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Cleaning up is hard to do

Especially cleaning up code in databases you are not familiar with can be a real pain.
My take on this issue has always been if you are not certain, leave it alone (hands off approach), but apparently not everybody agrees.

One of my customers called with a question about a certain agent that gave him some problems. They were cleaning up the code but suddenly one of the agents showed red crosses in the designer client (yes, 8.5 designer finds those oddities for you even if you are not looking for them).
He tried to fix the crosses by recompiling the entire database (in production....mmmm.....) but that didn't fix it, could I take a look?
Sure, I can, and this is the problem:

The agent is still running



but the scriptlibraries are missing


They are in luck the agent wouldn't save on the recompile because without a scriptlibrary I'm sure it would not have been very functional otherwise.
After checking I found that the scriptlibraries have been missing for a loong time, the copy I had from a couple months back also missed that scriptlibrary so I hope they can find it on a backup somewhere.

Note: ALWAYS use monthly/halfyearly backups in addition to the weekly cycle. The data or code could be missing a long time before you notice it.







Retiring as chairman of OpenNTF

I decided against another term as chairman of the Steering Committee, so during Tuesday's meeting a new chairman will be appointed.

I have worked on OpenNTF since the start 8 years ago and even ran it solo for a couple of years.
But a lot has changed over the last year. Not only is OpenNTF now being run by the Steering Committee, with the Technical Committee doing the development and maintenance, but due to the crisis my work situation changed as well. I have a lot less free time currently and OpenNTF has a lot more help, so I feel I have to take a small step back and let other people take the lead.
I will stay on the Steering Committee of course and help out with general business and the Technical Committee, but not act as frontman for a while.

So I wish all the best to .... (to be filled in on Tuesday) as the new chairman of OpenNTF :)



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Firefox for Maemo 5

Firefox 1.0 for the N900 is available for download


I must say it takes some getting used to, it's not as fast as the built-in browser, but has a lot more features.
For example settings


Tabbed browsing


and lots of add-ons


And it's only version 1.0 so it may get better ;)






XPage Calendar Application

My brother owns a couple of child-care day centers and he asked me if I could develop an application where they could flag certain days as available for people without a regular contract.
Since this application needs to be easy to operate for both people seeking child care as for the child-care centers, I developed a very simple interface.
Logged in as 'customer' you can only 'reserve' dates set by the center and as center you can enable/disable a date using just two simple clicks.
To make it more interesting for myself I decided to develop it in XPages since there doesn't seem to be any XPages calendar applications around.
Anyway here it is, bear in mind that I'm not a GUI designer, my focus is on the functionality :)

Demo

And no it is not finished yet, in fact 'the customer' hasn't even seen the prototype yet, so if you have constructive criticism I might be able to sneak it in before the grand finale...

P.S. It works perfectly on the Nokia N900!!



Mmmm maybe something for the next version of the OpenNTF Mail Experience? ;B







Finally started on OpenNTF Mail Experience 8.5.1

First build can be downloaded here
I did not fix any reported bugs yet, it's a first draft and it could not wait till after Lotusphere :)



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