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Random cool hack: Make your Ruby scripts work as man pages

October 27, 2011

Via careful use of nroff directives and comments, it’s possible to make a Ruby script that works both as a command line utility you can run, and as a man page. It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping. This is handy, as it means you can distribute both the utility and the documentation in [...]

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Notes 8.5.3: ⊕/⊖

October 25, 2011

Things that make me happy about Notes 8.5.3: I can export my database designs to plain files, and put them in Git for version control. I can grep all my source code with ack. The built-in editor will let me see all the code for a design object in one window. Hover-over display of documentation [...]

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Notes/Domino 8.5.3: Using version control

October 21, 2011

Would you like to edit Domino databases as plain old HTML, CSS and XML, and keep them in version control? Find out how.

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Notes/Domino 8.5.3: Improving local replica efficiency

October 21, 2011

Recent versions of IBM Lotus Domino have included updates to the On-Disk Structure (ODS), the file format of Notes and Domino databases. However, if you have local replicas, they will not automatically be upgraded to the newer formats. In fact, even newly-created local replicas aren’t created in the new formats by default. To fix this, [...]

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