Jeffrey R. Burrows
DominoPower Contributing Editor Jeffrey R. Burrows has been working with Notes for several years and Domino since its beta cycle and is currently implementing Notes and Domino solutions for the local government in Scotland. His web site experience stretches back to 1992. He still maintains the popular rec.travel guide to Morocco--with a trusty DOS editor.
Published articles
The following 12 articles by Jeffrey R. Burrows have been published in ZATZ magazines.
Domino forms for all
Wouldn't it be great if you could Domino-enable just one or two Web forms on any site, regardless of whether it was running ASP pages, static HTML, or being accessed by AvantGo users? Or, what if you could use standard HTML forms generated in any Web design package, yet have the forms fed automatically into Domino workflows? Well, Jeffrey R. Burrows shows you how you can do just that, with a mixture of old Lotus Notes techniques, tried and tested Web technology, and a sprinkling of new code. [DominoPower Magazine, October 2000]
Using Python to create a command line interpreter for Notes
Unix geeks, SQL programmers, and old DOS hacks have one thing in common--a hankering for direct command line access to software, rather then the end-user-friendly graphical frills with which all software must be adorned nowadays. In this article, Jeffrey R. Burrows will help you venture beyond the world of LotusScript and spreadsheet formula language by showing you how to easily create a command line interpreter for Notes, using Python. [DominoPower Magazine, August 2000]
Makeovers for tired R4 applications
One unfortunate side effect of upgrading your Lotus Notes clients to R5 is that, once people get used to the new, revised templates, your old R4 applications will look dated and dowdy by comparison. The good news is that by performing a couple of quick makeovers, you can give your pre-R5 databases the basic R5 look, making them easier on the eye and easier for customers to operate. In this article, Jeffery Burrows gives you some makeover tips to freshen up your outdated databases. [DominoPower Magazine, May 2000]
Integrating Domino with Office 2000 via XML
Once again, Contributing Editor Jeffrey R. Burrows is back with an exceptionally useful and detailed must-read article. Back in October 1998, he introduced the concept of integrating Excel 97 with Domino via XML. Since then, Office 2000 has burst onto the scene, with much greater XML integration. In this article, Burrows explains how you can use Domino to generate "native" Office documents from Notes and Domino by taking advantage of Office 2000's deeper connection to XML. This is one of those articles that makes us proud to be publishers. Read it and reap. [DominoPower Magazine, February 2000]
How to use cookies with Notes and the Web
Wouldn't it be cool if you could use Web-based cookies with Notes and the Web -- together? Well, now you can. In this informative article by contributing editor Jeffrey R. Burrows, you can learn how to bake your own cookies into your applications. There are even great code examples in this article. So read now to learn where the cookie crumbles. Don't get your hand caught in the cookie jar! [DominoPower Magazine, December 1999]
Media management the Domino way
Once upon a time, people found clip-art handy for the occasional flyer or to brighten up a presentation. Web sites have changed all that, and Web masters must discipline mounds of media of all types -- images, sounds, Java applets, movies and soon perhaps smells. In this fascinating article, contributing editor Jeffrey R. Burrows helps you get started. [DominoPower Magazine, November 1999]
Dynamically generated JavaScript libraries
Contributing Editor Jeffrey Burrows attacks a common Web development problem: browser compatibility. In this important article, Burrows shows you how you can supply the appropriate JavaScript for the appropriate browser, and do it all dynamically from a Notes database. [DominoPower Magazine, September 1999]
Open source alternatives to Notes and Domino: are they real?
You learn something new every day or so. For example, we just learned from Contributing Editor Jeffrey Burrows that there are open source projects aimed at creating alternatives to Lotus Notes and Domino. What these projects aim to do is nothing less than what Linux has done to the server market: be one freely available thorn in the side of the big software companies. So are there really good alternatives to Notes and Domino? Should you chuck your R5 distribution and get ready to compile some open source code? Better read this article now. [DominoPower Magazine, May 1999]
If I ruled Lotus…
Now that R5 is shipping, we (of course) have to ask Lotus, "What have you done for us lately?" Or more precisely, what are you doing next? Where exactly does the Notes/Domino dynamic duo need to go? What would you do if you "ruled" Lotus? OK, so Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz thought it would be fun to make everyone dye their hair green, but that's why we instead asked our intrepid Contributing Editor Jeffrey Burrows (a man with much more self control than our esteemed EiC), to take a stab at the future of R5 from an architectural perspective. And no…no pink hair either. Sorry, blue is also out. [DominoPower Magazine, May 1999]
Build your own Domino hit counter
You've probably seen hit counters on Web pages. You know, those cute graphic images that update as more and more people visit a page. If you've wanted to put something like that on your Domino site, and you've wanted to do it completely within Domino, you've been out of luck. Until now. In this extremely valuable article Contributing Editor Jeffrey Burrows shows how to build such a counter, completely within Domino. As an added plus, he also shows you how to turn Domino into a byte-serving Web server. [DominoPower Magazine, March 1999]
How to query Domino from within Excel
Once again, Jeffrey Burrows demonstrates new ways to integrate Excel and Domino. In this excellent article, Jeff shows how to create a query within Excel that goes out over the net, grabs information from a Domino database, and places that information directly into an Excel spreadsheet. If you had to hire a consultant to figure out how to do this, it might have cost you months of consulting fees -- and it's presented to you here in DominoPower for completely, absolutely free. [DominoPower Magazine, January 1999]
Linking Domino to Excel via XML
Sometimes, it's tough figuring out which article is the Top Dog, the Big Kahuna, the Godzilla of articles. Which article will win the coveted prize of being the DominoPower Spotlight, to be featured on DominoPower's cover? This time, there was no question. All our articles are exceptional. But this article, by new author Jeffrey R. Burrows, is the best of the best. It's useful, it's timely, and it's hot. In his article Jeffrey links two important applications, Domino and Excel, using the hottest new technology on the Net: XML. This is the one they'll be discussing around the water cooler tomorrow. [DominoPower Magazine, October 1998]
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