So what's your favorite resource for Notes/Domino help?
Category Software Development
Partly as a result of last night's blog post about group knowledge available over the web, I started wondering what other Notes/Domino developers use when they are trying to solve their sticky problems that go beyond their own experience and/or level of knowledge?
For me, there are two resources I turn to quite often. The first one is to hit F1 when I'm in the Designer client to get the online Notes Designer Help files. I've never been too fond of the actual yellow books for reference. Perhaps it's just because I'm too used to clicking on the Index view and then searching for the command I need. I can't count the number of times I've copied an example file from there to paste into my code in order to tweak my own example. I also appreciate the cross-references to other similar items at the bottom of most of the entries.
The second most useful item for me (but not by much) is MartinScott's SuperSearch site. This feature of MartinScott's website allows you to search multiple Notes discussion forums from a single interface. You enter your search criteria, select which sites you want to search, and then click Search. Multiple browser windows then kick off to each of the sites you've selected, and your search is automagically executed for you. This site has bailed me out SO many times! And one of the principals there, Jamie Mcgee, is extremely responsive to feedback. If you've never used this site before, I highly recommend that you check it out. It's my goal to be the 1,000,000th search executed at the site... :-)
So, what's your favorite Notes resource for help?
Partly as a result of last night's blog post about group knowledge available over the web, I started wondering what other Notes/Domino developers use when they are trying to solve their sticky problems that go beyond their own experience and/or level of knowledge?
For me, there are two resources I turn to quite often. The first one is to hit F1 when I'm in the Designer client to get the online Notes Designer Help files. I've never been too fond of the actual yellow books for reference. Perhaps it's just because I'm too used to clicking on the Index view and then searching for the command I need. I can't count the number of times I've copied an example file from there to paste into my code in order to tweak my own example. I also appreciate the cross-references to other similar items at the bottom of most of the entries.
The second most useful item for me (but not by much) is MartinScott's SuperSearch site. This feature of MartinScott's website allows you to search multiple Notes discussion forums from a single interface. You enter your search criteria, select which sites you want to search, and then click Search. Multiple browser windows then kick off to each of the sites you've selected, and your search is automagically executed for you. This site has bailed me out SO many times! And one of the principals there, Jamie Mcgee, is extremely responsive to feedback. If you've never used this site before, I highly recommend that you check it out. It's my goal to be the 1,000,000th search executed at the site... :-)
So, what's your favorite Notes resource for help?
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Because I can (and do) go through them every couple of years, or so, gleaning info on code, procedures, functions, which I may never have used before and thus may never otherwise know to look for online.
Posted by Bas At 08:48:45 On 02/07/2003 | - Website - |
Posted by Lance Jurgensen At 07:30:08 On 02/07/2003 | - Website - |
The next thing I use to use is my " treasure" at http://eknori.dyndns.org/knowledge/devidea.nsf/Alpha?OpenView
And of course the Lotus Software Knowledgebase and the IBM Redbooks. Some years ago I often visited Lotus411 (http://www.searchdomino/techtarget.com) but there are not so many new posts nowadays like in the past.
And I agree with Tom that the Designer Help is a real treasure for code snippets
eknori
Posted by eknori At 09:58:09 On 09/07/2003 | - Website - |