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About benpoole.com (04 Aug 2009)
All about this travesty of a website and the muppet who maintains it...
What I use (One comment) (18 Nov 2008)
A list of software and hardware I use...
Fun with SOAP (5 comments) (31 Jan 2008)
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...
The Chapman Stick (15 Aug 2007)
All about the Chapman Stick and its chief exponents. It's a musical instrument I try to play......
About Chris Molloy (20 Jul 2005)
All about my mate Chris Molloy, a PROPER programmer and guest columnist here at benpoole.com...
Simple DXL processing (4 comments) (21 Nov 2004)
A primer in pipe-lining and processing DXL from within a Lotus Notes database. This example updates action bars / action bar buttons....
Seven testing tips (7 comments) (08 Jun 2004)
Most of us like to solve problems, tinker with code. Some of us like to play with the user interface, and conjure up dreamy-looking dialog boxes. But I imagine that testing is something very few of us care for. Why? It takes effort, and it can be pretty tedious, but in this day and age, it really has to be done....
Unequivocal Info: enforced ACLs (2 comments) (29 Apr 2004)
Quick and dirty code to remove the “Enforce a consistent Access Control List across all replicas” flag from a database....
Mailmerge from NAB to MS Word (2 comments) (01 Dec 2003)
Considerations for automating data exchange from one’s personal name and address book through to MS Word....
Domino Java agents & GUIs (5 comments) (12 Oct 2003)
A basic summary of one approach to developing Java agents in Domino which incorporate some kind of graphical user interface (GUI)....
Unequivocal Info: MQ series & R5 (One comment) (02 Oct 2003)
Plain ole' information that may, or may not, be of use to struggling coders out there. Part 1: MQ series / Websphere MQ...
Tip #12: delete a local replica (One comment) (17 Sep 2003)
Some Lotusscript to delete a specified local replica on the current machine....
Notes 6 on the Mac (29 comments) (01 Sep 2003)
Argh! That old chestnut in Notes for the Mac is still here: font sizes. You can’t read anything in the default installation! Let me take your pain away... (updated Feb. 2004)...
Permutations (No comments yet) (19 Jun 2003)
I needed to build a function to generate all permutations of an array of items (where no item is repeated and item order is significant), so I wrote the script library contained in the attached database. The agent 'Permutate' gives a demo of it working....
ImageInfo (Win32 only) (3 comments) (30 Apr 2003)
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....
