April 14 2017, 14:50

In the states, they economize heavily on people if they can be replaced by smart systems. I came up with the idea of a vehicle access control system for secured sites, I’ll leave it here so I don’t forget.

Entry/exit. Two barriers, a button, the driver approaches, presses the button. At that moment: the vehicle is weighed, the driver’s face is captured (attempt), the vehicle’s number is recorded (attempt), the make of the vehicle is identified (attempt), attempts are made to connect with the driver’s card, if he has one. All this information is checked in a database, and then either the left barrier opens, or – the right one. The right leads to a check/document issuance/registration etc., if something goes wrong. For instance, if the weight doesn’t match the recorded weight, or the driver is not the one photographed, or the vehicle is too dirty to read the number. A similar check is conducted upon exit. A database is formed based on successful entries, influencing the success of subsequent checks.

April 14 2017, 14:34

I came up with a rather educational little task with an impressive result: install a video camera and 2 laser distance sensors at the front of a car. With the help of these simple devices, the car “hooks onto” the one in front and keeps pace. It’s simple. Furthermore, when the car ahead turns, one edge becomes slightly closer than the other, which signals the following car to plan a turn at the same place in the same way. If the system is well-tuned, you can create a train of cars that increases in speed;) why hasn’t anyone done this yet?!

April 12 2017, 09:43

The Fallback language function is designed to display content in language X if language Y is not available. If there is no explicit localization for a certain locale, SAP Hybris Commerce relies on locales defined as fallback locales for that locale.

However, this approach has two major flaws:

• The fallback mechanism is not compatible with the Java Resource Bundle.

SAP admits that there is a flaw in the fallback mechanism. According to the documentation, “the fallback mechanism for de_DE is always de, [javaVMLocale] regardless of what has been specified within the Hybris system.”

• SAP Hybris does not support separate fallback rules for different countries/websites.

The article explains how to overcome these issues.

https://hybrismart.com/2017/04/12/overcoming-flaws-of-fallback-language-mechanism/

April 10 2017, 09:24

At our Museum of Modern Art, a temporary exhibition of Yayoi Kusama has opened. The demand is such that tickets are distributed online only once a week, on Mondays at noon (they are free because this is Washington). Yayoi has been living in a psychiatric clinic since 1977, yet she is the most sought-after contemporary artist among those still living: her White Net No. 28 sold for more than seven million dollars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8u0u1C46vY

April 10 2017, 01:20

New blog post: implemented the idea of multi-line search for multi-line orders in an online store. Just copy-paste a set of IDs or product names into the text field, and everything is set for a one-click order of all items from the list. The system displays suggestions for each line item.

I have not seen this anywhere else, so the goal of the experiment is also to check how well it will work as intended.

https://hybrismart.com/2017/04/07/multi-line-product-search-for-bulk-orders/

Egor, thanks for helping to develop the concept!