Archives for the 'programming' Category
SHA1/MD5 Hash Libraries for LotusScript
Jason Molzen contacted me this weekend asking for help generating MD5 hashes in LotusScript. I had previously posted a HMAC SHA1 library that was an amalgamation of two developers’ (Paul Johnston and Julian Robichaux) code. Paul did not mind me converting the SHA1 code so I spent a lot of time translating the MD5 script [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]