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Notes Reloaded

Don't worry, I'm not about to talk about the film. Because of the title of this post that is. Did you read it? It's called "Notes Reloaded". Sorry, I shouldn't of assumed you did. It annoys me when I read blogs and the entry starts off with the assumption you read the title. I often don't bother and end up confused as anything.

Anyway, Notes Reloaded is the name of Rune Carlsen's new application. It's basically a way of restarting Notes after it's crashed and left some tasks still running in the background. It's happened to us all I'm sure. Although, I have to say, my install of Notes 6 has been very well behaved so far...

Which reminds me - anybody remember this? Naughty Cassetica!

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    • Boston Notes Girl
    • Mon 18 Aug 2003 16:07

    Hey - Jake - long time no read codestore! just stumbled in after a long while away and wondered howcome this has devolved into a boring romance novel instead of singularly helpful programming tips...how about a slight return to what made this site a favorite bookmark in the past...thanks for your hard work...

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    • Jake
    • Mon 18 Aug 2003 16:24

    Interesting point "Boston Notes Girl" (god I hate it when people that have the balls to pick fault but not the balls to use a/their real name).

    It's boring maybe because I am boring. Maybe it's because I am bored. Maybe it's because I am bored of Notes. Maybe it's because I am out of work. Maybe I don't use Notes as much as I used to and hence my source of tips has run dry. Got any *you* can share?

    Don't worry, I've not taken offence at what you said, as I don't think you meant any. Just that it is a good point. However, people who don't run sites like mine can have no idea how hard it can be at times. I don't have an endless supply of tips to share. Sometimes I don't have enough time to write articles. What I do do however is keep the site alive. Then, *when* I find something worth sharing, believe me, I WILL. In the mean time you have to put up with reading about *me*. If you don't like that then it's hard cheese.

  1. Personally, I do not think that this is a boring romance novel. In fact, I find this quite a cool idea. It brings out the more "human" and emotional side of us. It is not about programming all the time. It is about living life.

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    • Boston Notes Girl
    • Mon 18 Aug 2003 20:39

    sorry if I struck a nerve . . . i used to get such as kick out of the site, and while I've also enjoyed seeing your holiday pictures and bike riding pictures and family barbeques, etc., since I hadn't tuned in regularly in about seven months, I was trying to search back to see when the first post about Karen was, it seemed to be April 2003, and was making a tongue in cheek uncool jab at finding out - is this still the focus of the site - or did I miss some announcement that the regulars would have seen, that the site is really just a blog. At least I would then know how to categorize the site in my bookmarks, not that I wouldn't regularly visit, because I think you're a sexy, cool programming dude, but I won't be expecting singularly brilliant programming articles and tips. By the way, the name is April Grier and I work in domino programming for a University in Boston, Mass, USA.

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    • jim G
    • Tue 19 Aug 2003 03:54

    I have a tip - or at least what I believe to be an undocumented feature of R6 discovered by accident.

    As a user since R3.3 days I have always been fond of workspace and despite the features of Home aka bookmark.nsf introduced in R5 have stuck with workspace as my "home page" throughout R5 days.

    A recent client load of R6 has however caused me to relook at bookmark.nsf in the new version. I still don't like it in its native form - none of the templates quite do want I want - but I do like the ability to drag & drop databases, web links, and applications onto the Notes desktop.

    Could I easily recreate this with a custom launcher database I asked myself. Yes it semms - the "drag & drop" bit of bookmark.nsf is a custom hidden outline called (Personalpage-Links) but it doesn't show in designer or in the drop down when you do "Create, Embedded Element". You can however cut & paste it - in bookmark.nsf create a new Home page, choose personal page, layout A - in edit mode open the Links section and just cut & paste the embedded outline into your application. You can then change the outline font, colour etc in the normal way.

    Now you can create a highly customised launcher database that features all that you want it to and keep that extremely useful drag & drop stuff without a massive code rewrite.

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    • Jake
    • Tue 19 Aug 2003 04:57

    April. You did strike a nerve but I don't hold it against you. You're not the only one to be thinking the same thing. I think it too. The site does need to return to its old ways. Just need to find the time in the day... oh and the inclination

  2. Jake,

    How about a cool article about how to create HTML compliant Domino Apps ?

    I am trying but keep hitting walls, like trying to use the embedded file upload control.

    If you could make it for R5 that would be even better ;-)

  3. Jake,

    interesting idea - are you adding an "upload" function to Codestore, so that you become more a moderator/facilitator and less a teacher/lecturer ? ;o)

    Actually, you have quite a bank of tips here, it's just dang hard to find 'em.

    Patrick

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    • Spuggy
    • Tue 19 Aug 2003 07:01

    Jake

    Sounds like you are as fed up with Lotus Notes as me. If I have to another $$viewtemplatecobblers ... arrg.

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    • Jake
    • Tue 19 Aug 2003 07:01

    Jim G - I am having trouble understanding. You can drag files on to the bookmark.nsf?

    Mark - Give up. It's not worth the effort.

    Patrick - there is an ideas upload feature - AKA - my email address.

  4. Jake - Last time I checked you don't charge anyone to read the content on your site. You gotta have a life. When you get back in the swing we'll all be here to eat it up. Amazing how people complain about free stuff, eh?

    -- Mike

  5. How do you protect the email addresses from spambots? I've got a problem that I get a lot of spam mail on my club email address and I thinkn it's generated by those damned spambots.

    So, I would be very interested as to learn how you prevent spambots from reading these addresses.

  6. I don't think that anyone can really "sling mud" unless they run a website themselves. Hell, 'blogging sounds easier than it is if you care about the content that you're publishing. After running a site (not as good mind you but I don't think it totally sucks ;-) ) for close to a year I know what it's like - sometimes you don't want to talk about Domino!

    As for the HTML, you can get 4.01 W3C compliance for the output rather easily, but the application front - depending on what you're looking to do - can be a damned nightmare.

    -Chris

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    • jim G
    • Wed 20 Aug 2003 04:08

    Jake

    Yes - you can drag & drop all sorts onto your bookmark.nsf in 6

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