Archive for April, 2008

Testing Notes 8 – Where to test for?

2008-April-22 at 8:05 am · Filed under Lotus Notes

We have plans for upgrading to Notes 8.01 and the end of may so logically I received the question to test some of the applications I believe are vital for us doing business.

The main question I have is ‘Where to test for ?‘

A quick ask-around among in my personal network did not lead to any topic to pay attention to. Most of my contacts are not up to Notes8 neither do they have that intention for the next 3 months.

Some minutes of Google-ing did also not bring many answers which sounds promising (no problems at all?).

Nevertheless we have set up test environment with Notes8 server and here are some results which I consider for most of mine applications (document publishing tools) quiet alarming.

Copy Selected as Table

In Notes:

copy selected as table

In a Browser:

copy selected as table (WEB)

Where did the icons go ???

A copied table from the web

In Notes:

copied table from the web

In a Browser:

Somewhere a center alignment is added which can not be allocated in the Notes client…

I also discovered that the merging of columns and rows in a table give nasty, unexpected (and unwanted) results.

So I am wondering what problems / questions other people are experiencing in Notes8? Thanks in advance!

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Introduction Dojo Toolkit & IBM Lotus Domino

2008-April-21 at 7:46 am · Filed under AJAX, Dojo, JavaScript, Lotus Domino ·Tagged ,

Currently I am collecting all sorts of information about implementing the DOJO Toolkit in Lotus Domino applications. Basically for preparing myself for a upcoming project to ‘pimp’ an existing web-application using this JS Framework.

Untill now I have been only working with Prototype and Scriptaculous (which I like a lot) but since IBM’s horizon also shines more and more Dojo I am really curious in DOJO’s capabilities. Especially since documentation seems to be getting better and better.

I have found a good presentation about implementing the Dojo Toolkit in Lotus Domino applications on Slideshare. You can find the presentation here.

Introduction Dojo Toolkit & IBM Lotus Domino - presentation

It seems that more and more Notes related people find the time and effort in uploading their presentations on this site, which is ofcourse a very good thing! (HINT)

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Perfect pagination style using CSS

2008-April-20 at 7:16 pm · Filed under JavaScript, Lotus Domino, LotusScript

One of the blogs I often read is the one from Antonio Lupetti who is a Web developer, not a Notes developer. Especially his article about pagination caught my attention since it remembered me about the idea to rewrite Bob Obringers ‘ultimate view navigator’.

Bob uses in his approach for the pagination a table to display the page numbers where a list should be more suitable.

As the image below shows with Antonio’s approach it is pretty easy to make the pagination more compatible with examples seen on other well known sites. Here is a Flickr alike pagination for a Domino view:

Flickr alike domino view pagination

Anything new under the sun? Not really, but for the ‘purists’ under us more esthetic solution.

Ofcourse a working example can be found here.

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How I got started with Lotus Notes

2008-April-14 at 8:54 am · Filed under Lotus Notes

Some minutes before a meeting so I will shortly pick up the tread “How I got started with Lotus Notes”.

I started with Notes in the beginning of 1997 after doing a graduation project at one of Dupont’s factory-plants (basically I was collecting annual sales data for writing reports).

At the end everyone was really satisfied and I got the question if I would be interested in setting up their intranet site. Notes 4.5 was rolled out and already in use in other countries/plants.

I got training at IBM and it helped a lot that in those days I had to travel a lot by train so the yellow Lotus Notes book I knew soon by head.

After one year I saw an advertisement that a big company in electronics in the Netherlands where looking for people to train in LN and they offered the complete education (application development and system administration) so after 3 months I was able to call my self principle lotus notes professional in both areas.

Then after a couple of years some collegues asked me if I was interested in starting a consultancy company, basically because they needed a person with good web development skills in LN. I said yes and after some wonderful years internal relations went a bit down and I decided to start freelancing, enjoying my own responsibilities.

In 2005 I decided to take the next step by looking for working options abroad and in beginning 2006 I moved to Sweden where I am currently employed at a true IBM technology adapting company…

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