Performance basics: a must-read
At the risk of sounding like an echo chamber, I feel I must post about this: Andre Guirard has published a white paper entitled Performance basics for IBM Lotus Notes developers, surely a must-read for all self-respecting Domino code monkeys!
Thanks to Per Henrik Lausten for the tip.
Posted 15:09 PDT on 08 May 2008 | Categories: |
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If Twitter is...
… the “bowel movement of Web 2.0” (thanks for that Paul), then what does it mean if your local council uses it??
Yesterday was local election day here in the UK. I thought I’d check out the results for my local council, and was greeted with this text on their home page. Cutting edge or what?
Follow updates at http://twitter.com/SouthendBC
Yep, as the votes were counted overnight, the council was tweeting the news! Crikey.
Posted 18:17 PDT on 01 May 2008 | Categories:
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ILUG 2008 agenda!
It’s here! Looks good! I’m scared!
Posted 08:56 PDT on 28 Apr 2008 | Categories:
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Welcome to Great Britain
Middlesbrough cops, goons and clerks grab and detain photographer for shooting on a public street
Father fined for overfilling bin
Posted 04:15 PDT on 22 Apr 2008 | Categories: | 3 comments
Software pricing madness
I decided to check out some software for possible purchase. Can anyone see what’s wrong with this picture?
Why on earth does it cost more to download a product, than to have it delivered to my door? Craziness.
Posted 22:15 PDT on 20 Apr 2008 | Categories: |
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Techtarget can bugger off
In much the same way that a piss-poor PR firm by the name of Vocus has incurred the wrath of Herr Weber, a load of mails received today tipped me over the edge. Who are they from? Why, our old friends at Techtarget of course. They’ve been peddling a load of old shite to subscribers to searchdomino.com for some time (their technical tips used to be good: they are now risible), and this reached a feverish climax when the SearchDomino doofi spattered Yellow Bleeders with Notes >> Exchange advertising recently.
Sadly however, the moronitude continues (ooh, I made up a word): like many others out there, I get reams of unsolicited email from various TechTarget sites (some of which used to be good, before the marketing half-wits dug their nails in—e.g. theserverside.com). These mails seem to think they’re acceptable in my in-box, because they come with nice “unsubscribe” links. But that’s a load of poo; I didn’t subscribe to any of this stuff, nor have I ever expressed an interest in receiving unsolicited email from them. TechTarget are spammers, pure and simple. I now understand why Ms. Herbert didn’t seem to last long there: she displayed some professional integrity.
So, Gmail filters to the rescue: everything gets bounced back to TechTarget and deleted before I see it. You only have to check out the front page of techtarget.com to see what they’re really about nowadays: marketing, marketing, marketing.
At least we know where we stand.
Posted 21:11 GDT on 16 Apr 2008 | Categories: |
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The Poole gives in: how I started with Notes
Ed started a meme, and I tried to leave well alone. But of course I couldn’t (I’m a white male, and I work in IT. What did you expect?) So, here comes the rollercoaster, how I got started with Lotus Notes. Strapped in? Sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin. Guffaw.
I left university, a four year degree, at the ripe old age of 22, in 1995. After a brief summer holidaying and all that, I reluctantly left my Mac Classic, 28.8 modem, and my brand spanking new internet account (not many of them around then!) to start earning a quid or two. I began my career as a trainee accountant with the (then) Big Six firm Coopers & Lybrand, in London. The firm was quite unusual in that everyone had their own laptop, a chunky ole’ Toshiba, with Windows 3.1, Lotus Smartsuite, and some weird thing called Lotus Notes (version 3.3) on it. I recall being most impressed by the C&L screensaver at the time, which featured an animated image of the flagship offices down Villiers Street in London. Anyway, We logged all our auditing with this Lotus Notes thing, using a custom in-house application developed by a global technology team in Dallas. After a bump to Notes 4.52 on Windows 95 (now running on IBM Thinkpads) a couple of years later, little did I know that come the R5 timeframe, I’d be working with that global team in Dallas, helping to put together a most ambitious new release of the in-house auditing software. Heady times!
But I’ve gotten ahead of myself… how do we go from trainee accountant to Notes developer? In a fairly straightforward manner as it happens. I detested auditing, and accounting wasn’t much better. I really hated the full-on exams and hours of study on top of 50 - 70 hour weeks too. After a few all-nighters at work, and a failure in my second-year exams, enough was enough, this auditing lark was destroying me. So, some two months after the premature birth of our debut bean, I found myself making the first “leap” of my career (there have been a couple more leaps since!)
Luckily, I had something up my sleeve back in 1998: as an auditor, I’d been squirreling away with this Lotus Notes lark. We had full access to the Designer client in 4.x, so I happily knocked stuff together for my audit teams, and it was pretty well-received. I don’t know what this says about me (OK, I just don’t want to think about it), but something about Notes “clicked”. Up until then, my only experience of coding had been BASIC as a kid, plus fledgeling web development on UNIX in 1993… Notes development on Windows (against OS/2 servers) was quite a different beast. Anyway, I got in touch with an in-house technology group, they knew my work (!) and things proceeded from there, ending up with yours truly as a senior Notes / Domino / Java / web type within a few years.
And now here I am, almost thirteen years post-university, still developing, and doing accounting once again to boot—funny old world innit?
So, how’s about you? You want to tell us all about it, you know you do.
Posted 19:56 GDT on 13 Apr 2008 | Categories:
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