Month: March 2013

Unable to open https sites with self signed certificate on IE 10

Just ran into a  problem with IE10. I was unable to open a website with https protocol which have not trusted certificate by trusted root authorities.

In previous versions of IE it was possible to open such an page with warning but in IE10 I am only getting this error message without any option to open it instead.

Trigger the following command from the command prompt

certutil -setreg chain\EnableWeakSignatureFlags 8

N ow you will be presented the option to open the page again.


BLUG 2013 recap

BLUG 2013 took place from March, 21 – 22 2013 in Leuven , Belgium. The Faculty Club was a wonderful venue and also the conference hotel was a great place to stay during the conference.

I attended BLUG for the first time as a vendor and speaker after choosing to work at BCC since November 2012. So I had to be at our booth most of the time, but thanks to Fathima Gany ( BCC Sales ) and Sarah Steffen ( BCC Development ) I also had the chance to attend some sessions.

OGS

Scott Souder and Louis Richardson presented at the OGS. I only saw a small part of the session, but according to other attendees it was great. .

During the 2 days, I met some people, I only knew only virtually. It was fantastic, to meet you in person, guys ( and gals ) .

The usual suspect gathered together on wednesday evening for the welcome reception. A lot of different beer was served along with some excellent food. Lesson learnt: Do not drink too many different beers. Headache guaranteed.

Thursday evening I had to present at SpeedSponsoring. It was the first time for me and to be honest, I was a bit scared all over the day. But after the first round I had fun doing the presentation. OK, I managed to do my 3 minutes take in only 2 minutes in the first round, but that was a good practice, as Paul Mooney decreased the presentation time from 3 to 2 minutes during the one hour of screaming and shouting in the sponsors area.

On friday I presented  “Life in the fast lane: Full speed XPages”. With the help of Matthew Fyleman from We4IT it was a great presentation. Matthew and I never presented together before and we only ran thru the slides once on friday, just a couple of hours before the presentation.

I got some great feedback after the session. Also there was a tweet saying that the presentation has helped to identify a bottleneck in an application.

tweet

During the closing session the raffle took place and as always many valuable stuff was given to the attendees ( iPad Mini, Apple TV, Books, Ytria Software licenses, TLCC course licenses and more )

raffle

The number of attendees at the 5th BLUG conference was about 325 ( if I recall correctly ). This is a huge success for the organizers. Congratulations.

breda

Next BLUG ( now called the BENELUX Notes User Group ) will be in Breda, The Netherlands. Watch blug.be for details.


Convert @Created to Unix Timestamp using @formula

In a multi-language enabled application I’m using JSON from a view as a datasource for a jqGrid in an XPage. To convert the date-time in the JSON, I need the date/time value a UNIX timestamp.

It’s easy in LS, but I do not want to change the programming of the application, to calculate the timestamp on document creation and store the value in an item on the document.

To convert the @created date into an UNIX timestamp I use the following @formula:

_seconds:=
@ToNumber(@Hour(@Created))*3600 + 
@ToNumber(@Minute(@Created)) * 60 + 
@ToNumber(@Second(@Created));
((@BusinessDays(@Date(1970;1;1);@Created) - 1 )*86400) + _seconds

Update: Well, the formula is nice and does what it should. But there is a much easier way to achieve the aim.

@Created -  @Date(1970;1;1;0;0;0) - 1

gives exactly the same result …