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Moving places

After several efforts, I finally managed to move to my own place. The only problem is that internet doesn’t work properly. Everything else is just fine. Anyway, hoping to solve issues till next week. Unfortunatelly, this means there will be no post this week.

System time is not in sync with Domino time

A funny thing happened to our servers on multiple occasions. Server system time was not equal to Domino server time. Some times they were even as much as 5 minutes apart.

Notes rendering engine

About a year hence, it was time to refresh web design of my company’s web site. We decided to stick to new and improved web page standards and thus separate style and scripts from content. All well, but one simple thing. Our CMS never forced it’s users to use HTML in their code. We always […]

Design patterns – Part 11: Bridge pattern

In part 11 of Design pattern series we will go into creating and using the Bridge design pattern. It is moderately used and uses encapsulation, inheritance and aggregation to separate responsibilities into other classes. The Bridge pattern decouples an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.

Design patterns – Part 10: Builder pattern

In part 10 of Design pattern series we will take look at Builder design pattern. Albeit much similarity, this pattern it is not to be mistaken with Abstract factory pattern. As Abstract Factory emphasizes a family of products and returns the product immediately, Builder focuses on constructing complex object step by step, returning product in […]

Security Certificate expiration in Lotus Domino on May 18th 2009

Got this e-mail from IBM Notes & Domino team todayand thought it worthy of sharing with public… What is happening The certificate for some Java applets in Lotus Domino 6.5.x, Domino 7.0.x, Domino 8.0.x, and Domino 8.5 have an expiration date of May 18, 2009. Starting May 19th, Web users will see a dialog with […]

Installing Lotus Connections 2.0.1 on Linux

A while back, I decided to install Lotus Connections at work to ease communication, enable all important project awareness and to share our common links etc. First thing that caught my eye were system specs. Now, I don’t mean to be rude, but it looks like one would need NASA supercomputer just to run this thing. […]

Design patterns – Part 9: Mediator pattern

This week, I present to you not much used, but quite useful Mediator pattern. Mediator pattern provides a unified interface to set of interfaces in a subsystem. Or, to simplify… Mediator pattern is mediator for communication between several classes.

Upgraded myself to R8 certification

So now, I am titled Lotus Notes 8 Advanced application developer. For those of you who are still not sure weather to go or not… Go. It is not that difficult. But first learn a thing or two about Composite applications, DXL import/export and new document collection methods.

Happy Easter holidays…

…yeah, you noticed… There won’t be a post this week. Enjoy your holidays.