Congratulations, Devin!
Thu, May 3rd 2012 7:39p Nathan T Freeman Congratulations to my friend and colleague
Devin
Olson for his position as a newly
elected delegate to the Michigan State Republican Convention! He'll be
part of the Kent County delegation. Represent! [read] Keywords: ntf
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Dear everyone in the HVAC industry...
Wed, May 2nd 2012 10:27p Nathan T Freeman Why is it that residential and commercial
climate control systems are so fucking retarded? And yes, I used that language
on purpose. They're just stupid. In an age when I can tell my phone to
find songs like the one I'm listening to now and play them, and it does
it brilliantly, why can't I tell my house or my office "I want it
72 degrees in this room."
Right now, my home has two thermostats;
one for each floor. The one downstairs is a programmable Honeywell unit
that after 20 y [read] Keywords: ntf
integration
interface
leak
office
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American Spring
Fri, Apr 27th 2012 6:51a Nathan T Freeman The American media is renowned for it's
biases, whether "left" or "right." Since I have a good
number of readers here from outside the US, I'm curious whether media outlets
in your own countries are reporting on the gathering of tens of thousands
of Americans across the continent.The US media, across the political spectrum,
is totally silent about it. [read] Keywords: ntf
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Protect yourself, empower your audience
Thu, Apr 26th 2012 10:20a Nathan T Freeman After Monday's post on using the lotus.notes.addins
package, the mighty Ulrich
Krause made an SSJS adaptation
of the technique and posted it in XSnippets.
Unfortunately, the license statement on my blog (CC-A) did not accurately
allow him to do this, as all content posted into XSnippets must be Apache
Licensed. I had a brief chat with Peter Tanner at OpenNTF.org, and told
him "no problem. I'll just add a global license for all code posted
on the blog."
His reply...
Perfect. [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
ntf
blogger
openntf
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More secret Java APIs for Domino
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 1:41p Nathan T Freeman While researching some tooling last week,
I found myself wondering about the Java Server Addins that have been in
Domino since version 6: Changeman and ISpy. These two Java addins do some
very interesting stuff focused on monitoring server availability and resource
load. But what's more interesting is that the packages for them can be
found in notes.jar. And it turns out that those packages offer some surprisingly
useful APIs.
Classes like lotus.notes.addins.JavaServerSession,
lotus [read] Keywords: domino
lotus
notes
ntf
database
java
server
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But... there are bandwidth-starving kids in Africa!
Fri, Apr 20th 2012 9:41p Nathan T Freeman I would have been happy to simply post
the one observation about the shameful, immoral, fraudulent behavior of
the lotuslearns.com blog, which uses
"Yahoo Pipes with a PHP agent to garner all Posting content and provide
a single source to accessing this information"
(which is a wordy way of saying they copy it) but according to uber-netizen
Chris Miller, Miss Smith claims that her unethical behavior started at
the "US Embassy in Nigeria to mitigate bandwidth."
Oh, so she's reall [read] Keywords: agent
lotus
ntf
xpages community
server
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LotusLearns that stealing web content is shameful
Fri, Apr 20th 2012 3:03p Nathan T Freeman lotuslearns.com,
a blogger.com-hosted site, is duplicating
content
from a wide
variety
of wikis and blogs
in the Lotus community. Presumably
this is a good way for CEO
Kelley Smith to elevate search
results and present herself as the source for the continually amazing content
put forth by the community. Unfortunately, since she's re-publishing this
information without attribution, she is not only violating basic international
copyright laws, she's also being shockingly rude.
M [read] Keywords: lotus
ntf
xpages blogger
community
linkedin
planetlotus
planetlotus.org
profile
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Fixing Domino's LDAP Implementation
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 9:22p Nathan T Freeman If you're anything like me (and really,
I hope you aren't,) you've integrated any number of external tools with
Domino. One of the most important open standards that Domino supports is
the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. LDAP is used by Sametime, Connections,
Samba, Linux, Windows, Asterisk, Redmine, Subversion, Tivoli and just about
every other software product ever conceived by man.
And if you've used Domino as an LDAP
server, you've banged your head against your keyboar [read] Keywords: connections
domino
ntf
sametime
linux
openntf
profile
server
tivoli
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Do what you love....
Tue, Mar 6th 2012 10:20p Nathan T Freeman Malcolm Gladwell famously
argues that true exceptionalism
in a discipline comes from measurable input. My friend Stefan Molyneux
relays
the point more succinctly.
I will simply try to relate it to something we all hear: "do what
you love" Do you know why people are more successful when they do
what they love? Because they do it more. If you love something, then it's
not a chore to do it -- it's a passion. You don't resign yourself to practicing
piano or painting or writing or m [read] Keywords: ntf
wiki
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These videos are made of win
Wed, Feb 1st 2012 9:30p Nathan T Freeman It has long been my opinion that good software
designers should understand the basic economics of trade. Ours is a highly
specialized practice, and it produces an absolutely staggering surplus
when we trade. But this can be very difficult to understand unless you
grasp the concept of Comparative Advantage. (Understanding Asymmetrical
Information is also a good idea, but let's save that for another day.)
Because of the absolutely marvelous
title, I stumbled upon these videos from Prof [read] Keywords: ntf
