The simplest way to describe singleton class is to look at the definition:
The Singleton Pattern ensures a class has only one instance, and provides a point of access to it.
So why would you need that? Well, there are many objects you only need one of in your application (e.g. Logging, text trimming, for loading strings [...]
Day 0, Check-in
The flight was OK, check-in without issues and registration to the conference was prompt, which scared the hell out of me. You know what they say. If everything goes right, something is bound to go terribly wrong.
Conference registration people were kind enough to give me shoulder bag with loads and loads of commercials, [...]
As every year, I am attending The View’s Lotus Developer 2008 Europe conference, which will be held in Amsterdam from November 11th till November 13th. This is the biggest Lotus Notes conference taking place in Europe and since it is just a couple of months prior to LotuSphere conference, I can again hope for some [...]
As mentioned last week, you need to write your own shell script to start and stop domino on system start-up/shutdown. There is a great draft of the script on SearchDomino site. I did some remodelling so that the script would start Notes with Java controller and would fit our system. The code is pasted below.
