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Web development in the enterprise just got significantly easier! Our Patterns and Practices group just released their Web Client software factoring which address many of the most common areas I hear corporate web developers talk about. If this sounds like it describes your next web development project, I would definitely check out these free add ons to VS and ASP.NET They have complex page flows and workflows They are developed by multiple collaborating development teams They are composite applications which present information from multiple sources through an integrated user interface. They can benefit from simpler deployment techniques (XCopy deployment) They are composed of loosely coupled modules that can be independently deployed They support...(read more)

A common question is how to use 2 factories (like WCSF and WSSF) in combination to create a given solution. Here are complete, step by step instructions to recreate the WCSF Reference Implementation (GlobalBank e-banking) using the combined recipes from these 2 factories: http://www.codeplex.com/websf/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Creating%20the%20reference%20implementation%20using%20WCSF%20and%20WSSF By the way, this was the most requested and voted issue in our community site. See? we listen! ;-) Read More......(read more)

We just posted one of the most requested features for the Web Client Software Factory : instructions on how to integrate it with the Web Service Software Factory . The instructions are on our community site on CodePlex . Enjoy. Read More......(read more)

If you have aggressive marketing ideas but do not want to use them on your main site you can sign up as an affiliate for your own product and use an affiliate account to market your products.

Todd, Rand, and Nick recently wrote great posts about linkbait.

I got a question last night about the command line arguments for IE7, I tried searching for it, and only came up with information about IE4, or about installing IE7, both of which don't really answer the question I was looking for. Thanks to John Sudds (one of the great programming writers for IE), he sent me a list of the command lines arguments for starting IE7: -k Kiosk Mode -extoff No Add-ons Mode -nohome Skip display of home page (best used with URI argument) [URI] Resource location as folder path or Web address The following aren't typically used by except when starting IE under some kind of automation (by IE or the COMServer) -embedding Application started via OLE Automation, causes IE to start with no chrome or any other UI. -restart...(read more)

I want to thank everyone who came attended today's chat, we had a great turn out this morning! It's a lot of fun to talk to other web developers and web designers. We move forward by talking to you, and hearing what you want, and this is a great opportunity for us, and it's a cool way to help you figure out some of the stuff you're working on. I should also thank you guys for putting up with LiveMeeting instead of a real chat client. We'll be moving into a proper chat client in the near future. There were some problems getting it set up in time for this chat, so we used LiveMeeting instead.. I've posted the transcript online, and we'll be getting it into a more permanant place, I just wanted to get it online and available as quickly as possible....(read more)

IBM offers a peek at the version 8.0 of Lotus Notes and Domino server coming later this year.

Hey,

Our application need to convert a lot of files type ( doc,ppt,pdf...) to xml or html in order to extract data from those

Yes, it's been a crazy busy week of podcasts so far on the ol' Taking Notes Podcast site. Me and Bruce kicked it into overdrive just before Lotusphere.

But why so many all at once? Wah!
Yeah, we hear ya. That's a lot to listen to. But we also know that plenty of people will be travelling many hours to and from Orlando next week, so think of it as travel fodder. Also, it'll help get you in that happy Lotusphere mood.

Why so many vendors? What's up with that?
The simple answer there is that they're vendors with very useful products that just might help you. There's no shame in buying products, you know. Especially when they let you do your job better, or make you look good to the boss.

Plus, if you listen to this stuff before you hit the Product Showcase floor at Lotusphere and you hear something you like, you can head straight to that vendor's pedestal and ask them questions. No more wandering around just looking for the best squishy toys (you can still do that too, of course).

So, here's the lineup so far this week:

• Episode 43: Ytria -- Ytria has some awesome tools that let you manage different parts of your database design (like action bars and documents and views) in ways that you wish Domino Designer did. Also, there are some hidden gems in the interview as Eric Houvenaghel talks about a few Notes developer "gotchas" that you probably don't know about.

• Episode 44: Declan Lynch -- Declan talks about his brand new 3.0 version of the Blogsphere template. It's a must-upgrade if you use the template for Domino blogging, and if you don't you may find some reasons to check it out. He's also doing a Lotusphere session with Steve "IBM Blog Template" Castledine that you might want to see.

• Episode 45: Integra4Notes -- This is a product with some great options for creating reports directly out of a Lotus Notes database, with no design changes to make and no DLLs to distribute and load. Run them from the client, on the server, and even schedule a weekly summary to get sent to your boss every Friday morning as a PDF file. Lots of options at a pretty low cost.

• Episode 46: VoiceRite -- Unified messaging that combines your legacy phone system, Domino e-mail, and Sametime. Get your voicemails delivered as audio files to your e-mail inbox? Yup. Receive incoming phone calls with your Sametime client, and even send an IM message to the caller that gets translated into speech? Yup. Turn your Domino directory into a phone directory that people can call in to and get transferred to someone's extension? Yup. Cool enterprise stuff.

• Episode 48: PSC -- We talked to Jim and Jim from the PSC Group to discuss IBM Websphere Portal, web services, and SOA. Some people think that Portal and SOA is just a huge expensive mess, but listen to the podcast to find out how they actually saved their client $3 million with the implementation.

• Episode 49: Chris Blatnick and Nathan Freeman -- Chris and Nathan are doing a Lotusphere session on designing great user interfaces for Lotus Notes applications, something that I know I definitely need to see. Find out what they're going to talk about and why you should go too. Save the Notes client, save the world.

That's all for now, but we'll have plenty more next week. Chris Miller's been busy too, so Listen Up!

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A fellow Notes user was telling me today about how a web-based calendar he uses sends him text messages for calendar entries. ? Guess what? ? Notes can do that too!

On the top right corner of a calendar entry, select Notify me, or click on the Alarm icon.


The brings up the Alarm Notification Options dialog. ? At the bottom you can click "Send mail notification" and enter the email address for your phone.


I don't have a use for this feature, since my Notes calendar automatically synchronizes with my phone/blackberry, but in case you need it, the feature is there.

UPDATE: Reader Philip Jensen pointed out to me that in order for this to work, your Notes client must be running. ? That makes sense, since the sending of the email is tied into the clients alarm function. ? Thanks Philip, I appreciate the information.

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