My thoughts on the HCL Redesigning Templates Project
By Chris Toohey | 6/26/19, 8:41 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Having absolutely no inside knowledge of whatever-is-going-on-lately in the world of IBM / HCL Lotus Notes & Domino, and coming solely from the perspective of an enterprise software developer who spends his day writing code across several different platforms but mostly still Notes & Domino with new development efforts using XPages, /*deep breath*/ here are a few thoughts on the recently announced HCL Templates Design Project.
Redesigning Templates – A HCL Design Project 
By Gabriella Davis | 6/26/19, 2:27 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
I’m very pleased to announce the launch of a new project I am working on with HCL to reinvigorate the Notes and Domino templates as they roll out on new client platforms such as iPhone, tablet and a lightweight web client. See here for more information on the project.
ISBG is Now NCUG – A Report From Stockolm
By NCUG | 6/19/19, 4:28 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Now that IBM has sold the entire collaboration portfolio to HCL, we could no longer call ourselves IBM Collaboration User Group (ISBG in Norwegian). And since we now have set ourselves the goal of becoming a user group for the entire Nordic region, it was time for a new name, a new strategy and a new logo.
Our current Deployment setup: Github + Jenkins + BuildXPages
By Cameron Gregor | 6/18/19, 9:33 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
I recently received a question from Patrick Kwinten about whether I am still using my BuildXPages project, and whether I have involved Jenkins in the setup.
The answer is yes, I still use BuildXPages on a daily basis, and in regards to Jenkins, I have been using Jenkins for almost 5 years to build and deploy our XPages projects.
The slides of my 2 sessions at NCUG 2019
By Frank van der Linden | 6/12/19, 2:30 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
I had the pleasure to do 2 presentations at NCUG, formerly known as ISBG. It were very technical questions, but was happy that people where brave enough to attend
Domino App Dev Pack: Understanding Scopes
By Paul Withers | 5/28/19, 8:35 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
One of the aspects of the app dev pack yet to fully coalesce is the concept of scopes. But I think it will be key to the future, as an app dev and admin tool. It’s certainly something that will not be familiar to those who have never stepped beyond Domino.
Domino Query Language @ Engage
By Tim Davis | 5/22/19, 1:49 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
This is my session given at Engage 2019 in Brussels last week.
"In this session, Tim Davis (Technical Director at The Turtle Partnership Ltd) takes you through the new Domino Query Language (DQL), how it works, and how to use it in LotusScript, in Java, and in the new domino-db Node.js module."
Modernising Domino Applications: Technical Dive
By Paul Withers | 5/20/19, 8:19 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Last week I did a session on modernising Domino and XPages applications. Filling an hour seemed daunting when the session was accepted. So I went to the Oxford English Dictionary definition of modernisation:
The process of adapting something to modern needs or habits
My Slides From Engage 2019 - De04. Java With Domino After XPages
By Jesse Gallagher | 5/20/19, 7:36 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Engage 2019 has come and gone, and I had an excellent time. I also quite enjoyed presenting my "group therapy" session on some options that XPages developers have for the future. In a lot of ways, it was similar to my presentation at CollabSphere last year, mixed with the various new developments I've talked about on here since then
Engage 2019 Summary
By Paul Withers | 5/19/19, 6:31 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Historically Engage has been shortly after a major conference in US, so it’s been an opportunity to catch up on sessions missed there. This year it followed the Factory Tour by a few months. Unfortunately for me, most of the key products sessions conflicted with sessions I was delivering or preparation.
Impressions from Engage 2019
By Heiko Voigt | 5/17/19, 6:38 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Wow, these were three great days !
This has been my 2nd Engage Conference that i attended, the first one as a speaker. Theo Heselmans really outdid himself again this year by finding a cool venue (Autoworld Brussels) and topping it off with perfect logistics like always.
Engage 2019: The good, the bad and the ugly: a not so objective view on front end development
By Frank van der Linden | 5/16/19, 2:35 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
This week was Engage 2019 in Autoworld in Brussels.
Theo Heselmans and crew did an amazing job, again, in a stunning venue. I was privileged to be speaking again.
I was really surprised to have a full room. I enjoyed it very much to deliver my opinion on the current most populair front end frameworks, VueJS, React and Angular.
OpenNTF at Engage
By OpenNTF | 5/3/19, 6:02 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
It‘s probably fitting thatI’m writing a blog post about Engage sat in a coffee shop, on my iPad, using Domino Mobile Apps. The last year has brought the product a long way and one of the most significant new projects has been Theo Heselmans’ Wine App. Admittedly the OpenNTF Blog database is unchanged from the desktop version, but it’s probably only going to be seen by a handful of people, so investment is less beneficial.
Domino and node.js: first steps (part 3)
By Fabio Di Paola | 5/2/19, 3:25 AM | - | Added by Matteo Bisi
Our journey in the setup and use of node.js with Domino 10 continues here.
If you missed the previous articles you can find them here: part 1 and part 2 .
I suggest you to read it before continuing as the first points are necessary to start creating the environment. This article starts from point five.
(This article is the third of a series, we will update the links as we proceed to publish everything)
5. The node.js code
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Domino and node.js: first steps (part 2)
By Fabio Di Paola | 4/30/19, 8:50 AM | - | Added by Matteo Bisi
Our journey in the setup and use of node.js with Domino 10 continues here.
If you missed the first part you can find it here. I suggest you to read it before continuing as the first two points are necessary to start creating the environment. This article starts from point three.
(This article is the second of a series, we will update the links as we proceed to publish everything)
Domino and node.js: first steps (part 1)
By Fabio Di Paola | 4/29/19, 8:51 AM | - | Added by Matteo Bisi
Configuring node.js and using it with Domino: here are the first steps and how to do it from scratch.
(This article is the first of a series, we will update the links as we proceed to publish everything)
With the release of the latest version of Domino and the AppDevPack for both Linux and Windows, it is now possible to start working on the integration between node.js and Domino.
So we started to do this and here we publish the steps taken and some suggestions on how to proceed.
The following documentation refers to the installation on a Windows server and, for simplicity, we assume that node.js is installed on the same machine where Domino is installed.
All the version numbers are referred to April 2019 , when this doc has been published.
We also assume that you’ve already downloaded the AppDevPack 1.0.1 that includes the files for Windows.
I Don’t Care About Domino
By Hogne B. Pettersen | 4/17/19, 1:54 AM | - | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
That’s what my, and I guess most of your customers’ end users say as well. They only care about the apps and solutions they have to work with. What’s under the hood is of no interest to them. So allow me to present two Domino based solutions that does just that.
NSF ODP Tooling 2.0
By OpenNTF | 4/5/19, 1:15 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
The other week, version 2.0 of the NSF ODP Tooling project was released. This project allows for the compilation and generation of on-disk-project representations of NSFs without the use of Designer, and as part of a tree of Maven projects.
Easy Kanban Silos in XPages
By Michael G. Smith | 3/28/19, 5:44 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Recently, I came across this post on the #dominoforever ideas forum.
My assumption when reading this is that the OP would like to have this capability in a web application since it’s in the XPages category. Having done something similar in a previous project, I had some code I could dust off to create a quick demo to show how easily functionality like this can be implemented now in XPages.
AppDev Pack 1.0.1 released
By Oliver Busse | 3/26/19, 4:20 PM | - | Added by Matteo Bisi
Today HCL released the AppDev Pack version 1.0.1. For those of you having a passport advantage account, the part number is CC0NGEN.
Advanced view lookup strategies with Domino JNA for small view index sizes and dynamic filtering and sorting
By Karsten Lehmann | 3/12/19, 6:35 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
This might be interesting for some of you, a pattern how I am using Domino JNA in a recent customer project to speed up view lookups and reduce overall view index size.
I am using at least three views to produce the content for a data table in the web application
Programmatically Update /Add Database to DQL Design Catalog
By Ulrich Krause | 3/11/19, 2:51 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
For high speed access to internal information about views and view columns, DQL processing uses design data extracted from view notes. Currently this information will be stored in a new database, named GQFdsgn.cat. It is created using new updall flags. It does not replicate and is solely used as a fast-path tool to access design data at runtime.
HCL Factory Tours Milan - Day 1 Summary
By Ales Lichtenberg | 2/26/19, 5:43 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
This week, another HCL Factory Tours is running, this time in Milan. I like to join the others and I’m in place.
Richard Jefts started HCL Factory Tour Episode 2 as Star Wars style. Richard summed up what had happened since the launch of the Domino V10 and introduced the plans for year 2019.
Domino, Proton, IAM, OAuth - Part 3: Certs & Keys
By Oliver Busse | 2/20/19, 9:42 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
This is the most critical part in the whole process. If you make errors here everything will fail in the upcoming steps. Please download the kyrtool from IBM’s website first and copy the kyrtool file from the linux64 folder to /opt/ibm/domino/notes/lates/linux. You will need kyrtool to create the certificates. To use Proton with SSL you need certificates.
Domino, Proton, IAM, OAuth - Part 2: Domino Administration
By Oliver Busse | 2/18/19, 5:05 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
This part of the series is all about Domino admin. The Proton docs refer to it here and there but you can prepare everything before you even start with the fancy stuff. I assume you have knowledge in general Domino administration and the use of the Admin client. In general: please refer to the official documentation for Domino administration.
Domino, Proton, IAM, OAuth - Part 1: Preperations
By Oliver Busse | 2/17/19, 12:53 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
This is the first part of a multi-part series. Current plans see at least 7 posts, so watch out for them during the upcoming week(s). Part 2 and 3 will touchdown on Monday and Wednesday. It is a quite complex process but in the end you should be able to follow all the steps in under 4 hours - maybe faster. The key part is to have a Domino 10.0.1 server up and running out of the box.
Proton, IAM, OAuth, LDAP - nothing so see here, yet
By Oliver Busse | 2/15/19, 1:25 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
This is just a small update on my journey to Node with Domino, Proton, IAM and OAuth. It was a fight, but in the end I won. Thanks to the support of Heiko Voigt, who already startet a blog series that helped me out a lot today (esp. part 2) I was able to set all up. There were lots of caveats to overcome and changes I had to make.
IAM dabbeling - Post 2: setting up proton and testing
By Heiko Voigt | 2/14/19, 3:07 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
This is the 2nd post in my "IAM dabbeling" sequence - as a preamble let me say upfront that I am not an administrator and no expert in the TLS/SSL arena. I am a (web) developer who wants to use OUATH2 in my Node.JS applications with Domino. That said, some experts out there might be finding easier/better ways to achieve this goal - I'm happy to learn.
IAM dabbeling ... first setup successfully done. Post 1 of many to come....
By Heiko Voigt | 2/13/19, 6:59 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Wow, finally !
With some great help from HCL (thanks to the HCL Client Advocacy Program and Gordon Hegfield in person ! ) I was able to master the setup of the OAUTH2 provider for Domino !
So, how is my environment set up ?
OpenNTF Snippets - Investigating The Design
By Paul Withers | 2/11/19, 7:06 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
As you’ve hopefully seen, we’ve relaunched XSnippets as OpenNTF Snippets. There are quite a few changes, some decisions made that are less than traditional, but driven by some key factors. Indeed some may seem bad practice and are certainly not what may be made for other applications. But the driving force is a deep understanding of the application and its administrators.