Something new for fridays, a sharing of something I read recently that I thought was pretty interesting. Todays entry has to do with the very earth we live on. As far as scientists can tell, the earth is 4.5 billion years old, and if you were to compact the time of the earth […]
I am sure there is an entire army of techies out there who could give me a thousand reasons why I should hate IE for not supporting this or that technology, but I am writing this because I am sick of IE being too tolerant with my code!! That’s right, IE is too tolerant […]
Finally got around to getting all the pieces together, but here it is. The original demo was packaged as a Domino database and I promised a PHP version along with all of the sample data plus some other goodies below the results area.
Place the cursor in the field and start typing a last name. […]
In the process of helping to create a more distributed architecture, I am starting to expose some of our business logic to xml calls. These discrete bits of business logic are traditionally locked up into compiled binaries, or if we are lucky, a stored procedure.
Anyway, I started to put together a central place where […]
Not sure why I never mentioned an excellent web development tool I have been using in Firefox for a good few months, called the Web Developer Toolbar (catchy?). Chris Pederick has done an excellent job with this tool and has been paid the ultimate compliment by Microsoft. They copied it and called it […]
After years of having to create XML streams in Domino by concatenating strings, I wonder why it took so long before I had to create an XML response with LotusScript using the R6 DomParser. We have had the ability to use Java to do this, and I think that is the main reason why I […]
So I got stuck helping around the office with some of the development overflow. I am migrating a Notes/Domino client application to a web browser, which is always a chore if the original developer gave little thought to this eventuality.What I find myself doing is frequently saving the document the user is working on.
This […]
As I mentioned earlier, I have a customer who wanted a spell check option for their browser (IE-only) application. It took a while but I finally found exactly what I needed.
First I thought about using VBScript to open a Word document and spawning the spell check, but that can get messy and it requires […]
A customer application that was written a few years ago with ASP/VBScript had been migrated from an Access front end. The basic structure is ‘main entity’ with multiple ‘child entities’ and Access is good at working with data in this fashion. All you have to do is split the screen with the main entity on […]