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How does Quickr document versioning work?  
Fri, Nov 28th 2008 7:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
I seldom used versioning for documents saved in my old "beloved" Quickplace. With Quickr 8.1 I tried to use document versioning but I was a little bit worried because I could not find any menu action to do that (I was trying to version a Quickr Page). Not evenany Quickr server setting or Place setting :-( After some search I find out the following IBM technote that explains the whole subject in Quickr 8.x: Document Versioning in Lotus Quickr 8.1 services for Domino P.S. About Quickr connecto [read] Keywords: document
domino
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What a mess at Babylon Ltd ! 
Fri, Nov 28th 2008 7:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
Some years ago I bought Babylon, the translator utility for my Windows laptop. I WAS a happy user, until recently I just started to see pop-up messages telling me that I cannot use Babylon in more than one computer: I only use it on my Toshiba computer! Ok, s*t happens, but the problem is with the Babylon Help Desk: I took me a lot of time to temporarily fix the problem. Many mail messages back and forth between me and the Help Desk. Maybe I was unlucky, but it seemed that the Helpdesk guy was [read] Keywords: laptop
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FormatFactory: a free and complete media converter 
Sun, Nov 23rd 2008 6:55p Cristian D'Aloisio
A really nice freeware media converter: video, images, audio, portable devices, etc. Take a look to it, it's worth of it! FormatFactory website [read] Keywords: |
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Testing Lotus Traveler inside a Windows Mobile emulator
Sat, Nov 22nd 2008 7:55p Cristian D'Aloisio
Everybody is waiting to download Lotus Traveler compatible with Symbian phone. I read some docs about Lotus Traveler but never had the chance to test it: I use one Blackberry device but have no other device compatible with Windows Mobile :-( But I googled the web and found out that's available a Windows Mobile emulator/simulator used by programmers. So why not test the Lotus Traveler inside the Windows Mobile emulator? Here's what I did on my Windows XP Pro SP2 pc: I downloaded and installed [read] Keywords: document
domino
lotus
lotusdomino
traveler
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blackberry
microsoft
mobile
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Some Audacity with nsfdb2 (sound improving)
Tue, Nov 18th 2008 3:55a Cristian D'Aloisio
With some Audacity and a little VirtualDub, I had fun trying to improve the sound quality of my & Vincenzo session at the DominoPoint Day 2 (nsfdb2 plus AS/400 federation) ;-) [read] Keywords: nsfdb2
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What was the first picture on the Web?
Thu, Nov 13th 2008 7:55p Cristian D'Aloisio
I was stumbling upon the web and I found the website "Photos that Changed the World". Really impressive pictures. You can see many moving classic pictures, but also the first picture that was published on the Web by Tim Berners-Lee: surprise, girls! ;-) [read] Keywords: |
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Pushing (too much) my Blackberry BES server?
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 3:53a Cristian D'Aloisio
Some months ago, reading some Blackberry docs, I found out that a Blackberry BES server can send messages (push) to specific BES users, I mean people with Blackberry devices managed by the BES server. What kind of messages? You can send a URL address that will show on the users BB device with a custom read/unread icon: you can see the message inside the Inbox OR on the BB device desktop (it depends on the push message type). When the user clicks on the icon, the browser will load the "pushed" [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
notes client
application
applications
bes
blackberry
desktop
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Domino nsfdb2 & AS/400 federation: the Italian video from DominoPoint Day 2008
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 1:53a Cristian D'Aloisio
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Notes 8.5 beta 2 Standard on USB (nomad)? Yes, No, maybe...
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 7:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
I installed the Standard client of Lotus Notes 8.5 beta 2 on an external USB hard-disk ("Nomad" or "Notes on a stick"), on my Windows XP Pro (I read somewhere that it was possible with Beta 1). After the successful installation (via command line), I tried to run the Lotus Notes client but I received an error message that prevent me to use it. Later I found this old post from Ed and Anthony and I also read the COMMENTS: if I'm not wrong, Notes 8.5 beta 2 Standard client does NOT seem to be inst [read] Keywords: lotus
lotusnotes
notes
notes client
roaming
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SnTT: How to remove encryption to a local databases
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 7:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
You made a local replica of a Notes database (application) but forgot to disable encryption? No problem, you just delete the local db and make a new replica choosing to disable the encryption setting. Right? Wrong! There's another way to get rid of the local db encryption, without deleting it. How? - show the properties window of the local db - click the "Encryption Settings" button of the first window tab - choose "Do not locally encrypt this database" - compact the local db (from the Compa [read] Keywords: notes
sntt
application
database
properties
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Quickr needs a recycle bin!
Mon, Nov 3rd 2008 7:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
Today I've had a bad user experience using Quickr Connector via the Windows (file) Explorer (latest version, compatible with Notes 8.0.2) and I'm starting "loosing my faith" about the Quickr Connector reliability... I unintentional deleted some files as a side-effects of a simple Quickr Connector operation: my first irrational reaction, since I was using the Connector ;-) , was to browse the Recycle Bin to undo my delete... I was too optimistic! Then I also have taken a look to the Quickr web [read] Keywords: notes
quickr
ideajam
ideajam.net
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Is your company organization chart like this?
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 8:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
via Bedkey corner [read] Keywords: blogSphere
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How to disable the Sametime plugin inside Notes R8 Standard
Wed, Oct 29th 2008 8:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
Are you tired about dealing with both the Notes R8 Sametime plugin AND Sametime Connect client installed on the same pc? Take a look to IBM Technote 1289437 to know how to disable the Sametime plugin from the Notes R8 client: "Is it possible to install Sametime plugin for Notes 8 client (Standard Configuration), but not have it enabled or displayed in UI?" [read] Keywords: ibm
notes
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Pimp your R8 sidebar (your customers will love it)
Sat, Oct 25th 2008 7:58p Cristian D'Aloisio
I was thrilled when I first saw the R8 Sidebar: I honestly expected to use it a lot, especially the Widgets panel, but lately I was a bit disappointed ... I tried to add some Notes db views on the client Sidebar, but I could not do it, I always had to deal with frameset containing it, etc. Many Notes friends had my same feeling until.... I saw a post by Mary Beth AND a comment (#2) written by Brian Leonard about a nice trick! Here is the story. When I specify the Notes view to add on the Side [read] Keywords: document
domino
ibm
notes
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application
widgets
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SnTT: when LS cannot retrieve all SQL data via ODBC...
Thu, Oct 23rd 2008 5:52a Cristian D'Aloisio
This SnTT post may not be new for some people, but believe me, it will be useful to many programmers you will soon deal with this issue ;-) Every now and then I develop a LotusScript agent to retrieve data from any data source via ODBC and SQL statement: usually I use LS:DO classes to do the job, easy and straightforward way. Problem is when reading a large recordset, via a standard code like this: ' result as ODBCResultSet Do result.NextRow 'Process each row Loop Until result.IsEndOfData [read] Keywords: agent
designer
lotusscript
sntt
odbc
sql
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Dealing with your diet
Sun, Oct 19th 2008 8:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
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You can rent this space for 30 days. Interested?
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nsfdb2 is back: English slides!
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 8:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
Roland, a friend from Canada, asked me about the presentation I did with Vincenzo at DominoPoint Day 2008: he liked it and he also asked me to translate it to English. I've also included some useful Flash video to show how to install DB2 server, DB2 Access for Domino and enabling Federation to access AS/400 (System i or any name you like...). Have fun ;-) [read] Keywords: domino
nsfdb2
application
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Moving old Thunderbird e-mail messages to Gmail
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 8:53p Cristian D'Aloisio
During the past 10 years I collected several private e-mail accounts, all POP3 ones. Each time I had to use a brand-new computer I also had to move all mailboxes saved locally :-( After using Microsoft Outlook Express for a while, I started using Thunderbird client. Later I started using a Gmail account (could you believe it, a friend had to invite me!) and set it up to collect all other accounts mailboxes and label messages according to the account name. This afternoon I realized I still had [read] Keywords: notes
R7
email
google
microsoft
outlook
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A successful conference
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 10:51p Cristian D'Aloisio
DominoPointDay 2 is the Italian Lotus User Group conference that was held in Milan (Italy) the 10th of October (yesterday). It was a successful event: more than 500 people registered to attend the event interesting topics: Portal server, nsfdb2, Dojo, Symphony, NSD log decoding, performance tuning, Quickr, Sametime, gmail-like Notes mail and morea guest star: Jamie Magee from MartinScottgenerous event sponsors: IBM, BlackBerry, TeamStudio, etc.I and Vincenzo spoke about R8 nsfdb2 feature (on Wi [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
notes
nsd
nsfdb2
quickr
R8
sametime
symphony
blackberry
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google
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jodconverter: a free document format converter
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 8:55p Cristian D'Aloisio
At UKLUG2008 I attended the session held by Mark Myers about developing good Domino solution with free software (I mean Mark, NOT Mike Myers, the naughty shaggy guy... ;-) ) That was the first time I heard about the jodconverter! It allows you to programmatically convert documents between different office formats (MS Office & OpenOffice), PDF and other formats too. From the official website: ODConverter can be used in many different ways As a Java library, embedded in your own Java applica [read] Keywords: agent
connections
document
domino
lotusscript
notes
R7
application
java
office
openoffice
php
python
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Reading many PDF documents?
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 8:55p Cristian D'Aloisio
As many people, I have many PDF (Portable Document Format) documents, especially technical ones. I like reading, highlight text and annotate printed documents, but many times I simply don't want to waste hundreds of paper sheets! What a waste of paper, especially for new manuals for each software release... So I decided to buy the popular handy software: FoxIt Reader. The reader-only version is fast and also free, but I decided to buy the Reader Pro Pack version ($39) that let me insert/modif [read] Keywords: document
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Sntt Quickr: "The place name you entered is already taken" error message
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 4:51a Cristian D'Aloisio
I was trying to create a new Quickr place, say "myplace". But I could not! (the problem I found was for that place name only...) I got the error message: "The place name you entered is already taken" ( in Italian "Il nome di area immesso è già utilizzato" ). I made some investigation: no place name such that in the PlaceCatalogno "myplace" Quickr databases inside the Domino data directory So why Quickr continued warning me about an place name already taken? Solution: I found a mail-in defi [read] Keywords: document
domino
quickr
sntt
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Anna & Matilde, one year later!
Sun, Sep 28th 2008 8:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
Yesterday it was an important day for me and my family: we celebrated the 1st birthway of my baby twin nieces, Anna & Matilde, and they were baptized in a Catholic church. We had a little party with many people: doctors, nurses, relatives, friends and many children, some of them were preterm babies. My nieces are preterm babies who were born at the 24th week of gesture, with the weight less than 600 grams (21 ounces): they survived and they are completely healthy. [read] Keywords: blogger
google
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A poor devil job
Wed, Sep 24th 2008 8:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
Every now and then I'm amazed by what can be accomplished using Adobe Flash. Browsing the web I found the nice Pixton online service: you can design your own comics, share then with other people, get feedbacks, remix other authors work, embed strips into your web pages. Simply great! I wanted to make a simple test and designed my first comic strip. Have a look to my strip and make your own Lotus-related comic! ;-) [read] Keywords: lotus
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UKLUG2008 : some random pictures
Sat, Sep 20th 2008 8:56p Cristian D'Aloisio
Link to Picasa album [read] Keywords: application
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UKLUG2008 : guess what?
Fri, Sep 19th 2008 9:49p Cristian D'Aloisio
Time to go back to Bologna, Italy...Later I will try to arrange my thoughts about my own UKLUG experience.See you October 10th at Milan, DominoPoint Day, the Italian Lotus User Group. [read] Keywords: lotus
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UKLUG2008 : starting day 2 with...
Fri, Sep 19th 2008 4:49a Cristian D'Aloisio
... Paul Money & Matt White session: Domino 8.5 ! [read] Keywords: domino
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UKLUG2008 : Jamie Magee
Fri, Sep 19th 2008 4:49a Cristian D'Aloisio
Yesterday afternoon I met Jamie Magee from MartinScott.He talked about fixing domino applications performance problems: nice talk, simple and effective.Btw, if you will attend DominoPoint Day in Milan, 10th October, you can meet him there, he will present the same session. [read] Keywords: domino
applications
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UKLUG2008 : not only notes/domino!
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 8:49p Cristian D'Aloisio
I decided to attend my first musical show in my life: Billy Elliot. (Victoria Palace Theatre, London).Wow, that's really astonishing, funny and moving show.Great show, great storyboard and superb music score from Elton John.Don't miss it if you are in London!PS I did not see the Billy Elliot movie ;-) [read] Keywords: domino
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UKLUG2008 : wild bill not wild anymore ;-)
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 8:49p Cristian D'Aloisio
Bill changed his look since ilug2007 ! No beer, no green t-shirt!Ps My bb battery is running out... Sorry! [read] Keywords: mobile
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Uklug2008 : really handy
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 8:49p Cristian D'Aloisio
Finally someone had the cool idea! [read] Keywords: mobile
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Uklug2008: symantec and data growth
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 8:49p Cristian D'Aloisio
Ron is talking about e-mail growth and info retrieval becoming difficult...Some figures from market analyses: - like it or not, 75% of company info is nowadays found on e-mail messages: e-mail is used as personal repository, for attachments too. - 60% of mail is spam - 80% of viruses are coming from mail messagesAnd then the speech continued about Symatec products for Notes/Domino about archiving and retrieval. Interesting...BTW Any real feedback about Symatec products for archiving? Are them be [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
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archiving
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Uklug2008: blackberry speech just ended
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 8:49p Cristian D'Aloisio
My perception about RIM and Blackberry is getting better and better. Great company, great product.The speech was interesting. I was glad that RIM is developing an interface (web?) to access Quickr pages and attachments.BTW I lost my London map but I could reach the conference center just using my BB and Google maps with GPS support! [read] Keywords: quickr
blackberry
google
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Glimpses: Domino 8.5 and Connections
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 5:49a Cristian D'Aloisio
Domino 8.5 will be a server focused release: it will integrate with Lotus Connections. [read] Keywords: connections
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Ed Brill talking...
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 4:50a Cristian D'Aloisio
... About 20 years leadership of lotus notes/domino in collaboration.-- ========================== CRISTIAN D'ALOISIO Notes/Domino programmer/admin dif1754@gmail.com http://www.dominobaloney.com ========================== [read] Keywords: admin
collaboration
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uklug2008 starting
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 4:50a Cristian D'Aloisio
Warren Elsmore just started the welcome speech. Ed Brill is the next speaker!Nice place Church House Conference Center.Everybody seem sleepy, or maybe it's just me ;-)-- ========================== CRISTIAN D'ALOISIO Notes/Domino programmer/admin dif1754@gmail.com http://www.dominobaloney.com ========================== [read] Keywords: admin
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UKLUG 2008: time to pack!
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 8:49p Cristian D'Aloisio
This year I will attend UKLUG (UK Lotus User Group) for the first time. The agenda is interesting and I'm sure I will meet many "old" and new friends/bloggers. I only regret that my friend Vincenzo will not be with me... and maybe no other Italian people will be there for the event.... or not?! Many thanks to Warren Elsmore and all the people who arranged the event! P.S. By the way, on 10th October there will be the 2nd edition of DominoPoint Day, the Italian Lotus User Group. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Never do it during lunchbreak
Mon, Sep 15th 2008 5:59a Cristian D'Aloisio
One friend was surprise I ate such a big pizza on friday night! But my biggest pizza was eaten during lunch time and... It was a rolled pizza, stuffed with blue and cottage cheese (gorgonzola and ricotta) and covered with prosciutto ham. Could you imagine how I felt afterwards? OMG, I'm experience Pavlov's conditional reflexes... [read] Keywords: blogger
google
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My kingdom for a pizza
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 6:52a Cristian D'Aloisio
Yesterday night I had lunch with two old-time friends. Luckily we chatted from 7.30pm to 1.30am, so I had time to digest that yummy pizza ;-) We talked about old times, technology, Blackberry, evolution of Lotus Notes/Domino and... why that damn Notes mail calendar profile can still get damaged! After years, there are still old issues that make us crazy ;-) [read] Keywords: domino
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... and so Java is working in Google Chrome browser!
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 10:03p Cristian D'Aloisio
see Google info page (via mdm post) [read] Keywords: google
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Who's afraid about the future? shift happens!
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 8:01p Cristian D'Aloisio
Nice video found on YouTube about changes in our fast and modern times. [read] Keywords: application
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Holding on Chrome, using Google Picasa
Sun, Sep 7th 2008 8:50p Cristian D'Aloisio
All the geek world is thrilled by Chrome, the brand-new Google browser: for me, I will wait using it until there will be nice add-ons for it, as the ones I'm using with Firefox. I'm a big fan of Google products, so I'm sure that soon or later we will use the G-browser. In the mean time, I suggest you to take a look to the new releases of other Google products: Picasa 3 beta Picasaweb Picasa 3 now allows you to arrange photo slideshows with background music and publish it on YouTube. Moreover [read] Keywords: firefox
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Notes mail ultralite for the iPhone
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 8:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
Let's face it, the iPhone look is really gorgeous... If you have a Domino R8.0.2 server and you have updated your mailbox to the latest template (mail8.ntf), you can see the nice DWA/iNotes ultralight edition, especially suited for the iPhone (link) I don't have an iPhone, so I used Firefox browser and the User-Agent switcher add-on (link) to be a fake Opera browser... ;-) I could see this web page: Therefore I could see the url to open your mailbox, ultralite version style... http://www.myd [read] Keywords: agent
domino
dwa
ibm
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lotus
notes
ntf
R8
template
firefox
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Oh no! more wedding pictures
Mon, Sep 1st 2008 8:12p Cristian D'Aloisio
Author: Gianluca Diegoli [read] Keywords: application
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Elly & Cristian - Wedding 29th August 2008
Mon, Sep 1st 2008 6:32a Cristian D'Aloisio
Thanks everybody for your congratulations for our wedding! Author: Ivan Volpi [read] Keywords: application
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Arranging a wedding lunch in Italy
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 7:09p Cristian D'Aloisio
It's over midnight here in Italy and I'm so tired... I've just chosen the restaurant for my wedding party, finally. Gosh, sometimes I forget that Italy is really an amazing place for food, wine and amazing locations: so many places to visit. I made several phone calls, e-mail memos and web form submissions to get some useful info about prices and food. I have two funny cases for you. 1. A restaurant manager called me just after three minutes since I submitted my contact web form. It was a w [read] Keywords: |
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Countdown to my wedding day...
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 3:49a Cristian D'Aloisio
29 August 2008 11.00 am Central European Time The ceremony will be broadcasted here: http://www.comune.bologna.it/bologna/matrimoni/diretta.php [read] Keywords: application
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Blackberry development: it's not my fault
Mon, Aug 18th 2008 10:50a Cristian D'Aloisio
I really hope that the Blackberry Simulator has some bugs, it cannot be my application fault! ;-) [read] Keywords: application
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You never know, learn a new (human) language...
Mon, Aug 18th 2008 5:51a Cristian D'Aloisio
What happens when an Italian guy is going to marry an Idonesian woman and they communicate using just English language? They both need to learn the language of the partner, Italian and Indonesian, otherwise it will be very difficult speaking with their own parents-in-law... We found two podcasts, both hosted in English, to learn just the basics of the partner language: Learning Indonesian and ItalianPod . For the people who need to improve their English skills, I can suggest to hear a nice po [read] Keywords: podcast
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How many Notes/Domino developers in IBM?
Sun, Aug 17th 2008 2:12p Cristian D'Aloisio
I "finally" found the answer to an old question I had in my mind for a long time. ;-) The answer is: 850 It's really special number number from fate: 8.50 is in beta. I mean, 850 developers are working on the development of Notes/Domino products in IBM. I got the answer from Ed's post you can read here: "In the last six years, IBM has released four major releases of Notes/Domino, and another one is coming soon. IBM has already announced a major release 12-18 months after this one. I don't see [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
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A good reason to learn English
Sat, Aug 16th 2008 4:49p Cristian D'Aloisio
Really funny! [read] Keywords: application
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A helpful policy for Notes R8 plug-in installation
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 4:09p Cristian D'Aloisio
I was getting mad trying to install some third-party plug-ins for my Notes R8.02 beta 2 ! e.g. see Why? Because I could not even see the usual File > Application > Install menu item to start the plug-in installation! That's should be very easy indeed, I already did it with previous Notes 8 installation, just adding line: com.ibm.notes.branding/enable.update.ui=true inside the text file named PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION.INI . Of course I relaunched my Notes client to see the hidden menu i [read] Keywords: admin
document
domino
ibm
lotus
notes
notes client
policies
R8
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Ubuntu 8.04 power management
Wed, Aug 13th 2008 6:49p Cristian D'Aloisio
Uno dei maggiori problemi di questa versione di Ubuntu (ma anche di versioni precedenti) è la gestione del "power management", nel senso che sospensione ed ibernazione semplicemente... non funzionano (almeno asul mio HP 6120 e su altri parecchi modelli a giudicare dai post che si trovano sul web) e al momento del ripristino spesso "piantano" il PC. Dopo avere tentato varie strade, la soluzione (come spesso accade) è a portata di mano... basta utilizzare lo splendido tool GCONF... lanciare da [read] Keywords: ubuntu |
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Getting married... on the web!
Tue, Aug 12th 2008 12:29a Cristian D'Aloisio
On August 29th, 11 a.m. central european time, I will get married with Elly. The ceremony will be held at Palazzo d'Accursio, Sala Rossa, in Bologna. It will be a civil marriage in Italy, later we will have catholic ceremony in Indonesia (yet to be defined). The ceremony will be broadcasted over the web, it's a Town Hall free service! Here is the web address where you can connect to using Internet Explorer 6+ or Firefox, with Flash plugin installed. Wish us good luck! ;-) [read] Keywords: firefox
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Let's help designers eating...
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 10:12a Cristian D'Aloisio
Designers Need To Eat Too! from Helen Olney on Vimeo. [read] Keywords: application
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HttpSession: http session variables in LotusScript
Thu, Aug 7th 2008 6:31p Cristian D'Aloisio
I'm developing HttpSession, a class hosted by a LS library, to manage HTTP sessions variables shared among many LS web agents calls. Right now the library is in alpha stage, I'm continuing testing it... ;) Http session variables are commonly used in Java servlets. I decided to mimic somehow the HttpSession interface as defined in Java. In small words, just using HttpSession during web development, when a web user invokes LS agentA and LS agentB, the programmer can save, "o [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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I will attend UKLUG 2008
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 3:49a Cristian D'Aloisio
This year I missed ILUG 2008 but I will attend UKLUG 2008: London, 18th-19th September. See you there! [read] Keywords: ilug
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Any library to manage HttpSession data storing and retrieval in LotusScript web agents ?
Fri, Aug 1st 2008 6:29a Cristian D'Aloisio
In programming I don't like to "reinvent the wheel", I like to use reliable code written by (smart) people who already had to face common needs. That's why I use libraries like OpenLog, WebSession, libraries to compute MD5 hashes, etc. I wonder if someone has already written a LotusScript Library to manage HTTP Session, like HttpSession interface in Java servlets: when programming LotusScript web agents, it would be useful to use a LS library to manage session data, using methods like setAttrib [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Do you need to access LDAP via LotusScript? 1/2
Sun, Jul 27th 2008 4:08p Cristian D'Aloisio
Recently I had to deal with a LDAP server using old beloved LotusScript language. After some search I found the following free LotusScript extension (LSX) that is really useful for my needs: LotusScript Directory Service for Windows From the IBM Sandbox: LotusScript Directory Service is a small LotusScript Extension utility which is developed for testing LDAP protocol in Domino 5.0. It provides a simple and direct access to LDAP protocol using LotusScript. It facilitates four LotusScript class [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
ldd
lotus
lotusscript
lsx
sametime
java
linux
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Using Zen for managing your e-mail
Fri, Jul 25th 2008 3:49a Cristian D'Aloisio
Interesting article about how managing your e-mail messages: Inbox Zen with the three folder email system Keep in mind the following flochart, Keep in mind the following flochart, .... [read] Keywords: email
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Feeling stupid with Firefox 3....
Tue, Jul 22nd 2008 3:51p Cristian D'Aloisio
Just suddenly my Firefox 3 installation just started to behave weirdly: it could not save any password inside the built-in Password Manager... Moreover, my Gmail Manager could not save my accounts data. I tried many things trying to solve that issue: checking my FF3 options to be sure it would ask for password saving disabling/uninstalling some specific add-ons uninstalling ALL add-ons uninstall Adware and Spybot Search&Destroy software rebooting my pc (at least three times!) creating a new [read] Keywords: firefox
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Happy birthday, Elly!
Tue, Jul 22nd 2008 3:28p Cristian D'Aloisio
Today is my fiancee's birthday, her first birthday in Italy. My gifts to her are 7 red roses bouquet and one delicious fruit cake. Let's enjoy this special day for us. [read] Keywords: |
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Downloading Notes R8.0.2 beta 2....
Wed, Jul 16th 2008 3:45p Cristian D'Aloisio
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A really useful utility for screen capturing and editing
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 3:49p Cristian D'Aloisio
I'm using a nice tool: FastStone Capture. That program is really great! The features I like more are: capturing scrolling windows (eg web pages), highlighting arrows and text From the sw company web page: A small handy Capture Panel that provides quick access to its capture tools and output options Global hotkeys to activate screen capturing instantly Capture windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and scrolling windows/web pages Capture multiple w [read] Keywords: email
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Ah... Iphone... Google phone... Open Moko...cool or geek ???
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 6:07a Cristian D'Aloisio
Here you can find 10 good reasons to hate IPhone 3G... It's ABSOLUTELY NOT the same, but... while we are waiting for GOOGLE Phone... what do you think about "Open Moko" ??? It may be less cool, but really more "geek"... :o) Ciaoooooooooo [read] Keywords: google
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Over 6 Kg!
Sun, Jul 13th 2008 5:05p Cristian D'Aloisio
That's good news for my twin baby nieces: so cute! Elly and Matilde I and Anna [read] Keywords: blogger
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I agree, keep it simple
Sun, Jul 13th 2008 4:25p Cristian D'Aloisio
This Sunday afternoon, after eating a delicious Fiorentina's steak with some friends in a nice cool location near Bologna, I went home to have some rest (!) . I opened my laptop and start wandering the web... I found an interesting blog post by Cregg Hardwick, dated 2006, hosted by techtarget.com . There's no direct link to the specific post ("The Golden Rule: keep it simple"), but here's the link to the page: link (I also pasted his post text here...) The golden rule: Keep it simple 18 SEP [read] Keywords: foundations
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Being a R8.0.2 beta 1 tester
Sun, Jul 13th 2008 4:04p Cristian D'Aloisio
While many people are evaluating the brand new shining R8.5 beta, I'm working on R8.0.2 beta 1: right, I'm a R8.0.2 beta 1 tester. My first impression is good, I like it, especially the login window just appearing so quickly: perception matters! Until now, my main concern was about my mouse pointer: no arrow icon, just a white box. I took a look inside the beta forum and I found out the problem was about color depth of my video: I changed my settings from 16 bits to 32 bits, and all is ok. R [read] Keywords: R8
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Ancora sul "mitico" Bill Gates
Wed, Jul 9th 2008 5:26a Cristian D'Aloisio
... molto carino il video da lui stesso prodotto e pubblicato su YouTube a proposito del suo ultimo giorno di lavoro... Tra gli "ospiti" del video, oltre agli amici storici che ricoprono le più alte cariche in Microsoft si distinguono Bono, Steven Spielberg, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, George Clooney... e altri che non conosco ma sicuramente negli States sono molto famosi. Bravo Bill ! Autoironia e umorismo sono sempre apprezzati... per chi non l'avesse visto... ;o) [read] Keywords: application
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Upgrading your mailbox template with a R8 client
Tue, Jul 8th 2008 4:04p Cristian D'Aloisio
I was converting my personal mailbox template to R8 mail template, converting my mail folders to the new R8 Inbox design. As usual, I was using the "classic" consolle command: load convert -u mail\cdaloisi.nsf * mail8.ntf Suddenly a colleague of mine told: "Do you know there's a new option to replace a mail template AND also upgrade all folders, just using using a new R8 Notes client?" Take a look to the following screenshots: [read] Keywords: notes
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Usabilità...
Fri, Jul 4th 2008 5:38a Cristian D'Aloisio
Ho sempre pensato che "nonostante tutto" Bill Gates avesse una vera passione per l'informatica, dato che COMUNQUE Windows ha dato alla MAGGIORANZA delle persone la possibilità di interagire semplicemente con un PC... Noto con piacere che la mia sensazione è corretta, e questa cosa mi fa apparire comunque Bill "più simpatico" di quanto pensassi, dato che comunque l'autocritica e la tendenza al miglioramento sono per me pregi importanti... Allego articolo particolarmente interessante tratto d [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Thu, Jul 3rd 2008 10:25a Cristian D'Aloisio
I tried to create a new R8 database... application with the standard blank template: I was using my R8.0.1 client, onto a R8.0.1 Domino server. I unexpectedly got the following error message: Note Item not found I was worried that the problem was about having both R8.0.1 and R8.5 beta Notes clients on the same pc; after uninstalling R8.5, I reinstalled client Notes R8.0.1 . No way! Before getting crazy, I luckily found an IBM technote to solve that issue: Error: 'Note item not found' when c [read] Keywords: domino
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Save your server disk space, use DAOS in R 8.5
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 4:48p Cristian D'Aloisio
Andrea wrote a post about a new feature, DAOS, that will be available with Domino 8.5 . The new developed technology will be/must be an improved SCOS (single copy object store), also known as Shared Mail, available in R8 and previous Domino release. We all know many Notes users love to send memos with heavy attachments, especially to many recipients! Archiving is an option, but I still see many Notes mailboxes that are over 2 GB. Users love to "reply with attachments" and also love keeping AL [read] Keywords: domino
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Bolognese sauce in Indonesia? No way!
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 4:48p Cristian D'Aloisio
I guess that Vowe will agree with me that Italian food is delicious ;-) But please, eat Italian food in Italy or at least ask some friend to advise you for good Italian restaurants in your place: I know, that's an old issue, any kind of food is somehow cooked to please local people. See a nice movie about it: Big Night (1996) by Stanley Tucci. I was visiting Mount Bromo volcano (over 2300 meters), east Java: while choosing food for our dinner I was surprised to see 3 fake-named Italian dishes [read] Keywords: blogger
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Happy birthday to.... DominoBaloney!
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 4:28p Cristian D'Aloisio
Gosh, my first post on DominoBaloney blog was on 11th June 2007, that's over one year ago! Some friends told me: "Come on, you have a lot of experience on Notes, moreover you can also write in English!" At first I was doubtful about this "new" kind of communication, but soon I understood the importance to be linked to a larger Notes/Domino community. Here are some reason I like to post on my blog: share my knowledge with other people: I must admit that I received so much info from people arou [read] Keywords: domino
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a.k.a. NSFDB2
Fri, Jun 27th 2008 2:28p Cristian D'Aloisio
Here's an interesting article about NSFDB2:
Using IBM Lotus Domino and IBM DB2 integration features to enhance the functionality and performance of Lotus Domino applications
What a long article title! ;-) Oddly, I could not find any acronim NSFDB2 inside that article.
See also some old blog post: link [read] Keywords: domino
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I got engaged!
Fri, Jun 27th 2008 2:10a Cristian D'Aloisio
Some time ago I met Elly, a cute and smart Indonesian girl working as a software developer, travelling the world.
Some weeks ago, when I was Indonesia, I and Elly decided to have a traditional Chinese engagement (she's Indonesian from Chinese grandparents), that means:
ask her hand to her parents, surrounded by some relatives (2o people or more)
give her a gold pendant named Double Happinessgive relatives a bag with traditional cookies (8 types, 8 meanings), one apple, one orangehave a dinn [read] Keywords: apple
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Fed up waiting for a Domino Mail setting policy to be effective?
Fri, Jun 27th 2008 1:07a Cristian D'Aloisio
Some days ago I was using someone else Notes client and I just found out that her mail Preferences settings had wrong setting for work hours, from monday to friday.
I decided to take advantage of Domino Policy settings, in my case Mail Settings , to deploy common work time frame for that company: e.g. 8.00 to 17.00 .
Here's what I did:
wrote an explicit Policy setting up some Mail settingsassigned that policy to a few people using the Domino Administrator (test)
issued a "tell adminp pro [read] Keywords: administration
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How to do it using a safe method?
Thu, Jun 26th 2008 7:47a Cristian D'Aloisio
Hard time going back to work ;-) Going on holidays in Indonesia I realized that even the most common "activities" can be misinterpreted by people of other culture... ;-) I felt happy to find a western traditional toilet: traditional Indonesian toilets are really strange. Take a look to this post ;-) [read] Keywords: blogger
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Back from Indonesia!
Wed, Jun 25th 2008 12:02a Cristian D'Aloisio
My two weeks vacation in Indonesia is over :-( Gosh, that was a real astonishing experience, for many reasons I will talk later. For now, take a look to some picture I took. [read] Keywords: application
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Ubuntu... 8.04 e piccoli aiuti...
Sun, Jun 15th 2008 5:06a Cristian D'Aloisio
Ho appena installato la beta 8.04 di Ubuntu, e ci si dimentica a volte dei piccoli passi necessari al godersi il sistema... due piccoli passi per chi si cimenta... TIP1: In Ubuntu di default troviamo il “Gestore degli Archivi” che permette di gestire vari tipi di archivi (zip, gzip, tgz, …) ma non il formato (assai diffuso) rar. Per decomprimere il rar è sufficiente eseguire da terminale... sudo apt-get install rar unrar in questo modo è |
