Back On The Air

Yes, I've been busy with other things lately. A few projects for clients, and also doing some research on some product ideas. That plus a family schedule that kicked into high gear right after I returned from London kept me away from blogging. I have been reading though, trying to keep up. There are only about 650 unreads in my bloggergator database.

Speaking of which, there's a bug in the agent that manages the folder assignments for the "1 Day", "2 Days", "7 Days" breakdown of articles. More of a design flaw, actually. I implemented the folders to avoid having to either use time-dependent view selection formulas (which are a well-known performance black hole) or using an agent to modify an "age" field in each doc (which destroys unread marks for Notes client users). But the agent was written to run on unprocessed documents, and duh!... that means that it runs once per document and never looks at it again. I've got to change it to run on all docs. After that, I want to do some UI work on it, and finally release it for general use. Then, when I have some time for another project, I want to do a general-purpose RSS feed generator that can be configured to work for any Domino database.