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Eduard Lebedyuk · Aug 20, 2022

What are recommend habits inside and outside, during you own time and during your work time, to be focused during you coding session and daily tasks?

 

My habit/advice/etc. and something that really helped me is a sincere acceptance of the fact long uninterrupted stretches of time do not exist. 

Stop trying to carve out an entire week for a new product feature or a day to prepare a perfect demo. The best you can get is half an hour between meetings.

After I accepted that, planning and accomplishing work (and anything else really) became much more manageable. And much less frustrating as I don't expect to complete any task uninterrupted by something else. 

To do that, first, I split any task into 15-minute-to-half-hour chunks. For example, if I'm writing code, first I just create stubs for all the parts (usually methods and classes), beginning to end, even if I don't know how they should be implemented. Each method is one or several chunks. After that, I start on a chunk: implementing one method I know for sure. If I have no idea how anything works at all, I'll implement invocation arguments/objects and so on. If still no idea: split one chunk into several and try again.

It works out for almost everything. Writing articles, I first write a title and a list of sections. Usually, I have ten or more of these stubs lying around, and then inspiration strikes me - why not fill one section? Or several if there's time. 

 

Another trick is leaving the day's last item unfinished. When I'm close to eob and actually see how to complete something, I often leave it as a task to start the next day. This way, I know where to start and what to do in the morning. And I can score a win pretty much immediately. 

Eduard Lebedyuk · Aug 19, 2022

Say you have this query:

SELECT a, b, c
FROM mytable
WHERE d=1 AND e=2

If you want to change fields in SELECT or WHERE, you'll need to rewrite your query by adding or removing it's parts. Source control diff would also show a whole line change.

But if you write it like this:

SELECT 1
  , a 
  , b 
  , c
FROM mytable
WHERE 1=1
      AND d=1 
      AND e=2

You can comment out any field or condition simply by adding --:

SELECT 1
  --, a 
  , b 
  , c
FROM mytable
WHERE 1=1
      --AND d=1 
      AND e=2

when you have a lot of conditions and need to iterate fast, this way of writing queries is much better for debugging and source control since diff is always contianed to the one line you edit.

Eduard Lebedyuk · Aug 18, 2022

Ens, EnsLib and EnsPortal are system packages, developes can subclass them.

To get class count call something like this:

SELECT 
  count(ID)
FROM %Dictionary.ClassDefinition
WHERE 1=1 AND
      System = 0 AND 
      NOT (Name %STARTSWITH '%' OR 
           Name %STARTSWITH 'Ens.' OR 
           Name %STARTSWITH 'EnsLib.' OR 
           Name %STARTSWITH 'EnsPortal.' OR 
           Name %STARTSWITH 'HS.' OR 
           Name %STARTSWITH 'SchemaMap')

Missing: SQL way to filter out mapped classes.

Eduard Lebedyuk · Aug 15, 2022

Use a Business Service with a basic Ens.InboundAdapter:

Class test.BS Extends Ens.BusinessService
{

Parameter ADAPTER = "Ens.InboundAdapter";

Method OnProcessInput(pInput As %RegisteredObject, Output pOutput As %RegisteredObject) As %Status
{
	$$$LOGINFO("In OnProcessInput")
	Quit $$$OK
}

}

Add it to production and set Call Interval to X seconds (and Pool Size to 1). That would ensure OnProcessInput being called every X seconds after it's last completion.

Eduard Lebedyuk · Aug 12, 2022

Say you have this string:

1111111111:authoredOn=ge2022-01-10:authoredOn=le2022-01-13

How do you want to slice it:

authoredOn=ge2022-01-10

authoredOn=le2022-01-13

what's 1111111111 doing there?

Something like this should work:

set str = "1111111111:authoredOn=ge2022-01-10:authoredOn=le2022-01-13"
set str = $lfs(str, ":")
for i=1:1:$ll(str) {
	set param = $lg(str,i)
	if $l(param,"=")=2 {
		set key = $p(param,"=",1)
		set value = $p(param,"=",2)
		set params(key, $i(params(key)))=value
	}
}
zw params