Lotus Notes

Well I have been learning to use lotus notes at work... And I am not so sure how good it is. There are many things that would need to be improved. It is used as a platform for some software which thus provides as a whole an interesting CRM solution. But I believe there is much room for improvement there.

Subversion and unicode

I was having some difficulty at work with documents which were not saved as unicode in the subversion repository. This caused problems with eclipse which has not been able to open it.

What I did to solve my problem was to use the command: file to determine the encoding, and use pconv to reencode the documents.

I am planning to do a small perl script (though some java program one would be also OK) which downloads files, checks the type and then reload and then performs a commit on the documents. However, I must make sure there is no problem with different encodings of the document for the history.

RAP

Well I learnt some things about RAP these days and I recalled a few things about eclipse I had forgotten as well I learnt new ones.

Part of the interesting things are targets in eclipse, which allow you to choose exactly the plugins available to the eclipse platform. This is particularly helpful when some packages conflict with each other.

In the case of RAP, the RCP and RAP plugins seems to have difficulty working together. I must admit though that I do not know what is the issue there.

So expect a RAP intro tutorial and perhaps other issues.