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My first blog entry on 01 Jan 2003 was titled Predictions for 2003. I started blogging out of curiosity. Finding my place in the "Speakers Corner of the World" was an interesting journey. Over the last 5 years I added 500 entries to this blog. You are reading entry #500. The frequency of entries varied based on workload, mood or the fact that I had something or nothing to say.
I owe my customers a lot of the ideas I blogged about in the "Show-and-Tell" and "Lotus Notes" categories. Without their real world problems I wouldn't had the need to think hard. I owe David Ferris the idea to blog about What are the strongest aspects of Lotus Domino?. That entry earned me a call from IBM in Singapore and let to my current job as "Lotus Technology & Productivity Advisor", LTPA for short.
Over time my topics shifted from more personal towards more professional stuff. Seems my family is taking over to report the private stuff. I already have more than a dozend draft entries and even more topics around Notes and Domino waiting to be written, so I guess I'll stay on the professional trajectory. I'm curious if it will take another 5 years to reach 1000. We will see.
Stay tuned.

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Category Blog Show-N-Tell Thursday
I had an iteresting discussion with a customer this week. They use Domino and dotNet for their web applications. Their decission criteria when to use what: if the data of the application needs to be fed into their data warehouse at a later point of time, they use dotNet since storage there typically ends up in an RDBMS. The biggest problem they face, in their own voice: "Our users are pretty spoiled from Domino. They expect days as turnaround time for applications. Using dotNet it takes at least three times longer."
So I asked why they don't use DECS to connect to the RDBMS. They could develop the application in Notes/Domino and once the app does what the user wants just add the tables in the RDBMS and link them up using DECS. They asked back if there is a way to generate the table or at least the create table statement from Domino directly. The short answer: Yes, you can, however you need to make decissions on datatypes and field length. The long answer: you need Domino Designer (for the Tools - DXL Utilities - Transformer ... menu) and a little XSLT stylesheet.

Posted by Stephan H Wissel At 11:37 AM Location Singapore | Permalink | Comments (8) |      

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The Blog upgrade went smooth. Replace the design, open the database, say yes to the "Upgrade to V3" question, copy the layouts and update the configuration. I only hit one problem: ADSL. Uploading is much slower that downloading, so all the update/upgrades are only trickling back to the server (I had about 200k hit documents still in the database). So it might be a while before I will look for a new layout.

Posted by Stephan H Wissel At 4:24 PM Location | Permalink | Comments (3) |      

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I'll be upgrading to Blogsphere V3. I push it to the test: just replace the design and see what is happening. Blog service might be disrupted. stw

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