Apple Reinvents Education
Mon, Jan 23rd 2012 2:11p Paul Hudson … no really it has. It’s come up with this fantastic product, the electronic book. It’s so much more than ‘book v1′, it’s interactive. ‘Books v2′ is so much better for the current generation of students. Apple thinks our current generation of students are too stupid to understand words and need pictures and too stupid to understand diagrams, so they need videos. Seriously Apple, is this meant to ‘change education’?
The announcement happ [read] Keywords: ibm
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Moo cards
Tue, Jan 10th 2012 7:11p Paul Hudson I usually don’t have much call for business cards. Internally they’re not much use, and I don’t get to many conferences. But it’s always a bit uncomfortable at business conferences when you don’t have cards. So at the last minute I decided to get some for Lotusphere. But rather than having the hassle of sorting cards out through work I decided I this was the excuse I needed to play with Moo.com, a service that allows you to create personal business cards through the [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Unable to reliably deploy XPages using XSCD
Tue, Dec 20th 2011 5:11a Paul Hudson We’re late to the XPages game and it’s only in the last few weeks I’ve felt confident enough to push XPages into our system’s templates. I only allow new Domino tech to be deployed when I’m confident that the technology works because we run on a very constrained 32-bit Solaris Domino install. I was ready to use XPages on 8.5.2 but we ran into issues pushing out a XPage Single Copy Design to websites. I tried using standard Domino single copy design templates but whe [read] Keywords: domino
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My gigs of 2011 ‘Storified’
Fri, Dec 9th 2011 5:10p Paul Hudson One of the things I liked about SXSW were the Accelerator sessions where web startups pitched their ideas to a room full of investors, press and the paying public. The winner of News Accelerator was Storify, a website that allows users to curate tweets, photos, videos and web by dragging them into a single stream of information to tell a story. It’s a bit like gathering news headlines in a scrap book. It’s been used during some of the big events of 2011, such as the ‘Arab Sprin [read] Keywords: development
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Sony A77
Sun, Nov 27th 2011 3:12p Paul Hudson Sony recently released a new camera that may turn out to be a game changer, the Sony A77. This new 24 Mega pixel APS-C camera is a DSLT camera. Instead of using a standard mirror like a DLSR. DSLT cameras use a fixed semi-translucent mirror. 70-80% of the light passes through the mirror while the rest is bounced up to an auto focus sensor and because there’s insufficient light for an optical viewfinder, the main sensor is used to generate a live view on an Electronic Viewfinder.
The new we [read] Keywords: mac
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Unresponsive iPhone4 button
Sat, Nov 26th 2011 6:13a Paul Hudson For the last few months my iPhone’s home button has been unresponsive. Double clicking would often take me to the search pane and not the multitask bar. This is getting to be very annoying. I’ve been hoping that the button would hang on until the iPhone 5, next summer, but in the last few weeks it seems to have got worse. So much so, I’d even started to use the assistive technology in the iPhone to by-pass the requirement of using the home button.
Doing some research this mo [read] Keywords: apple
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Dojo Date Picker – setting the date format
Wed, Nov 23rd 2011 1:10p Paul Hudson We’ve just implemented a Dojo Date picker to replace an old calendar tool we were using.
In testing, the date picker correctly defaulted to the European date format of dd/mm/yyyy. However, all this testing was on PCs. Testing the same code on my Mac in Safari, the date format has switched to US format. My Mac is setup as a UK machine with UK date format, but it’s still defaulted to incorrect date format.
As we’re a University with many international staff and students, assuming [read] Keywords: domino
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Agents ignoring Readers Fields in 8.5.3
Fri, Nov 4th 2011 12:09p Paul Hudson We’ve just upgraded a server to 8.5.3. We have an agent that runs as a ‘web user’ but has ‘full admin rights’. The agent basically reads a view with documents that have readers fields and assembles them for display to the user. The agent needs to grab info from a protected database so has ‘full administration rights’. Previously the documents were read with the ‘users’ access permissions. So readers fields were obeyed. Various versions of thi [read] Keywords: admin
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XPages Single Copy Design
Fri, Sep 9th 2011 11:09a Paul Hudson I’m posting this on behalf of my colleague David Harding (@dharding) who’s been investigating XPages Single Copy Design. I think it’s best I leave it to Dave to explain:
We are looking to roll out XPages Single Copy Design to several thousand databases. So far, we have not been able to find a recommended practice for rolling out the XPages Single Copy Design flag and template path to all of these databases.
Documentation on the Lotus Notes and Domino Application Development w [read] Keywords: domino
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Run Disk Utility before installing OSX Lion
Thu, Jul 21st 2011 10:10a Paul Hudson I ran into a problem installing Lion on my Mac Pro. The install screen appeared to be stuck at 33 minutes with no sign of progress. Several reboots later and still no luck, I noticed that there were a lot of disk errors in the install log that appeared to stop the installer in it’s tracks. It appears the installer doesn’t validate your hard disk before installing and is unable to report failures when encountered. So before installing, run ‘Disk Utility’ and save yourself [read] Keywords: mac
