Recent blog entries

For optimizing web applications with dynamic pages, server-site caching of HTML fragments is a very valuable technique. In this post, I'll explain how to do this for the blog archive list.

A lot of the leading Notes/Domino bloggers joined in in the discussion. Here's a summary and my own conclusion.

In the past, we were advised to stay clear of WebQueryOpen agents for performance reasons. Since then, IBM Lotus has made lots of performance improvements on Domino. Are WebQueryOpen agents performant enough for every day use? I did a little test.

Lotus Quickr must be the new hype in the Lotus community. I already saw a demo, and although I was really enthousiastic about the idea, I found the performance of the application quite slow. Here are my further findings on this product.

Declan Lynch has published a new beta version of his blog template. He also explained to me how to display internal blog categories.

After cleaning up the Document library template, I cleaned up the Discussion template.

Web accessibility becomes more and more a necessity for online communications. In the US and in some European countries, web accessibility is already a requirement for official governmental websites.

About Domino patterns, joining forces in the Notes community, the need for discussion and Ben Poole's DominoWiki.

This is just something I needed for my work last week. It is a small library with some basic functions to work with web colors. The script calculates lighter and darker versions from a base color.

Further tips to improve your rating on the YSlow website performance tool.