I just wanted to share this great story by Damien Katz, a former programmer at Iris/Lotus. I first read it about a year ago and came across again today. It’s about Damien as a novice C++ programmer rewriting one of the core components of Lotus Notes/Domino – the formula engine, originally written by Ray Ozzie.… Continue reading Programmer’s Frustration
Qtek 8310 Smartphone and Windows Media Player Sync
I’ve had my Qtek 8310 Smartphone for a couple of months now and I thought I’d setup Windows Media Player (WMP10) synchronization to make my life a little easier.It seemed easy enough to set it up, I just checked to sync Media in ActiveSync 4.1 and followed the on-screen instructions to complete the setup from… Continue reading Qtek 8310 Smartphone and Windows Media Player Sync
Public Warning: Kiss DP-558 Video Recorder
I bought my Kiss DP-558 video recorder late in December last year and so far it has been a frustrating experience, even though I must admit it has not been all bad. I made the decision to buy this player because1) I wanted a home unit, i.e. a unit that is not noisy and always… Continue reading Public Warning: Kiss DP-558 Video Recorder
Failed to update database “XXX.MDF” because the database is read-only
After a few hours of Googling and testing things I finally solved this problem so I thought I’d write the solution down both for my own and other’s benefit. What I did to get the error:I had just done some changes to one of my web sites using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 with… Continue reading Failed to update database “XXX.MDF” because the database is read-only
Lotusscript: Body Above Signature in Memo
I got a library of Lotusscript functions and code examples that I find useful and reuse in projects every now and then. Some are very simple and some did require a little or a lot of research and work before I got them working. In this post is an example on how to disable the… Continue reading Lotusscript: Body Above Signature in Memo
Ray Ozzie and Microsoft’s New Services Strategy
I just read this article in Fortune, headlined “Microsoft’s new brain”. It’s about Ray Ozzie but the real take aways for me were: 1) how Microsoft think about their new services strategy. 2) the report on how the new management at Microsoft work. I had understood that Ozzie played an important role but not that… Continue reading Ray Ozzie and Microsoft’s New Services Strategy
Problem solved: FTP and Windows 2003 Firewall
Since I’m new to blogging I didn’t know how to use my own domain name with this blog. A quick Google revealed that the way it works is that I simply use Blogger as usual but whenever I publish anything it is published to my web server using FTP. I have my own web server… Continue reading Problem solved: FTP and Windows 2003 Firewall
My return as a blogger…
Welcome to my blog! This is my second attempt at blogging. My first attempt was a personal blog on things that are not work (ie technology) related. So I blogged on what happened to Rick Astley and things like that. After a total of three or four posts over almost a year my poor blog… Continue reading My return as a blogger…