Maybe geek house swapping is something with some merit, though I'm not sure what sort of holiday location the average geek lives in, we're certainly inundated in the summer.

(BTW - flying with children sounds awful, but they loved the ferry).

I guess it's the novelty of being someplace different, in a different setting, with different shops to visit, maybe close to something a little more interesting than what you have around home. In a sense, voyeuristic but at the same time you have the mutual assurance that you're taking good care of your, let's hope, friends house as they are yours. Sort of like dating your cousin somewhat - which I think perfectly captures my overall sense of unease with it.

But, to each his own - I know some people will swear how fantastic it is and that they swap often. I'll resist extrapolating further.

Going to my folks was cheap, going to a state park and staying one night in the lodge (with indoor pool, sauna, exercise room, game room, fabulous dining) is about twice the price but still a decent break. Seems that's the most we can afford for a vacation economic times being what they are here... and with that kind of brevity it qualifies as a stay-cation. We tied it in with a day of hiking in the state forest - all around , that was a relaxing two days.

We could house swap next year - but that would be very pointless!

I read Ben's posting with the shoe comparison and though he has somewhat a point, I do feel that exactly this kind of thinking is what will turn into a technological stand still of Lotus Notes Domino and in the long run to a death sentence.

I personally somewhat disagree that the Domino platform has proven to be able to absorb new technologies as required. One of the reasons is (and Ben should know that) is that the design and document storage is still Notes rich text based. This technology is outdated for at least a decade. The attempt to overcome its limits by providing new design elements based on MXML technology (Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5) is from all I have seen half backed.

Another major factor from a developers point of view is the ability to test your application. I'm talking about debugging your code. Now I'm not far from the truth if I say Lotus Notes actually has no debugger (not what I would call a debugger). after 15 years of coding in Lotus Notes I still need to use message boxes and log entries to see what is going on in the applications I designed.

Another point is that over the years, the Notes Client and Web Client features added to the Lotus Notes/Domino environment have split the 2 worlds basically apart. It is an enourmes effort to develope an application to run on the Notes client and at the time on the Web client. Have a look at the design of Notes Mail template, which is a perfect example for that.

These are just three major stumbling blocks which had let me look for alternatives with regards to the application development. And I found an alternative in the combination of Adobe Flex (front end) and Domino (back end).

Other postings indicate that I'm not the only one loooking into this combination and feeling that this is going to be a great move.

I still love lotus Notes/Domino and I cincerely hope the IBM is soon doing a bold step and not just cashing in on this platform.

Web 2.0 is not a design aesthetic

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How to Size Text in CSS by Richard Rutter

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Styling form controls with CSS, revisited

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The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

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There are a few good links in the Richard Rutter article that are recommend reading. The most important tip I came away with from that article is "the importance of ensuring that the text on your page maintains a 'vertical rhythm'." It really makes the whole site more readable.

Houseswapping? Hmm, there's a concept I'd have trouble with. I know a lot of people do it, but I just don't think I could relax knowing a stranger was doing whatever like liked in my house...

We've been making the most of "stay-cationing" by going to the local zoo, taking drives in the country to find places to picnic, and last weekend heading home to my folks for a weekend with them. The advantage there - parking, room and board were all free, though we brought in dinner as a present for Mum. About $120 for gas and food along the way for three days travel... not bad.

Maybe for your next stay-cation you can house-swap with another domino blogger in the UK. That'll save the wallet some.

I read this, and immediately set about adding padding to the thousands of fields I've written over the years.

I have a Change link on $$ViewTemplateDefault form, when I click on this link currently I am opening a Form which contains embedded view and action links. I can select multiple documentsa and click on Update link to change values. Instead of opening a new window I would like to use a flyout menu which should open a subform containing embedded view.

Let me know if this is possible or any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks

Mahesh

I was very happy and surprised, when I found your blog site (www.codestore.net).

It is a very interesting and helpfull site for webdomino designers.

I have some problems with the domino views and I found solutions for those on your blog site.

May I have a question to you: Where could I download the (viewform.nsf) example file?

..and please, updating the link of your donate.

Many thanks,

Zoltan

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If you contact Assono I am sure they will translate it to English too.

In my old job, we went through a lot of the same issues, plus our Domino directory synched nightly with our corporate directory, so name changes weren't user-initiated (nor did we have the option or time to run name changes from the directory manually).

We had agents that initiated the adminp requests for name changes; we relied on the administration process to take care of name changes in names/authors/readers fields and basically told developers that they needed to fix anything else that no longer worked (i.e., if they were storing the name as text). One other thing we did is that we aliased the person document by appending the old canonical name to the shortname field in the person document at the same time we changed the fullname field.

We rarely had any problems with this approach.

It should work on all names, readers and authors fields, provided the name is stored in canonical format. The "Renaming" ahould be done through the users tab in the administrator client. This should create the appropriate adminp task, once the administration server is set up on the acl of the database(s) in question.

Regards,

Niall.

We merged two domains... and renamed all the users from one domain to the other.

In my experience....using the adminp works the best.

When using the adminp, there is a caveat. You have to run the "adminp process all" command a couple of times in a row (probably like 5) in order for changes to get done. It will do part of a change, and then post the next change... running it again will run that change just posted and so/on. And even then, some things will NOT be changed until the next day or even week.

However, because you can specify a "failover" type date when doing a rename, the user will still retain access to db's etc as required until the process is complete. Watch the admin4.nsf db for the adminp tasks ready to go... keep running the "process all" until you see all the tasks completed.

I used the option 3. Modify All Readers and Authors fields on all the apps (from Chris's post). We set it globally from the admin client.

This is usually where the issue shows up. Not the display names, but rather the readers/authors fields - which could restrict access to docs when the person's name changes.

I then wrote agents to update the other fields but only on certain apps as required. I made it very clear that this was a big deal and that the users had to have a huge requirement for me to do it.

We had great success with this and it took at max 1 week to complete ALL renaming - with most functionality renamed within the first hour.

- Make text fields (Name, E-mail and Website) wider so that we can see the entire Name while typing.

- Add <label> to fields, specially to the checkbox.

Cheers

So Marie Mueller can only marry Peter Mueller. And Paul Woodstock can marry only Sabine Woodstock.

That wouldn´t cause some problems :-)