Archive for the ‘Articles’ Category

tmpProposedStartTime_Actual – Wrong datatype

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Got a phone call from one of my users. He told me that he is not able to accept an ivitation for a meeting. Instead the following error message occurs when he tries to open the document from his inbox. I searched the KnowledgeBase but could not find any hint, how ...

Entwicklercamp 2010 – Day 3

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

As usual, the conference started at 8:30 with SpeedAgendaing and a short briefing. I had to go and setup my environment for my presentation about "C/C++ API for Beginners" before all the speakers had shown their slides to give the audience an impression, what the session is about. My session went well ...

Entwicklercamp 2010 – Day 2

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The day started at 8:30 with Rudi's briefing for the day, followed by the daily speed agendaing. Some speakers had not provided their slides as requested and submitted them via mail during the speed agendaing, which made it a bit confusing for the audience. With a delay of about 10 minutes ...

Entwicklercamp 2010 – Day 1

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Day 1 of Entwicklercamp 2010 is over. 212 attendees from Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Swiss. Prominent speakers from the US ( Andrew Pollack, Rocky Oliver ... ) . Maureen Leeland opened the conference with a keynote on Lotus Notes Designer 8.5.1 and beyond. After lunch I attended Bob Balaban's session on using COM from ...

Modify Header / Footer items via Lotusscript ( and API )

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Header / Footer items are of type Richtext and you cannot modify them directly using standard LotusScript. I' ve put together all the necessary code and wrapped the API calls into a class to achive the goal. The class works on Windows and Linux. Mac support is possible but I have ...

I’ll be speaking at BLUG

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Yesterady I received a mail from the organizers of the BLUG event on March, 30th in Brussels, Belgium that my session on DAOS has been approved. Here is the session abstract: Are your servers running out of disk space? Do you have more than one bit like attachment stored in your databases? ...

OpenNTF – Medusa and Bildr

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

There a two new projects on OpenNTF. The first one is called Medusa. Stephan Wissel mentioned it in his LCTY session in Düsseldorf. Now it is available for download on OpenNTF. If you're developing Xpages, you need Medusa. You need it bad. Trust me. Bildr, by Patrick Kwinten, is another XPages ...

LCTY – Cologne

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Had the chance to attend another LCTY in Cologne yesterday. The event was held by ebf, an IBM Premier Business Partner. It was free of charge and therefore,  to be honest, my expectations were not to high. But I was positively surprised. All session had a high standard. Traveler, Sametime 8.5, ...

LCTY Rheinland – Review

Friday, February 26th, 2010

I attended LCTY Rheinland at the Swissotel Düsseldorf / Neuss yesterday. The event was run by TimeToAct and Bit Bücker. The location was a good choice. There was plenty of room to run  25 sessions in 5 parallel tracks. The session content was well choosen and so were the speakers. The ...

Book Review: jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

If you are a web developer who wants a broad, organized view of all that jQuery library has to offer or a quick reference on your desk to refer to for particular details, Packt's jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide by Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer is the book for you. As the ...

Header/Footer Direction

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

I played with header / footer settings on a per document basis and saw a setting, I have never seen before. Perhaps it was there all the time but I did not recognize it. The option sets the header / footer  to the left or right side of the page.  The ...

Another Review: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 – Upgrader’s Guide

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

At the beginning of 2010, the community was exited about the news, that Packt Publishing was about to release a new book covering Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1. A lot of people were asked to write a review and so was I. It took a while for the book to make ...

Enabling DAOS on a database – new recommendation

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Almost one year ago, I wrote about "How To Wast Space" when enabling DAOS on an application. And I assumed that it might not be sure that the compact task will always do the recompress BEFORE the attachments are moved to the DAOS repository. The recommended way to enable DAOS on ...

Next Event: LCTY – Rheinland 25-Feb-2010

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

On Thursday, 25-Feb-2010, I will attend LCTY in the Swissotel in Neuss, Germany. I expect one day full of information from this years Lotusphere. TimeToAct and Bit Bücker have invited well known speakers like Ed Brill, Daniel Nashed, "Lotus Legend" Stephan Wissel and others. The demoes are presented by Mr. Ron Sebastian. ...

iNotes issues after installing 8.5.1 FP1

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Do you get calls from your iNotes users that they cannot do some operations in their web mail? You have installed FP1 and use some kind of proxy, do you? Then Technote #1412267 is a must read for you.

I’ll be speaking at EntwicklerCamp 2010

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Lotusphere is over and other events are just around the corner. This year's EntwicklerCamp will start at 08-March-2010 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The event is run by the crew around Dutchman Rudi Knegt. Every year they do a fantastic job running the conference. The agenda seems to be completed now and you can ...

Debug AutoPop process

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

The auto-populated groups feature in Domino 8.5.x is great, but when you run into problems an error message like: "Search for auto-populated group members failed for group TEST.: Error looking up name on LDAP Server; See server log for further details." is not very helpful, because there is no more info in ...

Chapter No.8 – ‘What’s New In Notes/Domino 8.5 Development’

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Read and/ or download  Chapter No.8 – 'What's New In Notes/Domino 8.5 Development' for free. The chapter is taken from the new released book "IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1" published by Packt Publishing. I will review the book as soon as I receive my copy. If you do not want to ...

Jean-Yves Riverin – Poor database performance; things to check

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

As a reply to a question in the IBM Lotus Notes/Domono 8.5 forum, Jean-Yves Riverin posted a collection of interesting articles, technotes and presentations regarding database performance. Thanks for sharing, Jean-Yves!

Customize DAOSEST file attachment size

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

The daoest by default has a large gap in attachment size evaluation between 64k and 1 MB. You may wish to understand the value of setting the object size between these parameters Set the Notes.ini parameter DAOSEST_BUCKETS to customize the size shown in the report. For example: DAOSEST_BUCKETS=16,64,128,256,512,768,1024,2048,3072,4096 The above line sets to 16K, ...