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About benpoole.com
All about this travesty of a website and the muppet who maintains it...
About Chris Molloy
All about my mate Chris Molloy, a PROPER programmer and guest columnist here at benpoole.com...
Automate printer settings (Landscape or Portrait sir?) (4 comments)
This is an old bit o' code I used to have in a "resources" database you could download from my old site. Someone was trying to search the site for this today, so I'd best whack it back, eh!...
Best practice (Part 1) (9 comments)
There's far too much sloppy Notes & Domino development going on out there. Code is splashed around all over the NSF, no thought has gone into database structure, performance considerations, and so on. This occasional series aims to address this! Part 1 covers centralising your code....
Best practice (Part 2: planning & new developers) (One comment)
There's far too much sloppy Notes & Domino development going on out there. Code is splashed around all over the NSF, no thought has gone into database structure, performance considerations, and so on. This occasional series aims to address this! Part 2 covers planning your applications, and is aimed at beginner developers....
Best practice (Part 3: workflow & stored forms) (4 comments)
There's far too much sloppy Notes & Domino development going on out there. Code is splashed around all over the NSF, no thought has gone into database structure, performance considerations, and so on. This occasional series aims to address this! Part 3 covers architecting a mailflow application — specifically, how to avoid stored forms when not strictly required....
Coding a ‘What’s new’ agent for Domino (2 comments)
Chris Molloy’s first guest column here! Some nifty Domino agent coding for an oft-useful web function....
Domino conference - The VIEW 2002 (No comments yet)
So I went to this techie conference in Amsterdam, October 2002. Here's how it went, and what I found useful....
Domino Java agents & GUIs (5 comments)
A basic summary of one approach to developing Java agents in Domino which incorporate some kind of graphical user interface (GUI)....
Export NAB data to vCard (5 comments)
Some simple code which allows you to export "Person" data in your personal name & address book to vCard format....
Fun with SOAP (5 comments)
I thought it would be useful to piece together some resources for anyone else looking to branch out into the wonderful world of web service development. This list is random, by no means even remotely exhaustive, and has an OS X bent. It is not specifically aimed at Dominophiles, but should be as useful to them as anyone else. Note also that I am also focussing on the development of web service cli...
GetOpenFilename that works with Windoze old and new (No comments yet)
File browsing from the Notes client is easier with R5's new "OpenFileDialog" NotesUIWorkspace method, but what about backwards compatibility (with Win95 etc.) within a newer (XP / Professional) Windows environment?...
Get rid of the lightning bolt (4 comments)
Do you have 5 minutes for some mindless hacking? Do you think that the 'lightning bolt' graphic is a bit misleading? Would you like to change it to something else (e.g. an image of a snail)? If so, read on....
ImageInfo (Win32 only) (3 comments)
A Lotusscript version of some Visual Basic by David Crowell, this obtains image information (file type, dimensions and colour depth) programmatically. Updated 4 March 2004....
Issues with code in R5 (3 comments)
Release 5 brought with it some new design elements, and a new look and feel. These, as one would expect (!), in turn brought with them issues. This document summarises some of the common ones, and suggests how to deal with them....
