I have a cunning plan for the relief of the post Lotusfear anticlimax - particularly for folks like me that can't go!
In the spring of the year what about a Tri-Nation Lotusbeer event. We have English, Scottish and Irish LotusBeers. (Is there a Welsh branch?) so it is only right and proper that we collaborate in some good natured national frolics.
I was thinking something along the lines of a team from each location plus supporters engage in some pub based sporting endeavour, some examples that jump to mind would be...
Darts Snooker Pool Yard of Ale Dominoes (the slam on the table and swear a lot variety not installing servers) Pie / Pickled egg eating
Needless to say a suitable venue would need to be found suitable for all the attendees.
I am willing to run with this on an organizational level cos it sounds like fun.
Oh Joy .. here comes July :-( or "The Joy Of Flags"
Mon, Jun 22nd 2009 6:56p Steve McDonagh I am sat here in my front room watching some chaps who don't live on the estate hang flags on the lamp posts. This is because it is only a couple of weeks until that annual orgy of all things "orange" and "protestant" gets under way. This year there are a lot less flags, mainly due to the fact that when the wee toerags whose appear to communicate in monosyllabic grunts, groin scratching and positioning of a Burberry/Rangers FC baseball cap at varying angles upon their echoingly empty heads, cam [read] Keywords: blogger
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The "YEC " scientific method
Thu, Jun 18th 2009 7:56p Steve McDonagh I recently had a run in with some anti-Darwin YEC (Young Earth Creationists) I am a card carrying "Grumpy Old Atheist Fart" and as I get older my capacity to put up with the tawdry dribbling of the wilful ignorant gets less and less. In a perfect proof of Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies i was sent this "However, the Western nations have not learned the lessons of the horrific wars and genocides this century. Evolution is today entrenched in our universities even more than it was in Nazi German [read] Keywords: blogger
Shock Horror Coding Pencil High level Probe - I am speaking at UKLUG
Fri, Jun 12th 2009 7:59p Steve McDonagh Well it had to come sometime. ILUG, UKLUG, DNUG, Lotusphere all have a long and rich history of excellent speakers covering topics of interest with alacrity, elegance, wit and vigour. Well for an hour during UKLUG on the 8th or 9th of October that is all due to change, for tis on one of those days I will take the stage to deliver with my compadre in arms "Will" Bill Buchan an hours worth of fun filled romping around the world of RIAs. So if you are coming to UKLUG in October , please stop by an [read] Keywords: admin
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Panda Bear - a Boon for Quickr Users from SNAPPS
Fri, Jun 12th 2009 4:57p Steve McDonagh There are dozens of links to this already, however just in case you don't follow the Notes Yellow Blogs.. This is just out from those awfully nice people at SNAPPS Panda Bear which is a nice alternative to the "Quickr Connectors" supplied with Quickr and because it is an ADOBE Air App, much less intrusive when installed on your PC. I was lucky enough to have been using it for a while now, the folks at SNAPPS called it "testing" .. but I managed not to break it, which for me is strange and for P [read] Keywords: notes
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Notes Client Tip - Dragging and Dropping documents into a calendar
Fri, Jun 12th 2009 4:28p Steve McDonagh I was asked today the following question, Why can't we drag a customer from a customer list onto our Customer Visit Calendar and make an appointment with them that way? Good question. We already have that functionality on the web interface. Popup a customer list, select the customer or customers from the list and drag them to the day you want to schedule the visit and it auto creates the document for that customer on the day you dragged the document(s) onto. I sucked my pencil for a bit, scratc [read] Keywords: document
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Be sure to tell your Flash Drives you love them
Mon, Jun 8th 2009 6:51p Steve McDonagh In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive and that beauty is it The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data. So send some love to your 32gb Memory stick right now! [read] Keywords: ibm
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International "NotesBeer'n'Tweetup" Invite Hong Kong
Mon, Jun 8th 2009 12:51p Steve McDonagh I am off on my travels again this month, and I will be in Hong Kong (well Kowloon to be exact) from the 25th June until the 3rd July. So if any local Notesgeeks or allied trades from the Hong Kong/Kowloon area want to get together for a few beers and a bit of a laugh during that time leave a comment here or drop me an email to mcdonaghs[at]utvinernet[dot]com and we can arrange something. [read] Keywords: blogger
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An Alternate way of embedding a configurable Video player in an NSF
Wed, Jun 3rd 2009 7:50p Steve McDonagh I recently came across a nice open source video player that is dead easy to build into your Notes Applications. The player is called FLOWPLAYER and has been released under a GPL license. There are commercial and multi-domain versions which you have to pay for, but the base app is free to build into your apps. You can download it here and once you have the zip file unzipped you have two SWFs and an example directory. I embedded it in my app like this. 01. I embedded FlowPlayer-3.1.1.swf into th [read] Keywords: javascript
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Famous Cousin Andy is Playing WOMAD this year
Fri, May 29th 2009 7:54p Steve McDonagh YEAH .. just got the news that my cousin Andy White is playing WOMAD again this year !!!! KUDOS Cousin!! :-) You da Man! From the WOMAD Site Northern Irish songwriter Andy White plays WOMAD Charlton Park, Sunday July 26, before taking the songwriting strand of the WOMAD Summer School at Bath Spa University, July 27-31. At the festival, Andy will preview his forthcoming album 'Songwriter' (Floating World), on release this September. It's been twenty three years since Andy burst onto the UK mus [read] Keywords: blogger
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Blue Sky Evening in May
Fri, May 29th 2009 6:53p Steve McDonagh DSC00663, originally uploaded by DarkRedSpiral.A Pretentious title for a photo i took on my phone.. and it is just.. well it is just "right" .. well i think so ;-) [read] Keywords: blogger
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BBA - Breeding Bananas for Anguilla
Thu, May 28th 2009 5:53a Steve McDonagh The ravages of the Anguilla Banana Famine continue. I encourage all you folk on the interweb to start breeding Bananas now to ease the suffering [read] Keywords: blogger
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Two Tribes forever at each others throats?
Tue, May 26th 2009 7:54p Steve McDonagh On Sunday a man was murdered not 5 minutes from where I sit writing this post. His wife was beaten, a neighbour a woman several months pregnant who tried to stop the beating was attacked and another man was beaten so badly around the head that he remains in a critical condition in hospital. The reasons why this happened are not clear, however it seems that tensions in the area rose when Glasgow Rangers won the Scottish league. For those of you not familiar with the sectarian nature that surroun [read] Keywords: blogger
Irish Government, The Catholic Church and abuse
Sun, May 24th 2009 12:56p Steve McDonagh There are paragraphs and links in this post that are not easy to read ... In Ireland for decades children were systematically abused, physically , sexually and psychologically by agents of the Catholic Church in Ireland. When they did report the abuse the children were ignored, when the complaints got to great to ignore the church simply moved the nuns, priests and brothers to other parts of the world out of the jurisdiction of the state ... not that they would have done a whole hell of a lot a [read] Keywords: forms
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In priase of everyday software
Sat, May 23rd 2009 8:54a Steve McDonagh Yesterday I was sitting on the bench in our back garden doing what I do best ... very little with a tin of beer. It occurred to me that there is a mindset that values software almost purely on the "OOOO AHHHH" factor it generates. The thought that a computer's installed software base is considered to be a "gallery" of developmental excellence made me cringe a little. When we as developers type into the blank canvas of a new project, we have in our minds eye the finished package and how wonderfu [read] Keywords: application
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Getting grumpy about R'n'B
Thu, May 21st 2009 2:52p Steve McDonagh This is Howling Wolf ... this is R'n'B If you say Mariah Carey is R'n'B I will smother you in honey, tie you to ant hill and make you listen to Nina Simone If you say R. Kelly is R'n'B I will slap you about the head with a large dead mackerel and make you listen to Champion Jack Dupree And if you have the gall to posit that bootee wobbling trollop Beyoncé is R'n'B WELLLLL i shall get really really inventive!!!! SO THERE! [read] Keywords: application
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Wild Garlic, Winkling, Bikes,Beer and other items of mystic significance
Sun, May 17th 2009 4:03p Steve McDonagh Hail assembled geek, nerds and allied trades! OOOO what a weekend! It is Tuesday and I am only now returning to a point of what passes for normality. I look for no sympathy as it was all self inflicted and more importantly it was FUN! Chris Coates was first to arrive on Thursday and after a trip to Portstewart to watch the final practise and have a brisk walk along the prom. He was introduced the culinary joys of Jimmy Lavery's chip van's portions of fish chips and curry sauce. Since we were p [read] Keywords: blogger
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Music that is well worth a listen
Tue, May 12th 2009 7:54p Steve McDonagh If you find yourself feeling a bit down at the mouth because of the credit crunch, the approaching Zombie apocalypse or the perfidy of knitted feet coverings... these too are well worth a listen ... music to chill out to :-) The Kings of Convenience from Norway and Scott Matthews who isn't from Norway :-) [read] Keywords: application
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SOCKS ARE EVIL!
Tue, May 12th 2009 6:53p Steve McDonagh Yes you read that right ... socks are indeed evil. It says much of their devious ways than not many of the human population have noticed the depths of their perfidy! I am sure you have noticed that regardless of the care with which you prepare your laundry at least one sock with mysteriously vanish (and i can hear a choked gurgled "how would he know" issue from the massed female mcdonaghs). BUT IT IS TRUE, socks vanish, it may seem arbitrarily however i can reveal here and now it is a cunning s [read] Keywords: blogger
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Crikey this is frightening - Zombie Celeb DEFCOM 10
Sat, May 9th 2009 2:57p Steve McDonagh This week's competition complete this sentence ... Jodi Marsh ... a) you do not look human any more b) you look like a zombie c) you are auditioning for the part of "the body on the slab" in CSI d) you look like you could eat a banana sideways e) you suddenly have lovely teeth whose are they and wont they mind? [read] Keywords: blogger
More scantimonious dribbling from the Zombies that run the country
Sat, May 9th 2009 10:57a Steve McDonagh It has long been a bone of contention (for me anyway) that Ireland still has a Blasphemy law. Currently, section 13 of the 1961 Defamation Act provides for sanctions, both monetary and prison, where a person might be convicted of publishing a blasphemous libel and this HAS to be enacted since article 40.6.1.i of the Constitution of Ireland imposes an obligation to implement the constitutional offence of blasphemy. Now there is a bit of a debate going on at the moment should we keep it or get rid [read] Keywords: blogger
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Poetry and modern music - is it still there?
Sat, May 9th 2009 9:57a Steve McDonagh I was having a discussion the other day with a chum and we were in full "grumpy old fart" mode over the lack of lyrics like there was in the olde days. However in retrospect having listening to a broad spectrum of music on the iPlod since then there is a surprising amount of inventive lyrics hidden behind the flash band synth and driving beats of modern dance music. Although there are many to choose from, i posit this as one of the best.. from British dance band Faithless ... "We Come 1" All [read] Keywords: blogger
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Interesting Survey from the Pew Group on support for torture
Fri, May 8th 2009 5:56p Steve McDonagh The PEW group recently released the results of a survey done in the USA where they asked this question: Do you think the use of torture against suspected terrorists in order to gain important information can often be justified, sometimes be justified, rarely be justified, or never be justified?" Looking at the figures the of the White Evangelical Protestants 62% said torture was OFTEN or SOMETIMES justified with 5% saying NEVER. At the other end of the scale are "Those that seldom or never atte [read] Keywords: blogger
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NW200 only a week away - any Noterati around join us for some beer and bikes
Fri, May 8th 2009 5:56p Steve McDonagh Well it is only a week away.. this time next week 100,000 -> 150,000 people will either be on their way or will have arrived in Coleraine for the 80th anniversary of the North West 200 road races. The NW200 is one of the premier motorcycling road racing race meetings, along with the Isle of Man TT the Ulster Grand Prix, Manx Grand Prix and Macau The main differences between the NW200 and say the British MotoGP or World Superbikes is that the NW200 is that it is (a) run on public roads and (b [read] Keywords: domino
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Friends Reuinted's mail bots have been smoking aardvark poo!
Tue, May 5th 2009 7:53p Steve McDonagh After well over 18 months of silence .. the robots at Friends Reunited sent me an email and this was in it .... Why not indeed? Well ... [1] I have no fecking clue where Puxley is, somewhere in Englandshire I would imagine. [2] The Coleraine High School was and establishment for young Ladies [3] The Irish Society Primary School was on the other side of the river, and we all know what they get up to over there!. But the last two.. EH? Have they been smoking aardvark poo? Do I look like someone t [read] Keywords: blogger
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Running iNotes 8.5 on a really OLD pc
Tue, May 5th 2009 7:53p Steve McDonagh Just as an experiment to see if it would, and YES I know the OS, Hardware and just about everything is "Not supported" but you can quite happily use iNotes Lite on a Intel P2 350MHz running Windows 98 SE in 192Mb of memory inside IE 6 SP1. It takes about 15-20 secs to load the client post sign-on and between 3-5 seconds to load a 2000+ All Docs view.. and 3-5 secs to load a 3Mb message (no attachments but did have inline images) So there you are... I wonder will it run on Win 95? [read] Keywords: inotes
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Standing on the shoulders of Giants and peeing down the back of their neck
Wed, Apr 29th 2009 11:51a Steve McDonagh Kevin Pettit of LotusGuru.com noticed that some of the Noterati blog postings had been copied and pasted without attribution onto another blog. Now these were straight "copy and paste" ... not re-jigged or added to in anyway, honest to god copy and pretend they are original pieces. Nip over to Kevin's Blog and have a read at the whole story Now we all stand on the shoulders of Giants, some small hairy ones like Bill Buchan and some that have surgically attached baseball hats like Rob McDonagh. [read] Keywords: blogger
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NW200 weekend approaches
Sat, Apr 25th 2009 8:51p Steve McDonagh The Northwest 200 (NW200) is approaching quickly... on the 16th May. One of the last, great motorcycle races run on public roads will be having it's 80th birthday this year on the Coleraine/Portrush/Portstewart circuit. To mark such an auspicious day I am being joined by Messrs Bill Buchan, Chris Coates and Jon V. Silk for a weekend of 200 mph Bikes, beer and perhaps if it stays fine BBQ. Should any local or visiting Noterati that are planning to appear at the races drop me an email and lets se [read] Keywords: blogger
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The Weight Loss, Wallace and Gromit Boxers, Clothes shops and Lingerie Rant
Sat, Apr 25th 2009 12:51p Steve McDonagh During my 2008 annual trip to the doctors I was told "Everything you do is BAD for you ... so STOP IT" as a result of being in the late ultra-violet of my adolescence such prognostications from your local doctor, shamen or wise woman should not be ignored. So to cut a long story short, I reduced my calorific intake from one that when added up on my calculator required it to be expressed with exponentiation (you know ... when that "e" appears in the middle of a big number) to one that only had [read] Keywords: blogger
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Sharing my Javascript toolbox - tiplets
Sat, Apr 25th 2009 11:49a Steve McDonagh In addition to my last post here are two more tiplets from my JS toolbox First additions to the String object that allow you to use left(x) and right(x) just like in LS // **************************************** String.prototype.left = function(n){ if (n this.length) return this; else return this.substring(0,n); } // **************************************** String.prototype.right= function(n){ if (n this.length) return this; else { var iLen = this.length; return this.substring(iLen [read] Keywords: javascript
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Delving into my Javascript toolbox - Date Formatting
Sun, Apr 19th 2009 4:52p Steve McDonagh I was sorting out my Javascript Utilities into some semblance of order over the weekend and I found an extension to the date object that you might find useful. This is one of those things that I use on a daily basis and kinda forget that it is not standard and that other people may find it useful. Basically what I got majorly pissed off having to recode date formatting routines and having to remember things like how to work out the week number in the year given a data. So I exteneded the native [read] Keywords: forms
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Flex for Thick Gits #6 - Populating a list box from a Domino Agent
Mon, Apr 13th 2009 10:54a Steve McDonagh OK we are going to look at a real example. I am assuming you have FLEX BUILDER installed for this.. although you can do it with just the SDK, it is a lot easier if you are in FLEX BUILDER. 01. Fire up your Notes Designer Client and create a new blank application called flexdata.nsf on your developement server. 02. Create a form called mydata and populate it like this The ItemKey is a computed field "Computing on Composed" to @Unique 03. Save your form 04. Create a view called mydataview and [read] Keywords: acl
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Flex for Thick Gits #5 - Getting data from a remote source
Mon, Apr 13th 2009 9:51a Steve McDonagh OK lets get down and dirty and jump to the interesting bit.. how to get data into the app from an external source, like your domino server :-) You do this using the HTTPService class. This inbuilt component allows your app to go to a URL and read the data that the URL returns. Usually (but not always) this will be XML. Once the data is returned you can use it in your app and that is what we will look at today. 1. The HTTPService Object You create the object in MXML all you need to do this is [read] Keywords: agent
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Flex for Thick Gits #4 - Creating a Class
Sun, Apr 12th 2009 7:51p Steve McDonagh OK I was going to talk about the Event Object in more detail in this post however, i realized that I hadn't talked about classes. Now there is neither time nor space to talk in detail about Object Oriented Programming (OOP), so if you don't know what a Class, a Property or a Method is, drop me a line and I will send you some links. ;-) Now in Flex there are some things called Value Objects also called Data Transfer objects and they hold only data related to the object and no data about flex or [read] Keywords: application
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One of our number is doing the Great Wall of China KUDOS!
Sun, Apr 12th 2009 4:50p Steve McDonagh One of our number Ms Eileen Fitzgerald a familiar face to anyone who has attended or spoken at ILUG. Her Clipboard signs such as "Please wind up your session as soon as possible" (*please note Eilleen's signs were shorter and way more pithy i have edited them to save Ms Fitzgerald's blushes). Any old how she is very keen on raising money for good causes. This year she is off on a sponsored walk along the great wall of china not all of it cause it is a wee bit on the very very long side of very l [read] Keywords: ilug
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Flex for Thick Gits #3 - Events what FUN!
Fri, Apr 10th 2009 1:52p Steve McDonagh I am going to assume you folk know what events are and not go into an detailed explanation, Basically one of the great unwashed (or users) does something in your app like clicking on a button and quite rightly that click does something. The "click" is the event and you have written some wonderful code that get processed when the "click" happens. Now the most basic way of doing this is to put the code in the object .. like this OK there are two things here... the first is a LABEL object wh [read] Keywords: application
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Danger Danger Will Robinson! Upgrading to the V8.5 when you have QuickR 8.0.0.2 connectors installed
Wed, Apr 8th 2009 2:51p Steve McDonagh A word of caution for anyone thinking of moving from Notes 8.0.2 client to the new 8.5 client if you have Quickr Connectors installed. This occurred today and I have tried it on two PC's and the same symptoms appeared on both installs. The Enviroment :- OSs: XP Pro & Vista HP Notes Client Before: Notes 8.0.2 Notes Client After: Notes 8.5.0 Quickr Server: 8.0.0.2 Quickr Connectors Before: buildnumber=ORC8.0.1 buildtime=20071002.0115 The Problem :- Post install V8.5 when you try to attach [read] Keywords: document
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Javascript Sorting
Tue, Apr 7th 2009 1:51p Steve McDonagh OK this came up today in a skype chat about browser side sorting of array's returned by AJAX, prior to display on the page. particularly useful if you want the user to have the ability to sort the date in a variety of ways without going back to the server to get it done. The great thing is there is a built in JS method on the ARRAY object that allows you to sort the contents in all sorts of interesting ways. It is relatively simple to do but there are a few GOTCHAs to remember the main one of t [read] Keywords: javascript
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IamLUG Site now open
Tue, Apr 7th 2009 1:51p Steve McDonagh Social Software Guru and Noterati Empissimus Chris Miller has just announced on his site the arrival of the America's User Group Conference IamLUG a new user group conference, the inaugural conference is in St Louis in August this year.. The IamLUG site is up and running and available for Sponsor registration and it will be open for attendee and session speaker registration in the next couple of weeks. So those of you that can't get to the European LUGs get ready to line up and register !!! We [read] Keywords: blogger
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All the dead voices
Sun, Apr 5th 2009 7:49p Steve McDonagh Just finished watching a BBC drama called "Five minutes of heaven" on BBC2 and although it had dark,sombre overtones it has left me more positive about this troubled little country I live in. The drama revolves around two men whose lives intersected briefly in the late 70's when the one of the men murders the other's brother in a sectarian tit-for-tat murder. Now I realise that many of my readers come from outside Northern Ireland and you probably don't know more than what the media has served [read] Keywords: blogger
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I got a new toy this weekend and this is the first output
Sun, Mar 29th 2009 12:57p Steve McDonagh I got a new toy this weekend. It was meant to be for my Birthday which is next week but Amazon were a bit too good at delivering to Ballygobackwards ;-). The Gadget in question is a new Wacom Bamboo MTE450KEN Pen Tablet and of course it had to be de-boxed and tested ... just in case it was faulty and had to go back. I am relatively new to using pen/tablets as user input devices. Some of my chums who are way more into digital graphics than i am swear by Wacom products, having said that they use [read] Keywords: blogger
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Preparing for UKLUG in Edingurgh #2 - Don't use the Socttish version of Vista!
Sun, Mar 29th 2009 10:57a Steve McDonagh It has come to my attention that several people when they heard UKLUG is happening in Edinburgh may have downloaded the Microsoft Vista Haggis Fix and Language pack to immerse themselves in the "Scottish Geek Experience" prior to journeying to the Scottish capital in October. This was very far sighted of you, but may have come as a bit of a shock. If you did download this you may need some help understanding the commands. The Scotland edition may be recognized by looking at the opening screen. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Conditional reasoning - When if - then's get muddled
Sun, Mar 29th 2009 10:00a Steve McDonagh I was having a conversation the other day on conditional reasoning and how bad we IT people can be at using logic in our programming. I was reminded of an example that was put to me when I was at University. This is relatively famous in Maths geeks circles and was put forward by Wason and Johnson-Laird in 1972 to show how poor we really are at reasoning. Four cards are laid out as below: .hide{display: none;}.card{ width: 75px;border: 1px solid #a9a9a9;font-family: tahoma;font-size: 10pt;font-w [read] Keywords: document
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Preparing for UKLUG in Edingurgh - a guide for Sassenachs and non Teuchters
Sat, Mar 28th 2009 1:57p Steve McDonagh UKLUG is approaching, OK it is in October (on the 8th and 9th to be exact) so it is still a small dot on the horizon of the Yellowverse some 194 days away. If you are planning on going I would advise you to get your skates on and apply now, for rumour has it that the places are filling up fast and "wait-listing" is not that far away!! So nip over to http://www.uklug.info now and get your name down as an attendee or for that matter if you feel the urge to share some of your knowledge submit a se [read] Keywords: ilug
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Flex for Thick Gits #2 -MXML is not a Roman Date!
Sat, Mar 28th 2009 10:57a Steve McDonagh Right it is Saturday, there is no rugby worth the watching so what better way to spend the time - lets talk about MXML. MXML is what you right FLEX apps in. (At this point i should mention that an AIR app is just a FLEX app that runs outside the browser using a runtime .. ok?) it is just ordinary common or garden XML that describes the application, once you have written the MXML you compile it and you have your FLEX application. If you use FLEX BUILDER it takes a lot of the pain out of the "pa [read] Keywords: application
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Ando Hiroshige - a mediation for troubled times.
Thu, Mar 26th 2009 9:57p Steve McDonagh We are in the teeth of the fiscal year end, the credit crunch is biting deeper everyday, jobs are evaporating and the world is going to hell in a hand basket, or so we the media tell us endlessly. Is at times like these I visit one of my favourite artists and just let my eyes suck in the marks and splodges they made on paper or canvas. Long ago I gave up trying to understand art, now I look for the meaning I can see and what it means to me at the time I am looking at it. Today was one of those [read] Keywords: blogger
** Hot News** UKLUG is open for registration!
Mon, Mar 23rd 2009 12:58p Steve McDonagh OK Folks in the Yellow Bubble (tm) The UKLUG Website is up and running and looking for folk to sign up as both Attendee's and Speakers. Warren Elsmore blogged about it here and you can rush over to the new sparkly wonderous xPage driven and skillfully crafted by Ideajam's Matt White web site here There is no ILUG this year so attendance places will be in great demand, so i wouldn't leave it to late to book your place! It is all happening on the 8th and 9th of October in Edinburgh, Scotland. I [read] Keywords: ilug
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Arch Harridan Iris Robinson gets off
Fri, Mar 20th 2009 4:54p Steve McDonagh Arch harridan, MLA and wife of the First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly who I have ranted long and hard about in the past got official notification from the cops that "On receipt of the advice of the Public Prosecution Service and considering all of the matters raised, the police service is satisfied that on the occasions considered, Mrs Robinson did not commit an offence," Sorry but WTF?? see here for the story and other links on the Beeb. I don't protest her having the views she [read] Keywords: blogger
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RIA's xpages and Flex
Mon, Mar 16th 2009 9:01p Steve McDonagh I have of late being experimenting with Adobe Flex and xPages in V8.5.0 with a view to creating Rich Internet applications (RIAs). I started with both at roughly the same time and have spent roughly the same amount of effort on both. Now I have to stress I am not an expert in either so this is an opnion based on my experiences to date rather than an indepth exploration of the pros and cons of one or the other. To be fair it is a bit of an "apples" and "oranges" comparison xpages is aimed (at th [read] Keywords: designer
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Tip of the Day- A JS way to create inline images to display from attachments in a Rich Text Field
Mon, Mar 16th 2009 7:40p Steve McDonagh Here is a wee Domino related JS tip. Say you have a RT field into which users can attach files, these will in the natural schemem of things appear as a list of attachments with nice icons to click on. But what if you want to display them but couldn't be arsed coding in the domino bit of the form to get them to display as inline images. 01. Put a DIV tag around your RT field and give it an ID [DominoRTField] 03. Create an empty target [div] to display them in 04. Create a JS function [read] Keywords: document
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Some regex for the new to the Web programmer
Mon, Mar 16th 2009 7:18p Steve McDonagh I was asked today how on a web form you could check to see if an email address was correctly formatted before the form was submitted. Well with the advent of Xpages and the pervasiveness of AJAX frameworks, web pages in the Domino World, like any web faced back end are not exempt from the double requirement of being shiny sexy things that users love AND having functions that can stop users doing the stupid things they always do. The question was posed by a RPG programmer new to the world of the [read] Keywords: document
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Introducing the "Blue Skills" job site for IBMers
Thu, Mar 12th 2009 4:53p Steve McDonagh Okey Dokey.. here is a thing Mr Mooney over at pmooney.net has just blogged a rather interesting prospect. He describes it way better than I will and with a lot less swear words. So take a trip over and have a look see both at Paul's post and at the beta site. Which Kevin Pettitt is currently trying to break. To quote Paul About a year ago, staff in Bluewave/BE Systems were discussing recruitment sites in general. Although mostly positive, the problems associated with them typically centred ar [read] Keywords: domino
The latest Face Book Meme - The Which Mr Men are your friends (or how others see you)
Tue, Mar 3rd 2009 7:56p Steve McDonagh This is doing the rounds on face book at the moment. You get it your mail box and each of the Mr & Miss folk has been tagged by one of your chums with a name they think "goes" with which Mr Man. I have been "The one that gets up to no Good" twice now, and "The grumpy One" once! Which i think is odd .. by inclination i would be "the geek", By appetite i am "the one thats always hungry", I would like to be "The Stylish one" or possibly "The Pimp". But the one that is "Always up to no Good" [read] Keywords: blogger
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Introducing TiddlyWiki (well it was new to me!)
Sun, Mar 1st 2009 7:19p Steve McDonagh All .. i came across this a couple of weeks ago and it tweeked my inner geek. Anything that calls itself "a resuable non-linear personal web notebook" will make me cock an eyebrow and have a bit of an investigate. Pop over to the tiddlywiki site and have a look see. You can view TiddlyWiki files on all major desktop browsers on Windows, Macintosh and Linux and many mobile browsers such as the Apple iPhone and the Nokia 770/N800. You can save from all the major browsers (Sofaree and Oprah users [read] Keywords: apple
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Some thoughts and a riposte to Brett Peters latest post
Wed, Feb 25th 2009 8:13p Steve McDonagh I was directed to Mr Peters' post by it's arrival on PlanetLotus and feeling the need to not let his post pass without comment but not wanting to have one of my rambling responses clogging up his comment section I am going to reply here. Blog Terrorism - I find i have to disagree with Mr Peter's concept that terrorism has at it's core a need to "..cause an establishment to overreact". As most of my teenage years and a large proportion of my adult life have been on the receiving end of terrorism [read] Keywords: ibm
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One of our number needs a wee hand
Sat, Feb 21st 2009 8:54p Steve McDonagh Draw near and open your ears Dominoista's and Noterati for one of our number needs a wee hand with something in her community. Francie Tanner of Udder Chaos and lately of Anguilla, which for those not in the know is a "not very big" island in the Caribbean. Whilst a paradise for goats, cats and transient Notes Bods on their holidays being "not very big" comes with it's own set of problems, not least being a chronic shortage of bananas. The great Anhuillan Banana Shortage is not the problem on [read] Keywords: notes
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Fun things to do with Javascript
Sat, Feb 21st 2009 7:02p Steve McDonagh OK picture this.. you are having an argument with a chum and you suddenly need to convince your colleague that in fact the top news stories on the BBC are all about the creme egg crisis... Pieces of piss Go to the BEEB Paste the line below into your browser Address bar javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0 et Voila you can tweak all the content the way you want.. like this [read] Keywords: document
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Creative profanity (very NSFW)
Fri, Feb 20th 2009 4:05a Steve McDonagh I feel compelled to scribble a few notes in the back wash from the recent brouhaha over at Mr Bynkii's site (I wont link to it, I am sure you have all seen it) Others can and will comment on the whether the sentiments expressed have value or not and I am not joining that particular debate, however having read Mr Bynkii's missive I am left with a feeling of dissatisfaction at the style and particulary poor use of expletive gymnastics he and his fellow travellers used in this post .... where has [read] Keywords: notes
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Creme Eggs - the scandal!
Thu, Feb 19th 2009 7:55p Steve McDonagh Dearest assembled geeks, geekettes and nerds of the associated and allied trades! I am DISGUSTED and outraged at the scandal of the shrinking Creme Egg. As a callow youth I remember creme eggs as being much more substantially sized and only cost 3d (thats 1.5p to you young whipper snappers). This is the situation the world finds itself in yellow and white centred microcosm, the men with Ex-Hell spreadsheets and their pencils neatly arranged on a tidy desk have gradually over the years scrimped [read] Keywords:
Thoughts on 8.5 with 2 Months under the belt
Sun, Feb 15th 2009 5:53p Steve McDonagh [~Off topic~ just noticed this is the 400th blog posting since I started this one. That has to be a milestone and a surprising low one given the levels of gobshitery I aspire too] Back on topic again ... OK I upgraded my development server and home boxes to V8.5 almost as soon as it was available and I could actually get attached to the Passport Adv download site and to date I have been impressed. Which in itself is odd because I am starting to hear people get quite cross with DDE in particular [read] Keywords: designer
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Domino.Doc what IS the way forward?
Sat, Feb 14th 2009 9:40p Steve McDonagh Hmmmmm.. there have been a few post LS posts about Domino.Doc and Version 8.* and to be honest I am confused. Domino.Doc obviously had a limited life as can be seen by the purchase of the Aprix CMS by IBM, which was Domino Based but now appears to have been sucked into Portal. So wither Domino CMS? Ah Ha! you might exclaim , that's where Quickr comes in. Indeed so , but the basic Quickr toolset is not quite as feature full as the old Domino.Doc was particularly in the workflow engine. You may c [read] Keywords: domino
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Painting and thinking about depression.
Sat, Feb 14th 2009 9:20p Steve McDonagh My chum and fellow blogger Rob McDonagh has just posted a very good post on Depression and while I am not a fellow sufferer someone very close to me is, and his post describes almost perfectly what I saw (or possibly what i thought i saw) as the carer for someone suffering the trials and tribulations of an acute depressive episode. I recommend you nip over to his blog and read it. I have never had a depressive episode like the way he describes or like the one I experienced second hand and I ho [read] Keywords: blogger
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Twestival - Twitter's doing something good for the world
Mon, Feb 9th 2009 5:53p Steve McDonagh Ok geeks and non-geeks, twitters and non twitters here is a chance to part of a world wide event,meet the faces you follow, have a bit for craic and raise some cash for a good cause. The TWESTIVAL is on the evening of Thursday the 12th Feb and in 175+ cities around the world, twitteres and their friends are getting together all in the name of charity:water a organisation who recognise that 1.1 billion of our fellow human beings do not have access to clean safe water.. That is around 1 in 6 of u [read] Keywords: email
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25 things that piss me off - The Facebook Anti-Meme
Thu, Feb 5th 2009 6:53p Steve McDonagh I have been tagged several times in the Facebook "25 random things about me" and last night I succumbed and slapped up 25 VERY random things about me, which involved the knicker elastic of Dutch prostitutes, Nuns in my bed and other strange and wonderful things. However being a ranter of some regard I am tempted to start my own meme of "25 things I hate" in the vein of "Room 101" here goes....they are in no particular order just as they come into my head. 01. Flowery Curtains - with or without [read] Keywords: community
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You can have a play with Twimino V0.0.1 if you want
Tue, Feb 3rd 2009 8:00p Steve McDonagh He ho Peeps. If you will that way inclined you can have a play with Twimino V0.0.1 ... it is no where near done yet, I have perhaps worked on it for 3-4 hours so do NOT expect loveliness!!! It all there yet and it is likely full of of bugs.. but it works after a fashion. Thomas's version is slightly different I use the Domino SAX parser and he doesnt (it has to be said his is a good deal more professional than mine, but what the hey ...) The Twitter API is doing something strange with the DM a [read] Keywords: agent
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Twimino Nearly Ready
Mon, Feb 2nd 2009 8:56p Steve McDonagh I got a bit bogged down in another issue so I am not quite there yet. I still need to do a couple of views and enable a click-up menu of options on the friend list for "Tweet At Twit", "DM Twit" etc However the underlying guts is all there now.. sort of. This is what it looks like now in Default view with the OPTIONS bar closed. Your Friend Time line is displayed in the main body part of the screen with unread marks and message threading where possible (some clients don't do replie [read] Keywords: agent
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Twitter in an NSF (...continued)
Sat, Jan 31st 2009 8:52p Steve McDonagh Having had a look at Thomas's Twitter NSF last week. Initially I decided that my own wee app would die a death and I cast it aside. However the TV was that crap this weekend that I fiddled away at it and have moved to a point were 2morrow (hopefully) I will be able to give you my version of the same thing cept mine is called Twimino and looks like this. I don't have avatar pictures in mine (yet) and it still has some idosyncracies to work out but the V0.0.1 very beta beta should be ready for pe [read] Keywords: twitter
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Twitter in an NSF (follow up)
Wed, Jan 28th 2009 7:57p Steve McDonagh Yesterday I posted about my playing with twitter in a NSF, since this fiddling came from a request of "how to read XML from an external URL in LS?" I didn't google or PL twitter and NSF and as a result didn'f find out about a fine little app put together by one of our own Thomas Adrian who hales from Sweden. He has got a really sweet little NSF app has matured to Version 2 and does all that I planned to do. So any of you that are interested take a look at his post here. Kudos Bro! A fine wee a [read] Keywords: google
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Twitter in an NSF
Tue, Jan 27th 2009 7:25p Steve McDonagh Greetings and felicitations peeps and peepettes, In a fit of pique at not being at LS09 and wishing that I could get a decent Twitter client that had a decent search, sorts and message threading also I was asked a question by a virtual colleague about "how to read an XML data stream in LS?" So I threw together some LS at an NSF and "DYMTweetlet" was born. I now have a local NSF that sits and merrily polls my twitter stream every 3 mins if my notes client is up. Stores the tweets in a notes doc [read] Keywords: document
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Bill Buchan's secret anchestry revealed
Fri, Jan 23rd 2009 6:30p Steve McDonagh Much was said this past week about Mr Mooney's Scottish parentage in that he is indeed the skinny love child off our own Mr Buchan, this may or may not be true and is not really anything to do with this post ... I was reviewing the LS09 Flickr stream and I came across this picture .. go look at it now ... i will wait ... the similarity struck me like large lump hammer wrapped in enlightenment.. I knew exactly who bill looked like and had at once to put pen to paper...before the mood went off me. [read] Keywords: document
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Getting a decent floating layout
Tue, Jan 20th 2009 8:56p Steve McDonagh I have been fiddling with a variety of layouts of late and I really wanted a fluid 2 column plus header and footer arrangment, like the one on the left (but not in those colours) And I did not want to involve tables. So I tried I floated things left and right, up and down, in and out, but could not get it just the way I wanted it without going all position: absolute. the maind problem being floating the footer to the bottom. It seemed that the only way to do this was with absolute positioning, [read] Keywords: xpages archive
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Memories of my Father that made me smile
Tue, Jan 20th 2009 7:59p Steve McDonagh My father was a great fan of Gerald Hoffnung, and I came across this the today, which made me smile and brought back memories of a life long ago. There is no video and if you haven't heard the bricklayers lament before.. give it a go... you will enjoy it:-) [read] Keywords: application
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V8.5.0 designer - my first play
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 8:56p Steve McDonagh I have had about 4 hours playing with the v8.5.0 designer client and I could be all serious and professional and say how well it fits the paradigm of a modern designer interface. How the interplay of the various components react together with a synergy that excels even my jaded sensibilities .. on the other hand I could yell ... YIPPEE! and run around the room naked waving my arms like a demeneted dervish. Since I am at home and everyone is in bed i think I will [pause for silliness] Now as yo [read] Keywords: designer
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Tony Hart RIP
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 5:52p Steve McDonagh Hey ho :( Another great has left us to go on life's greatest adventure. "Vision On" then "Take Hart" launched 10s of thousands of young brits off in search of pencils, crayons, sticky back plastic and paints. He launched Morph produced by Aardman who went on to bring us Wallace and Gromit. But for me like many others it was the gallery that will stick in the memory. Particularly for me because one of my pictures was actually shown on it, many many many years ago on Vision on ... Tony ... thank [read] Keywords: application
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Not Going to LS09? Join the proud non-attendee's who are not jealous at all!
Wed, Jan 14th 2009 5:56p Steve McDonagh After a tweet here and a tweet there from some of my chums on twitter it has become clear that we non-attenders are feeling low and jealous as ***k. So if you aren't going and are feeling down, hold you head high cos there are 1,000's of us and we WILL be there vicariously on Twitter and sundry other sites. Lotusphere Non-attendees UNITE! PS Please feel free to steal this image and post it on your site [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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My sepcial "hero" power recognised!!! Yippee!
Wed, Jan 14th 2009 5:56p Steve McDonagh Came into work today to find at the top of my inbox a message from Angela Petrelli no less! At long last my "hero" superpower has been validated! BAH! What good is being able to fly, see the future or travel in time if you can't peel a satsuma in one long bit with no breaks? Expect to see me in the next series as the "citrus-fruit-peeler-man" [read] Keywords:
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Does anyone fancy tweaking the Blog template with me?
Mon, Jan 12th 2009 8:56p Steve McDonagh Ben Poole was having a vent about the lack of movement in the "out of the box" templates over on his blog here. I responded there with an idea that post LS when youse folk are all fired up with enthusiasm that if a couple of us got together we could perhaps put some xpages gloss on the blog template. It would be a learning experience for us all, we could blog about a collaborative development project, how it works and what we are doing and with a nod to professionalism even document our code... [read] Keywords: document
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Do users pay lip service to Collaboration?
Mon, Jan 12th 2009 8:41p Steve McDonagh It is late at night again. I have just finished doing some coding for a work project, which is a nice little collaborative app that should make life easier for the end users that will use it. It is not a Web 2.0 "wunderkind" it is just one of those 1,000's of apps we Domino/Noterati developers make live daily. It will trundle away doing what it does quickly and easily and after a brief period of interita fuelled "do we have to?" Users will get used to it and it will fade into the background noi [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The nature of belly button fluff, the credit crunch and the dissonance of LS envy
Sat, Jan 10th 2009 7:51p Steve McDonagh It's 10 past midnight on a Saturday night, there is a week or so to go until lotusphere. the blogsphere is alive with Version 8.5, the new entry requirements for a visa waiver and all things X-page related. ~sigh~ the lotto once again did not make me financially independent enough to afford the beer bill let alone the air fare. I suppose it is time for one of those gallic shrugs and a darkly muttered "c'est la vie" that my French colleagues are so found of. Anyhow here I sit in the study sippin [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Installing IIS7/php and MySql in under 20 mins on a Vista Home Premium PC
Fri, Jan 2nd 2009 6:56p Steve McDonagh I don't take my position as a Geek lightly I can tell you! When asked "Can I run IIS / PHP / MYSQL on my Vista Home Premium PC?" I must admit that after the bout of laughter induced hiccups had subsided I was intrigued. Could you do it? Personally my php/mysql stuff is all done via an old PIII with 512Mb of memory running Ubuntu Server, Apache PHP and MySql works like a treat too. However the person that wanted to do this has only one box and it is a relatively nice core duo 2gb yadda yadda and [read] Keywords: mysql
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3 Cheers for the Northern Ireland MLA's
Fri, Jan 2nd 2009 6:56p Steve McDonagh That is not something you will hear me say very often! For my foreign readers and MLA is a "Member of the Legislative Assembly". Sort of like an MP in Westminister except their mandate is provided by the voters of Northern Ireland which after 50 odd years of being "run" 100% by the Westminister Parliment having voted for these folk it is nice to see they actually "do" something. What have they have done to deserve my praise? Well they have slashed the price of a medical perscription fro 2009 [read] Keywords:
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The Danger of "Out of Office Messages"
Wed, Dec 31st 2008 6:52p Steve McDonagh Here is the story in full Here is the Picture Fair enuff you may say .. it is a road sign in English and Welsh .. however those eagle eyed taffyophones will notice that the welsh bit reads. "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated" Which is good but not as weird as this sign The welsh bit translates as "bladder inflammation upset" I would SO love to work at a translation center for these things ... can you imagine the fun I could have! [read] Keywords: office
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Drinking Heineken and reading Poetry
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 6:55p Steve McDonagh There are several things in life that are good both inside and out. A nice cold pint of Heineken is one and a good poem is another. Which is why I am combining both at the moment so here is a slug of heineken fueled ee cummings, two lines , 18 words, no punctuation .... GLORIOUS! id rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance [read] Keywords:
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A feline post about misheard lyrics and unremitting tangential waffle
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 6:55p Steve McDonagh This morning I woke bright and early @ 7am mainly because one of the cats Fizz (a big orange very very stupid tomcat) was sitting on my chest and prodding me with a paw, claws out. This is the international cat language for "get up you lazy sod I need to have a pee". In the Feline GTD task list every day is :- 01. Get a human to wake up by the most painful means possible 02. Get said human to open the back door 03. Have pee 04. Go for a wander and see what the feline posse is up to Having succee [read] Keywords:
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6 Months with a Cheap(ish) NAS
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 6:55p Steve McDonagh It is now 5 months since I purchased and powered up my Buffalo Linkstation Live 500GB NAS and to be far it is has been more than man enough for the job. A really neat option is the "one touch direct copy function" that is a means of taking pictures or movies from your digital camera, camcorder and storage device via USB port directly which is a lot easier than having to turn on a PC if you want to drop your Piccies to a drive quickly. Stored data can be shared on your network and a built-in DL [read] Keywords: iphone
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Music I got for Crimble
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 6:55p Steve McDonagh Mike, my sisters partner, seems to have a inherent ability to direct me to music and musicians I have never heard of or are very very new. Every birthday or Xmas he surprises me with yet more sounds that become firm favourites. This year I got from him : Phil Campbell "After the Garden" Phil is a Scottish singer songwriter and "After the Garden" is his second album. Oddly, or perhaps not, there is town called Phil Campbell in Franklin County, Alabama so don't get confused as the town has not w [read] Keywords: notes
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Nature Draws Trees in the Sand
Mon, Dec 29th 2008 6:55p Steve McDonagh Winter rain runoff patterns in the sand mirror the shape of branches of pollarded willows. Well I think so anyway :-) [read] Keywords:
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Turin Trees escape the symmetry
Mon, Dec 29th 2008 6:55p Steve McDonagh This rather startling picture comes from the photo below and has been grey-scaled, rotated and edge enhanced. I don't know about you but there are "things" trying to escape from the symmetry. Things that want to be seen ... Here is the original taken with a Sony Ericsson W810i Phone camera .. it is a place called "the camus" on the River Bann near Coleraine [read] Keywords:
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Merry Christmas one an all!
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 7:19p Steve McDonagh As "eve" slips into "day" with a single tick of the second hand and another day of family and friends is ushered into Ireland with the whisper of clouds moving across the star speckled sky, I am sat here in front of the PC with a coffee clacking a few lines into the blog to all my readers out there. So have fun on the 25th, find your inner child and let he (or she) rip the paper off the pressies. Be cool, be happy and be safe! Merry Christmas All! :-) [read] Keywords:
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The SI unit for cock
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 6:52p Steve McDonagh In our GONADly deliberations at the annual bacchanalian debauch Mr Mooney and I discussed the design and production of a device that will bring world peace, end poverty and solve all the problems people have with Vista ... "The Cockometer" (pronounced Cock-om-eater not Cock-O-meter) However in hindsight we may have been premature because I have contacted NIST and they even came in on Xmas Eve to check for me but there is no SI unit forus to measure Cock on the Cockometer. They did suggest that [read] Keywords: admin
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Twitter "buddies" the proper way to mix Twitter and Beer
Tue, Dec 23rd 2008 7:56p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader Pull up your chairs and partake in the wisdom I am about to offer... Comfy? Good, then I will begin ... Never take a twitter capable device into a bar or party at which strong liquor is about to be consumed UNLESS you have a "Designated Tweeter" with you at all times. The DT (as they will henceforth be know) will have complete control of all TWITTER capable devices for the evening, and all updates will be routed through them and their (hopefully) better judgment. This sage and [read] Keywords: agent
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Pope and Rabid Free Presbyterian Pastor find common ground!
Tue, Dec 23rd 2008 7:56p Steve McDonagh To none Northern Ireland readers this will probably come as a surprise but the rest of the world it may need some explaining.. The Free Presbyterian Church is (or was) run by Rev. Ian Paisley and twas he that in a protest when the last pope spoke to EU called him an Antichrist so no great love lost there. The odious Rev David McIlveen whom I mentioned in a previous post here and the dried up auld bitch Iris "I know someone that can cure homosexuality" Robinson whom I was less than pleasant about [read] Keywords:
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The Lotus Notes Client outside the Organisation - an Idea
Sun, Dec 21st 2008 7:56p Steve McDonagh I was having a bit of a chinwag with several of our Notesian colleagues around the letter published on the HMNL blog by Ian J Free addressed to Steve Mills of the IBM Software group. His open letter presents a case for IBM to transform the Notes.Domino product line into and Open Source, Community Developement Offering. It is an interesting post that makes some challenging points, some of which I agree with other whilst interesting I cannot see either happening or being sucessful were they to be [read] Keywords: domino
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A mediation for the solstice
Sat, Dec 20th 2008 6:55p Steve McDonagh It is the 20th December, tomorrow is the solstice, the shortest day, when the pulse of the world reaches it slowest and then quickens imperceptibly. It is a time when we welcome the comming of the new year by remembering the passage of the old. Hopefully learning from our mistakes and looking forward to the ones we will make in the next 12 months. ;-) This is the mid point in the ancient Celtic quarter of Samhain, traditionally a time when ancestors recent and far removed are remembered. All th [read] Keywords:
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Christmas Drinkies in "The Crown" Monday 22nd 4-9pm
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh Attention all Northern Ireland Bloggers, geeks and allied tradespersons! Should you fancy a few pre-Christmas drinkies and don't mind joining a Coleraine Culshie Geek. I shall be propping up the bar in the Crown Bar, Belfast from about 4pm till around 9ish on Monday 22nd Decemeber, everyone welcome. Come along and lets drown out the credit crunchiness with a few brewski's! [read] Keywords:
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Is the DOM Female? or is the DOM not ready YET?
Sun, Dec 14th 2008 8:49p Steve McDonagh Sorry about the title but I couldn't help it! I am old and very un PC at times, I do try but sometimes (and this is one of them) my old 1970's self slips through. This post and the last one came from an email I received asking for some advice. Not, I hastily add about how long it takes females to get ready (that is a subject for "The Troubled Geek" vidcasts) ;-) but testing for the DOM being ready before doing something. Notes comes with a built in event in FORMs and PAGEs that allows you to ad [read] Keywords: document
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Loading an external JS or CSS file on the fly.
Sun, Dec 14th 2008 8:02p Steve McDonagh OK all you dev's out there are prob used to loading JS or CSS somewhere in your HTML this is generally hard coded and is something like this [head] [script type='text/javascript'm src='loadofstuff.js'][/script] [/head] However there may come a time when you want to bring in a JS file based on some criteria or process that is only resolvable at runtime. Localization for example, you want to bring in a JS file that has your lovely code rendered in glorious Polish or Tagalog or you need to change [read] Keywords: document
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Another wee blast from the past to help you fill your idle time
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 8:56p Steve McDonagh If you like me ever owned an Atari console, or more recently a Nokia phone you will have probably have a game or two of "Snake" well those very nice people at Neave.com have a nice wee flash version for your websites and blogs.. Go on you know you want to! Use the arrow keys to move Pause game – space key or P Mute sound – M Snake made by Neave Games [read] Keywords: application
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The Advertising Standards Authority's response to the offical complaint about "The word of god against Sodomy"
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 7:53p Steve McDonagh Belfast has an annual Gay Pride March which this year attracted 5-8,000 marchers from all over the province and Ireland. Nothing odd about that many cities have similar marches. However this year Rev David Mcilveen and his church the Sandown Free Presbyterian felt they were "obliged under God to publicly challenge the vices of this generation" so they took out a full page ad in a local newspaper "The Newsletter". The 540 word advert was exactly the sort of intolerant bollox that you would expec [read] Keywords: community
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Javascript and Christmas Queues
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 6:52p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader , another JS pearl of wisdom. Today I was writing some code and i needed to use a "stack" to take values in and feed them out one at a time using the "Last In First Out" or LIFO paradigm. Now you could should the urge overtake you go down the C++ or Java route and build all sorts of interesting data structures to do this. However there is an easy way using Arrays, let me explain The javascript array object comes with a couple of interesting methods, namely push(), pop(), shift() [read] Keywords: javascript
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Making javascript remember things
Wed, Dec 10th 2008 6:52p Steve McDonagh OK Geek Post Alert! If you have been following my JS posts you will know that I quite like it as a language .. now there comes a time in most coder's life when they get to a point in some code where they need a global variable and they have that "DUH!" moment and have to scoot back up to the top of their code to define a var in a place that will define it as global... well here is a way around that. There is a global object in JS ... i'm waiting ... that's right Edgerton-Smythe the window obje [read] Keywords: javascript
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The Troubled Geek VidCast Episode 0
Sun, Dec 7th 2008 10:55p Steve McDonagh Gentle readers Into a world populated by wise and wonderful Notes/Domino podcasts comes a new entry.. The Troubled Geek Vidcast! (the "agony aunt" vidcast for geeks) This is being a notes/domino production it is a collaborative project between myself and Francie Tanner-Whitlock were we attempt to answer any question, query or quibble you may have. This is our first go at Vid-Casting so the sound/video is a bit ropey but we are working on that... Anwyay here is the first offering and remember [read] Keywords: domino
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A Saturday Dander around the North Coast
Sat, Dec 6th 2008 6:55p Steve McDonagh Greetings Gentle reader I have just got back from my daily brisk wander and for a bit of a change I popped out to the wee town of Portstewart which is about 4 miles away. It is a pretty wee place and today was bathed in weak December sun that shone from a Cerulean blue sky. It was the sort of day that makes you smile regardless of the crappy week you have had. Wandering around a holiday town in the teeth of winter is an odd experience. The "Portstewart Promenade" is seldom empty at any time [read] Keywords: atlantic
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A Lotusbeer collaborative idea for 2009
Thu, Dec 4th 2008 6:53p Steve McDonagh Calling all LotusBeer'ers in the UK and Ireland. I have a cunning plan for the relief of the post Lotusfear anticlimax - particularly for folks like me that can't go! In the spring of the year what about a Tri-Nation Lotusbeer event. We have English, Scottish and Irish LotusBeers. (Is there a Welsh branch?) so it is only right and proper that we collaborate in some good natured national frolics. I was thinking something along the lines of a team from each location plus supporters engage in so [read] Keywords:
The Agony Auntie Spot - Banana Query
Mon, Dec 1st 2008 7:53p Steve McDonagh Here in Dominoyesmaybe we received this worrying query from an geek in an equatorial clime :- Dear DominoYesMaybe Perhaps you can help me? I have been observing monkeys out of the office window and you seem to an expert in chickens so I have a monkey related question you may be able to help me with. When monkeys fart does it smell of bananas? Perplexed Geek Well Perplexed Geek whilst there are plenty of chickens there are sadly no monkeys in Ireland so I did not feel my expertise was up to a [read] Keywords: office
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The BEST internet advert of all time - Ever!
Mon, Dec 1st 2008 5:52a Steve McDonagh This has to be the best Internet based interactive advert of all time - Upload a document to two phones in Nokia and watch their robots mangle it bloody marvelously weird! and very satisfying on a Monday morning! Thanks to twitbuddy @reivax for the heads up! [read] Keywords: document
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The Agony Aunt Spot -The Thorny Matter of Pointer Size Pressure
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh Dear DominoYesMayBe HELP! I am an iSeries developer and I have a problem with my enormous pointer size. My colleagues giggle behind my back and strangers point and laugh when they see me. I am very depressed. Please help iSeries Geek PS Sienna Millar... why? Dear iSeries Geek Stand proud! Let the world see your 16 byte pointer and let them bask in its teraspaced loveliness. You can be secure in the knowledge that those that laugh, smirk and make your life miserable are in fact suffering fr [read] Keywords:
Two useful tools for IE web devs
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh I was joined by "Wild" Bill Buchan this weekend for a spot of iSeries Geekery, Guinness,champ and Harbour Bar frolicary but more of that later. Whilst Bill was saying "oh my life" and having pointer size issues. I did a couple of wee changes to some CSS on an app that was having IE issues. I am sure you know the type, looks fine in FF, Safari, Opera but goes tits up in IE. Now I have been using 2 wee tools that helps me with such things. Bill had not come either tool and suggested I throw it ou [read] Keywords: javascript
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Interesting Notes Based Application - DOCOVA
Thu, Nov 27th 2008 5:52a Steve McDonagh All Notes-ers I have just had a chat with a Canadian chap Gary Walsh from DLI who have a very interesting product called Docova I must add at this point that this post is not an advert or endorsement! However I did have a few "wow" moments when Gary Demo'ed it for me on Tuesday. It is a Document Management System that is back ended by Notes NSFs and can be accessed thru the Notes Client and from a browser. It comes with a host of interesting bells and whistles and is priced very reasonably and [read] Keywords: document
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I have become to busy to care.
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader , I had a bit of a shock today. It happened when I was listening to one of the podcasts I download weekly. A fine program called "Everyday Ethics" produced by the BBC and available here. It looks at local Northen Ireland and World problems with a Christian perspective but is accessible even for an apostate heathen like myself. One of the articles on this weeks show was "Do journalists believe in poverty" and from this topic came my shock. To precis the questions the article poses [read] Keywords: community
Happy 230th birthday Voltaire from a world that thinks "The Shack" is wonderful literature
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 6:59p Steve McDonagh Ah yes gentle reader sorry for the gap in posts, last weekend was a trip down to watch Ireland get their bottoms slapped by the all blacks and this week was cram packed with work work work and more work. Anyhow - today 21st November is the 230th birthday of one of my heroes, Francois Marie Arouet or as he is more commonly remembered Voltaire. We geeks, nerds and techie nere-do-wells are not known for our philosophical leanings ... well at least when sober. My father introduced me to the scribbl [read] Keywords:
Coding for the Mouse Wheel in Javascript
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh This is quite an esoteric post for those JS heads out there ... how do you code for the user using the mouse wheel? I was working on Name Picker V2.0.0 tonight and one of the "improvements" is that there will be both cursor key and mouse key support on the new format list (which is basically a vertical array of [div]s rather than a select object. Most of the default form objects that support scroll bars will have mouse support. But what about [li] or some interesting nested [div]s or a [table] [read] Keywords: document
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Name Picker V2.0.0 Update
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 7:53p Steve McDonagh Name Picker 2 didn't quite get as much work this weekend as I had planned due to some family commitments but work resumed today with the reformatting of the Name picker Type 1 "Single" was joined with Type 2 "Multiple" formats. These were achieved with the following code myPicker = new NP_object(); myPicker.type=1; myPicker.create(); myPicker = new NP_object(); myPicker.type=2; myPicker.create(); I am no longer using a [select] to hold the found data but I am injecting [div]'s [read] Keywords: document
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Rememberance Sunday
Sun, Nov 9th 2008 7:55p Steve McDonagh It is rememberance sunday here in the UK and on the way to a family gathering in the south of the province and there was a programe on the radio which took my attention. It is 80 years since the end of the The Great War and the show focused on a group that became known as the "war poets". I have never been able to put my finger on why the works of these poets attracted me even when at school when poetry was considered to be a necesary evil within English classes. There is one poem in particual t [read] Keywords:
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Name Picker V2.0.0 started
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 7:53p Steve McDonagh I recently got two messages on OpenNTF informing me that there was a bug in the multiple selection section code of my AJAX Name Picker and after some checking indeed there is! I had made a fairly minor change in a bit of what I was "sure" was unrelated JS and managed to duplicate all the data in an array. So sure was I that it was fine I didn't test all 3 types of name picker ~hangs head in shame~ I really should know better! Anyway, it was a bit of code I wrote back in 2006 and as such it is s [read] Keywords: notes
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ILUG 09 - uniform (Male) beta 0.0.1 created
Wed, Nov 5th 2008 7:53p Steve McDonagh This will be the new face , or bottom half, of the ILUG gentle-person's apparel for 2009. Should you wish to appear at ILUG as a speaker this year you will have to provide your measurements well in advance. So like Wild Bill, Coatsie and myself you might need to think about those extra pounds! The kilt is black leather and will be worn with the prerequisite green polo shirt. The Sporran comes complete with hip flask and spare remote for the projector [read] Keywords: ilug
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The ILUG 09 "fringe" preparation begins
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh Even though ILUG 09 is stil at least 7-8 months away, preparation is everything and at several previous events it has been noted that the local Celtic males did not appear in Kilts. Much thought and research has gone into the reason for this and in order that ILUG become more KILT-friendly we have taken delivery of several kilt friendly seats. Now Wild Bill, Mr Mooney and Myself have no excuse not to startle the ladies and scare dogs that are small enuff to get a good upward glance. [read] Keywords: ilug
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Dominoyesmaybe's new job as an agony aunt for geeks
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh In the current economic climate (oh I am starting to hate that phrase) we are all faced with uncertain times and as of last weekend I have started offering myself as an Agony Aunt for all your geeky angst. No problem is too icky or horrible for the dedicated and professional team of fellow geeks who will give you grounded and well thought out advice. We have so far helped Mr X with his microwaved cheesy bagel problem (melted cheese is SO hard to get out of nylon!) Mr Y with his compulsive admini [read] Keywords: administration
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How to install Ubuntu on XP as a Virtual Machine
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh Ok gentle reader Last night I geeked out and stuck an UBUNTU V8.10 new VM on my thinkpad Now I know that there are a large number of folk out there that know how to do this but there may be those out there who have gone "eh?" every time they hear one of the illuminatii mention that they have this or that as a virtual machine. This was brought up clearly to me when sprog asked me what I was doing and I found out he was unaware that you could do this. So this is a "HOW TO DO" for those of you ou [read] Keywords: desktop
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Of sherry magnets, half hung McNaughton, time travelling cars,faery thorns and a November Walk
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader, It is the weekend again and as I have had rants both last week and the week before I have deliberately had a quiet weekend so that this post will be less acerbic, I probably wont need to use the word F**K at all! It being halloween (Samhain as it is know in the Celtic tradition) and even though I am a big skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, it is best not to press your luck were the faery are concerned. Take John Delorean, he of the "Back to the Future" car fame. Now his [read] Keywords: atlantic
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What annoyed me this weekend - Obama Vs McCain
Sat, Oct 25th 2008 7:58p Steve McDonagh Oh KNOB! I can't avoid it any longer, I have, for the sake of international politeness and Irish/American detante, not made mention of the imminent exercise of electoral manumission in USia. However I have just watched the news and the pointless strutting and posturing that is being beamed onto every TV in the world has incensed me and I am monumentally fucked off with the whole thing. Now I make no bones about my total disrespect for politicians and for the political process. If you follow my [read] Keywords: notes
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Rolls Royce help test US high speed trains - with chickens
Sat, Oct 25th 2008 7:58p Steve McDonagh Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the American engineers. When the gun was fired, the [read] Keywords:
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A Credit Crunch Variation on a 419 Theme
Fri, Oct 24th 2008 5:52a Steve McDonagh I got this in the mail this morning. It is good to see the 419'ers are adapting to the new world where people are out of work, or worried about work, or need extra money. So what so you need right now? Thats right some fecking arsehole of a con-main pretending to be from Virgin and offering you £1500 a month (at least they got the currency right!) [sarcasm]my faith in human nature is restored once again![/sarcasm] Here are the headers Return-path: X-Modus-BlackList: 194.46.8.182=OK;Apollack [read] Keywords: javascript
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The infrequent Dominoyesmaybe Heath and Beauty Tips post
Tue, Oct 21st 2008 8:55p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader Having just discovered that you can get a Bingowingoplasty it must be time for an update on the DYM waistline containment program. As you may know several of the luminaries (and me) of this Yellow Bubble we call home are trying their best to emulate Northern Rock and shed more than a few pounds. We are each doing it in our own ways. Mine is "walking briskly" and scaring the occasional small dog that crosses my path when I am listening to Disturbed on the iPlod. There is nothing q [read] Keywords: iphone
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The British Humanist Society take a stand .. probably.
Tue, Oct 21st 2008 8:55p Steve McDonagh Well this a start I suppose :-) It is almost definitely maybe making a stand what what we probably are sure about sort of. I love the quote frm Christian Voice's spokestwonk Steve Green "Bendy-buses, like atheism, are a danger to the public at large Hey if that is the level of my danger to the public I feel a lot better! I have always been told that I am a "servant of Satan" but it seems I may be a "Servant of Volvo" [read] Keywords:
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The Chums that share my workspace
Mon, Oct 20th 2008 5:53a Steve McDonagh I am sure we all have little friends that live on our desks were we work. So here in a "grumpy old man" annex to the "this-is-where-I-work-picture" meme here are my desk dwelling chums.This is "Pus Bucket" he is my coding geek teddy to whom I swear and cuss when I forget the "new" in Dim Session as NotesUIWorkspace. He can swear fluently in 5 languages (not including teddy bear) and doubles as a ICBM (Inter Cubicle Ballistic Missile) and a guard bear should the need arise and the proles in opera [read] Keywords: facebook
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Drag and Drop Part II
Sun, Oct 19th 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh Further to my post of Friday on drag and drop here is some other thoughts I had when commenting the code than perhaps were not obvious from the previous post. YUI comes complete with a PROXY object which allows you to drag a proxy version of the thing you click on rather than the thing itself. I deliberately didn't use this method because I wanted to maintain the list on the left AFTER the drop had taken place because users may want to drag a customer to more than one date on the calendar and d [read] Keywords: css
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Geeky home made gadgets
Sun, Oct 19th 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader If i were to feel the need to reinforce my claim to "geekdom" i would use this link! This chap is a muso-geek's geek. He makes his own gadgets .. i am so jealous I wish I had the time and expertise to do the same [read] Keywords: application
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A bit of a rant - Faith Healing
Sat, Oct 18th 2008 8:55p Steve McDonagh It has been at least a couple of months since I have had a rant and today I will rectify that as I am monumentally pissed off and I have a feeling I may really "go off on one", so consider this a warning and if rants about religion are not your thing don't read the bit in the box below!. Here we go.. If you are a regular reader of my blog you will know that I sometimes get a bit cross about not so much "religion" but "religious people". My last rant was about a certain MLA (like an MP but a Nor [read] Keywords: agent
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Create a web based Drag and Drop Calendar
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 9:53p Steve McDonagh As part of my "spreading the domnio love" I have for the past year or so been a "yoda" to a Notes Developer who wanted to start branching out into more web based apps. Now in typical DYM form fate does not thrust me an apprentice with whom I can share the odd beer at the weekend. Oh NO! My "Luke Skywalker" lives in Australia! C'est la vie :-) Anyway she asked me the other day how she could make one of her CRM calendar facilities a bit flashier and more modern and I like a fool said "why don't y [read] Keywords: domino
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More Xtreme Parachutes .... LOVELY
Thu, Oct 16th 2008 6:53a Steve McDonagh Well yesterday's query as to the veracity of the parachutist video was answered my my Cuz Paul in the comments.. Your knees would become "ear extensions" after such a jump HOWEVER he did supply this .. a catapult launch.. which I am assured is Pukka!.... I lead such a boring life! B.A.S.E. Jump Catapult | Viral | SPIKE.com [read] Keywords: application
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Joke of the day (American but rather good)
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 5:52a Steve McDonagh A college professor was doing a study testing the senses of first year schoolchildren, using a bowl of Fruit Loops, the cereal with the hole in it.He gave all the children the same kind of loop, one at a time, and asked them to identify them by colour and flavour. The children began to say:'Red............cherry,' 'Yellow.........lemon,''Green..........lime,'Orange.........orange.'Finally the professor gave them all 'honey' loops.After eating them for a few moments none of the children could ide [read] Keywords:
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Interesting Credit Crunch Statistics
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left. If you had purchased $1000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left. If you had purchased United Airlines, you would have nothing left. But, if you had purchased $1000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, and then turned in the cans for recycling, you would have $214.00. Based on the above, the best current investment advice is [read] Keywords:
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Some thoughts as we circle the rim and contemplate the flush.
Sat, Oct 11th 2008 9:02p Steve McDonagh Hey Ho! :( Another Saturday Night® has come and gone leaving me with the uneasy feeling that I am missing something. I have left "The Sprog" off at a local nite club and by the time I was turning the corner to come home he was surrounded by a gaggle of young ladies. Was I ever in that same enviable position? I am sure I would remember if I have been ... wouldn't I? Perhaps my somewhat glum mood is because I live up here around 55º north were the trees are now well on the way to baldness and t [read] Keywords: traveler
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Strange Errors from 8.0.1 when creating a document from another document
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 8:51p Steve McDonagh Today was punctuated by news that the world was broke and the fact that I got the same really strange message twice in the same day from my Notes 8.0.1 client on my laptop. The error in question is "No document found in that direction" and it appeared when I tried to FORWARD a message. Having just returned from my trip to Paris and being a little tired I took the message at it's most simpilist and tried turning the screen thru 90 degrees. However there was not document there either. The first [read] Keywords: document
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** News ** Ferrari Fire Pit Crew
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 8:51p Steve McDonagh The Ferrari F1 team have fired their entire pit crew!. This announcement followed Ferrari's decision to take advantage of the British government's 'Work for the Dole' scheme and employ some Belfast youngsters. The decision to hire them was brought about by a recent documentary on how unemployed youths from West Belfast were able to remove a set of wheels in less than 6 seconds without proper equipment, whereas Ferrari's existing crew could only do it in 8 seconds with millions of pounds [read] Keywords:
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Pictures of workspaces - an Art Project
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 8:51p Steve McDonagh Further to the pictures we have all been posting of our workspaces professional and not as the case may be. If may be interesting to note that my Canadian Cousin, Paul Litherland did a very similar think last year. He is an artist of some renown and specializes in photography. On his last wander around the murky world of McDonaghs, Whites, Pages, Litherlands and other assorted branches of the family tree. He took photo's of our workspaces and plans to present them as a complete work... To quot [read] Keywords:
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My Home Office
Sat, Oct 4th 2008 8:53p Steve McDonagh As it seems there is a generally "showing off" of our our home geekspaces as evidenced by Theo's Blog where he has two lovely pictures of his Home office. I thought I would show the opposite side of the coin so to speak. A. Yeah go PlanetLotus!!! B. O'Reilly (yes really) Definitive Javscript Guide C. Tigger Coffee Mug from yesterday or the day before D. ILUG 2008 shiney thingie E. "Wot do you mean it is bedtime?" verification device F. Celion Dion CD case (i binned the CD in disgust) [read] Keywords: ilug
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Calling any French Notes Geeks around Paris
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh Next week Mon-Thursday I will be in Les Ulis in Paris. Now geography is not my strong suit but I know it is near Massy on the south side of Paris and it is far enough away from CDG airport that it scares the SHIT out of me going all that way on the "peripherique". So if any French Notes Geeks want to get together with an Irish Notes Geek some night next week drop me an email (see the "Getting my attention" section on the left) or Twitter me and lets arrange a time to have a spot of Domino Frate [read] Keywords: domino
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New Blog look 'n Feel
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh Well it is autumn (or fall if you prefer) and as the seasons change so doth my level of "comfyness" with my blog design. Having b**GG*red up the last one and succeeded in totally wrecking it I was pushed into getting out the CSS guide (thanks 2 Duffbert who pulled my name outa the hat during his session at ILUG 08) and I now have a CSS that is perhaps more ... professional. For those of you that are wondering what the spirally shape is called a "triskele" there are plenty of reasons I could giv [read] Keywords: ilug
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Wot I done on my holidays
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 8:51p Steve McDonagh Hello again gentle readers both great and small! I have returned from my holidays, well you will have probably got that already as I have done a couple of post. So there you have it! I am back in god's sod and like all good A+ students I have the "Wot I done on me holly dayz" 500 word essay ready and I am prepared for the start of the new autumn/fall term/semester. Which means I am basically on the wind down to Xmas. Last year our outward journey to the land of Homer and Euclid was a complete F [read] Keywords: google
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LotusBeer Ireland II (now its personal) 26th Sept The Crown Bar Belfast 6pm onwards
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 8:49p Steve McDonagh Ladies gentlegeeks and GONADs all. You are all cordially invited to an evening of quaffing and the sipping of whatever takes your fancy in The Crown Bar Belfast on Friday the 26th September starting around 6pm ish and ending when the beer runs out or the last bus leaves. You don't have to but it would be good to know if you are coming so drop me an email and let me know so we can lay on extra chairs for the chair throwing. Oh and we may have a Keynote drinker this time :-) So if you fancy a f [read] Keywords: email
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the credit crunch (some scarey reading)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 8:47p Steve McDonagh I am going to do a "What I did on my holiday" post in a wee while but this is way more interesting and much, much more scary , even more scary that me in my swimmers! I asked a chum of mine, a geek that works in a bank, to explain to me what all this credit crunchiness was about and some background into what was going on and he sent me this ... The Credit Default Swap was invented a few years ago by a young Cambridge University mathematics graduate, Blythe Masters, hired by J.P. Morgan Chase Ba [read] Keywords: exchange
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Best Taverna Joke 2008
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 8:47p Steve McDonagh In the last 2 weeks I have fraternizing with the nicest people on a totey (small) island in the Aegean called Alonissos (of which more later) much good food was eaten, drink drunk and jokes told. The best by a fairly wide margin was this one.. Ladies, Gentlemen geeks and GONADS let me introduce "The Baptising an Irishman" joke An Irishman, is stumbling through the woods, totally drunk, when he comes upon a preacher baptising people in the river. He proceeds to walk into the water and subsequent [read] Keywords:
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2 Week gap expected cos Im off on my holidays
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 8:00a Steve McDonagh Gentle readers, fellow GONADS in fact everyone. There will now be a gap of 2 weeks where I will fall of the map as The McDonagh annual bachanalian orgy of Kelftiko, ouzo and best of all Mythos Beer is sought out and consumed prob in more than generous amounts. So Coatsie, Millsie and Buchan have a reprieve for the now. I slipped under the 15 stone mark yesterday.. YIPEE I am now offically 14 Stone "something" but that is unlikely to last. I may pass the odd inet cafe on my travels and if I do I [read] Keywords:
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Blackberries (real ones) blossom and Acers (also the real ones)
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 6:31p Steve McDonagh Now here's a thing I was out for my nightly dander this evening and not only are there flowers a blossom in the hedgerows but the blackberries are in full swing.... This is indeed a funny year and no mistake! [read] Keywords:
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Now this is an interesting thing
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 6:20p Steve McDonagh I have been following this story for nearly a year and it seems that there may be movement on this. The Air powered car. TATA the Indian company that released the world's cheapest new car are working with MDI from France to put the "Air car" into production Now the car itself is zero-emission or near as damn it, and topping it up will cost around 50p or $1, it will do 200Km on a tank full with a max speed of around 60mph. A decent compressor and you can fill it at home. Now I am not a dyed in t [read] Keywords:
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A Lazy Dev Tip To Stop M$ LookOut Wrapping Notes Nice long URL links in messages
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 5:09p Steve McDonagh If you have a project that sends mail to those poor benighted souls that use M$ LookOut for their mail and they are suffering from wrapped and snafued URL links. Here is a tip that will allow your link to pass into the lands of the Redmond gnomes unmolested with bugger all fiddling about. Yes I know you have do it with HTML mail, but sometimes life is just to short. Put your URL in quotes like this "" and M$ will leave it be when it arrives. Thanks to a very nice M$ techie Eric for the tip! [read] Keywords: notes
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Getting intimate with Javascript objects part #8 - The Inherited Methods and Properties
Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 6:29p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader, Back to the wonderful geeky world of Javascript , it has been a while since the last post in this series, I do apologise.. here is a link to the thread in case you missed the excitement that was parts 1- 7, In this post I am going to look at the sometimes overlooked methods and properties that come as part an parcel of every object you create in JS. As I mentioned before every object you create is a "child" of the Object class and as such in inherits all the parent's methods and [read] Keywords: javascript
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SPF Finances (France) Choose Notes! Big Win Well done IBM!
Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 5:18a Steve McDonagh I see from my news feed that SPF Finances France choose Notes for their messaging infracstructure. 35,000 bums in 6000 sites..Way to go Lotus!.. For not Franophones here is my appalling translation ... With 35.000 “mailboxes” to deploy from here mid-December, the SPF Finances undoubtedly becomes the largest user of the Lotus Notes transport in our country. It was after having installed 6 years of the electronic letter-boxes to each civil servant (29.000 people) and office (6.000 sites), ...[ [read] Keywords: domino
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Reading a CSV attachment in a server agent on Domino running on an iSeries
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 12:19p Steve McDonagh Oh Gentle readers here is the solution to a bit of a quandary that hit me the other day. We have and agent that runs on a windows machine that reads a CSV sent out as an email by another system (non-domino) to a Domino mail-in database. A Server "On arrival of New Mail" agent runs , detaches the file, opens it , reads it and acts on the data inside the file on a record by record basis. Now this all works a treat on a Windows server, but when we tried to move it to a iSeries the agent just grun [read] Keywords: agent
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Bog Snorkeling 101
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 3:59p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader I was most disappointed to discover early this evening that the ancient and honorable sport of Bog Snorkeling is not more widely known. I suppose I should not really be surprised. Year after year our pleas for inclusion into the summer Olympic Games are met with either a polite "no" or the more usual "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" ~sigh~ but we bog snorkelers are made of stern and hardy stuff and suffer the slings and arrows of a disbelieving public. So for those of you that do not [read] Keywords: application
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An Interesting use of the postopen event of the application
Tue, Aug 19th 2008 3:59p Steve McDonagh I was faced with an interesting programming issue today which was solved with the seldom used PostOpen event that you can find on the database (sorry application). You can find this in the Other section of the application, then the Database Resources and then Database Script . The even is found inside this section and gets triggered immediately the Application has reached a restful state in the UIworkspace. This is an event that in our Org is seldom used, so seldom I thought I would blog [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Useful JS script to get around IE's inability to do getElementsByName properly
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 6:40a Steve McDonagh If you need to use the JS function getElementsName() which works perfectly in all other browsers except that f**king slough of programming despond that is IE. Try this. It basically overrides the getElementsById() function with a new one that unlike the spew in IE, works! if ( /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent) ) { document.getElementsByName=function(str) { str=new String(str); var myMatches=new Array(); var allEls=document.getElementsByTagNam [read] Keywords: document
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Because I don't know about it therefore it doesnt exist
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 4:39p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader I was challenged the other day by a passing "person of faith". In the summer we have have a plethora of missions one of which "New Horizon" had as a guest speaker this year Dr John Lennox Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist. This has had the side effect that we now have "people of faith" who now have a scientist who can be waved at recalcitrant heathens like my self as proof that both god exists and there is a scientist that can prove it. Now I have no great problem with [read] Keywords: google
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Pleasantly Poetic Spam
Tue, Aug 12th 2008 5:43a Steve McDonagh It is not often you get a bit of spam where you look twice this one did. The bot that wrote this deserves a prize for pseudo creativity! You are quite a Mephistopheles, Will--I say it to my sorrow. Would that I were in your place. Would that you were. Fifteen years ago I might have called the chance a magnificent one. [read] Keywords:
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JJOTD (Jolly Jape Of The Day)
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 6:33a Steve McDonagh Oh this is priceless! Somerset council have paired up with IBM in a $400m outsourcing contract. One of their stated, on paper, there in black and white tasks is to understand the use of jargon and acronyms used by IBM. I was once been told by an IBM HW engineer that one of our System 38s "had ceased to be operational because of an AMD failure" "A what?" i replied "An AMD failure" He restated "Woz that?" I asked "An Air Movement Device" He said "Oh you mean a fan" sayz I "No I mean an AMD, Fa [read] Keywords: ibm
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Yellow day Panic!!!
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 7:32p Steve McDonagh Bum bugger blast and shite! It is yellow day tomorrow well today actually (it's 00:08 here) and I don't possess anything that is remotely yellow in colour. To late to panic now i suppose but it does feel like I am letting the side down I may have to resort to pretending to be yellow... hmm or perhaps eat alot of bananas.... bananas oh yeah memories of saturday mornings when my little sisters would be wathcing this lot.... they are not yellow but they have 2 levels of separation from yellowness. [read] Keywords:
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Another SciFi tale of strangness on my other blog
Sat, Aug 9th 2008 6:33p Steve McDonagh I have just written another tale of quarks and large hadron colliders and Ireland on my other blog... if you fancy a quick tale of strangeness you can read it here [read] Keywords:
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Now this is quite odd and it came (sorta) via Ed Brill's site
Sat, Aug 9th 2008 3:22p Steve McDonagh This arrived in my mail today, snuck in under the spam radar so to speak now normally I wouldn't even give this a second thought. But look were they found "my profile". Ed are you running a dating site now? If you are I prefer blondes ;-) Click to make it bigger. PS I KNOW they just harvested my mail address and I should be more careful ;-) [read] Keywords: profile
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Dieting Is Fun - My ARSE! (or Standing on Scales Tension Syndrome)
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 6:19p Steve McDonagh Now I am fairly close to what used to be called a "new man". I am in touch with my feminine side. I cry at some DVD's, I can iron my socks I can throw together a dinner party for 6 on the way home from work. What I am not is one of those men to whom dieting comes naturally or easily. I started on this particular spree of under-indulgence a month ago and the exercise is OK. I didn't go all out mad and join a gym. No %^$&ing chance of that! Too much damp lycra riding up the sheughs of my port [read] Keywords: wiki
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The 10 office commandments
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 7:40a Steve McDonagh Came across this the other day in an email from a chum on the interwebthingie. It is probably so old it has hair whiter than my own. But it was the first time I have seen it and it made me smile. PARTICULARLY VIII! I had to be very nice to stores for my postits so keep your F***ing hands off! I. Thou Shalt Have No Other Life Beside Work II. Thou Shalt Not Download Any Craven Images III. Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of Thy Manager in Vain IV. Remember the Sabbath Day to Work and Keep it wholy [read] Keywords: notes
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GONAD News
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 7:59p Steve McDonagh GONAD has just passed the 100 member mark! We now have members in the following countries America, Anguilla, Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia&Herzegovina,Canada, Czech Rep,Denmark,England,France,Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy,Malaysia,Mongolia,Norway,Portugal,Scotland,Spain and Switzerland. and we have over 100 members! It is with great pleasure that I can let you know that our 100th member was a Honorary Membership afforded after due consideration by a quorum of Worshipful Grand Dragons [read] Keywords: domino
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IIS fronting one of my web servers - Thanks to all who helped!!
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 10:10a Steve McDonagh When Isaac Newton quipped that he was "standing on the shoulders of giants" he was pretty close to the mark when it comes to the Lotus network of folk on the Internet. Ask a question and within the day a problem that had caused me major indigestion and irritability was gone., all because we are a community that takes the time to help each other. This isn't the first time it has happened but each time it does makes me proud to be part of a group that is so open to helping each other! A big Thank [read] Keywords: domino
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Fireman Sam will save the universe at CERN
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 7:30a Steve McDonagh Gentle reader I was browsing TWITTER and came across this link from fellow GONAD Simon Scullion. They are really amazing piccies from the building of the biggest geek toy every made The Large Hadron collider. This will allow men in white coats to play sub atomic "Conkers" with itty bitty pieces of matter! Now the chaps that suck their pencils and do very very hard math assure us they know what they are doing and I am sure they do but when you get this close to the edge of what we as a species kn [read] Keywords: archive
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HELP ! where are the WAS plugins for domino in Version 8.0.1?
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 8:10p Steve McDonagh Any gurus out there lend a hand please. Where have the following gone cos I cant find them on our 8.0.1 servers c:\\data\plugins\plugin-cfg.xml c:\\data\domino\\w32\ has the WAS plugin ceased to be for notes. The reason I ask is we want to run one of the servers behind an IIS server and use it as a front end server on the dangerous outside the firewal and the plugin used to relay the data back and forth to the domino server. Anyone done this any tips traps redbooks etc you can point me at wo [read] Keywords: domino
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GONAD News - More and More countries join the flock.
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 6:09p Steve McDonagh GONADs all be upstanding! We have some new O's to welcome to the fold. India Malaysia Bosnia & Herzegovina Czech Republic Scotland (home of NotesBeer(tm)) Italy Mongolia All now have their Worshipful Grand Dragons! The keyboard has been red hot here in GONAD Central compiling lists and getting Certificates out to new members I do apologize for any delays but the response has been startling! I would also like to welcome associate member Kitty Elsmore who was by popular demand inducted into [read] Keywords: domino
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GONAD Application Processing temporarily suspended
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 4:59a Steve McDonagh To all my GONAD readers that have applied for membership today Monday. I do apologise, your membership will be processed as soon as I get home this evening (I am in the BST time zone). This hiatus is caused by my bosses not allowing me to administer my GONADs during working hours. [read] Keywords: application
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GONAD news and a poll for the brothers and sisters!
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 9:19p Steve McDonagh Here in GONAD central, affectionately known as the "Jock Strap" it has been busy busy busy over the weekend with applications flooding in from all 4 corners of the globe. There are now O's in:- Anguilla Australia Austria Belgium Canada Denmark England France Germany Holland Ireland (both North and South) Norway Portugal Switzerland USA Welcome to GONADs one and welcome GONADS all! It is early days and I am hoping for a O to start in Scotland, one in Wales and one in Italy we can then arrange a [read] Keywords: applications
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The Chronicles of GONAD - The degrees of GONAD
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 3:09p Steve McDonagh I have been asked by the recently joined members what the hierarchy of GONAD is and were they fall in it. Well it is like this. The 3 Sections There are 3 sections to the Order. An OU is the lowest section where the general membership exists and they are grouped together by location. For example I am in the Belfast OU of the Order. OU's cluster together into O's For example the Belfast OU is in the Irish O of the Order. O's then are clustered in the Global GONAD Domain. This can be expressed as [read] Keywords: admin
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I have another wee story over on my t'other blog
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 7:40a Steve McDonagh Just case you haven't noticed :-) I have another blog just for short stories... and I have just posted another one here. This one is about the dangers of pissing of one of the Irish mythological races, the Kelpies. [read] Keywords:
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People who aren't me
Sat, Aug 2nd 2008 6:29p Steve McDonagh AS part of the whiole Cuil nonsense once again I made the mistake of looking for myself I have and I have found a new someone that isn't me .... this is him, he is an "account executive" and younger and better looking than me....(B%^$&*d!) So far I have found (a) A German porn star that looks very very like me, so much so I have been asked for an autograph at the Ocktoberfest. (b) A celebrity chef on the Food Channel in the US one of the "Hearty Boys" (c) A film Star of some note (d) An An [read] Keywords: google
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The Chronicles of GONAD - The begining
Sat, Aug 2nd 2008 5:02p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader now is the time, here on Dominoyesmaybe, to buck the trend and for one of the most secret of secret societies to come out of the closet and take it's rightful place in the world. Unlike Opus Dei, The Illuminati, The Microsoft Discount Hit Teams or even them Dharma project folk of "Lost" members of GONAD have a long, illustrious and coffee filled (or whatever stimulant you choose) history. For too long the good folk of the Geeky Order of Notes Administrator and Developers have hidd [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Calling all Notesy folk - you are entitled to be a GONAD and can join today!
Sat, Aug 2nd 2008 12:10p Steve McDonagh To all of my notes and domino readership you may not know this, but you can become a real and fully accredited member of GONAD (Geeky Order of Notes Admins and Developers) today! You get a lovely certificates of membership! Current Members include me and Paul Mooney and an application has flooded in from Norway no less! Don't be left out become a GONAD today! Drop me a mail to get a personalized Certificate of membership, it is that simple and best of all it's free :-) so become the envy of you [read] Keywords: domino
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First Northern Ireland Notes Beer an unqualified success
Sat, Aug 2nd 2008 10:29a Steve McDonagh Ah now gentle readers it is with very very very quiet keypresses that I type this post! Myself, Mr Paul Mooney, Mr Geoff Higgins were joined by 4 other dedicated notes professionals, who I neglected to ask if it was OK to post about (best to be discrete in case they had said they were "working late" or other subterfuge) The main order of business was the launch of the Northern Ireland lodge of GONAD (the Geeky Order of Notes Admins and Developers). All attendees of the inaugural meeting receiv [read] Keywords: admin
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I have started a new blog for my creative side
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 9:29p Steve McDonagh I have, after much ferkeling and a spot of winkling, decided to get creative on another blog... here. This blog will house my creative stuf paintings, stories, poems and the like. Not that I put that many of those on this DYM, but it should reduce some of the "noise" I create on PL a little. If anyone is interested I have plonked a short SciFic story up there tonight it is very rough and probably derivative but it has Aliens, pulse rifles, Belfast and lots of swearing so prob not "Safe for Work [read] Keywords:
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World trade talks collapse - are we surprised? are we F**K
Tue, Jul 29th 2008 6:29p Steve McDonagh Any chance of the world agreeing what a "fair" global market actually is evaporated as the trade talks in Geneva end in disarray. WTO head, Pascal Lamy confirmed the collapse, which officials have blamed on China, India and the US failing to agree on import rules. The main stumbling block was the fine print which would allow developing countries to protect poor farmers by imposing a tariff on certain goods in the event of a drop in prices or a surge in cheap imports. Seven fecking years and th [read] Keywords:
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A Sametime Tuning Query - Specifically Voice
Mon, Jul 28th 2008 10:53a Steve McDonagh Attention all Sametime guru's! I would greatly appreciate your input on this particular query. We have Sametime Standard running here and whilst the voice in meeting rooms is an order of magnitude better than it was there is still a bit of latency between end of speech and delivery. Is there any way of improving this and allowing "overspeak" when 2 parties speak and the same time and the voices come at the same time? Any input or wisdom of the sages appreciated! :-) [read] Keywords: sametime
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Last Sametime V8.0.1 upgrade woe resolved
Mon, Jul 28th 2008 10:10a Steve McDonagh Recently we upgraded our core ST server to V8.0.1 and thereafter we could not get the other servers in the community to connect. Most of the servers were upgraded and the problem went away but a difficult to get at satellite server remained at version 7.5 and it was resolutley rejected by the other servers. The sametime log showed 28/Jul/08, 20:20:02 Rejecting server 999.999.999.999 - reported security level=0 Now I had come across this before back when we moved from Sametime V6 to V7 and the [read] Keywords: ibm
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Politicans about as useful as chocolate fire guard and 100 time more offensive
Sun, Jul 27th 2008 6:49p Steve McDonagh If you are of a religious bent or enjoy politics this post will prob offend so I wouldn't recommend you don't go any further. Remind me someone, why we actually need politicians? Has anyone worked out what they actually do other that (a) totally F**K things up by accident (b) F**k things up because God told them to or (c) narrowly avoid F**King things up because they were shagging/fellating/handcuffed* to their secretary/prostitute/horse/hand* (*delete as appropriate) at the time. The spark fo [read] Keywords: office
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Getting intimate with Javascript objects part #7 - Really Useful Associative Arrays
Sun, Jul 27th 2008 11:30a Steve McDonagh Sorry about the delay getting this post to press. I have been a wee bit busy. However without further ado lets look at a javascript thingie I think is REALLY useful. You will all be familiar now with the period operator that is used to access the properties of an object. for example myGirlFriend.hair = "Blond (Well the bits you can see)" but you cal also express this as myGirlFriend["hair"] = "Blond (well the bits you can see)". In C,C++ and Java and object can only have a fixed number of pro [read] Keywords: javascript
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Learning how to fish from the masters.
Sun, Jul 27th 2008 10:48a Steve McDonagh There is a old Irish proverb that goes "Listen to the sound of the river and you will catch a fish" Which is what I did yesterday evening but as luck would have it I did very little catching and a lot of looking and listening. The main reason being their was a pod of harbour porpoise teaching some of their youngsters how to herd fish between the piers at the river mouth and then ambush them at speed. Nature has formed these creatures into warm blooded torpedoes capable of amazing turns of speed. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Why I hate i-fecking-phones and it's not what you think
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 6:48p Steve McDonagh Because, gentler reader, to use it in car you have to let go of the wheel with both hands! This is going to be a BIG rant cos I am well passed incandescent and now into the far ultraviolet of annoyance. I make no apologies other than I may slide into rather painful invective from time to time. I was, as is my wont, commuting home from work. Well it is not a real commute per se as I only live 4 miles from work so I suppose "going home" is a better description. As usual I was mounted on my trus [read] Keywords: iphone
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More Pictures from my walks
Mon, Jul 21st 2008 6:33p Steve McDonagh Gentle Reader.. some more piccies courtesy of my trust SonyEricsson Phone (Doesnt the Blackberry take CRAP photos!). Top row left.. This is a Fern , Coleraine could come from and irish expression that means "bend in the river that has lots of ferns" which would be apt because we have a lot of them and this is one. Top Row Right This is down by the river again and was many many years ago a really good spot to catch fish .. ah the nostagla! Middle Row Left This is another good fishing spot when th [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Norn Iron Notes Beer evening Open Invitation Friday 1st August
Mon, Jul 21st 2008 5:31p Steve McDonagh Gentle readers from around the world You are cordially invited to an early evening of beer and geekiosity On Friday the 1st August from 5:30pm ish to well as late as you want. (I have to get the last train home so it will be 9:30 for me) We are assembling in The Crown Bar and everyone is welcome. We are just dipping our toes in the water so to speak so anybody and you dont have to be a domino geek wants to have a pint or two and some convivial conversation come on down. I will be the one in the [read] Keywords: domino
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That delicious moment of anticipation before stepping on the scales
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 9:29a Steve McDonagh Well it is been a week now of (relative) abstemiousnessity (?) and mild is brisk exercise and I came to the point of seeing was it all worth it. So on rising post shower I ensured I was light as I could possibly be (it involved flushing ... if you see what i mean) and I stood on the scales. Closing one eye just in case that helped I glanced down quickly. YEAH! I have lost weight although not the 28lbs I could really do without but 4lbs in 1 week is a good start :-) [read] Keywords:
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Moden Life - The future of terror - a personal apraisal
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 7:08a Steve McDonagh Gentle Reader I was a passed a book of poetry the other day. It has been a long time since a piece of modern poetry made me sit up and take notice. There are a few peots Seamus Heaney, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and even my little sister Janet being exceptions that make me sit up and take notice. This did ... The collection is called "Modern Life" by Matthea Harvey and it is just fantastic .. well i think so ;-) Go to here and have a read of poem Terror if the Future 7 (or listen). Comic-melancholi [read] Keywords:
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Getting intimate with Javascript objects part #5 - Super and Sub Classes
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 4:08p Steve McDonagh Okey Dokey Gentle reader - Most OO languages have an explicit concept of hierarchy within their classes. Every class can have a SUPERCLASS from which it inherits its properties and methods. Also any class can be extended or Subclassed so that the resulting SUBCLASS inherits its behaviour. In Javascript right at the top of the object hierarchy is the Object class, all other classes both supplied and created by you the programmer are subclasses of the Object class. Or if you prefer it arse about [read] Keywords: javascript
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Squirrel - 2 walks in 2 days and with no pub involvement!
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 4:08p Steve McDonagh Squirrel! I have been for another unsolicited walk! Will wonders never cease? Having done the river yesterday it was time for the forest today and a wander around the 3km forest trail at "the trim trail" the car park of which I have to say is a spot best avoided after dark ... "dogging" need I say more? Which is a pity because it is 3 very pleasant trails to tramp around. Now for this apprentice micheline man walking is not an entirely welcome pastime, if i need to be somewhere it is much nicer [read] Keywords: application
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Getting intimate with Javascript objects part #5 - Instance and Class Methods and Properties
Mon, Jul 14th 2008 6:21p Steve McDonagh A while ago I started this thread and in the last post i said that "...tomorrow I will look at Instance Properties,Instance Methods,Class properties and Class methods" Well my only excuse is that I didn't tell you which tomorrow it was going to be. Apologies for the hiatus, I was caught up in other things.... anyway on with the show. Instance properties Every objedct has its own separate copies of its instance properties. Lets say I have this code var StevesGirlfriend = new GirlFriend(); var [read] Keywords: javascript
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Whilst out for a Walk
Mon, Jul 14th 2008 5:46p Steve McDonagh Hey ho! Having fought the good fight against the ciggies for some months now I have fallen prey to the after effects of several months of nibbling. I weighed myself which is really odd for me, but my favorite jeans now required a large amount of breathing in and rolling on the floor swearing to get on. Action needed to be taken! So today, being a public holiday I made the first steps in loosing some weight by (a) not eating and snacking as much and (b) by going for an hour long walk. So I am n [read] Keywords: blogger
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Squirrelling FUTILEs!
Mon, Jul 14th 2008 5:24p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader ... I am home AT LAST! When last I blogged I was waiting for a backup to complete so I could return to Ireland with some important data. However some FUTILEs (F**k Up Travel Irish Leprechaun Like Entity) infected my travel plans. First off the backup took 2 hours longer than expected and went to 4 more 3490's than expected which filled my Knapsack to overflowing. Then I got the Singaporean equivalent of Worzel Gummidge as a taxi driver. Who when encouraged to drive as fast as he c [read] Keywords: ilug
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On the road home
Fri, Jul 11th 2008 7:13a Steve McDonagh It is 6:50pm Singapore time and I am waiting for something to happen so that I can go get a taxi to the airport to catch my flight back to the UK at 11pm. It has been a hectic week of meetings, upgrades, explanations of what a Blog is and how useful they can be (it is ok i didn't use this one as an example) and some long SameTime chats between the US, Europe and Asia. :-) always good when the infrastructure makes our jobs easier! Ah well a 2 hour 12 hour flight a 4 hour wait another 1 hour flig [read] Keywords: sametime
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I had a small lotusbeer event in Singapore
Tue, Jul 8th 2008 10:04p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader, yesterday I arrived in hot and steamy Singapore! Let me say that SGP airport is one of the nicest I have travelled through! The plane touched down at 8:00am and I was out of the airport with bags and in a taxi at 8:25. The immigration lady that stamped my passport even smiled at me! After catching my breath and a few hours ZZZzzzzz.... I met up with Stephan.Wissel local Singaporean Notes Guru and all round nice guy for some Satay,Stingray ,some green stuff which was very nice but [read] Keywords: domino
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Another blogging milestone passed :)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 5:24p Steve McDonagh Yippee! I have just hit 10,000 page views since I started blogging! To all my readers THANKS for reading I hope you have enjoyed the read so far. I do hope I am improving as time progresses then again I am sure you'd tell me if i wasn't [read] Keywords: blogger
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Oh and before I forget - I recommend this as damn good listen
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 1:09p Steve McDonagh Oh, I discovered this chap while watching the Gastonbury festival highlights on the tube. Seth Lakeman - from Cornwall in the south west of England. The land of King Arthur, Merlin and a visious sub-genre of cider called "scrumpy". Now he is officially classed as "folk". I suppose cos he plays the fiddle and has banjoes on his albums but do not dismiss him as "finger-in-the-ear-wailing-and-diddly-dee" music. Keep and open mind and go have a listen to the tracks from his new album "poor man's he [read] Keywords: myspace
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Rites of passage memes - "Buying my first record"
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 12:52p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader, I was reading July's "The Word" and I came across an article about the rite of passage that is buying your first record, cassette,cd or whatever. This being the download generation part of the ritual of being a teenager is now fading fast. That day when you parents relaxed the "you will listen to..." rules and let you take your saved up pocket money or record token down to the local record shop and choose a record by yourself. That first choice was a very important choice, do I b [read] Keywords: wiki
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Sunday - The long dark tea time of the soul
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 10:50a Steve McDonagh Somewhere out there in the vast nothingness of space Somewhere faraway in space and time Staring upward at the gleaming stars in an obsidian sky We stand alone ...but tonite we gonna rock the universe. hey ho gentle reader .. here I am packing for my Singapore trip. Well when I say packing i am actually bouncing around the room like a middle aged pale pink space hopper to the Drum and bass of Pendulum and putting off that nemesis of a good time that is "What socks do i need to take to match my [read] Keywords:
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I am Iron Man - No really I am!
Fri, Jul 4th 2008 6:35a Steve McDonagh Steve IS Iron Man Inventor. Businessman. Genius. Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz Iron Man 95% Spider-Man 90% Catwoman 65% Superman 60% Green Lantern 60% The Flash 40% Robin 30% Wonder Woman 25% Hulk 25% Batman 20% Supergirl 15% [read] Keywords:
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A bit of a dampness problem @ the office
Thu, Jul 3rd 2008 7:48p Steve McDonagh Today it rained. Now not the normal "norn iron" rain this was teenager in a major strop rain. It lasted for about an hour and was the cause of much comment as I and my geeky colleagues looked worriedly out of the window and the car park became a swimming pool. Un-beknownst to us there was a hidden manhole cover under the carpet of the office and as the volume of water increased the capacity of the storm drain below the self same manhole cover to drain became decreased. One of my colleagues call [read] Keywords: document
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This is interesting "9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless"
Wed, Jul 2nd 2008 8:50a Steve McDonagh Got this rather interesting and frankly IMHO very true article from @Pedrorq on twitter .. Thanks bro! I would add a 10th to the list 10. The CIO is a a complete DICK! (I hasten to add I am NOT suggesting that our CIO is a dick, far from it! But if they exhibit 1 or more from the above list then the developer's DICKdar should start to bleep alarmingly!) [read] Keywords: application
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A rant about email subjects or (I'm busy now. Can I ignore you some other time?)
Wed, Jul 2nd 2008 8:02a Steve McDonagh Ok gentle reader ... here I sit with a cup of coffee grasped white knuckled as I compare the steam coming from the coffee and that which is even now venting from my ears! F*****G A*** wipes that send me email! Well to be fair not everyone who sends me email just those that send me email with totally meaningless subjects! To me, the Subject is a preview of what's to come; it helps me decide which messages should be read immediately and which can wait.If you get 50-70 emails a day that can save [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Chris Martin feels the Kharma backlash
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 2:49p Steve McDonagh Archpillock, puckered orifice of musical torture and maestro of both dirge and dribble, Chris Martin felt the sting of the kharmic blacklash as he left a BBC interview after 9 minutes because "he wasn't enjoying himself". Chris what goes around comes around. Publish Post [read] Keywords: javascript
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Welcome to the Event Horizon
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 12:09p Steve McDonagh there are hard times ahead for the people of planet earth staring into the open vortex of space and time their eyes are open but still, they are blind i wander at the edge of the maelstrom and peer over the event horizon all is change, all is flux, all is new my eyes are open but still, i am blind [read] Keywords: blogger
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Adobe Connect Me rather too sexy! Sametime looks rather dowdy :(
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 12:10p Steve McDonagh Just had a play with ConnectMe.. the Flash driven Web Conferencing offering that Adobe are pushing out to the web ... OOOOOO MY! 24 Seconds from Clicking load to opened conference It's slick, dark and sexy. I freely admit to be being one of those people that are impressed by shiny new things. There doesn't appear to be any functional difference with ST 8 It is just WAY more sexy. I Think it best if we do NOT show this to the CIO anytime soon. [read] Keywords: sametime
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Adobe pushes Acrobat into Multimedia
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 11:29a Steve McDonagh Geeky followers here is something to have a play with if you are bored. Adobe9 (currently beta and due for gilding in July) introduces flash integration, portfolios and hosted collaboration services. I used to hate PDF it was "printer monkey" world and I spent long enough there in the early 80's. My dislike a side PDF has become fairly pervasive. Open Office exports documents to PDF, M$ Orrifice does it with a free add on (soon I am told to changed to there as standard) But now your 'umble PDF w [read] Keywords: admin
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The island of Forvik in the Shetlands declares indepenance from the UK
Sun, Jun 29th 2008 3:27p Steve McDonagh Oh I like this... I am going to get an island and declare independenceStuart Hill's claim dates back to a 15th century arrangement between the Norwegian King Christian and King James III of Scotland when the Shetland Islands were effectively pawned to King James in lieu of a marriage dowry. let this be a lesson to you all ... don't give up any islands otherwise in 400 years your islands will be taken over by a chap living in a tent! [read] Keywords:
My Next DIY project is forming
Wed, Jun 25th 2008 6:32p Steve McDonagh I have gotten tired of Chez McDonagh. I have lived here for 25 years. Don't want to move so the only alternate left to me is to dig out the tool belt and get down to some serious home improvement. I have researched this long and hard (20 minutes or so) and I am going to take as a starting point this building which I think makes the right statement about my acceptance of modernity in the face of a mounting desire for whatever was good about the "good old days" Now were did I leave that Black and [read] Keywords:
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Visa ,the credit card people, tap into the Facebook membership
Wed, Jun 25th 2008 6:06p Steve McDonagh I have heard a lot about Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 and how they are going to revolutionize the world of business. There have been a lot of words spoken and hyperbole vomited over geekworld about the $$$'s and £££'s that are going to be made. This is the first I have actually heard were real money is mentioned. It seems Visa is giving away money ($100) if people (US Only) on facebook download some software. Visa and Facebook say they think small companies that receive the advertising credits wil [read] Keywords: enterprise
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On the end of your children's childhood - and having birds shit on you.
Tue, Jun 24th 2008 8:09p Steve McDonagh My son Niall has just had his 18th Birthday (and is remarkably sober well done Niall) for all intents and purposes that is him an adult. Where did the time go? It seems like only yesterday that he and I would be sitting down to roar with laughter at Pingu (his favourite toon) ...Ohhh that is just sooooo good! :-) Good old Neil Gaiman wrote in Sandman ... "It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-w [read] Keywords: application
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Getting intimate with Javascript objects part #4 - Orienting your Objects
Tue, Jun 24th 2008 7:25p Steve McDonagh Ah Hah! Now the going gets interesting - Object-Oriented Javascript! You would think that a language that doesn't have a formal class would have it hard playing with the classic object-oriented languages like C++, Java and (lord help me) C#. Object-Oriented Geeks can be a funny lot and they would have you believe that a "real" object oriented language is strongly typed and supports class based inheritance. As an example of this kind of delusion I give you Ben Poole who spends all day ferkling w [read] Keywords: javascript
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Getting intimate with Javascript objects part #3 - prototypes and verrucaes
Tue, Jun 24th 2008 9:05a Steve McDonagh Gentle reader , have you got your geek waders on because the Javascript puddle we are about to paddle in can get quite deep? Today I am poking "Prototyping" in the eye with a stick and then running away in the hope that you can get an inkling about how Prototyping works so that properties and methods can be "inherited".Prototyping is a prebuilt keyword that simplifies the process of adding custom properties/ methods to all instances of an object. In JavaScript, you're allowed to add custom prope [read] Keywords: javascript
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Getting intimate with Javascript objects part #2 - the modus operandi of methods
Mon, Jun 23rd 2008 4:25p Steve McDonagh OK Gentle reader here we go with part 2 of this thread and tonight we will a closer look at methods. Now this has NOTHING to do with the way an actor analyzes deeply the motivations and emotions of the character in order to personify him or her with psychological realism and emotional authenticity (... och bless isnt he such a LOVEIEE!...) having said that Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, need I say more? ... I digress. JS Objects and their methods. Put bluntly methods do things. They are just [read] Keywords: javascript
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I am putting out a feeler for a Notesbeer evening in Northern Ireland
Sun, Jun 22nd 2008 8:45p Steve McDonagh Gentle readers particularly those in Northern Ireland I was wondering if there is any interest in a purely social (pub 2.0) NotesBeer event in the near future. Admin guru and notes celebrity small person Paul Mooney thinks it is a good idea but just the two of us would be a little lonely. If anyone is interested in a night out somewhere in NI, probably Belfast either reply here or drop me an email at the address in the top right hand side. You don't have to be a notes geek to come, everyone is [read] Keywords: admin
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Getting intimate with Javascript objects part #1
Sun, Jun 22nd 2008 2:21p Steve McDonagh var MyCockTail = new Object(); Gentle reader, This evening I am going to start a series of posts where I will have a little poke around JavaScript objects and Object-Oritented JS in my own weird manner. So for my non-geek readers it is probably best that you leave now - no one will think the worse of you if you do:-) OK let the geeky fiddling and poking begin! Objects are composite data types. There we go, RGQ (Required Geekiness Quotient) achieved, I managed to get the word "composite" shoe-h [read] Keywords: composite
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Back From Myrtle Beach
Sun, Jun 22nd 2008 10:46a Steve McDonagh I have returned from the rather hot , but pleasant environs of Myrtle Beach, USia. Where whilst everything did not according exactly to plan. the general consensus that V8 was "kewl" and ".. when can I have it?". What was purely an application server up until now has been upgraded to V8 and a pilot team of users have been moved from "LookOut" to Notes and are giving it a "good seeing to" (as they say in Norn Iron). So for the only negative comment has been "ohh I can't drag and drop the addresse [read] Keywords: notes
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Any one in South Carolina in the vicinty of Myrtle Beach fancy a NotesBeer (tm) evening?
Fri, Jun 13th 2008 5:09p Steve McDonagh Gentle readers in USia If any of you are native to South Carolina and are nearby to Myrtle Beach next week drop me a line at my email or reply to this post and lets get together for a beer or two :) ILUG has put me in the mood for some more geeky chat, or for that matter any sort of chat. I will be in MYB from tomorrow evening until Friday :-) [read] Keywords: ilug
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Javascript event handling - a quick primer for beginners
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 8:10p Steve McDonagh Ok It has been a while since I had a techie slant to my posts. But this week gave me an excuse to dig deeper into the whys and wherefores associated with the JS event model which to be honest can be somewhat difficult to get your head around. So if you are just new to javascript or have been afraid to wander around in the world of synthesizing events this post may be for you. Heaven knows I am a simple man replete with a complete set of simple pleasures (some of which are only legal in Kentucky [read] Keywords: document
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Adulthood checklist - directed @ my sprog.
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 3:29p Steve McDonagh Okey dokey! Tis nearly time for the McDonagh Sprog to make his way in the world as a newly fledged adult and whether he wants to or not he is gonna get a checklist which he will use from time to time to see how "adult" he is .. and this is it 01. All your houseplants are alive and you can't smoke any of them 02. Having sex in a single bed is out of the question 03. You have more food than beer in the fridge 04. 06:00am is when you get up NOT when you go to bed 05. You start to hear "your" song [read] Keywords:
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BBVAIA (Big Brother Vectored Advanced Information Anxiety)
Wed, Jun 11th 2008 7:57p Steve McDonagh F*&^&!!"ing £$-*&^%x and wil extra $%^&"*ly £&%^$ap! Pardon my language but F**K! let me put my cards on the table, I would rather have a drunk with the shakes shave my testicles with a cut throat razor than watch "Big Brother 9". This, more than any reality TV program is a steaming heap of shite freshly squeezed from the rear pointing sphincter of a dyspesic aarvark. No, you are right I don't like it, and I dont like it a lot! For the next 13 weeks I am destined to obs [read] Keywords: blogger
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ILUG 08 - Graphic Novel - Part 1 The summoning
Wed, Jun 11th 2008 5:25p Steve McDonagh td {border:1px solid #a9a9a9;} Obviously click on the weenies to make them biggies .....and then the geeks started to arrive at hotels, B&Bs. The throb of expectation was as thick in the as the clicking of keys as tweets filled the twiterverse .... ... To be continued [read] Keywords: ilug
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Sneak preview ILUG 08 "the graphic Novel" storyboard
Tue, Jun 10th 2008 4:30p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader ..... ILUG as we are all now well aware is over ~sigh~ However for those of you who couldn't be there or for those of you who missed all the good bits the ILUG 2008 graphic novel is well underway and should be available soon. The story boards are all done and the colouring in has begun ... watch this blog for developments But as a taster here are two of the story boards... [read] Keywords: ilug
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Winkling to replace Replication and Synchronisation
Tue, Jun 10th 2008 8:30a Steve McDonagh T'was at ILUG that Marybeth told us that there was a certain level of confusion vis a vis Replication and Synchroisation cos one was not the other and vice a versa. Now ILUG is in the top 10 of the greatest assemblages of the biggest and best brains in the world. Now when those aforementioned brains come together with Guinness strange synergistic processes are released. It was in one such accidental discharge of genius that Marybeth's problem was resolved by myself and the Chapman Stick welding [read] Keywords: domino
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You may love them or loath them DO NOT ignore them.
Mon, Jun 9th 2008 7:08p Steve McDonagh Let me say two things a) I hate the iPhone - I am middle aged, fat and about as "hip" as a turd in a swimming pool almost by definition I have to hate the bloody thing. If Carrier pigeons were good enough for my father they are good enough for me! Bah Humbug! b) I have signed the petition here so that Apple perhaps takes notice of Domino and if you are a Dominoista I urge you to do the same. Now for those of you surprised by this dicotomy. There is one simple reason I am falling in line and v [read] Keywords: domino
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What Philosophy do you follow?
Mon, Jun 9th 2008 12:30p Steve McDonagh Okey dokey gentle reader...I followed the link over here on Spanky's Place and it came up with the results below. Which came as no great surprise other than it more accurate than I thought it would be. Not only that i was being all existential over on JonVon's blog as we delved the nature of what was real ... What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03) created with QuizFarm.com You scored as ExistentialismYour life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpos [read] Keywords: php
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Blog Birthday on the 6th - a respectably late rendition of Happy Birthday Blog
Sun, Jun 8th 2008 7:26p Steve McDonagh Wah Hey! Me Blog was one year old on the 6th June! I was off being geeky in Dublin so I missed it, however I did bring it a very fetching green foam hat and a nice bag, so it has forgiven me my indiscretion. So without further ado ... here is a wee death metal funk latin disco chorus of that perennial favourite Happy Birthday to my Blog .. Please join in :) Click Here [read] Keywords: blogging
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Find the Notes Guru in the Coffee Beans
Sun, Jun 8th 2008 7:14p Steve McDonagh In this picture of coffee beans there hides a man. The man bears a passing resemblance to either Alan Lepofsky or Ed Brill but that is of little import ... Doctors have concluded that if you find the man in the coffee beans in 3 seconds, the right half of your brain is better developed than most people. If you find the man between 3 seconds and 1 minute, the right half of the brain is developed normally. If you find the man between 1 minute and 3 minutes, then the right half of your brain is fun [read] Keywords: document
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ILUG Music - If you are interested
Sun, Jun 8th 2008 9:12a Steve McDonagh For those of you that weren't there you may want to listen to the mixes that were specially commissioned for the starting session and several of the other ILUG sessions So if you feel that way inclined here they are, see how many voices you recognise in (a) and (c) :- (a) At the opening session (b) At the start of Duffbert's session (c) At the start of Rob Novak's session Several of you will have seen the start of ILUG (The graphic novel) I am pleased to say that after a shaky start this is w [read] Keywords: ilug
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In response to Paul Mooney''s picture of Coatsie's cupboard
Sat, Jun 7th 2008 5:28p Steve McDonagh Paul Mooney posted this picture of Coatsie's cupboard on his blog And as Coatsie is too much of a gentleman to sully himself with a response I feel beholding to do so on his behalf... This is why his cupboards are the way they are.. ** Please be aware clicking on this link does lead both to an explanation and a rather nice picture that would not be suitable for the eyes of minors or those at work ** [read] Keywords: ilug
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ILUG 2008 - Self Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings
Sat, Jun 7th 2008 5:07p Steve McDonagh Gentle Reader This author is recently returned from his second sojourn to the "big smoke" to that wonderfully joyous explosion that is was and will be the annual Irish Lotus User Group conference. The title of this post is a quote from Samuel Johnston that (a) underlines that I can on occasions be both erudite and witty when totally sober and (b) because it is so patently true! I am loathe to pick out any of all the men,women and bunnies involved as they all combined to prove once again that [read] Keywords: composite
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1000hp/ton Ariel Atom 500 - Their First V8 - Ooooo!
Sun, Jun 1st 2008 5:09p Steve McDonagh (Clickon the image for some words cos i am rendered incapable of cogent thought) Want one want one want one want one! Want one want one want one want one! Want one want one want one want one! Want one want one want one want one! Want one want one want one want one! Want one want one want one want one! Want one want one want one want one! Want one want one want one want one! [read] Keywords:
OK ILUG is upon us - all you foreign visitors take heed!
Sat, May 31st 2008 8:29a Steve McDonagh Just checked and it is around 3 days and 20 hours till Mr Mooney's and the rest of the ILUG organizational gang's collective blood pressure will have peaked and the unstoppable force that is ILUG first session will be in full swing. Now this bit is important. Normal packing for Ireland involves anything that is waterproof as are natural state is if now wet, damp. We have two climatic conditions "it is raining" and "it is about to rain". HOWEVER it would appear that we may be blessed with a day [read] Keywords: ilug
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Paint me purple and call me Shirley - I am HOT!
Sat, May 31st 2008 7:47a Steve McDonagh Midday 31 May and up here on the slightly balding pate of "auld mother Ireland" the sun is splitting the trees! According to the sweat-o-meter in the back garden it is 27 and there isn't even enough of a breeze to cool the embarrassment of a young lassie's first kiss . Now don't get me wrong i like a bit of heat as much as the next man but I am a heathen northerner, we aren't genetically programmed for warm, cold is our metier. Yes we many complain vociferously and with much elan about rain, fro [read] Keywords: ilug
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My Worst Jokes of All time
Fri, May 30th 2008 6:01a Steve McDonagh How do you get down off an elephant?... You don’t; you get down off a duck. Or Two men are out shopping for shirts. They stop outside a shirt shop and one of the men points to a rather fine hand made shirt in the window. ‘There’s the one I’d get.’ Just then, the owner- a cyclops- came out and punched him on the nose. Or “Hello there Mr Barman….. (says nothing for 20 seconds) …Could I have a pint of guinness(extra cold of course) please….” “sure, said the (friendly, o [read] Keywords: document
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ILUG2008 Anthem (Celtic Drum and Bass Mix)
Sun, May 25th 2008 9:36p Steve McDonagh This is not the finished Mix.. just a rough draft..... But imagine the opening session.. the crowd is restless ... the lights dim and this starts to play ... Sorry the talking notes samples arent quite there yet ...and the ending of this clips got all cut up ... don't know how that happened and I could'nt be arsed doing a fade out before bed Expect the 5 minute full mix in a day or two. Get a wee sample MP3 here... [read] Keywords: ilug
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This to remember in an Emmergency
Sun, May 25th 2008 9:57a Steve McDonagh Gentle Reader here is a very short post but contains vital information taken from the web site of Her Majesty's Department of Vague Paranoia (HMDVP) If you are involved in any emergency it is important to: Run like hell, particularly if you caused the emergency.Trample all others in your desperate attempt to escape.Loot on the way out. Obvious but it does need to be said. Visit the site for more information vital if you are abducted by aliens or attacked by aliens. [read] Keywords:
How to get a girlfiend if you are a Geek (male) NSFW!!
Sun, May 25th 2008 9:25a Steve McDonagh Gentle reader it is too late for me, my days of being "love's young dream" are long past :( However those awfully nice people over at VideoJug ("Life Explained on film") have very thoughtfully put together this video to help those young turks at the start of their careers ... Niall if you are reading this TAKE NOTES there will be an exam next weekend! How To Get A Girlfriend If You're A Hopeless Nerd [read] Keywords: notes
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News you may have missed #5
Sat, May 24th 2008 4:28p Steve McDonagh Frottage Chic. Freddie Johnson, 49, was arrested in New York City in April, for the 53rd time after he allegedly once again rubbed up against women on crowded trains. (This is technically called Frottaphilia) He is such a menace (a 57-page rap sheet) that a special NYPD detail follows him around, certain that he will re-offend. Shortly after the arrest, the New York Daily News reported that his twin brother, Teddy, is now serving an eight-year sentence in upstate New York for a series of subway [read] Keywords: notes
A plug for a nice wee iSeries tool
Sat, May 24th 2008 3:44p Steve McDonagh I don't do this often however I thought I would give a bit of a plug to an iSeries tool we got years and years ago. I actually runs on our Domino server on WinTel but talks directly to all of our iSeries boxes. The tools is called PDFing This little gem sits and pretends it is a LPD printer which you can set an iSeries OUTQ to point at just like any other IP printer. When a spool file appears on the OUTQ it is sent to PDFing and is converted to a PDF file which can then be emailed directly to yo [read] Keywords: domino
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McDonaghs mentioned in Grand Theft Auto 4 - Fame at last
Thu, May 22nd 2008 3:29p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader-geek. Imagine my surprise when playing GTA 4 when there large as life was "McDonagh's Fish and Chip Resteraunt". Sadly it was closed ... but you can find a crate of molotovs in the alley behind it. I have a vague recollection that I have a distant relative on the design team or if my memory is proving deceptive one of the designers has been to Galway where the world famous McDonagh Resteraunt and there it is in all it's glory in GTA ... I am so Proud! [read] Keywords:
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Getting spammed by a anti-spam company **update**
Thu, May 22nd 2008 5:50a Steve McDonagh Well it seems I was mistaken yesterday in this post. I was not getting spammed by untangle themselves in fact I was not getting spammed at all the problem appears to have been a misconfigured server. To quote Van Patrick from the thread I started on their forum yesterday. ... what is happening is that an Untangle user has their server mis-configured to filter outbound email and then send quarantine notices to the intended recipients for any email that gets blocked as spam. So, somebody at this u [read] Keywords: email
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Getting Spammed by an anti spam company
Wed, May 21st 2008 6:24a Steve McDonagh Go a bunch of emails today from a company called "untangle" ... which claims to be a spam filter which has caught some mail from me and that I should go and check it and release it. A closer look at the "release" and "delete" links show they are pointing at https//10.12.10.11/... addresses. The email header shows it originates from 217.205.42.35 which is registered to Ugam Solutions UK Ltd. which surprise surprise is a marketing company. So here we have what is probably a decent anti spam [read] Keywords: blogger
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Jean Luc Picard's Super Safe Seatbelt
Tue, May 20th 2008 6:37p Steve McDonagh Jean-Luc Picard Or Patrick Stewart if you will has with the Tech Team of Star-Trek developed not the warp drive, not the transporter but something almost as wonderful. [read] Keywords: blogger
A Sunday Evening in May
Sun, May 18th 2008 4:49p Steve McDonagh It was such a lovely evening and next week is probably going to be a female-pitbull-with-PMT I took the opportunity to take the bike out for a bit of a whirl around the Ulster May country side. I took the cam with me to record the cloudless sky. This is my baby, like me a bit long in the tooth but feisty and reliable and wonderful in the country side around here where there are few straight roads and lots and lots of wee twisty ones! (click on the piccies below if you want closer look) As you [read] Keywords: blogger
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ILUG - 08 Jamfest - Volker's Audition
Sun, May 18th 2008 11:25a Steve McDonagh Very rare footage of Volker's audition for the ILUG Jamfest Band (still un-named)= but we have plently to choose from) Volker - Lead Vocals Bruce - Drums Me - Keyboards Julian - Tar's Nathan - Bass Keep an eye out for Paul Mooney in the audience he is trying to remain incomunicado by wearing a darth vader hat. So shall we let him in? [read] Keywords: ilug
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NW200 '08 - a perfect tribute to Robert Dunlop
Sun, May 18th 2008 9:45a Steve McDonagh Yesterday's day of road racing was edged with black as most if not all of the 150,000 spectators and millions of online viewers remembered the racer and the man that was Robert Dunlop. With his death last week the last of the local racers from the 70's and 80's have gone. However the day's racing was of such a caliber that it paid the perfect tribute to those absent friends and heroes of yesterday. The first 250cc race set the tempo for the day. Michael Dunlop, one of Robert' sons elected that [read] Keywords:
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LotusScrript classes for Symphony?
Sun, May 18th 2008 9:04a Steve McDonagh Simple question - Where are the classes for manipulating Symphony docs from Notes and vice a versa. For the life of me I can't find any mention of them and I am sure there must be, why have a "Office Beating" family of products that can't talk to one another? [read] Keywords: notes
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Are ue locked in a delusional pattern of cruel fantasy?
Thu, May 15th 2008 7:45p Steve McDonagh Not my words but those of philosopher John Gray in "Black Mass" his latest book. I must admit I am starting to like these "talking heads" books I used to run a mile from opinion based literature, generally because it wasn't my opinion and lets face it whose else's matters. :) As Martin Amis recently put it "Opposition to religion [currently] occupies the high ground, intellectually and morally" most famously in the Dawkin's Polemic "The God Delusion" and the self-abusing secular banality of Hut [read] Keywords: beehive
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It's North West 200 Motorcycle Races Weekend YIPEE!
Thu, May 15th 2008 6:45p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader. I may have mentioned it before , but if it has slipped under your radar I am a bit of a motorcycle nut. I ride them, I lust after them and I enjoy watching them go very very fast. Which is a good thing because every May around the roads between Coleraine, Portrush and Portstewart the local Motor club runs the world famouse North west 200 races. Tonite was the last practise night and a lovely evening it was too, sun, light breezes an almost perfect night. However it was marred by [read] Keywords:
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Rhubarb and Custard - Nostaglia
Tue, May 13th 2008 7:05p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader, Twas just this evening I was have a postprandial peruse of twitter when i cam across @MattandJess and @Phigment reminiscing about kiddies shows from the past.. and all at once I was transported to that magical time in the 70's when there was nothing finer that retiring to the student flat after a hard day spent avoiding learning anything of note. Armed with nothing more than a selection of the Indian subcontinent's finest and hottest consumables and a 6 pack of Theakston's Old Pec [read] Keywords: application
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Getting back to the URL you where at when you opened a document.
Mon, May 12th 2008 2:03p Steve McDonagh I was explaining this to a junior dev today and thought i would pass it on. If you have a Web App with one form but 3 views and the document can be opened from any one of the 3 views. How do you get back to the view you where at when you opened the document in the first place? There are several ways of doing this, this is mine and it uses a session cookie in the browser to do it. First you need some cookie handling JS in your form or external JS file, Something like this. function createCoo [read] Keywords: agent
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HTML Check Boxes values when Disabled by Javascript clear themselves when saved
Mon, May 12th 2008 1:48p Steve McDonagh Caught this one today. You have a check box on a form For one reason or another you use the JS document.forms[0].myCheckBox.disabled = true; to stop users changing it on the form. However if you then SAVE the form back to the Domino server with the disabled status of the field still set to TRUE. Any values the checkbox had will disappear and the field will saved as empty! This does not happen with RADIO , TEXT and TEXTAREA elements. The only affected one appears to be CHECKBOX. I came across [read] Keywords: document
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A very rare platypus joke
Sun, May 11th 2008 3:09p Steve McDonagh Just heard on the "News Quiz" BBC Radio 4 .... Q: How do you turn a platypus into a R&B singer? A: Stick it in the microwave until it's Bill Withers .... HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh My ~ wipes tear from eye ~ [read] Keywords:
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
Sun, May 11th 2008 7:44a Steve McDonagh I was passed this by a USian chum.. and I am surprised who easy it would be to change the names and it would be just as grin inducing if I changed the names to Irish Politicians and celebs ... the world is a small place and an eejit is an eejit no mater where they hale from. BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE! JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and di [read] Keywords:
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Domino Blogger Band - Update
Sat, May 10th 2008 7:04a Steve McDonagh OK - Thanks to all that participated ! and here was me thinking I was the one with the mega weird mind ! :-) and here is a list of the suggestions to date ... If any one has any more let me know and then i think I feel a poll coming on. Flatulent Apocalypse Eclipse and the Sluggish Loaders The Object Variable Not Set The BS (The Bloggers System) Twistie and the Views Notes Liberation Front Graceful degradation Occular Love Pocket Twicky Wicked Yellows Bleed Yellow General Failure Empty Trash Ch [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino Blogger Band Name required - Apply below
Thu, May 8th 2008 7:28p Steve McDonagh Ok here is a wee one ... I am sure there are enuff musos out there for us to be able to front up not only a band but a small orchestra at one of the LOTUS functions, ILUG LS, UKLUG etc .. I am sure we would have no end to the volunteers for such an undertaking. However what would the band be called? "Accidental Goat Sodomy" is quite good but rather too expressive i fear "Bunchoffeckingeeks" is rather too apt. "Flatulent Apocalypse" - Hmmmmmm perhaps if we want a metal edge "Eclipse and the [read] Keywords: domino
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Another Reason that the 8.0.1 eclipse client starts mysteriously in basic mode
Thu, May 8th 2008 6:46p Steve McDonagh Caught today after a large amounts of head scratching. 2PCs exactly the same hardware spec and OS (Win2K) had Notes 8.0.1 Standard installed One client no problem everything widgety and marvelous The other.. well .. euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! We discovered that one PC had a JVM installed the other didn't. It wasn't an old JVM there just wasn't one. It had been de-installed somewhere along the line. Now it would have been nice if the client install had mentioned this as an issue when i [read] Keywords: notes
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The tao of SQL Injection exploits
Thu, May 8th 2008 6:13p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader I have often succumbed to large doses of smugness from time to time when it comes to Microsquishy products and their propensity to attract script kiddies and their evil ware. However over the past to days (oh whisper it please) I have found myself somewhat sorry for MS and all its doings. Were you to cut me in half you would see Yellow thru and thru however there are bits of me that have dabbled in the world of PHP, RPG/CL, PERLE and SQL. So it was because of this experience I was [read] Keywords: connections
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An Ode to Server Problems
Wed, May 7th 2008 4:28p Steve McDonagh An Ode to Server Problems (with a nod to Dr Seuss and a Wink at Duffbert)If your code hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your Initialize() abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!It's not my code, it's tested, its wonderful and it's fine, debugged to distraction, of this bug there is no sign, I've showed it to the Phigment who thinks it needs a tweek, A change here, a comma there is the so [read] Keywords: bug
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Indian Tech Support
Wed, May 7th 2008 5:45a Steve McDonagh When you make a call to your ISP's Tech Support and you are put thru to Sanjit or Rashid in Bangalore spare a thought for the poor techies that support them! It is well worth clicking on the picture to see it full size to get the "full" effect ...OOOO I love cables....! [read] Keywords: blogger
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A Psychiartric joke
Wed, May 7th 2008 5:25a Steve McDonagh Can't help it ... a "Watercooler" joke that creased me up when i heard it first and still does today when I heard it again ...A man walks into a psychiatrist's office wearing only underwear made of Cling film (Saran Wrap). The psychiatrist says, 'Well...I can clearly see your nuts.'[sfx of rimshot] [read] Keywords: office
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Ooops a bit of a Admin "Gotcha" for me today
Tue, May 6th 2008 6:47p Steve McDonagh Time for a Mea Culpa which caught me out badly today. ALWAYS Check that your [NET ADDRESS] field on the PORTS tab of the Server Record is set to be something other than an IP address. This happens to be something that just slips my mind and if you do forget and put an IP address in there. It can reach up and bite you on the bum like it did to me today when I spent a whole morning wondering why the F**K a server was communicating to an old IP address which wasn't assigned by the DNS, wasn't in [read] Keywords: admin
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Interesting Government Iconography - Duck & Cover 2008
Fri, May 2nd 2008 7:22p Steve McDonagh Gentle Reader a chum sent me off to this site which i know is for USians and not Paddies like me. Ireland is of course ready. Every pub is equipped with emergency beer supplies and we are all trained to put our heads between our heads in the approved manner to kiss our asses goodbye. However I digress .. one of the downloads had some interesting pictures which could be construed rather differently than the DHS would have you believe... i present the Irish version of "duck and cover 2008" If [read] Keywords: blogger
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News you may have missed #4
Fri, May 2nd 2008 6:06p Steve McDonagh The way to a man's heart is through his ... his ear or so this article in newsweek would appear to suggest .. the era of natural orifice surgery is underway. Hip hip hurrah! this writer exclaims, or would if some mad Doctor chappie wouldn't take it as an invite to give me a new hip via the nearest orrifice and there are two very dear to me that no-one is sticking a hip replacement thru. The controlling body is called.. wait for it.. NOSCAR (Natural Orrifice Surgery consortium for Assessement a [read] Keywords: archive
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Franziska 's TCF's captured on paper by Gardai Sketch Artist
Fri, May 2nd 2008 4:23p Steve McDonagh Franzika Tanner on her posting was inquiring what a TCF (Travel Curse Fairy) would look like and posited that I might know. Well I didint but I know a chap that does. His name is Kevin and he works for the An Garda Síochána - SPG (Special Pixie Group). He was able to furnish me with these likeness of the two likely suspects last seen heading out of Shannon Airport on the same flight as Mr Paul Mooney. Thankfully (for Paul) they never ever effect the flights they travel on! They are referred t [read] Keywords: blogger
ILUG Countdown - The 5 Weeks to go checklist
Wed, Apr 30th 2008 6:06p Steve McDonagh Gentle Reader, Tis now 5 weeks to the day until the great and the geeky will have upped sticks and will have installed themselves in dublin's fair city for the Dominofest that is ILUG 08. Here is a convenient check packing list for you Tynedol - 48 Pack extra extra strong AlkaSeltzer - Anti-Irish Fry Up catering pack Kilt (Gay Gordon Tartan) for Wild Bill's Sessions and being sexy in the evening 24 Bottles of Koppraberg Cider (Sean B. only) Clean underwear .o0(just in case you meet the La [read] Keywords: ilug
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Oh this is rich - Malware code comes with a EULA! :-)
Wed, Apr 30th 2008 5:07p Steve McDonagh LOL this is "The Weird of the day!" Zeus a rather unpleasant piece of malware now has a EULA it "...cannot be used for purposes other than which it was bought for" and Zeus buyers also "... commit to give the seller a fee for any update to the product that is not connected with errors in the work, as well as for adding additional functionality". Please form an orderly queue for EULA's for disk crashes where ".. this crash cannot be used for running up overtime, having a large expenses claim o [read] Keywords:
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GFA IV Stabbing not a GFA IV Stabbing
Wed, Apr 30th 2008 4:46p Steve McDonagh It now transpires that the stabbing in the queue waiting for Grand Theft Auto was in fact not related at all to the controversial game and happened 1/4 mile up the road. But as the stabee lies in hospital he can be reassured that The victim had categorically not pre-ordered the game – and GameStation is confident that he was not a GameStation customer; neither was he a part of the queue outside the Croydon store,” a source told the Games Radar blog.The source also said that "...the stabbin [read] Keywords:
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Does a widget know its a widget?
Wed, Apr 30th 2008 2:05p Steve McDonagh Here is a query for you widget guru's - Does a widget know it's a widget? What i mean is you have a neat wee widget and you want to give the user and Email option so they can email the widget content to themselves or others can the widget query the note environment? I have tried a variety of things and it would appear that the widget thinks it is all alone in the world rather than snuggled up in a notes side bar. Any ideas gratefully received... Steve [read] Keywords: notes
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Phil Collins retires - Let the world Rejoice!
Tue, Apr 29th 2008 5:07p Steve McDonagh Yes yes yes.. today has just improved 100% Phil Collins has officially retired! Let the heavens be ript asunder with shafts of joyous lightening. Let the people of the world rejoice! No longer will we have to suffer the indignities of having to watch and listen to this odious little bald twat in live performance. James Blunt has now rocketed to the #1 spot on the "Blandness above and beyond the call of duty" chart. Although it may take several years for Watching paint dry to overtake listening [read] Keywords:
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Quickr V8 Standard problem with Connectors and saving Excel files from an LS Script
Tue, Apr 29th 2008 3:25p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader this is a bit of an esoteric problem but a problem just the same. The new Quickr standard connection utilities are a real boon and appear to work really well, however this came to light today and so far I have been able to duplicate the problem on PC's with both the Eclipse and standard Notes Clients installed but only with OFFICE 2003 so far. Symptom: In Notes Applications that use LS to access MS Office classes. If you programmaticaly open and populate an excel spreadsheet, whe [read] Keywords: connections
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Google Trends - Lotus Domno v Microsoft Exchange some thoughts
Mon, Apr 28th 2008 4:24p Steve McDonagh In case any of you have yet to discover "Google Trends" here is a little taster. The red line is for "microsoft exchange" the blue line for "lotus domino" You can go here for a closer look The top graph shows "Search volume" the lower "News Reference Volume" This site looks to be a wee bit more scientific than Google Fights which at best was a bit of laugh. Google say on their About Trends they say Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been [read] Keywords: collaboration
domino
ibm
lotus
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News you may have missed #3
Fri, Apr 25th 2008 4:05p Steve McDonagh Canada - Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh Canada!! In Guelph, Ontario, a strange man had committed at least three incidents of approaching women and asking to be kicked in the groin. Apprehended after the seventh such incidents, Jarrett Loft, 28, pleaded guilty in March 2008 to one count (of being VERY weird) and was sentenced to 60 days in jail. Loft offered no explanation for his behavior, other than that he was "curious." One victim, saying that she feared what Loft might do if she refused, repeatedly kicked [read] Keywords: office
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A Dinner time joke for Friday
Fri, Apr 25th 2008 8:38a Steve McDonagh One day an Irishman, who had been stranded on a deserted island for over 10 years, saw a speck on the horizon. He thought to himself, "It's certainly not a ship." As the speck got closer and closer, he began to rule outeven the possibilities of a small boat or a raft. Suddenly there strode from the surf a figure clad in a black wet suit. Putting aside the scuba tanks and mask and zipping down the top of the wet suit stood a drop-dead gorgeous blonde! She walked up to the stunned Irishman and s [read] Keywords:
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Some of My Talented Family
Thu, Apr 24th 2008 7:45p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader! A post of family promotion from me. A tab on the late side, but i didn't realize he had these on his web site. My cousin Andy, from Belfast, is at the talented end of the family gene pool with talents for storytelling in song and prose which far exceed mine. Anyway if you fancy some music that is a little bit different well what not try one or both of these links.. The Fortune Teller was Right Tell Me Why or visit his web site and have a rummage around. The other family member [read] Keywords: wireless
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The Sacrifice of The Duffbert
Thu, Apr 24th 2008 12:24p Steve McDonagh ** The Sacrifice of The Duffbert ** (or How a PID can really smart if you don't use KY Jelly) For our mate Duffbert stuck in an all day Change Controls Meeting Now long didst the change controls meeting plod and in boredom did The brave Duffbert nod. Through the forest of RFC docs, cold and dark, Past Impact Accessor, grim faced and stark The brave Duffert with must gusto did lament, "Oh get me an Authority to Im -plee - ment?" From behinst a rock didst appear a gruesome site Twas in all thei [read] Keywords: blogging
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Just been to a "Focus on Gender" event
Tue, Apr 22nd 2008 7:06a Steve McDonagh Gentle reader, I have just been told that women and men are DIFFERENT. Now I know I am a geek but I like to think of myself as a "geek of the world" and that I am actually aware of gender differences and all the sexual equality stuff. Fascinating as it was the conversation over coffee was naturally about "being PC" we came up with the following list that will perhaps be beneficial to those of you that wish to conform to the EU directive 2002/54/AC22-b#56 Non Provocative Language act For the Las [read] Keywords:
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ILUG 08 a guide to Irish Idiom for our non-irish guests Part 9
Mon, Apr 21st 2008 6:42p Steve McDonagh Oh My Gentle Reader .. so much to impart so little time ... ILUG starts in ... err... 6 weeks and one day! The ILUG team are all beavering away behind the scenes ensuring that it will run as smoothly and be as wonderful as the previous ILUGs. However gentle reader, and particularly the ones who are destined to impart their wisdom to the great un-washed Celtic Lotusian horde that time will move faster than a Chicken Naga through the instestine of a dyspepsic Quickplace administrator considering [read] Keywords: ilug
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Before U2 , Before Lizzy there was .....
Mon, Apr 21st 2008 5:45p Steve McDonagh Probably the best Irish band of all time ;) Horslips with "Dearg Doom" from 1973 ...oh god I had hair (and a 'tache) just like that.... nowt like a good dose of nostalgia! and 30 years later .... [read] Keywords: application
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Aligning Checkboxes in a form for the web
Sun, Apr 20th 2008 12:24p Steve McDonagh There has to be an easier way of doing this! When you create a checkbox, the CSS style parms do not work all that well and you get a ghastly thing like this:Fig1 No styling other that saying there are 3 columns. What i want is a 5px gap between the box and the label and the label to be a set length. I have fiddled and footered about with the object trying things like "[p class='cb1']Customer[p]|Customer" for the available text values in the CB list. But no matter what I select the list always c [read] Keywords: document
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Things that are difficult to say when drunk
Sat, Apr 19th 2008 11:25a Steve McDonagh THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Innovative 2. Preliminary 3. Proliferation 4. Cinnamon THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Specificity 2. Anti-constitutionalistically 3. Passive-aggressive disorder 4. Transubstantiate THINGS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. No thanks, I'm married. 2. Nope, no more booze for me! 3. Sorry, but you're not really my type. 4. Taco Bell? No thanks, I'm not hungry. 5. G [read] Keywords:
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Back from the wilderness
Fri, Apr 18th 2008 5:04p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader, Hello again! Yes I am back from a short trip the south west of the UK via the wilderness that are modern airports. Having done the "travelling" bit I managed to upgrade a Notes server to V801 and do the 5 or 6 clients mainly to show off the lovely new V8 client and it has to be said this was done to much applause and ooo'ing an aah-ing. Widget-ery particularly impressed and several people have come back to me this morning with suggestions for Widgets and Dashboards they would fin [read] Keywords: notes
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Items of new you may have missed #2
Fri, Apr 18th 2008 5:04p Steve McDonagh Freddy Mercury's song writing snubbed by Olympic Committee China's societal self-improvement in preparation for the 2008 Olympics continues a pace.It was reported in the Daily Telegraph this week that the Beijing Tourism Bureau ordered hotels to re-translate English signs, hoping to avoid such notorious past gaffes as "Racist Park," which is now "Park of Ethnic Minorities," and a cafe's attempt to salute Western visitors with "Welcome, big nosed friends." The Beijing Olympics Committee has been [read] Keywords:
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Set iPlod to Shuffle .. Engage
Tue, Apr 15th 2008 3:08p Steve McDonagh Hey Ho Gentle Reader, Waiting for a flight in glorious ignorance of what is happening, there is no body at the gate, boarding time has come and gone and there is no big orange "quite-difficult- jet" at the end of the pier. ~sigh~ I have in an effort to amuse myself I have invented a game called iPlod-Bingo. I have a made a list of the Genre's on said doobry.. fed the list into a wee program that randomly spits out 6 genres from my list, then put the iPlod onto shuffle and match the first 12 so [read] Keywords:
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Airport musings
Tue, Apr 15th 2008 1:24p Steve McDonagh Gentle Reader, I am off on my travels at the minute (upgrading a V7 server to V8) and doing the queue, sit, queue, sit , queue sit airport shuffle. So I am taking advantage of the free wifi to pass onto you a fable of deep philosophical importance. Like all fables it has a moral at the end of it. As I am travelling to the South west of England were you can find Tintagel and every "ye olde tea shoppe" is named after a knight of the round table. This tale shall be scribbled will a nod to all thin [read] Keywords: document
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Giving up Ciggies - The Start
Sun, Apr 13th 2008 9:59a Steve McDonagh Okey dokey gentle reader I have been inspired by Wild Bill's brave post on his own trials and tribulations of a health kind to make a public record of a part of my own path to wellness. Perhaps it will be cathartic on the other hand it gives me just another excuse to bore the pants of yousens. I was, as defined by the doctor, "a contented smoker" and yes, that was an accurate assessment of my habit. I can afford it and more importantly I enjoy it. Partaking of "the weed" has become a public st [read] Keywords:
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Items of news you may have missed
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 10:15a Steve McDonagh Need a pee, why not pick up some culture while you are there.Gentle Reader, particularly any of you that are near or close to New York, here is a chance to broaden your cultural horizons. I got an email from a chum of mine today just to let me know that he had a wonderful time watching thespians in a toilet in New York. No, this is not a euphemism! The play in question is "Ladies & Gents" written by Ireland's own Paul Walker and is currently playing to, well it has to be said smallish audien [read] Keywords: application
, email
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This is NOT me!
Fri, Apr 11th 2008 7:14p Steve McDonagh In front of the assembled dominobloggers I want to categorically say this is not me Bloody hell! I have doppelgangers that are a gay German porn star, a gay USian Celebrity Chef and now a frigging Sharepoint Guru. My life is replete with irony ENOUGH ALREADY! [read] Keywords: archive
, integration
, outlook
, sharepoint
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A somber thought for this Friday evening
Fri, Apr 11th 2008 5:52p Steve McDonagh I was reminded this evening, when watching news of Zimbabwe edging closer and closer to civil war, of a poem my father pointed me at years ago. This was in the early 70's when Northern Ireland was in the middle of a what would become a 30 year civil war (in every aspect but name) and I was having problems with the concepts of of violence ever being "right", death, war and patriotism. I hope that common sense prevails in Zimbabwe and a resolution is found that does not lead down the road to dest [read] Keywords:
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Eargasm - Just a plain old honest Eargasm
Fri, Apr 11th 2008 3:13p Steve McDonagh Gentle reader, I am a firm believer in the old alchemists axiom that "what is above, is below". The Sahara has blue skies,is a nice golden colour and sandy , The Pacific North-west is grey, full of mooses (moosii??) and closed on Sundays mornings. The Sahara therefore attracts more sun that say Tacoma. Basically we get what we deserve. This does little to explain why the pacific northwest continues to push out music that is just well... Eargasm (a new word I have just picked up for audio orgasm) [read] Keywords: application
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Plea to the Yellow Community - Suggestions for Project Control Application
Fri, Apr 11th 2008 1:15p Steve McDonagh I have been asked by a chum of mine for any recommendations for Domino based project control apps. She works for a charity in Scotland so £'s are very tight. Is there anything out there in Domino land that will allow so level of project management outa the box at minimal cost or open source that you can suggest/recommend? It's not programming project control, this is the sort of logistical side of things, who does what,when and with whom. You know the MS-project "i'm project managing my house [read] Keywords: domino
, application
, community
, office
, server
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Blasphemy - The ticket to hell has never been funnier
Fri, Apr 11th 2008 12:11p Steve McDonagh A word of warning .. the image below is rather blasphemous so if such things annoy you please don't click on it, for I would not like to offend. Well not often. I was sent this today. and it kinda tickled my fancy. [read] Keywords: blogger
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My Album
Fri, Apr 11th 2008 12:11p Steve McDonagh It takes me a while to get to grips with some of these meme doobries that are doing the rounds. The "My Album" was one that escaped me for a while, but like the dogged DBP (Dedicated Blogging Professional) that I am here is my effort. For those of you (like me) that hadn't come across this one before this is what you do. 1. Go to the Wikipedia random article page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random . The title of the article is your band name. 2. Go to the very last quote on random quotation [read] Keywords: notes
, blogger
, blogging
, wiki
Controlling the use of BACK and FORWARD on AJAX pages
Wed, Apr 9th 2008 6:21p Steve McDonagh Here is a wee trick that will have me branded the demon of scripting cos it is (i am told) very naughty to play with the action of BACK and FORWARD buttons. This method works on both IE and FF I believe (well the modern ones). Basically this came out of a need to stop users, who being users, will click BACK and FORWARD with gay abandon usually at the most inoppertune times, event more so when you have a AJAXy form. Here is the code.. Bung it in your [head] Section window.beforeunload = oher [read] Keywords: javascript
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ILUG 08 a guide to Irish Idiom for our non-irish guests Part 8
Tue, Apr 8th 2008 5:49p Steve McDonagh Y0u may faced with someone, probably an American as this expression is common there, who in a fit of pique says to you, 'You don't know Jack Schitt!' after a presentation that has perhaps bot gone as well as expected. This expression may be met with surprise by any locals within ear shot as we Ireland as we have a long and honorable Schitt family tradition and are intimately acquainted with the Schitts and all their doings. Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt, an Austrian who emigrated to [read] Keywords: ilug
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A joke, apropos of nothing...to end the working day.
Tue, Apr 8th 2008 11:43a Steve McDonagh A man was being tailgated by a stressed out woman on a busy street.Suddenly, the light turned yellow, just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crossing, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the junction.The tailgating woman was furious and honked her horn and screaming in frustration as she missed her chance to get through the intersection causing her to drop her cell phone and makeup.As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her [read] Keywords:
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Creating a Cascading outline Lists in CSS
Tue, Apr 8th 2008 9:22a Steve McDonagh Ever wanted an easy way to do indented lists with varying numbering schemesAn easy way to do this is with CSS<style type="text/css">ol { list-style-type: upper-roman;}ol ol { padding-left:2em; list-style-type: upper-alpha;}ol ol ol { list-style-type: decimal;}ol ol ol ol { list-style-type: lower-alpha;}ol ol ol ol ol { list-style-type: lower-roman;}</style>If you use use style and then have an html list like this will result in it being formatted like this<ol s [read] Keywords: notes
, css
Duffbert's secret revealed!
Mon, Apr 7th 2008 6:42a Steve McDonagh Gentle reader, I feel a little twinge of guilt in this posting this because Duffbert said nice things about yours truly's blog. However this is news of great import and should increase his kudos exponentially! I have always wondered why in sessions lead by the aforementioned Tom the females in the audience were hanging on his every word, silver threads of drool dangling from every max-factored lip. I know AJAX is interesting but its not THAT interesting. Now it can be revealed it is his encyclo [read] Keywords: domino
, ajax
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Monday is just around the corner - Have you your excuse ready?
Sun, Apr 6th 2008 7:55p Steve McDonagh If you need some help with a Duvet Day Excuse try here** Parental Advisory Warning ** This link above contains text of an adult nature that may be illegal in your jurisdictionplease check with your web administrator, mother, father or guardian before attemptingto click this link. It really is not for those of a sensitive disposition! [read] Keywords:
Irreverence to door step evangelists
Sun, Apr 6th 2008 9:48a Steve McDonagh Over on Panagenda's Blog there is a post about a visit he had from the Jehovah's Witness it sounds as if Florian gave the man a polite but firm dismisal. Sadly gentle reader when they come to the front door of the McDonagh clan they seldom get quite what they expected. Over the past 25 years there have been many visits and for a while I thought they (the JW's) had created a special "Bring enlightenment to the Pagans Wing" but perhaps I was just getting a tad paranoid. To start with a simple firm [read] Keywords: exchange
, exchange
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Getting older and grumpier
Sat, Apr 5th 2008 6:04a Steve McDonagh I was out leaving the sprog at his place of gainful employement (or as he likes to think of it "the place where I gets beer vouchers ") . Now I live (and the sprog works) near the sea and today is a tad on the blowy side of windy. There are lovely big breakers and I paused on the way home and took these piccies on thec camera-phone-email-sms-microwave-toaster-thingie that I happened to have in my pocket. Now it used to be that were I to see a sea like this I would be off like a rocket to find m [read] Keywords: application
, blogger
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Lowering the tone,as usua, in a condescending manner (and this post exists)
Sat, Apr 5th 2008 5:04a Steve McDonagh .... and exactly why would be want complete idiots finding out how to propagate? Also it does posit the question having had a look at the Dummies Guide to AJAX (which can be quite difficult) and that particular august publication does things in nice easy steps? How does the Complete idiots guide start of with the thorny problem of finding a suitable mate? .... I think I will wait for the Duffbert review, before my purchase. *This observation first heard on the Now Show BBC Radio 4. Other humor [read] Keywords: ajax
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Lowering the tone (as usual) in a condescending manner
Sat, Apr 5th 2008 4:48a Steve McDonagh and exactly why would be want idiots finding out how to propagate?*This observation first seen (heard) on the Now Show BBC Radio 4. Other humorous radio's shows are available [read] Keywords:
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Lunchtime induced Nostalgia
Fri, Apr 4th 2008 9:57a Steve McDonagh T'was at lunch today, myself and the tech-support chappies were comparing silly ring tones on our phones. There were several "Knights that say NI!" at least one "He cant come out.He's been a naughty boy" and other Pythonesque novelities. The one that made us all smile was The Banana Splits Tra-La-La theme song. Now it has to be said that myself and the techies are "of a certain age" that is able to remember the Banana splits when they appeared first in the early 70's in Ireland. I remember them [read] Keywords:
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Just published on OpneNtf V1.2.5 of My web Name Picker facility
Thu, Apr 3rd 2008 6:06p Steve McDonagh I have just published V1.2.5 of my Ajax powered Name Picker on OpenNtfThe suggestions for changes came from Carl Tyler .. many thanks Carl, it is always good to get feedback :-)The changes are: -You can now elect to allow users to enter Internet addresses that can NOT be found in the PABhowever they have to be properly formed internet addresses.You can now programatically choose whether the selected Common Name, Internet Address or Abbreviated Name is used to update the target field.You can prog [read] Keywords: ajax
, openntf
, server
Working out what folder any given document is in if FolderReferences is not switched on
Thu, Apr 3rd 2008 5:29a Steve McDonagh Here is a bit of code from the Lotus Notes Support site which like allsimple things is only simple when you see it done :-). The gurus amongst youprobably know this already but for me it was "oooooooo right" moment.Here is the code for a selected docs agent .code {border: 1px solid #a9a9a9;background-color:lightblue;padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;font-size:8pt} Dim session As New notessessionDim db As notesdatabaseDim doc As notesdocumentDim doc2 As notesdocumentDim view As notesviewDim noteid1 As Str [read] Keywords: agent
, document
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
Recent Audio Pleasures - A personal View #1
Sun, Mar 30th 2008 12:09p Steve McDonagh It has been a busy month for my iPlod. There have been quite a few new albums (do we still have albums?) from artists I like and a couple of artists I have discovered. So, like Duffbert does with books here is what I am listening to at the minute. Artist : Counting Crows Album: Saturday Nite Sunday Mornings Year: 2008 My Rating: 9/10 Now it may not be all that fashionable to like erudite Californian band, The Counting Crows there appear to be a lot of people who dismiss them with "oh him with [read] Keywords: notes
, apple
, php
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Web of Deception, Chapter 7 - Raising Ragnarok, the birth of dragons, zombies and papaya favoured contraceptives
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 8:33p Steve McDonagh NOTE: This is a continuation of the "Web Of Deception" round-robin story. If you're late to the party, please start with Chapter 1 on Ben's site and go from there. You can also follow the RSS feed hosted at http://www.andthentheboilerburst.com/WebOfDeception.rss. 4.5 Billion BCE - Space Raw elemental matter boils in the void, joined together and then pulled apart by the gravitational tides of a hot proto-sun. A shape forms, wriggles and breaks free of the chaos. Spreading mighty wings it abso [read] Keywords: atlantic
, forms
, archive
, wiki
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Giving ASW a bit of a stroke.
Fri, Mar 28th 2008 10:01p Steve McDonagh Was that title ASW enuff I wonder? Being a relatively neophytic blogger I have only just found out what an ASW is. Although, it seems, there is some debate about the "W". The underlying throb of self-gratification that the ASWer feels does push me to the "anker" rather than "hore" side of the debate. Added to this the unlikeliness of the existence of a sufferer of Portnoy's Complaint being given the suffix of "..with a heart of gold" convinces me all the moreof the veracity of the "beating the [read] Keywords: blogger
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The never ending Web page like Gmail's on domino, is it feasible?
Thu, Mar 27th 2008 7:47p Steve McDonagh Today I have been thinking about SJAX (I think it should be more corretly PSJAX Pseudo Synchonous JAX) and methods that would allow me to keep the connection open to a client from the server. I was asked about the feasibility of creating a real time trading room where Ebay Type bidding takes place, but in real time. Bidding rooms last no longer than an hour multiple supplier attendee's each able to see the requirements but not their competitors bids. Where like betting in poker the "current bid [read] Keywords: admin
, agent
, domino
, ajax
, css
, java
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Particles just gave me the shock of the week - Sharepoint has become the new Lotus Notes
Thu, Mar 27th 2008 10:00a Steve McDonagh When particiles popped up this SharePoint Has Become the New Lotus Notes According to New CMS Watch Research it did come as a bit of a surprise I am not sure i agree totally with the article esp when it says ...Like Notes in a previous decade, IT often embraces SharePoint as a simple answer to myriad business information problems. But the platform can easily morph into a technical and operational morass, as repositories proliferate, and IT comes to recognize that various custom applications re [read] Keywords: administration
, lotus
, notes
, applications
, sharepoint
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The "My Album Cover" meme
Thu, Mar 27th 2008 6:26a Steve McDonagh I have been following the "My Album Cover" meme that was doing the rounds a few months ago, and it occurred to me that there must be some truly weird but REAL album covers out there and yes true enuff there are .. here are just a couple I have found. The rather cheerily titled Freddie Gage Opus, the first in the "It is perfectly OK to wear white socks and shoes" 6 record Box Set. And the unforgettable classic now digitally remastered and reissued as "want a sweetie little boy?" [read] Keywords: blogger
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ILUG 08 a guide to Irish Idiom for our non-irish guests Part 8
Wed, Mar 26th 2008 5:09p Steve McDonagh So, you have been keeping up date with this series? I do hope so as it is time for the mid-term pop-tests. background-color: silver;font-family:tahoma;font-size:9pt;width:250px;}.lf { background-color: white;font-family:tahoma;font-size:9pt;border-bottom: 1px solid #a9a9a9;}.rt { background-color: white;font-family;tahoma;font-size: 9pt;color:white;border-bottom: 1px solid #a9a9a9;} QuestionAnswerSot innit?It is hot is it not?Gayusyhonyoke!Give that thing to me at once! SMTP451...SumthinsupperSM [read] Keywords: ilug
, quickr
Volker vs Nathan - The Google Grudge Match
Wed, Mar 26th 2008 7:23a Steve McDonagh Thanks to Paul Mooney's post here (so it is all his fault) I really really really couldn't resist it so having pondered about it for all of 5 seconds ... I did a GoogleFight over the two protagonists currently squaring up in the Blogsphere.. I know .. I know.. it doesn't really help one way or t'other and is all fairly meaningless. Steve [read] Keywords: blogSphere
, google
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Just Released - the rush for Rob Novak's Free Beer and Code Session @ ILUG 07
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 7:46p Steve McDonagh Just released.. the rush for good seats at ILUG07's last session Rob Novak's "Free Code and Beer". You can clearly see Paul Mooney and Bill Buchan in poll position (bill is on the right) You can actually hear a cry of "gerrrrroutothewayfirmcummingthru"! The chap who takes the lead is an unknown Lotusscript developer from Northern Irish Rider keen to get the free booze. Actually this the wonder that is the NW200 road race for motorcycles that happens in Ireland in May every year, 150-200K biker [read] Keywords: ilug
, lotusscript
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Web of deception update - Norse Gods !
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 9:05a Steve McDonagh The serially authored serial moves on a pace with the addition of Libby's chapter. We are introduced to a whole new direction .... but you really need to read it yourself ... :) ... so I won't link to the chapter here, but there is a link to the story's RSS feed so you can read the whole story in sequence here The story now moves on to John Vaughan Steve [read] Keywords:
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Converting Web Posted Data into a Notes List collection in an agent
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 8:41a Steve McDonagh When you use a POST (or for that matter GET) transaction directly to an agent from an AJAX connection call you generally have to do something with the data. I find that converting the arguement name value pairs into a Notes List makes life so much easier. This is how I do it, ' ***************************************** Dim ThisSession as new NotesSession Dim ThisDoc as NotesDocument Dim TheParms List as String ' ***************************************** Set ThisDoc = ThisSession.DocumentContext [read] Keywords: agent
, domino
, notes
, ajax
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Being able to see your own arse - a boon for society
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 9:51a Steve McDonagh Continuing the slightly "out of kilterness" of today. A link to this appeared in my in-box from a friend in Sweden. Now this is indeed a boon to society, particularly the ladies who when faced with the problem of finding out for themselves if their arses look big in what ever garment they are trying on and will usually attempt the black belt graded Tai-Chi "clematatis- winds-itself-around-the-donkey's-buttocks" manoeuver to find out if said posterior is indeed made to look larger. This device s [read] Keywords:
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The Great Illinois Corn Flake - Resolution
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 9:43a Steve McDonagh Gentle reader, I wanted to ease you into your Easter Saturday gently without fuss or kerfuffle. However news of great import has just broken. The Great Illinois Corn Flake has been sold! Yes the cornflake which was withdrawn, added again and withdrawn from auction site eBay over disagreement over "no food" policy has been sold for the princely sum of $1,350 to the owner of TriviaMania.Com. I am so relieved the issue of the food-iness of cornflakes was causing me sleepless nights and the McDona [read] Keywords: lotus
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Good Friday thoughts on the evils of Laundry
Fri, Mar 21st 2008 1:37p Steve McDonagh This being a religious day and all that I have choosen a passage from the Psalms, 106 verse 38, to start this post. Thus were they stained with their own works and went whoring with their own inventions This post is dedicated to my son and all other young men about to fly the nest and make their way in the world. Draw near and hear the wise words of your elders. As you are all well aware when you are young laundry is done by the Laundry Fairy. In Ireland this role is taken by the Laundry Lepre [read] Keywords:
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Thinking about Views, particularly large ones
Thu, Mar 20th 2008 9:36p Steve McDonagh A few weeks ago i blogged about very large datasets in views, that post came from a desire to maximize performance without usability in a web client. Nathan Freeman amongst others pointed out that very large views should really have a filtering system in both the notes client and on the web. Thinking about this yes the notes client does make you lazy, categorized views work are easy to get around in, users are used to them and we as developers sometimes fall prone to following the path of least [read] Keywords: composite
, document
, notes
, notes client
, application
, email
, openntf
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Egg packing 24 Dimensional Grocers
Thu, Mar 20th 2008 7:49a Steve McDonagh A chum of mine who is the uberest of ubergeeks when it comes to things mathematical phoned me last night in great excitment to tell me that the most important number in the world had just been mentioned on the radio, but not in a high brow science show.. it was mentioned in a light entertaint program For 196883 is the calling card of the "Monster Group" In the heady word of "hard sums" there are four famous challenges, Fermat's Last Theorem, the Riemann Hypothesis, Poincare's Conjecture, and th [read] Keywords:
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Web of Deception update
Wed, Mar 19th 2008 4:02p Steve McDonagh Part 2 of "Web of Deception" was published today and it is shaping up at the moment to be somewhere between Dean Koontz and Stephen King. There is an undercurrent of menace wrapped in a peaceful blanket of rural American idyll. having said that there is a sexually frustrated cat being passed to Captn' Bob by the bold Julian. The reading public is holding their breath..... On a related topic... the back-channels of this endeavour are red hot... I have 92 story related emails in my folder and let [read] Keywords:
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Web of Deceptions has started!!
Mon, Mar 17th 2008 2:25p Steve McDonagh The serially authored story of .. well we don't really know yet has started.. you can pick up the RSS feed so that you can read each installment hot of the presses here . Various luminaries of the Domino world (and me) will be contributing. So come along and have a read see what sort of creative genii we are or not as the case may be... feel free to comment on any of the participating blogs :) The participating authors are the minute are (in no particular order):- Ben Langhinrichs Julian Robich [read] Keywords: domino
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Alien Invasion nearly spoils St.Patrick's Day Parade
Mon, Mar 17th 2008 10:50a Steve McDonagh *** Breaking News *** 17 March 2008 13:00 GMT Ballygobakaways - Co.Cavan Ireland Ballygobakaways alien invasion nearly spoils Paddy's day parade. Inhabitants of the Co.Cavan village of Ballygobakaways awoke to a bright March the 17th morning full of the not unrealistic expectation that the St.Paddy's day parade would be an occasion when good fun was had by all. Windswept but good-looking (in a rough sort of way) Félim O'Crotchity (40), organiser of the parade was first to notice the space shi [read] Keywords:
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A wee story
Sun, Mar 16th 2008 9:25a Steve McDonagh I was thinking about the forthcoming serial story suggested by Ben Langhinrich and as I said in my previous post there is a tradition of oral storytelling in Ireland where the bare bones of the story stay the same however the method of telling changes with each storyteller that tells it. I thought i would share one of these tales with you today, it being a Sunday ;-). What follows is a tale about marriage, the importance of having a smart wife and of not picking fights with Scottish Giants. So [read] Keywords: mac
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ILUG 08 a guide to Irish Idiom for our non-irish guests Part 7
Sun, Mar 16th 2008 9:20a Steve McDonagh If you have registered for ILUG and plan to come then it is possible that you will encounter at least one (me) if not more of the inhabitants of the northern 6 counties of Ireland. Not for us the soft brogue of the southern Irish which is probably more instantly recognizable as "Irish" for we use what is referred to as "Ulster-Scots". In fact when I travel I am more often mistaken for a Jock than I am for a Paddy. If anything we are harder to understand that the southerners, partly due to the fa [read] Keywords: ilug
, notes
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6 Nations over for another year - WELL DONE WALES!
Sat, Mar 15th 2008 1:13p Steve McDonagh So thats another 6-nations over. England, Scotland and Ireland managed another year of less than inspiring underachievment. Italy go from strength to strength and even beat Scotland in a VERY good game. AZZURI YO! France got there nose bloodied by a Wales on a roll. Amazing when you think Wales and more specifically the rugby plating part of Wales is so small compared to even Irish rugby. Well done Wales !! Hey ho! Just the Heineken Cup and the tail end of the Magner's league to go and then the [read] Keywords:
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Web of Deception - Collaborative writing by Collaborative Professionals
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 6:09p Steve McDonagh I have just put my name down for Ben Langhinrich's idea Gather your wits, sharpen your pens: "Web of Deception" starts Monday. This idea which grew, according to Ben, out of a post by Rob McDonagh (no relative) here . As a relative new comer to the Blogging arena, I don't know whether I will be selected for a chapter but I hope I am :) There is a distinct echo in this plan to the Irish love of tales and stories. The storytellers of old (Seanachai) each had a repertoire of stories The Tain, The [read] Keywords: blogging
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My NamePicker OpenNTF project updated and an apology
Thu, Mar 13th 2008 5:27p Steve McDonagh Just upgraded my NamePicker on Openntf to V1.2.4 because Martjin De Jong wanted keyboard controls in the drop downs, so I added them, which is a bit embarrassing cos i really should have thought of that myself ... god and i used to be a mouse hater! Ohhh its not lovely like what Chris creates, its not particulary whizzbangy like Jake does and not state of the art like what IBM does... but it does what it says on the tin (apart i see from Safari) its mine and it is my first bit of Open Source and [read] Keywords: ibm
, mac
, openntf
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Widgeting your journal so that you get just a view without the frameset
Wed, Mar 12th 2008 6:20p Steve McDonagh I have been fiddling around and I could'nt make head nor tail of getting a view to open all by itself without the accompanying frameset. I have tried working out the URL syntax, but i gave up after a while and did this instead, which is a kludge but it works. 01. Created a less cluttered view in the journal file called sidebar, very minimalist 02. Changed the Application Properties so that the designated frame was ViewFrame 03. Opened the Jorunal file.. which now has a single panel frameset 04. [read] Keywords: notes
, application
, properties
, widget
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The West Wing Goes Irish
Wed, Mar 12th 2008 2:43p Steve McDonagh As a side bar to the ILUG Guide to Irish Idiom series, I would like to introduce you to Podge and Rodge, RTE 2's finest celebrity interviewers. (RTE = the irish national TV broadcaster). In this clip they interview Richard Schiff, he of West Wing fame. For our those of a sensitive disposition a warning, it is probably best if you do not watch this, as this particular program has no issues with ...errr... profane language. There are no subtitles so feel free to ask for translations..... Steve [read] Keywords: ilug
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Zombies - The Budget Requirement
Wed, Mar 12th 2008 1:22p Steve McDonagh As a devout follower of all things that shamble and need a quick snack of grey matter from time to time ... this was quite interesting. Now all i need to do is get the Taoiseach and Gordon "the gofer" Brown to take notice ... we NEED an anti zombie budget too! [read] Keywords:
