Archives for the 'web design' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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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 [...]
HMAC-SHA1 in LotusScript
Christmas came early this year. I just finished a HMAC-SHA1 function for LotusScript. I used a lot of Paul Johnston’s code (translated from Javascript) so I am waiting for his permission to post it.
UPDATE: I finally finished the script library. Here’s a link to the post.