Tag Archives: Blog

Feb 20

The Time has come…

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to move on, I have been learning PHP for about 6 months and have not done any Notes/Domino development for a couple of years. I have converted my blog to WordPress so I am sure some things will be lost or missing so if you need something please let me know. I hope to blog more about what I am doing but I just have not made the time to do it. A little update about life: I have been doing my share of computer work on the side the last year and web development (just static pages). The kids have been keeping us busy, we now have a teenager, that seems a little wired but life must continue. I got a camcorder for Christmas!!!!, so hopefully some posts about that. I also am looking for some good but not expensive editing software, any suggestions welcomed. We took a family vacation to PA in the fall and that was awesome. We got to got to NYC and Washington DC. There is more but that would take away form some possible posts.
Sep 10

Oops

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Over a month without a post, sorry.  I have been busy, at one time I had 5 extra computers in the house being worked on.  Which ment an upgrade for me, my kids, and server machines!!!!!  I am still biking but not as much with the weather, but have been doing some elliptical training.  I do miss being outside but still getting my 40 minutes in 3 times a week.  My schedule is still full doing work for some other people.

Please keep my nephew in your prayers, he just had surgery for glaucoma .  If your stomach can handle it a video same type of surgery.  Praise the Lord the surgery went well and was a success!
Jul 31

More Bloglines Hotkeys

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Bloglines has added some more hotkeys, which I mentioned before. They have implemented my last request of setting focus to the right pane. But I would like to see one more addtional short cut key, allowing me to navigate to the next new message that is not marked as new. I have a handful of articles that I need to read but don’t have time to read them in full, so I mark them to keep as new but I always have to navigate through them to read all the unread articles.

One of the new hotkeys is open article which is a nice new feature. The problem is when I use the ‘s’ hotkey it does not automaticly select the first article so I have to press s, j, and then o just to open the article. I should only have to press s and o, please fix.

You can now navigate through Bloglines with hotkeys! You will find this legend at the bottom of each feed display page.
Hotkeys: j – next article k – previous article m – collapse/expand left pane s – next sub f – next folder A – read all n – toggle keep new o – open article O – open article in background r – refresh left pane

Update: Bloglines anounces new hotkeys – Sesame Street ABC’s
Jun 05

Rich Text to MIME

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In November I was working on rendering Rich Text as MIME for Blogsphere which been doing well, based on no new is good news.  There is a new technote that explains how to get around the images disappearing if the document is refreshed more than once.  Which Blogsphere handles because it uses a second rich text field so it never converted to MIME twice.  The technote uses ‘ConvertedMime’ with a value of 1 so it is not converted to a MIME database twice.  Does anyone else know if there are any other fields related to Rich Text to MIME conversion?
May 16

Fighting comment spam

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If you have not noticed Captain Oblivious posted a way to combat the comment spam that has been hitting the users of BlogSphere, including me.  To be different, I came up with my own way of combating it.  I have added  a new field to my comments that requires some additional characters to be entered, or copy and pasted.  
I have been using this for about a week and it has been working very nice.  So let me know your thoughts.  I realize that this not that bullet proof but would like to know if other people are interested if the codes where encrypted more.  Eventually, I would like to implement Captcha but only if there is an interest.

Update:  Now that spam is under control I have enabled referrers again.
Apr 27

SnT Thursday – View Icons as Categories

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I like to check how referrers are getting to this blog, so I use the view ‘Referers\All by Date’ view to monitor it. One of my frustrations about this view is that either a refer is marked as valid or invalid. Which is not totally accurate because not all invalid entries have been validated. So I added a third icon that indicates that the referrer has not been validated. The third icon helped but I still found myself wasting time looking through the documents. To speed things up I added categorization (descending order) to the indicator column and my view now looks like this:
There is only one thing wrong with this, no twisties! As you can see (second picture) I do have them set to show. Even tried using my own ‘Twistie Image’ but still no luck. When ‘Display values as icons’ is disabled the twisties appear in Notes. No matter the setting for this column the twisties always show on the web, thanks Lotus for the consistency. The column formula is very simple: 
@If(Verify = 1; 82; Verify = 0; 81; 162)
Update: It seems that the view icon is the twistie because clicking on the image once expands or collapses it.