Tutorial 3 - Reading an image from a document into an iPhone app
Thu, Feb 25th 2010 4:24p Simon O'Doherty With the use of the a href=http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.designer.domino.main.doc/H_STYLE_EDITOR_APPLET.htmlRich Text Lite/a field type it is very easy to get an image from a document and display on the iPhone. I have uploaded the a href=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3144643/iphone/Tutorial%203%20-%20Displaying%20an%20image%20from%20a%20Notes%20document..pdfthird tutorial/a. You will have to complete the a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/Simon/ent [read] Keywords: domino
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Tutorial 2 - Connecting to a Domino App from an iPhone App
Sun, Feb 21st 2010 10:31a Simon O'Doherty Following on from my a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/Simon/entry/connecting_to_a_domino_view_with_an_iphone_application?lang=en_usfirst write up/a I have created the second tutorial. It is an extension of the first one. Using an agent it will display the details of the selected document in the view on the iPhone app. You can download the second part as a a href=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3144643/iphone/Tutorial%202%20-%20Connecting%20to%20a%20Domino%20Document%20in%20an%20iPhone%20Applica [read] Keywords: agent
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Connecting to a Domino view with an iPhone application.
Thu, Feb 18th 2010 8:23a Simon O'Doherty I have taken up studying Objective-C for iPhone development. More as a hobby then a business need at this point. For studying Ive been using the a href=http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321670168iPhone Developers cookbook/a. Very easy to follow and well worth reading! br /blockquotebr //blockquoteAs part of the learning process I normally do up small samples and create write ups of my steps (meta-cognition trick). So I will have a few mini-tutorial/walk through posted as I go. If your alread [read] Keywords: domino
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So has anyone started using the Tech Chat yet?
Thu, Jan 28th 2010 4:24a Simon O'Doherty It probably got missed with Lotusphere going on, but there is now a new feature in EMEA support called a href=https://www-919.ibm.com/support/techchatTech Chat/a . when you open a PMR you can sametime chat to the engineer assigned. It also allows you to log into the community and have an engineer ping you if they need you. br /br /Wondering if anyone has used it yet, or plans to?br / [read] Keywords: ibm
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Will the real notes client please stand up
Tue, Nov 17th 2009 4:56p Simon O'Doherty I installed the new Parallels 5 and I am really liking it. The new feature is "Crystal" mode. This allows you to run windows applications like as if they are OSX apps. If you stop using the windows app for a period of time, it will also suspend the VM to let other apps run better. Coming out of suspension is very fast (not like a full VM suspend). Here is an example of the notes client in OSX, Windows and Designer running. Apart from the menu being visible there is not much difference. I [read] Keywords: designer
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Nice little obvious feature for Symphony documents in notes
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 8:56a Simon O'Doherty I am pretty sure this was so obvious, that I am the last person to realise this. I fully switched over to the IBM productivity tools (internal Symphony in Notes). One annoyance for me is finding the documents I am working on. Normally I would have a directory set up for related tasks. But occasionally I will forget to place one in the right place. The "recent files" option in the file menu was great. But that doesn't exist in Notes. So what I have found now is to right click on the tab and s [read] Keywords: ibm
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Restarting your client after a crash without rebooting
Tue, Nov 3rd 2009 11:56a Simon O'Doherty This one goes out to all the Tweeters out there who tend to restart their machine to start up notes after a crash. These steps should work as far back as Notes 6. !! IMPORTANT !! Some IT departments get annoyed if users do things without checking with them first. So if in doubt you should check with your IT guys that is OK to do. Especially if anything below doesn't make any sense to you. Option 1. Open a command prompt (Start menu -> Run -> cmd.exe). Go to the folder where note [read] Keywords: ibm
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Converting my Sametime plugins to 8.5.1
Sun, Nov 1st 2009 3:55p Simon O'Doherty I have a number of plugins I wrote for 7.5.1 which after a couple of weeks with 8.5.1 installed I find I can't live without. So I am currently in the process of upgrading them to 8.5.1. The installation of XPD 6.2.1 and setup went totally without a hitch, thanks to the XPD Wiki. Just starting on the first plugin (which is very simple) converts certain text into a URL. Already bumped into my first annoyance. No code change, yet when I get the text, it converts to the URL fine but then Samet [read] Keywords: ldd
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Faith Calendar in ICS Format
Thu, Oct 15th 2009 7:56a Simon O'Doherty So I am stuck at home at the moment with some kind of virus. The wife has locked out the games on my machine (Her argument is if I am well enough to play games then I well enough to get out of the house). So bored to tears watching TV. :-/ Ed Brill twittered (tweeted?) yesterday looking for a faith based ICS file for a customer. The BBC Website has a nice list of everything. But no ICS format. However you can format the page using greasemonkey to generate the ICS. So I created a script to [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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My first annoyance with 8.5.1
Wed, Oct 7th 2009 3:56a Simon O'Doherty In before the next wave of announcements appear. :) It is funny how the annoyance becomes the habit after a while. I've had to stop myself a few times with this. When I am writing up my table I am so used to doing the following when resizing it. Press CTRL-KSelect "Table" from drop down menuModify cell/table settings. Now through habit I am almost into Point 3 when I realise I can just now resize the table with my mouse. There are probably other feature improvements that I am going to have [read] Keywords:
Wow moment from Swatch.
Mon, Sep 28th 2009 12:56p Simon O'Doherty I got my son Adam (4 1/2) a watch recently to help teach him the time. It was a Swatch Flik-Flak. In the package you also get a cardboard watch picture with moving hands you can attach. He really loves it. However travesty occurred when the cardboard got ripped. He got pretty emotional about it. We went looking on the Swatch website together to try and find the watch poster again to print out. No luck at all. So I fired off an email to their customer support in the hope they would have a PDF. [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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My new twitter logo
Tue, Sep 22nd 2009 6:54a Simon O'Doherty Thought I'd make a QRCode for my twitter logo. Links back to here. Very easy to do. You can get you QRCODE generated at Kaywa . After that the image itself has around 30% redundancy in it. This means you can modify it to some extent. Places to avoid are the 4 marker squares (3 big ones and 1 small in bottom right). Also avoid the data area at the top. After that you can edit it away to put you logo into it. I used Gimp. I would create a new layer, add my logo then scan the QR code to make sure [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Twitter spam: Why Lotus Notes?
Tue, Sep 8th 2009 8:55a Simon O'Doherty I am slowly starting to grow on twitter. It does help in finding people who need help and pointing them in the right direction. Takes a little practise to determine who needs help and who just needs to vent. But the spam is insidious. Not going to post the link although you can find them easy enough with the subject title. But very annoying to see what looks like a glorified Lotus Notes advert spammed by WOMM bots. I really hope we didn't pay for that. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Forced to use 8.5.1
Tue, Sep 8th 2009 8:55a Simon O'Doherty Well forced is a bit harsh. I have been using 8.5.1 for a few months now, but just got a note that everyone is to start using it to help on reporting any issues. So far quite a few switched over and looking good! No complaints yet, more in awe of the speed of the client now. [read] Keywords:
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I got a Sony ereader (PRS-505)
Mon, Aug 31st 2009 5:57a Simon O'Doherty Sitting in front of a screen reading can get tiring, and I never really liked printing stuff out to have to bind it and read. The iTouch screen is too small and my laptops too big. So I got a Sony ereader. The PRS-505. For a lot cheaper then that website. It has been giving me heartache for the last few days but eventually figured out some stuff. The good. The screen is very easy to read and uses almost no battery power when active. PDFs render reasonably ok. It is comfy in the hand. Using [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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It is not always technical.
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 11:57a Simon O'Doherty What separates a call center from a support center is that the former is more focused on just resolving the technical issue. With the support center you need to be more focused on "fixing the customer". Although I hate that term as it kind of implies the customer is broken when this isn't true at all. The best way to explain it is from start to finish of a support call you are offering a service to your customer. You could solve the customers issue to exactly how they want it but they can stil [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Getting the most from Lotus Support.
Thu, Jun 18th 2009 2:03p Simon O'Doherty I thought I'd post up some tips on getting the most out of any support calls you put in. There are probably more then this so if I have missed anything that you find quirkly about support please respond and I will follow up. Read the IBM Support handbook. Pretty much everything is covered in the IBM support handbook to handle any situation you come across. When I started writing this I just found I was reproducing a lot of what is already mentioned there. Define a clear business impact. Gi [read] Keywords: administration
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Google translate needs serious peer review
Thu, Apr 23rd 2009 1:26p Simon O'Doherty Just before heading out this morning I got an IM from my mother in law. Part of the conversation was. 사이먼이 나오니꺼 너무 반가워 The above sentence says "Simon it is a pleasure to see you" My knowledge of Korean is still not that great, so I didn't fully understand the whole conversation she said. So I fired it into Google translate. Really NSFW and left me confused. [read] Keywords: google
Some Lotus Personas
Thu, Apr 16th 2009 3:45p Simon O'Doherty I had a go at making some sample Personas. They are very easy to do. The header image should be 3000x200 pixels and the footer 3000x100. The headers anchor is from the top right and footers from the top left. Here is a sample Connections one. I have uploaded a few different ones. You will have to manually to set them by setting your custom mode on in Personas in the preferences. At least until they show up in the gallery. NotesNotes DesignerConnectionsQuickR [read] Keywords: connections
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Personas
Tue, Apr 14th 2009 2:54p Simon O'Doherty I recently started playing with Personas. This is how UI customization should always be done! What is nice about this is that you can create GUI branding to the browser on the fly. Not sure if you can do it on a site by site basis but that would be cool. Now all we need is a few Lotus ones. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Using extst .. appears to work.
Mon, Apr 13th 2009 7:36a Simon O'Doherty I recently installed Adium and appears to be working quite well. I noticed it has sametime support so I tried it with bleedyellow and EXTST and both work. I don't know anyone who is using bleedyellow server to test it but says I am online. Server: im.bleedyellow.com Port: 1533 User/Pass: bleedyellow login. For extst it appears to allow me to log in using Adium. Apart from it being a holiday today I tried testing and I could not ping people I knew were online. I suspect that there is a physic [read] Keywords: collaboration
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8.5 Designer client on the mac.
Fri, Apr 3rd 2009 6:52a Simon O'Doherty I installed the Mac version of Notes and wasn't too impressed with it. Mainly because I prefer to be able to develop and there is no designer client. So I tried for a laugh to install the windows Domino 8.5 + Full Client. For the VM software I used Parallels and Vista Ultimate. I have the applications running in Confluence mode (so applications look like Mac apps, no window of the vista OS). Installing. - Parallels was very easy to install. - Vista on the other hand was a pain to get it fu [read] Keywords: designer
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First impressions of the mini mac
Mon, Mar 16th 2009 8:54a Simon O'Doherty My Mac arrived Friday and I set it up over the weekend. 1. Setting it up onto the network required almost no work at all. Not to the level that I had to set up a windows machine. 2. Does not recognize my keyboard correctly (Logitech UltraX). The keyboard works fine except for "Insert/Del/Home/End/PgUp/PgDwn". Need to check more into this. 3. The UI takes a little getting used to. the max/min/close buttons are to the right, which if you are using the scroll bar requires more work to get the [read] Keywords: apple
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Next week is Mac induction week for me.
Thu, Mar 12th 2009 11:18a Simon O'Doherty So finally my Mini Mac is shipping. :D Based on the details should arrive next week. So I ordered some books as well. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS XProgramming in Objective-C 2.0 (Developer's Library)Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK I've played a little bit with Objective-C the last week or so using Cygwin + GNUStep. Overall it is easy enough language to learn. I haven't done anything serious in C in well over 15 years, but I suspect if you are a C programmer the syntax di [read] Keywords: development
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Ok so I joined Twitter. Now what?
Thu, Mar 12th 2009 10:55a Simon O'Doherty Actually I joined twitter a long time ago and didn't really see the point. Still don't really. Colm keeps trying to sell it to me. But so far all I know is he likes porridge and bananas for brekfast. I mean I can see some uses for it, keeping up with what is going on with Decs Xpages tutorial is handy but can't see anything else. :/ Maybe I am just too comfy with other Web2.0 technologies. [read] Keywords: xpages bleedyellow
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Mac Mini update
Wed, Mar 4th 2009 4:17a Simon O'Doherty I gave up trying to get OSX set up on windows and just ordered a Mac Mini instead a few days ago. So imagine my annoyance when I see they have upgraded the Mac Mini yesterday. The closest spec appears to be around 100 euros more expensive as well. So I just logged on to cancel my order and get the latest one when I noticed my order had been changed. I am now getting the new Mac Mini for the price of the old one. I checked up on it and I was told because I placed the order during a transitio [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Adding compapps to your designer client.
Tue, Mar 3rd 2009 1:57p Simon O'Doherty If you have been playing with the new 8.5 designer for a while and have been building composite applications you will notice a lot of junk in your perspective list. This isn't actually junk, but a feature where by you can embed composite applications in your designer. There isn't a direct way but here are the steps. 1. Create your composite application and put on the components you want to add to domino designer. 2. Give your page a name you will remember. This will be the name of your per [read] Keywords: composite
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Fun time with Apple sales support
Thu, Feb 19th 2009 7:43a Simon O'Doherty My son is just over 4 years old. I got him a iTouch (mainly because I couldn't get my hands on the Nokia M810. another story). All I had to show him was how to switch on/off get into items. I'm amazed at how quickly he picked it up. So I have a couple of his DVD's on it, some pictures (mainly word association pictures) and some kids games. So what does support have to do with this? Well I thought I might as well try writing some apps for the device. As there are a few games and things in real [read] Keywords: apple
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Write what you know.
Fri, Jan 23rd 2009 9:47a Simon O'Doherty I read almost daily planetlotus.org and numerous blogs. I also read LDD forums infrequently. It really is quite interesting and a buzz to not only see people using a product you work on but also the cool tricks they get up to. So much so I am at a loss to what to blog about. Anything of a technical nature is internal or goes into a technote/wiki. So thought I'd write about what I know and that is level 2 support. so I will do a few posts on common issues to help make your support experience be [read] Keywords: ibm
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Crayon Physics Deluxe
Wed, Jan 14th 2009 12:20p Simon O'Doherty I bought a copy of Crayon Physics Deluxe. A huge improvement on the demo as you can now create axles and strings as well as extra items like rockets. The game is very well polished, a child like feel to it and the music is hypnotic. My son loves it. I don't think my typing can do it justice so here is a video of it in action. [read] Keywords: application
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Going to Lotusphere and have open PMRs?
Mon, Jan 12th 2009 11:27a Simon O'Doherty Thought I'd post this on my blog although it is normally mentioned with open pmrs. If you have an open PMR which is with development you can ask your support engineer if development will be at Lotusphere or if there is someone there to talk on the issue. More often then not we manage to get people paired up with someone who can put their mind at ease and help explain their issue better. So next time your talking to your support contact let them know. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Finally got my rejection letter. :(
Tue, Nov 25th 2008 12:01p Simon O'Doherty Took a while to get it but another event trumped mine. Oh the positive side it means I can relax now for the next two months. :D Still plan to write the information up but I am not under a deadline to do so. [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Triva question
Fri, Nov 14th 2008 12:21p Simon O'Doherty Here is a good puzzle for people. When did the doclink first appear in Notes? [read] Keywords: notes
Jack of Speed to play boom boom
Tue, Oct 28th 2008 1:03p Simon O'Doherty Thought I'd let people know that Jack of Speed are going to be playing in the Boom Boom Room on November 8th. If your in Dublin check them out. One of the guys works in Level 2 support in Dublin. Here is one of their earlier vids. The fade in is intentional in case you think it doesn't sound good at the start. [read] Keywords: application
Doesn't look like windows to me
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 3:27a Simon O'Doherty I got bored with the start bar and the standard windows look so I gave my machine a make over! Had to shrink it down a lot to show it. The bottom left is the running windows on the machine. The bottom right is my most used applications and some widgets (like weather, clock battery). What you can't see is on the left side there is a pop out which shows my system tray. I used Stardocks Object Desktop for this. For the workspace customisation I used the Panagenda MarvelClient. Finally for the th [read] Keywords: notes
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Common regular expressions for Widgets
Thu, Oct 16th 2008 3:04p Simon O'Doherty One of the most powerful features for Notes R8.0.1+ is Widgets. If you are not familar with widgets I recommend checking out the tutorial. However to get the full reach of that feature you do need to know regular expressions. If your a developer that is all well and good, but for your average user it can look very cryptic. So here are a few easy to remember commands. \w = Alphanumeric character (A to Z, a to z, 0 to 9) \W = Not an Alphanumeric character (everything not above) \d = Numeric d [read] Keywords: ibm
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So anyone see any Aliens hanging around?
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 8:24a Simon O'Doherty According to some medium there is supposed to be an influx of Aliens from 14-16th. The funny part of it is that bookies in the UK have suspended bets on Aliens landing. Bookies suspend bets on alien landing
Oct 13 2008
WORRIED bookmakers have stopped taking bets on aliens showing up on Earth.
It follows a flurry of bets amid internet buzz that a massive intergalactic spaceship will appear tomorrow.
Videos and messages on YouTube, blogs and UFO websites are buzzing wit [read] Keywords:
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How not to do support.
Mon, Oct 13th 2008 7:50a Simon O'Doherty When you work in support (at least at level 2) you get the false impression that all support is alike. Case in point that has driven me to insanity. I went to install Racedriver Grid on a new machine I got. However when I went to activate it I get the message that there has been two many activations and that I need to contact support at a certain email address. So I email them and give them my order number and within a minute I get a form mail response which says that in the case of my activ [read] Keywords: email
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T60 Battery issue
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 11:05a Simon O'Doherty For some reason my battery on my T60 dropped to 17% charge and wouldn't charge beyond it. I finally figured out how to fix it though for anyone else with the same issue. 1. Switch on the machine and let the battery drain completely. 2. Unplugged the battery and plugged in again (while machine was off). 3. Let it fully charge. It is now back to normal. [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Abstract submitted
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 9:26a Simon O'Doherty I had meant to post this sooner as I submitted this abstract some time ago. The Abstract is about debugging XPages applications. As support will have to do this anyway it is good to deflect potential PMRs and issues by documenting how to find and resolve common issues that come up. As well what to do if you need to engage supports help. I think I have as much chance as anyone else. :/ The last time I submitted an abstract I got rejected and a developer ended up doing what I had planned to do. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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