The Biggest MUD Game ever

I'm sat here, lost in the Partner World forum on the Blue meanie web site. I am trying to claim the "You Pass We Pay Things" for one of the certs I did in August.

Boy is it hard work; the site is almost impenetrable. It occurred to me that perhaps it is all just a practical joke and in reality is just one giant MUD game. I find myself experiencing the same emotions, for instance:

"I wonder what they mean by that?"
"Oh we have been here before but thru a different door"
"I can only go thru here when I have the right key, where do you get the key?"

At some point I am expecting to click on a link and be presented with a big page that says "WELL DONE, YOU HAVE FOUND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS!!!"

Host-a-mola

Just signed up for a bit of hosting. It's just fab. I get tomcat and auction engines and ldap and mysql and lots lots more (he said in ronco advert voice). I manage all this thru a groovy control panel thing.

Click on this little image to witness the full glory of my control panel. Please hum "Fanfare for the Common man" as you click it.



It is with eapps by the way.

Installing WSAD: A chimp's perspective

... and then I installed the device developer edition ... gawd. My development system is hung like a Grand National winner too.

Infact it took so bloody long that if I had been a chimp then I would have probably gone through a few stages of evolution by the time it finished. I would be standing upright, living in Staines and drinking Bacardi Breezers.

I did say only a few stages ;-)

Things that just work.

If you are thinking about Notes and handheld applications, particularly on PocketPC devices, look no further than mForms from CommonTime. A few years ago my company had a requirement to build a handheld application for a well known drinks company. We did it in mForms and it runs and runs and runs and runs. The development on the handheld is much like notes R3 (layout regions aaiiieee!) but with a more powerful @formula language (while loops, decent @setfield).

The hand devices started as HP Ipaqs but they are now Orange SPV M1000 phones and all the replication is done over GPRS. The data is uploaded from the PocketPC into a domino web app with MySQL back end for reporting. I even managed to do a bit of XLST to transform the result sets into the graphs.

The best bit of all is that as the underlying system is Notes the design and the data is replicated. This means that apart from a mForms upgrade the field staff have not had to return to base for ...well yonks. This is something that many other handheld software charlies cannot match. Commontime's suppoprt is pretty damn good too.

You'll like mForms, it's one of those things that works.

Geek?

Geek? Moi?

More like a wide eyed loner on the edge of uke oblivion. Sort of like if Gram Parsons had been a Principal Certified Lotus Professional.

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