Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Production Rollout for WBIA for Kenan

Following the unsuccessful production rollout for WBIA for Kenan on December 2008, the client has put a more business knowledge rich human resource to verify the screwed-up production data. Also she has informed me what to change and what not to change. I have also fixed the problem where a 'dynamic' database connection is not 'cached'.

This morning we reached office before 6am. I packed for McDonald's big breakfast. So far no bad news. I think this time the production rollout will go very well.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Something funny has happened!

I am not sure why. Somehow the XML message that was passed to my request queue contains response tag which is not supposed to be attached to it.

What annoyed me was my WBI adapter for Kenan kept processing the same XML message over and over again! Thank to this and only i found out that there was one database connection remained opened thus causing more and more database sessions created!!! This could be a serious issue and luckily i tackled the problem before the system goes for production! However, i still need to find out why sometimes the XML message is redirected to the request queue even tough it has been processed by the adapter without encountering any Tuxedo connection error! The only clue i know now is this kind of 'problematic' XML message contains response tag! Could it be an error from the portal side? Could it be they acquired the processed XML message from response queue and then sent to request queue again? Well, it is doubtful.

Scratching head... continue tomorrow....

Thursday, January 1, 2009

跨年佛学讲座

我在2008年的最后两天参与了一个佛学讲座。主讲人是来自台湾的慧律法师。法师演讲时还真七情上面,表情丰富,让观众们都不至于闷了睡去。

开场都有一段的唱经。平时有唱经的我也自然而然能随之起哼。

法师主要是说什么是正信佛教。华人社会活在儒、释、道的文化太多年了,导致个宗教都变质了。法师该是想尽力协助大众了解何谓真正的佛教。

法师也强调佛教各派该团结一致,不因些微分歧而闹内讧。

法师的演讲大多时候都简易有趣,可惜有几段因应用经文用语而让佛学初学者如我脑袋转不过来。

有些美中不足的是,以我所了解,佛陀已经涅磐了,那么法师怎么可以说“愿佛陀保佑你”和“愿佛陀保佑我们伟大的祖国-马来西亚”呢?而且第二句让人感到有些怪,但又说不出来其怪在何处。

大会还请来了马来西亚的口琴高手以呈献高水准的演出,我只能说,很棒!

大会负责人上台演讲时也几乎掉泪,主办过程想必艰辛。

在接近2009年的时候,法师们也为大众祈福,观众们全都亮起了手上的莲花灯,场面庄严壮观。

不虚此行。