Month: February 2007

Location identification in Sametime 7.5 – working as designed?


As you probably know Sametime 7.5 will automatically discover which location you are at when you run Sametime and display it in the top right corner. As previously described (Central repository of known locations for Sametime 7.5) this information is kept in the locprofile-config.xml file which stores the location information indexed by the network address (e.g. 192.168.100.0) and the MAC address of the gateway.

I am however starting to doubt whether Sametime actually uses the MAC address information at all. I am currently on a network with the same network characteristics as my home network and Sametime is showing that I am at home which in fact I’m not…

Time to call support I guess unless someone knows the answer…

Sametime tip of the day!

While IM’ing with a colleague in Sametime 7.5 this morning I discovered a neat little trick. When the cursor is in the text area you can press Ctrl-(up arrow) to circle through the previous messages you have sent in that chat session. Please note that any text you have already entered in the text area will be replaced.

Cool and very handy.

Sign the petition for Domino Designer on Eclipse!!

Read all about it on Stephans blog… Direct linkt to the petetion: http://www.lotususers.org/dde

Hmmmm… Would it be considered bad form to post the code for an agent that read through your Domino Directory and did an HTTP POST request for each of the users there? ๐Ÿ˜‰ I mean – doesn’t all users want applications written using best-of-breed tools?

Should I? Well using HTTPClient it wouldn’t take long… Let’s go… No I better not! Well just maybe… Arrggghhh!! ๐Ÿ˜‰ 

POST /DDE/petition?CreateDocument HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.lotususers.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0
Content-Length: 36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

name=John+Doe&email=jdoe@example.com

P.S.: I know the above wont work – there is a trick!! You didn’t really think I would post the correct code did you? ๐Ÿ˜€

Junk mail handling in Notes 8

In November of last year I wrote about the junk mail handling in Notes 7 but it just hit me that I forgot to ask the developers about this at Lotusphere. I would like to know what they are planning to do for Notes 8. The issue is basically that Notes 7 junk mail handling is broken and I would like to know how junk mail filtering is done in the Notes 8 mail template.

Does anyone know or does anyone have an e-mail address to one of the Notes 8 “mail experience” developers?

No trial of Portlet Factory?


I talked to a couple of the Websphere folks at Lotusphere 2007 regarding trying out Portlet Factory before buying the product. We have a web application where I can really see the development benefit in moving it to Portal though I have to build a business case for it to justify the spending. To speed up the migration I would like to use Portlet Factory.

Unfortunately there isn’t a trial version available for download and it appears that it would have to be made available to you by someone in the sales organization which doesn’t seem likely in our case. Unfortunately we do not have the PartnerWorld Value Pack either so I cannot simply download the product from there. So much for trying that product out… ๐Ÿ™

It sure looks promising though…

I’m back…

After Lotusphere I spent a little more than a week in New York City simply vacationing. That was nice. Now I’m back and ready to get going – I guess I’ll have to start digesting everything that was said and shown at Lotusphere. Regular blogging to resume any day now…