Recent blog entries

A few tips and hints for building fast responding web applications with Domino.

XmlHttpRequests are not allowed cross-domain. The easiest solution is having your own server do the request and serve the result to you. I used LotusScript...

In this post, I use Ajax to transform a simple unordered list from a categorized Notes view into a tag cloud.

I use http://validator.w3.org to validate the XHTML. But obviously the site I'm working on is not yet available on the Internet. So I have to copy and paste the source of the page. Here's a little script that gets the source of the current page and posts it to the validator.

This very small module is all it needs to embed Flash in web pages while being standards compliant and friendly to search engines. The 'Mme.flash' module is an extension to my JavaScript 'Mme' namespace.

This post shows how to use Ajax to get the number of child documents out of a categorized Notes view in XML and add these to the page.

How to enable editing in XHTML and how to make a Cookie based user registration system in Domino

Until now, my homemade blog template has been free from any code: no JavaScript, no LotusScript. This has changed: I've added a few JavaScript behaviours: popup windows without the 'target' attribute, e-mail address protection and striped tables.

I've been quite busy working on SEO and building websites with Lotus Notes/Domino lately. When doing websites, I discovered that I had to reverse my thinking completely. Here are some of my findings.

My Lotus Notes Blog template is missing a way to comment on the posts. So I am making one, using only forms, views and a few formulas. How to set session cookies and permanent cookies and how to delete them. I also strip all HTML from a field value using @formulas only.