So after two weeks of learning Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and converting basic RPC methods to real SOAP web services, I got a chance to load up Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2003 and create some basic web apps, and I have only one thing to say: holy shit is it easy!!
It came at a good […]
The first national celebration of Thanksgiving was declared in 1777 by the Continental Congress. However, this was not an annual event. Today, our Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November. This was set by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941), who changed it from Abraham Lincoln’s designation as the last […]
Some noticed that my Buffalo Snow Meter was not calculating the “Last Cache” date properly, it had been showing 11/35/2005, which we know is fubar. Ends up that my parsing failed miserably when NOAA added actual accumulation numbers. My bad, code adjusted. Still cold and snowy.
Finally GOT IT!! As is the case with most catastrophes there was more than one cause. In a nutshell, I had some conflicting namespaces (which I now know are ultra sensitive to things like conflicts), and I finally learned how to return arrays of complex data types.
First, Thank goodness I had access to […]
In September 1752 the Julian calendar was replaced with the Gregorian calendar in Great Britain and its American colonies. The Julian calendar was 11 days behind the Gregorian calendar, so 14 September got to follow 2 September on the day of the change. The result was that between 3 and 13 September, absolutely nothing happened!
The […]
I think I have officially bitten off more than I can chew. I am trying to convert a simple URL-triggered agent that returns XML into a real SOAP web service in Domino R6. I am almost positive that the data I am returning is in the proper format, but I cannot seem to get the […]
So a recent request about sending mail from other applications prompted me to write a quick and dirty LotusScript agent that could send an e-mail from an XML request. This was enough to get the developers going but it also opened up the dialog about standardizing XML calls around the organization. The method that […]
On 5 October 1960 an early-warning system warned the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) of a massive Soviet nuclear missile strike approaching the United States. What happened is that a fault in a computer system had removed two zeros from the radar’s ranging components, detecting the missile attack at 4 000km (2,500 miles) […]
So I had a few requests recently on how to send a mail, via Notes, from Visual Basic. I responded with the typical answer for developers to use the Notes COM interface, with the option to use the LDAP service for directory information. The problems with the COM interface are that it is Win32 […]
Just some random statistics about volcanoes and how destructive they can be.
When Mount St Helens blew up in 1980, it exploded with the force of 500 Hiroshima sized atomic bombs. The top 1300 feet of the mountain were blasted away, and when the side of the mountain collapsed, the dirt and rock traveled down the […]