Archive pour septembre 2005

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…