Blog entries for July 2007

In June, I spent a weekend creating a website in Lotus Notes Domino, blogging about what I did at the same time. Now I am releasing this site as a download, so that you can have a peek.

The Yahoo Developer Network recently released a tool to test site performance: YSlow, a Firebug add-on. This made me hunt for tips on the internet to speed up Domino sites.

Recently, the W3C validator changed its rules for validating as XHTML 1.0 Strict. So maybe it is time to update your templates.

Does it influence the web rendering performance if you leave compress checked when adding attachments?

My apologies: IBM Blog does convert embedded images in Notes Rich Text. The error I reported in a previous blog was probably caused by wrong settings in the Configuration document.

A reader of my blog, Jan Schulz, has written his own htmlTidy routine to use while converting Notes RichText to XHTML. It looks for font sizes to output headers and paragraphs, making the result much nicer, Semantic XHTML.

¡Ay, caramba! In my previous post, I talked about finding the Philosopers stone: converting Notes Rich Text files into valid XHTML. The stone turned out to be a mountain. But here's a solution.

Evaluating the way IBM blog and BlogSphere deal with the conversion of Notes RichText to HTML.

No tech talk, just random thoughts this time: about blogs, wikis, dog ears and Web 2.0 for the enterprise.

In my blog template, the content for a post is a normal text field, so I had to type all HTML tags by hand. Until I discovered these little gems in BlogSphere.