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Super Mario bros in 14k JavaScript

Gone is the worm, gone is hello world. Kidz today uses a level or two of Super Mario Bros to try out new programming languages. I say it’s really cool and hardcore.
Look at this little (14k) javascript game:http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/04/super-mario-in-14kb-javascript.html

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Robert Nyman: Microsoft will use Gecko layout engine in IE 8

OMG!
Robert has found and article that interviews the lead architect of the Internet Explorer. In the article he explains why IE will use the gecko layout engine. This is certainly breaking news but I can’t find the source right now, I’m sure it wasn’t around yesterday but today is another month.
Read his post here: Microsoft [...]

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Undocumented @functions Domino

I’m analysing a huge application and are running onto some interesting things, for example ” @LocationGetInfo” which I absolutely didn’t recognized and couldn’t find in the help docs. Some googeling and I found a document from IBM with this catchy phrase:“Templates that make use of undocumented items should not be used but in case they [...]

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Login in with just url-arguments

Today I learnt something I had no clue about was possible, how to just use url-arguments to login to a notes database on the web.
The idea is simple:
http://server/names.nsf?Login&Username=ME&Password=Secret&redirect=MyMailFile.
You can read more about it here: http://vinceschuurman.com/home/ndt4.nsf/(LUBlogContent)/200704151737

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Teamstudio Script browser - a gem I didn’t know about

In my current project I’m trying to tidy up som old, eight years or so, code to improve quality and performance. As with many Lotus Domino projects the applications has been patched and patched by many many developers and the coding style and implementation ways are just rediculuous. Not to mention naming standards and other [...]

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Server side redirect

We had a great get together yesterday at the Geek Meet and many technical discussions where taking place not to mention all new connections that where made. Extremely fun and very well organized by Johan Molin at E-Kakan.One small subject that came up where how to do a server side redirect from an agent. There [...]

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Coding faster lookups in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino

Raphael Savir has compiled a list of tips and tricks on things around @dblookups etc. It’s published at IBM DeveloperWorks.Many of the tips was very basic, such as don’t do:
@if(@iserror(@dblookup(…);”ERROR”;@dblookup(…));
Other things where real cool, for example, I have completely missed the beuty of @eval. in his article he gives an example on how to write [...]

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More of a mental note about performance testing

The company I work for develop mainly web applications. These applications are often served from a single server (or server cluster). Our biggest sites are world wide companies located in 100+ countries using a network topology that sometimes can be considered as having a good development potential.
This has made us fairly good on optimizing web [...]

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Eclipse as the only designer for Lotus Domino

I wasn’t aware of Maureen’s project until today when I read about it somewhere (sorry, I lost the source between all tabs). It’s very promising that we can use eclipse for all Lotus Domino development in the future. Have a looka at the screenshot.
Today I’m using DomiClipse for all java based development, it’s good but [...]

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Testing your code often will not shape your body.

Update: Changed spelling on topic
Ferdy Cristant quotes Steve McConnell (the Code Complete author) in a blog about test driven development… Well… Sort of…. Atleast it’s a Programming quote of the day.
Anyway, the idea is that testing often improves software quality just as using the bathroom scale often improves weight control - NADA.
I tried this [...]