The VIEW article published
Just had to post a plug for my new article in THE VIEW called "Extend the power of LotusScript with DXL and OOP"... :-) If you have an electronic subscription the article is available now.
This article is much more technical than the first and explains in detail how to leverage DXL from LotusScript using XSLT and the built in XML classes as well as how to use pipelining to avoid writing intermediary results to the harddrive. Apart from the DXL stuff there's also something on how to use design patterns in LotusScript to build dynamic decision making trees using the Chain of Command design pattern.
I hope you enjoy reading it and take something away from it. If you have questions or comments please let me know.
Change to LDAP Directory Assistance (in Domino 7)
Or at least I think the change was in Domino 7... I never noticed it before since we have been using a custom DSAPI authentication module to work around the shortcoming in previous Domino releases.
The change is that the @Username function now returns the distinguished name of the authenticated user separated with slashes (/) even though it is a LDAP name and hence really separated by commas. This is über nice since it means we can scrap the custom DSAPI module and move the application from a Domino 5.x server to a Domino 7 server (we are having big issues deploying the DSAPI filter on Domino 7).
Sweet!
(For the record - my custom DSAPI filter does more than convert LDAP names separated by commas to names separated by slashes. It also handles dynamic LDAP groups composed on the groupOfUrls objectClass. If you need something like that let me know.)
Got bitten by Skype
It appears that Skype, in its default setup, listens on port 80 and port 443 (HTTP and HTTPS) when loaded (alternative ports for incoming calls). This is bad when running a web server for testing or trying to use the web preview from Domino Desinger. So mental note to self - no Skype while working!! :-)
STLoginMonitor Java Application for Lotus Sametime
"The STLoginMonitor tool is an unsupported tool developed to test logins to a Sametime server and if logins fail, it can restart services and/or notify Administrators of the failure."
Via the Lotus Support RSS feed: STLoginMonitor Java Application for Lotus Sametime