Codestore Activity LogLatest ten updates to codestore, be they blogs or articles.Any ThinkPad Experts Out There Blog- June 30, 2008 My ThinkPad T42 is broken. It happened just before I moved in to the new office. Like an idiot I balanced it on the top of a pair of step-ladders after I'd been testing the wall sockets for the network. Despite making a mental note to remember it was there I came back later and folded the ladders up - completely forgetting it was on top. It fell 6' on to a concrete floor, although I managed to break the fall half way with my foot. Woops. Testament to the build quality of the ThinkPads is the...http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20080630 Say Hello To Minnie Howlett Blog- June 24, 2008 A week earlier than expected little Miss Minnie Howlett decided to make her way in to the big wide world yesterday morning, 23rd June 2008, at 8:08 am. Her entry was a little more dramatic than her big brother's 18 months ago. More on that in a mo. Here's a re-creation of the photo of her brother from the day he was born. See the similarity! Things started in the normal way and it looked like our planned home birth was going to go ahead. We probably left it a little late to call the midwife.http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20080624 Eureka! -- Generating File Attachments in Agents Without Unrestricted Rights Blog- June 20, 2008 On Tuesday I was bemoaning the lack of a way to stream binary data directly to the browser from an Agent. Me, moaning Surely not! Despite the fact nobody knew of a way to stream data directly I did manage to get something out of the whole exercise. What came of it is a way to generate, store and (optionally) email automatically generated files without using the server's disk. So what Well, not needing to write to the disk means you don't need to worry about who signed the agent last andor...http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20080620 Challenge --- How Secure Is My CAPTCHA Logic Blog- June 18, 2008 See if you can find a hole in the way I create CAPTCHA images that might mean it's not as secure as it should be. As I mentioned yesterday the image created in the Java Agent is written to the disk. What I didn't mention is that the file is then added to a Rich Text field on a Captcha form and saved as a document with the answer to the captcha in there too. The file is then deleted from the disk and the agent redirects the browser to the file within the document that was just created. To do...http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20080618 Why No OutputStream! -- Creating Image Files In Java Agents Blog- June 17, 2008 While writing this entry I'll try not to turn it in to just another long dig at Domino, but it might end up going that way. Sorry. I'm writing a CAPTCHA plugin for a Domino site at the moment. Although I've managed to get a working solution I can't help but feel it could have been a whole lot easier to achieve were there not a couple of things missing from the basic toolkit of a Domino developer. Creating images on the fly using Java Agents is actually a lot easier than you might think. The...http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20080617 Adding Google Analytics to DominoWiki - Nightmare! Blog- June 11, 2008 The other week I added Google Analytics to all the web-facing applications I'd produced for a customer. They then asked if I'd mind adding it to a copy of DominoWiki they used. "Not at all" I said, knowing it to be a two minute copy-paste task. The trouble is it turned in to a two hour job! Google Analytics adds itself to a page using this line of code: document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.comga.js' type='textjavascript'%3E%3Cscript%3E")); This adds a...http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20080611 |