[thelist] Lotus Notes browser and ASP sessions

[Chris Blessing]

Ron I completely agree, and shouldn't have used such a blanket statement.  I
was really referring to the client application that Lotus created.  While
the Notes system is powerful, I think the client software is clumsy and hard
to move around in.  Drives me crazy on a daily basis. =)

Sorry for the misunderstanding!

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

> You probably havn't seen any good applications and this is why you feel
> that Notes is so bad.  It is difficult to find real Notes developers.
> There are a lot of posers out there that develop crappy applications and
> give people reasons to hate it.  I'm sorry that this has happened to you,
> as it gives Notes a bad name.
>
> Personally, part of my job is Notes development (Domino web development to
> be more accurate).  The team I work with has done some really great stuff
> for our company.  Until the company decided to bring development in-house,
> they only had 1 'notes developer' here and the apps that were developed
> _were_ really crappy because he was learning by himself in an isolated
> environment, etc., etc.  Once they brought a team on-board (including
> myself) we really got the ball rolling over the last year.  The company
> website (which needs a design overhaul - the framesets were done
> poorly and
> the load time is too high) is controlled through a lotus notes content
> management application that we developed in-house.  Users can edit the
> content, preview it on an internal server, route it around for approval,
> etc.  Then when it's ready to go live, a person with the 'publisher' role
> clicks 'publish' and it gets replicated to the production website within 5
> minutes.  Not too shabby IMHO.
>
> Anyways, Notes, if done right, can be awesome.  In many cases though, the
> implementations of it suck.  I've seen several myself.
>
> -Ron