Beyond XPages  

By Peter Presnell | 6/6/16 9:36 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Early last year I did a presentation at several User Groups entitled “Beyond XPages”. The presentation outlined an approach for building modern Web applications for Notes data that was not based upon XPages. We believe XPages has a shelf life of (at best) 5 years before companies will become very active in seeking to migrate to other development platforms.

Running Notes Applications on a Tablet  

By Peter Presnell | 11/4/15 11:15 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Many years ago, shortly after the original iPad was released I was sitting in a meeting. In one corner of the room was my esteemed colleague Tim “XMage” Tripcony. As the meeting progressed Tim started chuckling a number of times as he “tapped” away on his new iPad.

XPages 2.0  

By Peter Presnell | 5/21/15 8:02 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Thanks to TLCC and TeamStudio I had a chance last week to see the latest version of Pete Janzen’s update on the latest plans for future enhancements to XPages. While we have all have probably been frustrated in the delays in getting the next version of Domino (9.0.2) to market Pete and the XPages development team have been busy putting together what is now a compelling list of new features for XPages.

Twitter / Peter Presnell: timtripcony.com is back ...  

By Peter Presnell | 6/2/14 5:44 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

timtripcony.com is back online for all those that continue to get awesome value from @timtripcony's blog #codefortim

Modern Domino: Booleans  

By Peter Presnell | 11/25/13 12:43 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

When it comes to staying modern, there is almost no aspect of application development that stays still for long.

Modern Domino: Icons  

By Peter Presnell | 11/7/13 12:41 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In many way Lotus Notes was a pioneer in the use of icons to display information about documents in applications.

Modern Domino: Domino 9.0.1  

By Peter Presnell | 11/5/13 12:51 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Last week IBM released Domino 9.0.1, a new feature release for IBM Notes/Domino. The following is a summary of some of the new features for application development, with specific focus on those items that assist in modernizing Notes applications.

Modern Domino: iOS7  

By Peter Presnell | 9/30/13 12:35 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

iOS 7 is the first major overall of Apple’s mobile UI since the release of the iPhone in 2007. In the first five days it is estimated 200 million devices upgraded to iOS 7.

Putting NIFTY Back Into The Nifty Fifty  

By Peter Presnell | 4/9/13 12:26 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In my last blog I talked about an experiment in which I was able to add a mobile interface to 100 Notes databases in 35 minutes.

Modernization: It’s a Journey Not a Destination   

By Peter Presnell | 12/4/12 12:35 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Ask an IT executive and the answer may be the migration of legacy systems to a more strategic (web based) platform. Ask a web designer and the answer will probably involve the term Web 2.0. Ask an IBM Lotus Notes developer and the answer will probably center on a migration of applications to XPages. Ask a user and they will most likely talk about the need to add social capabilities and provide mobile access.