2006-03-27

Domino: Extend Authentication For Websites, Single Sign-on and Persistent Sessions

Ever wanted to be able to authenticate users on your Domino Web Server using a Web Service, against a MySQL database, a text file or some other external source? Or how about changing the default Domino behaviour so that user sessions remain active for days or weeks. It's easy and I'll show you how using Apache Tomcat and a simple Java Servlet.

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Notes - Web: Ajax Drag-n-Drop Sorting of Documents

«Imagine the following situation - say you've got a set of documents which are all children of one container document. From within this parent container document you want to be able to quickly change the order in which the child documents appear. Sound familiar?»

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Tools: Yahoo! UI Library

«The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer's interface to important elements of the browser infrastructure (such as events, in-page HTTP requests and the DOM.»

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Domino: ajax picklist (either for names.nsf or other dbs)

«One of the things which has bugged me for a long time is getting a good name picker.(...)So the requirements:
.A generic popup window which allows a user to select one or many values from a very large view (100,000 documents plus)
.It has to perform well
.It has to be cross browser compatable (at least IE and Firefox)
.It has to be easily re-usable»


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«I needed a name picker for a project I'm working on. After looking at various solutions available I couldn't find one I was happy with and decided to the revisit the approach and write my own. (...) What I've tried to move away from is the convention that a Name Picker must, for some reason, be a popup window.»


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Domino: Ajax Powered Login

«Getting tired of ugly Domino login forms or faceless browser pop up dialogs? Once again showing a flair for melding various techniques, Mark Barton brings us an elegant, cutting edge modal login interface utilizing DHTML, Ajax, and JSON JavaScript notation.»
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