Archives for the 'programming' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]