Blog Summer Camp beta 2006

I read on the swedish blog 'Fyra nyanser av brunt' that there is a Blog Summer Camp 2006 going on this year in Germany. It is a test/beta course about what blogging is all about and how to blog held by Oliver Gassner virtually through his blog and a Google group mailinglist.

A good idea! If I only spoke better german...

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Changes in Internet site documents don't work

Changes in Internet site documents, especially Web Site documents don't work. When I have made a change in a web site document like changing the number of default lines per view page, the change doesn't come through, nothing happens, still the same problem. It was very confusing and irritating until I found the problem.

What you do is that you open the server document and look at the Basics tab. Disable the field 'Load Internet configurations from Server\Internet Sites documents'.



All the settings that before could be seen and adjusted in the web site document now can be found under tab 'Internet Protocols -> Domino Web Engine'. You will probably notice that the number of default lines per view page still is the old value and not the one you tried to change it into in the web site document. Change the value here, enable 'Load Internet configurations...' and save the server document and the change finally works and is also visible in the web site document.

I should add that this happens for a Domino 6.5.4 server on iSeries and I can't speak for other environments. Please leave a comment if you have any experiences on this.

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Red box of death

Have you ever heard of the red box of death? You probably have if you have been working with Notes for a while. Here is a bad quality screenshot from a swedish installation where the rbod occurred. This occured when a user was about to read a document in a lotus notes application like many times before. Unexplainable!



Maybe someone can explain why it occurs or what to do when it happens but from my experience the best thing to do is just to ignore what just happend or maybe reboot the client (and perhaps the server).

Take a look at this blog for a funny now and then image of the red-box-of-death. Scroll down to the post 'The New RBOD'. If someone's got anything on this, please leave a comment. It would be interesting to know.

And here is a way to make it appear.

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Kartläggning av bloggsverige

Bloggen Media Culpa genomför sin andra undersökning av svenska bloggare och bloggläsare och behöver deltagare till sin enkät. Svara på enkäten genom att klicka på länken och uppmana gärna fler att delta: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=956142272223

Download Alan's hints and tips favourites

Another point-out is Alan Lepofsky's powerpoint slide of several of the tips he has created for his blog. Get it here!


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Hannover demo

Smokis Notesblog pointed out a demo of Hannover that's pretty good and educational to look at if you haven't seen that much of it before. Take a look here!


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Details on Domino 7.0.2 release

Read Ed Brill's blog. He has summarized a few links on information about the 7.0.2 Notes/Domino release.

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Domino 7.0.2 release details

WebSphere Portal 6 released in Q3 2006

I attended a short presentation about WebSphere Portal 6 the other day. I am actually having a hard time finding good information on the Internet about it.

Did you know that WebSphere Portal 6 includes WebSphere Portlet Factory (former Bowstreet Portlet Factory)? The current release date is the 28th of july.

IBM announces WebSphere Portal Version 6

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Wiring VoIP to your phone jacks

I found an article on how to wiring VoIP to your phone jacks. Don't have a clue if it actually works though.

See http://www.engadget.com

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The man behind Lotus Notes advances in Microsoft!

Near the end of 1984, Ray Ozzie founded Iris Associates Inc., under contract and funded by Lotus, to develop the first release of Lotus Notes. The first release of Notes (1.0) shipped in 1989. Read the long story about the history of Notes and Domino.

On March 10, 2005, Microsoft acquired Groove Networks. Groove's founder was Ray Ozzie and he became chief technology officer of Microsoft.

On June 15, 2006, Ozzie assumed the title of Microsoft chief software architect previously held by Chairman Bill Gates, and is working side by side with Gates on all technical architecture and product oversight responsibilities in anticipation of Gates’ departure from a day-to-day role in Microsoft in July 2008.

-> Read more about Ray Ozzie

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What search engine spiders see

A tool on dlperry.com scans a site and shows the results, as well as provide page data such as word density, meta keywords, links, etc. Interesting to look at if you wonder what search engine spiders actually see when they visit a website according to dlperry.com

See more about what web crawlers, web spiders or web robots are and do here.

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Google Browser Sync

"Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions. For more info, please visit our FAQ.

Please note: Google Browser Sync must update your browser settings whenever you start Firefox. This will increase the start-up time of Firefox (the time between clicking on the Firefox icon and loading your start page) – please bear with us as we work to decrease this delay."


A new firefox extension called Google Browser Sync is available for download. Using a google account it is now possible to share browser settings like form data, history, cookies, bookmarks etc. among several different computers.

You have to download the extension on every computer you wish to share the firefox browser settings with. It's a really good idea but everytime firefox is started a synchronization has to be done which takes some time though.




I like the restore feature. When firefox has started you can choose to restore the tabs you had opened when you last used firefox, just like what the Lotus Notes 7 client offers.




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Lotus Notes keyboard shortcuts

There are many nice and usuable shortcuts to use here:

Keyboard shortcuts in Notes 5.x
Keyboard shortcuts in Notes 6.x and Notes 7.x


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Internet traffic decreased due to TPB take down

When the now famous TPB was taken down by the swedish police or whoever was responsible on may 31, it very clearly showed that the Internet traffic to a great deal consists of file sharing. It actually decreased by 20% when TPB was down if I have got the numbers right.

Take a look at this site for aggregated traffic graphs of swedish nodes.

Read more about the TPB-case at Beta Alfa 2.0 (in swedish) which has covered and discussed a lot about it.

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Websites as Graphs

This site makes a graph out of your site.

Take a look at the website graph for http://thinkgreat.blogspot.com

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Notes.ini variables for Domino Web Access

Variables that Affect Domino Web Access:

• Additional Notes.ini Variables for Domino Web Access 6.5x
• Additional Notes.ini Variables beginning in Domino Web Access 6.0.3 and 6.5
• Additional DWA/Sametime Notes.ini Variables beginning DWA 6.5.1
• Additional DWA/Sametime Notes.ini Variables beginning DWA 6.5.2
• Additional Notes.ini Variables beginning in DWA 6.5.4

Read about it here.

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About roaming #4

Notes.ini values that are stored and replicated in the Personal Address Book for a roaming user are listed below. This is true for 6.0.1 and above, including 7.0 and above:

• ENV_DEFAULTBROWSER
• ENV_DISABLECOOKIES
• ENV_DISPLAYWINDOWMENU
• ENV_ENABLEDRAGDROP
• ENV_LOGOFF_TIMER
• ENV_MIME_CONVERT_WARNING
• ENV_SHOWACCELERATORS
• ENV_STICKYCOLUMNSORT
• ENV_STRICTDATETIMEINPUT
• ENV_USE_WEBPALETTE
• INI_STACK_VAR
• "$EnableAlarms"
• "$MIMESaveFormat"
• "DeskIconColors"
• "EmptyTrash"
• "NavWeekStart"
• "ShowMIMEImagesAsAttachments"
• "ViewWeekStart"
• "WeekStart"
• "WinNTContextIconHidden"
• "WinNTIconHidden"
• "WinNTIconHoverHelp"
• "WinNTIconSize"
• "MailSystem"
• ALTEDITORPROGID
• "NewMailInterval"
• ENV_ENABLEJAVA
• ENV_ENABLEJAVASCRIPT
• ENV_ENABLEJAVASCRIPTERRORS
• ENV_ENABLELIVECONNECT
• ENV_ENABLEPLUGINS
• ENV_ENABLEACTIVEX
• UNICODE_DISPLAY_STR
• LAUNCH_NOI_STR
• ENV_SPELL_PREFERENCES
• ENV_USE_TAB_TO_NAV_RO_DOC
• ENV_USE_ACCESSIBLE_NAVIGATION
• ENV_ENABLE_THEMES
• ENV_UNTAGGEDTEXT_FOLLOWS_FORM
• ENV_KBD_SETS_LANGUAGE
• ENV_LANGUAGE_SETS_KBD
• ENV_URLBAR_INLINE_AUTOCOMPLETE
• ENV_LOCATION_PROMPT
• ENV_ANTIQUEDIALOGCAPTION
• BCASE_SLIDE_MODE
• PROFILE_WEEKSTART
• PROFILE_VIEW_WEEKSTART
• PROFILE_NAVI_WEEKSTART
• "DatePickerDirection"
• "AltCalendar"
• "ReplDefFullDocs"
• "ReplDefPartDocsLimit"
• "ReplDefPartDocsLimitAmt"
• "ReplDefPartAtchLimit"
• "ReplDefPartAtchLimitAmt"
• "ReplDefFullText"
• "ReplDefEncrypt"
• "ReplDefEncryptType"
• "ReplDefReplImmed"
• "Preferences"
• ALTMAILAPP
• LAST_QUOTA_WARNING_TIME
• "MailFile"
• "MailServer"
• "SkinName"
• "WinNTIconRect"
• MAIL_SOUND_RESOURCE
• MEETING_ALARM_SOUND_RESOURCE
• MAIL_CALENDAR_PROFILE_CURTIMEZONELBL_ITEM
• MAIL_CALENDAR_PROFILE_ALTTIMEZONE_ITEM

The following settings/files do not replicate. This means that this data is not equal on each computer that the users use:

• Signature fles
• IMAP and NNTP proxy databases
• NOTES.INI file (except for User Preferences stored in Personal Address Book)
• Desktop.dsk file
• Cache.ndk file
• Headline.nsf
• Private Views/Folders
• Any other data files or databases that are not replicated to the roaming subdirectory on the server

See this technote for all information regarding this issue.

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Djursökmotor på din egen webbsida!

Agria Djurförsäkring (www.agria.se) har lagt ut en tjänst där man kan söka efter frågor och svar i deras 'Fråga veterinären' från sin egen webbsida.

Man klistrar in nedanstående kod på sin sajt så kommer följande sökruta upp, sökresultaten öppnas på Agrias webbsida.

<!--- START KODSNUTT AGRIA DJURFÖRSÄKRING --->
<div>
<script src="'http://www.agria.se/agria/samarbet.nsf/agriapartner?
openpage&partner="searchvet'"></script>
</div>
<!--- SLUT --->








Databasen är förstår gjord i Lotus Notes/Domino som ses på filnamnet.
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It's now through Agria Djurförsäkring (www.agria.se) possible to via your own site search for answers and questions on animal vet issues. Of course, it's a Domino database, but the content is swedish only.

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The latest on "Hannover"

Code name "Hannover"
The future of Lotus Notes

Link pasted from Ed Brills site may 22.

Bowstreet Portlet Factory

A short and very brief description of Bowstreet Portlet Factory...

Bowstreet is a company that was acquired by IBM in december 2005. The correct name now is WebSphere Portlet Factory. Here are the release notes.

The tool is used to rapidly creating portlets accessing back-end data like Domino, SAP, Siebel and other enterprise information systems for the WebSphere Portal environment.

There are more than 100 builders included in WebSphere Portlet Factory. A builder is a customizable, reusable component which generates XML, Java and JSP for specific portlet functionality.

A developer can create new portlets by first creating a new model or application container and then add builders to the model. Thus, a model is a sequence of builders. It is possible to create your own builders by writing java classes.

A portlet is a larger catalog structure in the file system which is compressed into a WAR-file and then placed into the WebSphere Portal Server.

A couple of examples of what you can do with WebSphere Portlet Factory is web services portlets, portlets with AJAX-functionality and Domino specific portlets.

WebSphere Portlet Factory can be used integrated with the Eclipse platform or with Rational Application Developer (RAD).

Alternatives to WebSphere Portlet Factory is RAD or Workplace Designer. RAD is much more advanced, it provides more functionality but hence it is probably more difficult to use. Workplace Designer has not got as much functionality as RAD. What you need depends on what you want to do. According to IBM there will probably be a merge of two or more of these tools.

RAD is included with WebSphere Portal Server with 1 license per CPU.


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