Archive for July, 2006

Unplugging for a few days

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Although my participation around here has been dismal, between all the landscaping, hardwood floor refinishing, basement work, broken air conditioner, and work, I am spent. I have not had any really good things at work to write about.
We still have our issues with EMC and their Documentum licensing, so we have had […]

A previously unknown @Formula reference

Monday, July 17th, 2006

It never ceases to amaze me how often I learn something new about a product I have been working with for 12 years. This time it was a little known formula reference called “@UpdateFormulaContext”.

It was just a silly little thing where I have an outline, and instead of giving users a link […]

Death to Hungarian Notation

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

For those of you who are not familiar with Hungarian Notation, may I suggest you never familiarize yourself with it, and if you are familiar with it, do you still use it?

After spending a few hours extending some LotusScript libraries written by an external vendor, my hatred for Hungarian Notation has resurfaced. Besides the […]

Book Review: Eric Meyer on CSS

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Another example where I felt I had a good understanding of a topic, but when I challenged myself, I find out I fall short. So is the case with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). I have been using CSS for many years now, but I now realize the lack of depth that I have […]

The dumbest licensing scheme.

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

This distinction has to go to EMC for their Documentum licensing. Yet like so many other software companies, the details of these licenses are hidden until the sales rep smells blood in the water.

So this is the scam: EMC/Documentum provides an out-of-the-box browser client for their users, called WebTop, that is $240 per head*. […]

Lesson Learned: Better Web Application Security

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

A while back I posted a link to a site that explained SQL injection with a real life example. Although I always thought I understood application security, I never seem to go a month without learning something new, and our recent go-live with two web applications kept that record going.

One application is our new […]