Tweaks and Treats
Last week an email asked me why perma-link URLs to blog entries ended in &count=-1. Obviously they've not been keeping up with my articles. Tut, tut. The parameter is used to force Domino to return the maximum number of rows from a view. The default is thirty rows, which meant that opening a blog with more than thirty responses would cut some off. My solution, which I was never happy with, was to append this parameter to all links. Last week's email triggered a thought - I don't need it anymore. Since Prominic gave me my own server, I can make whatever changes I like to the Domino settings. The default number of rows is now 100 and the URL parameter has gone. Jake's a happy boy.
Yesterday I forgot to thank the 3Js for their gifts - Jerry, Jon and Juan. Thanks guys. One of the gifts was the JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook by none other than DHTML god Danny Goodman. A simple look at the contents of this book should be enough to convince you of its worthiness of a place on your bookshelf. Personally, I have a shelf devoted to O'Reilly, as you can see below.
There's not much you could ever want to know in our line of business that ain't in one of these! Where would we be without O'Reilly!?
Jake, let's hope you never have 100 responses to a BLOG, I can only imagine what controversial subject would trigger that.
Brian. I sometimes think I know which blogs will create the most response as I am writing them. I sometimes get it very wrong.
I think I now how I could attract 100 responses but I don't want to get in to that ;o)
Last Thursday's blog on time-zones could easily have gone 100+ if we didn't get an answer so soon. There were about 30 responses within an hour.
I remember when Danny Goodman was a HyperTalk god!
How times have changed, I feel old now ;)
Thanks for the book suggestion, Jake. I have Goodman's others, but I didn't know this one was out.
That's why I read this site, by the way. Because you're a WEB developer who understands Domino but doesn't let himself be limited by it. PHP isn't my thing at the moment, but it's cool to know that if an opportunity presents itself I can get started easily with your articles.
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Hi.
Danny Goodman is the best ( in my opinion, of course ). When the books written by Danny are translated by a good translator ( and computer expert ) is a treasure for spanish spoken people ... (sigh)
How much weight the book, Jake? It's enormous! :-D
Hi.
Jerry, Is *that* morse? (Madre mía) X-D
Peanuts Jerry?
Juan, the book isn't that heavy. Do you mean the Dynamic HTML edition 2? That's *really* heavy! Not something you would want to carry round with you...
Yes, it is Morse. You can translate it here
Sorry to spoil your fun Jerry.
No worries. It's a bit like encrypted geocaching hints - meant to be decoded.
If anyone decoded it - it's a Hitchhikers Guide the Galaxy reference, the afore mentioned gift. I was having a slow day - hence the morse code.
S■, Juan... ■La base de la criptograf■a! :-D