November 2009
THANKSGIVING QUICKIE: Notes Document Object in Freemarker
Wed, 11/25/2009 – 22:44 — jakeI’m doing some research for a client in using Freemarker to generate documents using templates and Notes data. It turns out that it’s deceptively simple to create a very basic Notes wrapper object to pass into Freemarker’s templating engine for merging document fields with a template. The closest abstract class to implement for a document is Freemarker’s TemplateHashModel.
THERE'S A MODULE FOR THAT!
Mon, 11/23/2009 - 16:58 — jakeI've been tinkering a little under the hood of this blog/website. As some of you may know, this site is based on the awesome Drupal CMS. I was browsing some blogs and came across an interesting ratings and recommendation service called Outbrain. A little digging and sure enough, There's a Drupal module for that! I installed the module and played with the widget settings from my Outbrain account.
ON CHROME OS: is there a point to all this?
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 14:32 — jakeJust a quick note on yesterday’s Chrome OS reveal by Google. Unless I’m missing something, there’s nothing new under the covers here. It seems as if the whole point of the “OS” is to provide a stripped down device-like environment for hosting a web browser.
OPEN QUESTION: Are Team Collaboration Tools mostly just glorified filesystems?
Wed, 11/11/2022 - 16:27 — jakeSo it occured to me that every few years we reinvent the wheel in enterprise filesharing. Workgroups used to "collaborate" by dropping files into a shared network folder. Then there came Exchange Public Folders and Notes document libraries. Then there were complicated document management systems. Now there's Quickr and Sharepoint.
TRI-STATE LUG: KUDOS 'N QUESTIONS
Mon, 11/09/2022 - 22:43 — jakeI had an incredible time at the Tri-State Lotus User Group meetup today. It was an all-day event with a keynote by Lotus GM Bob Picciano and a whole mini-Lotusphere roster of speakers. I was also was fortunate to meet up with old friends and colleagues Steven Pivnik, Vitaliy Dubinsky and catch up with Bob Balaban, whom I haven’t spoken to face to face in ten years or so.
XPAGES DRAG AND DROP WITH DOJO TUTORIAL, PART 5: Wiring the drop event and performing partial updates
Thu, 11/05/2022 - 14:01 — jakeThis is part 5 of a series on drag and drop with Xpages and Dojo.