Cheatsheets for Front-End Web Developers
A handy list of cheat sheets (HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc…).
I still live and die by my VisiBone Browser Book but some of the jQuery cheatsheets will be handy.
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Help
Dear loyal readers (all two of you). I need Lotus Notes help badly.
Please ask your Lotus Notes developer friends if they’ve have any ideas on how to help me.
We just upgraded from R6 to R8 and now my namgr.exe.config or nserver.exe.config files stopped working. It’s like it can’t see them.
We were using a 3rd party COM library for a Notes app. The COM library is created using .Net framework and acts as a proxy to a (microsoft) web service. It requries a config file which must be named “[my_app_name].exe.config”.
I tried to name the config file as “notes.exe.config”, and “nlnotes.exe.config”. But it seems that Windows doesn’t work with Notes in this way.
Would appreciate any suggestion regard this.
There is a multi-beer reward.
Great Lotus Notes Application Example
It’s great to read about successful Lotus Notes applications. I was browsing Linkedin when I found this:
Michael Janas’ company bid out an application but decided to develop it in-house on the Lotus platform. It’s answer #2 on the list.
I had the same requirements, looked around at software, was caught off guard by the costs and IT reqmts, so decided to use in-house talent to develop a system based on Lotus Notes. Didn’t take a lot of time to develop and only three weeks to Beta test and then launch enterprise wide with 5200 employees and 375 managers or requisitioners.
Sometimes… I just want to scream “Hey CIO! I’ve got money saving applications over here!”
Thank you Michael Janas for publishing a success story for Lotus Application development.
Page O’ Connection Strings
My brain is like a sieve. I can’t remember simple things like how to write a “for loop.” Hence the reason I am a Lotus Notes developer… the on-line help is great.
A great find for developers like me is a table of connection strings for all types of data sources.
Small R8 bug (enhancement?) with Rendering HTML
A couple of disclaimers… 1) We’re in the middle of upgrading to R8. Some of our mail servers have been upgraded but none of our production application servers have the new version yet. 2) This is an old (2001) application that was written for the web. I had no part of the initial development.
I discovered a small bug in the rendering of HTML in R8. It was discovered when a user was opening forms sent to a shared mailbox on an R8 server.
The Problem
Lotus Notes R8 was overlapping fields when rendering a table in the browser.
Here is what the user saw on an R8 server:
Here is what it looks like in R6:
The Cause
Spanned table cells/rows. In R8 (or possibly R7) Lotus decided it would help us out by rendering empty table rows (TR tags) with a style of “display:none.” Unfortunately, this affects rows that are being used by the ROWSPAN tag.
Here are the merged cells in the Notes Designer:
Here are the split cells:
In the browser (both versions) Notes tries to render the tables with a series of COLSPAN and ROWSPAN tags to render the table exactly the way it is displayed in the designer.
Here is the HTML from the R6 version:
<tr valign="top"><td width="50%" rowspan="4" colspan="2">2.<font color="#FF0000"> Company #: (3 digits)</font> <font color="#0000ff">
<input name="CompanyNumber" value="" size=5></font></td><td width="50%" rowspan="4" colspan="2"><font color="#FF0000">Cost Center #: (7 digits)</font><font color="#0000ff">
<input name="CenterNumber" value="" size=10></font></td></tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td width="25%"><img src="/icons/ecblank.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""></td><td width="75%" colspan="3"><div align="right"><font color="#FF0000">Phone Number:</font>(<font color="#0000ff">
<input name="PhoneArea" value="" size=3 maxlength=3></font> ) <font color="#0000ff">
<input name="PhonePrefix" value="" size=3 maxlength=3></font> -<font color="#0000ff">
<input name="PhoneSuffix" value="" size=4 maxlength=4></font></div></td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td width="25%"><img src="/icons/ecblank.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""></td><td width="75%" colspan="3"><div align="right"><font color="#FF0000">Fax Number:</font>(<font color="#0000ff">
<input name="FaxArea" value="" size=3 maxlength=3></font> ) <font color="#0000ff">
<input name="FaxPrefix" value="" size=3 maxlength=3></font> -<font color="#0000ff">
<input name="FaxSuffix" value="" size=4 maxlength=4></font></div></td></tr>Here is the HTML from the R8 version:
<tr valign="top"><td width="50%" rowspan="4" colspan="2">2.<font color="#FF0000"> Company #: (3 digits)</font> <font color="#0000ff">
<input name="CompanyNumber" value="" size=5></font></td><td width="50%" rowspan="4" colspan="2"><font color="#FF0000">Cost Center #: (7 digits)</font><font color="#0000ff">
<input name="CenterNumber" value="" size=10></font></td></tr>
<tr style="display: none"></tr>
<tr style="display: none"></tr>
<tr style="display: none"></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td width="25%"><img width="1" height="1" src="/icons/ecblank.gif" border="0" alt=""></td><td width="75%" colspan="3"><div align="right"><font color="#FF0000">Phone Number:</font>(<font color="#0000ff">
<input name="PhoneArea" value="" size=3 maxlength=3></font> ) <font color="#0000ff">
<input name="PhonePrefix" value="" size=3 maxlength=3></font> -<font color="#0000ff">
<input name="PhoneSuffix" value="" size=4 maxlength=4></font></div></td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td width="25%"><img width="1" height="1" src="/icons/ecblank.gif" border="0" alt=""></td><td width="75%" colspan="3"><div align="right"><font color="#FF0000">Fax Number:</font>(<font color="#0000ff">
<input name="FaxArea" value="" size=3 maxlength=3></font> ) <font color="#0000ff">
<input name="FaxPrefix" value="" size=3 maxlength=3></font> -<font color="#0000ff">
<input name="FaxSuffix" value="" size=4 maxlength=4></font></div></td></tr>Notice the <tr style="display: none"></tr> tags? I am no HTML expert but it seems to cause issues with the ROWSPAN for cost center.
The Solution
We’re screwed. Seriously. Only testing will discover these strange renderings. I fixed the problem above by deleting the three unnecessarily merged rows. Hopefully, this was a freak occurance but be aware of how R8 is rendering your HTML.
You know your blog is going downhill when…
You link to the Euphemism Generator.