Archive pour septembre 2005
Learning to be a Notes developer the hard way
By now, you may know I’ve had my first Notes application actually deployed on our internal network, for my colleagues in Techline to help them manage the steady flow of incoming RFP requests from Sales Reps, Partners and Clients. What you may not know is that yours truly has had a crash course in what…
Lire la suiteRemoving old fields from Notes applications
How many times have I tried to follow the documentation’s instructions, only to fail miserably and make do with’em. I’m talking about all those old unused field names, of course, which seem to want to stay around forever when you reuse an existing application as the basis for a new one. Well, not anymore… From…
Lire la suiteLooking at my domain stats
I’ve jus downloaded a web analyzer tool to take a closer look at my web stats. Not much surprise, except for the following discoveries: United States visitorship explains most of the growth and traffic (85%), while Canada is stable (10%)… (I’m Canadian, snif…) Bloglines accounts for most of the visitors (1,027), with Microsoft in 2nd…
Lire la suiteIt’s Project Crunch Time
There are so many things besides answering pre-sales questions we do that sometimes it gets mind-numbing trying to track every take-away you owe to everyone on everything. [takes a deep breath] Over the course of this week, I’ll be trying to finalize the RFP tracking application I’ve built for the coordinators across the Software Techline…
Lire la suiteTime to look at the stats once again
Well, after running my domain name from a hosted server, as opposed to my onw linux box, things are looking good, statistics-wise. The last time I shared them, I was still running this WordPress blog off a Thinkpad on my broadband modem. At that time, there was a steady progression in terms of the total…
Lire la suiteArchiving your Instant Messaging Chats with Lotus Notes
Here’s something frightening: I’ve got 7,344 instant messaging chats currently archived in a Lotus Notes database. I’ll let that sink in a little… I’ve got chat sessions dating back to 2001. And the effort to keep those neat and tidy in a full-text searcheable database was… ZERO. The reason is I’ve been using a Notes…
Lire la suiteWebSphere Technical Journal
Something I’ve always found of great value in helping me keep up to date on our technology is the WebSphere Technical Journal. This is a monthly web publication from the IBM developerWorks team, that provides a synopsys of the recent articles submitted to dW, as well as some weblinks to current events such as classes,…
Lire la suiteWhy pay for a Java Application Server
Rich Sharples, from over at the Sun Blogs, posted this oh so true entry discussing why someone should consider purchasing a J2EE application server versus simply choosing your favorite open source alternative… Via Mirror World One reason you would pay the license fee is because free can often be more expensive. Sounds silly ? Let…
Lire la suiteOn life or tracking all your moves online
This is simply too cool… automated tracking of what I do, if it could only keep track of the time and be used for any application, would be fabulous. I can even smell applications for a business context… can anyone spell timesheets? Onlife: « Onlife is an application for the Mac OS X that observes…
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