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I've got Buckets!
I have finished the “Hello World!” of connecting to Amazon S3 with LotusScript. I have basically completed a “ListAllMyBuckets” call.
I wish I could post all of my code but I’m still waiting to hear back from Julian Robichaux. I can always try and find him at Lotusphere.
The ListMyBuckets Agent:
Function FormatDateToISO8601(aDate As NotesDateTime) As String
‘ Thanks [...]
Creating an ICS in LotusScript
Creating ICS (iCalendar) files can be handy especially in environments where Lotus Notes is not the main email/scheduling system. There are many ways to create the ICS file but it has to maintain this format. Ellie Harmon wrote a sample and description of the format here.
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:
DTSTART:
DTEND:
LOCATION:
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:
DTSTAMP:
DESCRIPTION:
SUMMARY:
PRIORITY:5
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
CLASS:PUBLIC
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
The one trick with Lotus Notes is [...]
Unfinished LotusScript Book
I’m sure this is a re-run for most but to me it is something entirely new. The [unfinished] LotusScript Book By Julian Robichaux. I’ve used it a lot lately with my conversion of the HMAC_SHA1 script.
Julian’s book is great and I probably would have purchased it back in 2002 but I think it’s lacking two [...]
Lotus Notes / .Net / Java
Why is it that almost all of my Lotus Notes developer/friends have converted to .Net developers instead of Java developers?
Amazon S3 – LotusScript
I open up 2008 with a bit of the flu. My kid complained that his stomach (I almost said tummy) hurt when I put him to bed… we’ll see how tonight goes.
Anyway… I think I found the last (I hope) stumbling block to my Amazon S3 problem. I was sending a hex’ed signature instead of [...]
The Mythical 5% (Eckel)
Bruce Eckel, the author of Thinking in Java (I think all Lotus Notes developers owned that book at some point) posted a beautiful commencement address he gave this year. It is titled (the Mythical 5%). In the speech he contends that 5% of developers do 20x the work and tells the graduating students how to [...]
Amazon AWS Zone
I’m still working on Amazon’s S3 Web Services in Lotus Notes 8. I think my current issue is with the time stamp.
I found a really handy AWS site tonight: AWSZone. It has a great section called “Scratchpads” where you can test all of your parameters and see the request and response XML.
HMAC-SHA1 LotusScript
I’m still a little nervous about posting the HMAC-SHA1 port from Paj’s site without an email from him. So… if you would like to see the code to test it with Amazon or Google’s web services. Send me a message (contact me link on the right) and I will send you the code.
UPDATE: I finally [...]
RTFM
Lotus Notes help is really (really) good. I use it probably as much as I use Google (at work). Of course, you can spend an entire day working with something if you don’t read the whole friggin manual.
I skipped this part in the help for @Keywords()
If one of the strings in textList2 contains any of [...]
Notes Objects – RDBMS Schema
Stephan Wissel (for some reason…) decided to mock up a Schema of the core Notes Objects. Didn’t there used to be a big poster that showed this stuff? Everybody owned one but me (I never went to the App Dev classes).
I decided to use Stephan’s as a template and draw my own diagram.
Take a look:
