I accept your challenge Mr Barton and throw down my own gauntlet (though mine has been maimed by sword, squash rackets and more recently by cat)

You are to produce a Proof of concept using Flex and the Google docs API for spreadsheets to provide a calculation engine, data entered into flex is to be transferred to the spreadsheet and trigger a recalculation of said spreadsheet, the results is to be presented back and displayed on flex. This is to use the 3.0 API via Java (web services or blaze its your choice, though web services would be easier to port over to domino) and flex 4

Mad cackle!!

I’ve just been got by some little t**ds for identiy theft, initially this was embarrassing as I do security for part of my living, however this one was one i had not considered, and i suspect most of you wont have either, if goes like this:

If you only use the internet for communications with a mobile company (which quite frankly is what they would prefer), then the password on your account for customer services by phone is BLANK, the sub-humans only need your name, address, date of birth and they are in with full rights and can set the password!!, thankfully the customer services person i got through to at t-mobile, had their head screwed on, and recognised the unusual account behaviour, so all sorted, but a cautionary tale to all us ‘internet only’ bods, ignore traditional security at your peril, now off you go and set-up passwords on all your stuff that can be got to via phone!!

After my first full year of proper blogging I feel justified in doing a review

1) I no longer class my self as a pure domino person, Im a Java person who does domino (and flex and other stuff).

2) I have discovered what both true beauty of the soul and self destructive evil looks like (Personal).

3) The blogging and Notes community stuff has paid me back the effort I have put into it more than I could have ever hoped. (with particular thnks to Matt White, Bruce Elgort, and that wretch Poole)

4) I now know the person I want to be (still a long way to go).

5) The people I work with now (in the lotus Community) are the best.

6) Just about everyone out there is brighter than me, but I’m not going to let them get away with it for long 🙂

7) The future is bright.

nuff said

Just a quick status update.
Sorry i have not updated in ages, but life is very very busy (so busy im hiding from one client as i don’t have any proper updates for them), and with LotusSphere coming up i am supposed to be getting my blog nice and interesting, Arrrrh, panic (goes off to get coffee).

Those of you that follow the various members of the lotus lot that use twitter, may have heard that i dyed my head a bright (and i do mean BRIGHT red), all in the cause of a fancy dress costume.

The character is Lavi from d-gray man and looks like this:

after much effort my version looks like this

daft I know, but much fun was had 🙂