POWER TOOLS 7.0 IS A SET OF 98 ADMINISTRATIVE UTILITIES FOR LOTUS NOTES & DOMINO Power Tools simplifies management of the Notes/Domino environment by automating routine tasks. Power Tools can manage or monitor mail files, groups, ACLs, agents, LOG.NSF, templates and more.
TLCC is offering live instructor led XPages classes, on-line, letting you continue to get TLCC's training regardless of your location. You attend four days of scheduled on-line lectures and get the full attention of an expert TLCC instructor when completing the course activities. After the class you have access to the TLCC self-paced course as a reference guide. Students also get continued instructor support for an additional six months.
Pretentious, I know, but I've been reading Great Expectations on the iPad recently. I'm not normally in to the classics, but I got gripped on this book. And it's free!
While reading it, it's hard to get away from the fact it's in "olde" English. There are lots of words on each page I could only guess at the meaning of, had I been reading it in a traditional book.
However, with iBooks on the iPad, if I get stuck on a word I just long-press the word and choose Dictionary to be shown the word's meaning:
I had no idea what "ague" was. Nor what an "accoucher" is.
It's the little things like this that continue to amaze me with the iPad. There are a few words it couldn't find, but you have to give it credit for getting even the above right (from what I can tell it's not looking online for the answers).
Aside from the stock apps like iBooks, there's also the gems such as Flipboard (get it, if you haven't already!). There's something special about seeing your own words and photos in its newspaper-like layout.
I bet my great great great grandad had no idea his photo would one day be displayed on a digital newspaper over the internet.
Then there are the treats like finding your 2 year old's doodles on it.
Not great examples of what makes the iPad so great, but it's the myriad little things like these that make it truly amazing. It's the one piece of geek kit I've bought that I can honestly say I can't imagine being without it. Yeah, my ThinkPad's great. Sturdy. Reliable... Boring. But the iPad is just magical and an endless joy.
It will be an interesting year or two coming up as we see if anybody can even come close the iPad with their own tablets. While I'd like to be "out there" and own an Android-based tablet instead, I just can't see them coming close. Especially having suffered as an Android phone user for a year or more.
It's been well over a year since I last created a new Notes database. While I've tweaked a few Domino apps here and there in the mean time it's probably about 18 months since I did any real work with Domino.
Domino-based work represents about 10% of my turnover over the last year and Domino Designer rarely sees the light of day other than when I'm in "support mode".
Contrast this with a period up until about 3 years ago when Domino was pretty much all I ever did. I messed with other platforms for fun, but Domino was my bread and butter. How times have changed.
Just had a "Dear John" phone call with my longest-standing and best customer. I no longer have *any* Domino customers.
It's a little sensationalised for effect, as there'll be maintenance work with them for a while and consultancy work in helping them migrate away from what I built, but, in the long term there's, no work there.
Just found out another of my long-term customers are ditching Domino and, hence, me.
They're dropping like flies. This year I've lost all of my long-standing customers. In all cases primarily because they're ditching Domino. Either that or there's something they're not telling me, but I think it's a clear case of Domino being on its way out.
Losing a good customer is never nice. Yesterday's phone call was actually quite upsetting, even though I've seen it coming for a while now. On the flip side though I can't help but see the positives in it. It gives me chance to start afresh.
For ages now I've been telling myself I should learn XPages so I'm better equipped to battle it out in the Notes work space. But, come on, is it really worth it? Would learning XPages really get me any work and secure my future?
I think the point has come where I need to stop thinking of myself as a Domino Developer and look to an alternate path for my future as a developer.
That future could well be bright. I'm just not so sure it's very yellow*.
If things continue at this rate I'd say that, in a year's time, I will be no longer using Lotus Domino at all.
* Hey, if you want any Domino work doing, then you know where I am. I'm not saying I won't do Domino work. I'll do any work at all. It's just that there doesn't appear to be any Domino work about.
Yesterday someone turned off the redirect for notes.net.
It no longer redirects the browser to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/
Instead it now goes to http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dwl
This page contains the following:
"Http Status Code: 404
Reason: File not found or unable to read file"
Most of us have been typing notes.net for a decade or longer. Evidently ibm considers it an improvement for us to type ibm.com/developerworks/lotus instead. If you disagree, vote for this idea.
Update: It's working again!
It could have been just an accident or it could have been intentional. If it was intentional, thanks to those who may have played a part in getting it restored, especially Ed Brill.
I've released a new version of XPages
Mobile Controls (direct
download). Watch this
video to see how to develop a
mobile app for Genii
Software's Lotusphere session database
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There will be a couple of OpenNTF related
sessions at Lotusphere. Tuesday 7:00 AM - OpenNTF
Annual General Meeting Tuesday 10:00 AM - Apps,
Apps, and More Apps: Meet the Very Best Open Source Apps from OpenNTF Monday 1:30 PM - Developing
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To make it easier to trouble shoot in designer it would be really helpful to be able to see if a 'hide when formula' applies to elements, especially text.
Its something we use a lot and would save people newer to designer (and some of us longer term users) a huge amount of head scratching time whilst trying to understand how things hang together.
Not so much is Notes/Domino related stuff subitted to the technical library on developerWorks lately. This used to be a good place to learn about development in Notes/Domino
We often use roles to give different functions to different users. Sometimes it is hard to descirp a role just by it's name. It would be great to have the possiblity to add a short description to the roles, so that we can have a look at it while we setup the userroles.
I've published the first version of
the application that I called 'Deja Vu' in my previous
blog entry. I've been asked to
use the more descriptive name Information
Retrieval Tool. Download
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what you think. Nowadays ...
Overdue ToDo items do not appear on the current day of your Notes calendar even though in Calendar preferences both the following options are enabled: "Display ToDo Entries" and "Display overdue ToDo items on the current day".
This table contains interoperability scenarios between IBM Lotus NotesDomino and Microsoft OutlookExchange for single meetings and repeating meetings. The table focuses on NotesDomino 6.5.4 Fix Pack 3 (FP3) and 8.5 with OutlookExchange 2003 and 2007 to show major enhancements that were done ...
Several important enhancements were made to Widgets and Live Text in Lotus Notes 8.5.2. The attached presentation describes the following highlights: New Composite Application Widget Provider
Ability to hideshow widget thumbnails in the My Widgets panel
Ability to specify that a widget can have ...
I have a user who for whatever reason their Lotus Notes (8.5.2) is not saving the printer. Each morning when she logs in she needs to select a printer within Notes because it is blanked out. Any ideas? Thank you, Matthew
It is common in mail files with archiving enabled to have documents left in the mail file that seem like they should of met the archive criteria. For example, a user or administrator may have archiving set up to archive all documents that are 'not modified' in the last 90 days and have a calendar ...
Notes Client Side Troubleshooting DCC DCC is a Notes client process that synchronizes certain information between Notes clients and Domino servers. The DCC executable, ndyncfg.exe, is located in the Notes client program directory. Dynamic Client Configuration runs when the user ...