We are developping a site to promote IBM’s latest, Lotus Foundations.

It is a Lotus Notes database, so we had to modify some basic stuff to make the site more search engine friendly.

Recently, IBM published some great articles on this. Check it out:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/dominoappdev/SEO+techniques
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/dominoappdev/Best+Practices+for+Building+Web+Applications+for+Domino+8

Update: as correctly noted, these links don’t work anymore…

Here are the new links (I’ll add a few in case IBM start shifting some content again):

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0676.html

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/07232008025645PMJHEQ8Y.htm

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/08042008125532PMKMKMU9.htm

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/xpViewCategories.xsp?lookupName=Redbooks%20Wiki%3A%20Best%20Practices%20for%20Domino%208.0%20Web%20Application%20Development

You can check out the result on www.ikwijsdeweg.be

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Our Google Analytics tool developed in Adobe AIR by our colleague software architect Nicolas Lierman of Boulevart is hitting the charts.

The Google Analytics AIR suite is and Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop.

Showcase at Adobe Labs woehoe!!
http://labs.adobe.com/showcase/air/

The tool got featured at Techcrunch:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/24/

And at blognation:
http://be.blognation.com/2007/09/25/

The beta testing is now at full speed with 3000 testers and rising. The version with Asian languages support is out now as well.

Read more about it and/or download here:
http://analytics.boulevart.be/
http://labs.boulevart.be/

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Last year Alan Lepofsky posted a small trick to integrate Google maps into your Lotus Notes Personal Address Book. By clicking the ‘Google Map This Address’ link, Google Maps will open in your browser and show the address of the contact person.

But Google offers more than just showing the address of a certain person. You can also get directions.
How? Open your contacts form and do the following:

1) Put a description next to the address or title (e.g. Get Google directions)
2) Add a url hotspot containing this formula:

xTo := @ReplaceSubstring(OfficeStreetAddress;” “:”#” ; “+” :”%23″) +
“+” + @ReplaceSubstring(OfficeCity;” ” ; “+”) + “+” +
@ReplaceSubstring(OfficeZip;” ” ; “+”)+ “+” +
@ReplaceSubstring(OfficeCountry;” ” ; “+”);
xFrom := “Provinciale+steenweg+39+2627+Schelle+Belgi%C3%AB”;

“http://www.google.com/maps?saddr=” + xFrom +
“&geocode=&dirflg=&daddr=” + xTo + “&f=d&hl=en&sll=51.255885,4.436806&sspn=0.008272,0.016866&” + “ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1″

3) Change the field names in xTo to the correct names that your form uses.
4) Change the address line in xFrom to your company’s address.

Now open a contact and click on the link ‘Get Google directions’. The result should be a bit like this.

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