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I have just received an invitation to join Twitter. I'm sorry, but I decline. I'm just not interested in Twitter, and I have a hard time seeing the value of it. I'm almost drowning in the flood of information anyway, and I currently don't need to add another source of it.


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Have you ever been irritated that you need to fire up Domino Designer to create and manage your custom login forms? I certainly have. I've thought about doing something about it for quite some time, but there's always been something more pressing to do. It's not that I mind working in Domino Designer, but it feels like the wrong tool for the job. It should be administration work, not development work. There are also a lot of administrators out there, that aren't comfortable with Domino Designer.

Anyway, I revisited the problem the other day, and finally did something about it. I created an application to make it possible to handle any custom login form through the Notes Client, instead of Domino Designer. I created it in ND8, pretty soon got it working on the server, and figured I was ready. I wasn't.

I also have a Domino 7 server, and that wouldn't work. It seems there's been some change to how Domino handles login forms between 7 and 8. In 8, I could use a form with content type HTML, which will not work in 7. So I had to make sure it would work on both of my servers, which it does now. My guess is that it should work with R5 and ND6 as well, but I don't have any way to test it.

This isn't brain surgery, it's a very simple application, but I haven't seen one like it. So to help others out there, that might have the same kind of problem, I've made the application available for download here (and under Banana Applications on the right). Try it out, and let me know if it works for you.


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Back in 2006, I posted about how to create an empty NotesDocumentCollection, and my take on it. I had some comments on it, from Nick Wall among other people. Nick did some benchmarking on my approach, compared to other approaches, and came up with some favorable statistics.

Today, Tim Tripcony resurrected the discussion, with a benchmark of his own, which still shows that my approach is valid. Still, it would be nice to see a benchmark of a large database, that also has lots of profile documents. If anyone has such a database, and is up to it, please report your findings.


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I don't know how or why, but I missed it. Chris warned about it way ahead of time, and I still missed it.

So what is "it"? "It" is the blacklist relays.ordb.org, and it was announced a long time ago, that they were closing down. So some e-mails didn't get to my server. Since I am using a private whitelist, it wasn't immediately obvious that e-mail was bouncing, since some e-mails got through.

As Chris puts it:

This is simply a reminder to lazy or incompetent administrators to manage their use of DNSBLs actively. You can't just define once a list of DNSBL zones you want to use for email blocking and then leave it unmaintained.

Now, does this make me lazy or incompetent? Lazy, I think.

Anyway, now it's fixed, and e-mail is flowing as it should again. If anyone has been sending e-mail to me during the last couple of days, and got a bounce message back, please try again.



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