Weblog by month (May 2007)
Get productive!
I’ve known Eric Mack for some time now, and even had the great pleasure of meeting him (together with Michael Sampson) whilst attending the Collaborative Technologies Conference in New York a couple of years back.
Eric is a strong proponent of David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology (there’s an awful lot to be said for it from what Eric’s shown me), so his latest web venture makes perfect sense—as well as good reading for all us Lotus Notes types:
Where did the ads go?
About a month ago, I quietly dropped the Google ads on this site.
I got tired of them. I don’t think they really added anything to the site, and their accuracy relies on reasonable-length postings—I don’t always do those! In terms of income, they helped defray hosting costs for this site, but little more. I’ve started to re-think how this site will be presented in the future, what I want to provide, and how I want to provide it. Google ads simply don’t figure in that particular equation, and so they’re gone. I don’t think any of my readers will mind
Ah memories
Crikey, this doesn’t half take me back. Quite possibly one of the best opening title sequences television has ever seen. I remember precious little about the show, other than said sequence. It is awesome
I am talking, of course, about The Six Million Dollar Man.
Notes 8 Beta three is out
Ignore any Internal Server Error screens you might get: they clear in the end!
Just in time for ILUG 2007 too! If you’re in, or headed to, Dublin, have a great couple of days: I look forward to hearing all about it (admittedly through gritted teeth ).
Via Steve Castledine.
For shame
What is it they say? Never talk about politics or religion on yer weblog?
TMI!
Goodness me, but there’s a lot of stuff going on at the moment, both “out there” and with yours truly. Here’s a smattering of the stuff read and played with just today.
Think of it as a good old-fashioned link-fest if you will.
- If you’re looking to get into Spring, you could do a lot worse than follow the Spring MVC tutorial on the Spring website: despite having been revised over two years ago now, it’s still really very good, and shows the power of this framework for sure
- If you’re a newbie like me with Spring, and you’re using it with MyEclipse I can help you get over a few minor “gotchas. I may whack a wiki page up soon, once I’ve collected a few more pointers (early days yet)
- Oh alright then: in the meantime, here’s how to integrate taglib definitions in MyEclipse: Taglib marked as invalid, unknown or no autocomplete—that helped me out with an issue I had today, no end.
- Tim Tripcony and Chris Whisonant have both joined NTF at Lotus911. Fantastic news for all concerned. Like I said on Nathan’s site: when do you guys open a branch in the UK??
- Mark Vincenzes has followed up a post he made some ten months ago in the Lotus developerWorks forums about Domino’s HTML conversion capability going forward: What if… we didn’t use <font> tags in our HTML output anymore? Dive in to the discussion!
- Today I started, in earnest, to catch up on some of the recent Taking Notes podcasts. You really should lbe listening to these, they’re awesome. Bruce and Julian continue to do an amazing job with those. Long may they continue (sixty-one episodes, and counting!)
- I continue to enjoy FreelanceSwitch. They recently linked to some excellent podcasts being put out there by Craig Ambrose. Well worth a listen (don’t be put off by the mention of Rails: this stuff is good for all of us, Rails or not)
And that is that. For now.
For Lotus geeks everywhere!
Lotus 25th anniversary party photos on Flickr
Via Carl.
Fare thee well linkblog!
Erik Thauvin has laid his linkblog to rest. If you’re a Java developer you’ll know about the linkblog. Pretty much every day Erik laid out dozens of Java-related weblog posts from all over the place. It was truly a one-stop shop for everything you could possibly want to read about Java (along with other more general technology issues, OS X, etc.) The linkblog was an awesome resource, but I can understand why Erik wants to lay it to rest—the time commitment must have been pretty fierce.
So, thanks Erik, and here’s to future endeavours!
This site is five!
On Monday May 13th 2002, I published my first weblog entry in this new Lotus Domino-based web site template I’d knocked up. The post itself is nothing more than a placeholder, it says nothing interesting at all. But hopefully I have posted slightly more inciteful material since then (occasionally, at least). This site has been one of the better things I’ve done in recent years. I’ve learned a lot about technology, met a lot of great people through it, and of course, it’s indirectly led to other great things. Thanks for dropping by, and here’s to the next five years…
PS obligatory stats: 1,058 weblog entries, 3,033 comments and 47 articles (must up that last number, must up that last number…)
Vista
For someone supposed to be a “technologist” I can be a real slacker. Case in point: I used Microsoft Vista for the very first time today. A brand new dual core Intel 2 machine, one gig of RAM, running Vista.
The results? Shocking, absolutely shocking. If you’re going to force Vista down consumers necks when they buy a new PC, at least make sure it actually does stuff. Bill and Steve B should be ashamed of themselves. Yikes.
Expeditor and more
I know, I know, still slacking on the weblog front… Anyway, a post to say that things are finally happening that may be of interest to you, dear patient reader. A brief summary:
- DominoWiki is actually under active development. I hope to have the new version out imminently. The wiki mark-up processor has been split so that mark-up is parsed when saving, leaving just the “live” wiki links to be parsed at run-time (hat-tip to John Smart for getting me to actually commit to doing this!)—needless to say, this change should help performance. I have also been working on various CSS, Javascript and mark-up tweaks so that DominoWiki starts to become a better web citizen. Like I say, a release soon.
- Expeditor. You may have heard of this… Chortle. Anyway, the ’blog silence this week is attributable to Lotus Expeditor. I have just returned from a four-day Innovation Centre workshop covering the fundamentals of Expeditor. Given that said tool is the basis for Sametime 7.5x and Lotus Notes 8 (standard), it makes sense to get to know the beast (think Eclipse RCP on steroids).
- General web development and tinkering. Various random projects, bits of code, investigating new Javascript libraries like moo… It all adds up.
I have a load of stuff to write up and make sense of. I hope to publish said witterings on this very site shortly, so if there’s something you particularly want to know about, do shout!
Reasons to quit
No, this isn’t directly related to my previous post. Erm, no, no no no…
Freelance Switch: Top 10 Reasons you should quit your job today and become a freelancer.
