Yancy Lent

If you’ve ever wondered how many folders are in your Notes mail databases…

• Add the code below your catalog.nsf as a new agent
• Select the agent properties similar to the image below; tweak as you wish.
• Paste the sub in.
• Run againt selected documents in any view.
• The field FOLDERCOUNT will be created and populated.

Make sure you have access to the databases you are running it against and access to edit the catalog document. Also note that this is temporary because cat docs are disposable, rebuilt, live a short life, blah, blah. Also x2: Tweak the default folder exclude list as needed. I collected the list below from v7.

sntt_mail_folder_count.txt

Sub Initialize

 Dim session As New NotesSession

 Dim db As NotesDatabase

 Dim collection As NotesDocumentCollection

 Dim doc As NotesDocument

 Set db = session.CurrentDatabase

 Set collection = db.UnprocessedDocuments

 Set doc = collection.GetFirstDocument()

 Dim i As Integer

 Dim dbc As NotesDatabase

 Dim views As Variant

While Not(doc Is Nothing)

 	Set dbc = New NotesDatabase(doc.Server(0), doc.Pathname(0))

 	views = dbc.Views

 	i=0

 	If Not(Isempty(views)) Then

 		Forall v In views

 			If ( v.IsFolder ) Then

 				If (v.Name <> “($JunkMail)”)_

 				And (v.Name <>  “(Group Calendars)”)_

 				And (v.Name <>  “(Rules)”)_

 				And (v.Name <>  “($Alarms)”)_

 				And (v.Name <>  “($Inbox-Categorized)”)_

 				And (v.Name <>  “($Inbox)”)_

 				And (v.Name <>  “($Trash)”) Then

 					i=i+1

 					Print doc.Pathname(0)+ ” - “+ v.Name

 				End If

 			End If

 		End Forall

 	End If

 	doc.FolderCount = i

 	Call doc.Save(False,False)

 	Set doc = collection.GetNextDocument(doc)

 Wend

Messagebox Cstr(collection.Count)+ ” database(s) processed. “, 64, “Folder Count”

End Sub

 

This LotusScript was converted to HTML using the ls2html routine,
provided by Julian Robichaux at nsftools.com.also… A web version of Julian’s tool that converts LotusScript to html (used in this post). Sweet tool!Additions to this could include populating a text list with the actual names. Feel free to add other options or ways to make this code more efficient below.

A coworker just came back from a family vacation at Disney. She stayed at the Dolphin, after years and years of hearing us talk about it at Lotusphere. Aparently the quality of the rooms never came up because when she got there she couldn’t get over how out of date, bland and humid they were. This led to a polite conversation with the hotel management where they (leaked?) a makeover was in the works. The Swan will be done this Summer and the Dolphin this Fall.

So we could all be staying in new rooms come next January. I of course won’t believe it until i… sleep in it. You have to take with a grain of salt things that are said to appease customers. But I’m hoping this one is true.

Since my first day in the professional world I have gone out of my way to keep work and personal things, on my computer; separate. Files, email accounts, bookmarks, all of them are divided into two camps.

For files, everything either goes into folders titled AllYancy or AllWork. Easy as pie. This way I can point the corporate backup at AllWork and my personal USB drive at AllYancy.

For email, work email is work email; only. Well except for the times I wanted to show off and give out yancy_lent@lotus.com. I just don’t get those who give all their friends their work addresses, and then they get a different job… and another. You can add ISP’s to this as well. Around here the names change all the time or you get a better deal and have to change it. Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail seem like safe bets; ok, you never know about the first one.

For bookmarks and overall browsing things get sloppy. I use FireFox and like to keep everything forever, url history, type-ahead fields. The problem with all of this is when you have eyes over your shoulder or you’re in a meeting and you start typing. This is where I switch to squeaky clean IE. Not because I’m hiding anything, I just don’t want to take attention off the meeting topic. I work with someone that keeps all her bookmarks pin’d open. I really don’t need like reading all of her diet website titles… but must.

To expand on the browser experience, for backing things up you can’t beat FireFox, you need only copy two folders and you have everything, url cache, type ahead values and uname and password cache. Simply install FireFox on another computer then overlay the two folders.. iiiiiidentical.

This is where the separation comes into place. I have been using VM’s for a couple years now as a way to manage my employers demo environment. I have gotten to the point where I trust the group of files that make up a VM to that of a PC. (I was always worried about file corruption; that’s yet to happen).  So it occurred to me; why not create and use a personal VM?

This could make things very easy to manage. Backups, easy, one folder. Email, browsing, done, they’re all done in a vacuum. Resources, the host would run SUPER clean for it would only need a couple base applications running. I could run all my apps in my personal VM and just save the ‘work’ files to a mapped drive on the host. This way I can use work mail and IM; Notes and Sametime respectively, without having to switch back and forth.

It would take some time to get use to but seems well worth the exercise. It’s officially on the list.

I glanced out the window to catch Eliot hammer the pedals of his little bike with training wheels on it. He had to to get though the think Spring grass. I couldn’t help but think how riding with training wheels around the lawn has helped his confidence. He just looked ready and determined. So when 20 minutes later Ethan came into the kitchen with a big grin on his face I know something big was going on. “Dad you have to come out and see what Eliot is doing”. You could see the pride for his little brother in his face. I instantly opened the cupboard for the camera but it was packed along with the video camera; we were minutes away from going to Grandma and Grandpa’s. Ethan lead me out to the driveway to see Eliot riding Ethan’s old bike. He was peddling for about 20 feet until he ran out of room where he would break get off the bike, turn it around and start back in a new direction.

I later learned that he did it all on his own. He just got on the bike and gave it a try. It was bitter sweet. My last child is now riding a bike and all my minds eye ‘television commercial’ visions of the event can be on their way. This all happened around 7 on Friday April 18th. 3 years 8 months to the day. His brother Ethan was a hair past 4 years 2 months. For the record their mother, father and big sister Emma were 5.

The next day, Saturday the 19th he was a pro, weaving around posts taking tight turns, riding on the rough stone driveway. Congratulations Eliot, Daddy is VERY proud of you!

I am in awe of the outpouring of generosity from the greater Lotus community. Thank you everyone, and this isn’t the last time I will say it.. thank you for your donation.

When someone makes a donation, I don’t learn about it until hours later and they come in batches; the batch have been overwhelming. Over the last year, having the occasional tear (or tw..enty) in my eyes at work isn’t all that uncommon, today they are a different type. The early totals are mind boggling.

I have Gregg Eldred to thank for the idea. He had mentioned once or twice before Lotusphere that I ‘have to get a wish list’ so he can get me something from it in exchange for the work I’ve done on the site. The donor list at charity.planetlotus.org is far more rewarding then… well, you know the rest.

Tonight I will ride a little harder, a little longer and hope that Bill is doing the same

PS don’t forget The Biggest Looser Finally is on tonight. If you’re looking for your own motivation, here is your chance; apologies in advance for those that don’t get US channels.

Please read this first… charity.planetlotus.org 

I have been thinking about this day for months, the day that I change gears and start training for my 192 mile charity bike ride on August 2^nd and 3^rd.  I invite you to join me on the journey.  

I have launched charity.planetlotus.org to reach out to our greater Lotus Community with one question in mind. How much can we raise to eviscerate this nasty disease? If this site has in any way helped you, brought you entertainment, saved you time… Please consider passing it along to this worthy cause.  Don’t forget corporate matching funds… It kills me that so far the only matching fund to date is from… Sun.

In other news. I worked vigorously this weekend to get into Planet Lotus all the things that have been backlogged on my mental check list.  The tooltip and also the blog list shows blogs with parsing issues. If your blog has a parsing issue, open you profile and check your blog against one of the two validation services listed. Then once its fixed/validated refresh your blog in your profile to get the back entries. 99 times out of 100, or more, its a bad character that is causing the error, (i.e., data related).

 PS: Thank you Bruce for being the first to contribute!

It all started as an intern at Massachusetts Port Authority. I was the assistant to the assistant of the Executive Director. I was at my desk doing my favorite task, cutting out Massport related articles from the local papers when the guy that’s office was just past my desk asked me the one question that started it all. If you’re looking for something to do we’re trying to put together a spreadsheet based expense report; or something to that affect.

So there I was, automating a Lotus 123 v4 expense report. I was enamored by the macro recorder but the second I wrote my first @if statement my fait was sealed. I went on to transition to his team. It was a group of Process Re-Engineering consultants; all ex auditors from Ernst and Young (I believe) that came on full time to start up a Management Systems group.

One of our biggest projects was to audit and propose fixes for the lengthy contract approval process. At the time it took 105ish days to get 12 departments to sign off on a contract. We proposed they could do it in 5 days with a computer based approval system. I’m not sure who recommended the Lotus Notes; maybe my boss from back then will tap with comments. Either way they needed someone to maintain the application that a consulting company put together for us.

With the servers up and the application in place the flood gates opened. We had a three person team building every application we could think of. This was all around the version 3.3 time frame. Eventually upgrading to 4 meant more fun. I graduated Northeastern University in 96 and started full time. I worked there for a year fulltime before getting a job at Lotus.

The rest… 3 years of *internal Notes application work (remember the PPC database?) and 3 years of product development on the LearningSpace team at Lotus. (so 3 years in LDB, 2 in Rogers and 1 year in Westford). After that I started at my current employer Axceler (back then we were Percussion Software).

*I spent three years right clicking on these databases.

PS: A big Thanks to Chris, Randy, Cindy, Ron, David, Philis…. We made quite a team!

This IM started after I posted a comment on Nathan’s “How I got started with Lotus Notes” post. Welcome to my inner geek. If you’re interested in IM’ing with others in the community start here. Basically he said he was destine to be a Notes developer on the count of his NTF initials, where I commended “I knew I should of gone into fashion.” count of my initials…. YSL. (Yves saint Laurent).

This weekend I spent some time shortening the urls you see at the site. I compressed this

http://planetlotus.org/view.php?bid=10&pid=19186&lid=5

to this

http://planetlotus.org/1d4688

My primary objective was to make the urls easier to port. The click totals that you see everywhere on the site aren’t limited to clicks made at the site. You can take that bottom url, put it anywhere and unique hits will be incremented at Planet Lotus. Think about that the next time you pay tribute to someones post.  Volker did this as a goof to make Ben’s post on ASW’s “Hot”. Yes, that was a real example.

In other news, I’ve cut the communication link to the Planet Lotus Satellite/Widget. As of an hour or so ago all clicks from the blog widget will go straight to the actual post. In the beginning, brining everyone back to PL was a great way to get the word out; now with the word is somewhat out visitors can click on the logo or the note at the bottom describing the site.

Yes; I know it’s Friday.

Here is how to configure Pidgin to ‘Sametime’ with the greater YellowBleeders community. More details on Pidgin here. The following is the instructions for Pidgin on Ubuntu. I will assume the same procedure will work for Windows.

1. In Pidgin click Accounts / Add/Edit. Once open click Add.

2. Add your account info

3. Click the Advance tab.

4. Add the im.bleedyellow.com server

5. Change the proxy type to No Proxy then Save.

6. Go back to the main dialog and click Accounts select the Sametime account and choose “Add Notes Address Book Group…” and add YellowBleeders

…and here you have it.

The following is from the news.com.au story on Excessive emails and text are a mental illness

As more people leave the office computer, only to log on as soon as they get home, the American Journal of Psychiatry has found addiction to text messaging and emailing could be another form of mental illness.

Guilty!

Read more here…

Sick of waiting for your posts to arrive on Planet Lotus? The power is now in your hands. Simply bookmark or navigate to your Planet Lotus profile and click the refresh button.  Your profile can be found by clicking on any occurrence of your name; or your blogs name, on the front page.

Also added is a timestamp of the last time the scheduled task visited your feed.

This refresh button can also be used to troubleshoot your feed. Please check your feed at feedvalidator.org before notifying me.

Please consider testing it after your next post. I have added the change log entry here: posts on demand.

Enjoy

The growing pains and lack of control of my current shared hosting account has caused me to upgrade to a Virtual Dedicated Server. This is good news! To start, this weekend I tested the broken feeds on a VDS from the same vendor and the test group I used all came back successful, (no proxy/no squid/yes good!). This also means a slight performance increase for page loads and potentially speed and frequency of collecting feeds; all in theory of course.

I will start working on this as soon as the VDS is setup. The actual move will happen either tonight or tomorrow night; late so as not to disrupt anything.

I have setup a Planet Lotus Forum post to capture all questions and updates regarding this move.

And, while I have you all… I want to send out a personal thank you to Chris Linfoot for all his help in troubleshooting the feed issue! Thanks Chris!     

I won’t read too much into this. His last post was Sat, Apr 1st 2006.

http://rayozzie.spaces.live.com

Yesterday Carl Tyler put together a quick screencase to show how the Lotus Notes 1.0 desktop worked. He did it to illustrate a comment he made on vowe.net. I loved watching it and I’m assuming many of you out there would get a kick out of it. Those that never got the pleasure of working with 1.0.

Thanks to BleedYellow, I was able to Sametime Carl just after watching it to see if he made others, he didn’t but i learned in the process… Given that i started with Notes 3.3 I always had buttons and inline attachments. Thank goodness. I remember how Action Buttons in 4 were the Widgets of today.

Here is another good one from the IM chat: Saving the Browser

This week v. Last week

	wk ending	runs	miles	avg dist.	avg time	avg pace	total time	best pace	max dist.
1	Mar 09 08	4	26.80	6.70	58:44	8:46	03:54:57	8:33	8.30
2	Mar 02 08	4	26.00	6.50	58:34	9:01	03:54:14	8:39	10.00

Today - (Sun March 9th)

ROWLEY, MA - This run was more like it. I started off ok and it kept getting better until the last two miles where I was really picking up speed. My full body was into it which I haven’t felt all that much lately. This was the second run on the new sneakers and I feel the control is just what I need. It will be fun growing into them for the 400 miles until I start this all over again.

6 hours separated these two runs. This time was balls on with my watch. (I didn’t forget it.)

5.80 miles at a 8:51 pace.

Today - (Sun March 9th)

ROWLEY, MA - I had to get this run done quick. At least I thought. I was going to try and do 11+ but my better judgment got a hold of me. I would have made Johanna and Emma late and I didn’t want that. By the time they came back there wouldn’t have been enough time to get it don’t, not enough daylight; so I screwed myself on planning the day. So I figured double.

Started off too fast; two days off will do that to you, and it turned into a mediocre run; I guess you can say I paid for going out quick.

I did this one cave man style to a degree. I had no watch period but in know the distance. If im no going to run with my cell then I have to keep to my regular route. Just have to.

This was also my first run on Brooks Adrenaline 7. I’ve put about 5,000 on Adrenaline 6’s thank goodness Brooks philosophy of changing gradually (or maybe not at all) paid off.

The time is my bestguess.

5.80 miles at a 8:53 pace.

Thu March 6th

ROWLEY, MA TREADMILL - I have tried 3 different times to write up what’s been going on lately and just can’t make it as meaningful as i’d like it to be, so here is an overview.

I stared running again. In doing so, two weeks ago, I popped in a vhs of the 1995 Ironman Championship where a triathlete named Chuckie V was featured. After the run i looked him up. He has a blog and it is amazing. He has opened my eyes more then once. One such post sparked the past two amazing runs i’ve entered here. Essentially its a hybrid of his Cave Man approach. I start my run on 6 mph /10 minute mile; for a couple minutes, put a shirt over the treadmill readout and go from there. What makes this different is the lack of me bitching at my, slow speed, lack of energy, pain in my legs. What changed this is the act of listening. I have become a domestic to my body. I ask it, what do you need, what do you want, i am there to server its every desire.

I have learned some much from this listening; as odd as all this might sound. I don’t slave to the speed i want my body to go, rather I let my legs tell me how fast they want to go and remarkably they want to go fast… Its so amazing im thinking of expanding this theory beyond the treadmill. If it works for running, and they say it works with relationships, what else does it work well with?

For this run I ran until my body was done. I did artificially push this a little so i could watch the end of the apprentice; guilty. I have no clue how fast i was going at the end but every 5 or 10 minutes i was pushing it faster and faster. Whatever my legs wanted. It was magical. I wasn’t tired, my legs weren’t tired all because they were setting the pace they were making the choices.

I can’t wait to see where this goes. For now its surly expedited my venture back to a pace i feel happy with (the low 8’s.). Another byproduct of this is eating well.

My body is craving good food. I have helped this along with reading “the Zone”. Not because im looking for a diet rather so i can learn what foods are good for me. I am utterly food dumb. This book is great at breaking out fats, carbs, etc. I could say that the runs ive done are a result of my better eating but i feel its a circular effect. Everything is working on all cylinders and i feel great.

This is why i love running; all this, and of all places a half dark corner of my basement. I can’t wait to get out on the street this weekend.

Thanks Chuckie V.! You’re “The True Meaning of Miles” post has made my week; and then some.

http://chuckiev.blogspot.com/2008/03/true-meaning-of-miles.html

8.30 miles at a 8:33 pace.

Tue March 4th

ROWLEY, MA TREADMILL - Tonight i left everything on the treadmill. It was all due to an amazing new approach to running that I’ve adopted. The details of which i will write about tomorrow.

6.90 miles at a 8:51 pace.

More at… http://www.yancylent.com/running/

Ever sport I’ve ever followed has had an opening day. Cycling is no different. It starts with the Spring Classics (one to a few days in length) and then leads up to the grand tours, Italy, France and Spain (there are only 3) with other major races sprinkled in between.

The part I struggle with is, not only is cycling my favorite sport to watch but its also my favorite sport to take part in. I don’t race per say but i do ride a lot either alone, with clubs or in triathlons. So the opening day is two part, my version and the established sports version.

So the question is what is my opening day. I’ve heard Paris-Nice is the opening race of the season as the history of the sport goes; the almost brand new Tour of California has already passed. But when does it start for me.

It seems to happen in stages, all leading up to late Spring where I am slightly/completely (depending who you ask) obsessed with it all. The first spark this year was watching the Tour of California on my treadmill. I was running for the first time not as prep for road races but to prep for the cycling season. Don’t get me wrong i still love running; its just this Summer I’m focusing on the bike.

The next spark was Bicycling Magazine’s Annual Buyers Guide that arrived a couple weeks ago. Now this year i didn’t walk around the house with it in my hands all weekend like last year when I was in the market for a new bike, maybe just a few hours. I actually have to stop myself from spending too much time memorizing all the new details on all the new bikes and components. It’s just like any other hobby.

The next trigger, tonight’s event on Versus which starts a string of other races on Sunday nights that are all already in my Blackberry; with reminders set.

There are two other steps to follow. Getting out there for the first road ride and going for the first group ride of the season.

The more it snows the longer it stays cold the longer I find myself starring at my bike as I walk past.

I can’t wait for the nice weather!

Just about 100 of us are using their Sametime gateway at bleedyellow.com to have random, often personal conversations. The trouble is, all our ‘keystrokes’ are going through their server. The beauty of Sametime is all of this can be logged… but it isn’t. Guess how I know? Tim Tripcony said so! You may find that funny but if you’ve ever read his posts on politics, government, etc. you’d understand why that’s all I need to know.

But for some of us in the community this isn’t enough, so the Lotus 911 bleed yellow team caucused and went into quick action. They’ve setup an advisory committee to peer audit their server configuration. Issue settled.

This is pretty amazing stuff, if only Verizon could use it to decrease the time it takes to redraw the image when you cycle through channels…

IBM Network Prototype Promises 1-Second Movie Downloads

IBM thinks the technology — dubbed “green optical link” — could spark a revolution in high-def content. For instance, Web sites that offer movies could use it to access libraries of millions of high-definition videos in seconds. And laptops equipped with optical data ports could download such content in an instant.

Total: 26.0 miles _ 03:54:14 hours
Average: 58:34 run _ 9:01 pace _ 6.5 distance

Today - (Sun March 2nd)

ROWLEY, MA - Title: If this journal had a title this would read. I’m nice, but not that nice.

I got outside and braved the ice and bone chilling wind. The sun was out so it wasn’t all that bad. My wife told me the guy down the street, an acquaintance of ours was out running in 4 degree weather the other day; he beat me by 2 degrees, 6 and 106 are my min and max; Vegas. Back to the run. I felt good; just wanted to “do time” and not think about speed or gate, just miles. I simply wanted to push my legs to let them experience a farther distance. This and speed workouts always help the next week. So today i worked to better next week.

My mind was racing and I was getting a lot of good thinking done. This is one of the best parts of running; a co-worker one job back called it cleaning out the cob webs. I easily kept myself amused thinking about family work and life.

Then at mile 9 while I was struggling, it happened. There I am running against traffic and some ass clown slows down to ask directions, they actually miss read the stop and when past me expecting me to stop. Are you fucking kidding me? There I am, in deep concentration, sweat dripping from my face and this guy thinks im going to stop, turn around and help him out. The road was empty, show some courtesy; turn around and driving along side me. I would have talked the guys ear off.

10.00 miles at a 9:15 pace. Weight 218

Thu February 28th

ROWLEY, MA TREADMILL - I was happy to do 5. I almost quit at 2. I started this run at just past 11:30pm, and after watching a 2 hour movie in bed. I started out slow but ran out of energy. I’ll pay for this one. Got to bed around 12:30. Worth it in the long run. I found a new show Talking Metal or something like that on Fuse. Have to check it out. I would have never made it past the two mile mark if it weren’t for their awful attempt at Slayer’s South of Heaven. An amazing song from their single best CD. Period. Have to check out Warbringer. They claim to take after 80’s trash bands.

5.00 miles at a 8:55 pace.

Wed February 27th

ROWLEY, MA TREADMILL - Paid for the past two fast runs. I started strong then hit a mini wall. It just felt go to just keep up the routine. It didn’t help that i was watching the debate. Boring. I have get get some more dvd’s to watch on the tmill. Note to self.

4.00 miles at a 9:09 pace.

Mon February 25th

ROWLEY, MA TREADMILL - Speed Retained! I have to get a title field for this journal.

I went old school, back to when i did speed 6 for .250 then speed 7 for 6.75. I never thought i would be able to retain it.

The gate issue of shaky legs is still there but i can feel it going away. Today it was smooth sailing. That is until mile 5 where the very nutritious pepperoni pizza i ate for dinner decided to come back and visit me. Its always suck when this happens but is short lived, suffer for about a mile and it goes away.

I watched stage 4 I believe, on tape, of the Tour of California. 7 hours in the rain, yikes. I can’t wait for opening day of March 9th Paris - Nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris-Nice

7.00 miles at a 8:39 pace.