JamieMagee

Tags: Shortcuts

So you want to email someone a photo from a web page.  From your browser, you can copy the photo to your clipboard, but when you paste it into Lotus Notes it loses color depth and you get poor image grading such as the picture on the right...

Original picture looks good with all colors	Pasting into Notes results in poor color grading in the sky and water

One solution you probably know is that if you right click on the original web image and save to a file, then choose File \ Import in Notes, you can import the image with full fidelity.  However, this litters temporary files on your drive.  Simply pasting into PhotoShop, then copying from there will sometimes work, but not always.  And both these approaches are more steps than necessary.

A quick way to get good pasted image quality...
1) right click on the web image and choose "Copy Image Location"
2) in Notes, do File \ Import and choose Files of type = JPEG Image.  Keyboard shortcut: ALT f i CTRL+v TAB j ENTER
3) For the image file path, paste in the entire URL for the image including the http://.

Then you get a full color image, in few steps, with no files on your drive.

Posted by Jamie Magee At 1:30 PM Location Washington DC | Permalink | Comments (9)

Tags: Work life Entrepreneurship

(have just recovered from a week of post-conference Flu)

I met my wonderful wife Calyce (Ka LIKE ee -- Greek mythological name for an American girl) in 1996 at Lotus where she was a Notes developer and I was a contractor.  A couple of years later, after we got married, she had taken a leave from Lotus.  My new company couldn't find enough developers, so I recruited her for an app dev project.  Worked great for about a year, but then while arguing in the kitchen one day about a project related matter, the words "You're fired!" came out of my mouth at what seemed to be the exact same moment she said "I quit!".  Quantum physics says no two things happen at the exact same time; one must've happened before the other.  But the instant replay is not available, so we'll never know her true alumni status here at the company.  But we get along great otherwise.

The upside of having married someone so close to my work is that she gets what I do -- and that makes working from home a lot easier.  But if you want my advice, don't hire your spouse.

Posted by Jamie Magee At 12:00 PM Location Washington DC | Permalink | Comments (9)

Tags: Team dynamics

This video...

...is a great illustration of the difference between what makes a "perfect day" in the life of a Developer vs. that of an Administrator.

At the end of the day...

• Developers want: new processes, changes to existing processes, integration between systems, access to systems from any device anywhere, systems emailing/feeding/serving other organizations' systems.  In short, they want ACTION.
• Administrators want:  no changes to business, no incidents or system events, and no-one talking about or remembering anything that happened that day.  In short, they want NOTHING TO HAPPEN.  If they could achieve this by unplugging the servers without anyone noticing, they would.

Ok, I'm being facetious, and of course I'm a developer.  But I think this is partly true.

Here's another great thread on Domino developers and adminstrators from a few months ago from Duffbert's blog.  Duffbert and Warren together presented this excellent session at Lotusphere 2008.

Posted by Jamie Magee At 2:35 PM Location Washington DC | Permalink | Comments (5)