Troubleshooting MarvelClient Skinning Edition
Sat, Oct 17th 2009 4:24a markus seitz We've had a couple of complaints that
skinning doesn't work in 8.5.1. I was unable to reproduce this issue until
Tong (thanks!) sent me his notes.ini. Looks like it's the same old thing
after all: at a certain font size Notes falls back to untextured workspace
(i don't know why this issue occured after upgrading to 8.5.1 - my guess
would be that notes has changed some font settings).
Here's how you enable textured workspace:
(actually there's a policy that prevents
me from doing just that)
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Moving forward
Mon, Mar 2nd 2009 3:47p florian vogler panagenda has moved - from our previous office in 2340 Mödling, Austria, we have moved into the heart of Vienna,150 meters next to Vienna town hall and 1.5 km from Vienna's city centre (St. Stephans cathedral, 10 min. with Underground, 15 min. on foot):
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Our new address and contact details are:
Address
panagenda GmbH
Doblhoffgasse 7 / 6a
1010 Wien
Austria
Contact
phone: +43 1 89 012 89
cell: +43 699 1033 6123
fax: +43 1 89 012 89 - 15 [read] Keywords: google
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Could this fly?
Sun, Dec 21st 2008 9:10a florian vogler Short before Christmas, this is an interesting read at the end of 2008 - and the beginning of the new year 2009.
In a letter to IBM, Ian Tree suggests to open source Notes Domino. I do not dare to ask whether this will actually fly, but more so whether it could if it would. What do you think?
btw, Ian also has some nice tech stuff, like this one explaining how to best get a document's response documents using the C-API. [read] Keywords: document
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the calm before the storm
Fri, Jul 18th 2008 4:01a florian vogler It's been extensive travel, travel, travel for the past several weeks - thus no blogging at all. I'm just not a road-warrior-blogger ... I keep asking myself and others how to best blog when on the road - with nothing but a BlackBerry and a normal laptop, I personally find it difficult to blog. Ah, and no, I haven't gone as far as starting to twitter from just about everywhere about "my last five minutes three times every quarter of an hour". My feeling is that Twitter asks too much of me at thi [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Creating your own desktop / virtual workspace skin for Lotus Notes
Wed, Apr 16th 2008 6:44a florian vogler As promised, here are the instructions on how to create your own Lotus Notes skin for (the free) MarvelClient Skinning Edition:
The image files supplied in the download are defined as follows:
Note: this is the same download as in the previous post
def_background.bmp: the background image - details under 2.)
def_icon_down.bmp: the image for selected icon tiles
def_icon_up.bmp: the image for normal / non-selected icon tiles
def_sitemap_down.bmp: the image for selected portfolio data [read] Keywords: lotus
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FREE Skinning Edition - now available
Wed, Apr 16th 2008 4:42a florian vogler We are proud to herewith finally bring panagenda MarvelClient Skinning Edition 2.0 (also referred to as GYWAM 2.0 - Give Your Workspace A Makeover 2.0) to life - for FREE (click on the screenshot to download):
A gallery containing the fantastic skins of all skinning volunteers to follow shortly - we would in general very much appreciate, if you would share any customized skins you create with us, so that we can make them available to the community - naturally including appropriate cre [read] Keywords: connect
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Coffee in Munich?
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 9:02a florian vogler If you're as much into coffee as I am and happen to live or stop by in Munich / Bavaria / Germany, make sure you visit Mio Piccolo Cafe!
Directions from Munich Airport
Kaffeeliebhaber, die in München / Umland leben oder auf der Durchreise sind, sollten unbedingt beim Mio Piccolo Cafe vorbeischauen!
Anfahrt vom Münchener Flughafen [read] Keywords: google
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Giuseppe's first
Thu, Apr 10th 2008 2:48p florian vogler Giuseppe from DominoPoint.IT is the first to deliver a new skin for the upcoming free Skinning Edition of MarvelClient, which allows you to freely customize the look of both the good old Lotus Notes desktop/workspace as well as the virtual workspace (= display bookmark folders as workspace).
More skins to come - thanks to quite a few volunteers.
Just a little more patience ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Got time? Here' something to play with.
Thu, Apr 10th 2008 5:44a florian vogler Go Play! or watch the video below:
... or watch a Kiwi (think he can) fly (There's at least two "Re: Kiwi" videos that help bear the end ... *sniff*)
Update: And if you're up for a total brainwash, Go listen! (I warned you ...) [read] Keywords: application
, dojo
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I'm so Windows, I apologize
Thu, Apr 10th 2008 2:23a florian vogler Wow, I asked for volunteers yesterday, who would want to create skins for our MarvelClient Skinning Edition for IBM Lotus Notes.
The majority of responses started like this:
I'm not a Photoshop but more of a Gimp wiz.
I'm so into Windows that I sometimes forget about everything else - sorry :)
So, I herewith rephrase the call for volunteers just to make sure noone who could and would actually want to contribute is left out:
If you know how to create .BMP-files (*eeek*) with alp [read] Keywords: ibm
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Can blog ^^: Looking for volunteers to create cool workspace skins - anyone?
Wed, Apr 9th 2008 4:35p florian vogler I you're a Photoship Expert (an MSPaint Wiz won't do it because it lacks alpha channels ;-)) you might want to create a skin or two before we release GYWAM 2.0 = MarvelClient Skinning Edition (FREE; details on MarvelClient Enterprise Edition (not free) are available here). We'd certainly include appropriate credits in the release.
Drop me an email at florian.vogler at panagenda.com - looking forward to hear from you :)
p.s. yes, you'll get the skinning edition before anyone else does ^^ [read] Keywords: email
, enterprise
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A different view on security
Mon, Apr 7th 2008 2:14p florian vogler It all depends on the way you look at security, doesn't it? Using the doorlock below, you'll perish in a fire according to Geekologie.
I found it hillarious imagening a burglar trying to fiddle his way through using a magnet from outside ^^ (I know, I know, they'd use blot shears anyway).
Good security should simply work for and from both sides :) [read] Keywords: php
, security
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Announcing Give Your Workspace A Makeover (GYWAM) 2.0
Mon, Apr 7th 2008 3:43a florian vogler As a response to the chicklet hype on Paul Mooney's and Alan Lepofsky's blogs, we are herewith announcing "Give Your Workspace A Makeover (GYWAM) 2.0":
Give us a few more days, please - the skinning feature will be made available for FREE right here (on this blog).
GYWAM 2.0 allows you to freely customize your chicklets (including an alpha channel for freestyle transparency), hinky-minkies (twisties) on any background image of your choice :)
p.s. the skinning feature [read] Keywords: lotus
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Do we have a future?
Sun, Apr 6th 2008 4:36a florian vogler The bell just rang, and it was one of Jehova's witnesses - I guess he had the impression that he had to get straight to the point, which is why he said impressingly fast:
Good morning, how wonderful to come across you - I would like to very briefly talk with you about the future. Do you think we even have one?
The only thing that came to my mind was "Des passt schon!", which kind of translates to "everything's gonna be alright" (any suggested translations by native Austrian&a [read] Keywords: application
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Leakage Current
Sun, Apr 6th 2008 4:06a florian vogler A while ago, I bought an Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ in the US and connected it to the electricity network, using the enclosed US power cable together with a Swiss Travel Adapter.
Over several weeks, I repeatedly encountered network outages when trying to access the ReadyNAS over the network (whether it was the webadmin interface, shares, or ...) and thought it was my wireless network doing badly. A few weeks ago, I walked up to the ReadyNAS to connect a USB drive and guess what? It greeted me with [read] Keywords: connect
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Drinks are on me!
Thu, Apr 3rd 2008 4:03a florian vogler Ok, I guess that due to the title of the previous post being "Russian Welcome Reception", we still have some room for new visitors.
Until just now, 17 visitors showed up, with only little Russian attendance so far - hm ... would eastern hemisphere welcome reception be too broad?
I doubt that the title "Российский Прием в честь гостей" [read] Keywords: blogging
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Russian Welcome Reception
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 6:48p florian vogler Dear fellow internet friend,
The internet is an excellent forum to share information on the day's activities. As a single point of entry to this wonderful experience, I would herewith like to call out a Special Welcome Reception for all internet users from Russia here, right now (emphasize here, on this blog!).
The reception is an informal and highly interactive environment that gives all attendees the opportunity to engage with one another in discussions about relevant, ongoing work and c [read] Keywords: blogging
, planetlotus
, planetlotus.org
, twitter
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Sexy enough to (c)lick it?
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 6:17p florian vogler Ok, so that title just had to be after Paul Mooney's awesome post.
If you don't know Flex by now, go check it out - it let's you create serious (=business) jaw-dropping eye-candy stuff.
If you know Flex, and don't know AIR, go check it out - it let's you take Flex apps offline, as well as wrap them into desktop apps that don't even require a browser any more (still, credit remains with the browser people, for details see below).
If you know Flex and AIR, but don't know greenLight yet, go ch [read] Keywords: domino
, desktop
, server
@Command([OpenDocument]) and "Cannot execute the specified command"
Sun, Mar 30th 2008 8:23a florian vogler Hm ... I tried to use an @Command([OpenDocument]) in an Action Button - @Formula just now and all I got was the error message "cannot execute the specified command" after clicking on the hotspot ... has anyone else ever encountered this and would know why this happens? I just couldn't figure out why it wouldn't/shouldn't work ...
I then worked on a workaround in LotusScript using NotesUIWorkspace.Dialogbox and needed to Evaluate a Formula - everytime I use the Evaluate function, this part of [read] Keywords: designer
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Preparing yesterdays blog post for tomorrow, or so
Sun, Mar 30th 2008 4:59a florian vogler After I prepared a new blog post yesterday and published it today, it showed up in the list of yesterdays posts on PlanetLotus.org ... looking further into the design of the blogsphere template, I believe the reason is in the field "EntryDate", which by default is @Now at the time of creating a blog entry, but apparently doesn't get updated when actually publishing a post ...
The solution to this should be in the "Publish Story" action in the "CONTENT - Blog Entry" form - its formula is:
FIE [read] Keywords: formula
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Why not send spam back - ten-fold, maybe?
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 1:05p florian vogler This may be naive but looking at this, the following just crossed my mind as a possible strike against spam - and as it seems it's not new (so hopefully not naive, either)
If every spam email was simply bounced back (maybe even ten-fold?), I would assume a spammer's environment - even if he would filter the anti-spam - would break down, or not?
If a spammer sends 100 messages and get's 10 back for each (9 of them could be "Your message is relayed" and #10 would be the bounce back), I'd think [read] Keywords: domino
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German coastguard - or how to introduce yourself to an audience as a non-native speaker
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 6:44a florian vogler This is a great ad. Looking at it, it immediately reminded me of a video I use fairly often in presentations to introduce myself to the audience as a non-native speaker:
Note: even though the beginning may make the impression of a German video only, English visitors should keep watching as it "translates" just fine.
I am tempted to aver that my English isn't that bad ... anyone who disagrees please go post somewhere else :) [read] Keywords: application
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Acronyms - WTH is an ASW?
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 4:52a florian vogler Hey you bloggers - do me a favor and shed some light on what an ASW is, will you?
According to the internet I have, it could be an AntiSubmarine Warfare, an Asset SWap, Application SoftWare, Anti-Spy-softWare, Ambrosia Software, Association of Scientific Workers, Approved Social Worker (that one?), A Small World (could be?), an Art Supply Warehouse, Artificial Sea Water, an Australian Standard White (ouch), an Egyptian airport code, All Seems Well, Audits and Surveys Worldwide (or that one?), [read] Keywords: application
, google
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(Un)affordable Gadgets
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 4:20a florian vogler Hah, for just 150,000 GBP (as of today, that's 300,000 USD or 290,000 EUR), you can get this cool gadget (guess, which one's the wax figure?) - watch out for the hillarious comments at the bottom of the page:
'Please note, this product is exempt from all special promotions and discount offers' - Damn, I was going to use my 5 pound voucher...Ah, well (Josh, Gravesend)
The one from Steve Surrey is even better ...
For those of you who are a bit short on money this month, you might just have t [read] Keywords: gadget
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How to customize ANY Lotus Notes Error Message
Fri, Mar 28th 2008 8:15a florian vogler For many of you, this may just be a repost of a series of blog entries beginning on January 1, 2008 on Paul Mooney's blog. I haven't seen this earlier and - just as Paul foresaw: Admins will love this - I find this so awesome I wanted to share this again.
How to customize any Lotus Notes Error Message
The secret of customizing any error message is as simple as adding a notes.ini entry for the particular error message you wish to change.
The notes.ini entry
Err_0A02=The server you are try [read] Keywords: connect
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Desktop Icon Save and Restore
Fri, Mar 28th 2008 4:44a florian vogler Desktop? What Desktop? Here are solutions for both Windows and IBM Lotus Notes that help you save and restore your icon configurations more easily:
Windows
Windows Desktop Icon Save and Restore has saved me a lot of frustration with the Windows Desktop. Every time I switched resolutions for a web or beamer presentation, the windows desktop got messed up. (Windows) Desktop Desktop Icon Save and Restore allows you to save one desktop configuration for every resolution used - I haven't tried th [read] Keywords: document
, domino
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, lotus
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SAPs problems are not IBMs problems
Thu, Mar 27th 2008 2:13p florian vogler An article on heise.de about Waste Management - the largest US waste disposal company - suing SAP because they claim it does not offer what they were promised - was displayed an IBM ad stating:
Not my problem.
Thank god it's not mine either!
Some article and ad combinations just don't fit all too well ... do you know of other such (mis)fits? This one is certainly not one of the best I could imagine.
(I wonder how someone from SAP perceives that exact combination?)
On websites it' [read] Keywords: ibm
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Detecting a Laptop in LotusScript (on Windows)
Thu, Mar 27th 2008 11:21a florian vogler Have you ever needed to detect whether a particular piece of LotusScript code runs on a Laptop?
Instead of having to maintain groups in the Lotus Notes Names- and Addressbook, or going down the path of deriving this from the computername, you can easily detect this on Windows (NT4SP4 and up) using WMI (Windows Management Instrumentations).
As opposed to groups, this Script works perfectly on as many computers a single user may have (using groups, any scriptcode would behave the same for an [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
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Only two things I'd like to see improved in Flock - so far
Thu, Mar 27th 2008 8:45a florian vogler The Flock browser is just awesome, in my opinion.
There is only two things I find disturbing so far:
Whenever you just want to select a subset of the URL in the address bar and the URL/address is already highlighted, it fails.
You have to click on the address, release the (left) mouse button to position the cursor, then click and drag...
PDF integration is kind of problematic - PDFs that take a long time to load lock up Flock until they're fully downloaded.
Anything you miss? Or tip [read] Keywords: integration
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An upcoming solution to print (well) from (not just) Adobe Flex?
Thu, Mar 27th 2008 8:20a florian vogler Following up on the Flex Print Problem Post, we found a cool ActionScript 3 Open-Source PDF Library, called AlivePDF (This one's really open source including "open use").
It sounds like the upcoming release at the beginning of April (0.1.5) will have various improvements and that further down the road (make that road as short as possible, please) the Author is thinking about a feature to add Flex charts to PDF - Yeehaaah!
In the meantime, one can certainly also take the classic route using Ado [read] Keywords: application
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Fixing a host/domain issue in the AJAX Calendar Blogsphere Sideblock
Thu, Mar 27th 2008 5:43a florian vogler Just discovered a problem with the Calendar sideblock (see Calendar on the right hand side of this blogs homepage) yesterday and fixed it as follows:
This blog is available from both
http://www.panagenda.com/pub/panablog.nsf" and "http://blog.panagenda.com(/pub/panablog.nsf)"
- the Calendar sideblock fetches its data through an XMLHttpRequest, which (for security reasons I would understand if it actually were different hosts) does not allow to fetch data across different domains. As I spec [read] Keywords: dblookup
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Automating proximity and location-based computer action with Bluetooth
Wed, Mar 26th 2008 5:49p florian vogler vowe asks for wires and what sense some - if not most - bluetooth devices make.
I find this pretty interesting (better tools for Mac as it seems, here's stuff for Windows)
Ok, walking from the living room to the kitchen and back might not be the best use case for this (especially, if the kitchen isn't far enough to loose the bluetooth connection ^^ - or does it even work with connection quality - I could imagine problems if the workstation is not locked just because you're in the office next d [read] Keywords: mac
, office
, php
Nice: unasked advertisement for panagenda MarvelClient
Wed, Mar 26th 2008 5:02p florian vogler A recent mailing from a German company appears to contain unasked advertisement for panagenda MarvelClient:
You already have a Desktop Management Tool?
Switch to the leading Lotus Notes client management solution.
Ask for a crossgrade.
How nice!
In einer aktuellen Mail-Aussendung eines deutschen Unternehmens wird scheint's ungefragt Werbung für panagenda MarvelClient bzw. iQ.Suite ClientAdmin gemacht.
Das finden wir sehr nett. [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, notes client
, desktop
, php
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Nice: unasked advertisement for panagenda MarvelClient
Wed, Mar 26th 2008 5:02a florian vogler A recent mailing from a German company appears to contain unasked advertisement for panagenda MarvelClient:
You already have a Desktop Management Tool?
Switch to the leading Lotus Notes client management solution.
Ask for a crossgrade.
How nice!
In einer aktuellen Mail-Aussendung eines deutschen Unternehmens wird scheint's ungefragt Werbung für panagenda MarvelClient bzw. iQ.Suite ClientAdmin gemacht.
Das finden wir sehr nett. [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, notes client
, desktop
, php
Automating proximity and location-based computer action with Bluetooth
Wed, Mar 26th 2008 2:49a florian vogler vowe asks for wires and what sense some - if not most - bluetooth devices make.
I find this pretty interesting (better tools for Mac as it seems, here's stuff for Windows)
Ok, walking from the living room to the kitchen and back might not be the best use case for this (especially, if the kitchen isn't far enough to loose the bluetooth connection ^^ - or does it even work with connection quality - I could imagine problems if the workstation is not locked just because you're in the office next d [read] Keywords: mac
, office
, php
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Printing in Adobe Flex ... ?
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 10:51a florian vogler Adobe Flex is a fantastic product, especially for creating (manager's) jaw-dropping reporting dashboards.
I am, however, seriously wondering why Adobe doesn't offer easy print and especially PDF creation from Flex?
There are cool apps out there for somewhat easier printing, like FlexReport, but it's not really nice printing, due to the limitation of having to actually print screenshot bitmaps (try and zoom into the print preview shown ...).
So, Flex is vectors, PDF is vectors - how hard can [read] Keywords:
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Printing in Adobe Flex ... ?
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 10:51a florian vogler Adobe Flex is a fantastic product, especially for creating (manager's) jaw-dropping reporting dashboards.
I am, however, seriously wondering why Adobe doesn't offer easy print and especially PDF creation from Flex?
There are cool apps out there for somewhat easier printing, like FlexReport, but it's not really nice printing, due to the limitation of having to actually print screenshot bitmaps (try and zoom into the print preview shown ...).
So, Flex is vectors, PDF is vectors - how hard can [read] Keywords:
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24 hrs with Flock == FF on steroids ^^
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 10:14a florian vogler After 24 hours with Flock, I can say it's (very) fast and it seems to handle memory well - much better than any other browser I've seen so far (ok, FireFox is doing just as well, but is far from offering what Flock has to offer ...) - I'm very happy so far ... hope it stays that way. [read] Keywords: firefox
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24 hrs with Flock == FF on steroids ^^
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 10:14a florian vogler After 24 hours with Flock, I can say it's (very) fast and it seems to handle memory well - much better than any other browser I've seen so far (ok, FireFox is doing just as well, but is far from offering what Flock has to offer ...) - I'm very happy so far ... hope it stays that way. [read] Keywords: firefox
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Safari == memory hog?
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 12:00p florian vogler Hm ... I switched to Firefox a few days ago as my colleagues kept bothering me ...
Then, in a rendering performance comparison, I saw that Safari was considerably faster and I thought "it'd be cool to have that on the PC, too". To be honest, I wasn't aware that it was available for the PC prior to release 3.1 (was it?) - which was offered with the latest ITunes update the very next day. What a coincident.
Anyway, after I have encountered IE to be a memory hog for years, I was hoping that [read] Keywords: firefox
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Safari == memory hog?
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 12:00p florian vogler Hm ... I switched to Firefox a few days ago as my colleagues kept bothering me ...
Then, in a rendering performance comparison, I saw that Safari was considerably faster and I thought "it'd be cool to have that on the PC, too". To be honest, I wasn't aware that it was available for the PC prior to release 3.1 (was it?) - which was offered with the latest ITunes update the very next day. What a coincident.
Anyway, after I have encountered IE to be a memory hog for years, I was hoping that [read] Keywords: firefox
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Long time, no blog - grand opening of panagenda's Blog
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 10:52a florian vogler I have had significant difficulties to blog continuously in the past - this time shall be different - it just has to be different ...
Thanks to the fantastic Blogsphere template from OpenNTF, it only took me two days to get up and running with this blog. If I had been a little more careful, I would have been up and running yesterday already, but unfortunately ...
Tip of the day: Don't delete all documents from the "Debug\All Documents"-view in your blogsphere database
During initial set [read] Keywords: agent
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Long time, no blog - grand opening of panagenda's Blog
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 10:52a florian vogler I have had significant difficulties to blog continuously in the past - this time shall be different - it just has to be different ...
Thanks to the fantastic Blogsphere template from OpenNTF, it only took me two days to get up and running with this blog. If I had been a little more careful, I would have been up and running yesterday already, but unfortunately ...
Tip of the day: Don't delete all documents from the "Debug\All Documents"-view in your blogsphere database
During initial set [read] Keywords: agent
, designer
, domino
, template
, ajax
, blogSphere
, database
, openntf
