I am still proceeding (slowly) towards a total overhaul of my present companies intranet, and I wanted something to “soften” the overall design. Rounded corners on things like menu headers, and around images came to mind, but I have always avoided that approach since they have traditionally relied upon creating images for the corners, […]
If you do anything in the area of intranet portal design, you will find this report from The Nielson Norman Group invaluable. I have purchased the last three reports and they have saved me countless hours of design time that would have been spent correcting mistakes or pondering design changes. Jakob Nielson’s announcement […]
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 […]
So I posted about a Microsoft .NET limitation that does not allow a users NTLM credentials to go beyond a single “hop”. This is the hop from the browser to the IIS server that works like a charm so the user never sees an authentication prompt. If they are logged into the same domain as […]
My first dealings with .NET back with 1.0 and 1.1 frameworks, made me feel that it was just Microsoft’s attempt to catch up with what J2EE had become. My recent work solidified that thought but .NET 2.0 has made me realize that Microsoft has started to make good use of the Lotus talent they have […]
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 […]
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 […]
The fundamentals of Portal usability seem to have gone unchanged in recent years, according to Jakob Nielson of the Nielson Norman Group. Back in 2002 NNg did an Intranet Portal usability study to pinpoint best practices and lessons learned in portal design. The report, which I HIGHLY recommend purchasing if you have anything […]
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. […]