Vince's xwork log

About software and other stuff




New home for my site

I finally rented a server 'in the cloud' because ... well... it's the thing to do nowadays ;)

Let me know if you encounter problems.






BTPanic: (non-panic mode)

What do you think, should I interpret this as a mild form of panic? ;)








Friday the 13th

Got up this morning:
Switched mobile on, put in pocket.
Turned laptop on: No internet; modem broken.
Get mobile to call provider, mobile locked, puk code needed (8 year old SIM, so what are the chances on finding that?)
Builder came to tear down some walls, he poked a bit, measured a bit and informed us the wall could not be taken down.

But luckily things turned for the better after I actually found the unlock code for the mobile:
Called the provider new modem due monday morning
Rerouted my network to use my IP phone modem as internet router (slow but it works :))
And finally the builder came up with a solution to remove the walls without compromising the structural integrity.

I know it's still Friday the 13th, but so far so good :)







Xpage work seems to be picking up here

I received a couple of offers for Xpage work on various locations, so it looks like Xpage adoptation is finally taking off.
Mostly long time Notes & Domino shops who want to 'upgrade' their applications using Xpage technology, but hey that is better than migration to other platforms :)
Has anyone seen shops migrating to Domino because of Xpages/Xwork yet?








Designing a public website with Xpages

My wife started her own business recently and she asked me to develop her site. I decided to design it in Xpages because one can never practice too much ;)
Normally this would be a no-brainer because like most people I reuse a lot of my code/design elements. This time however, because this was to be a public site (I normally develop for intranet and business to business) and the total different way Xpages (can) work, I decided to design a new website from scratch.
At frist I wanted to develop a site without any urls, totally controlled by scoped variables and other cool stuff, but after some thought I concluded that to be searchable by searchengines and allow people to bookmark specific pages I would have to use url driven navigation.
So now I ended up with a more or less boring website without any cool stuff :(

I thought about adding some social connectors, but my wife does not like that.
Any suggestions?