2016 IBM Champions for ICS  

By Keith Brooks | 11/24/15 1:04 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

For the 4th year in a row I have been named an IBM Champion. It was extremely unexpected and I thoroughly believed my 1,000th blog post would be a farewell post. For the record this is post #997 of this blog. - See more at: http://blog.vanessabrooks.com/2015/11/2016-ibm-champions-for-ics.html#sthash.oLGZMXhI.dpuf

Announcing the IBM Champion Class of 2016 for IBM Social Business!  

By IBM Champion Program | 11/23/15 12:12 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

After several weeks of reviewing applications and evaluating contributions with a team of IBMers, we're happy to announce the 2016 IBM Champions! We have a total of 103 Champions, with 39 new Champions, and 64 returning Champions.

That Java Thing, Part 8: Source Bundles  

By Jesse Gallagher | 11/10/15 10:06 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Before anything else today, Eric McCormick reminding that yesterday's post missed the final step: committing the changes. So, let's take care of that right now. On my side, since my Windows VM is also being accessed from the Mac side, it's worthwhile to add a .gitignore file to the root of the repo to keep out all the .DS_Store nonsense.

What makes YOU an IBM Champion  

By Oliver Busse | 10/15/15 1:11 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

First things first: everyone is a champion in what she/he is doing, regardless of the technology, topic or favor. You are worthy! These days are the days of the IBM Champion nominations. I am still flattered to be in that circle of generous people who share expertise and knowledge in various ways.

Miscellanea  

By Eric McCormick | 10/6/15 9:50 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

A few things have been on my mind over the last couple weeks and I thought I’d share them. Stay tuned for my demo app on Bluemix, and if I re-record what I need to, there may be yet another Notes in 9 video submission coming soon; the highlights of my MWLUG session.

NotesIn9 | IBM Champion thoughts – How to thank someone  

By David Leedy | 10/5/15 1:18 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

It’s that time year again where you can nominate someone to be an IBM Champion. I’ve talked about this before on the blog. You can find out about the program here. And you can go to this page to nominate someone. Note: The nomination form is a little “daunting” to say the least. Just fill in what you know.

Seriously, Though: Reverse Proxies  

By Jesse Gallagher | 9/16/15 3:31 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

So, Domino administrators: what are your feelings about SSL lately? Do they include, perhaps, stress? It's "oh crap, my servers are broken" season again, and this time the culprit is a change in Apple's operating systems. Fortunately, in this case, the problem isn't as severe as an outright security vulnerability like POODLE and, better still, there is a definitive statement from IBM indicating that they are going to bring their security stack up to snuff almost in time.

OpenNTF - IBM Champion 2016 nominations are open  

By OpenNTF | 9/15/15 5:49 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

This week the IBM Champions program announced the nominations are open for IBM Social Business (AKA Lotus, ICS, ESS), IBM Power Systems, IBM Middleware (AKA Tivoli, Rational, WebSphere). As OpenNTF provides highly appreciated projects contributed by several IBM Champions we'd like to encourage you to nominate YOUR IBM Champion for 2016 in one or more areas of the above.

A Statement From IBM On El Capitan and iOS9 Support  

By Gabriella Davis | 9/15/15 12:28 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

IBM have today released a statement explaining why some applications will be unable to connect to Domino servers from iOS9 and El Capitan devices due to Apple removing support for Elliptic curve technology (no – me either) and enhanced transport security.

XPages ressources in a theme – http vs. https  

By John Dalsgaard | 9/14/15 5:47 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

I am at the moment moving a site from standard http to https (using Nginx as a proxy in front of Domino – but that is a different story). However, I did run into a small issue. When I looked at the console in Google Chrome this message appeared...

It's IBM Champion Season! (nominations are open)  

By IBM Champion Program | 9/13/15 11:16 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

No, that doesn't mean you get to hunt IBM Champions! What it means is that nominations are now open, so you can nominate IBM Champions for the following areas: IBM Social Business (AKA Lotus, ICS, ESS) IBM Power Systems IBM Middleware (AKA Tivoli, Rational, WebSphere) When: From September 14 - October 31

Zurich here I come – speaking at SNoUG about Vaadin  

By René Winkelmeyer | 9/4/15 1:22 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

I’ve been accepted for speaking at the annual Swiss Notes User Group meeting in Zurich, which takes place at 28th October 2015. With a provocative session (title). Vaadin – XPages 2.0?

NotesIn9 180: Alternative Frontend Development for XPages  

By David Leedy | 9/2/15 12:44 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

NotesIn9 180: Alternative Frontend Development for XPages. In this episode Eric McCormick returns with a great show talking about how to surface some of your XPages/Domino data to different frontends like AngularJS.

Using Plugins in your XPages Application on Bluemix  

By Oliver Busse | 9/1/15 1:28 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Thanks Martin Donnelly (again) I managed to get a very simple application running on Bluemix that uses plugins. In this case it's the OpenNTF Domino API (ODA). If you know how to do it then it's very simple and there are only a few steps to take to get your app running using your favorite plugins and extensions!

OpenNTF XSnippet: DAOBean for XSP on Bluemix  

By Oliver Busse | 8/30/15 10:46 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

DAOBean for XSP on Bluemix. Data source access bean to compute the data source dynamically for local development and Bluemix. Please refer to my blogpost here for details: http://oliverbusse.notesx.net/hp.nsf/blogpost.xsp?documentId=FCA.

Wrangling Tycho and Target Platforms  

By Jesse Gallagher | 8/30/15 3:48 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

One of the persistent problems when dealing with OSGi projects with Maven is the interaction between Maven, Tycho, and Eclipse. The core trouble comes in with the differing ways that Maven and OSGi handle dependencies. The Maven way of establishing dependencies is to list them in your Maven project's POM file.

South Africa's IBM Notes/Domino User Group is now on Meetup  

By John Jardin | 8/28/15 3:41 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

It’s finally here!!! South Africa’s IBM Notes, Domino and XPages User Group (aka SALUG) has just been launched on Meetup.com. In case you don’t know, IBM Notes & Domino is a platform for rapidly developing rich web applications thanks to modern technologies and frameworks including XPages, jQuery, Dojo, Bootstrap and more.

Ownerless IBM Connections Communities - Python Script for the rescue! (and you can use it as Nagios Plugin as well)  

By Klaus Bild | 8/24/15 6:56 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

We have a lot of ownerless IBM Connections Communities in our environment and I guess every Connections Admin faces this issue in his system. I haven’t created a python script for a while, so challenge accepted.

Meet Jesse Gallagher - IBM Champion and MWLUG Speaker  

By SocialBiz User Group | 8/10/15 1:32 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Do we have another great interview for you. We grabbed another MWLUG speaker (and multiple IBM Champion) for an informative interview. Meet Jesse Gallagher! Get to know a little bit about Jesse's background and his upcoming MWLUG session.

IBM Connect 2016 Call for Speakers!  

By IBM Corp. | 8/10/15 10:37 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Tell us your story. Are you ahead of your peers in reimagining how you work? Are you responding rapidly to customer needs in creative, meaningful ways? Are you spending less time behind the scenes and more time out front, leading your future? We want to hear about it.

Meetups, usergroups, conferences and YOU are the blood in the body of each technology  

By René Winkelmeyer | 8/6/15 8:16 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

This is a post that I wanted to write for a long time. I’ve never really finished my thoughts, but I think it’s now time to get that out of my head. Let’s start with a very important statement: I won’t write about a specific technology or vendor in here. What I want to say is about technology – and passion – in general. Even if my experience is mainly bound to some specific technology.

IBM Connections 5.0 CR3 is available – new feature  

By Christoph Stoettner | 7/22/15 3:46 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Julius Schwarzweller wrote a blog post with a collection of links to CR3 for IBM Connections 5.0 this week. A official update document with new features is missing.

Adding Components to an XPage Programmatically  

By Jesse Gallagher | 7/19/15 7:33 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

One of my favorite aspects of working with apps using my framework is the component binding capability. This lets me just write the main structure of the page and let the controller do the grunt work of creating fields with validators and converters.

XPages Comes to Bluemix  

By Eric McCormick | 7/10/15 12:02 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

It’s here! Ten days into the first month of the 2nd half of 2015, IBM’s XPages runtime (and XPages NoSQL DB service) are live in ‘beta’/experimental. Does that mean it will change? Absolutely.

Get the groove! Using Groovy in XPages applications  

By Oliver Busse | 7/7/15 11:03 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities, for the Java platform aimed at multiplying developers’ productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It integrates smoothly with any Java program (http://www.groovy-lang.org/).

Self-Hosting SCM Server Options  

By Eric McCormick | 7/7/15 7:59 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Source Control has become a rallying point of sorts for me in the last few years. It has saved my bacon on a few occassions and source control in general (and git, specifically) is near and dear to me. I’m always on the quest for the best application development workflow, which can sometimes be difficult to achieve.

IBM Connections cloud, what's new July 2015  

By Matteo Bisi | 7/5/15 12:03 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

IBM is continuously developing new features on IBM Connections cloud solutions. Every month many features are dropped to the customer. This month my highlights are on the enablement of Audio-Video on IBM Connections Meetings cloud, the enablement of automatic update of Sametime Desktop.

MWLUG in Atlanta – I will be presenting!  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 7/5/15 7:16 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

It is less than 7 weeks left until MWLUG, the Midwest Lotus User Group conference. This year the conference takes place in Atlanta, between August 19 and 21. During the three days there will be over 40 technical session and workshops on collaboration, receptions and networking opportunities, as well as access to experts of IBM solutions, both from IBM and other companies.

OpenNTF Domino API Database Listeners  

By Paul Withers | 6/22/15 10:59 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Recently I was pointed in the direction of a blog post requesting hooks for opening / creating / saving etc of documents. With the next release of Notes (9.0.2??) due out later this year, I suspect the chances of a feature request getting in now is quite low.

I have my own extension library...  

By Serdar Basegmez | 6/22/15 4:54 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

6 months ago, I accepted my problem. As many developers, I was working on several different XPages projects in different times. Using a couple of Java classes over and over again. Each time I add a new method/modify an existing one, I was copying and pasting code between several applications. Versioning was a nightmare.