Awesome idea from William Beh at Lotus Notes on Web 2.0, where he used the Rico/Scriptaculous Accordian effect on Domino web categorized views. I have started to use the accordian in my web designs along with the Scriptaculous “Blind-Down” effect for online help. Users find it unobtrusive, and I can have pages of […]
It was inevitable, and it has been demanded. I knew it would come, but I really had no idea why Blackberry is the only option in some people’s minds. There are so many incredible devices out there, that can do so much more, what is it with this device? Well, after a few […]
Alot of us Domino devs have lately been asking the question “What is happening to the Domino that we knew”, or something to that effect. Although I have asked the question, I never seemed to figure out why I was asking it. I always enjoy learning new technologies, so why would I give […]
Ok, not a real comparison, but some curious behavior on the part of a DocumentCollection has reminded me why I abandoned manually creating DocumentCollections in favor of a good, old fashioned arrays. Not to say that the documentcollection does not have its uses, but I cannot figure out why it would not work for me […]
A business need has recently forced the issue to create an interface that can read an RDBMS, collate the data, present it for informational purposes, and provide a reporting mechanism to collect errors in the data. Not very unusual requirements, but a good example of how “competing” technologies can be used in tandem, both […]
A quick post on a headache….
So we are setting up our test environment that will have Domino providing web services from behind IIS using the WAS plugin. The thinking is that we can provide secure services with no additional logins. Since the Lotus documentation on this configuration is lacking, I had used some […]
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 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 […]
Why would you want to do this? Why not? In my case, I just go tired of all the free services that provide this data going down for extended periods. That, and the uber-geeky desire to know how it was computed. I use this same code, translated to PHP, for my new […]