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In my current project I have the pleasure (?) to work with Perl. I found out that there are hundres (thousands?) of useful modules out there. Before they can be used however, they have to be downloaded an installed… Grief! Here’s the dummies guide to doing it: (Assuming a Cygwin installation on a Win32 box) Locate the module on Cpan Download the module. You have a module-version.tar.gz.tar file which is useless (or so it seems) ...

Vowe discusses the value of “WikiWiki in Domino. (Because people are starting to do that). Well - I’ve done it a couple of years ago - and I’ve had mixed joy from it. The lack of a regular expression parser in Notes has led to some quite ugly parsing code and not all of the Wiki features are available. Still - as a “gift” to the community: Here’s my NotesWiki for your pleasure. Do with this code whatever you like, feel free to laugh at me - whatever. ...

Here are applications for the P800 that I really like: ActiveDesk: When you flip open the phone, a summary of your calendar entries, tasks and messages appears. I like it better than Handy Day, YMMV Tipic is a Jabber chat client that supports AIM, ICQ and Yahoo Messenger. Cool! SymIRC is an IRC client Both are written in PJava and perform really nice. A fully connected phone, good GPRS coverage and connectivity applications are a great thing. I’m reconsidering my sceptisim on “mobile connectivity”. ...

When (If?) I find some time, expect me to try TikiWiki. It looks absolutely amazing…

Hmm - my P800 stopped syncing with Lotus Notes. It just doesn’t work anymore. I have the latest sync software, I have the latest Notes 5 version (5.0.12) and nada happens. I get the informative message, that the sync finished - but it doesn’t do anything. Of course there are no log files. There are no settings to fiddle with. Let’s see how good the SonyEricsson support is… . First impression: Their knowledgebase is useless. First of all, it doesn’t recognize Opera (but a quick CTRL-ALT-I in Opera to make it identify as IE fixed that ;-) then the answers are not very helpful (“Yes, there is software to sync with Notes”) ...

Browsing through the referrers, I found this site with LotusScript snippets. This looks really useful - specially the MsXML and the string classes… Notes is a fun coding environment - so every bit of help helps ;-)