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SnTT: The Same Lotus App Inside Outside the Firewall

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My August article for Intranet Journal is out a little late, but it’s called The Same Lotus App Inside, Outside the Firewall. This one was kind of a hard article to write, because it was hard to explain it completely in an easy-to-digest article. Hopefully I did well.

The gist of the article is this: You have a web application, and inside your network, you want Anonymous access to work on your application. But, when someone accesses the same application (and same URL) from the internet, you want them to have to authenticate. You generally cannot have it both ways, but I show you how to do it with some replicas, some non-replicating ACLs, and some DNS/internet site document fun.

Hope it helps some folks out!

SnTT: Customizing Login Forms on your Domino Intranet

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This month’s Intranet Journal article deals with customizing your Login Forms to your Domino Intranet using domcfg.nsf. I’m always surprised when I see logins at places that are still the default when it’s so easy to at least swap out for your own logo. So hopefully I’ve helped beautify the world of Domino web apps a little bit. 🙂

SnTT: Bring Information into Notes with My Widgets

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Okay, so I know this is only Monday, but I submitted this story to my editor last Thursday, so that counts for something!

Anyway, my latest for Intranet Journal is entitled Bring Information into Notes with My Widgets. It’s an article dedicated to the new Notes 8.0.1 feature and I give some detailed instructions on how to add a couple different kinds of Widgets to your Notes install. One of the more interesting ones is setting up a Wikipedia widget that uses Live Text to allow you to highlight a word and right-click on it to get the definition of the word in Wikipedia.

Anyway, since I did submit this last Thursday, it was before I found out about a couple neat initiatives. First, both Open NTF and the Turtle Partnership will be supporting online Widget catalogs! Make sure to check them out. Also, Yancey is covering Widgets over in a forum on PlanetLotus.org. So far it does seem like this feature is a hit with the community!

Anyway, please check it out and let me know what you think!

EDIT: One of the things I was disappointed in was that when you pulled in a Notes view into a sidebar, it brought along the Navigator with no choice to get rid of it. Well Dan King let me know that you can get around that by using the ?OpenView&HideNavigator command. Check out a post on the topic over at Notes.net. Now I have to test to see if it works if the view is associated with a frameset.

SnTT: Lotusphere Survival Guide

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Speaking of Lotusphere, my latest article for Intranet Journal is all about WHY you should go to Lotusphere and what to expect. It’s entitled Lotusphere Survival Guide, and it’s “kind of” true. I do talk about some things you should do, and I link back here to my survival guide I placed on the blog last year. In actuality, the majority of it is meant to tell people what they are missing if they don’t go.

So, if you have a boss that needs convincing to send you, send him the article. If YOU need convincing, read the article. Lotusphere is one of best technical conferences you will ever go to, and if you use Lotus in your environment, you really owe it to yourself to go.

And in case you were wondering, I WILL be there. See you in January!