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The difference between CouchDB and Lotus Notes
I was trying to search for an old comment of mine and stumbled across this great answer for the question: “What is the difference between CouchDB and Lotus Notes?”
This is just the summary:
Summery: CouchDB is brand new software that is developing a core that has a similar conceptual but far more sophisticated design to that [...]
I am also attending IAMLUG
Like Ed Brill… I am also going to the IAMLUG conference in St Louis.
My employer said I could only attend one of the two Midwest events so I picked the one where I get to stay overnight at a casino. Travel is the same for me too… two round-trip train tickets were the [...]
MD5/SHA1 LotusScript Examples
I finally created an example database for the MD5 and SHA1 hashing libraries.
The database contains an “Example” form that allows you to either hash or HMAC hash a text string. Fill out the fields and click the “Hash!” button.
If you debug the button (or look at the code) you will notice that I use four [...]
Blowfish in LotusScript
I am finished converting David Ireland’s VBScript version of Blowfish encryption. The code is all David’s. I made two hacks to make it work in LotusScript.
1) LotusScript doesn’t allow for Array building the way VBScript does (this should have been included in R5 let alone R8). In VBScript, an array can be declared by writing [...]
Common Name Duplicates in Lotus Notes
Legacy databases… you just have to love them. I was working with a database the other day which stored names in the Common Name format (big no-no) instead of the Abbreviated Name. That’s cool if you work in a small company or if your Administrators do not allow duplicate user names.
Using the Common Name causes [...]
My COM Library Problem fixed
My goodness. I wasted a good portion of the week trying to get a C# COM/dll to work with Domino 8.
To summarize my problem… A COM dll that was working in R6.5 stopped working when we upgraded the server to R8. The dll was having issues finding the namgr.exe.config file that it used on the [...]
Help
Dear loyal readers (all two of you). I need Lotus Notes help badly.
Please ask your Lotus Notes developer friends if they’ve have any ideas on how to help me.
We just upgraded from R6 to R8 and now my namgr.exe.config or nserver.exe.config files stopped working. It’s like it can’t see them.
We were using a 3rd party [...]
Great Lotus Notes Application Example
It’s great to read about successful Lotus Notes applications. I was browsing Linkedin when I found this:
Michael Janas’ company bid out an application but decided to develop it in-house on the Lotus platform. It’s answer #2 on the list.
I had the same requirements, looked around at software, was caught off guard by the costs and [...]
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.
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 [...]
