by Russell | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
We have a CRM system, we have IBM Notes which allows us to create any kind of customer-focused system we might need (we’ve built several), we have an email marketing system…we’ve evaluated all kinds of systems to manage customer information and...
by Russell | Dec 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
There really is a lot to say about 2013 so let’s get to it…The BusinessProduct validated. Pricing validated. Infrastructure validated. Growing pains required bringing on additional help and improving our internal processes. Customer...
by Russell | Dec 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
In early November I jumped on the SourceTree bandwagon and immediately Designer started getting an error when committing through the normal Mercurial binaries that an “eol” plugin was missing and no amount of committing, uninstalling, reinstalling...
by Russell | Nov 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yesterday folks became broadly aware of an IBM security bulletin that looks to have been released on 11/5/2013 announcing that the Domino Web Administrator suffered from a low level of security risk and was, therefore, being deprecated.Candidly, my first was...
by Russell | Nov 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
In our business the ability to customize our customers’ online functionality is key to driving sales and just as key to delivering successful results. Consequently anything we make configurable on a granular level is a win for us and for customers.Case in...
by Russell | Nov 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I wrote that I reduced page load times on one of our XPages by 54% by tweaking a little bit of code that was used to display glossary/footnotes in popup dialogs.I have steeled myself for the inevitable coding advice from the XPage community’s...
by Russell | Nov 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
In our application we provide popup glossary terms and footnotes. Sometimes a lot of them. Like 200+ within the same XPage.When I initially developed that functionality, I did what I always do and tell others to do: Code it the way you’d like to code...
by Russell | Nov 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Behold…The Mighty Pencil!(Of course you can use any brand of pencil although I prefer the Field Notes brand myself.)Way back when I first started teaching Notes application development, I generally advised developers to pull out a blank piece of paper and a...
by Russell | Nov 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today I am trying to diagnose a customer issue with IE9. We had implemented a styling fix that took care of any IE8 issues that existed and our testing of IE9 showed there were no issues with that version.Until the customer emailed. Yeah, they are using...
by Russell | Oct 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
What the ?? Where did that title come from? From an absolutely fascinating article,“…and The Mound-builders Vanished From The Earth”, on how Americans (loosely defined) tried to determine just who built those mounds everywhere in North America?To The Point...
