11Feb/083

18.2% of the weekday blog posts are unrelated to Lotus.

The improvements i've done to the planetlotus.org keyword filter shows that over the past 60 days only 18.2% of the weekday blog posts are unrelated to Lotus. Given the new lower number I've changed the default weekday view to unfiltered. You will still have the option to view the site filtered, simply click on the half circle icon in the top nav bar.

I hope this clears up the confusion it caused, now all posts will be viewable, tagged with the option to filter.

Here is more detail of the past 60 days. The percentage shows the number of unrelated weekday posts that have been hidden *form the default main page….

Monday    23.4%
Tuesday    17.3%
Wednesday    15.8%
Thursday    14.6%
Friday        20.0%

*form. I can't be the only one that does this. My years of creating Notes views, agents, formulas, etc has me constantly typing form instead of from.

Filed under: Planet Lotus 3 Comments
5Feb/081

How to force a wrap in an html table with PHP.

Let's say you have a long url that's blowing out the width of your small table, don't look to html or css to solve this problem. Use wordwrap function.

$title =  $myrow["title"];
$newtitle = wordwrap($title, 28, "<br/>", 1);

Thank you Amadeus at dreamincode.net

This also starts my new blogging approach. I had to read through 5 long discussion threads which included flame wars on the html spec before I got to this golden data nugget. The approach is simple. If it takes me longer then it should to track something down, I'll take my original Google search, make it into a new blog title and post the answer that worked for my situation. It will surly help someone in a future.

Filed under: Web Development 1 Comment
1Feb/084

Wanted: New Lotus Keywords for PlanetLotus filter…

The announcements at Lotusphere have brougt a new wave ofkeywords into the Lotus vernacular. The more keywords i can get today the more of your stories will show on the filtered home page (filtered during the week, all stories show on the weekend).

There are two categories of keywords, related and relevant. Where ACL, Atlas, or Connections would be Lotus relevant and iPhone, Vista, etc would be Lotus related.

This list is retroactive. Once I run the keyword update it will re-index and re-score all entries.

New keyword ideas:

blue house, foundations, xpages

Feel free to add below or send them to yancylent/@/lotusreport.com

Filed under: Planet Lotus 4 Comments