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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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NotesViewEntryCollection vs NotesViewNavigator

September 19, 2011

Using NotesViewEntryCollection to iterate through NotesViewEntry objects? You shouldn’t be. Here’s the new way to do it…

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Sending Domino logs to syslog

July 19, 2011

How to get your IBM Lotus Domino server to send its logs to syslog.

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Of Domino and data pumps

March 29, 2011

When you have IBM Lotus Domino in your organization, sooner or later you come up with a requirement to move data between Domino and some other system–often a relational database. There are many ways to do this, and not much guidance is offered as to which to pursue, so here’s a summary of my own [...]

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HTTP JVM: java.security.InvalidKeyException: Illegal key size

October 8, 2010

Getting an HTTP JVM: java.security.InvalidKeyException: Illegal key size error trying to use cryptography in a Java agent in IBM Lotus Domino? You need to update your server’s policy files. Here’s how.

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Adjusting ulimit -n

March 22, 2010

The first time you run IBM Lotus Domino server on a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) box, you get the following message: WARNING: the maximum number of file handles (ulimit -n) allowed for Domino is 1024. See Release Notes and set the allowable maximum to 20000. This message is less than ideal for a [...]

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The case of the Null Empty Nothing

December 1, 2009

A post about the three types of null value in LotusScript, and how they differ.

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Getting UTF-8 out of Domino web agents

April 9, 2009

A common technique for getting XML data out of IBM Lotus Domino is to build an agent which outputs the DXL encoding of a document and call it via HTTP. The code typically looks like this: Print "Content-type: text/xml" Dim session As New NotesSession Dim doc As NotesDocument [...obtain your data somehow in the variable [...]

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