Like This Site? Thank My Customers!
All of my customers know about Rockall through reading this site. More often than not they are (dare I say it) ageing ex-developers who are moving towards more of management role.
Most have used this site at some point and see the benefit of its existence. Because of this they often want to pay it back. This normally means that they actively encourage me to share the code used on the project with the rest of you. Most times I don't even need to ask. The client will simply say something like "It goes without saying that you should post the code to codestore". It's always nice to hear that.
Rather than being faced with the ridiculous IPR approach of "everything you do belongs to us" I tend to find all my clients have no qualms at all about me sharing the code.
What I never talk about is either the client in question (without their permission) or the business processes involved. If you take away both of these then no harm can come to that company in letting me share the code with you. Can it?
As you can probably tell I'm quite busy at the moment. This might mean less blog entries but it should also mean lots of goodness to share with you once my workload lightens a little. Here's a taster of what might be to come:
- Using PDF Annotations in Domino with simple Web Services.
- Creating accessible data-driven drop-down menus with Domino views.
- Securing URLs with MD5 hashing algorithms.
Each of these probably means a full-blown article. In the mean time anything else I learn will appear here on the blog.
So, next time you're thanking me for posting a piece of code that's helped you out, remember to thank my clients too. Without them this site wouldn't exist.
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Sharing the code should, as you say, most of the time be possible.
However, sometimes the code will reflect the business processes involved, in which case I guess the code would not be applicable for posting here anyway.
And, yes, I thank your clients!
@jake's clients: thanks guys... whoever you are. =)
thanks your clients!
Yes, thanks to the community and your energy to get me to ideas and solutions via postings here...facing some .NET transition at the moment I feel the Notes community is far more open and accessible to this than other environments. Lotus Notes Domino is 100 % synonym with sharing optimaforma.
Everytime anyone share some code fragments everyones solutions becomes a little better. And if all of us makes better Lotus Notes/Domino solutions then we all get more projects to work on.
So thanks to the members of the community, who, realise that sharing is making everyone "richer".
Thanks to for those of you, who share your code.
With out Jake's willingness and ability to share, I'd be a much dumber monkey than I actually am.
Thank you Jake, and thank you Jake's Clients. The world is a better place because of you.
Jake --- I've developed an AJAX data-driven accessible menu from views. Write me if you want me to send you code. Rob
In todays copyrighted and 'must protect my intellectual property' world thats a breath of fresh air .. thanks to you clients.