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Beware of the URL bug in 8.5.2 and how to avoid it.

Jesper B. Ki�r — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

As I wrote in my blog the other day there is a URL bug in 8.5.2. It seems the problem is that !opendatabase does not work in 8.5.2. This has given me problems in several of my websites, Normally you would for public web sites set the Domino server to use ! in URL command instead of ?. The ? has a special meaning in a URL which (in the old days at least) would confuse search engines when hitting a Domino URL. So IBM came up the idea of using ! in the URL instead. This only required a different setting in the Internet Site document. Setting "Make this site..." to enabled would allow domino to use ! instead in the URL. However since !opendatabase does not work in Domino 8.5.2 you need to disable this to stay out of trouble for now as a work around UPDATE Just found out ...I can not just disable it since a lot of my websites are not working if I turn it of. Domino will not only use ? instead... but completely reject the use of !... crap..

How many other application servers can be upgraded in less than 5-10 minutes? Amazing!

Jesper B. Ki�r — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Sharepoint? ROFL...

First Lotus Domino 8.5.2 bug, website stopped working

Jesper B. Ki�r — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Upgraded the very Domino server this blog is running on just now, 8.5.1 to 8.5.2. Things went pretty well, the install was blazing fast due to the fact I am using SSD on the server. After starting the upgraded Domino things looked ok, until I tried opening my blog http://nevermind.dk and got a 404. Huh?? I could access the blog by typing the full URL. Something has changed in 8.5.2, since the Internet Site document does not work any more. Changing it to made it work again. The Domino server runs on Centos 5.5 Better check the other Internet Sites....

Nice to see that people still get excited about a point release

Jesper B. Ki�r — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Go Notes 8.5.2 ! :-)

This is pretty scary stuff

Jesper B. Ki�r — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This is pretty scary stuff. USA, I do think it is time to wake up and face the challenge See it live at http://www.usdebtclock.org Finally some Flash which is actually put to good use ;-)

Forget about Firefox 3.6.8 - Get Firefox 4 now, it is great!

Jesper B. Ki�r — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

As written in my blog I have been having lots of slow and hanging connections in Firefox 3.6.8. Forget about it and download Firefox 4 (Beta 3) now!! It works great and has lots of good stuff in it. You can install it without effecting your 3.6 installation, so there is no excuse not to test it. Download it here:

Did a test for dublicate files in the Windows directory using ADLER-32 and MD5 ...surprising result

Jesper B. Ki�r — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The test was pretty simple: Check for duplicate files in the Windows directory and subdirectories. By creating a Lotus Notes Java Agent I would: - Loop through all the files in the Windows directory and subdirectories - for each file I would calculate a checksum, using the ADLER-32 algorithm in java.util.zip.Adler32 - store the checksum in a HashMap - for every file I would check if the checksum already existed in the HashMap The results: Checked files: 27900 Unique number of files: 20370 Number of duplicates: 7530 Meaning 26,9% of the files are duplicates. That is a lot! ADLER-32 is very fast, but has the weakness of giving false positives, meaning different files would give the same checksum in some cases. So I did a test where I instead used MD5 to calculate the hash values. MD5 gives better results but is much slower. Checked files: 27900 Unique number of files: 20379 Number of duplicates: 7521 So there where 9 false positives using ADLER-32 which in my case is irrelevant, but YMMV.

Making good use of the useless @DocNumber

Jesper B. Ki�r — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

For some reason a long time ago Lotus decided to create a function @DocNumber, which would show the position of the document in a view, like 1.2.2 This was a great idea except that the function returns "something" which can not be further refined or used in the formular language. Meaning it is actually rather useless. Well except on the web. By using a little JavaScript it can be quite useful. Sometimes it can be really nice to have a numbering, indicating how many documents or entries there are in a category. It is very simple to achieve this. The @DocNumber will show just fine in a view in the web, so just by using a little JavaScript in the browser to split the result a numbering of in category will be shown. Something like this in a column will do:

"["+ model + "]"

Just remember to match the index in the split call to the level in the categorized view. Here it is Make is 0 and Model is 1

Firefox 3.6.8 is crap

Jesper B. Ki�r — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Old problems are back again. Hangs, waits for pages ... Very annoying! I have written about this before on this blog, ...don't they test Firefox before they release at Mozilla? I am not the only one having these problems: http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&comments_parentId=735632&forumId=1

Creating a folder from a view design, easy right?

Jesper B. Ki�r — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

You would think that it would be possible to create a folder from a certain view design in LotusScript, right?. Creating a folder in LS is very easy: � Setdb=session.Currentdatabase �db.Enablefolder("MyNewFolder") But where does the design come from? The default view? I haven't checked, but it is very clear that there should of course have been another parameter in the "EnableFolder" call indicating which view the folder should be created from to make it any useful. Fortunately there is an undocumented call to fix the problem. From version 5.03 a hidden formula function exists: @UpdateViewDesign("foldertarget";"viewsource") So by calling: Dim session As New NotesSession Dim db As NotesDatabase Setdb=session.Currentdatabase db.Enablefolder("MyNewFolder") Evaluate(|@UpdateViewDesign("MyNewFolder";"SourceView")|)� � � the folder is "created" from a sourceview.