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91 Surefire Ways to Become an Even Greater Developer

Since there are dozens of posts on becoming a better developer, but no single post with all the advice you need, perhaps, you'll find this short guide useful.

1. Learn the Skills You Need

  1. Learn the programming basics

    "The goal of this guide is to be the easiest and funnest way for a beginner to get started programming."

    Read more: Learn To Program - Beginner's Guide

Social Media Bookmarks for the Last 7 Days

Another week has passed and I have more links on social media to share.

Enjoy and share yours, too. Thanks.

  • Three solid reasons to gain trust with the Web people:
    • Participation in social media, because that's where the people are
    • Transparency, because it'll allow your customers share your product with others and interact with you
    • Invest in your product, because it is the #1 reason people talk about it

Marketing, Social Media and Lotus Notes Development Links of the Past Week

Over the last week, I have come across some interesting links that you might find some value in, if you are into marketing, social media or Lotus Notes development.

Marketing

  • Metrics: where users come from

    Watch this slideshow to learn:

    • what is important, when building a viral app
    • how to design your app to spread virally
    • how to measure the growth

Filtering in Views Using LotusScript Code Made Easier

Filtering documents within a view in LotusScript straightforwardly can require quite a lot lines of code with various functions. However, by simple modular programming, you can use less functions in the code, making code more friendly and readable, thus reducing the chances to make a mistake, and increasing re-usability.

Here's the sample of straightforward code:

dim view as NotesView
set view = db.GetView("myView")
Dim doc As NotesDocument
call view.Refresh()
dim name as string
dim evaluation
evaluation = evaluate("@username")
name = evaluation(0)

Creating a Lotus Notes View with NotesView and AJAX

When we had to develop Lotus Views for the Web interfaces (a lot of times, of course), we needed something AJAXy. AJAX views for Domino were available for quite a while in Web Access mail template, but the code is practically not re-usable there. So, during our search efforts, we came across the brilliant project NotesView2 at openntf.org.

The Complete jQuery Resource List for You to Become an Almighty Developer

Have you ever had to develop something yourself only to find out that there had already been a plugin developed?

Don't you enjoy dreaming about what you could have on your site and finding the right plugin right away?

Then you will find anything you need on jQuery in this resource list to do whatever you want and become a better jQuery developer. You will find the following materials:

How to Fix a Multiline Comment in a Lotus Notes Application

If you are working on a web project (like a human resources web portal I am working on) and need to get a comment form with a multiline text field, you use the following field options:

Lotus web form field properties

and you might use the following Translation:

@Implode(@ThisValue;@NewLine)

The field looks like this:

Lotus web form field looks

25 Resources for Tuning Your .NET Application Performance

If you need to improve performance of your .NET application, most likely, you'll find your solution in these resources.

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