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Including a Headless DDE Build in a Maven Tree
Tue, Mar 14th 2017  4
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That Java Thing, Part 17: My Current XPages Plug-in Dev Environment
Sun, Feb 26th 2017 7
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Slides From My Connect 2017 Presentations
Fri, Feb 24th 2017 5
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The State of Domino App Dev Post-Connect-2017
Fri, Feb 24th 2017 9
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Reforming the Blog in Darwino, Part 2
Thu, Feb 16th 2017 8
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Connect 2017 Final Stretch
Wed, Feb 15th 2017 4
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December Is Self-Aggrandizement Month, Apparently
Sat, Dec 17th 2016 12
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How I Maven-ized My Framework
Mon, Dec 8th 2014 18
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Working with Rich Text's MIME Structure
Wed, Jul 8th 2015 15
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Using the ODA Design API for File-Resource Manipulation
Wed, Nov 19th 2014 12
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December Is Self-Aggrandizement Month, Apparently
Sat, Dec 17th 2016 12
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Cramming Rails Into A Maven Tree
Mon, Sep 26th 2016 11
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Setting up nginx in Front of a Domino Server
Thu, Sep 18th 2014 10
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That Java Thing, Part 1: The Java Problem in the Community
Mon, Nov 2nd 2015 10
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Quick XPages Utility: Keep Alive and Alert
Tue, Aug 30th 2016 10
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The State of Domino App Dev Post-Connect-2017
Fri, Feb 24th 2017 9
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Be a Better Programmer, Part 4
Thu, Aug 14th 2014 8
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Including a Headless DDE Build in a Maven Tree
Tue, Mar 14th 2017 4:45p Jesse Gallagher
Most of my Domino projects nowadays have two components: a suite of OSGi
plugins/features and at least one NSF. Historically, I've kept the NSF part
separate from the OSGi plugin projects - I'll keep the ODP in the repo, but
then usually also keep a recent "build" made by copying the database from my
dev server, and then include that built version in the result using the Maven
Assembly plugin. This works, but it's not quite ideal: part of the benefit of
having a Maven project being au |
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That Java Thing, Part 17: My Current XPages Plug-in Dev Environment
Sun, Feb 26th 2017 4:23p Jesse Gallagher
It's been a while since I started this series on Java development, but I've
been meaning for a bit now to crack it back open to discuss my current
development setup for plug-ins, since it's changed a bit.
The biggest change is that, thanks to Serdar's work on the latest XPages SDK
release, I now have Domino running plug-ins from my OS X Eclipse workspace.
Previously, I switched between either running on the Mac and doing manual
builds or slumming it in Eclipse in Windows. Having just t |
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Slides From My Connect 2017 Presentations
Fri, Feb 24th 2017 9:29p Jesse Gallagher
At this year's Connect, Philippe Riand and I co-presented two sessions: one on
ways to integrate your apps into the Connections UI and one on Darwino's role
for Domino developers. I've uploaded the slides to SlideShare:
DEV-1430 - IBM Connections Integration: Exploring the Long List of Options
DEV-1467 - Give a New Life to Your Notes/Domino Applications and Leverage IBM
Bluemix, Watson, & Connections (effectively, "the Darwino session") |
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The State of Domino App Dev Post-Connect-2017
Fri, Feb 24th 2017 9:28p Jesse Gallagher
I'm en route back from this year's IBM Connect in San Francisco, and this plane
ride is giving me a good chance to chew over the implications for Domino
developers.
First off, I'll put my bias in this matter right up front: Darwino, which I've
been working on and discussing quite a bit, is one of the three "chosen"
vendors for app enhancement/modernization/what-have-you. So, while this post
isn't going to be about Darwino specifically, it's certainly pertinent for me.
In any case, |
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Reforming the Blog in Darwino, Part 2
Thu, Feb 16th 2017 8:41p Jesse Gallagher
During the run-up to Connect next week, I turned my gaze back to my
indefinite-term project of reforming this blog in Darwino.
When last I left it publicly, I had set up replication between a copy of the
database and a Darwino app. After that post, I did a bit of tinkering in the
direction of building a (J)Ruby on Rails front-end for it, next to the "j2ee"
project. That side effort may bear fruit in time (as I recall, I got the
embedded web app serving default pages, but didn't implemen |
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Connect 2017 Final Stretch
Wed, Feb 15th 2017 12:16p Jesse Gallagher
IBM Connect 2017 is less than a week away, and I've been furiously prepping for
a couple parts of what is promising to be a busy conference.
On Monday, before the official kickoff of the conference, OpenNTF is co-hosting
a Hackathon, where attendees will work on one of several potential projects.
The goal is to learn about new development methods, work with new people, and
hopefully kick off some useful open-source projects to boot.
During the conference proper, I'll be presenting two se |
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December Is Self-Aggrandizement Month, Apparently
Sat, Dec 17th 2016 3:21p Jesse Gallagher
It's been a busy month (couple of years, really), but the last few weeks in
particular have involved a couple minor announcements that I'm quite
appreciative for.
On the 14th, IBM announced the 2017 class of IBM Champions for ICS, and they
included me on the list. It's been a joy to be considered a Champion for the
last few years, and 2017 promises to be an interesting year to continue that in
our slice of the development world.
Mere days later, IBM sent out notifications about Connect |
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The New Podcast is a Real Thing: WTF Tech Episode 1
Mon, Oct 31st 2016 10:31a Jesse Gallagher
As intimated at the end of the last This Week in Lotus, Stuart, Darren, and I
have launched a new podcast in a similar vein: WTF Tech. Since we're all in the
IBM sphere, that'll be the natural starting point for the topics we cover, but
it's not going to be IBM-focused as such. For this first episode, we lucked out
and had a couple-weeks period chock full of announcements, so we had plenty of
material. Give it a listen! |
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Cramming Rails Into A Maven Tree
Mon, Sep 26th 2016 1:25p Jesse Gallagher
Because I'm me, one of the paths I'm investigating for my long-term
blog-reformation project is seeing if I can get Ruby on Rails in there. I've
been carrying a torch for the language and framework for forever, and so it'd
be good to actually write a real thing in it for once.
This has been proving to be a very interesting thing to try to do well.
Fortunately, the basics of "run Rails in a Java server" have been well worked
out: the JRuby variant of the language is top-notch and the |
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Quick Post: Maven-izing the XSP Repo
Sat, Sep 17th 2016 6:58a Jesse Gallagher
This post follows in my tradition of extremely-narrow-use-case guides, but
perhaps this will come in handy in some situations nonetheless.
Specifically, a while back, I wrote a script that "Maven-izes" the XPages
artifacts, as provided by IBM's Update Site for Build Management. This may seem
a bit counter-intuitive at first, since the entire point of that download is to
be able to compile using Maven, but there's a catch to it: the repository is
still in Eclipse ("P2") format, which |
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Reforming the Blog in Darwino, Part 1
Thu, Sep 15th 2016 2:38p Jesse Gallagher
This continues to be a very interesting time for Domino developers, with the
consternation of MWLUG giving way to IBM's recent announcement about their
plans for Domino. Like everyone, I have my feelings about the matter, but the
upshot is that moving-forward tone still stands. With that in mind, let's get
down to business, shall we?
I'm going to kick off my long-term blog series of moving my blog itself over to
a Darwino+JEE application. I say "long-term" because it's a pure side pr |
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There Are Pods That Need Casting
Tue, Sep 6th 2016 10:25a Jesse Gallagher
I had the pleasure of taking part in the long-awaited demise episode of This
Week In Lotus!
http://thisweekinlotus.com/115-doing-a-three-way/
We covered a lot of ground, with a reflection on this year's MWLUG, the Sturm
und Drang about Domino, Toscana/IBM design, and a few other topics. Most
important, though, is the special announcement at the end of the episode, which
you'll just have to listen for. Or skip to the end, I guess; there's a tracking
bar right on the page. |
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Quick XPages Utility: Keep Alive and Alert
Tue, Aug 30th 2016 2:17p Jesse Gallagher
For one of my projects recently, I put together a small custom control that I
sure wish I had thought to do years ago: a "keep alive and alert" control. For
a long time now, the Extension Library has had a "keepAlive" control, which
keeps a page session (and, usually, authentication) alive while the user has
the browser window open, avoiding the otherwise-common issue of someone sitting
on a page "too long" and having it break underfoot. However, that doesn't cover
the edge cases: t |
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Change Is In The Air
Fri, Aug 26th 2016 4:41p Jesse Gallagher
During last week’s MWLUG, there was a clear sense that things are a little
different this year. Dave Navarre dubbed the technical implications “platform
agnosticism”, while I geared my presentation towards the feeling that change is
in the air.
This is not totally new. Red Pill Now cast aside the XPages UI layer and most
of the assumptions of Domino development to move to a new level; PSC's
presentations have long developed a polyglot tone, and this ramped up this
year; and people |
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MWLUG 2016 Slides
Sat, Aug 20th 2016 8:07p Jesse Gallagher
I just returned from this year's MWLUG, held in surprisingly-rainy Austin,
Texas. As every year, MWLUG is an outstanding event, particularly for a
development crowd (though I think admins get tons of material too). I'm
definitely looking forward to next year's in DC, and not merely because that's
a pretty quick drive for me.
I'll have some more to write later to follow up on the themes of this year's
event, but in the mean time I've uploaded the slides from my presentation:
AD106 |
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MWLUG 2016
Mon, Aug 15th 2016 10:29a Jesse Gallagher
MWLUG 2016 is happening this week, down in I'm-sure-it's-not-deathly-hot
Austin, Texas. MWLUG has really proven to be a top-tier conference for our
community, and I'm looking forward to it again this year. To be fair, part of
that is that I'll be presenting on Friday, with a session entitled "Expand Your
Apps And Skills To The Wider World":
The technological world has changed, but the work done by your Domino apps has
not. Rather than discarding your old applications in a distruptive |
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Release Weekend: ODA and Darwino
Tue, Aug 2nd 2016 7:10a Jesse Gallagher
This past weekend was a nice one for releases to a couple of the projects I
work on: the OpenNTF Domino API and Darwino.
The ODA release is something of a "consolidation" release over 2.0.0: it fixes
a few of the bugs that cropped up since then, adds some important lower-level
tweaks, and brings the graph REST API into the mainline release. One note with
the REST API is that, due to making use of a recently-added extension to the
core code, it requires a recent release of the Extension L |
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