8.5.1 UNFAIL - Part 2: The Fix
Mon, Mar 15th 2010 12:23p Erik Brooks  br /Wow... theres been nearly 4,000 hits to my blog entries regarding the bGetDocumentByKey/b bug.br / br /A lot of you have been asking me about an update so here we go:br / br /ubThe Short Story/b/ubr / br /blockquoteThe issues reportedly been fixed. There is a href=http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21424178a technote where you can contact IBM for a fix./aa href=http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21424178a technote where you can contact IBM for a fix./abr / [read] Keywords: agent
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8.5.1 UN-FAIL! The Fix is coming...
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 8:23p Erik Brooks div  /divdivFor those that were asking me, yes - IBM has finished a fix for the GetDocumentByKey problem. I wont steal any thunder about the formal announcement (also because I dont know all the details) but the way IBM explained to me how the refined algorithm works is awesome./divdiv /divdivSo awesome, in fact, that it could very well eliminate a good chunk of the quot;Notes doesnt scalequot; arguments. You may see your apps scale much, much, strongMUCH /strongbetter under load./divdiv  [read] Keywords: ibm
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8.5.1 FAIL. Your code may just break.
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 2:10p Erik Brooks  br /8.5.1 is great. Really great. Except when it decides to make your code no longer work. And especially when that code involves bNotesView.GetDocumentByKey/b, bNotesView.GetAllDocumentsByKey/b, bNotesView.GetEntryByKey/b or bNotesView.GetAllEntriesByKey/b.br / br /If you do Notes/Domino dev youve probably written something like this before:br / br /bDim v as NotesViewbr /Dim d as NotesDocumentbr /Set v = GetView(quot;myViewquot;)br /Set d = v.GetDocumentByKey(quot;somethingquot;)br / br / [read] Keywords: domino
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8.5.2 Notes/Domino due Q3 of 2010
Wed, Feb 24th 2010 1:05p Erik Brooks  br /I havent seen anything regarding a release date for 8.5.2 yet except for quot;mid-yearquot;. But according to the Fix List database a href=http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/(Progress)/852here/a we can expect it Q3 2010.br / br /Im part of the managed beta (go join if you want to take part also) so I cant comment about it yet, but as Tim Tripcony blogged its going to be quot;cuh-ray-zeequot;.br / br /br / [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino on the Web? You *need* this fix.
Wed, Feb 24th 2010 1:00p Erik Brooks  br /We were downloading in London from a Domino server in Florida. Domino was serving the file at a whopping 65K/sec to London, despite being on a connection with about 8 MB upstream available and the London connection having tons of available downstream bandwidth. Running an FTP server on the same machines allowed the same file to be transferred at about 600K/sec.br / br /HTTP transfers are slower than FTP but not bthat/b much slower. So we opened a PMR. The answer is this SPR on Windows:br [read] Keywords: domino
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OpenNTF shows PRODUCT! If you sell Notes/Domino you MUST see this.
Tue, Feb 23rd 2010 9:25a Erik Brooks  br /If you missed it, you bMUST/b a href=http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-82XCS8check out Niklas Hiedloffs blog video./a It showcases some projects on OpenNTF, and most important shows bproducts/b on the Notes/Domino platform. And since theyre on OpenNTF theyre freely available.br / br /If you sell Notes/Domino, this video covers in 8 minutes a ton of stuff that - if I were a prospective customer - would make me salivate. It shows off the technical prowess/flexibility [read] Keywords: domino
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Dojo gets a new website *again*
Mon, Feb 22nd 2010 9:56a Erik Brooks  br /So a few weeks ago I blogged about the Dojo website getting a facelift. It was much cleaner than before, a bit more organized, though less eye-catching.br / br /Well apparently they decided to step it up a notch with an entirely new site design. a href=http://www.dojotoolkit.orgClick here to see it./a I have to say I like it.br / br /It looks like theyve really put a lot of effort into documentation, too. Click the quot;Learning is Easyquot; in the lower-right. br / br /And I didnt kno [read] Keywords: dojo
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IdeaJam needs two things to help us and IBM...
Sun, Feb 21st 2010 7:24p Erik Brooks  br /So today I was doing some Yellowsphere community service. I decided to hop on over to a href=http://www.ideajam.netIdeaJam/a and start looking for ideas to comment on. I clicked on quot;Popularquot; where you see a list of all of the most highly-promoted items. Some of these have been delivered in recent versions (GO IBM!) and others are coming soon. But theyre still in the list, and theres no way to tell that some of them have been addressed. I posted quot;hey, this is donequot; in the c [read] Keywords: ibm
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8.5.1 Lotusscript INI setting: GO_FASTER=1
Fri, Feb 19th 2010 9:00a Erik Brooks  br /Generally speaking, Lotusscript bshould /brun about 15%-40% faster on 8.0.2+ versus prior releases, primarily due to this fix:br / br /blockquoteb/bfont face=Arial size=2bSPR# BHUY75XJL2/b - LotusScript is yielding too often,
which was necessary a while back with slower machines. Now that Machines are
much faster, we changed it to yield less often./fontbr //blockquote br /However 8.0.2 also introduced bthis /bfix:br / br /blockquotefont face=Arial size=2bSPR# DCOE6KPW48 /b- Fixed a cr [read] Keywords: ibm
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XPages or Flex? Something else to keep in mind.
Sat, Feb 13th 2010 11:23a Erik Brooks  br /Neither the iPhone nor the iPad run Flash.br / br /There is currently an incomplete open-source javascript-based flash interpreter that came out a few weeks ago that seems to be able to run bsome /bflash if its hacked in. At least, it runs some flash bfor now/b on the iPhoneb./bbr / br /Keep in mind that Apple has a vested interest in Flash not running at all since then applications could potentially bypass the App Stores screening process (and revenue). Also keep in mind that theyve mad [read] Keywords: xpages apple
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The most awesome video in the history of ever
Sat, Feb 6th 2010 8:41p Erik Brooks div  /divdivThe a href=http://vimeo.com/7577554introduction video for the Alaskan Nanooks/a (a university hockey team here in the U.S.)/divdiv /divdiv /div [read] Keywords:
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Dojo gets a new homepage. Target: JQuery?
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 1:25p Erik Brooks It looks like the a href=http://www.dojotoolkit.orgDojo toolkit has got an updated homepage./aa href=http://www.dojotoolkit.orgDojo toolkit has got an updated homepage./abr / br /I dont find it quite as pretty as before, but it seems cleaner and easier to navigate. Fortunately the API documentation (at the top) has gotten fleshed out quite a bit.br /br /But theres a graph specifically targetting JQuery. Even the version numbers are the same.br / br /Personally Ive decided to use Dojo in Do [read] Keywords: domino
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To IBM: 2 questions about Notes/Domino App Dev
Sun, Nov 15th 2009 9:59a Erik Brooks   I can name lots of people related to Notes/Domino app dev inside of Lotus: the Designer Team Lead, the Backend Programmability Lead, XPages developers, HTTP developers, etc. But I don't know the answer to these two questions, so here they are:   1. Who is *in charge* of Notes/Domino App Dev?  2. Will there be a replacement for Bob Balaban's old position ("to make Notes/Domino a kick ass dev platform")?  [read] Keywords: designer
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The Future of NSF? Part 4
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 10:57a Erik Brooks XPages are gaining traction, and this is a Good Thing (tm). IBM is obviously behind the concept, as 8.5.1 has some new goodies, and it's no doubt that 8.5.2 will also. The Dojo community is addressing IBM's needs (and vice-versa), and we're seeing a bit of fresh Domino/XPages developer blood pop up in the 8.5 forums as a result.  And a really, really awesome thing is happening: People (including IBM) are contributing sidebar widgets and XPage custom controls to the community. This is huge, [read] Keywords: admin
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Fixed: SSDs rocking your face off
Tue, Nov 10th 2009 11:57a Erik Brooks So the video link in my last blog entry about SSDs might have been bad for some people. Here's an updated link for those of you who want your faces rocked off. [read] Keywords:
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Prepare to have your face rocked off: SSDs
Fri, Nov 6th 2009 10:58a Erik Brooks   If you haven't been paying attention to SSDs, prepare to have your face rocked off.  As SSDs get cheaper, they will usher in a new era of Domino/NSF scalability. 99% of all Domino implementations are I/O-bottlenecked.  With DAOS, you can move your attachments to a separate SAN or a less-expensive array of SAS/SATA drives, keeping your NSF data on SSDs.  With the level of write performance SSDs offer, NSF's full-database-locked-while-writing contention won't matter anywhere near as muc [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM: OMG OMG OMG yes, please!
Mon, Oct 19th 2009 9:58a Erik Brooks Do you work with Notes/Domino? If you're reading this, probably. I've got two questions for you about my favorite topic: VIEWS. 1. Have you ever wanted to offer your users resorting capabilities while *inside* of a category? 2. How about resorting on a view column while using "Restrict To Category"? Yes, we all have wanted to offer these things since the R4/R5 and R6/R7 days. You can add sorting to your view columns for scenario #1, but as soon as the user clicks on them the categorization i [read] Keywords: domino
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8.5.1 is HERE!!!
Sun, Oct 11th 2009 12:54p Erik Brooks Fresh in my inbox: Dear IBM software and services customer:We are pleased to inform you that the following product upgrade(s) are now available for download:Passport Advantage Agreement Number xxxxxxxxxx:IBM DB2 Access for Lotus Domino 8.5.1 Multiplatform English eAssemblyIBM Domino Server 8.5.1 for Multiplatform English eAssemblyIBM Lotus DataDirect Connect for ODBC 5.3.2 Multipaltform English eAssemblyIBM Lotus Domino Enterprise Client Access License 8.5.1 for Multiplatform English eAssembly [read] Keywords: domino
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Fix List database... is it back?
Thu, Sep 10th 2009 5:55p Erik Brooks I'm crossing my fingers that I'm right (and this isn't just something that leaked that shouldn't have.) The Fix List database has an SPR listed for 8.5.1: Fix List Database Oh, and for the record, 8.5.1 is currently in BETA, might be subject to change prior to release, etc. etc. [read] Keywords: ldd
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I am sick and tired of hearing about 8.5.1
Tue, Aug 25th 2009 5:51p Erik Brooks I'm sure some people are jumping right in here with a raised eyebrow so let me say this up front:Â I'm not tired of hearing about new features coming in 8.5.1. Â What I'm tired of is finding and hearing about all of the things that are still broken in 8.5 FP1 that won't be fixed until 8.5.1 ships. Some of which have apparently been "fixed" since March but still didn't make it into 8.5 FP1. Â DDE is pig-dog slow, glitchy, and buggy. And riddled with stuff that still hasn't been fixed since th [read] Keywords: ibm
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8.5 FP1: Full list of fixes available
Fri, Jul 31st 2009 11:52a Erik Brooks Those of you who follow the 8.5 forum have probably noticed me fussing at IBM about the lack of fixes/SPRs/etc. listed for 8.5. The Fix List database has been a ghost town since 8.0.2 FP1, complete with tumbleweeds. Only a few weeks ago was a *partial* list of 8.5 FP1 fixes finally listed in an obscure corner of the notes.net website. Even when 8.5 FP1 was released last week, no formal list of fixes was to be found. Finally, earlier this week, Ed twittered that there was a full list of fixes [read] Keywords: ibm
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Dennis Leary markets a consumer-facing product, but it ain't IBM's.
Tue, May 19th 2009 11:51a Erik Brooks So some of us remember the hard-hitting air cover from the R5 ad campaign featuring the infamous Dennis Leary. Apparently some marketing agency thought he was doing a good job, as he's gotten some similar work lately: If you haven't seen it, check out the jabbing commercial for Hulu. [read] Keywords: ibm
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The future of NSF? Part 3
Wed, Mar 25th 2009 10:52a Erik Brooks This blog post is part of a series that focuses on some possibilities (some mine, some from inside IBM themselves) that could be a big deal to anybody who cares about view performance. And if you had high hopes for DB2NSF, there's definitely some carryover here as well. Note: Stephan Wissel beat me to the punch (I've
been slowly working on this blog post for a few weeks) and posted a
great article explaining how readers fields work within views. Click here to read it for a little more pre [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM made my Friday
Fri, Mar 6th 2009 10:51a Erik Brooks Ok, this blog entry had me REALLY curious. I just had to go find this technote. But... it's gone! "Error: Document not found." So I search the technote db for "Russ", "8.5 panic", etc. No go. So I hit the web and start searching. Still nothing. Fortunately, there's Google cache to the rescue! So I'm cracking up laughing at this point. This screams of internal debate... Developer: "Hey Russ, what do we do if somebody hits this particular code fork?" Russ: "Well, nobody should [read] Keywords: document
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Where did THIS feature go?
Wed, Feb 4th 2009 11:55a Erik Brooks So apparently in Lotusphere 2001, when "RNext" was ND6, IBM/Lotus had plans for developers to be able to start/commit/rollback transactions to NSF.  Supposedly it was in the R6 Beta. Where did this go? Was it thrown to the side as we stepped onto the Workplace path? Information here is sparse.  This is a common feature that RDBMSs support that people have been asking for NSF to support for years. Anybody know anything about it? Some more searching uncovered another article from R5 [read] Keywords: ibm
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Ed's Twitter, Gmail & Domino Offline Services
Wed, Jan 28th 2009 7:53a Erik Brooks So, I'm reading blogs this morning and on Ed's blog I see the following Twitter:"Google announces offline mail support for gMail. Wow, Domino Offline Services was only 10 years ahead of its time!"True. But: How many people out there have used DOLS? How many people reading this blog have used DOLS? I have. I'd bet large sums of money that I have one of the most complex, multi-NSF Domino web apps in history running on DOLS, with quite a bunch of distributed users. And based on a cou [read] Keywords: domino
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It's here! NotesDatabase.CreateDocumentCollection()
Fri, Jan 23rd 2009 12:51p Erik Brooks Well, it's coming at least. Probably. From the Fix List database: SPR # DMAT72JLWW Fixed in release: 7.0.4 Product Area: Designer Technical Area: LotusScript Platform: Cross PlatformLotus Customer Support APAR: LO28240 What is an APAR?SPR# DMAT72JLWW - Added NotesDatabase.CreateDocumentCollection method to create empty doc collection.  So it sounds like we'll see this in 7.0.4, due in March. Which means it will likely make it into 8.0.3 and/or 8.5.1. I guess we can all get [read] Keywords: designer
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The future of NSF? Part 2
Mon, Jan 12th 2009 5:52p Erik Brooks This blog post is the first of a 3-part series that focuses on some possibilities (some mine, some from inside IBM themselves) that could be a big deal to anybody who cares about view performance.  Views.  They're the core component of any Domino database. You may argue that forms are more important, but with xPages you don't even technically need those anymore either. Views are the only real-time-capable index you can create. If you need to sort or categorize data with anything remo [read] Keywords: designer
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The future of NSF? Part 1
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 7:50a Erik Brooks This is a follow-up to a discussion on Volker's blog. Things got a bit technical (and lengthy) where I shared my thoughts on possible future directions for NSF so I decided to bring it here. Besides, my blog's been fairly empty and it needs some content.Here's the original discussion: Volker's blogFirst, my original post:Technically speaking, there's not much more IBM needs to do to bring Domino up to the next level DB-wise. Domino 8.0 finally got rid of the last of the 16-bit memory hand [read] Keywords: document
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So what's this blog about?
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 11:24a Erik Brooks Well, you blog-readers have probably seen me posting all over various blogs in the community, but I guess a formal introduction is in order:At the time of this posting I'm in my early 30's, am entering my 10th year of Domino experience, have been coding since I was 6, and have a formal computer science background.I've been working on what is probably one of the most complex Domino web apps in the world for the past decade - my servers run HTTP, Amgr, and Update. I've pushed the web limits [read] Keywords: domino
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Am I 300?
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 11:02a Erik Brooks So I've been hem-and-hawing about starting a blog... and ever since I posted the "300" reference on Ed's blog I had been thinking of sniping Planet Lotus' 300 spot as a goal to finally make me get off my butt and do it.Did I make it? [read] Keywords: lotus
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