Fri 19 Apr 2002's Blog

Matt Clarke noticed today that IBM have "fixed" their site. I'm not impressed with the way they solved the empty search box. Try pressing the search button at top of this page without typing in the search box. Notice that the form is submitted and then told to go back a page. This is what us Domino developers were doing in '97 when JavaScript was even less well-known than it is now.

Looking at the nerdy plates people in America have on their cars I thought of some nerdy ones for British Domino developers. How about R5 CLP or R5 NSF? Hey, it's Friday. If anybody fancies a friday-challenge have a go at writing a regular expression to validate a British car registration (pre-2001).

To me, the measure of this site's success is that it's ranked third by Google in their Notes Development directory. Only got DominoCafe to beat now. Shouldn't be too hard.

Google's Page Rank is based on the Open Directory Project. The beauty of this directory being that you can't buy your way in there. I'm honoured to be listed at the top of their Notes Development directory and with a gold star too. I'm also listed in the JavaScript directory. I dread to think what a true web-developer must think when they arrive here looking for JavaScripts - "Domino, what's that?"