Month: February 2008

Upgraded to Notes 8.0.1

Did my upgrade to Notes 8.0.1 Standard today without any serious issues. Only thing I noticed was a strange password dialog (no option to change location) on my initial login to Notes after the installation. After that initial login the client went into “provisioning mode” where it looked as though the Expeditor underpinnings installed and uninstalled a large number of plug-ins. This was probably replacing the Lotus Productivity Editors with Lotus Symphony (beta 4).

Nothing else worth noticing – all in all a very uneventful upgrade. IMHO there’s no reason to hold of upgrading. Besides getting Symphony Beta 4 which is nice I’m now also a happy Sametime 8 user.

THE VIEW 2008 Technical Supplement available for download


THE VIEW 2008 Technical Solutions Supplement is now available for download from THE VIEW at no charge. Although you will likely pick up a hardcopy at some conference this year it never hurts to have the PDF as well. The supplement features a short piece by yours truly called “Use a blackbox to bolster your Sametime Connect buddy list with business card data”.

Download THE VIEW 2008 Solutions Supplement

Learning the ropes (pun intended)

I discovered this article through my developerWorks subscription and it was an interesting read. I picked up on the article since I do a lot of String manipulation in LotusScript.doc but hardly in the the 50MB range as described in the article. Still I think you should read the article if you

  1. like to learn new API’s
  2. like to think outside the box
  3. do stuff in Java

Article abstract:

“Systems that manipulate large quantities of string data are poorly served by the Java language’s default String and StringBuilder classes. A rope data structure can be a better alternative. This article introduces Ropes for Java, a rope implementation for the Java platform; explores performance issues; and provides pointers for effective use of the library.”

developerWorks: Ropes: Theory and practice – Why and when to use Ropes for Java for string manipulations

Who planned the Greenhouse conference call?

I, like many other, receieved the invitation to a webcast on the greenhouse.lotus.com on February 22 at 2 PM EST. While I really appreciate and applaud the initiative I find it “interesting” that one would plan a web conference/conference call at 2PM in EST when the audience is global. Something like 8AM or 10AM EST would be much more appropriate. Both to possible European not to mention Asian attendees.

I know that 8 AM would be troublesome to people on pacific time but go with 10 AM – that’s what many other international IBM conference calls does. And then on a Friday – 2PM EST would be Saturday in many parts of Asia!

Hmmm – better planning next time please. Great initiative though…

Eclipse Monkey


“Ok, get this – it’s just like Grease Monkey for Firefox… except it’s for Eclipse!”

Now this is cool. I found out about Eclipse Monkey through its name being dropped in a group chat on an DP call and decided to research a little. The article I found is rather old but gives a nice description. Further info can be found at eclipse.org/dash which is the container project.

Think of being able to write scripts that affects functionality across Notes applications in Notes 8. Aspect-based programming for Notes. Hmmmm… It makes my mind wander.

Link to eclipsezone.com: Eclipse Monkey – Now That’s Cool

Stupid is as stupid does

Danish news ran a story on TV last night about a guy who allegedly had won 1 million USD in an anonymous internet lottery. And a Nigerian one at that. What’s even worse is that the guy actually started to pay the different “taxes” and “surcharges” before he could have the money. He paid 633.000 DKK (approx. 120.000 USD) before realizing that something was up. Smart guy!

He’s 30 years of from having paid of the debts from this. Some people just never learn. Poor man…