn SAP from the kom-tek mailing list (both of them are Indonesian mailing list). I also buy some books about Supply Chain Management. Recently I've bought a book titled "Business Concept Implementation Series in Sales and Distribution" written by Holy Icun Yunarto. The book is very good and contains very useful knowledge for IT graduate who wants to learn more business process.

After read that book, I got information that the author also wrote a book titled "Business Concept Implementation Series in Inventory Management". This book published in 2005 by Elex Media Komputindo and rarely found in stock today. But, I decide to look for this book.

I wrote an email to cs@gramediapublishers.com, info@togamas.co.id, info@palasarionline.com and post a question to http://www.tokogunungagung.co.id/?go=contact. Togamas and Palasari didn't respond my email (I guess I got an old email address from their old website). Unfortunately, gramedia, which is the biggest bookstores in Indonesia respond my email by saying "Thank you for sending us email. Sorry, the book is out of stock". The best email respond came from Gunung Agung Bookstore with the list of all their store which still have the book in stock.

Since Gunung Agung stores which have available stock is far away from my place, I was trying to contact by phone several Gramedia bookstores asking whether the book was in stock. Then finally, I found out that the book is available in Gramedia Gajahmada Jakarta.

Maybe, Gramedia Jakarta should enhance their ERP system so they can easily search the book in their entire stores which spread all over regions. With this simple story, we can conclude that a good ERP system can help company to operate better and make potential customer satisfied.

Posted by Yohan Yudanara at 8:09 PM | Permalink | Comments

Junior Dev: What does CMMI stand for ?
CMMI Fans: CMMI stands for "Capability Maturity Model Integration"

Junior Dev: What does it mean and what is the relationship with software development?
CMMI Fans: It's a model that describes characteristics of effective processes to deliver software that is needed, on time, and on budget.

Senior Dev: Actually, it will bloat the software construction process and totally against agile methodologies. It is only useful for marketing purposes.
CMMI Fans: CMMI is meant to help engineering development organizations improve on their capability to consistently and predictably deliver the products their customers want, when they want them and at a price they're willing to pay.

Senior Dev: Why do I feel the opposite way? I think it's a burden and useless.
CMMI Fans: The Software Engineering Institute was funded by US Department of Defense to identify what the successful projects had in common, and the result is CMM. The SEI defined a "successful project" in terms of a project's ability to meet cost, schedule and quality objectives.

Senior Dev: Ok, it's enough. You have repeat that 3 times.
CMMI Fans: Yeah, that's the real purpose of CMMI. If you feel the other way, than there should be something wrong. CMMI also can be applied with agile methodology by mapping correctly the CMMI specific goals with suitable agile practices, i.e: "Manage Requirement" goal could be mapped with "Product and Sprint backlogs", "Establish Estimates" goal could be mapped with "Sprint Planning".

Senior Dev:Ok, I agree that CMMI is made to be a useful guide for software development. But I still think that it's to bloated and we can be more effective by following some part of CMMI and not the whole of it. Every project is unique and we can not easily repeat previous success project using magic recipes called CMMI.
CMMI Fans:Who said that CMMI is magic recipes? CMMI is collection of best practice found in many successful software projects. We can not say that it's useless. Use it wisely as a guidance to deliver successful projects, not as a bunch of mandatory documents which burden the software construction process. Never thought that CMMI just for marketing tools, it supposed to be used to improve process for developing software.

Senior Dev:I think I need to learn more about CMMI. I want to know more about marrying CMMI with agile methodology. Can you give me some resource about that?
CMMI Fans: Have you ever heard about google?

Source:
http://www.entinex.com/WhatIsCMMI_page1.cfm
http://www.cmmifaq.info/
http://www.agilecmmi.com/2006/08/keys-to-enabling-cmmi.html

Posted by Yohan Yudanara at 10:15 PM | Permalink | Comments

Do you know that Oracle Database 10g or later have recycle bin?
Dropped table will go to recycle bin, but deleted record will NOT go to recycle bin.

Here is the sample for dropping table:

create table coba(fieldcoba varchar(100));
insert into coba values('aaaaa');
drop table coba;

and then we restoring the table from recyclebin:

flashback table coba to before drop;

To empty recycle bin, we can use this command:

purge recyclebin;

For dropping the table and skip the recycle bin, use this command:

drop table coba purge;

Posted by Yohan Yudanara at 9:59 AM | Permalink | Comments

We can add header setting in Oracle Application Server to force javascript / image being cached in browser. We can determine the expired date of this cached files. When the cached is not expired yet, the browser will never check for newer version in server. So this setting will speed up time for delivering response page to user.

We can configure this setting in file c:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\Apache\Apache\conf\httpd.conf. We could add these lines to httpd.conf to cache gif, jpg, js, and css files:

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 10 years"
  ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 10 years"
  ExpiresByType text/js "access plus 10 years"
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 10 years"
</IfModule>

Some another examples for configure expired period are:

ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 3 months"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 3 weeks"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 3 days"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 3 hours"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 3 minutes"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 3 seconds"

Important Note: if we already set the expired header for a long period, than we have to change the filename when we modify file content. Because if we still using the same filename and the cache is not expired yet, than browser always pick the file from cache, and not trying to get a newer version from server.

Posted by Yohan Yudanara at 9:31 AM | Permalink | Comments

To configure Oracle App Server logs, we can use this attributes:
1. stdstream.filesize=max_file_size
log maximum file size. The log will rotate automatically when maximum size reached
2. stdstream.filenumber=max_files
maximum file count. The oldest file automatically deleted when this number reached
3. stdstream.rotatetime=HH:mm
time for daily rotation of log file

Usage sample:
* To rotate stdout/stderr log when log file has reached 12 MB and place the log file to folder d:\logs

java -Dstdstream.filesize=12 -jar oc4j.jar -out d:\logs\oc4j.out -err d:\logs\oc4j.err

* To rotate stdout everyday at 14.30 and limit the log file for 30 days

java -Dstdstream.rotatetime=14:30 -Dstdstream.filenumber=30 -jar oc4j.jar -out d:\logs\oc4j.out

The above configuration should be put in opmn.xml which is by default located in C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\opmn\conf\opmn.xml

Example:

<category id="start-parameters">
<data id="java-options" value="-server -Djava.security.policy=$ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/config/java2.policy -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dstdstream.filesize=12 -Dstdstream.filenumber=5"/>
<data id="oc4j-options" value="-out std.out -err std.err"/>
</category>

With the above example, log of stdout and stderr will show up in $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/home_default_group_1.
The name of logs file will look like.
std_2006_02_22_14_01_17.out
std_2006_02_22_14_16_25.out

Source:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/web.1013/b28950/sysprops.htm#CHDDCCJI
http://kaukovuo.blogspot.com/2006/02/oc4j-904-1012-and-1013-log-file.html

Posted by Yohan Yudanara at 11:26 PM | Permalink | Comments

By default, important logs of Oracle Application Server are located in this directory:
a. Apache Web Server log:

C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\Apache\Apache\logs

b. Stack Trace log(i.e.: System.out.println(), ex.printStackTrace() ):

C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\opmn\logs\default_group~home~default_group~1.log

Posted by Yohan Yudanara at 11:23 PM | Permalink | Comments

One of the reasons that Oracle App. Server can not start is the port being used by another application. It could be port HTTP Port(default to 80) or SSL Port(default to 443).

Let's assume we are using Windows Operating System:
To find out that the port (i.e: SSL Port - 443) is being used by another application, type this in Command Prompt:

telnet localhost 443

If the port not used, then "Connection Refused" will be displayed, otherwise the system will display "Connected".

If "Connected" is displayed, it means an application already listening that port. To find out which application use that port, we can follow this steps:
a. In command prompt, type:

netstat -ano

The system will display list of ports on which the computer is listening and display the Process ID (PID) number.
b. Look for appropriate port and notice the PID number
c. To find out what application have that PID, type this in command prompt:

tasklist

d. To kill that application from command prompt, you can use this command:

taskkill /PID  /F

After terminating another application using that Oracle Application Server port, you can try to restart the Application Server.

Posted by Yohan Yudanara at 10:43 PM | Permalink | Comments

Have you ever think about it? Let’s think about a baby who can’t choose to born in rich family or poor family.
Before we talk further about that, let’s think: “what is fair”.
Do anything that we say “fair” always “fair” for other people?

I read about this story in a book titled “Tangga Bumi Ke Surga” (Indonesian phrase of “Stairway from Earth to Heaven”) written by K.A.M Jusuf Roni.
A boy and his father go to the market to sell their horse. At first, they both ride that horse. On the way to the market, they go through a small village. On that village, people criticize: “Look at those two men, they do not love animal, how could a horse being ridden by two men, oh... pity horse.” After heard that, the father get off the horse and he decide to walk. After a while, they arrive at another village. People begin to grumble: “Look at the boy, he do not love his father, how could he let his father go on by foot while he ride a horse comfortably”. After heard that, the child ask his father to ride the horse and he decide to walk on his side. On the next village, another people complaining: “Look at that. That man was so selfish; he let her son walked while he thoughtlessly riding a horse.” After that, the poor man and his son thought for a while, and then they decided to carry the horse on their shoulder.

“Fair” is relative, do we think we are good enough to judge that God is unfair?
How about this fact: God has said, “It is hard for a rich man to enter kingdom of heaven”. (Mat 19:23). We know that’s true for most rich people. They have everything, so they don’t feel need God.

A baby who was born on poor family still has a good chance to end his life in success. God had beautiful promises for every of us, either born as poor or as rich baby, to be successful wherever we go (Josh 1:7). And we must remember, the measurement of success is not just money. It’s really much more than that. Years of living in this world are very short comparing to eternity after we died.

Still think God is unfair?
We are not smart enough to judge God about anything.
What we think fair is not definitely fair for other people and also for God.
Simply, just believe in Him, it won’t make you lose anything.

Posted by Yohan Yudanara at 8:00 AM | Permalink | Comments

Let's sing a nice song from Don Moen:

God is good all the time
He put a song of praise in this heart of mine
God is good all the time
Through the darkest night, His light will shine
God is good, God is good all the time

Why we need to praise God? isn't it sounds like wasting time, illogical?
We praise God because that's what we do when we give thanks for everything we had.

Why we need to give thanks?
Because joy is rooted in gratitude. We should stop comparing our life with the lives of other people. We could think of our blessings and drive our mind (not just drive, we need to force it) to think the positive side of every situation and believe that everything happen for a good reason when we walk with God. When we are thankful, joy will naturally follow.

Stop Whining >> Think Positive >> Give Thanks >> Experience Joy

For me, I had many things to grateful for.
Thanks God, I'm very grateful for my parents, the one-and-only girlfriend, friends, and my job...

Posted by Yohan Yudanara at 9:16 PM | Permalink | Comments