I've recently started to use Layers for web apps, and Outlines for Notes apps. And they give a better development speed.
However, Layers have also some problems:
1) They don't scale with the web browser window like tables do
2) When replying with history to an Notes e-mail, layers get all screwed up, so you can only use tables in Notes, but for web apps Layers are still quite good
Outlines for Notes apps totally rock though:
1) You can add a nice company logo and lots of other stuff, which I can't do with basic Notes Views
2) You can also add lots of other links than just views to an Outline
3) You can sort the Outline entries how you want, and don't need to add some "1. ", "2. " numbering to the view names
So far I've been under the impression that only Agents, Views, Forms and Documents should be used in Notes for Notes and Web apps, but these 2 elements seem to quality for further use too. Some Notes performance extremists like Chris Toohey go even as far as saying that you need only Documents and Agents, but I see still some benefits with Views and Forms.
Quickr 8.2.0.9 + Domino 8.5.1FP1 = Stable!
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 1:44p Mika Heinonen Finally I got the newest Quickr version to work together with the newest Domino version.
Before the last version update, I was running Quickr 8.2.0.0 and Domino 8.5.1 and it crashed almost daily.
Domino left a 0 byte NSD file behind each time it crashed.
Now it hasn't crashed once yet.
All SNAPPS apps are also installed and working fine. [read] Keywords: domino
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Easy
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Mika Heinonen I invented a new programming language called Easy.
It's faster than C++ (theoretically), since it inlines everything.
I see no point programming in C++ without Easy anymore, since the same and better results can be achieved using this new language.
It saves also a lot of time and costs when programming, and it should work also with other languages than C++, if they support variadic macros.
Here's the Easy home page:
http://www.siipi.com/easy
Easy is still in version 0.0.3.0 0.0.7.0, but it will [read] Keywords:
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Multithreading can be cores times slower or cores times faster than single threading
Tue, Dec 15th 2009 3:25p Mika Heinonen I added multithreading capability to the Siipi speedtest tool, and it showed surprising results: Looping got almost (number of cores) times faster, but allocating memory got almost (number of cores) times slower!
Here's the test with the first part using 4 cores, and 2nd part using 1 core (as before):
Speedtest 1.1 (c) 2009 Siipi
Counting 10 billion floating points using 4 cores...
thread 1 begin=25000.000000
thread 2 begin=50000.000000
Main loop begin=0.000000
thread 3 begin=75000.000000
thread [read] Keywords:
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Layers and Outlines
Fri, Dec 11th 2009 4:45p Mika Heinonen I've recently started to use Layers for web apps, and Outlines for Notes apps. And they give a better development speed.
However, Layers have also some problems:
1) They don't scale with the web browser window like tables do
2) When replying with history to an Notes e-mail, layers get all screwed up, so you can only use tables in Notes, but for web apps Layers are still quite good
Outlines for Notes apps totally rock though:
1) You can add a nice company logo and lots of other stuff, which I can [read] Keywords: forms
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Goodbye Firefox!
Thu, Nov 26th 2009 1:08p Mika Heinonen Welcome SeaMonkey 2.0!
Why?
Here are some reasons why SeaMonkey is better than Firefox:
1) Uses only 56MB on google.com, while Firefox uses 86MB
2) Faster than Firefox 3.5.5. Firefox 2.0 was always faster, and SeaMonkey is based on that.
3) Firefox 3 introduced frequent crashing, especially when you close and reopen it quickly, but also randomly when you open it.
4) SeaMonkey has also e-mail, graphical HTML editor, and IRC built-in. Still it uses less memory than Firefox.
5) Firefox takes someti [read] Keywords: notes
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The death of openSUSE
Sat, Nov 14th 2009 6:25p Mika Heinonen With the last version update to 11.2, openSUSE became useless for many companies and enthusiasts.
It no longer supports PowerPC systems, which is in the long term the best solution for servers (and consoles).
Also the Intel version of openSUSE 11.2 seems to bring no benefit over the previous 11.1 release.
It looks much uglier, it has more bugs in KDE, and it is bloated and slow like hell. After starting the OS, it rattles the harddisk for several minutes, which openSUSE 11.1 didn't do. I looked [read] Keywords: ibm
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Oracle tries to kill SUN
Thu, Oct 22nd 2009 3:46p Mika Heinonen Today the EU commission gave free hands to Oracle to deal with the SUN MySQL ownership. Oracle must deliver proof to the EU that Oracle owning MySQL does not harm the free competition. The CEO of MySQL said he is fine with that Oracle owns MySQL, but that makes it difficult for Oracle to proove that Oracle owning both Oracle database and MySQL database will not harm the competition.
There has been suggestions that Oracle could make the MySQL unit of SUN an independant opensource wing, but to del [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino Designer 8.5.1 is now Freeware!
Wed, Oct 21st 2009 3:29p Mika Heinonen https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ls/dominodesigner/learn.html
However, you can only make local apps with it. This might not be a restriction though, since the developers can still send their apps via e-mail or upload them to a Quickr site where the Operation Manager picks up the new app and deploys it into the development or test server.
In addition, the Freeware version enables also new people to get involved with Domino designing, also for training purposes. [read] Keywords: designer
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