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Notes with Internet Explorer
I had a frustrating problem this week.
I converted a Lotus Notes application to a Domino/Web application. Testing went well for a while but then I had an interesting complaint.
The user was using Microsoft Internet Explorer within their Notes client. Granted… I’ve always thought that a browser “inside” of your email client was a bad idea… [...]
Lotus RSS Advertising
I just about fell of my chair. A Lotus Domino ad. A real Lotus Notes/Domino ad… in Boing Boing’s RSS Feed.
I like it. I am not sure that Boing Boing is an appropriate feed to place ads. They tend to have some NSFW content. But hey… I hope it works.
Busy vs Productive
Brad Bollenbach at 30Sleeps has written a great comparison of busy people vs productive people.
A few of my favorites:
Busy
Productive
Rolls their own
Uses someone else’s
Sees the toolchain as a competitive advantage
Sees the user-kickassness as a competitive advantage
Writes a detailed specification
Implements a prototype
Prevent Excel from Manipulating Exported Numbers
I ran into a small frustration exporting number data to Microsoft Excel using HTML. My Account Numbers were being translated into exponential numbers. I needed these numbers to show as text (without formatting).
This site gave a great tip on how to format those numbers to show correctly. In my instance… I set the style of [...]
Gridlines for Printing Excel from a Web Agent
Have you ever noticed that Microsoft Excel content printed from a Web Agent usually doesn’t have gridlines. You can put borders around your data by adding border=1 (or whatever) but it still doesn’t show the default gridlines.
The is the only way I have found to add gridlines is by adding some Microsoft XML settings in [...]
I Protest!: Why (almost) every Web site needs an RDBMS
Leave it to IBM to publish an article that totally disregards one of their own products.
Nobody is going to argue with the author (David Mertz) about the necessity of a database for content management of a Web site. My argument is that while Lotus Notes is not an relational database… it has powered many (in [...]
Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns
I stumbled upon Jonathan Snook’s review of Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns by Michael Bowers. From Jonathan’s review (and the 5 stars from Amazon) it looks like it would be a great book to help make better Domino web sites.
My favorite tool for web design is the Visibone (laminated) reference book I bought a [...]
Amazon S3 WSDL Issue
Thanks to this thread I fixed an issue I was having with my Amazon S3 Web Service script library.
If you’re playing around with the Amazon S3 Web Services in the script libraries: Remove the “Credential” parameter from all Service.Invoke calls.
Set GetBucketLoggingStatus = Service.Invoke(“GetBucketLoggingStatus”, Bucket, AWSAccessKeyId, Timestamp, Signature, Credential)
I apologize for blaming Lotus Domino for the [...]
Web Service Debugging in Domino 8
Web Service debugging in Domino 8 is worthless. If a service fails, I get a generic error back from Domino:
If you are debugging the service… you would hope that a Fault Object would be populated but it is not:
My frustration lies within the fact that the values I am sending to the web service are [...]
My Hidden Lotusphere Agenda
I will be attending my first Lotusphere this year. It was quite a surprise because our development team hasn’t sent anyone for over four years.
My manager has approved of the sessions that I signed up for but we agreed on a “hidden agenda.” There are a couple of things I want to try and learn [...]
