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An Open Letter to CBS & Paramount

CBS & Paramount recently released and announced the new guidelines for fan films (productions). That they are fairly limited in scope for those who seek to create as part of their passion is pretty obvious. I seek anyone who is so empassioned to provide the well reasoned and respectful feedback that Star Trek deserves.

In Short

To reach for the stars, we need to reach a little higher.

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Utility Library Example

Adding a utility library is a great and convenient way to provide convenince functions for use at a global or near-global level.

Adding

Hooking a utility SSJS library works about the same as any Code > Script Library asset in XPages. You can add it via a Theme, my personal recommendation as it makes keeping things tidy quite easy, or by adding it as an xp:resource (resources at the root XPage or Custom Control via the pretty pane). The down side of relying on adding it to a Custom Control is that it will only be available in an SSJS code block if the Custom Control in question has been loaded as part of the user's component tree (the built page); this also leads to potential duplication if the developer starts loading it on lots of Custom Controls.

Via Theme

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/*
 * Note: these days you should probably just use fetch:
 * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API
 * 
 * A convenience function, to handle the vanilla js xhr
 * request.
 * 
 * @param {string} url - the URI against which to make the request
 * @param callback - the callback function, which returns an obj,
 *        with two params, err (which is null of not error), and

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xp:view
	xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core xsdxp://localhost/xsp~core.xsd"
	pageTitle="${javascript:database.getTitle() + ' | Error'}">
	<style
		type="text/css"><![CDATA[
		body {
			background-color: lightblue;

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Read Me

In order to access a server hosted within a vm (guest), for development purposes from the host OS, which is restricted to same origin / localhost only requests, I set up a siple nginx reverse proxy to forward my requests.

Steps

1. To install in a Windows VM, download and install nginx from the current, stable release; I installed to C:\nginx\
2. Edit the <install path>/conf/nginx.conf file with the marked changes in the file of the same name in this gist.
3. Start the nginx executable, located in your install path. There are service wrappers for Windows, or you can just kill the process to stop the nginx instance.

Commands for Windows

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/* 
 * Provides Bootstrap 3 compatible classes for making responsive rows and columns consistently formatted for height.
 * src: http://www.minimit.com/articles/solutions-tutorials/bootstrap-3-responsive-columns-of-same-height
 */

/* columns of same height styles */
 .row-same-height {
    display: table;
    width: 100%;
}

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/**
 * An AngularJS directive for Dropzone.js, http://www.dropzonejs.com/
 * 
 * Usage:
 * 
 * <div ng-app="app" ng-controller="SomeCtrl">
 *   <button dropzone="dropzoneConfig">
 *     Drag and drop files here or click to upload
 *   </button>
 * </div>

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package com.hello.factory;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.servlet.Servlet;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import com.ibm.designer.runtime.domino.adapter.ComponentModule;

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package com.hello.servlets;

import java.util.Enumeration;

import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import com.ibm.commons.util.StringUtil;

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package com.eric.test;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;

import javax.faces.model.SelectItem;

public class SampleComparatorUse implements Serializable {