OAuth, HTTP and file size limitations
Thu, May 24th 2012 6:11a Stephan H Wissel In the brave new world of social file sharing HTTP(s) has won. From the humble webDAV specification to Sharepoint, IBM Connections, Dropbox, UbuntuOne or the emerging industry standard CMIS all use HTTPs to access files on the backends. Since HTTP(s) is the first thing that is available when a network connection is possible and quite often (especially in public hotspots) the only thing available, this success isn't surprising
The more venerable protocols like CIFS (a.k.a. SMB), NFS or SSHFS di [read] Keywords: connections
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Grow your Social Business Tree
Thu, May 24th 2012 6:11a Stephan H Wissel Culture eats strategy for lunch is all the rave in #SocBiz land and it tops the 10 top tips from Sandy Carter. When your culture is about careful nurturing and grooming, this is for you:
Social Business is like a tree. It needs to grow healthy roots and its crown needs to be balanced to sustain.
Bliss is being a gardener. [read] Keywords: twitter
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Fun with TCPMon and Lotus Traveler
Sun, May 13th 2012 11:11a Stephan H Wissel Martin Luther (the original) famously stated "man muss dem Volk aufs Maul schauen" (roughly translated: "you have to watch how people talk". What worked for a bible translation also works in IT.
While it is nice to have some documentation, quite often it is inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, factual wrong or simply missing. So listening to "how applications speak" is an essential skill, mentioned here before. In this little weekend project these skills get applied to Lotus Traveler. These [read] Keywords: agent
domino
dxl
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show-n-tell
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linux
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password
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Teaching an ol' dog a new trick: SET CONFIG param=value update
Tue, Apr 24th 2012 9:13a Stephan H Wissel One of the cardinal sins of Domino administration (besides FTP/copy of a server NSF) is the manual editing of notes.ini variables. To update an notes.ini variable instantly you can use the server console and type set config param=value, while for permanent changes you would add the value to a server configuration document. Using the server configuration document has the advantage, that your ini changes not only will survive a reboot or even loss of your notes.ini, but they serve as documentation [read] Keywords: administration
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Extracting data from Domino into PDF using XSLT and XSL:FO (Part 1)
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 12:13p Stephan H Wissel We all know "Notes doesn't print". Nevertheless the topic of document output and reports is not going away, even if I'd like to ban the reports. There are plenty of ready made tools, but today I'd like to start with home cooked reporting.
Why the effort? Using only tools that use open standards you gain more control over the whole process and you can use whatever deems fit. The downside: it is more things you need to know and might not be suitable for business users (but its great to tortu [read] Keywords: domino
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Importing EML files into Notes (lots of them)
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 10:11a Stephan H Wissel My friend and Lotus Champion Weerapong Panpai from
Zenith in Thailand asked me "How difficult is it to do a bulk import of eml files into Lotus Notes"? MIME as a format is plain ASCII, so on first look it seems simple.
However on a closer look you might guess where the author of an outstanding movie got his inspiration from. RFC 2045 nicely states:"NOTE: The previous four definitions are clearly circular. This is unavoidable, since the overall structure of a MIME message is indeed recursive [read] Keywords: connections
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show-n-tell
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Roots of Wisdom
Sun, Apr 8th 2012 10:13a Stephan H Wissel The 21st knowledge society needs to teach different skills than recalling knowledge. I introduced the 9 essential skills a few days ago. Based on an article titled "Older and wiser?" in The Economist there are 5 critical aspects of wise reasoning to add:
willingness to seek opportunities to resolve conflict
willingness to search for compromise
recognition of the limits of personal knowledge
awareness that more than one perspective on a problem can exist
appreciation of the fact that things [read] Keywords: google
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Setting focus to the first invalid field
Sat, Apr 7th 2012 9:12a Stephan H Wissel When it comes to validation, the only secure way is server side validation (Client side validation is more: "nice suggestions for users"). One little grievance developers have - and try to fix with elaborate measures - is the requirement to set the focus on the first failed field. XPages makes this quite simple. As Tommy pointed out fields that are invalidated server side get the attribute aria-invalid="true".
Besides, as Tommy suggested, using it to style the input (check his comment - coo [read] Keywords: domino
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xpages dojo
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Inside the IBM Support Process
Thu, Apr 5th 2012 9:12a Stephan H Wissel No software runs flawless (even if the product is named after a fruit), so from time to time you need to interact with support. The entry point for IBM support is the IBM Support Portal or the support call center. Behind that front is quite a bit a process that is designed to be predictable, repeatable, measurable and ensure that customers get the right level of attention from the right level of expertise. Scribbled on a napkin it looks like this:
(click on the image to get a bigger picture
S [read] Keywords: ibm
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Wipe them out - all of them (when a design refresh doesn't work)
Thu, Apr 5th 2012 6:12a Stephan H Wissel You created that shiney new version of your application, ran (in no particular order) fixup, compact and updall and replaced the design. Still some of the design elements haven't updated. Typically that happens when no attention was paid to the "prohibit design refresh" flag of the database design (all your predecessor's fault of course).
While you can go in and hunt the settings down one-by-one (tip: use an DXL export and just look for the property), it is sometimes faster and more profoun [read] Keywords: domino
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