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Resolving corruption of custom controls when they are renamed ( 8.5.0 )
Warning : this is a case of the blind leading the blind UPDATE : Declans blog explains that you need to use F2 to change the element name http://www.qtzar.com/blogs/qtzar.nsf/d6plinks/DSLH-7PNK26 Quite possibly ignore the rest of this ! When you rename a custom...
Its good to stop and look back at your projects and see your creative side
Back in 2000 I went from being an industrial Engineer to running my own small company providing Notes / Domino solutions to other Engineers. I was very lucky and found something that I was good at, enjoyed a lot and which people wanted to pay for. Over the last nine...
Fusion Charts tips ( including xPages )
During a recent Proof of Concept with XPages I was struggling to get fusion charts to work with Xpages so I thought I should write down what I learned. To be honest there is really only one tip that is specific to Xpages but the Fusion Charts bits was useful learning...
Nasty bug installing Domino on RHEL
I am doing an install of 8.5 on RHEL 5.1 this week and as I haven't done one on this combination before I thought I would do a dry run, just as well really as there is a bit of a nasty install bug. If you install RHEL 5.1 and then allow the updates to run in their...
IBM XPages Wiki – first thoughts and demo
IBM has released their Xpages Wiki on Open NTF as part of their new initiative to support the Open Source community. You can see Steve Castledines post here, Steve is the leading light behind the the Domino Blog template and I guess the Wiki Template. I think that...
First thoughts on the 8.5 discussion template
I deployed an 8.5 gold discussion template to the server. The new template is a big improvement but I did find some weird stuff ! The Holy Grail for me is "out of the box" rich text compatibility between browser and client. It was very refreshing to see this Then I...
SNTT : Button to check if your users are fowarding mail to external email accounts
Users forwarding automatically forwarding emails to external accounts can cause both security and reliability issues. I have seen instances where an email was automatically sent to an external account which sent back an error bounce message ... which got sent to the...
SNTT – Short agent to change the run on server for scheduled agents
I use this administration agent in my databases to quickly change the "run on" server for all f the scheduled agents when I deploy a template to a new server. The other approach I use is to have the agent "run on all servers" but to then have each agent check for a...
GPSED.COM Blackberry GPS Datalogger and Memory Map overlay ( 8/10 considering it is beta )
Some time back I read about GPSED.com on Graham Chastneys blog. I do quite a bit of hill walking and mountain biking and although I think navigation by GPS is a deeply flawed idea in the mountains ( a philosophical point about the skill set you should have rather than...
If your Snagit Editor is really slow and hogs CPU then read on
UPDATE : Snagit 9.1 has been released ( @ 9/12/08 ) and appears to cure this problem Note : I am not entirely sure I understand why this works but it does seem to. I have asked Techsmith for clarification and will update this accordingly I am a big fan of...