Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

We recently got back from a trip to the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. Since it's a trip we might do again in the future, I decided I'd write up some "what I'd do different next time" items here. First off, Atlantis is EXPENSIVE. Just get it in your head to start out with. We rented a place with a kitchen and planned on eating meals in the room which helped offset the total cost. We would do a kitchen again, though. We ordered from Food Store 2 Go and would do that again. Having groceries delivered to your room was well worth it. Our flight got in too late Friday for them to deliver, so we had to stick around in the room Saturday morning instead of being able to go out right away, but it wasn't too bad. We should have ordered more bottled water from the grocery store. I'm the only one in the family that drinks soda, so we had twelve 12-oz cans of Coke Zero delivered. But it would have been just fine ordering more water and less soda. (We ordered 24 16...

I was trying to do some reading of Excel inside a Java agent in Domino the other day. It was my first attempt at it (I have done it in LotusScript, but not Java), so it was quite a bit of trial and error. The first thing I saw said you need so-and-so JAR to do it. So I download that and add it to my agent. Then I get some error message. A quick search on that results in "you need so-and-so JAR to get rid of that error". Another download and add. Triggers a different error. Repeat. And so on. Pretty soon, I end up with an agent design element that, by itself, is 10,854,717 bytes in size. That's nearly 11 MB for just that one design element. I have a pretty complex Java library that is just under 50 KB in size in the same application. That's KB... the design element that was just created was 218 times bigger. And that was without much of my own code inside it. Naturally, I get an "out of heap space" error whenever I try to use it. Guess I'll have to fi...