May 2009

THE GOSPEL OF TIME, ACCORDING TO JON

Jon Udell has been focusing his attention on calendaring data and ways in which existing tools and API’s can be maximized to benefit groups sharing bits of calendar data. Jon touches upon a few thoughts that I’d like to address, having worked with calendar-type data on and off for over a decade myself.

KICKOFF

I kickoff my new professionally oriented blog with QUICK 'N EASY..., a code-centric post that reflects my continuing interest in finding the better way for Lotus Notes and Domino developers and my intention to focus more on nuts and bolts. I've also backported three older essays from years past that serve as useful anchors of prescience.

QUICK 'N EASY AJAX DOMINO NAME LOOKUP

So I posed the question on the Domino/Notes 8.5 discussion board of how to use the jQuery autocompleter to pull data from a standard Notes view. The jQuery Autocompleter is a jQuery plugin that performs real-time autcompletion of a text-field using JSON data transferred over the wire.