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I’m so Notes Traveler ready…

Got my new cell phone yesterday… It’s a Samsung i600 running Windows Mobile 6 so it’s Notes Traveler ready when it ships with Notes/Domino 8.0.1 i 1Q2008. First impressions of the phone are very favorable and I think it’s going to fit me just fine. A nice feature is that the package includes two batteries and an external charger to charge the second battery outside the phone. Whether that means that the phone consumes at LOT of battery power remains to be seen.

So far only one small thing. How do you find the MAC address of the built in Wifi? Well you simply dial *#1546792*# (or invoke WindowsAdminSettings.exe) and find in under “Version”. Strange but it works. Wifi from bed… 🙂

Eclipse Version Qualifiers

When developing plug-ins and features in Eclipse you need to change the version number to force Notes 8 to redownload and install the feature/plug-in. To make this easier you can use version qualifiers – this will make your life much easier. For more info see Using Version Qualifiers. Thanks to Pierre Carlson from IBM.

Sick of java.awt type ahead suggestions in Eclipse?

Then you need this little handy tip. There are many classes with identical or similar names in the java.awt and the SWT widget libraries. Having to distinguish between the package names in the type ahead dropdown is a pain and lead to wrongful imports so do yourself this favor:

  • Open Eclipse
  • Select Window/Preferences from the menu
  • Expand Java/Appearance/Type Filters from the menu on the left
  • Click the “Add package” button, enter “java.awt” (without the quotes) and click OK
  • OK your way out

This will make Eclipse remove any matching classes from the java.awt package from your type ahead list. Very nice…

And while you’re there you might want to add lotus.domino.cso, lotus.domino.local and lotus.notes to the list as well as all Domino programming is done through the lotus.domino package.

Dragons…

Normally I wouldn’t post stuff like this on this blog but I’m so excited that I have to do just that. I have been a long time fan of the Dragonlance novels and now that an animated feature of the first novel is in the works I’m just plain excited. The first movie will be Dragons of Autumn Twilight and will be released directly to DVD. See here for more info on the movie.

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T61p

Yesterday I picked up my new laptop – a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p. It’s a worthy replacement for my 3 year old IBM Thinkpad T41p. I know it’s very nerdy but boy it’s nice! 🙂

It’s shipping with Windows Vista Ultimate so now I have to determine whether to go with Vista or install Windows XP which was my intent initially.