Posting from my iPhone

Posted on September 12, 2008 by qtzar

Using an application called BlogWriter that is available on the iTunes App Store I am now able to post to my blog from my iPhone.

Unfortunately there is a bug in the current release of blogsphere that prevents it from working correctly as it makes a call to depreciated blogger API function that is not required when using metaweblog API.

The bug has been identified and will be fixed in the next release of BlogSphere but if you want iPhone posting now then feel free to contact me and I’ll give you the latest version of the code.

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Get your notes calendar on the iPhone without DWA

Posted on September 11, 2008 by qtzar

A new application has appeared on the iPhone
App Store that claims to download your Lotus Notes calendar to your iPhone
without having to use DWA UltraLight.

Written by Jimmy
Mooney from Austin, Texas the
application does have a few requirements
for it to be able to run against your mailfile.  The first is that
your mailfile must be accessible via the web so the HTTP task must be running
on your server and the server needs to be visible on the internet. The
second requirement is that you need to add an agent into your mailfile
so the application can extract the calendar data in what I suspect is probably
an xml format that the application can read.

It is not clear from the applications
description if the calendar entries are put into the iPhone’s native calendar
application or if they only display in the applications interface and I
suspect that it is a read only application with no way to create calendar
entries to sync back to your mailfile.

The application is called NotesCal
and costs $2.99 to purchase.

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Domino Based Blogs And External Editing Tools

Posted on September 2, 2008 by qtzar

Kevin Hansen over at DominoKeys.com is under the impression that Domino based blogs do not support any external tools.

I’ve often defended my choice to blog in something other than Lotus Notes by simply saying that NOT using it allows me to use other tools.

Well this is not the case and hasn’t been the case for quite some time. About 5 years ago Jake Howlett added support to DomBlog for the blogger API. He also offered the code to the other Domino based blog templates and I added support into BlogSphere as early as version 1.

Now BlogSphere V3 has support for the MetaWebLog API which is probably the most common blogging API used by external tools. There is full support for creating and editing posts, uploading images, categories and tags. Everything that you need.

Looking for an external tool to use against blogsphere then you don’t have to look very far, there is ScribeFire for Firefox, Live Writer for Windows and Mars Edit for Mac ( which I’m using to create this blog posting ) and there are even tools for the iPhone like BlogWriter which supports the MetaWebLog API.

Not using BlogSphere, then the xml-rpc agent can easily be moved into the official IBM blog template and with a little developer time thrown in to create a few views and update the agent I’m sure it would be very easy to add support for MetaWebLog API to that and probably other templates also.

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Notes Designer 8.5 Beta 2 Alias Bug

Posted on August 31, 2008 by qtzar

Beta software is, by it’s very nature,
bound to contain a few bugs here and there and the IBM Lotus Designer 8.5
Beta 2 client is no exception.

While adding a few new features to BlogSphere
today I came across one such bug while editing the alias of a form in the
list of forms.

A picture named M2

Inview editing is very easy and sometimes
accidental, just do a slow double click on the form name or alias in the
view and it will change into edit mode. After making your change just click
to a different form and the changes are saved. It’s actually a handy feature
if you want to make a lot of changes without having to open the documents
up fully and you can even add inview editing to your applications.

But Designer 8.5 Beta 2 is not saving
the document correctly if you edit the alias in the view. It is doing something
so that documents created with that form end up with both the forms name
AND alias in the form field.

A picture named M3

Under normal circumstance only the alias
would be listed in the form field.

NOTES :

Opening the document fully and editing
the form name and alias seems to work fine so this only effects the editing
of the alias in the view.

I have NOT tested this with any other
design element alises but there is a strong chance the same might happen.

Thanks to Chris Toohey
for confirming the bug on his copy of the designer beta.

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