The amount of blogging and the amount of feedback is pretty much the same as 2007, which is reassuring. I'd be worried if the yearly decrease in activity continued. It's hard to keep it flowing what with work commitments and two kids under the age of two.
The obvious difference this year is that I haven't written an "article". I know most of you refer to anything on here as an article, but, to me, they're the full-length posts that don't appear as a part of the blog. What I've found is that a) I don't have time to write the full-length posts any more and b) I can get most of what I want to say across via the blog posts. This site has always evolved to my situation and I can see articles being used less and less.
Noteworthy Happenings / Content
Having just looked through all 115 blog entries from the year, here's what stands out for me:
I won an award! Best Lotus Blogger 2007. Apparently.
Embedded login forms. I thought this was obvious but a few of you seemed thankful.
DEXT made available for download. This one download contains all the usefulness mentioned above.
Each year I always think what on earth am I going to write about in the next year. I often think I'll run out of tips/tricks at some point. Things always come up though, as this year has shown. As for next year, who knows what will come up!?
Chances are that 2009 will see me talk about XPages, as I need to get up to speed on that and I'm sure you're dying to know my impressions. For the immediate future though you should expect a lot of talk about RIAs and, in particular, Adobe Flex!
Visitors
Never mind content. How popular was the site over the last year. Well, according to Google Analytics, 309,247 Absolute Unique Visitors amounted to 1,134,843 Page Views. I can't compare this to the previous year as I didn't start recording until March 2007. More than a million page views sounds alright to me though. Anybody know how much advertising revenue I'm missing out on?
Onwards...
So, here's to another year of techy geekness and to your continued input. Just remember, this site wouldn't continue if you weren't reading.
Next year will see this site's 10th birthday! Never thought that would happen.
The Notes client have paragraph styles which is a good way of formatting text, according to company standards etc. However, they do not work very well (often they change formatting after reopening documents), and they are difficult to publish out to other users in the company.
I would like to see the paragraph styles work better, and that it would be possible to publish them as a policy.
Using the Lotus Notes client, you enable the LotusScript debugger and then open a document. You notice that it does not step through all of the expected code. Depending on the application, it may skip form events, subform events, and/or shared field events.
You create a Java child thread (servlet/agent/runjava) in Lotus Domino 6.5.5 running on a Solaris platform. This thread then creates or attempts to create a ServerSocket object which in turn causes a system crash.