My first glimpse at LotusLive
Tue, Feb 10th 2009 2:48p Mika Heinonen Today I registered and tried out LotusLive: apps.lotuslive.com.
LotusLive is a web browser based global conference tool, which works very similar to a SameTime conference.
The benefit over SameTime is that you don't have to install any software (only browser plugins), and that the meeting is available on the internel, globally.
The people who are invited to a meeting can use Firefox or IE, but the host needs both browsers to create a meeting.
The meeting must be created with IE8, and then the in [read] Keywords: sametime
application
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Domino 7.0.3 is still the most stable release
Mon, Feb 2nd 2009 11:47a Mika Heinonen After a year of testing Domino 8, it still has bugs which prevent it from being used in production.
- Agent Manager crashes Domino
- HTTP agents which open a view and user closes the web page before the agent finishes, causes the agent never to end
The recently released 8.0.2FP1 caused a server to shutdown unexpectedly today.
- I'm still monitoring this behavior, and if it repeats, I need to upgrade to 8.5
Domino 8.5 has crashed several times on our AIX server, and only once it has even left a n [read] Keywords: agent
document
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desktop
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Notes and Domino 8.0.1 have too many fatal bugs
Wed, Mar 26th 2008 6:14p Mika Heinonen Some things I have experienced:
Domino 8.0.1 fatal bugs:
- AIX server with Domino 8.0.1 keeps crashing several times per day
- One Windows32 server with Domino 8.0.1 has crashed 2 times total
- Another Windows32 server with Domino 8.0.1 crashed today for the first time
Notes 8.0.1 fatal bugs:
- Notes 8.0.1 has caused the harddisk's Master File Table to get corrupted on 2 different PCs, obviously because I am replicating my mail file to Local every 1 minute, and it has also FTI.
The symptoms that [read] Keywords: document
, domino
, notes
, aix
, database
, properties
, server
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Bruce Elgort keeps deleting my comments!
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 7:09p Mika Heinonen I think he must be mad at me because I didn't deliver the next generation Domino Search engine to him yet (for IdeaJam). Well, it's not 100% ready for production, and needs lots of manual setup to make it work for custom applications. I'm planning to make an easy frontend interface so that it can be used like the normal Domino Search engine.
The interface will including things like include/exclude lists of patterns (or words), update frequency, etc...
But deleting my comments... I think it's the [read] Keywords: domino
, notes
, applications
, ideajam
, interface
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The cheapest NAS of the world
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 3:35p Mika Heinonen If you want the cheapest network area storage with the biggest harddisk space on the planet, then there is only one choice for you. Siipi Rok features up to 8x internal 3.5" harddisk slots (+2x external (+2x external optional), +2x 5.25" external) equipped with 750GB WD drives in the Akasa Eclipse 62 case, running at Raid 0,1,5,6,10 with the Asus P5K-E motherboard and an Intel Quad Core CPU on openSUSE 10.3.
For an amazing low price as 1800€ you can get a fully Raid 5 backed up NAS storage with [read] Keywords: eclipse
, network
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Lotus Notes All Client 8.0.1 on Linux
Fri, Mar 7th 2008 3:30p Mika Heinonen It just works:
I tried Notes 8.0 earlier on Ubuntu, and it was a bit crashy. But with 8.0.1 on openSUSE it seems more stable, when you learn to avoid certain things :)
I'll try to work with this a few weeks and see if I need Windows XP anymore.
On my work Laptop, the ThinkPad T61p, I have still PCLinuxOS 2008 minime, it will be a good challenger against my home openSUSE. Also kubuntu 7.10 x32 is still in the run, when one of those fails.
My server has been already running for a long time Domino [read] Keywords: domino
, lotus
, notes
, laptop
, linux
, server
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AIX - change size of file system
Wed, Mar 5th 2008 6:18p Mika Heinonen AIX has a command to change the size of a partition on the fly.
Lets make the root directory 4GB bigger:
bash-3.00# chfs -a size=+4G /
Filesystem size changed to 60555264
Lets look how the filesystem looks:
bash-3.00# df -g
Filesystem GB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4 28.88 24.75 15% 5471 1% /
/dev/hd2 4.62 3.23 31% 33600 5% /usr
/dev/hd9var 0.12 0.11 11% 433 2% /var
/dev/hd3 0.12 0.11 11% 66 1% /tmp
/dev/fwdump 0.12 0.12 1% 4 1% /var/adm/ras/platform
/dev/hd1 0.12 0.12 6% 37 [read] Keywords: aix
, linux
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No collaboration without integration
Tue, Mar 4th 2008 12:25p Mika Heinonen First we had e-mails. Our paper mails, artistic handwriting and other personalized communication was gone.
Then we had websites. Our e-mails were reliefed and we could share information with everyone.
Then we had blogs. Our websites were updated less frequently and all structured information was gone.
Then we had rss feeds. Our custom look and style of blogs was gone and only raw information was left.
Then we had technorati. Actually I forgot about it completely.
Then we had ideajam. This was th [read] Keywords: collaboration
, domino
, aix
, bleedyellow
, ideajam
, integration
, planetlotus
, twitter
ODS48 Speed Test
Sun, Mar 2nd 2008 6:58p Mika Heinonen At least in the core functions the new ODS48 (Notes/Domino 8 database format) is not remarkably faster than ODS43 (Notes/Domino 6/7 database format).
I made a few tests with new blank databases (one for ODS43 and one for ODS48):
First I created an agent which creates 100000 documents (no fields).
The first test was to run the agent from the Notes 8 Basic Client:
notes:
ods43: 90.914s
ods48: 90.547s
The remaining tests were done using Mozilla Firefox using the Preview function in the Notes 8 Basi [read] Keywords: agent
, document
, domino
, notes
, database
, firefox
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Welcome a new SPCLP Lotus blogger!
Thu, Feb 28th 2008 1:30p Mika Heinonen Today I met him again, and he told me that he has just started his own blog a few days ago.
Please welcome Vladislavs Tatarincevs (or short: Vlad) from Latvia!
He is often referred by my colleagues as my "Master" (because I often learn new things from him), but I tend to say that it's a fruitful cooperation between me and him (since I also can teach him some things). Call it 50/60 if you want, but not 0/100 :)
My last LotusSphere was in 2005, so he is a tad ahead of me, since he has probably now [read] Keywords: admin
, designer
, lotus
, pclp
, blogger
, planetlotus
, planetlotus.org
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LotusScript: over 780% faster checking for empty strings
Wed, Feb 27th 2008 12:44p Mika Heinonen I read on planetlotus.org about Bob Balaban's test of the speed difference between s="" vs len(s)=0 checking ( http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/bpmpblog.nsf/dx/performance-testing-technique ).
My test agent looks like this:
Sub Initialize
Dim n As Long, ni As Long
n=10 ' number of test repeats
ni=0
Dim t1 As Double, t2 As Double, tn As Double, tt As Double
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer, k As Long
Const x=10000
Const s="xxxxxxxxxx"
For ni=1 To n
t1=Timer
For i=1 To [read] Keywords: agent
, ldd
, lotus
, lotusscript
, planetlotus
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Deployment Status: 6x Domino 8.0.1, 5x Notes 8.0.1, more to come...
Sat, Feb 23rd 2008 12:20p Mika Heinonen I have deployed Domino 8.0.1 for x32, x64, AIX, Linux so far (Experimental, Research, Production (Linux) servers), and Notes 8.0.1 for x32 (Production Clients).
No problems have occured except the problems which were caused by "officially not supported by IBM" configurations:
- Domino 64-bit + DB2
- Domino 8.0.1 + Quickr 8.0.0.3
- DWA/Lite + Nokia (Symbian)
The next deployments will continue on Development, then Test, followed by Stage, and finally Production servers after a meeting with our con [read] Keywords: domino
, dwa
, ibm
, notes
, quickr
, aix
, db2
, development
, linux
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Things what IBM Lotus should really focus on
Thu, Feb 21st 2008 2:29p Mika Heinonen After evaluating the Notes/Domino 8.0.1 release, I found a few things which should be really fixed and done before doing anything else:
- Domino 8.0.1 64-bit support for NSFDB2. Currently it destroys DB/2 databases and permanently destroys the DB/2 interface too, so it has to be reinstalled for Domino 8.0.1 32-bit.
- Symbian support for Notes Traveller. Nobody really uses Windows Mobile devices (vanishing 12%), the vast majority on earth uses Symbian devices (65% market share).
- Symbian support [read] Keywords: designer
, domino
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, nsfdb2
, applications
, eclipse
, interface
, linux
, mobile
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8.0.1 incoming at 980KB/s
Wed, Feb 20th 2008 1:56p Mika Heinonen And another 5 minutes later:
Domino 8.0.1 64-bit with DB/2 9.1.3 64-bit running on Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise 64-bit.
Oh, that reminds me I need to upgrade to DB/2 9.5 Viper next. [read] Keywords: domino
, enterprise
openSUSE 10.3 + Domino 8.0
Fri, Feb 15th 2008 5:10p Mika Heinonen Finally I made the switch from Windows to Linux. I decided to go for openSUSE 10.3, as it has the fastest I/O of all operating systems in the world. This site, http://www.siipi.com is now running on openSUSE 10.3.
The installation was just as easy as installing Ubuntu (which is actually easier than installing Windows), but openSUSE gives you more freedom to make choices.
I think I will use this combo also on our IBM System p570 servers, then we have a unified environment between Intel and PowerP [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, linux
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The best SAN of the world
Wed, Feb 13th 2008 3:21p Mika Heinonen If you want HUGE disk storage, for example for daily backups of multiple servers, then this baby - the IBM DS4200 Express - is the only choice for you: for an amazing price of 4600€ and 512€ per 750GB additional disk, one 3U rack supports 16x 750GB = 12TB, and with optional expansion units (3U, 16x disks each) this single SAN supports even up to 112x 750GB = 84TB!
Similar systems with just 20x disks cost up to 20000€ from other manufacturers, and consume even more rack U space due to horizontal [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, applications
, database
, development
, server
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Collaboration Riddle
Fri, Feb 1st 2008 2:12p Mika Heinonen The guard riddle in the movie Labyrinth (with David Bowie) reminds me of the everlasting battle between IBM and Microsoft, which was brought up once again during the last LotusSphere 2008.
Solve the riddle, and you will know the absolute truth between the claims of IBM and Microsoft.
SPOILER WARNING! Don't watch the video before you have solved the riddle yourself.
Here goes the riddle dialog:
Guard: "You can't ask us. You can only ask one of us."
Guard: "It's in the rules, and I should warn you [read] Keywords: collaboration
, ibm
, microsoft
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New Testament source code released
Fri, Jan 25th 2008 6:45p Mika Heinonen I already knew for many years how the Old Testament was compiled (using Enuma Elish), but Jesus and the New Testament remained a mystery to me, until today.
Here is the full source code of Jesus and the New Testament, and it's all Open Source and Free:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com
It seems religion has been now completely disassembled and there is no mystery anymore. Way to go science! [read] Keywords:
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Domino 8.0 on AIX 5L 5.3
Fri, Jan 11th 2008 12:56p Mika Heinonen Today I installed Domino 8.0 on our POWER5 AIX 5L 5.3 test server, and it doesn't want to accept our existing server id files. I saw on a IBM SPR that a similar issue has been reported, but I don't know yet - until it's fixed in 8.0.1 - if that fixes also this issue.
If I force it to eat the id file, it runs fine for a few minutes, although still complaining that public certificate does not match, but after a few minutes it brings up another error message related to the id file ("The subject's p [read] Keywords: connect
, domino
, ibm
, aix
, desktop
, linux
, server
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The Final Blow
Mon, Jan 7th 2008 11:53a Mika Heinonen I'm quite objective and tolerant when it comes to operating systems, applications and hardware. I just want the best for money, and temporarily can even accept functionality over the value for money factor. Indeed, I'm still looking for the best hardware/software combo.
One thing I've learned is that Linux has been predicted to take the throne of Windows too many times, it never did yet, but now something has happened which finally might give it the final blow. Even I made the mistake, and predi [read] Keywords: applications
, linux
, microsoft
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if(thisblog.isshown()){planetlotus=rocks};
Mon, Jan 7th 2008 11:43a Mika Heinonen lotus notes designer domino linux ibm aix windows
Just testing if it really works :)
If it works, then I agree with Andy Donaldson: http://blog.macian.net/2008/01/youve-got-to-love-planetlotusorg.html
I had kinda the same idea also for the Lucid project, which is still under development (the 3D desktop replacement for all OS),
but well, good ideas are always invented by someone at some point of time, and not only once.
It seems planetlotus.org is not able to auto-pick lotus related blogs, so I s [read] Keywords: admin
, designer
, domino
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, aix
, desktop
, development
, linux
, planetlotus
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Surprising CPU Benchmark Results
Fri, Jan 4th 2008 11:49a Mika Heinonen I would never have guessed that my laptop would beat them all.
Does this mean that Linux x32 is the fastest OS in the world, and that 32-bit is faster than 64-bit, and that clockspeed means everything, and dual cores are better than quad and single cores?
I want to find out what is the fastest linear and parallel processing system on the market, and I really hope M5 will be it.
System ID
M1
M2
M3
M4
M5
M6
M7
M8
System Name
IBM System p5 505
IBM System x 3650
Lenovo ThinkPad T61p
Siipi Blackhawk
[read] Keywords: ibm
, aix
, application
, enterprise
, laptop
, linux
, microsoft
, office
, server
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My First SuperComputer
Thu, Jan 3rd 2008 12:20p Mika Heinonen For the first time in my life I got to see how a SuperComputer is. Well, it's just the smallest IBM System p server on the market, but it still beats the IBM DeepBlue '97 (the one which played chess against Kasparov, and was 2 racks in size) by miles. I'll test soon how it compares to our fastest IBM System x servers (they have 2x Intel Xeon Quad Core 2.66GHz), and I think it will beat them all too, maybe even all together in performance.
The server was even easier to install than my previous x3 [read] Keywords: connect
, ibm
, aix
, google
, interface
, server
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Advertising thread
Wed, Dec 5th 2007 4:12p Mika Heinonen This thread is for everyone who wants to advertise some stuff. I think it's better to have all advertisements in one place, since they are often unrelated to other blog entries. [read] Keywords:
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ideajam.net
Thu, Oct 18th 2007 11:39a Mika Heinonen Bruce Elgort had a fantastic idea to make a web site where all people can post their ideas how to improve the IBM Lotus products, and also get feedback from other people and see how their idea succeeds by the "Promote and Denote" votes.
Lots of IBM'ers are also aware of this site, including the Notes lead designer Mary Beth Raven. I'm hoping that this site succeeds and gets great popularity, then IBM might even consider of giving some official feedback if a particular idea is going to be impleme [read] Keywords: designer
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, database
, ideajam
, ideajam.net
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Innovations in people productivity
Thu, Oct 18th 2007 9:48a Mika Heinonen IBM is doing an interesting event, coming up in Oct/Nov 2007. I had a quick look at the presentations of the agenda, and it looks like this event is a MUST to see for all CEO/CFO/CIO/CTO/etc... decision makers in all companies, and why not for everone else too. The style of the presentations comes down to a level which everyone understands, while still providing interesting technical details.
Finally IBM has a good presentation and shows directly why Notes/Domino/Quickr is indeed better than Mic [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, quickr
, exchange
, exchange
, microsoft
, office
, outlook
, sharepoint
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SuperDomino 8
Tue, Oct 16th 2007 11:15a Mika Heinonen Today I started to install the hardware for the upcoming Domino 8 & DB/2 9.1 server.
The IBM x3650 (rack version) was amazingly quick and easy to install. All parts are easily snapped in with no need for any tools except your hands.
The configuration consisted of the following parts:
IBM x3650 with 1 Intel Quad Core Xeon E5335 2.0GHz 8MB cache and 2x 1GB self-correcting RAM
a second Intel Quad Core Xeon E5335 2.0GHz 8MB cache
a second power supply with 5 more fans
2x 1GB self-correcting [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, desktop
, enterprise
, linux
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ASUS G2S
Thu, Oct 4th 2007 12:46p Mika Heinonen I decided to buy an ASUS G2S, since my Lenovo ThinkPad T61p was getting a bit old. Nah, just kidding :) The ASUS is for my hobbies and home use. There's only a few notebooks in the world which have a GeForce 8 series chip, as you can see on NVidia's page, and the G2S is one of them. The GeForce 8 series is about 32 times faster than any other NVidia series.
Similar to the ThinkPad T61p, this also has a T7500 Core 2 Duo CPU and widescreen LCD, however 17". It comes with Windows Vista Ultimate x32 [read] Keywords: lotusphere
, desktop
, vista
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IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 9
Tue, Oct 2nd 2007 1:39p Mika Heinonen Finally IBM Lotus has focussed more on the Web Application Development side in Domino 9.
First of all, everything you do in Notes, will basically work as-is on the Web. I think this is the greatest improvement ever.
Starting with Domino 9, also Web 2.0 will be introduced, as well as the quite powerful and modern interoperability between Web Browsers and Domino Designer.
We've seen this before in Workplace Designer, but it was then drawn back, probably because IBM was still confident that these p [read] Keywords: designer
, domino
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, quickr
, application
, applications
, development
, linux
, vista
, web 2.0
, workspace
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Lenovo ThinkPad T61p
Tue, Oct 2nd 2007 10:43a Mika Heinonen Today I got my new office laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p. As it has a Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 CPU, I decided to install only 64-bit operating systems on it. Since the harddisk was 93.2 GB, I divided it into two partitions, 46.6 GB NTFS for Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit Enterprise, and the other 46.6 GB for ext3 Linux Fedora 8 64-bit. However, since Fedora 8 is not ready yet, I'll have to test Vista for a few weeks first.
The Vista installation went absolutely smooth without any problems, and it [read] Keywords: connect
, notes
, eclipse
, enterprise
, java
, laptop
, linux
, microsoft
, office
, openoffice
, server
, virus
, vista
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The power of improvement vs. the illusion of the impossibility to change
Mon, Oct 1st 2007 11:28a Mika Heinonen Ed Brill had a quite fun topic (=fun in an intellectual sense) about "subject level submissions" of a specific area of LotuSphere sessions.
I thought immediately that something was wrong about that idea, something was wrong if it was not differentiated and specified further.
While a majority of people seemed to accept that it's OK to have IBM arrange LotuSphere sessions solely by the speaker's opinions, I agree only partly on that.
In my opinion the voice of the customers should count more than [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotusphere
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IBM resellers provide real customer service
Fri, Sep 28th 2007 2:30p Mika Heinonen Today I had fight to the whole day on the phone to buy an IBM xSeries or pSeries server (I just got the previous xSeries 3650 max spec machine to production last weekend, after struggling for 6 months with delivery delays).
Logically my first contact was IBM itself, but alas IBM refused to sell anything. Fine, so I asked the next instance, their brokers, but same answer: we don't want customers, we don't sell anything, and I even applied as a reseller myself to be able to buy an IBM server.
But [read] Keywords: ibm
, server
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Recap: Why Notes 8 Standard sucks
Thu, Sep 27th 2007 1:21p Mika Heinonen I feel like I'm fighting against a windmill again. Everyone talks about Notes 8 Standard, and tries to use it with great frustration and complaints.
Although I'm a fanatic Java hater (because I don't understand why coders are too lazy to do decent C++ code), it does not justify alone to make Notes 8 Standard bad. I've tried to use it many, many times, but there's always something which kicks me back and tells me this sucks.
Today I was running Notes 8 Standard without any bad thoughts, but then [read] Keywords: agent
, designer
, document
, ibm
, notes
, sametime
, application
, database
, enterprise
, google
, java
, openoffice
, xml
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The time has come
Tue, Sep 25th 2007 2:21p Mika Heinonen After deploying our last Intel/Windows based server, it was already clear that IBM can not keep up with Intel based CPU server performance for the coming years. While the x3650 (x3950 didn't even support Quad Core, and everyone knows that 2 Quad Cores is more than 4 Dual Cores) with two Quad Core Xeon at max GHz runs pretty smooth at 1% under Domino 7.0.2CF2 all the day, it is still possible to jump the CPU load to over 50% by doing some additional tasks, like compacting files with WinRAR*32 at [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, linux
, server
, vista
Fine tuning the Notes 8 Mail template
Wed, Sep 12th 2007 12:26p Mika Heinonen The out of the box Notes 8 Mail template is pretty well done, and can be used as-is as a real e-mail application. However, a few things need some fine tuning to make it more convenient and natural to use.
I don't use the Inbox folder, since it doesn't show what mails I have sent (which are at least as important as the mails I have received), plus as it's a Folder, there's no quarantee that you see even all incoming mails. Views are the way to go.
I use basically only the "All Documents" view, bu [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, template
, application
Installing Notes 8 without uninstalling Notes 8 Beta 3
Wed, Aug 22nd 2007 9:57a Mika Heinonen I ran into a problem on one workstation which had Notes 8 Beta 3 installed, but I didn't have the setup files for it available.
The Notes 8 installer wants to uninstall Notes 8 Beta 3, and if it can't find the Notes 8 Beta 3 "Lotus Notes 8.msi" file, it will cancel the installation.
I tried to remove all Notes8 appearances from the registry, and also moving the Notes8Beta3 folder to another location, and removing the folders which Nathan T. Freeman described in his Notes 8 Beta 2 manual uninstal [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
Nokia Communicator E90
Wed, Jun 13th 2007 2:50p Mika Heinonen I'm glad I didn't buy the Nokia N95 yet, as this could be a more professional upgrade to my Nokia Communicator 9500: the new Nokia Communicator E90.
What makes this phone interesting?GPS device and real-time map navigation system using it
Decent keyboard and display
Usable quality loudspeaker for conference calls
Stable multiple mobile network connections
Quad Band GSM
3 week lasting nonstop use battery
Of course it also has 3.2Mpx camera, video, FM radio, mp3 player, WLAN, 3G, etc... but those [read] Keywords: connections
, mobile
, network
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Surface Computing
Wed, Jun 13th 2007 1:14p Mika Heinonen I just saw a variant of this on a wall of a building in Helsinki. But as a table version, it brings even more possibilites. I like especially the part where the guy takes a photo with a digital camera, then puts the camera on the table and immediately the taken photo shows on the table, then he even moves the photo into a mobile phone, which is also on the table:
Looks even easier to use than Lucid in my opinion, since you don't need a mouse or keyboard, but can use your fingers directly. Howev [read] Keywords: mobile
11
Majami
Tue, Jun 12th 2007 12:44p Mika Heinonen Project Majami is going forward again, as I got an opportunity to meet the singer of the band soon. I've started to create some sound samples for ModTracker, so we can record the vocals while he can sync his singing speed to the final song.
After the singing is recorded, it's just up to me to play the final instrument tracks and finish the song. I think this will be the main guitar, as it has some unique distortion and sound: Main Comp Guitar (this is just a quick test, so it contains life error [read] Keywords: notes
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Domino 7.0.2FP2 does not need or want 7.0.2FP1
Fri, Jun 8th 2007 5:36p Mika Heinonen When you launch the Domino 7.0.2FP2 incremental installer on an Domino 7.0.2 server, it gives you an info that a few files will be updated.
When you launch the Domino 7.0.2FP1 incremental installer on a Domino 7.0.2 server, it gives you info that some other files will be updated.
When you launch the Domino 7.0.2FP2 incremental installer on a Domino 7.0.2FP1 server, it gives you the info that the files which were updated in 7.0.2FP1 are going to be "updated" again, and also the files which the Do [read] Keywords: domino
, lotus
, server
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IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.2FP2 eAssembly is now available
Wed, Jun 6th 2007 1:54p Mika Heinonen Just got an e-mail from IBM saying that I can download IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.2 Fix Pack 2 eAssembly from my Passport Advantage Express account.
I love it when a service works!
And I can get nasty when a service doesn't work: The Greenhouse Effect. [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
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Lotus Quickr 8
Wed, Jun 6th 2007 12:53p Mika Heinonen Wow, that was fast, it was really Quickr!
I totally missed Quickr 1.0 as it's now already version 8 :)
Hmm, well this starts to look like a true companion product of ND8, so should we start talking soon in terms of NDQ8?
Maybe you can see where I'm coming from, as IBM Lotus has made this new trinity to look very synergetic:
| Lotus Notes 8 | Lotus Domino 8 | Lotus Quickr 8 |
And stay tuned also with the latest headlines on The Quickr Blog. [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, nd8
, notes
, quickr
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Java did it again
Tue, Jun 5th 2007 6:07p Mika Heinonen Just went to some innocent looking blog site (Ray Davies), which asked me to register to some Sony Vaio Forum to post a comment, and then it happened: There was an Java applet on the site, and my Firefox went totally nuts. Now I can't even open Firefox anymore and had to launch Internet Explorer!
People, take this as a lesson. Java is bad, very bad. Java is our worst enemy, it's dead evil and without any morale. It will destroy anything what it can get, memory, firefox, and at least trying to sl [read] Keywords: notes
, firefox
, java
Calculating an image URL for a WebService
Mon, Jun 4th 2007 8:35a Mika Heinonen A common difficulty in Domino is to calculate the correct URL of an embedded image in a RichText field.
When a WebService which should return the correct URL of any image, may it be embedded or attached as file, is called from a remote server, the WebService should look at the HTML source of the web page where the picture is embedded, and then parse the contents to find the picture file URL (search for "img" and then the next "src" tag) and send the URL of the picture from the parsed content to [read] Keywords: domino
, richtext
, server
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Lucid
Wed, May 30th 2007 10:43a Mika Heinonen 3D online/offline world
Fully parametrizable environment
Secure, closed system
Portal, Collaboration, Chat, E-mail, File Sharing, Newsreader, Web Browser, Operating System Frontend, Programming Environment
Modular programming environment using a pseudo BASIC language which is compiled via an integrated C-compiler into native machine code and OpenGL/DirectX instructions. No Java slowness!
Available for Windows, Mac, Linux
Free and commercial versions available for all audiences
Launch Summer 2007 [read] Keywords: collaboration
, java
, linux
, mac
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Scheduled Hardware Maintenance
Fri, May 25th 2007 9:45a Mika Heinonen Server will be shutdown for hardware maintenance on 2007-05-25 20:00:00 EET. Estimated downtime is 1 hour.
We are adding new harddisk space.
Another shutdown is scheduled for 2007-05-26 12:00:00 EET. Estimated downtime is 15 minutes. [read] Keywords: server
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Getting Things Done
Thu, May 24th 2007 12:34p Mika Heinonen Just saw Ed posting an article about Lotus Notes related GTD, and that reminded me to do things.
It seems that GTD is even a registered trademark of David Allen & Co, which seems to have some good ideas about organizing your time and tasks.
Some years ago I had an related idea, the Case Classification Code, but compared to GTD it was a more specific approach to a partial solution of the whole process. Before you can start to do things, you need to brainstorm what you have in mind, and catego [read] Keywords: collaboration
, designer
, document
, domino
, ibm
, lotus
, nd8
, notes
, template
, db2
, linux
, mac
, mobile
, office
, server
13
Spammers vs Blog owners, 1:0
Sat, May 19th 2007 2:00p Mika Heinonen It seems that many Blog owners have made their sites unusable, because of the fear of spamming. For example Christopher Byrne, Damien Katz, Al Gore Blogs don't immediately show up your comments, if at all. This is clear win against the spammers, they made you to degrade your online services to a manually driven service.
Siipi Blog has however been invulnerable until now (knock the wood :) against any spam attacks, since we don't use any of the commercially available Blog site templates, but a ve [read] Keywords: document
, domino
, template
, server
17
IBM System p servers reduce global warming
Wed, May 16th 2007 2:33p Mika Heinonen The sheer power of IBM System p servers is simply amazing. Nearly 300 Unix servers can be easily consolidated into just 6 System p servers, according to this IBM Press Release.
This is not just the tip of an iceberg, but an remarkable factor to reduce also the global warming.
Global warming has already gone too far. If you want to be helpful somehow, save at least planet earth. Although this is about an Hollywood movie, it's not all fiction, not even nearly all. The point is to give you an motiv [read] Keywords: ibm
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And the winner is...
Mon, May 14th 2007 12:49p Mika Heinonen IBM System p! With a (or as many as you want) Power5-7 based (vector scalable) CPUs.
Yes, it's the good old RS/6000 system in new clothes - the system which has also earlier beaten all world records in speed and performance. Even the God of Supercomputers, IBM Blue Gene/L and it's honorable ancestor, the Deep Blue, is a System p after all.
Macintosh made the wrong choice, they switched from Power5 to Intel. Windows' limits are breached.
Customers who want the maximum performance and value for th [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, db2
, macintosh
, network
17
The Best Packer
Mon, Apr 2nd 2007 12:26p Mika Heinonen While the 7-Zip packer has been out since Year 2000, it has been relatively unknown. It's always amazing how the ZIP format is the best known packing format, while it's packing ratio is plain horrible. I've used RAR format for years, and it's has become also quite known in the professional computer scene. However, the 7-Zip format is the most advanced packing format known today, using the LZMA compression algorithm. It's simply amazing how much better it can pack than ZIP or RAR (ZIP 5 means Win [read] Keywords: php
14
Microsoft's OneCare is worse than any virus!
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 5:05p Mika Heinonen You can Google for OneCare, the net is full of reports of fatal to catastrophic reports about Microsoft's newest security program.
Here is just one. Similarly fatal problem were also reported with earlier Microsoft OneCare versions, and now their latest OneCare 1.5 is worse than any virus you could ever have.
Some people have lost 3.5 years of their work and life because of this, some have lost even more.
It deletes whole e-mail databases of Outlook when it detects a virus, which might not even [read] Keywords: google
, microsoft
, outlook
, security
, virus
17
Siipi Blog Improvements
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 11:01a Mika Heinonen I added some new features and bug fixes to the Siipi Blog Template:
■ Added display of last modified date of last reply of Hot Topics (=Blogs which have the latest replies)
■ Added display of number of Blogs in each Area in the Area List (this is kinda cool, it uses the NotesViewEntry.DescendantCount property)
■ Removed 1 line gap before the Area List (it was a )
■ Added Paragraph break after the Referers List to avoid automatic line feed in the first displayed Blog
` [read] Keywords: domino
, lotus
, nd8
, notes
, notes client
, richtext
, template
, bug
13
Technorati Blogs
Sat, Mar 17th 2007 9:28a Mika Heinonen I've haven't earlier checked what this Technorati Blog thing is all about. But it sounds like it's something useful, something which connects Blog entries which belong to the same category from any Blog sites together.
When I signed up it asked me to claim my own Blog, and then it wanted to verify that my Blog is my Blog, so it asked me to put this HTML code on my Blog: Technorati Profile [read] Keywords: profile
12
Andre Guirard talks about ND8 and Composite Applications
Sat, Mar 17th 2007 3:22a Mika Heinonen I found this Episode 56 streaming .mp3 (podcast) over on Bruce Elgort's blog. I think it's a must to listen to for all people who are interested in Notes/Domino 8.
He explains the new Composite Applications very clearly, which makes them easy to understand. Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux are also asking him questions and give additional comments.
There's a few words about the new Java/Eclipse based Domino Designer in R8.5 or RNext.
It was also Andre's first podcast ever, and I hope more great [read] Keywords: composite
, designer
, domino
, nd8
, notes
, R8
, applications
, eclipse
, java
, podcast
10
Tweaking a lawn mower
Fri, Mar 16th 2007 6:35p Mika Heinonen I found this movie on Jon Udell's blog, and I was just simply amazed by this excellent movie how to tweak and maintain a lawn mower.
But tweaking it is not everything what matters, it's also the sound it makes, and especially the sound it doesn't make.
Compared to other cybertech megablaster lawn mowers which make a horrible noise and pollute the nature, this one performs with a noise level standard which is millions of years ahead in technology, safes nature and earth for your children and thei [read] Keywords:
22
Making the Notes 8 mod tool
Fri, Mar 16th 2007 1:54p Mika Heinonen Notes 8 offers yet never before seen possibilities for modding and customizing. I will start to make a simple tool in C++ to change things I have have found out so far (no, I don't read manuals, I read config files!), besides there are no manuals AFAIK for the things I need, at least no public ones.
The first version will probably include just very basic things like changing the IBM logo to your own company logo, changing unread mark colors (this is where Nathan got excited about the possibilite [read] Keywords: ibm
, notes
, bug
31
Notes 8 Beta 2: Set Bookmark as Home Page
Thu, Mar 15th 2007 12:18a Mika Heinonen Are you missing the "Set Bookmark as Home Page" option to set any bookmark or application as your Home page?
It's still there, you just need to use the full page bookmarks to find it:
When you open the Workspace while holding down the Shift key, you get the full page bookmarks, and can right click on any of the bookmarks and choose "Set Bookmark as Home Page".
You can open the Workspace by setting it either as the "Home" link in the Open menu, or making a Toolbar Icon with the formula: @Comman [read] Keywords: formula
, ibm
, notes
, application
, bug
, desktop
, workspace
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Tweaking the Notes 8 Launcher
Wed, Mar 14th 2007 10:46a Mika Heinonen I found a new command line option for the rcplauncher.exe: -nosplash, which removes the Notes 8 splash screen when you start Notes.
I also managed to get rid of the "Getting Started" page, but as I did too many things at once, I don't know which one caused it. Now I never get the "Getting Started" page, and I would like to get it back to be able to reproduce how I removed it. Amongs many other things, I added -noautostart -nolauncher to the Notes 8 icon. But also tried to switch parameters in so [read] Keywords: notes
, applications
, desktop
, xml
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Wohoo! Lotus copied my folder icon :)
Sun, Mar 11th 2007 6:30a Mika Heinonen However, I got the idea from Lotus' Views icon first. I originally suggested to have these kind of Folder+ icons in Mary Beth Raven's Blog:
My suggestion was:
And now we have them in Notes 8. However, Lotus made also a small improvement to the model by replacing the "opened folder" icon with a Folder- icon, way to go! They didn't add the dotted lines though, which I would have liked, since I have sometimes huge and complex trees.
What Lotus did: [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
Siipi.com will be upgraded to Domino 8 Beta 2 on saturday
Thu, Mar 8th 2007 1:03p Mika Heinonen This will be probably one of the first public Domino 8 production servers in the world, and I know all you Domino enthusiasts value that.
I personally trust Lotus' quality department that much, that I can go live even with any Beta release on a production server; they have their daily builds and they won't release any majorly disfunctional build to the public.
Also on saturday, you can download your very own Notes 8 Beta 2 client, Notes Designer 8 Beta 2, and Notes Administrator 8 Beta 2 from th [read] Keywords: designer
, domino
, lotus
, notes
, server
10
Internet root servers are burning!
Wed, Feb 7th 2007 2:41p Mika Heinonen It seems that there is going on somekind of attack to certain internet root servers as this screenshot from ripe.net shows:
http://siipi.com/public/news.nsf/rootaeburn
Looks like somekind of AE point blank fire nuke to me. However, only f, g, l, m root servers seem to have insufficient fire resists, or are just targeted.
For online information see here: RIPE NCC 2007-02-05. [read] Keywords:
8
This makes me feel a bit happy
Wed, Feb 7th 2007 1:14p Mika Heinonen Recently, a few lines of human language code struck my mind:
"Thanks for all the help Mika.
Lisa"
I remembered everything I had learned in my life again at the very moment when I read those lines.
Money doesn't make you happy, it's the people who do it.
A sincere, honest thanks can mean more to you than a million dollars. [read] Keywords:
10
Formula Engine Rewrite
Tue, Feb 6th 2007 1:31p Mika Heinonen As Damien Katz locked his thread about Formula Engine Rewrite (btw, his exposure is a very good reading, and I really appreciate that), I could not post this:
Maybe IBM killed the spirit, but without IBM, Iris and Lotus would maybe also not have gotten the marketing force and publicity which IBM Lotus Notes got now.
Now it's Big Blue vs (or and?) Microsoft.
Although I also see IBM as a big dinosaur, I also see Lotus and Iris still as teams within. They know it themselves, using their "secret ups [read] Keywords: formula
, ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
, notes
, microsoft
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IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta 1 is coming in a few days
Mon, Feb 5th 2007 11:33a Mika Heinonen Notes/Domino 8 was released on March 10th. This information is updated daily, based on words from IBM like: "A beta version of Lotus Notes 8 is currently planned to be made available to the public starting this February." and hear-sayings like: "sometime mid-February 2007". There is also an official press release about it.
Be prepared to update your production workstations, since this will be a very stable release, as we saw already on R6 and R7 Beta 1 releases. Anyhow, it beats any R5 or R6 cli [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, R5
, R6
, R7
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Siipi Web Forum
Sun, Feb 4th 2007 10:43a Mika Heinonen The Siipi Web Forum is now completed, and one user is already using it (Marko Vesapuisto).
The Forum is a bit different from conventional Message Boards as it automatically archives posts by month. The areas are also not strongly seperated from eachother, but appear all on the same page categorized. This gives in my opinion a better overview what has been recently discussed, as other boards show only the last post per area.
Features:
■ Anonymous can read and write posts, however not edit o [read] Keywords: domino
, database
, password
, profile
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Siipi Web Site Creator
Fri, Feb 2nd 2007 10:18a Mika Heinonen The Siipi Web Site Creator is now completed, and one user is already using it (Godwin Ikegwuonu).
With this web based tool you can create complete web sites running on a Domino server. You can choose to run it under a user site under siipi.com, for example siipi.com/yourname or under your own domain, for example www.yourname.com.
The price for this tool (used disk space is counted as total sum of your applications) is 10€ per started GB per year. If you want additionally your own domain to run i [read] Keywords: domino
, applications
, linking
, server
8
Turkish Music
Thu, Feb 1st 2007 12:07p Mika Heinonen I don't know what it is, but everytime I listen to turkish music, I can barely hold my tears back. I am crying from pleasure, pure joy and passion.
No other music does that to me (and yes, I listen to everything from all metal via pops to classics and romantics), and as a I am (usually) a rationally thinking man, I wanted to find out what causes this and came across this study of turkish and middle eastern rhythm patterns: http://www.shira.net/arabella/me-rhythms.htm, but it's not only the rhyth [read] Keywords:
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Growing Organizations
Wed, Jan 31st 2007 6:25p Mika Heinonen The curse of all larger organizations is that they can not afford to do anymore what they want, but they have to align to the needs and demands of their customers. However, if the organization incorporates also system analysis and consulting, a firm basis for cooperation between the customer and the organization can be established.
My goals were always experimental and pioneric, I tried not to make profit, but to keep the costs as low as possible, while also keeping the costs for my customers al [read] Keywords: domino
, notes
, application
, applications
, consulting
, office
10
Siipi Blog Template 1.2
Wed, Jan 31st 2007 12:25p Mika Heinonen New features included:
■ Automatic categorizing by years. When you open another blog area, the most recent year which has blogs will be opened. After that you can click on the year link to choose another year for that area.
■ Some small fixes to the RSS feed
■ Referer list display compacted. As some referer URLs were very long, all referer URLs are now shortened to 16 characters on the display. [read] Keywords: template
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Domino File Manager Preview
Thu, Mar 9th 2006 12:31p Mika Heinonen The number of files in directories can grow huge on industrial Domino servers. Not necessarily in the Domino directories itself, but in all kind of support directories around the whole file system.
When you have over 20000 files in a directory, it can take several minutes to open the directory with Windows Explorer, locally from the server, and especially over a network drive.
I found a solution how to reduce the waiting time from 3-5 minutes to 3-5 seconds (!). Using a native C++ engine (xdir.e [read] Keywords: domino
, network
, server
From Turkey with love
Thu, Sep 1st 2005 4:15p Mika Heinonen Recently I blogged about Holiday planning, and in last minute I decided to destinate for Kemer, Turkey.
I must say, it was much better than I could ever imagine. Something touched me there, really deep.
The culture, the style, the origins, it's a mystery. But them, as we fins share that destiny. I interviewed some locals about their origins, and it seems that we both came from the same geographical area, Ural, Russia. The turks just shifted a bit more south, intervening with chinese and oriental [read] Keywords:
Bob Congdon
Wed, Aug 31st 2005 1:36p Mika Heinonen I found another interesting Blog, Bob Congdon. He worked in Iris with Damien Katz, but now he works at Microsoft (he just joined them a bit over a month ago).
Lets hope he makes the built-in IIS web server in Windows read directly NSF databases, and adds NSF design elements to Frontpage. Now, that would be some real competiton from Microsoft :P [read] Keywords: microsoft
, server
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Damien Katz's domain gone?
Tue, Aug 30th 2005 11:00a Mika Heinonen I wonder what happened to Damien's Blog ( http://damienkatz.net ), it looks like it has been taken over by some domain trading company. [read] Keywords:
xcompact Beta 2 delayed
Fri, Aug 19th 2005 1:03p Mika Heinonen I promised to deliver it today if all goes well, but as Mr. Murphy prophecied, all didn't go well :)
However, I do know the core of the problem of the Beta 1 bugs now, but they need a bigger redesign of xcompact than I had expected.
Since I will be leaving for holidays tomorrow for 1 week, you fellow guys will have to wait 1 week until Beta 2.
I apologize for the inconvenience and delay caused to all enthusiastic Beta testers. [read] Keywords:
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The biggest known prime number
Thu, Aug 18th 2005 2:59p Mika Heinonen I was looking at my old archives, and found this topic about the probability of the biggest known prime.
The problem is that no existing computers can verify if this is a prime or not (IBM Deep Blue or Blue Gene/L, can you?). So I based this rather on a probability theory.
This the beginning of the 2^p-1 (p=prime) series:
2^2-1 is prime
2^3-1 is prime
2^5-1 is prime
2^7-1 is prime
2^11-1 is not prime
2^13-1 is prime
2^17-1 is prime
2^19-1 is prime
2^23-1 is not prime
2^29-1 is not prime
2^31-1 i [read] Keywords: ibm
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New e-mail spamming method: Impersonating spam
Wed, Aug 17th 2005 12:21p Mika Heinonen Today I received an e-mail from some asian internet area, where the sender was my own e-mail address, well almost.
I examined the document and found something wierd about the SMTPOriginator field, it had quotes around my e-mail address, which might be the indicator for this new impersonating spam method, since normal e-mail sender addresses have no quotes around them. [read] Keywords: document
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IBM Business Partner, Passport Advantage, PartnerWorld
Tue, Aug 16th 2005 12:35p Mika Heinonen I was wondering at Ed Brill's posting why only Business Partners get to see the Notes/Domino 7 launch events, so I had a few comments on his Blog, where Alan Lepofsky (also an IBM employee) kindly advised me to join PartnerWorld, which I then did.
From my previous experience I know that the public incremental installers are delayed by about 3 months (=rough estimate, but it feels like 3 months anyway), and Passport Advantage members get them to download much earlier.
The recent case was that I n [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, notes
, R5
, R6
, R7
, applications
, bug
, java
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Blog Spamming
Mon, Aug 15th 2005 12:57p Mika Heinonen What the heck, now those evil e-mail spammers also found a way to spam Blogs.
So what's next, Black/Gray/Whitelists for blogs, and content analysis to prevent spams?
I saw this on Esther's Blog: [read] Keywords:
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LotusScript Speed Testing
Mon, Aug 15th 2005 10:22a Mika Heinonen The goal of this project is to document which methods doing the same job in a specific application need in LotusScript are the fastest.
The test database can be downloaded from here: http://siipi.com/public/mika.nsf/pages/files/$file/getcolumnvalues.nsf
The database has no documents, so you need to run the agent "Create 10000 Products" before you can run the test agents.
It would be interesting to gather timings also from other people, so if you want to try one of the agents ("GetColumnValue vs [read] Keywords: agent
, dblookup
, document
, ldd
, lotusscript
, notes
, notes client
, R7
, application
, database
, server
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Case Classification Code
Sun, Aug 14th 2005 4:02p Mika Heinonen When you are dealing with many customers, and have limited resources, you need to optimize your work load in order to do the most important things first.
A new idea came up to have a classification code for each case, idea, event, etc..
The code consists of 2 characters: IS
I stands for Importance, and can be
A: Very Important
B: Important
C: Quite Important
D: Not so important
E: Not important
S stands for Size, and can be:
1: Tiny
2: Small
3: Medium
4: Big
5: Huge
For example if there is an ve [read] Keywords:
Lotusphere 2006 Special Offers
Sat, Aug 13th 2005 11:44p Mika Heinonen From the Lotusphere 2006 home page:
"Registration will open soon, check back here for continuing updates. The registration fee will be a special low price of $1395 especially for "friends of Lotusphere" who demonstrate their loyalty by registering early. On October 15, the early-bird rate of $1595 will be in effect, and then on December 3, 2005, the standard conference fee of $1795 will apply."
My employer doesn't let me go every year to Lotusphere, but of course I insist to go there whenever a [read] Keywords: domino
, lotusphere
, nd8
, notes
, pclp
, R5
, R6
, R7
, R8
, application
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xcompact Public Beta 1
Fri, Aug 12th 2005 2:18p Mika Heinonen Here you go, it's still "very" beta, but now I need the experience and input from beta testers, as I could not find theoretically any problems with it.
For now, the "all database" compact has been secured behind the "-a" option, as opposed to Domino's ncompact which does the "all database" compact when it's called without parameters. This is just for beta security, and may change in the final release.
The usage is like it gives from the command line:
If you get some error messages (I've put er [read] Keywords: domino
, notes
, database
, security
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New compact command for Notes/Domino
Thu, Aug 11th 2005 12:23p Mika Heinonen Time to make a better compact command for Domino. As domino's own ncompact.exe can not compact databases with whitespace, orphan agent data and other undocumented stuff, I decided finally to make my own version. It's running under codename "xcompact", and Beta 1 is already working and very impressive. It compacts a 60MB whitespace loaded database in just a few seconds, where Domino's own ncompact can take up to 10 minutes (using the "-C" option for copy-style compaction) for the same database wh [read] Keywords: agent
, domino
, notes
, database
R7 Performance Testing - Part 2
Wed, Aug 10th 2005 1:30p Mika Heinonen What gives?
Clearly there is a tendency to slower performance, mostly noticable for the Create documents agent, as the database whitespace grows, that's nothing new.
Interestingly, the NotesViewEntryCollection.RemoveAll performs slower than NotesView.GetNextDocument occasionally.
This is what I have always said, and the same applies for NotesDocumentCollection.StampAll, it's also slower than NotesView.GetNextDocument occasionally. The biggest problem with .StampAll though is that when it's inter [read] Keywords: agent
, domino
, ibm
, R7
, database
, properties
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R7 Performance Testing
Wed, Aug 10th 2005 11:38a Mika Heinonen Today I tested a bit the performance of R7 from the Notes Client. The database is on Local. This table shows how the times grow, and keep steady after several runs on the same database:
Action
Documents
Time (new db)
Time (2nd run)
Time (3rd run)
Time (4th run)
Time (5th run)
Create
10000
18.60 sec
19.30 sec
25.42 sec
38.84 sec
37.11 sec
Change
10000
20.37 sec
20.30 sec
20.38 sec
20.34 sec
20.36 sec
Delete
10000
10.77 sec
11.27 sec
20.70 sec
20.01 sec
18.73 sec
Delete
All (10000)
08.25 sec
09.02 [read] Keywords: agent
, lotusscript
, notes
, notes client
, R7
, database
Automatic Administration Tool for Domino
Mon, Aug 8th 2005 12:50p Mika Heinonen Another project I am working on, is an automatic/scripted administration tool for Domino. The idea is that the administrator can use predefined scripts to automate periodical administration processes over several servers.
The administrator can also make custom scripts by clicking existing commands to his own script. Unlike conventional administration tools, this will also include commands to check the documents of databases, check for duplicate documents using a defined unique key, check if repl [read] Keywords: administration
, document
, domino
, database
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Blog improvements
Sun, Aug 7th 2005 10:35a Mika Heinonen The comments are now behind each blog entry, and not on the main level anymore. This should make the blog more readable.
I also added read counters for each blog and the entry page. The counter counts who read which document and how many times a document was read total, but I display only the total counters. A referer list (=from which website this blog was linked) is also available, and I am not displaying it either. [read] Keywords: document
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Holiday planning
Sat, Aug 6th 2005 7:04a Mika Heinonen Holidays are coming, so I've started to plan some possible destinations where I want to go. I've never been to a real lagoon yet, so I am considering finally to make a trip to some paradise islands in a few weeks. Maldives sounds and looks exactly what I want, deep blue skies, swallow turquoise lagoons and fine white sand.
The maldives has 1196 islands, of which 198 have an hotel, the rest is unpopulated, so I have to think carefully what kind of island and hotel I want. I would like a water vil [read] Keywords:
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New search engine for Domino
Fri, Aug 5th 2005 1:07p Mika Heinonen I've been working on a new fulltext search engine for Domino, which works like the built-in FullTextSeach engine. The core of the engine is a C++ program, which does the search from a FullTextIndex text file. The FTI.txt file is created per database which have the new search engine enabled.
There is a seperate configuration database, where you can enlist all databases on which you want to run the new search engine. It's just an add-on to Domino, and the default Search engine still works for each [read] Keywords: domino
, database
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This means business
Thu, Aug 4th 2005 10:43a Mika Heinonen My freetime entrepreneur company, Siipi Finland, received it's first order from a big company.
It's a pretty straight forward Notes application (and it works from the Web too) to maintain the information of the skill levels of employees.
Some interesting technology features were involved also, basically due to the challenge of making it universal and reusable, as it had to include an item editor for the skills of each person, and it had to be customizable by the customer without needing to use D [read] Keywords: designer
, domino
, notes
, application
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Parameters of parameters
Tue, Aug 2nd 2005 3:50p Mika Heinonen Ever programmed in C++ and found that templates are too "hardcoded"? Well, I remember when I was in university (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, btw), and doing some theoretical C++ programming, I staggered at the point where my C++ templates were made for one certain data type. I wanted to stay general and universal and make templates which fit any datatype, but at that time C++ didn't support templates of templates, nor does it nowadays.
Why I pick this issue up, is that I had to do some prett [read] Keywords: dblookup
, forms
, notes
, richtext
, template
, application
, applications
, database
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Next generation spam filtering
Mon, Aug 1st 2005 5:31p Mika Heinonen I've been working on a true spam filter for Domino, which actually reads the content of the messages and decides via an fuzzy/AI algorithm based on phrases found in a domino database, if the mail is spam or not.
Most spam filters just look at the domain, and simply keep blacklists and whitelists (and graylists), but that is like only 50% of the job done, and causing many mails land on the blacklist which are not supposed to be.
How my spam filter works, is that it will first try to analyze the t [read] Keywords: document
, domino
, database
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Best of both worlds
Mon, Aug 1st 2005 3:46p Mika Heinonen Like IBM Lotus Domino 7 rules the world of databases and web servers, the YAMAHA Motif ES-7 rules the world of musical instruments in a similar manner.
Both share a somewhat unique and extravagant design and ideology, but that is exactly what makes them so powerful. They have the freedom to experiment in their own little worlds, and maximize the performance and integrity of their products. Always running after mass "standards" is not always giving the best results - there's always some weakest l [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, development
, microsoft
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Cup of Java? No, thanks.
Mon, Aug 1st 2005 11:51a Mika Heinonen I'm glad I could avoid any Java agents in Notes so far, since LotusScript has done it all for me.
Just a simple Environ("UserProfile"), causes big problems in Java, because it wants to be cross-platform compatible, and not all Operating Systems have environment variables. I wonder why they call them Operating Systems then, sounds more like an graphical user interface to me.
It turned out, that getenv() worked earlier in Java, but not in the current versions, and thus not in Notes. In future it w [read] Keywords: agent
, ldd
, lotusscript
, notes
, interface
, java
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Operating Systems
Sun, Jul 31st 2005 4:19p Mika Heinonen Microsoft announced that Windows Vista will be officially out by 2006.
However, by 2011 there's already a succeedor planned, Codename Windows Blackcomb.
I wonder how Linux will develop meanwhile, while it's nowadays a good OS, it's not the one-and-only OS you can use. For games and native Windows applications (including IBM Lotus Notes, at least until R7), Windows still delivers an universal platform. [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, notes
, R7
, applications
, linux
, microsoft
, vista
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Blogs I Read
Sun, Jul 31st 2005 3:09p Mika Heinonen I just added a new functionality to this Notes Blog template, which shows a list of Blogs I Read.
How I wish that Rod Whiteley and Julie Kadashevich had an Blog too - I couldn't find them on google.
But I have to go trough some old posts on LDD and find more interesting people and cool blogs :) [read] Keywords: ldd
, notes
, template
, google
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Kimi wins F1 in Hungary
Sun, Jul 31st 2005 7:41a Mika Heinonen Kimi Räikkönen just passed the finish line over 30 seconds ahead of the 2nd car (Michael Schumacher), and won the Hungary Formula 1 grand prix!
Alonso, the leading driver in the F1 world grand prix of 2005, got no points from this race, and Kimi catched up as much as he could.
There's still 6 races to go, so it will be a thrill to follow the driver's and car manufacturer's race to the finale of 2005. [read] Keywords: formula
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RSS Feeds
Sun, Jul 31st 2005 3:21a Mika Heinonen I found this article how to make your own RSS Feeds.
It looks pretty simple, and could be created easily with an LotusScript agent from this Blog.
Another thing to add to my Blog development list.
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175271
This web based RSS Feed Validator is kinda nice too:
http://feedvalidator.org [read] Keywords: agent
, lotusscript
, development
, php
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Fonts
Sun, Jul 31st 2005 2:44a Mika Heinonen I just read somewhere that Verdana and Georgia are especially designed for computer screens.
Verdana also supports bold text in smaller font sizes.
Georgia also supports bold text in smaller font sizes, but it's not so readable.
Arial shows bold texts just a bit broader, barely noticable. [read] Keywords:
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My first Blog
Sun, Jul 31st 2005 12:52a Mika Heinonen There are so many people Blogging, so I decided to make my own too.
Of course I made it with Domino, and editable from Notes/Web.
The messages are written in Notes RichText, and the fonts are controlled by a stylesheet.css document.
While the default font is shown as Verdana, the font family, color and size changes made in Notes RichText are still coming through.
Perhaps I will publish the template, once it's a bit more polished. [read] Keywords: document
, domino
, notes
, richtext
, template
, blogging
, css
