CodeStore Top Ten ND Site
Here's a turn-up for the books. Search Domino have named this site one of the Top 10 Notes/Domino Web sites:
Besides SearchDomino.com (of course!), here are our picks for the top 10 resources essential to every Lotus Notes/Domino IT pro's online toolbox.
What can I say? I'm honoured to be in there with the big guys! I also feel slightly guilty for the things I've said in the past about SearchDomino. It's been a long time since I looked at the site and it's only because a few of you mailed me the link yesterday that I knew about this at all. Obviously some of you guys still visit then. Is it any good now? If the list were compiled elsewhere would SearchDomino be a part of it? Do you disagree with the list and have a completely differnt top ten?
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I don't fully agree with the list. I do agree that you should be in the top 3, and I'm not just saying that. Even if you would stop blogging now you would still have an extensive collection of useful content for reference purposes. You matured a lot of Domino web developers throughout the years, and you were the first to do so.
Regarding searchdomino...I still think it sucks big time. About 80% of the screen (and probably 99% of the page size) is devoted to huge ugly ads. Maybe the editors come up with good content, I don't know, but if that content is published in a hideous framework like they have, don't bother at all.
There, I ruined my chance of ever getting plugged by them ;)
And they seem to have forgotten notestips, Ed Brill's blog etc. etc.
I agree with Ferdy - SearchDomino has too many ads. It also requires a login which is just a pain. And a lot of the tips are NOT good - people wouild be better coming to this site or going to Mike's for Domiono tips & tricks.
Your site is definately in my top ten all time sites. others are as follows:
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Just a few of my favourite sites all exceptionaly well written and the contents great as well.
Normally, SearchDomino is not a site that I will visit. Since this post directed to it, I checked it out again. As soon as I did, I remember why I no longer go there. It is just too slow. My office LAN is not the greatest, but it takes 3+ seconds for each page to load. By no means is their content that exceptional that I want to wait that long per page.
I have a real issue with SearchDomino... I can't use it!
They insist that you must use IE to use their site. Well I don't. I use Mozilla on my Laptop and Opera on my desktop. And neither of them can login.
Obviously they don't read the websites which they promoted or else they would have learned all these little tricks about Domino. Oh, and they don't run a Domino system either. (^_^)
I also received the email with the top 10 ND sites. I also didn't agree with some of the selections and sent Christine Polewarczyk, of SearchDomino, an email, to discuss some of her selections. She responded and told me that she has received a lot of feedback and is hoping to do a follow-up 'Readers Choice' topic.
Congratulations Jake.
Regarding searchdomino: I use Firebird and can use the site very well. During my first steps in Notes I sometimes sent tips to searchdomino but they never published them without incorporating some faults into the code. For beginners there are some nice tips but 80% are really crappy.
I don't get what they have in mind.
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First off, thanks for lumping my piddly lil' ol' site in with the likes of those Tony!
And Tom, what you said scares me: 'Readers Choice'? Then where the hell did they get that list of sites from for "Lotus Notes/Domino professionals"? I'd be the first to say that Codestore belongs on that list... but to me it seems like there was other motives for some of the other sites listed there.
I put down a top 10 on my site yesterday after getting the email that IMHO is a much cleaner and more accurate list of what a LN/D Pro needs to watch...
But opinions (even humble ones) are like @$$holes, everyone's got one and thinks theirs are the only ones that doesn't stink! ;-)
-Chris
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Chris, I asked the same thing. I was told she got them from "polling site experts". I too was very surprised at some of the entries on the list.
Site experts?!? This is getting even better! I know someone over at SD - I think it's time I give them a call.
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I've never even heard of DominoSecurity.org -- and gee, it's run by Chuck Connell, who is affiliated with SearchD. And gee, it hasn't been updated in over a year, at least not the hot list.
Very strange list.
Let's see...
notes.net -- doesn't truly exist.
LDD - Same thing, both on ibm.
Sandbox - Same thing again.
Notes 6 Forum - Hello?? Same site AGAIN.
E-Pro Mag - The mag is defunct. They are just a mailing list now.
So no, I would not take this list serously.
Max, e-Pro's format change doesn't mean they are "just a mailing list" now. There's been a ton of new content from them in the last two weeks, both in the mailing list and on the site. don't count them out.
Congratulations Jake,
well, When I need help , I search in on LDD - sorry Jake ;-) - AND Codestore.org
Thank you for your work.
i've met some of the folks at searchdomino (at the last lotusphere) and they are great people. you have to remember that they are journalists first, and techies second (sometimes a distant second).
from what i can tell their modus operandi is simply to turn up useful information for the domino crowd, and sometimes this is technical, and sometimes it is more "high level".
i've never really used them as a technical resource per se, although i've stumbled across a few things here and there. mostly though i tune into their newsletter and if a link looks promising i'll hit the site for the story. they do turn up some interesting things here and there.
anyway, all that to say, i think they serve a useful function in the community. but like others have said, there are a lot of other places i'll go for technical information before i go there.
Congrats Jake!
I'm glad this site is on the list. To be fair, Search Domino made no judgements (other than who should be on the list!) and put the list in alphabetical order.
Ouch! "Just a mailing list," Max? I like to think we provide more to the community than that. On the other hand, if you're not finding our content valuable, would you tell us what you'd like to see? You can e-mail me or post a comment on the blog on the eP site...
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... as long as your SPAM filter, Libby, doesn't eat the request before you get to read it!
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