Just an FYI, I have commented in a few places on my blog but in case you missed it. If you have the second update of the attachment viewer and are running on the Mac you can uninstall and then reinstall the Widget to get it working again. You need to actually uninstall the widget from My Widgets and then drag the bitmap below (which points to the extension.xml) back on to the My Widgets panel.
Node.js is getting some momentum
Wed, Sep 8th 2010 11:20a Bob Balfe Tonight I am messing around on the net looking for all I can find about Node.js. I like JavaScript for a lot of reasons but I would never have thought it to be a server side scripting language. The Node.js stuff is pretty amazing however. They use the CommJS package system, which is very similar to Dojo’s but in my opinion much better because it forces a one-to-one modular approach between class and file. I started messing around with it and it seems very fast; but I certainly am n [read] Keywords: application
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Attachment Viewer on Steroids
Fri, Sep 3rd 2010 10:10a Bob Balfe Ok, maybe not steroids but Dojo and CSS!
Lots of work on the attachment viewer. Using Dojo, CSS and JavaScript I was able to give the viewer two new view modes with some eye candy in each. I use CSS to have shadows and a tile mode. Check out the three screen shots below, I will most likely be posting a video to show how the new views can be used. Just remember, this is a 100% web based component in the Notes client. You will notice I have three actions on the attachments – Open, [read] Keywords: notes
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Classes and Dojo are very cool
Tue, Aug 31st 2010 1:10p Bob Balfe Tonight I am looking for a way to make different presentation styles in the attachment viewer. I figure I would look into making the different presentations with JavaScript classes and with a little bit of inheritance to boot. Unfortunately JavaScript does not support classes very well and there are a thousand ways to accomplish this, just Google it and you will see. I of course chose Dojo to get this done because it was dead simple!
I want to have three presentation styles to start R [read] Keywords: dojo
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CouchDB scales, it’s not a slogan, its science!
Mon, Aug 30th 2010 12:40p Bob Balfe Check out this impressive write-up about CouchDb. Remember Dr. Cox at Lotusphere 2010 and the CERN project?
Metson says the learning curve for CouchDB is quite shallow. In fact, DMWM had a summer intern with some programming experience, but no experience in CouchDB, who was able to build a simple data quality evaluation application using the database. The only drawback, Metson says, is that you may need to do a lot of unlearning if you’re well versed in SQL. “The more you know Or [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Cloud, is it a platform or just more of the same?
Fri, Aug 27th 2010 12:10p Bob Balfe I have been digging into the various “cloud” offerings on the net and trying to see if there is a common ground in this space and as usual it appears the usual players are making bets on their “cloud” offerings. When you start seeing sites like SalesForce.com, LinkedIn, Facebook, or API’s like Microsofts Azure, all using different technologies to provide applications within “their cloud” it quickly shows people are off in their own camps. I have been [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The Inventor’s Guide to Trademarks and Patents
Fri, Aug 27th 2010 8:11a Bob Balfe If you want to learn how to get money for your intellectual property or patent something in the software world then you should check out this book. I was just re-arranging my books and found this little gem. It has a lot of great ideas and pointers for where to get started. [read] Keywords:
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What is your web site worth?
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 12:10p Bob Balfe Just playing around tonight I noticed a section of a site I hit that showed the “value” of their site. This intrigued me because I wondered how they could possibly know that? So I scoured the net and looked for as many services as I could to see my sites value and it clearly looks like this is not a scientific approach by no means. My highest value is $46,000 and my lowest is $98, that’s useful…
$34,800.98
How Much is Your Site Worth?
My site is worth $17,367. [read] Keywords: javascript
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Poll: Do you or your customers develop or use applications on salesforce.com?
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 8:40a Bob Balfe I have been checking out developer.force.com this week and it is a pretty extensive cloud based solution for developing, deploying, and using applications in the cloud. I checked out their Eclipse based development videos and the development environment looks pretty comprehensive. I would like to hear if anyone who reads this blog has any real experiences they would like to share about it. I am also interested to hear how many of my readers have real exposure to SalesForce.com.
If you use [read] Keywords: domino
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New Attachment viewer with ODF thumbnails and JAR file support
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 8:10a Bob Balfe As promised in the last post, here is a new updated widget for the attachment viewer. You can download the latest source files from the OpenNTF project. If you want to learn how to install this into Notes 8.5.1 and above check out the video I posted to show how to do that.
Here is a summary of the support and you can also watch a video here or below:
- ODF thumbnail support added, .odp, .odt, .docx, .dotx, .docm, .dotm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm, .pptx, .pptm, .potx
- Modified Zip file to li [read] Keywords: notes
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