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Pictures from Bluemix at DNUG

By Niklas Heidloff | 6/4/16 9:10 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

This week I attended DNUG in Hamburg/Germany. DNUG is the German user group for IBM Collaboration Solutions. In the app dev track several sessions covered Bluemix.

My Thoughts on the Next Generation of IBM Domino App Dev

By Niklas Heidloff | 4/5/16 5:48 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Before I started to work on Bluemix I had worked 15 years in the IBM Collaboration Solutions space, especially on application development. Below are my personal thoughts on how app dev in IBM Domino could evolve, both on-premises and in the cloud.

IBM Bluemix for Administrators with Focus on XPages

By Niklas Heidloff | 9/22/15 7:35 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Yesterday I attended AdminCamp which is a yearly conference for IBM Domino and IBM Connections administrators. I gave the opening session about IBM Bluemix administration with a focus on XPages. Here are the slides.

Accessing On-Premises Data from XPages Applications on Bluemix

By Niklas Heidloff | 8/17/15 3:12 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

When building new applications on the cloud, enterprises often need to access existing data that resides on-premises. Below is a high level description how to access data in on-premises XPages NoSQL databases from XPages applications running on IBM Bluemix.

Accessing On-Premises Data from XPages Applications on Bluemix

By Niklas Heidloff | 7/20/15 1:03 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Usage of Cloudant NoSQL Databases in XPages Applications

By Niklas Heidloff | 7/7/15 6:00 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

IBM Bluemix provides various database services, one of them is the Cloudant NoSQL DB. Cloudant provides a REST API and many client libraries to access the service. In the past I've used the Java API Ektorp for other projects. Today I tried how to use this API from XPages which is a JSF based runtime running on IBM Domino.

Slides and Screenshots of XPages on IBM Bluemix Presentation

By Niklas Heidloff | 3/4/15 8:09 AM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Today I gave my second presentation at Entwicklercamp in Gelsenkirchen/Germany, a conference with 200 developers focussed on IBM Enterprise Social Solutions. In this session I covered the two previews IBM gave at IBM InterConnectED earlier this year in Orlando - XPages applications on Bluemix and the new Social File Sharing service based on IBM Connections.

Slides and Links: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel - (Re)use Open Source Software From OpenNTF

By Niklas Heidloff | 2/18/14 2:57 AM | - | Added by Christian Güdemann

Below are the slides of the IBM Connect 2014 session "BP207: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel - (Re)use Open Source Software From OpenNTF". Christian Guedemann and I presented this session in Orlando an ...

Teaser for Connections App Dev Session at IBM Connect

By Niklas Heidloff | 1/8/14 2:15 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The video below contains one of the two samples that Henning and I will demonstrate at IBM Connect 2014. If you want to know how this sample has been built, attend our session AD206 on Wed.

The Power of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and XPages App Dev - Slides and Screenshots

By Niklas Heidloff | 10/24/13 4:52 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Yesterday I posted a video with a sample scenario that shows how to extend IBM SmartCloud for Social Business with additional workflow functionality via app dev.

Four upcoming App Dev Webinars

By Niklas Heidloff | 10/7/13 5:34 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Over the next month there will be three Social Business Toolkit webinars for IBM Collaboration Solutions application developers. Check the events page for details.

XPages based Mobile App for DLR Rheinland Pfalz

By Niklas Heidloff | 7/11/13 1:13 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

At DNUG Heiko Voigt from SIT GmbH told me about one of his XPages projects that he did last year. It's a mobile portal for the public website from Dienstleistungszentren Ländlicher Raum Rheinland Pfalz (Google translation: rural service centres).

XProject - Social and analytical Project Management built with XPages

By Niklas Heidloff | 7/10/13 1:42 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

At DNUG Herbert Wagger from INTRANET Software & Consulting GmbH and Hansjörg Jerabek from the university Heidelberg presented XProject, a social and analytical project management system. With this application they won the DNUG Collaboration Award 2013.

XPages based Mobile App for BCC’s MailProtect

By Niklas Heidloff | 7/9/13 1:41 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

At DNUG Mirco Vilic from BCC Unternehmensberatung GmbH showed me the new mobile user interface of their product MailProtect. "MailProtect is an all-in-one solution for E-Mail Management in Lotus Domin ...

Generic Replicator for Mobile XPages Apps accessing IBM Domino Databases

By Niklas Heidloff | 7/8/13 4:10 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

At DNUG I attended a very exciting session from Thomas Brandstaetter about a capability that is very important to build mobile apps using XPages. When considering whether to build mobile apps natively ...

My Thoughts on the fifth OpenNTF XPages Development Contest

By Niklas Heidloff | 6/24/13 1:55 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

For the fifth time OpenNTF has hosted an XPages development contest which is part of the Appathon.

Thanks a lot to all XPages Bloggers

By Niklas Heidloff | 5/14/13 2:11 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

There has been a lot of XPages blogging recently (again). As other people already noted, there seems to be a new trend of doing full series of blog entries about certain topics. Below is a list of some of these series. Amazing content. Great community. Thank you.

Video and Audio Recordings from IBM Connect 2013 about XPages

By Niklas Heidloff | 4/16/13 2:41 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM has posted video and audio recordings of some of the sessions from IBM Connect 2013 on socialbiz User Group. The videos can be watched without registration, audio tracks and slides can be downloaded by authenticated users.

Slides: BP212 - Apps, Apps and more Apps: Meet the Very Best Open Source Apps from OpenNTF

By Niklas Heidloff | 2/6/13 3:32 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Here are the slides from the session BP212 - Apps, Apps and more Apps: Meet the Very Best Open Source Apps from OpenNTF.

Slides: AD206 - IBM Domino XPages: Embrace, Extend, Integrate

By Niklas Heidloff | 2/4/13 2:26 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Here are the slides from my session "Slides: AD206 - IBM Domino XPages: Embrace, Extend, Integrate".

XPages as OpenSocial Gadgets in IBM Notes 9 and IBM iNotes 9

By Niklas Heidloff | 1/8/13 1:46 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

With the public beta of IBM Notes and Domino 9 you can use OpenSocial gadgets as (Notes) widgets in Notes and iNotes. Watch the video below to see how gadgets can contribute actions to Notes and iNotes and how XPages can be triggered from these actions to show data in context.

How to leverage the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK in XPages Applications

By Niklas Heidloff | 12/18/12 1:03 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In a previous blog post I demonstrated how to use the XPages social enabler to access IBM Connections. At the beginning of this month IBM released the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK as open source on OpenNTF. The SDK is a general implementation of the same concepts that can also be used by web and Java developers.

XPages in the Embedded Experience in Notes 9

By Niklas Heidloff | 12/17/12 2:29 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

One of my favorite features in the public beta of IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition is the embedded experience. As in IBM Connections 4 OpenSocial gadgets can be developed to embed custom applications. Additionally the 'generic out of the box URL gadget' can be used to embed any web page.

XPages in the Embedded Experience in IBM Connections

By Niklas Heidloff | 12/11/12 1:15 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The video below shows a sample scenario how to publish entries into a community activity stream from an XPages application. From the activity stream these entries can be opened in the embedded experience which brings up the XPages app.

My Thoughts on the fourth OpenNTF XPages Development Contest

By Niklas Heidloff | 12/10/12 2:26 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

For the fourth time OpenNTF hosted a development contest. I'm very happy with the outcome! The contest was a big success again with a lot of high quality submissions. The trend that we already observed in the last contest continued. The quality and the functionality of the projects gets better and better.

Activity Stream Service Java API for XPages

By Niklas Heidloff | 11/26/12 1:19 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We announced recently the new IBM Social Business Toolkit which provides a SDK making it easy for Java and web developers to invoke REST APIs, esp. IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business APIs. As part of the SDK there is a set of Java APIs, e.g. an activity stream service, that can be used by server side JSP/Java code.

Send E-Mails from XPages leveraging the Embedded Experience in IBM Connections Mail

By Niklas Heidloff | 11/20/12 3:12 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The video below shows how e-mails can be sent from XPages applications that contain the MIME content type "application/embed+json" which contains a URL to a web site. I've used code from Mark Leusink from OpenNTF to do this.

ITWU XPages Legacy Enabler and ITWU Simple Processes

By Niklas Heidloff | 11/19/12 12:56 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

At the speedgeeking session at DNUG Carl Goos from the German IBM business partner IT works unlimited presented two XPages based products.

XPages based Application Framework - aveedo

By Niklas Heidloff | 11/15/12 1:12 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Stefan Sucker from We4IT presented the application framework aveedo. The framework allows defining forms and views in web browsers (without Domino Designer) to build easily custom applications for non IBM Domino customers (via the IBM XWork server).

XPages based Group Calendar - TimeFleX

By Niklas Heidloff | 11/14/12 1:42 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

At DNUG I moderated a special type of session which was a combination of speedgeeking and open discussion. Six people including myself could present in seven minutes ideas and concepts for how to do modern application development with IBM Domino/IBM XWork.