Musings

I stumbled over the Many-to-many blog when I dug into the background of LinkedIn Network. I’ve since started to read more on the blog and - well - it’s interesting reading. I have been working with Lotus Notes for over 13 years now - and I think Notes defined some of the aspects of “social software”. I know that I spent many hours battling perceptions about “the dangers of open communications” in the early days of Notes. ...

Looking for a new employee? Take a look at this Resume by Dubya

Just ran into this again, when we discussed programming langues here in cubicle world… How many languages do you know? 4? 10? 42? Try 515 - and see how to write “99 Bottles of Beer” in all of these languages. Brainfuck? Anyone?

So you thought, that designing with HTML and CSS would lead to boring designs? That you don’t have enough control over the layout of the page? Head over to the ZenGarden, sit down to look, change the designs and learn. [via Tom Coates]

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. ...