Archive for December, 2005

.NET for Domino Developers Part 2

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Beginnings of data and Forms Redux
Hopefully you had a chance to browse through the various design objects that .NET gives you, and I hope you found some cool things. The last installment was nothing more than downloads and playtime with a little background. In this installment we will take some more concrete first steps in […]

.NET issues with ODBC SqlDataSource

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

While creating the next installment of .NET Development for Domino Developers, I ran across I real stickler of an issue that kept me up at night longer than I wanted to be. It is this simple: when you are using a SqlDataSource object in .NET and you are using an ODBC provider, all of the […]

.NET for Domino Developers Part 1

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

Downloads, Installs, and your first form…
Inspired by Jake Howlett’s “PHP for Domino Developers Parts 1 thru 6″, I thought I would share some of my experiences in my recent foray into the .NET world. Although I have been a Domino advocate since version 3.1 (1994), and I even worked for Lotus and IBM, my interest […]

Did you know…mmmm beer

Friday, December 16th, 2005

From didYouKnow.org:
Worldwide, 20,000 brands of beer are brewed brewed in 180 styles, from ales, lagers, pilsner and stouts to bitters, cream ales and iced beers.
Beer has been a popular beverage for a long time. Babylonian clay tablets show detailed recipes of beer making in 4300 BC. Beer was also brewed by the ancient Chinese, Assyrians […]

Domino and IIS: A few gotchas

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

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 […]

Javascript AJAX / SOAP client

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

Very useful little gem! I had posted on working around the limitations of MS’s NTLM authentication “double-hop” issue by using AJAX methods to retrieve information from secured web services in conjunction with IE’s security zones. Although SOAP is XML and nothing stops a person from manually creating a SOAP wrapper, this tool actually […]

Did you know..from aspirin to heroin

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Friedrich Bayer was born in 1825, the only son in a family of six children. His father was a weaver and dyer, and Bayer followed in his footsteps. In 1848, he opened his own dye business, which became very successful. In the past, all dyes had come from organic materials, but in 1856 coal tar […]

No “double hop” allowed..how about a “trusted ajax hop”?

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

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 […]

First big .NET let-down

Monday, December 5th, 2005

-So service oriented architecture is a big thing?
-So a benefit of .NET is integrated windows authentication?
-So why did the .NET team architect the .NET framework so that I cannot easily pass the users NTLM credentials to a remote web service?
I have no idea, but it is really annoying. You use their framework, […]

.NET has really come of age, and I am impressed!

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

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 […]


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