Over the years I have worked with a few portal products like Websphere, Aptrix, Oracle, Tibco, and about a dozen PHP open source solutions. My current employment has me working for an organization with some bad experiences with Java (write once, twice, and again…) and have decided that for web development projects we will use […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The uber-geekiness came through this weekend as I finally finished the two little geek projects that I have been trying to find time to do. First, the weather for Buffalo is now delivered to this page by my weather plugin, and second is the introduction of the Buffalo snow-meter. You may think it is a […]
Fresh on the heals of his recent publishing of 2005’s top ten web design mistakes, Jakob Nielson has now put out the Top Ten Blog Design Mistakes. As usual, Jakob puts things into words better than I possibly could.
In a nutshell, the Top Ten Blog Design Mistakes are:
1. No Author Biographies: Anonymous = less credible
2. […]
I mentioned a while back that I was handling some development overflow around the office and I got stuck trying to convert a Notes app to the browser, where no forethought for this contingency had been used by the developers. There are a hundred things, about doing this type of conversion, that I hate, […]
I recently posted about talking back XML from Domino apps since I had never had to use the R6 LotusScript parser classes that Domino now has. In the same spirit, I thought I would post on how to parse inbound XML using the same classes.
Traditionally, most Domino developers used the Request_Content property/field to […]