Well, Friday morning I retired the original keithstric.com server (replace server in this article with glorified PC). It was built in late 2001 with a Pentium processor (I think) or AMD Equivalent and 256MB RAM running SuSE Linux (back then it was probably Red Hat, but I changed to SuSE once Red Hat went proprietary). This server was the original home for keithstric.com and was only turned off for a short while after I got a new server with dual processors in which one of the processor fans promptly failed a few months later, followed shortly by the other one. This server was brought back and has served web pages, Lotus Domino, File Sharing and Music Sharing duties ever since. Of course over the years more hard drives and memory have been added, nothing spectacular really, but it's reliably churned away no matter what I done to it.
The Motherboard that replaced this very old, dust filled PC came out of my Compaq Presario that was replaced by my iMAC. It has an AMD Sempron processor with 1GB RAM and right at 300GB of disk space (compared to the 80GB of the old one). I just put this motherboard in my old yellow scorpion case. Since I regularly do backups of the important stuff it only took me about 8 hours to set everything back up and restore all my data and important configuration files.
All of this goes to show to not underestimate the capabilities of your hardware. For a machine to run constantly for almost 9 years and also run modern applications so reliably is a pretty amazing feat. While I really like the new speed and space of the new, I think I'll miss old reliable. Let's just hope this new hardware steps up to the plate and is as reliable as the old server, I guess only time will tell.
Mobile First Development
Fri, May 10th 2013 9:06a Keith Strickland At Red Pill Development, Peter Presnell has encouraged our development efforts to use a "Mobile First" approach. The process is that you design your mobile interface first, get everything working properly and then move on from there to Tablet and then Web Browser interfaces re-using as much as possible from the previously working mobile implementation. This approach has several advantages:
It forces you to research, gather requirements and only display and write code for the things you [read] Keywords: application
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Announcing redpill Mobile
Wed, May 8th 2013 2:48p Keith Strickland Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure was real? Well today is the first step in realizing that dream.
A few months ago I made a post about being one of the co-founders for a new company called Red Pill Development. This company was founded on the controversial belief that modernizing Notes applications one at a time by reproducing all of the existing functionality is a loosing strategy. In order to turn a profit modernizing applications, you have to do so en-masse and only include [read] Keywords: lotus
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Dojo Mobile ScrollablePane implementation
Sun, Apr 21st 2013 3:06p Keith Strickland At Red Pill Development we're pushing the envelope a bit on XPages Mobile, we're certainly pushing the mobile controls to their limits. Because of this sometimes we need to take matters into our own hands and override the XPages Mobile controls and kind-of take over how they operate or create our own.
One of the things you're going to encounter when you delve into XPages Mobile development is trying to put a Tab Bar at the bottom of the screen that actually stays at the bottom of [read] Keywords: domino
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XPages and Dojo Mobile Events
Tue, Apr 2nd 2013 12:02p Keith Strickland Here lately, I've been working on getting events to fire within a mobile application in XPages. For example when a page first loads (i.e. is navigated to but not "transitioned" to) or when a transition/navigation to another page within the single page application. No events are published or made available via the domino designer IDE but we still need to be able to do something when a navigation/transition event happens. So, how do we do this and what are the event names? Well the dojo even [read] Keywords: domino
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Add unsupported events to an inputText
Mon, Mar 25th 2013 8:42a Keith Strickland So today while looking for a solution to handling an HTML5 event of onSearch I came across this technique, which, probably isn't the best approach but does work. So, if you look at the client side events of an inputText field, you'll notice there isn't an event for onSearch. So, how do you add one? Well, you could of course go pass-thru html and just code the field as you would a Plain Jane HTML field. While this would work, to me it's just not taking advantage of the platform an [read] Keywords: javascript
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JQuery FullCalendar in XPages
Sun, Feb 17th 2013 4:18p Keith Strickland As you might or might not have known, I've been striving for a calendar in XPages since XPages were introduced. I created the XPages Calendar project which was a poor attempt at building a calendar. When I built it the extensibility API was not available and neither was the Extension Library. So, while it basically worked, it was not a very elegant implementation, especially the data handling.
I recently had a need for a calendar implementation that met a few different criteria:
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Wouldn't it be cool if....
Sun, Feb 17th 2013 12:25p Keith Strickland Wouldn't it be cool if we could integrate some off the wall feature into our XPages environment? This is a phrase that gets used quite a bit in the team I work with and I think is a key driver to innovation, discussion and a source of producing excitement about whatever followed that phrase. While the phrase itself isn't very awe inspiring or really doesn't mean that much, I do think it is a key player in driving innovation. Some examples if you please....
Wouldn't it be [read] Keywords: domino
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A Request to IBM
Tue, Feb 12th 2013 4:36p Keith Strickland I've been doing a lot of development work here lately, I mean a lot. Looking at different technologies and implementing them into XPages or at least attempting to. One of my tasks was trying to learn about OAuth and working with connections. I downloaded and installed the IBM Social Business Toolkit and SDK. I then followed several tutorials out on the web (most of them from IBM) trying to authenticate to GreenHouse with no luck. I ran into issue after issue. I got it all the way to being as [read] Keywords: connections
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keithstric.com moved back to Prominic
Thu, Jan 3rd 2013 5:54p Keith Strickland I am proud to announce that keithstric.com has been moved back to Prominic. Prominic is an excellent host for all types of domino sites. If you're in the market for a new web host, take a look at Prominic. Their service and support is top notch and second to none.
I've learned my lesson and won't be moving this blog again. Now, I've just got to get all the different aggregators looking at keithstric.com instead of xprentice.gbs.com. [read] Keywords: domino
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D3.js - Data Driven Documents
Sat, Dec 15th 2012 10:45a Keith Strickland I've recently started playing with a very powerful Javascript library called D3.js. D3 is for visualizing data either in charts, force layout graphs, data plots or whatever you can imagine. I'm not really sure what the point of this post is as I really can't show you yet what we're using it for. But I can show some of the things that it's capable of.
Let's first look at a Force Directed Layout. These are usually used to show hierarchical data and the way D3 handles [read] Keywords: community
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