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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 doc...]
Dim exporter As NotesDXLExporter
Set [...]

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Providing RFC3339 dates from Notes/Domino

April 6, 2009

ISO-8601 dates using @Formula? It’s easy, if you think about the problem the right way.

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Web Services, SOAP, Domino, and Java 6

March 9, 2009

A while back I made a brief attempt to embark on a voyage of Web Services discovery via JAX-WS. The problem was simple enough: I had a Java program running on server A which had an object. I wanted to send that object to a Domino server running on machine B.
Domino has a nifty Web [...]

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Looking for debug information in all the wrong places

August 11, 2008

Problems with SSL connections to Domino caused by a bad /etc/hosts entry.

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It’s all about solving problems

August 1, 2008

Back in the 1960s, IBM observed that a lot of business time was spent retyping documents. A lot of business documents needed fairly frequent changes. While handwriting could be used for minor annotations, eventually the changes would need to be made in the typed version. This would require that a secretary re-type at least an [...]

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Domino server and Java client, SSL with self-signed certificate

July 17, 2008

Can’t connect to a Domino server with a self-signed SSL certificate, using a Java client? Here’s how to fix the problem.

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Domino date/time format gotcha

July 17, 2008

Beware! Domino’s web date and time formats (locale) are guessed based on the language preference set in the user’s web browser.

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