This morning I came across a tweet from Ed Brill about Symphony / Open Office with a link to this article about Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition. The article is positive reinforcing that although Symphony 3.0.1 is likely to be the last release, IBM's commitment to OpenOffice continues (as those of us in the yellow bubble have known for a while) both by feeding Symphony code back into the OpenOffice project and in the release of IBM Docs, announced last week at Lotusphere. But one point stood out for me in the article. Apache OpenOffice and the IBM Edition will not ...
Lotusphere is over for another year (and the perennial debate about the name also seems to have been put to bed - announcements have always said "Lotusphere 2013"). From the Domino standpoint it's been another step on the road to the Vulcan vision and a reaffirmation of a new deployment model. We've seen in the last couple of months the approach of 8.5.3 base install extended with additional functionality (in this case primarily the Extension Library) by installing Upgrade Pack 1. The Extension Library has been demoed in a number of sessions, not only the base functionality that made it into ...
The second day of Lotusphere began with OpenSocial integration to generate embedded experiences. With Lotus Domino 8.5.4 Social Edition, embedded experiences are going to be a significant addition to the Domino developer's toolkit through the second half of 2012. With OpenSocial and embedded experiences developers can add functionality into the mails they send. Whereas in the past an email from an application has had some text and a link to perform an action, embedded experiences allow developers to offer users the ability to perform those actions in context without leaving their inbox. That is, if the inbox is social-enabled, as ...
The dust has settled on the first day of Lotusphere, so time for a quick review. The OGS was spectacular and a huge improvement on last year. Even before the OGS started, as IBM Champions we had a dedicated area at the front right of the stage. Thanks to Joyce and everyone at IBM for that. Amongst the people milling around in that area before the presentations where Sandy Carter (@sandy_carter) and Brian Cheng (@quasifu). It was great to have a brief chat with Sandy, her book 'Get Bold' hit big chords, as I've already blogged. Next up were Ok Go, ...
So I'm at Lotusphere now, my plans for this year are learning and being social. So what do I think will be important for XPages developers over the next year? The first is Java. Server-Side JavaScript is powerful, but Java is something I've embraced over the last nine months because it offered me more. That's why I developed the XPages Help Application, to really cut my teeth with Java. With the new design element in 8.5.3 I think Java code in XPages applications is going to be more prevalent (that is, code actually written in Java by developers, compared to ...
As a student of Classics and university and an IT professional, one of the key phrases in my life is a saying of the ancient Athenian lawgiver: "As I grow old, I always learn more." One of the beauties of XPages is you can always learn more. Sometimes it's through the pain of incompatibilities of different pieces of technology; sometimes it's deliberately, whether at leisure to advance one's personal skill-set or out of necessity for a current project; and sometimes it's completely by accident. This is one of those purely accidental pieces of learning. Doubtless it is standard Eclipse functionality, like ...
Just before Christmas two new communities launched on Lotus Greenhouse for Lotusphere and Connect The communities have a wealth of useful bookmarks, wiki articles and other content. IBMers and Champions have been adding content over the last few weeks and will continue to build in that in the lead up to Lotusphere and during the conference. The communities are intended as an ongoing resource for attendees to use to get the most out of the conference. (If you have any further questions, there's also a forum in the communities.) There is also an Ideation Blog in the Lotusphere community. ...
Today I took part in the Ask The Xperts webinar by GBS and TLCC. One of the questions was about problems with the XPages date picker in Internet Explorer 8. When not in compatibility mode, the page refreshes as soon as the user clicks on the date picker. There may be times when you want to avoid compatibility mode, for example, when using the CSS float property. My preferred option to get around this is to use the Dojo date picker. However, if the Dojo module is applied to the inputText tag itself, the date is handled as a JavaScript date ...
In a busy week for IBM, Notes/Domino Upgrade Pack 1 has shipped today, as announced by Ed Brill. The upgrade pack is important for a number of reasons: For customers requiring officially IBM-supported code (an argument I struggle to understand in application development, but that's beyond the scope of this blog), this provides a supported release of the Extension Library It ushers in a new way of delivering additional functionality outside the point release cycle It provides updated XPages templates providing mobile UIs for TeamRoom and Discussion Database, which provide useful examples for developers looking to build mobile interfaces using the Extension ...
Earlier today myself, David Leedy, John Jardin and Jeremly Hodge were discussing Java integration with XPages. Particularly with the introduction of the new Java design element, developers are starting to try Java. For those - myself included - who have come from a traditional Domino development background some aspects come more naturally than others. The Domino object model is very familiar, particularly after Server-Side JavaScript. And Tim Tripcony's class in dPloy on OpenNTF makes it easy to get a handle on parts of the XPages runtime. Arrays are familiar to Domino developers; Tree Maps are roughly analagous to Lists; and ...
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