An idea from the CodeIgniter user guide used the Scriptaculous “blind” effect to show/hide the table of contents for the guide. By the strange force that is fate, I came across the Rico Accordion effect on the same day. Both of those came the day before I had to decide how to implement the […]
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 […]
I always thought I had a good grasp on what SQL Injection is all about until I read this article about these guys who use SQL injection to compromise a corporate intranet. I have to admit guilt when it comes to using basic field names like ‘email’, ‘fullname’, and ‘address’, and these guys make […]
Third-party tools, exports to Excel, SVG, VML, and Java applets; these are the tools for the Domino developer who wants to create charts from their Lotus Notes\Domino applications. Wouldn’t be great if you could create chart images dynamically with native code? Probably never going to happen, but you can use .NET to generate […]
A simple workflow designer that allows you to drag names from a list of employees, to another list that is your process workflow. Using the Scriptaculous sortable list effect, this tool allows your average user to redesign workflows on the fly in a very intuitive way.
After being shown the Scriptaculous effects library, my usual […]
As of today, Microsoft now has available express editions of Visual Studio .NET. You can download for free any of these lightweight versions of the .NET development tools:
For Web Development:
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
For Windows Development:
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition
Database Development:
SQL […]
Scenario: Any Domino application that requires reports.
Typical Solution: Create a different view for each report.
Upside: Extremely easy
Downside: High maintenance, performance hit from excessive indexing, and can easily become a navigational nightmare.
A Better way?: Anything where one can build a view on the fly.
If any of you got through .NET for Domino Developers Part 4 […]
Hat tip to Jerry Carter and Mark Barton for this excellent find; CodeIgniter MVC application framework for PHP. If you do any PHP development, or would like to see an excellent Model-View-Controller (MVC) tutorial, you owe it to yourself to give this tool a look-see.
First and foremost, CodeIgniter is a pretty kick-ass framework tool […]
Those of you who are familiar with NTLM authentication, and who are lovers of FireFox, might be interested to know that you can get NTLM authentication to work in Firefox, with a single setting.
NTLM Authentication allows the login credentials of a Windows user, who is logged into a Windows domain, to be automatically passed to […]
I never thought getting TinyMCE to work with an AJAX post would be difficult, but a day of poking and prodding (with eventual success), brought me back to reality and reminded me how useful a browser Developer Toolbar can be.
The more I work with AJAX technologies, the more I like working away from the typical […]