Notes.jar and Eclipse

Yesterday I tried to connect Notes.jar (java library in Lotus Notes) to my simple Java application in Eclipse 3.2. I had some problems with it. When I added Notes.jar and tried to compile my project, debugger gave me an error. I began to search information about it and found interesting article. A problem was very simple, I didn’t think about “Environmental variables”, so when I added them, my application was compiled!

second project on guru.com

One week ago I won another project on guru.com

Firstly, I fixed some bugs in modified mail6.ntf. The main problem in this task was difference between mail6.ntf in version R6.5.1 and R6.5.5.

Then I must developed something like as plug-in for Lotus Notes. The main goal of this plug-in is to be universal for both Lotus Notes R6.x and Lotus Notes R7.x. Earlier my customer had many problems with different mail6.ntf. He told me to do a subform in Lotus Notes Domino, that would be embedded in any forms in mail6.ntf.

I did it yesterday and send it to him. Now I will wait for answer from him.

I'm "free man"

I have finished my University www.nau.edu.ua with master's degree in computer science. Also I want admit that very soon I will be lieutenant.
So I'm “free man”. It's really cool :). Now I must think about my future life.

My first project on guru

Some month ago I won a simple and interesting project, on guru.com.
I must took data from http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mn/nwis/current/?type=flow and put them to Lotus Notes Database. The main problem of this task is that I had no any connection like as ODBC or other to database where data store. I didn’t know real good solution for this task.
So, for receiving data I used next script:

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Dim request As Variant
Dim content As String

Const URL = "http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mn/nwis/current/?type=flow"

Set request = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
Call request.open("GET", URL, False)
Call request.send()
Let content = request.responseText
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Then I processed content of page, got data and put them to Lotus Notes Database.
Maybe it’s not best solution but on that moment I had no better ideas.

My customer was very happy, paid me 50$ and gave me good reference.

I'm

Good day!

My name is Dmytro Pastovenskyi, I live in Ukraine. I'm proffesional Lotus Notes Developer. Here I will write about my developer's life.