Rich Waters

Ext, Javascript, Notes/Domino, Ext.nd, Ruby on Rails

Archive for April, 2007

More on Notes Busytime webservice

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

After fussing around with the database for a little bit I’m not as excited as I originally was. The webservice is pretty basic, but is a nice example and a good starting point for things. Another issue I was running into was with Rails. In Ruby on Rails it is wondrously easy to create webservices [...]

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IBM Lotus Domino V7 Free Time Web service!

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Wow this really could not have better timing for me. I’m just about to start working on a scheduling mechanism in my Rails project that needs to pull (and write) from Notes calendar entries. IBM Released a developerWorks article on it yesterday: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domino7-free-time/ It talks about needing two pieces, a new server task “WSCONN” and [...]

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Sickening

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

While doing some quick research for my eCommerce course I ran across a nifty eBay store. Yes, you too can have your very own copy of Open Office, Audacity, or some DVD playing software via Digital Download! All this for the low buy-it-now price of about $4.00 or $5.00… Now I’ve heard of people selling [...]

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Downtime – ugh

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Sorry for the downtime over the past couple of days the domain was in the process of changing over to a different registrar… Then it took almost two days for the nameserver changes to propagate out. On a side note it looks like people’s emails were getting returned, if you were trying to reach me [...]

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Where’d the design go?

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

April 5 marks the second annual CSS Naked Day. More info available here. Basically the hope is to raise awareness of proper standards and promote better markup throughout all web sites. Give it a try, see what your website looks like naked Edit: Would have helped if I actually removed the css for the day… [...]

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