Gerald's Blog

LotusScript to move an Action to another Database

2013-01-09T19:16:00.005-05:00

This is some old code I had laying around. My client needed a way to move actions from one database to another database programmatically. I know I gotten most of the code from somewhere but I can not find it current. If you recognize your code, let me know and I will credit you.

Option Public
Option Declare 

Sub Initialize

 Dim session As New NotesSession   

 Dim stream As NotesStream

 Dim importer As NotesDXLImporter

 Dim curdirname As String 

 Dim filename As String

 Dim db As NotesDatabase


 Set db = session.getdatabase("","<filepath to database>")

 curdirname = CurDir() 

 Dim nc As NotesNoteCollection

 Dim exporter As NotesDXLExporter

 filename = curdirname + "AddMyActions2.dxl" 'Change as required

 'Set db = session.CurrentDatabase

 Set stream = session.CreateStream

 Call stream.Open(filename)

 Call stream.Truncate

 Set nc = db.CreateNoteCollection(False)

 nc.SelectActions=True 'Change as required

 Call nc.BuildCollection

 Set exporter = session.CreateDXLExporter(nc, stream)

 Call exporter.Process

End Sub

Next WoW player in the making...

2008-09-03T15:32:00.001-04:00

For the last couple of months my wife and I knew we are pregnant. I been waiting to announce it until the first ultra-sound. Well today is that day. Here are pictures of my new son or daughter:

There are no wrong specs....just stupid ones!

2008-07-24T22:18:00.001-04:00

hehehe I like that title. I'm going to keep it! :D

Well anyhow I was looking at the spec I had on my fire mage. I guess it wasn't too bad. However, I did put 3 points into Playing with Fire. I figured why not. An extra 3% to spell damage must be good. :D

I did a little research and found out, it is good...if you are raiding/instancing/not taking damage. Not soo good for solo leveling. It is all good. I respec'ed and actually picked up Impact. I don't see alot of the cookie-cutter spec have it but I like the talent. I find it most useful on mobs who like to run. I guess I been lucky on my procs.

Almost a week...

2008-07-20T21:57:00.001-04:00

I think it has almost been a week since I started to quit smoking. I think I started last Monday. Quitting is kind of like those quit smoking commercials, the ones where you have to relearn everything.

I kind of think of those commercials whenever I want to smoke. For example, the other night I had a few drinks with the neighbor. Man it took alot to keep me from walking to the store and getting me a pack of cigars. Smoking and drinking was my thing.

TV Shows

2008-07-18T15:19:00.001-04:00

It seems that when summer hits, all of my shows go off the air. During the fall, soo many shows were coming on my DVR couldn't keep up. Now, I have one or two. SG:Atlantis is back. Avatar is back. Burn Notice is back. OOOHHH yeah and soon Psych will be back. Now I really like that show.

World PVP at the Krispy Kreme

2008-07-18T09:51:00.001-04:00

Well not really, but it could have happened! ;)

Well I have been wanting to go to Krispy Kreme for awhile now. I love their fresh donuts. So, I drag my wife to the closest store. As we are leaving, I slipped on my J!NX 'For the Horde' t-shirt. I knew I could get ganked or gangbanged by a bunch of Alliance, however that is the chance we Horde take for donuts. ;)

We are standing in line and this lady 'sneaks' up behind me. She whispers, "Do you play WoW?" She must play a rogue or a druid in the game. ;) Well I turn around and we chit-chat for one second. She then leaves as soon as she appeared. I didn't even get her name and server. :( She must have been Alliance! :P

Quit Smoking

2008-07-16T12:25:00.001-04:00

Well my wife and I made an agreement that I would quit smoking. I smoke the Black & Mild cigars. It is a habit I wish I would have never picked up. I still remember when I started smoking the cigars daily. Before I could keep a pack of cigars for 2-3 months at a time. Now I can smoke a pack in 2 days.

So now I'm on day 2 and it is beginning to suck!!! So this is a post for my wife...YOU SUCK!!! :p

Finally made a MySpace page

2008-07-16T11:08:00.001-04:00

Yep I finally made one. I been on the net for awhile now, but never made one of these. Main reason, the ones I see are just too much for my eyes!! :) Well mine is plain, I did add a plugin that let my visitors know what music I am listening to on iTunes.

So far I have found a few old friends and a bunch of my wife's family. I can see how people get up in MySpace. I have even found myself just browser people's profiles/pictures/comments. ;) Well if anyone want to see my page, click here.

Nasty bug I found in the Notes client

2008-07-16T00:13:00.001-04:00

While working late one night I found the nastiest bug I have ever seen in the Notes client. I copied a subform from one form, Form A, and pasted it into another form, Form B. After saving form B, I started to get an error over the web, Item not found. At first, I thought my client had crashed without giving me a message. It happens from time to time. So I restarted my client, but when I tried to open Form B I started getting an error, "Not a form." I was floored!!! After trying to open the form like 100 times, I finally went to the Notes forum and found these.

I just got one word IBM, "WoW!" Apparently this bug have been in the client since 5??? It is still present in Notes 8. So if you are developing a form and you get the error "Not a form", forget about it. Pray you have a backup somewhere. The best I could offer you is to look at the design synopsis. It will give you some information but not all.

Funny vid I found on YouTube

2008-07-15T14:49:00.001-04:00

One thing I miss about not posting on this blog is listing of the interesting stuff I find out there on the web. Recently I came across this gem:

The source of this video is here.

WoW in the last few months

2008-07-15T14:40:00.001-04:00

My WoW life has suffered much since my last post. Well at first it was moving along. My guild started into Kara. We were progressing along nicely. Taking down the bosses one by one. Then work picked up. So I stopped playing WoW as much as I was...sometimes going a week without playing. That sucks! Well it looks like the guild have all of the bosses down except for Nightbane. Congrats to them. They even got an alliance with another guild so they can go to Gruul's and ZA.

As for me, I just settled on playing my mage alt. It's cool. Playing him has been fun. Only thing was the announcement about the mounts a few weeks back. :) Yeah I just hit level 39 and I knew I wasn't going to wait for Bliz to release the next patch. Now I am kicking myself I didn't wait just a few weeks. :) But it is all good. The cost of the first mount isn't expensive at all.

I'm going to try to get him up to 70 and maybe one more to 70 before the expansion. Maybe a shaman...I don't know.

OK I suck...

2008-07-15T13:56:00.001-04:00

I haven't posted here in soo long it isn't funny. But I have a good excuse...

My dog ate my computer....
I got abducted by aliens. I was hanging out with Elvis and Tupac. I just got back...
Chuck Norris chopped my internet connection and it is finally coming back on...

No, but seriously I been really busy at work. Everytime I thought work would slack up, more work would come my way. :) Don't get me wrong. The more work I get, the less chance I will lose my job. heheheh Well that what I think. Plus, I can't complain much. I DO work from home. Well it's been awhile so let's bang out some posts shall we. :D

Something funny happened to me in Area 52...

2008-03-17T10:45:00.001-04:00

I'm waiting in Area 52 for a few guildies to come help me in Netherstorm. I was after Dabri's Enigma for Severkill. So, I'm in the middle of Area 52 sitting on my Swift Red Windrider. Nothing special since there are WAY better epic flying mounts out there.

Out of the blue I get a whisper, "Do you buy gold? Because you have a flying mount and from looking at your equipment it do not look like you raid." At first, I was shocked! I told him about the endless hours of farming motes/leathers/nodes. How I decided to finish up left over quests in the various areas. It took awhile but I earned the 5200g on my own. He said he raids and earns about 30g for a Kara run and thinks grinding for gold is boring.

Now I do not think the guy was stupid, just a little uninformed. What he finds boring, I find not so boring. ;) Yes, it's hard to stay on track grinding Thick Clefthoof Leathers in Nagrand, flying around the different zones mining nodes, or doing the remaining quests from zones. But I did find it rewarding when I was done...even to now I'm still doing the quests for gold/rep.

But I always say, "To each, their own." If he find raiding the way to earn gold, I say "You can do it!" I just find grinding/questing to be the way for me.

Steamvaults

2008-03-12T22:28:00.001-04:00

Last weekend was my first venture into normal Steamvaults. Did it go good? No. :( It would be easy to blame DPS, healing, or the moon. ;) However, I blame myself. We cleared the instance, but the tanking could have been better. When it was one or two mobs, I did ok. However, when it came to three, I would always lose aggro on one. I was doing the tanking rotations I have read about. Even threw in a Thunder Clap as the first move when the mobs came in range. This didn't do the trick. Afterwards, I started to go over things I could have done better.

One thing stuck out was the pulls where I had to hide behind something to make the casters come closer. The problem was the melee mobs would always come around the corner faster. While I'm waiting for the other mobs to come, the melee mobs would start beating on me. This isn't good because the healer would have to start healing me. What I should have probably did was keep my eye on my mini map so when the casters got close, I would come out and TC and start my tanking rotation, SS->Revenge->Dev->TC/DS. Somewhere in there I would try to do a Dev on one of the other mobs.

Like I said we cleared the instance, but I want to go back. I need experience/practice/whatever. I know the more experience I have, the better tank I will become.

In addition, I decided to change my UI. I move my mini-map down to the bottom of my screen. Moved things a little closer together at the bottom of the screen so I do not have to look all over my screen to get information, like where are the mobs. Hopefully, this will help. Well this how my warrior looks now:

He is ready for Heroics, but I need more experience under my belt.

Windows Live Writer and WoWDB

2008-03-12T21:34:00.001-04:00

Now that I have tooltips from WoWDB, I wanted a plug-in so I could easily create links for items. Basically, I just want to enter the item's ID and let the plug-in do the rest. So, after a little searching, looks like I need to write the plugin in C#. Since, I didn't want to go into all that just to insert a link. I was all set to give up. :(

Then I found a plug-in that will assist me in writing a plug-in. :) It's called Dynamic Template. The website even comes with videos to help you get started. After watching a few of the videos, I was able to create a plug-in. If anyone want it, download it here.

WoWDB

2008-03-12T21:06:00.001-04:00

I was reading my usual blogs today and saw Gwaendar over at Altitis was was talking about a template for a guild website. This generally do not affect me because I'm satified with Blogger. However, Gwaendar started talking about WoW item tooltips being powered by WoWDB. So, I went over there and put the necessary code in my HTML head of my blogger template. Now it is time to test it out!

Earthwarden

Me vs Oracle

2008-03-12T20:49:00.001-04:00

Man work has been bananas lately! :) Don't get me wrong! When they are keeping you busy, you are less likely to get laid off, or fired! Lately, they have been keeping me busy with Oracle. Don't they know I'm a Lotus Notes Developer. ;) Well, it at least sounded interesting, at first!

I am to create a web interface using JSP/Servlets. I have worked with servlets in the past but this will be my first time working with JSPs. Well following the tutorial that came with the Oracle Application Express, I was able to create a simple JSP. From then on, problems here and there have had me pulling my hair out!

Now that I have most of the requirements done, I can relax a little. There were a couple of things I just couldn't do. :( However, it is all good. It was all a learning experience.

Nice list of WoW links

2008-02-07T11:59:00.001-05:00

It's from the EU WoW forums and contains a big list of links. Go here to check it out.

Community of Lotus Notes Blogger

2008-02-04T12:50:00.001-05:00

Since I posted a link for the community of WoW bloggers, here is one for Lotus Notes bloggers. It is different from the WoW one but it is good to find blog posts in one spot.

Attack of the Bloggers

2008-02-04T11:14:00.001-05:00

I have never noticed this site before, but looks like WoW bloggers have a community of it's own. :)

Ogri'la addon

2008-02-04T10:22:00.001-05:00

Now that I have done the quests to open up Ogri'la and the Sha'tari Skyguard, I have been doing a couple of the dailies. Yesterday, I discovered the one where you have to play the "Simon says" type game. It's not bad, but I'm not good at Simon says. :( So, I went out on the internet and saw there is an addon for this quest. It's called Ogri-lazy and it's basically a way to keep track of the sequence without using pencil and paper or your chat window. You can find it here. It hasn't been updated in awhile but I tried it yesterday. It worked find. I just positioned myself so the buttons within the addOn would correspond to the colored squares on the ground. Made that quest quite easy.

WoW Gem Finder

2008-02-04T09:40:00.001-05:00

Found a nice website about gems and where to find them.

Oh forgot something...

2008-02-04T00:45:00.000-05:00

I forgot to give a shout out to my boy Adam Burrell. I ran into him while at Lotusphere. He use to work for JPI before I joined, but all of us use to work together at a different company named Xsystems. It was nice seeing Adam. He even got a picture of me after a few beers and a $52 bottle of Saki, ooppss, on his blog.

Lotusphere

2008-02-03T23:15:00.001-05:00

Lotusphere was a blast! It was nice being around soo many people who use Lotus Notes/Domino. There were soo many smart people there. Also, the accommodations were great. If you can go next year, I say do so. Lotus 8.5, yes please!!! The new designer client looks more like an IDE. My co-worker showed me Lotus Forms. This would have helped us with the PDFs forms with our customer. The hands on labs and a few of the presentations were great. The open General session was good. The session about the best of the worst was the best hands down! :D They had all of us laughing throughout the session. My only complaint during the whole week was my feet!!! I bought boots with me. :( If I ever go back I know to bring sneakers!!! Probably with some sort of pad in them. Oh one last thing, I did my upgrade exam to Domino 7 and aced it. Thank you Certfx! :)

Catch up on WoW

2008-02-03T20:38:00.001-05:00

Well since joining Raven and hitting 70, they have been running a lot of instances. It has been a mix of Outland 5 mans with Azeroth's instances. It's been nice. At first I was tanking but now we have a level 70 protection warrior who been tanking. I'm sticking with my Fury spec but I'm thinking about changing to protection because we are getting close to having enough members to run 2 5-mans. Which is cool so everyone can get geared up for Kara. I been working on two sets of gear. I'm not completely finished, been saving up for my epic flying mount.

However, this goal was achieved last night. I really like my new mount. Speed is a good thing! The gold grind to get this thing was long. ;) I was grinding motes, nodes, and finally finishing up the quests in Nagrand, Blade's Edge, and Netherstorm. Now my goal is to get [Grom'tor's Charge]. I haven't started the quest line because I been torn between doing the all of the different dailies out there. However, I should go ahead and get my tanking set as close to complete as possible. Here are a couple of screen shots of my Tanking set and my DPS set:

Now I been running into a major decision making process for my weapons with my DPS set. Right now I'm using [Resonating Axe] and [Claw of the Netherwing Flight]. However, I have this in my bank [Ceremonial Warmaul Blood-blade] and [Hungering Bone Cudgel]. Now my first instinct is to use the blues! Who won't! However, it seem that the daggers are the best DPS weapons to use. But from what I have been reading, warriors do not want to DPS with daggers. In addition, with the changes with 2.3, I want to use slow weapons. So, this pointing me use the axe and the mace. But...yes there is another but. :) The axe and the claw gives me a little expertise. :) Decisions, decisions, decisions. Well I have decided to just hold onto everything till something better comes along.

One last thing before I end this post. One day I was helping some guildies out in Hellfire, my least favorite zone. In the distant we see the Fel Reaver walking past. Our healer yells out, I'm going to kill him. My first thought, "What the f*ck! He must be out of his mind." So off he goes toward this beast who have struck fear in many of hearts. At one point I thought he was going to body pull him. So, I dismount and charge. First hit didn't kill me, second hit didn't kill me. Matter of fact, fighting him wasn't too bad. We took him down! Revenge is mine!!! :D