An even better hidden gem in Notes 8.5.2
Wed, Aug 25th 2010 11:44a Nathan T Freeman After much gnashing of the teeth and bearing
of the claws over this item since Notes 8.0, IBM has finally added "Delete"
to the context menu in the Mail address type-ahead. This is an excellent
way to purge email addresses that you know are defunct.
In fact, I'd very much appreciate it
if you'd take a moment and do this for me by removing my old lotus911.com
address!
Unfortunately, the process displays
a rather annoying confirmation dialog, but it's still a huge improvement
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Now running 8.5.2, and a hidden gem
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 2:00p Nathan T Freeman Domino 8.5.2 is GOLD! Just finished the
upgrade on our internal dev server as well as the server that hosts this
blog.
One thing that I don't think anyone
talked about during the beta cycle was the massive performance improvement
in start time of the later server. Check this out...
08/24/2010 01:45:48
PM Begin scan of databases to be consistency checked
08/24/2010 01:45:48 PM End scan of databases: 1 found
08/24/2010 01:45:49 PM Event Monitor started
08/24/2010 01:45:52 PM [read] Keywords: admin
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YellowDay: Meet @Transmogrifier
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 2:54p Nathan T Freeman So let's say you're a long-time Notes developer
that just starting to cut your teeth on Xpages. You probably know your
way around Lotusscript pretty well, but what's even more likely is that
you know your way around formula. You can't so much as build a view without
formula code, and while working with @ can occasionally be challenging,
for the most part, it's the most direct and simple way to get things done
in the Notes client.
Now you're looking at Xpages, and maybe
you notice tha [read] Keywords: domino
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YellowDay: Partnering with IBM on Xpages Extensions
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 1:30p Nathan T Freeman The crazy few that attended our IamLUG
presentation in St. Louis already heard this, but because the live streaming
didn't work, it turns out that I get to make this announcement twice.
A few weeks ago, the mighty Philippe
Riand and I were discussing some of the missing ingredients from Xpages.
While Xpages gives Domino developers unprecedented power and flexibility,
many people (including we here at GROUP) were struggling with some of the
constructs that are part of the basic nature [read] Keywords: domino
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YellowDay: Welcome to the new Escape Velocity
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 10:41a Nathan T Freeman In celebration of YellowDay 2010, I'm starting
the day with an official relaunch of my blog. Right now, you'll notice
that the only thing different is the URL, but over the next several days
and weeks, you'll start to notice some more dramatic changes, include layout
and platform. It is my most earnest belief that what makes this blog worth
reading is the incredibly rich interactive content that has appeared here
over the last 5 years. So my number 1 priority is ensuring that every post
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YellowDay: LotusLive Notes and the meaning of Hybrid
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 10:40a Nathan T Freeman Unless you've been on a cruise for the
last couple of days, you've probably heard about the announcement of LotusLive
Notes (LLN). Whether you take the angle that this pushes IBM into immediate
market leadership, or that they left out the crucial piece of custom applications,
or that Lotus simply isn't as good a hosting provider as their business
partners are -- you probably aren't aware of the key market differentiator
that LLN provides: the hybrid model.
Well, let me amend that: you [read] Keywords: domino
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Aug 11 is here again!
Mon, Aug 9th 2010 11:40a Nathan T Freeman It's August again, and now that I've made
it through the crucible known as IamLUG, I've had a chance to make some
plans for this year's YellowDay. I'm delighted to say that my new
corporate overlords at Group are supporting the Yellow Day festivities
this year, and we'll have several cool new things going live on Wednesday.
Those of you who attended our session at IamLUG know at least one
of them.
So get out your Lotus shirts, hats,
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The 12 people you'll encounter in the Yellowverse
Fri, Apr 23rd 2010 4:00a Nathan T Freeman Your won't be able to post comments to
this story. Sorry. There's something broken in my template, and I
don't have the latest version of Blogsphere available. I'll do my best
to sort out the problem in the next few days. But honestly, I'm not too
anxious about what I'll hear on this provocative but ultimately useless
post.
As more people encounter our community
here within the Lotus product line, I thought it might be valuable to provide
some insight into the types of people you'l [read] Keywords: lotus
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The 12 people you'll encounter in the Yellowverse
Fri, Apr 23rd 2010 12:59a Nathan T Freeman Your won't be able to post comments to
this story. Sorry. There's something broken in my template, and I
don't have the latest version of Blogsphere available. I'll do my best
to sort out the problem in the next few days. But honestly, I'm not too
anxious about what I'll hear on this provocative but ultimately useless
post.
As more people encounter our community
here within the Lotus product line, I thought it might be valuable to provide
some insight into the types of people you'l [read] Keywords: lotus
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A surprisingly honest offer
Tue, Apr 20th 2010 10:40a Nathan T Freeman I get 419 scam emails all the time. If
you're on the internet, I bet you do too. I bothered to read one today
simply because it had better English than I normally see, and it claimed
to be from a British estate executor rather than the former assistant to
the Deputy Minister of Oil of Arundi Barundi.
So you can probably imagine my surprise
when I read this sentence:
To facilitate the
process of immediate transfer of this fund to your designated bank account,
you need firstly sig [read] Keywords: email
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A surprisingly honest offer
Tue, Apr 20th 2010 10:04a Nathan T Freeman I get 419 scam emails all the time. If
you're on the internet, I bet you do too. I bothered to read one today
simply because it had better English than I normally see, and it claimed
to be from a British estate executor rather than the former assistant to
the Deputy Minister of Oil of Arundi Barundi.
So you can probably imagine my surprise
when I read this sentence:
To facilitate the
process of immediate transfer of this fund to your designated bank account,
you need firstly sig [read] Keywords: ntf
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Struggling to figure something out
Wed, Mar 24th 2010 12:40a Nathan T Freeman In all earnest, I do not want to make this
a he-said/she-said political debate. I'm simply struggling with one
thing in the 2074 pages of the Health
Care Reform Bill that I downloaded from senate.gov.
I read legal language like a software coder. Which, fortunately,
is also how judges tend to use it: as INPUTs.
"SEC. 5000B. IMPOSITION OF TAX
ON ELECTIVE COSMETIC MEDICAL PROCEDURES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is hereby imposed
on any cosmetic surgery and medical procedure a [read] Keywords:
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Struggling to figure something out
Wed, Mar 24th 2010 12:09a CN=Nathan T Freeman/OU=N In all earnest, I do not want to make this
a he-said/she-said political debate. I'm simply struggling with one
thing in the 2074 pages of the Health
Care Reform Bill that I downloaded from senate.gov.
I read legal language like a software coder. Which, fortunately,
is also how judges tend to use it: as INPUTs.
"SEC. 5000B. IMPOSITION OF TAX
ON ELECTIVE COSMETIC MEDICAL PROCEDURES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is hereby imposed
on any cosmetic surgery and medical procedure a [read] Keywords: ntf
synchronize(this);
Thu, Mar 18th 2010 11:59p CN=Nathan T Freeman/OU=N If you're using Domino today, chances are
you're working extensively with Java code. Oh, you might not be writing
Java code yourself. But you use it when you go to work, when you go to
church, when you pay your taxes.... errr, sorry... when you open your Notes
mail, when you go to Designer, when you access an Xpages app.
Java is all around us. The very
fabric of the Eclipse user experience is based on Java code. And whenever
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On the impact of social media
Thu, Mar 4th 2010 12:36a CN=Nathan T Freeman/OU=N Dear Internet,
Just because someone has a blog doesn't
make them an expert. Just because someone has a Twitter account,
doesn't make them a trendsetter. It means they signed up to a web site.
Don't kid yourself into thinking you discovered the next big thing
simply because it's on the interwebs. Expertise is determined by
peer review and concrete demonstration of results, not diatribe.
This include yours truly.
It's the real world. Judge, and be prepared
to be judged.
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The Dangers of Programming by Google
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 7:53a CN=Nathan T Freeman/OU=N The
ever-erudite Rob Weir has a marvelous
article on a fundamentally flawed implementation of order randomness at
www.browserchoice.eu. It's a great review of primary concepts in
computing algorithms, and I'd strongly recommend it to readers of all levels
of coding experience. But to summarize the basic flaw, the original
web site developer used the following technique to randomize the list of
available browsers...
var aBrowserOrderTop5
= new Array(0,1,2,3,4);
aBrowserOrderTop5. [read] Keywords: ntf
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