One of the more confusing features of the desktop plug-in for HCL Connections is that it limits the number of files it shows for any given folder or file location to a maximum of 500 files. The system doesn’t warn the user of this or tell the users […]

At one of my customers we ran into the problem that users were not able to upload files larger than 50MB within the HCL Connections Desktop plug-in for Windows but were able to upload files of up to 1GB (server setting) in the browser. The error users got […]

Learned a lesson the hard way this week. debugging a problem where a code running against the Database.views property of a mail file with over 7000 folders couldn’t locate certain folders even though the interface clearly showed the folders as being there. The ultimate cause was as simple […]

Spent Friday investigating some freakish code problems. This one just blew my mind…. When assigning numbers to a data type what do you expect to happen when you assign a number to big to fit the assigned data type? Right, an overflow error.  Well explain this then…. Ok, […]

Anyone doing web design regularly uses tools to do so. One of the tools I used to used a lot was Firebug. A simple add-in for Firefox that allows you to inspect and debug code, CSS and HTML on websites directly while viewing the site. A lovely tool. […]

It’s finally there! The announcement was made today that IBM Lotus Quickr V8.5 will be released on September 13th. This release was long anticipated! Early 2009, on the eve of the Quickr 8.2 release the DomDoc redbook team I was on describing a migration path from the DomDoc […]

Nice checklist for people planning a DAOS implementation with lots of further links for additional information. Especially the one about Backup’s. It’s the one thing that sticked in my head from the 10 worst real live examples of ‘how not to‘ given in the  “BP108 Worst Practices….Orlando we’ve […]

I’ve been busy, really busy the last couple of weeks. Mostly with writing jobs I had to finish. I’m still working on an article and apart from that have been really busy with several reports and Functional Design documents so writing on my blog kind of fell in […]

One of the products Lotus has bought over the years and incorporated into their Lotus portfolio that always interested me was Lotus Workflow. I have a real admiration for this product that has been out there now for a over decade but still is more than versatile and […]