Yet another how to * question

Hi guys,
Fall semester is ending next week, and I want to find a job by December. Any idea on how to work it out in this shrinking job market?
Do you think Sun certified java developer certification might be something good to have under the belt? I remember the programmer cert helped me quite a bit in having the last job.
A little info on me:
location: Los Angeles
education: sophomore college student
java work experience: 1.5 years
certificaitons:
Sun certified java programmer
IBM certified solution developer(Jcertify level II) on WebSphere 3.5
I really appreciate your spending time on this offtopic post.
Thanks.

If you could only choose one, which would be better,
experience or certification?That's a very difficult question. I think that experience vs. certification is like asking whether apples are better than organges; they're simply different, but typically compliment each other very well.
While experience demonstrates nothing but the fact that you've been doing something for a long time, most people choose to take advantage of their long stint in the field to refine their skills and become more knowledgeable about it over time. Presumably, if you've kept jobs for long enough, you are able to write a program; hopefully, a half-decent one.
Certification, on the other hand, displays that you have learned the syntax of a language, the API of a technology, the intended uses, etc., but not that you can actually use it to its full potential. Using a technology is as much about knowing what not to do as it is knowing what to do; experience helps with the former. Certification may be considered sufficient for junior software developers, rather than engineers, who do not necessarily take part in the design of the system that they are developing for, but is simply not enough in most cases.
As long as one is not stuck in the past and welcomes change, my conclusion would be that one's experience weighs more heavily than holding a certificate. Having said that, if you lack experience, I think that the studying and work required to get a certificate can do nothing but help you out. Again, neither is enough to judge somebody's skills except for at a birds-eye level.
In response to the original poster, I think that having a genuine passion for programming is one of the greatest job-landing tools you can ever have. Learn as much as you can, utilize your knowledge, love it, and display your skills to your would-be employers; you'll win out in the end.

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I'm trying to delete some unused/unwanted apps from within the iTunes structure. Here's what I've done already:
Deleted directly from my iPad 2 by holding my finger on an app's icon, then tapping the "delete" icon in the uppoer left corner
Connect my iPad 2 to my Mac and to iTunes. Went from screen to screen hovering my pointer over the apps in question and clicked the "delete" icon in the upper left corner. Some apps asked if I wanted to keep them or trash them, which I answered "trash."
Turning our attention to the left sidebar in iTunes under the Apps tab, it's labeled "Sync Apps" and has a sort dropdown between the head and the list of apps. The unwanted apps still reside in thhis list though the checkbox to their left is unchecked. (see image below)
I have searched through the different discussion on this forum as well as others, with answers that pretty much mirror what I've done so far, with the exception that some people recommended using the "delete" key (which I assume is the same as the "backspace" key, however I've pressed both), which doesn't do anything.
Here is where I have come up against a stone wall.
How on earth do I get iTunes to delete those apps that I absolutely and positively don't want hanging around? I don't want them to suddenly appear on my iPad through some vagaries of the sync process and I don't want them showing up within iTunes.
My setup:
A 64GB WiFi iPad 2 running 4.3.5
A 2009 Mac Mini running Lion and iTunes 10.4 (build 80)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Tod

I feel like such a dipstick sometimes. I'll fret over a problem for hours, then post a question somewhere, then minutes later it seems that a lightbulb goes of over my head.
One thing I forgot to do was go to the Apps tab under the Library area of iTunes. <headsmack!>
Going there and viewing the app icons, I found that selecting an app and either right-clicking and selecting "delete", or simply hitting my "backspace" key cause it to disappear, both from the Apps panel in the Library, but also in the list of Apps next to my iPad screens.
Sorry for the intrusion.
-Tod

Yet another Try Catch question. Iterating through a ForEach loop

Confused on error handling in a Powershell ForEach loop. I’m looping through a list of registry keys, attempting
to open each one. If it succeeds, I do a bunch of stuff. If it fails, I want to skip to the next iteration.
If I was doing It in VBScript I’d do this:
For Each Thing In colThings
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If Err.Number <> 0 Then
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Else
Do stuff
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Do stuff
End If
Next
This is what I came up with in PowerShell. It seems to work, but just doesn’t seem powershell-ish. There must be a better way to use the catch output than just creating a $return variable and assigning it success or fail?
ForEach ($subKeyName in $subKeyNames)
try{$subKey = $baseKey.OpenSubKey("$subKeyName")}
catch{$return = "error" }
If($return -eq "error" )
“Oops”
Else
Do stuff
Do stuff
Do Stuff

I totally get what you're saying about formatting. I don't' have any habits yet, since I've only been working in Powershell since... well, what time is it now?
Unfortunately, It Has Been Decreed that we are no longer to use VBScript for any engineering solutions at work, so my 15 years experience in it now needs to be transitioned over asap. I don't have the luxury of crawling before I run. I'm trying not to be
frustrated, but it's like an English major waking up one day and being told "You must now speak French exclusively. Here's a book."
The Do Stuff example of my ForEach loop is about 50 lines of code involving matching values in subkeys of this registry key with another and collecting output. I tried wrapping the whole thing in a try section based on some examples, but it seemed odd, that's
why I'm asking. I'm used to tightly focused error handling at the point where an error may occur.
In this example I'm only interested in whether or not I can open the subkey (it exists, but I may not have permission). If I can't, there's no point in continuing with this iteration of the loop, I want to skip to the next one. So why include all the "Do
Stuff" in the the try section? From a readability viewpoint, it doesn't seem helpful.
Also, there may be more error handling deeper in the code. If I then put that in a try/catch, and then something else inside that, now I have nested try/catches mixed in with nested if/elses, all wrapped in a For loop.
Again, I can see how it works logically, but for readability not so much, and having all these braces 50 lines apart to match up is giving me eye strain :).
It sounds like David is agreeing with jrv, that putting the entire ForEach loop code into a try/catch is the conventional way to do it. I guess it makes as much sense as putting it all in an If-else-Endif, and I just need to adjust my paradigm.
But if not, my specific question was more along the lines of, is there a built in way to tell that the catch section has been executed, rather than me using it to populate an arbitrary variable and then read it? In VBScript, you execute something, and the
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Yet another MBA connection question

I just purchased my MBA in July and it started off working beautifully. Just in the past month or so my internet connection has gotten a bit lousy. My Airport says I have a full connection to the internet yet pages either never load and sit in internet limbo forever or i get a "safari can't open the page - operation could not be completed' message pop up. I bought this computer for it's portability, but no matter how light and thin a computer is made, when it has no internet it is a useless brick. Is there anything i can do to fix this? I am a new mac user so if you can put it in english that would be great, most of this mac-ese is still a bit greek to me!

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Have you taken your MBA to another location with a different wireless router and tried it? was the connection ok from there?
I would try it from another location first - that will narrow down the issue instantly to either your MBA - or something with your home network.

Yet another how-to on ITunes and changing computers

I had to set my laptop back to factory settings, causing me to lose my iTunes library. I'd backed it up to an external hard drive, so I reloaded the library from that to avoid wiping out the library on my iPod (which I've done in a past life and was none too happy about despite reading up on how not to make that mistake). I haven't figured out how to recover my playlists (not yet the question) or how to safely synch with my big iPod (not yet the question). All I want to do at this stage is be able to copy a newly-made playlist from my iTunes library onto my iPod shuffle, as I don't care about losing the music on it. However, when I try to do this, I get a message stating that no songs can be copied to this iPod. I suppose this may mean iTunes doesn't realize all this stuff is authorized and legal and certainly paid for, but I don't know how to get all this straightened out to work again. Is there a straightforward how-to on how to get all my iStuff talking to each other again?

I've had to set my laptop back to recovery quite a bit lately due to different reasons. My entire mp3 collection is held on an external HD not organised in the iTunes library as it is larger than the HD on my laptop. All it means is I have to have my external HD attached and turned on whenever I use iTunes.
What I do to recover iTunes is the following steps:
1 Copy the complete 'C:\Users\username\Music\iTunes' folder onto my external HD.
3 Rename the folder on the external HD as 'oldiTunes'
3 Recover my laptop to factory settings
4 Install a new copy of iTunes
5 Copy the 'oldiTunes' folder from the external HD to 'C:\Users\riobravocmd\Music' on the laptop
6 Delete the 'C:\Users\riobravocmd\Music\iTunes' folder completely
7 Rename the 'oldiTunes' folder as 'iTunes'
This way when I next open iTunes all my library is in place including my playlists. Also when I next plug in my iPod it syncs perfectly.
I also make a copy of the ITunes folder onto the external HD once a month so if anything does go awry with the library I have a recent backup available.
Might seem long winded to some but it works for me.

Yet Another Hard Drive Question from a Mac Newbie

I apologize in advance for the length of this post -- as I state in the subject line, I am a complete Mac newbie.
I just took delivery yesterday on a new (early 2008) Mac Pro. I purchased and installed an additional 8GB RAM, and ordered it with a 500GB HD (Seagate, it looks like) and purchased two 750GB Hitachi HDs for bays 2 and 3. I will be doing a fair amount of photo editing, and also plan to partition the OS drive to run XP using bootcamp, but also plan to use VM Fusion.
I am thinking of partitioning the boot drive with 250GB for OS X and apps, 150 GB for XP and apps, and ~66 remaining possibly to be used as scratch memory for CS3, though it sounds like this may not be enough. The bay 2 Hitachi would be used for all my user data (photos, music, docs, etc.) bay 3 would be for backup initially, possibly using Time Machine? (other recommendations welcomed). As space becomes an issue in the future, I will invest in a fourth internal HD, and at least 2TB external HDs for backup.
Does this seem like a reasonable plan? If so, how do I go about formatting the drives and installing boot camp, Fusion, etc., and in what order? Also, how best do I organize my existing files from my current Windows machine as I copy them to the new user data HD, so they can be accessed as needed by both OS X and XP?
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I like the boot volume to never get beyond 50% used. Enough room for burning dual-layer DVDs can be 50GB for best results. And to force the system to use the first outer tracks.
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I put Vista on its own 10K Raptor. I had it on the boot drive but I am always changing my mind, my drives and setup. Vista needs at least 40GB and that is with all my major documents and files on another drive which holds 150GB out of 450GB.
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How large? I'd have to see and know how large files, work flow, and how long you work between projects. The nice thing, erase the scratch volume between projects but it is possible to use 300GB when you work on 1.5GB files and above.
One early Mac Pro owner wasn't able to work as they wanted until they had 10-12GB RAM, boot RAID0, and RAIDs for scratch and data (saving 2GB files and not having to wait forever, which even a minute can feel like forever).
Disk Utility: Partition. You can even partition 2+ drives, just make them the same, and first create 2 partitions (100GB on each?) and then stripe the first "Untitled 1" of each into 100GB x n array. Stripe or mirror the "Untitled 2" or leave those are two unique non-RAID volumes. Sounds harder than it is.
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Yet another 'how to pass a file as a POST HTTP parameter and upload it'

I've read a couple of threads for uploading a file with MultipartRequest or some other Apache tools, but as well as I understood, I need the HttpServletRequest request object from Servlet API. How could I upload a file without using the Servlet API, only with java.net.* classes and headers?
I have a Swing application that connects to a file hosting site written in PHP. The site has a form with a fileUpload control and a submit button. On submit, user is redirected to another page with link to the hosted site. I need to automate the process and repeatedly host multiple files. Is there an easy way to manually write a POST query or use any other jse tool?

Does anybody know how to post a file using utl_http?
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Yet Another Time Sheet Question

Hello, Everyone:
I know there have been other posts on this subject, but none of them have met my needs. I recently began my freelance design career and would like to keep track of my hours in spreadsheet form. I know nothing of spreadsheet applications whether it be Excel or Numbers. I need a basic rundown of how to make my spreadsheet do what I want.
I'd like my sheet to have the following columns:
*Date | Start Time | End Time | Total Time*
Now, I have seen where the application renders the time in decimal form, which is fine, but would it be possible to show the time in hours and minutes, like 1 hr 43 mins? I would like to know how to get both sorts of results, if possible. If not, I'll settle for decimals.
In any case, if someone could show me step-by-step how to meet this task, I would really, really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!
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AC,
Your use of the time calculations is a simple as can be.
Select column A and format it as Date&Time, and set Time format to None
Select columns B and C and format as Date&Time, and set Date format to None
Select column D and format as Duration, adjust the slider to cover only hours and minutes, set the format as you wish, H:MM would work.
In the first data row of column D, enter the equation: =C-B
With the first equation in D selected, select the rest of the cells to the bottom and Insert > Fill > Fill Down.
Enter some data. The result should appear in column D. Now you may not like looking at zeros in the rows where you haven't yet entered times. So, select column D and in the Cells Inspector click the Conditional Format Show Rules button. Choose the rule: Equal To and type a zero into the field on the right. Then click Edit, followed by a click on the rectangle to the right of the word Text. In the colors panel that pops up, cllick the plain white square next to the upper left corner. Now click Done.
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Yet another colour management question

Hi folks,
I've read several of the very detailed colour management posts/threads here already but haven't found the answer(s) I'm looking for. So I'm hoping that some of the experts might be able to spare me some time and input...
I am running a Windows 7 (32bit) environment with a Dell u2711 Ultrasharp display attached. I let the monitor warm up for close on 30 minutes and ran an 'Easy' calibration with a Lacie eye-one device using the Gretag Macbeth 3.6 software. (I guess I could have used the 'Advanced' calibration option but thought I'd save myself some time and was always pleased with the results on my older Sony CRTs.)
I'm running LR3.2 and CS4. Viewing RAW images in LR the skin tones are way too saturated, but when I export the images as sRGB JPEGs the results look very pleasing when viewed in Windows Photo Viewer (far less saturated). If I open the same image in IE, it looks identical to the way it looks in LR. (I don't have Firefox installed so haven't compared that). If I open the image in CS4 by default it looks the same as it does in Windows, but if I change the Proof Setup to Monitor RGB it matches what I am seeing in LR and IE.
I'm guessing this is somehow related to the new wider gamut range that this monitor can display (compare to my previous CRTs). I read in one of Jao's posts that LR is always right and other non-managed apps will do weird things on high-end displays. IE is not colour managed so why would it display colours very similar to what I'm seeing in LR, when the standard Windows image viewer is displaying colour far less saturated (which seems to be the opposite to what others are experiencing)?
I generally always export as sRBG jpeg as the images usually go online, but this set is going to a client who will most likely be taking them for printing as well as viewing on a PC.
Looking forward to your input on this.
Kind regards,
Chris

Hi again all,
I've finally found some time yesterday to investigate this further and re-calibrate my monitor.
I nuked the previously created ICC monitor profile (so that there was none applied) and set to work with my Lacie Blue Eye device and the Lacie Blue Eye Pro software package. I set my preferred settings to 6500K, Gamma 2.2, 120cd/m2 and put the monitor into 'Standard' colour preset. I ran a test on those settings and while the colour and gamma levels were close-ish, the Lum was in the mid-high 200s...way too bright. (No wonder I felt like I was getting a tan sitting in front of the monitor. LOL!) DeltaE scores were okay but not great... Time for the manual calibration.
Set the monitor into 'Custom' colour preset and fired up the Lacie calibration software for the full calibration. Can't remember exactly how far the brightness and contrast controls had to come down, but from memory it was about 30 and 50 respectively. The RGB levels ended up in the high 80s each from memory. Ran the calibration, applied the newly created profile (double checked it was applied in Control Panel | Colour Management). Ran another test report with the Lacie software and got colour, gamma and lum results 0-1% from target, and average dE scores of 0.4, max dE of 0.7.
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I took the (exported jpeg) images to another computer with a cheapy (uncalibrated) LCD monitor and the results were perfectly fine when viewed in Windows Photo Viewer.
Having greatly reduced the brightness of my monitor I should hopefully reduce the likelihood of having issues with prints coming back too dark. Of course I know I can get hold of the printer profiles from my lab and softproof the images in CS4 when it comes to that anyway.
Thank you all for your input and feedback on this matter. Everything seems to be resolved now.
Chris

Yet another transfer/sync question...

I've authorized my new laptop.
I know how to transfer "purchased" songs to it.
I CAN NOT access original hard drive which also holds songs burned from CD (but most of my library is on the iPod as well).
Q: Will connecting iPod to the new laptop, sync its song list (including the non-purchased songs) TO the new lap?
Thanks
Drock j

dockj wrote:
Q: Will connecting iPod to the new laptop, sync its song list (including the non-purchased songs) TO the new lap?
NO.
To copy songs from an iPod to a computer, you need 3rd party software. Search this forum for a very informative post by Zevoneer on the topic.

(Yet another) Modal Dialog question...

I'd like to have a modal dialog that has a short message and 8 buttons. A UIAlertView works fine here except the buttons are huge and look bad.
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If your dialog needs 7 buttons then it probably shouldn't be a dialog.

And yet another reverse telecine question. =)

Okay so I shot the footage in 24p advanced on a dvx100b. I batch reverse telecined in cinema tools. It worked fine except for the first frame of some of the final reverse telecined files. Only on some of the files (randomly) the first frame is interlaced. This only happened to some of the files and it is not really a big deal because there is nothing important usually in the first frame but it is a little worrying. Could it be because I didnt really pay attention to which of the 5 frame set (0-5/A-D frames where frame 3/C is the interlaced frame in 24p advanced) was captured as the first frame during capturing? I have heard that you must capture the 0/A frame as the first frame for reverse telecining/advanced pulldown removal to work. Is this true. Even if so, the whole clip other than the first frame is still fine so, any ideas?

Ive received an answer to this in another forum. It is due to the fact that cinema tools has no other field to combine with for the first frame depending on which of the 5 field sequence it started recording in. It is really no problem because it is only the very first frame that is affected.

Yet another Flash 5 question..

Does anyone know how to make a simple countdown clock (Days, Hours, Minutes Seconds) that I could set a date in Actionscript it would countdown to?
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Thats just great.. So there is no possible was to do this automatically in AS1?
Thats just lameo. I'm thinking of purchasing this Flash knockoff so I can use AS3:
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Yet another file sharing question...

So I've read the posts and several articles and I still can't get this thing to work.
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2) MacLeopard as the client with user 'administrator' an admin account.
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can I use two different login from Leopard
do permissions effect file sharing

Right, I think I've got it...
I'm trying to logon from a Leopard machine to a Lion machine that has got two shared folders created on it using different accounts.
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Yet another Optical drive question

A few months ago I upgraded to a Samsung lightscribe DVD/CD burner, It was working pretty decent (i had osx 10.3.9). Then I upgraded to osx 10.5.8 and I began to notice a slight problem with disk ejecting. At this point this was just a nuisance. Now, I tried loading Final Cut studio 2 and I popped in dvd and everything started ok but when it came time to load the next disk it failed to eject the dvd. I couldn't get it out, I eventually had to manually eject. Upon doing so, I put in the next DVD and nothing happened. The installer was still asking for the next DVD. What gives?

Hey Daddypaycheck, here is the latest on this issue, once I was able to extract it and restart, the drive seem to work like a champ. I tried loading the software but I ran into the same problem..... I will try the SMU if you think that will help.

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