I guess it was time to update my curriculum vitae. Added attendance to #ls12. You can open the document linked on the right column or via the following link: http://quintessens.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=1151
Domino Blog tip: set XML/Content Encoding value
Apologies that this blog starts to look more like an archive but I have been lately been involved in non-development activities like attending Lotusphere 2012. I will write later an article on that one.
Today I received an incident report from a collegue about a problem with the Domino blog template (the one everybody wants to have with XPages, hint IBM (this time with documentation))…
The RSS feeds were broken, or at least throwing up an error. It turned out to be that Swedish characters in names were causing the problem. Since I work for a Swedish company it is likely that the error would occur more often and in more blogs/places… so worth a search on Google.
I found the following document very helpful:
http://blog.inetfusion.com/A55CF7/technotes.nsf/dx/11242009023753PMEWES7R.htm
The Fix
- Added the value ‘ISO-8859-1′ to the configuration document, under the Syndication tab, field ” XML/Content Encoding:” down towards the bottom.When replacing the computed value with “ISO-8859-1″, it appears to be working. Have not changed the lookup form value. This is probably in some documentation somewhere.. but there’s no documentation with the template.
The character set was set to UTF-8 because they should support Swedish characters (link). When setting them to ISO-8859-1 the errors did no longer occur.
IdeaSpace for Bildr
Niklas has been so nice to setup an IdeaSpace for Bildr on OpenNTF:
http://openntf.org/ideajam/ideajam.nsf/ProductByAreaMostRecent?openview&restricttocategory=Bildr
Please drop here you suggestions / ideas for the application
Registering dependencies in Lotus Notes applications
Domino Designer gives you a nice overview of all plugin dependencies in your application. But regarding other dependencies (e.g. data sources from other notes applications or from other systems) there is no automatic generation of an overview.
Question:
How and which dependencies in your Notes applications do you register? Do you generate the overview manually or is there a tool you use for this?
Domino Punk – Teachers
For another activity I was looking for a tool to change voice tones. After a search I stranded at Audacity.
The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
For fun I decided to try to make a copy of Daft Punk’s Teachers and to honour you guys out there =)
Top 5 reasons to attend Lotusphere2012
I would say rule #1 is the strongest argument where I work… :-/
Crash course application layout control
I am working on a small project that should deliver a web application to support online marketing campaigns. The application will provide different types of content (e.g. pages, video, images, forum, agenda). For most of these items I have found custom controls on OpenNTF or in the Extension Library.
For the layout I have choosen the Application Layout control from the Extension Library. Thomas Adrian showed a wizard function in version 8.5.3 but unfortunately our environment is still on 8.5.2.
There is a video available from OpenNTF how to use the Application Layout control. However if that goes too fast for you (I guess most people) on Michelle’s Universe (2,3)I found a couple of posts that give you some more to read.
Finally I found the wiki article: AD116 XPages Extension Library: Making Application Development Even Easier which contains the code for setting up a layout design definition.
In case you know a better resource that describes the Application Layout control then you are welcome to drop a link here… =)
New Extension Library (8.5.3) and mixed environments
More an more people are embracing the Extension Library for 8.5.3. I have posted a question on the project page on OpenNTF.
I am wondering how much an upgrade will affect all clients? (server, designer, normal user)
Do I have to upgrade all environments or can they happily live with each other as long as I do not use the new controls?
Our upgrade path looks normally as followed:
- upgrade Development environment
- upgrade Designer clients
- upgrade Test environment
- upgrade Production environment
- upgrade Normal clients
We are now at 8.5.2 and wonder if we break something when upgrading Development already to 8.5.3 and start rolling out the first applications to Test and Production… ?
New OpenNTF contribution: ccFlickrBomb
Last Friday I had some spare hours left before calling it a week so started a new, simple project on OpenNTF called ccFlickrBomb:
flickrBomb provides an easy way for you to rapidly fill your prototypes with relevant content, and not just those dull gray placeholder images.
So basically ccFlickrBomb is a custom control that allows you to display a search query on Flickr in a more fashionable way. Enjoy!
