Adobe Flex Frameworks & why they matter (particularly if your coming from Lotus Notes)

August 4, 2010

Frameworks – particularly micro AS3 frameworks for Flex seem to be in vogue, but why?  What do they offer?  Other than adding what looks like making your apps more complex.
If your a Lotus Notes / Domino developer I am sure you have come across the classic tactical application which has grown over time to [...]

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Authenticated Multi File Uploads – A possible solution

January 27, 2010

Jake has been work hard on building some excellent Flex components which play nice with Domino.
One issue he has hit is with a bug in the Flash Player which means for non IE browsers session authentication is not sent with the fileupload HTTP Post.  This means currently only anonymous individuals can upload attachments on non [...]

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Integrating Adobe Flex and Lotus Notes – Security Implications

July 8, 2009

One of the strengths of Lotus Notes is its excellent security model and therefore when developing an Adobe Flex front end you want to leverage the inbuilt security but theres a few things to consider.
Flash Player Security
An important aspect of a Flex application (compiled to a Flash movie) is its ability to be hosted on [...]

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Website performance monitoring

February 23, 2009

Whilst trying to determine if this blog was performing badly (or not) I came across this great site – monpage.com
Its free to use and will provide a graphical representation of the availability of servers and the responsiveness of webpages.
I configured it to monitor this domain, another domain hosted with the same provider and the same virtual [...]

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Perforce & Designer 8.5 – Anyone done it?

February 13, 2009

Let me start by saying I know the best version control software for Notes is Teamstudio’s CIAO, but in a large corporate environment there tends to be a standard for software version control.
Now if your like me and you want to try and encourage senior management to view Lotus Notes development as part of the [...]

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