Update on Hybrismart.com: a story about the integration of SAP Commerce Cloud and Sitecore. It is based on our development – an integration module for these two systems, and our implementation experience at General Electric. It should be useful to everyone interested in headless commerce and using Sitecore as a content management system and SAP Commerce Cloud as an e-commerce platform.
https://hybrismart.com/2019/01/11/combining-sitecore-commerceconnect-sap-commerce/
I devised this method of shooting with a cell phone in flashlight mode, and I’ve already convinced myself several times that many others don’t do it. And it’s a pity! Sharing! No red eyes, good side lighting is achieved (well, as far as this can be applicable to mobile photography)
Slowly learning
When you land, the pilots exit the cockpit, stand by the exit, and thank everyone, and the passengers – thank them. I wonder, do they come out of the cockpit when there’s an evacuation due to their mistake?
Excellent little problem for an interview. Answer the question “why”
Mac OS calc shows 1e-27, while Google’s calculator shows zero, and in java System.out.println((4195835/3145727)*3145727-4195835) outputs “-1050108”, but after a simple change, it outputs the correct zero.
And another for bedtime. How much will Python output in response to “print(0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1)”? And Java? System.out.println(0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1);
Published a new article on hybrismart about site search and autocomplete/autosuggest/autocorrection patterns. Not much about hybris there, it’s generally about organizing site search. What to do and what not to do.
Request – if I missed anything (like some rare edge cases), please let me know, I will add it.
“Autocomplete, Live Search Suggestions, and Autocorrection: Best Practice Design Patterns”
I encountered two sets of very similar words, which are overall useful to know. In the States, almost the full set from each group is used.
To choose the right word for rain in English, you probably need to measure the diameter of the droplet. If they are small, such rain is called drizzle; if larger – then rain. Then you need to measure the speed. If it pours heavily – then it’s a downpour or shower (although this might be a bit lighter). If very heavy and prolonged – then it is a deluge. If the rain evaporated before reaching the ground, this is virga. And all of this is called precipitation in general.
They constantly talk about rain on the radio. And here are all these words.
I was also amazed that there are a bunch of words for clothing too, and there’s a lot of confusion until you figure it out. There’s garment, there’s apparel, there’s clothing, there are clothes, there’s attire, there’s wear, and there’s also outfit. Well, and garb too.
Garment – is a piece of clothing. Apparel includes decorations, bags, and shoes, and sounds slightly academic, while clothing is just apparel, and attire are specific pieces of apparel, such as work attire – work clothes, and a more formal way to say clothing. Clothing and clothes are the same thing. Wear is a commercial term for “clothes”. Outfit translates as “outfit for the occasion”. And for the pile, there’s also the word garb – used for clothing of a specific purpose, such as for hunters, clergy, or prisoners.
By the way, about specific clothes, I’ll write here too: Costume – for example, for Halloween. Suit – a suit in Russian. Dress – a women’s dress. Dress suit – evening/business suit (male or female).
Guess the country by the photo
Why hasn’t anyone yet created a mobile browser icon that instantly opens the last site you loaded on desktop, or just a site from the current tab? Ideally, even at the same spot on the page if it’s long, and with filled-in forms, if they exist, using the same cookies, authorization, etc. And vice versa – you press a button in the browser, and the site from your mobile flies over to your computer. It’s relatively simple to do, isn’t it?
Today marks 3 years at EPAM.
I can say that so far, it’s the best workplace out of all the ones I’ve had over the last 25 years. Each one had its beauty, but EPAM leads in terms of cumulative qualities.
First off, it’s in the USA. I really like where I live, near Washington. I’ve traveled around America and so far haven’t found another place where I’d want to move from Virginia. It’s too hot and weather-monotonous in Florida and LA, and too cold, windy, or rainy in NY and Seattle. Moscow was good too, but I needed to move forward. My field in Russia feels just too tight. Very tight. There, besides my former team, there are only two small ones, and no one else. Because there’s no market yet.
Secondly, the people. Here, there are hundreds from whom I want to learn, and dozens from whom I manage to learn (considering my distance from the main offices in Europe). EPAM has a very powerful intranet. There are so many training videos and courses here, you couldn’t get through them all in a lifetime.
Thirdly, the projects. They are on a completely different scale compared to those in Russia, both in terms of complexity and budgets. Working as a Solution Architect in a hundred-person team teaches you a lot. I had an experience on a project in Belgium, where I was entirely on my own for two and a half months. Diversity, periodic changes in topics and technologies are very important.
Fourthly, in these three years, I’ve familiarized myself with a slew of new technologies that had been waiting in line for my free time. Python, NodeJS, Angular, Vue Framework & Vuex, Groovy, Neo4J, Weka, Tsung, JMeter, JProfiler, Pentaho, SOLR Cloud, Varnish, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, Drools Fusion, Drools Rule Engine, PredictionIO, Microsoft Bot Framework, PDF libs, OpenNLP, SAML & SSO. From the SAP portfolio – Hybris Marketing, Commerce Cloud v2, and Spartacus. And from non-SAP products that are worth knowing deeper than a BA at my position – Oracle ATG, Magento Enterprise – and I’ve gotten to grips with all this (to varying depths) over these three years.
Fifthly, my hobbies have grown here – from electronics and piano to drums and drawing, and all these are now accessible to me at the office. Mainly because there’s no commute – I live literally a five-minute walk from the office. Right now, I’m trying to make a lock opened by an RFID card using Arduino and a couple of additional boards.
Sixthly, business trips. Despite usual “rush jobs” on-site, I found time to see Krakow, Amsterdam, Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, Barcelona, and several neighboring states in the USA.
Of course, it varies for everyone. I know some poor souls who got stuck on rather dull projects for several years. Partly, it’s a lottery: clients are chosen not so much for their interestingness as for their ability to pay for good work, which is, in turn, not necessarily interesting for every team member. But I noticed that such “dull” projects are predominantly with large and old clients. There, all the interesting work has long been done, and only typical routine remains. It’s the same everywhere.
I cannot share the names of the clients and projects I have worked on or am working on at EPAM. But each of them gave me new knowledge and experience and exceptionally positive memories.
Thank you, EPAM 😉 Hello, fourth year
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