 Steve Castledine | Steve Castledine 20 April 2009 16:33:21 GMT Maybe no-one has been troubled by this, or messed with web/client rich text as much as I have in my life (what do you want to know? :) ), or perhaps everyone just knows it, but Firefox, Domino and Not Steve Castledine 9 April 2009 10:35:48 GMT EXACTLY! In england a popular tv quiz show from years back you had the saying "whats a hotspot not?". Well unless you are a notes user of old, you have not a clue because its a "LINK". Well the good Steve Castledine 13 March 2009 14:17:01 GMT Ever wondered how to set/control the template version and build name that appears on a nsf/ntf? Well this information is available read/write, and you need to add a shared field "$TemplateBuild" in Steve Castledine 11 March 2009 10:20:42 GMT Something I should have done a long time ago but for some reason I didn't, is to structure "designer" the best way for me (which is now possible since it is based from Eclipse). A few days ago I final Steve Castledine 18 February 2009 12:09:11 GMT So you can see from my last two blog posts that I have published the details required to take your own Lotus Notes templates and give them a make-over so they get the benefit of the work done to impro Steve Castledine 18 February 2009 11:49:45 GMT Part two has now been published on developerWorks on using "java/pim views" (still do not know a better description) within your Lotus Notes templates. Part one really was the "must do" bits to succe Steve Castledine 10 February 2009 18:35:52 GMT I'm published (along with my excellent colleague Margo)! So part one of how to use Lotus Notes mail style java views in your template applications is available on developerWorks here. Part two is o Steve Castledine 3 February 2009 09:54:19 GMT Something I was thinking could be useful for openNTF.org, is an ntf/nsf which contained a whole bunch of different form/view/outline design combinations. Sometimes when you are starting a new templat Steve Castledine 11 November 2008 11:57:00 GMT Its an age old discussion and on/off has been discussed to death within this community, however I have been thinking about "templates" again recently. As a developer who has had the opportunity of d Steve Castledine 10 November 2008 10:55:36 GMT When developing applications using the standard client framework there is, I think little known, a switch/property that is really important and it is not set by default. This one is the "bookmark defa Steve Castledine 10 November 2008 10:05:59 GMT I dislike the phrase "java views", but I never know a better one. If I mention "java view" I am referring to the standard client framework that was used from Lotus Notes 8.0, and originally was the ba Steve Castledine 7 November 2008 09:28:52 GMT I'm planning some "how to" XPages posts for "Domino Developers", in the meantime here's something for this week's "tip" theme. You may currently have a lot of logic sitting in Lotusscript agents o Steve Castledine 7 November 2008 09:00:00 GMT Something I often forget exists, is the ability to send an email to someone automatically when you respond to their comment (Notes Client Only) within the blog template. To set this up, you need to g Steve Castledine 6 November 2008 09:48:25 GMT Another ini setting that may be useful for developers is "Designer_ShowPropForJavaViewsUI=1". This setting exposes the properties in Designer for standard client/java views. I have written a large do Steve Castledine 6 November 2008 09:41:30 GMT No tips yesterday, busy day and I'm guessing the whole election thing was crowding out the news/blogs anyway. Anyway, I was in a meeting yesterday where a couple of customers mentioned (running Notes Steve Castledine 6 November 2008 09:20:53 GMT One of the new features for Notes 8.5 is "Notebook". It gets less coverage than other "new" stuff as essentially it is the old Personal Journal with a new colour lipstick. Visually it is a huge impro Steve Castledine 4 November 2008 10:01:58 GMT Publishing something I replied to in an email yesterday: You can access the web client for the blog template via the "admin" link (within the default "yellow" theme) which can be found in the top rig Steve Castledine 4 November 2008 09:43:10 GMT Just a quick tip today, I have a lot of work I need to complete by close and its my wife's birthday so I guess I should finish work before 10pm (kidding). By default the blog template is a "personal Steve Castledine 3 November 2008 10:01:57 GMT Starting this week with a very simple tip. Hoping to do at least one a day this week with at least one lengthy one for xpages by Friday. Anyway, there is a documented formula @Command( [OpenCale Steve Castledine 2 October 2008 14:06:36 GMT I have today published an article on editing the default theme within the blog template and general information about the html templates etc on the Domino Wiki site. You can access the document here. Steve Castledine 8 September 2008 15:51:48 GMT Reproduced from forthcoming documentation: DXTagCloud provides an automatic tag cloud within your web pages: The system outputs the tags in an unordered list. You need to surround the tag with u Steve Castledine 8 September 2008 09:28:53 GMT Sometimes people don't see the release notes (I'm not saying this is definitely in them), or new formula etc can be forgotten, but a nice new formula in 8.5 was @WhichFolders which can be used to dete Steve Castledine 17 June 2008 09:27:25 GMT I bleed yellow, but I bleed a "Notes/Domino" shade of yellow the most. So its great to see good looking stuff coming out of Domino via the "Domino Powered" product wiki's on developerWorks. Ed Brill Steve Castledine 15 June 2008 18:56:14 GMT Search in the new Domino Designer for Eclipse just rocks. If I have a string I need to locate, or a function I need to track all instances of where it is called etc, I am now in my element, at last. Steve Castledine 30 May 2008 08:20:44 GMT Do I smell xPages, Notebook, Domino Designer in Eclipse? Available here. Steve Castledine 28 May 2008 08:41:42 GMT We were having a discussion yesterday about "public access/public documents" and the use of in web applications on Lotus Domino. Firstly a bit of information on "public access". Put in very basic te Steve Castledine 24 April 2008 20:04:17 GMT So Ed mentioned "Tweetscanning" - a search of the Twitter 'verse. Its actually pretty interesting - well to me, at 8pm, when my mind is burnt from running through some unit tests. Anyway searching fo Steve Castledine 7 April 2008 13:46:08 GMT I first used Twitter in the middle of last year and instantly dismissed it (to myself) as "pointless" and like watching paint dry - who needs to know who x eat for dinner? Twitter is a service for fr Steve Castledine 31 March 2008 15:06:28 GMT Been having network and server issues here at home office of late so this site has not been available or its been taking a day to load each page. RSS feeds gave up the ghost about a month a go - it se Steve Castledine 31 January 2008 11:54:01 GMT Here's a short presentation I put together going through the changes in the 8.01 release of the Blog Template. It contains some useful technical information about upgrading etc. Hopefully will have Steve Castledine 13 December 2007 12:32:36 GMT So it seems my template documentation utility may become useful. Therefore I definitely will turn this into a project. I've had many thoughts recently on expanding my blog site as I have many "proje Steve Castledine 13 December 2007 12:22:51 GMT Following up from posting the Composite Application Component Library on OpenNTF, the team have now published a series of "recipes" which show you how it is possible to use them. They are very basic Steve Castledine 12 December 2007 17:34:57 GMT I've created some code which scans a Notes Template and creates a blog/wiki on its design. You then get a precreated blog/wiki (you can move things around to how you want to operate it) which allows Steve Castledine 3 December 2007 15:46:39 GMT Before I start this post I want to clarify that I'm not asking this in any official capacity (there is a related post on Mary Beth Raven's blog here). I'm asking as a developer who likes to understand Steve Castledine 29 November 2007 19:58:48 GMT Here's a YouTube video I found from IBM on Notes Domino 8. Don't know how I missed this one. It features a few bloggers we all know :) Steve Castledine 28 November 2007 12:15:47 GMT Traditionally content has been organised by "categories" in order for us to keep controlled and structured with our data. With the recent web2.0 explosion "tags" have emerged as a fairly new technolog Steve Castledine 25 October 2007 17:22:55 GMT An updated "how to" for building composite applications for IBM Lotus Notes v8 has been published. The previous version referred to Beta 3 and a few things have changed around since then. Unfortunate Steve Castledine 25 October 2007 15:41:40 GMT So my blog support email's etc are getting way behind again. Sometimes they even go unanswered as they slip below my visible email radar and get forgotten. I will find some time to catch up on them s Steve Castledine 17 October 2007 12:10:32 GMT Notes Domino 7.0.3 is available but I am sure pretty much anyone reading this will have read it elsewhere anyway. The point of the post is to state that the Blog Template was updated in 7.0.3 to the Steve Castledine 2 October 2007 16:24:03 GMT One of my personal spam problems is emails being sent to my Domino server for a user that does not exist say "user@" or "admin@" to my mail domain. The server then sends an email back saying "Not kno Steve Castledine 2 October 2007 13:35:42 GMT It seems the Domino community is being targetted right now by the dull, nothing better to do script kiddies who put javascript calls into web site comments. I know a few people have had to shut off Steve Castledine 3 September 2007 13:02:18 GMT I did this video to show the theme manager exists :) On viewing, the video quality is poor so I need to work out optimum settings for this to work. In the meantime you can hear for yourself - and see Steve Castledine 24 August 2007 10:04:43 GMT Following on from my discussion on webqueryopen Agents. Don't forget you can "profile" the agent and see what is slow, what is not etc using the Agent Profiler that was released back with Domino 7. T Steve Castledine 23 August 2007 09:07:38 GMT Notes 8 help does not have the updated view/column icon table in it. So for my benefit and others I have posted the table here: I will be creating a "Hot Topic" list on this site soon and adding this Steve Castledine 22 August 2007 12:56:55 GMT Update on below: It seems the option in question is the "Open in Designer" on the worksapce tabs - at the top: The tip below still stands though as that was another "gotcha" for a few people. A co Steve Castledine 17 August 2007 09:29:46 GMT Todays the day: Steve Castledine 15 August 2007 10:45:00 GMT Its been discussed at Codestore and I also see an entry at Domino2 today. Repeat after me "WebQueryOpenAgents do not have to be bad". Developers make them bad, by not thinking through the load they pu Steve Castledine 13 August 2007 21:15:00 GMT I came across a quality tip that I had not thought of before for calculating the number of documents in categories of documents, when using Lotusscript. My initial thought (but not that efficient) i Steve Castledine 10 August 2007 10:47:59 GMT Having a hectic week with working days extending past midnight over the past 3 days to meet some deadlines (that I am probably 2 days behind on). Football season starts tommorrow - yay! Here's som Steve Castledine 2 August 2007 10:18:22 GMT A new redbook is available (been available for a few weeks now) entitled "Building Composite Applications". You can find it here. Steve Castledine 16 July 2007 10:30:00 GMT I was working on the "Theme Manager" last night and I thought I needed a name. I spent about ten seconds on this subject and decided on "Blog Enterprise" which actually isn't that great and doesn't Steve Castledine 13 July 2007 11:58:23 GMT I have had some time to spend on the "Theme Manager" of late. It probably will not be called that at full release, as it will do a whole lot more as it will be a full enterprise blog management tool ( Steve Castledine 12 July 2007 11:18:29 GMT Mary Beth reports: The "About This Application" and "Using This Application" documents for the Mail template (Mail8.ntf) and the Contacts template (Pernames.ntf) have been updated for 8.0. However, Steve Castledine 11 July 2007 19:29:36 GMT Has anyone ever tried streaming a file attachment directly as binary that is attached as a document without first saving to the file system? I spent a bit of time investigating with java to see if I c Steve Castledine 6 July 2007 11:23:23 GMT Actually that should be "unstitched" as I had my stiches out this morning from my hand wounds. Its getting easier to use my right hand now with bandaging just remaining on one finger. The chunk that w Steve Castledine 27 June 2007 12:36:02 GMT Out of interest does anyone that read this blog ever, within their custom notes applications, use the facility where you can set a rich text field to store as mime/html so you can programmatically acc Steve Castledine 31 May 2007 11:15:00 GMT A small warning to beta testers of Notes 8 Beta 3 who use the blog template. There is a bug in rich text where automatic hotspots are being created incorrectly. I have seen this affect the creation Steve Castledine 31 May 2007 10:15:19 GMT Notes on Productivity is Eric Mack's latest blog. The design has been created by the talented Tanny O'Haley (check his Domino Blog site out as well - looks neat). Eric latest post "An intelligence te Steve Castledine 30 May 2007 10:52:14 GMT Enough said at bruceelgort.com, but thanks Bruce and something I missed off - Good Luck Vince! (Shamelessly stolen from Bruce's Flickr). Steve Castledine 30 May 2007 10:44:15 GMT Picked up from Stuart McIntyre. A superb Microsoft v IBM Lotus Domino competitive guide. 13 Pages written by Craig Westney of IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL), detailing the Microsoft products Steve Castledine 23 May 2007 22:51:38 GMT Announced here. Fill your boots here. Steve Castledine 14 May 2007 20:40:49 GMT This is kind of a security warning. I have seen this a couple of times recently and I do not think the consequences are that obvious. If you create a form and set it to "Available to Public Access Us Steve Castledine 14 May 2007 14:20:18 GMT I hadn't spotted this Dominoblog design until listening to Rob Wunderlich on the Taking Notes Podcast. Nice! It was converted by Sean Burgess. You will be pleased to know I have restarted on the The Steve Castledine 11 May 2007 09:39:09 GMT A new article on notes.net (ok developerWorks) "Extending the IBM Lotus Notes V8 mail with Eclipse". Its marked "Intermediate" but think its a great introductory on extending Notes using Eclipse and Steve Castledine 8 May 2007 11:47:21 GMT Here's the presentation I used at SNUG last week on the Blog Template (slideshare link and the direct file link below that). This will receive further work when I have time, I also plan to add some au Steve Castledine 1 May 2007 09:00:21 GMT Second Life Notes 8 reception Orientation Session today. Connect at either 9am EST or 9pm EST (6am/6pm PDT, 1:00 & 13:00 GMT) at secondlife://IBM9/54/63 Steve Castledine 27 April 2007 10:10:44 GMT I found this content index/site map useful over at the developerWorks composite application blog. Steve Castledine 26 April 2007 19:16:13 GMT John Roling has written a superb article over at Intranet Journal on setting up the IBM Blogging Template. I should also apologise to John as seeing the article reminded me that I told him I would he Steve Castledine 25 April 2007 10:38:05 GMT From Andre - new code options in Notes 8. Note the get unread/read documents, plus "contains" and "merge" etc for Notes Document collections. There also updates to one of my key commands - "readvi Steve Castledine 19 April 2007 10:55:14 GMT There will be a celebration of the launch of Notes 8 Beta in Second Life at 9:00 AM EST and 9:00 PM EST on May 2nd, 2007. If you do not already have an avatar in Second Life, you can create one today Steve Castledine 18 April 2007 16:27:28 GMT Two weeks tomorrow (Thursday 3rd May) there is a free 1 day conference in Edinburgh covering the topics below. In addition I will be in attendance as part of "blog template on tour 2007 " (ok I made t Steve Castledine 11 April 2007 09:38:44 GMT Andre knows way too much stuff. See if you can complete his crossword (and please take that blog template from him - my inbox is getting full ;) ). Steve Castledine 11 April 2007 09:30:53 GMT This is an interesting piece "Extending the IBM Lotus Notes Sidebar and Toolbar" for those running the Notes 8 beta. Steve Castledine 11 April 2007 09:10:30 GMT There is now a draft IBM redbook available "Building Composite Applications" (planned publish date 15th May 2007). via Madicon Steve Castledine 10 April 2007 10:06:45 GMT Sometimes I wake up thinking "why did I do it like that". Actually I do that often, maybe I dream about my work which is 1) Probably sad and 2) Don't tell my employer I do things which I later think s Steve Castledine 4 April 2007 15:53:41 GMT By default the blog template provides RSS feeds out of the box and on the default theme you can see links to these on the left side bar. Clever browsers like Firefox will also pick up this feed aut Steve Castledine 3 April 2007 19:39:10 GMT Within the blog template pages such as "Contact" or "About" as classified as "Web Pages" as they do not form part of the blog content itself. You can find these "Web Pages" under "Resources/Web Page Steve Castledine 30 March 2007 12:40:00 GMT By default when you add links to your blog roll they appear in a flat list sorted in alphabetical order. We may, however, wish to split these links into categories. For this example I will split the Steve Castledine 29 March 2007 11:32:03 GMT By default the blog template generates unique page names for your content like so: Sometimes you may wish to have a more meaningful page name such as "contact.htm" or "about.htm". This is achieved Steve Castledine 28 March 2007 10:08:07 GMT John Head writes that PSC have won an IBM Beacon Award. Firstly congrats to those guys! This is a blast from the past, as I remember winning a Beacon Award myself very early on in my Domino career ( Steve Castledine 23 March 2007 19:50:18 GMT Anyone notice this yet with Notes 8 Beta? Unless I am losing my memory thats a significant improvement over previous versions! Steve Castledine 22 March 2007 10:47:18 GMT The IBM Lotus Notes Blog Template uses a character encoding of UTF-8 by default for its RSS feeds. However you may wish to change this to say iso-8859-1in order to provide for an extended character se Steve Castledine 21 March 2007 16:23:15 GMT The talented Tanny O'Haley has also updated hig blog design. Welcome to Ocean, a design I've been working on for about a month. I started out by going to Layout Gala for the structure. I chose a desi Steve Castledine 21 March 2007 14:35:24 GMT After talking to a colleague I remembered that draft documentation is within the Notes 8 Beta 2 Help: Steve Castledine 1 March 2007 15:53:00 GMT From responses yesterday I think I need to concentrate on: Create a Beginners Guide both as an article, and I think I will try a videocast of some sort Create a wiki and start to populate with all t Steve Castledine 28 February 2007 17:32:11 GMT If there is anything you wish me to do an article on in terms of explaining how to do something with the blog template, then let me know here. As long as it is relevant to many users etc I will see Steve Castledine 28 February 2007 12:45:00 GMT By default the IBM Lotus Notes blog template has a single level of categorisation that is the standard for "blog" websites. Sometimes when more complex sites are built you may wish to have multiple Steve Castledine 26 February 2007 19:00:00 GMT Setting Up for Podcasting You do not actually need to do anything to setup podcasting, but there are some things you can do to automate a few tasks. Setting an Default External Host It maybe more e Steve Castledine 26 February 2007 15:23:18 GMT Another corporate site using the blog template - ilionx Assured IT Solutions Steve Castledine 23 February 2007 17:18:21 GMT UK based IBM Business Partner FoCul have migrated their corp website from Mambo to the IBM Lotus Notes Blog Template - nice job! Steve Castledine 7 February 2007 11:23:30 GMT I've seen two examples of the power of blog's today. Firstly yesterday's post on the SNAP preview bought about not just comment on my thoughts by readers but also comment from the organisation themse Steve Castledine 24 January 2007 15:29:50 GMT At the request of some customers today, I have made available the CoffeeSpot theme for the IBM Lotus Notes Domino blog template for download below. When I return to the UK in February I will complete Steve Castledine 23 January 2007 06:48:47 GMT Steve Castledine 22 January 2007 01:12:47 GMT I think I picked a good year to finally come to the IBM Lotus mecca. There is a lot of excitement not only for Notes/Domino but for the other products such as Lotus Connections and QuickR (I would hav Steve Castledine 22 January 2007 00:49:45 GMT I'm not sure how this happened but I turned around and I was instantly faced by a baying blogsphere crowd at the Lotusphere opening party. Hundreds of bloggers all wanting dominoblog blood. It wasn' Steve Castledine 20 January 2007 22:56:24 GMT A smooth day that started at 4am (100 mile drive to Manchester airport) - and I arrived at my hotel room (All Star Sports - aka Butlins) by 5:30pm Florida time (10:30pm by my body clock). 3 Hours sl Steve Castledine 18 January 2007 11:00:00 GMT Well the event is almost upon us. The following is where I will be - come and see me - ask me questions. Especially come to the labs and ask me questions on the blog template (please) then I will be b Steve Castledine 21 December 2006 12:15:00 GMT This will be a two part article as attachments are handled differently in the blog template than you might expect. However this leads to interesting ways of using this feature to create solutions such Steve Castledine 20 December 2006 00:45:00 GMT The default template that comes with the blog template does not have a "blog roll" configured. However it is relatively straightforward to create one. Adding links to the database The actual links Steve Castledine 19 December 2006 23:45:00 GMT By default when you create new entries in the blog database, the full entry is displayed on the homepage. Sometimes it might be preferable to show a small amount of the text and/or have users click Steve Castledine 8 December 2006 14:39:16 GMT The Lotus Notes blog template has the facility to notify you or a group of people when someone has added a comment to your site. There are two stages to setting this up. The first is to specify who Steve Castledine 5 December 2006 12:07:00 GMT The Lotus Notes blog template allows us to highlight comments entered by the content author's. I have this setup on this site (see right). To do this is quite straightforward. First of all we need t Steve Castledine 28 November 2006 17:02:58 GMT Expeditor 6.1 is now released publically - so you can find out what it is here. IBM Lotus Expeditor provides the client, the corresponding server side connectors, and a toolkit for a variety of capa Steve Castledine 23 November 2006 11:00:00 GMT So you want to look like me? Wouldn't recommend it so here is the Notes application for the theme for my blog instead (blix.zip at bottom of post). Steve Castledine 22 November 2006 14:01:48 GMT The default blog theme does not include links to the email or website addresses of users that have posted comments. Should you wish to add these links, then this can be done very easily and you hav Steve Castledine 17 November 2006 10:45:43 GMT Almost a non blogging week - been very busy. Anyway Lotusphere - I had mentioned I will be presenting this time around (yay) but I didn't cover what. Well I will be doing two sessions. A jumpstart Steve Castledine 10 November 2006 15:30:00 GMT In part one of this two part series, I showed you have to create the homepage and the services running off it such as the archives and RSS feeds etc. This article will show you how to edit the other p Steve Castledine 9 November 2006 21:35:05 GMT Just had confirmation that I will be presenting at Lotusphere 2007, Orlando! Will post more details soon - but this is exciting news! I will be on Honeymoon in January as well - in Florida! Might Steve Castledine 8 November 2006 23:15:48 GMT Sean Burgess and John Vaughan are doing a session at Lotusphere 2007 on the blog template - can't wait to see this! Congrats!!!! Steve Castledine 7 November 2006 21:15:00 GMT This article will go through the process you can use to take an existing design that has been created by a web designer (maybe your corporate look and feel) or is perhaps already available to other bl Steve Castledine 7 November 2006 17:46:45 GMT The incremental installers for Lotus Notes Domino 7.0.2 are now available from notes.net (developerWorks). Steve Castledine 7 November 2006 17:39:01 GMT How cool is this - a new developerWorks blog using the domino blog template - blends in nicely with the current site. I know I should grow up - but for me it is still cool to have my software running Steve Castledine 2 November 2006 13:15:00 GMT There are many options surrounding the use of Rich Text and HTML and combinations of within the Domino Blog Template. This article will try and explain some of these options. Standard Rich Text By Steve Castledine 2 November 2006 10:25:44 GMT Ben Poole has released DominoWiki 1.1 over at OpenNTF - I have just downloaded and will be playing later. Its interesting how many innovative solutions have come out of the UK and Ireland (thanks De Steve Castledine 1 November 2006 19:37:58 GMT This is sweet: Steve Castledine 1 November 2006 09:38:47 GMT The Lotus Notes 7.0.2 blog template can either run in "XHTML" mode or standard HTML. To switch the XHTML mode on or off, goto the configuration document and tabs "Site Settings" (default) and "Conte Steve Castledine 31 October 2006 12:15:00 GMT Comment numbering is actually one of the features that the default skin for the blog template has out of the box. However it is helpfull to know how it is done so it can be incorporated into your skin Steve Castledine 30 October 2006 10:59:21 GMT Apologies I should have done this a while ago - it was such a simple piece of code to write in the end. Anyway I have attached a zip file containing a notes database with an agent that will do the co Steve Castledine 27 October 2006 17:51:57 GMT For you, but not for me. I wrote the code to update from the old Dominoblog Template to the new IBM version. Ran the agent and then refreshed the design from the new template. Everything worked gr Steve Castledine 27 October 2006 13:27:35 GMT Whilst looking around for some documentation today, I came across an old Video Blog/Cast that I did a while ago on the subject of adding content to your site via email. You can download it here. Be w Steve Castledine 26 October 2006 19:45:00 GMT If your blog is open to anonymous access then most of this information will be of little relevance. However if you have authenticated users it shows how you can see who really is posting comments and Steve Castledine 20 October 2006 11:45:00 GMT When using the Lotus Notes blog template, you may have multiple authors and wish to display a picture automatically beside each entry in order to easily identify each post. So that this is an autom Steve Castledine 20 October 2006 10:42:30 GMT Just the ability to sit here and be able to adminstrate/fix/help/develop on any notes client or web based application, for any person anywhere in the world (if they have given me permission) just like Steve Castledine 19 October 2006 10:32:41 GMT As picked up by Ed, the IBM homepage has a feature on blogging right now. This feature highlights Ed and the Lotus Notes blogging template. Nice work and great graphics! Steve Castledine 11 October 2006 13:42:43 GMT Today I say a farewell to dominoblog.com. Relationships do not always last forever, and this one nearly reached four years until I cheated on her and ran off with IBM. It hurts to say that dominob Steve Castledine 6 October 2006 10:04:50 GMT Using this technote you can download a sample statistics template and record site usage of your blog site. Previously statistics were contained within the same database as the blog content, however Steve Castledine 5 October 2006 12:21:56 GMT Yesterday I had fun with Bruce and Julian and took part in their Lotus Notes Podcast. Episode 34 includes myself talking about the blog template. Listening to myself over audio is the equivalent of Steve Castledine 4 October 2006 11:09:44 GMT There are differences between my old dominoblog template and the version distributed by IBM. One of the technotes I have written describes these differences and it is now available here. You can pos Steve Castledine 2 October 2006 10:33:10 GMT The blog template for IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 7.0.2 is now available. You can find the template with the Server install. I will write some entries on this template over the next few weeks to highli Steve Castledine 29 September 2006 12:51:33 GMT Ten years ago today I switched jobs to a Lotus Business Partner from a Microsoft Business Partner. Therefore switching from consulting/developing with Exchange, VB and NT to Lotus Notes. I'm so glad I Steve Castledine 10 August 2006 12:00:00 GMT Alias's, Alias's, Alias's! Now in the most part I will be preaching to the converted. However from my time before IBM and consulting and developing for many companies that the concept of "Alias Name Steve Castledine 3 August 2006 17:07:41 GMT I had ideas for 3-4 show and tells this week - a couple around what I have picked up on this week on best practice for notes template development (the sort of thing that doesn't matter for 95% of deve Steve Castledine 1 August 2006 16:00:00 GMT I've been a bit quiet of late, mostly because i have had my head down working and also filling up on information (working out acronyms!). I go through these phases of soaking up as much info as poss Steve Castledine 21 July 2006 10:52:44 GMT Jeff Eisen (Chief Architect for Lotus Notes) now has a blog running and he is using the 7.0.2 IBM blog template. I'm not even eating my own dog food yet (I love that phrase) so I'm praying I didn't Steve Castledine 29 June 2006 01:00:00 GMT Usually we use the Domino engine to produce HTML from our rich text content. Sometimes, however, we may wish to create rich text back in our database from a HTML source. One reason we may want to do Steve Castledine 21 June 2006 15:05:56 GMT There is an article on Lotus Notes 7.0.2 on the IBM website read it here. Quote regarding the blog template: The 7.0.2 release also includes a blog template for creating online journals, bulletin Steve Castledine 9 June 2006 12:44:04 GMT Was I having kittens yesterday/last night. I have some deadlines to meet and my application suddenly declared "Document has Invalid Structure" when I tried to save a document. I was like "what"? Thi Steve Castledine 8 June 2006 16:42:49 GMT Well I will going to the Irish Lotus User Group next Friday (June 16th). This will be my first conference type event as an IBM'er - well actually it will my first conference type event since - well Steve Castledine 6 June 2006 09:27:38 GMT Wow - IBM have contributed to the Dojo Javascript Toolkit: IBM today announced plans to contribute key intellectual assets to the open source community, in an effort to help companies and software d Steve Castledine 1 June 2006 08:00:00 GMT Copying text to the clipboard should be easy enough but I remember when I looked into it last year it was not as easy as you would think. You can of course use win32 calls etc - but we live in a mul Steve Castledine 25 May 2006 08:00:00 GMT Theres been a lot of spam issues going around the blogs of late. So to offer some assistance I will talk about one measure that is pretty much 100% effective against robot spam. It really is so simp Steve Castledine 17 May 2006 17:00:00 GMT I've been playing working with Lotus Notes for many many years now. Yet always I come across "basic" things that I just didn't know about for whatever reason. Take field hints. I only came across to Steve Castledine 21 April 2006 14:15:00 GMT I have added these 2 guys blogs to my blogroll. They are Notes/Domino and Java related and they seem to know some great stuff! Mikkel Heisterberg Ganapathiram Natarajan Steve Castledine 7 April 2006 18:44:16 GMT This week I found a list of demos of IBM software that I never knew existed so I thought I would share this as I wish I had known about this before. Some key ones are Notes 7 and a tour of the Workpl Steve Castledine 3 March 2006 16:04:50 GMT To counter the Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino, I have written a tool myself but for the other way around (Microsoft to Lotus). It doesn't look as good, but it doesn't involve any Steve Castledine 1 March 2006 20:32:27 GMT Well its out - I was going to try it out for a laugh. However it required a 100mb download to get hold of .net 1.1 (which I did) but it also only works on v5 and 6 of Notes - so stumped there. I will Steve Castledine 14 February 2006 12:21:16 GMT After doing some work on enhancing Dominoblog features for Technorati Tagging - the thought came to mind - "who are we"? If you do searches for "Lotus Notes" etc in Technorati tagging - very few res Steve Castledine 9 February 2006 10:02:00 GMT A common theme - it raises its head again. My thoughts:1) I will always dislike a rival football team. They could become the best and most entertaining team in the world - I will always dislike them. Steve Castledine 8 February 2006 09:30:00 GMT Well - obviously it is most certainly not!In this spirit, I had a domain name www.notesisdead.com which I planned on being a central resource for why it is not. But the usual time restraints! This is Steve Castledine 2 February 2006 12:40:10 GMT Has anyone had any experience of problems
with a Domino 6 server, SSL, Internet Explorer and attachments and people
accessing the site via a proxy and not being able to download the attachments?
Steve Castledine 27 January 2006 13:48:00 GMT I love Lotusphere - yet I have never been.Every year I feel the buzz coming over the Atlantic, every year the content from blogs gets better and better. This year we even had podcasts (excellent job B Steve Castledine 1 December 2005 14:41:38 GMT I get asked this a lot - sending emails
from lotusscript so the sender address etc is exactly what you want. Heres
the function I use:
Sub sendMail(recipient As String,sender
As String,subject Steve Castledine 22 November 2005 18:03:23 GMT I setup a server to receive SMTP mail for
a test domain. I also setup the DNS for the domain so mail got sent to
my server.
I restarted my SMTP and great it worked.
Now it seems it doesn't - a Steve Castledine 8 November 2005 16:15:43 GMT As an IBM Business Partner I have had a
lot of reminder emails regarding nominations for the Lotus Awards.
In case I missed something I looked again today at the categories of which
there are 7 Steve Castledine 2 November 2005 21:01:28 GMT I have released a new version of my Content
Management/Blog software for IBM Lotus Notes at www.dominoblog.com.
Steve Castledine 18 October 2005 11:24:58 GMT Some people will not understand this one,
but to me (a creative code monkey) the new Agent Profiling class in Notes/Domino
7 is just great.
For the first time I can see how long each call is tak Steve Castledine 15 October 2005 13:15:11 GMT I love Lotus Notes and I love developing
on the platform - its amazing!
But little things annoy (like with every
platform).
How about this one - selecting a view
for a dialog list - could the Steve Castledine 11 October 2005 14:09:15 GMT Well I lobbed on Domino 7 server on my
laptop yesterday - thats where I do most of my testing.
My Laptop is just a lowly XP machine
with 1 gig of ram.
Since upgrading memory use by the agent
Steve Castledine 30 August 2005 14:42:17 GMT Domino 7 has gone gold.
Via Bill
and Ben.
I never spotted the uk childrens program link with those two names until
after I typed it in! Steve Castledine 4 August 2005 22:09:57 GMT Yes I am still mad.
One of my current "playing around"
projects is a cross browser spelling checker for Lotus Notes/Domino.
I see lots of solutions out there -
a lot are browser dependant, and Steve Castledine 4 August 2005 22:04:27 GMT This has happened to me years ago - and
has been happening to me again recently.
I can make a change to my location document
(which is in my local address book) - save it and it works fine.
I Steve Castledine 22 June 2005 15:51:42 GMT Today I am mostly pasting lotuscript into
Java libraries and converting to Java - fun eh! Holidays tomorrow! Steve Castledine 22 June 2005 15:46:09 GMT One frustration I have always had is unrestricted
agents - java and especially internet communication.
I do a lot of java agents which do internet
communication - because of the internet communic Steve Castledine 2 June 2005 11:05:10 GMT Being the typical ignorant English speaking
developer I am, character sets and languages etc have never been something
I have considered a priority when developing applications.
However a few of Steve Castledine 10 May 2005 16:54:16 GMT An old chestnut I remembered today when
trying to work out a "Notes Error - Entry Not Found in Index"
problem from lotusscript.
This particular view has its "Generate
Unique Keys in Index" prope Steve Castledine 5 May 2005 15:36:52 GMT Heres a something I ran into today.
I have a form - a rich text field on
that form - and a field "URL".
I have discovered that after saving
the document any "hotspot" links which are local (ie Steve Castledine 25 February 2005 14:26:16 GMT Something I have been mulling over the
past few days is scheduled agents and how you cannot programmatically change
the scheduling and therefore cannot provide a user interface for people
to adjust Steve Castledine 10 February 2005 20:36:44 GMT One client project I have on my books which
is nearing my "do list" is to develop some software to spider
a Quickplace site and create an archive which will run from a cd without
domino etc.
An Steve Castledine 19 January 2005 20:30:53 GMT One of my many projects of late is building
a free and open source RSS Reader for Lotus Notes.
Well version 1 should be released this week - its starts simple - but it
does the job and the code Steve Castledine 17 January 2005 20:46:09 GMT I don't need to talk about this
entry on Ed's site - but what
struck me was an insight from an Exchange guy.
I picked up on the following comment on Jim Bernardo's MSN space:
I understan Steve Castledine 9 December 2004 20:15:28 GMT I am so never using a field called "author"
again in Notes - all day in lotusscript the "clever" IDE keeps
changing the field to Authors - thinking thats what I want - I know its
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