Archives for June 2008

Page O’ Connection Strings

My brain is like a sieve. I can’t remember simple things like how to write a “for loop.” Hence the reason I am a Lotus Notes developer… the on-line help is great.
A great find for developers like me is a table of connection strings for all types of data sources.

23 June 2008 | lotus, web design | No Comments

Small R8 bug (enhancement?) with Rendering HTML

A couple of disclaimers… 1) We’re in the middle of upgrading to R8. Some of our mail servers have been upgraded but none of our production application servers have the new version yet. 2) This is an old (2001) application that was written for the web. I had no part of the initial development.
I discovered [...]

20 June 2008 | general, javascript, lotus, web design | 2 Comments

You know your blog is going downhill when…

You link to the Euphemism Generator.

18 June 2008 | general | 1 Comment

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

I don’t get sucked into YouTube very often but when I saw a link for a Re-cut trailer for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off using music from Requiem for a Dream I had to watch. It’s amazing.  (via Jason Kottke)

17 June 2008 | general | No Comments

Lotus Notes and the iPhone

I hope that a good night’s rest has allowed most of you to think a bit more clearly about the issue of IBM and the iPhone.
I am not a consultant. I work for a corporation (a rather large financial institution). I have worked for at most (if not all) of the large Lotus Notes shops [...]

12 June 2008 | lotus | 1 Comment

Links 6-3-2008

Study: .gov web sites should focus on RSS, XML—not redesigns
Age of Conan’s incredible shrinking breasts - No… not Arnold’s…man-b00bs.
This job posting doesn’t bode well for Lotus Notes. Ideally you will have Lotus Notes and SharePoint experience and have been involved in the development or migration of Lotus notes databases
Adobe Buzzword - Adobe’s answer to the [...]

3 June 2008 | baseball, general | 1 Comment