It’s been a busy couple of weeks with me, not least with turning 40 last week!
I’d like to thank the judges and everyone else involved in the Appathon and it was wonderful to hear that both projects I’ve been involved with this year were included in the winners.
org.openntf.domino has been a big learning curve and taught me a lot about many topics. As well as the API itself, there are also some useful resources in the demo database, like code to parse a text file as a Java class and compare two text files. There’s still a whole heap of work on the demo database and the API, but I still get amazed at the extent of the improvements available.
Yesterday I joined Nathan and Jesse on the OpenNTF webinar about the project and I would strongly recommend it to anyone. The video is now available on YouTube. For each minute of the webinar I know I’ll gain an hour and more in productivity by using the API.
XPages OpenLog Logger was awarded third place and I hope to be speaking about that project on an upcoming webinar. Thanks again to Nathan for his original work on cleaning up the Java class and of course to Julian Robichaux for providing OpenLog for a start. It’s again a piece of work I’m very proud of but which began from an idea of adding some extra configurability of the OpenLog database path. It’s now so much more, allowing easy logging from SSJS that is optimised to avoid duplicate messages, allowing capture of uncaught exceptions as well as logging from Java. It’s available as NSF-based code (with branches with and without the Extension Library) or as an OSGi plugin. It offers functionality that I couldn’t incorporate into org.openntf.domino. And there are no plans for it currently to be incorporated completed into org.openntf.domino. There will also be another release coming up in the next few weeks, with some fixes for certain uncaught exceptions that use different Java classes as well as some feature requests that have been offered. Any others are gratefully accepted.
And lastly, David Leedy posted a NotesIn9 video I did on dataContexts and VariableResolvers. I know David’s been very busy over the last few weeks, so thanks to him for getting it out the door. I can understand he was very tempted to do some creative editing and I will probably get some grief as a result. But IBM Connect 14 is more than six months away, so I can hope! 😉
