I have recently moved all my notes templates to a Git repository. Well, not all of them, just those I currently have on my disk. And there are in fact several Git repositories they are now in.
When IBM announced version of Notes Client based on Eclipse one of the first things I wondered was 'will I be able to use version control system with Notes, at last?'. The answer was 'No'. And it didn't make me happy, because once you have the opportunity to use even the old CVS in some project, it just feels like having only one hand if you can't in another project.
When IBM posted Source Control Enablement for Designer project on OpenNTF.org site, I was already kind of spoilt by Git. Of course I installed and tried Source Control Enablement project. But I just briefly tested to put NSF into SVN repository and then I did a svn checkout on a different computer. Cool! But what about Git? I quickly found out that EGit project for Eclipse is not working with Domino Designer and that was it.
Luckily Nathan T. Freeman did not stop at that point and made several modifications to EGit to make it work with Domino Designer. So go grab it from OpenNTF.org and welcome to the world of version control, branching, backporting and team development.
Domino Designer and .git folder mystery
Wed, May 1st 2013 8:36a Martin Jinoch Twitter conversation about version control has brought me to the debate about .git folder appearing in NSF file and how to avoid having it there.
I remember seeing one NSF file with .git folder in it a while ago and I've deleted it from NSF without any consequences. NSF is still fine, git repository it is connected to as well. But Cameron Gregor (and probably Sean Cull too) had different experience.
Cameron was kind enough to "record" how this happens on his computer. When I was reproducing [read] Keywords: domino
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BLUG 2013
Mon, Mar 25th 2013 2:12p Martin Jinoch I am writing this at Brussels airport on Sunday afternoon waiting for evening flight back to Prague. Since Wednesday when we came to Leuven to attend BLUG 2013, weather got really bad and although we have March 24 whole Brussels (and Antwerpen and I am sure more other places) are covered by snow and it is freezing out there. Yet even this really unpleasant ending could not spoil great feeling I have about this year's BLUG. In fact all previous BLUGs as well. This was my third. First one in 2011 [read] Keywords: domino
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Call doc.closeMIMEEntities after touching doc.getMIMEEntity
Tue, Jan 22nd 2013 6:14a Martin Jinoch Another stupid mistake has taken a lot of my time last week. I developed a small library to provide function(s) to move attachments from rich text fields to separate db (nsf or some other). This function was supposed to be part of bigger process, so saving of document being processed was meant to happen in other code. That is why I had not tested what doc.save() would do. My tests were just checking destination db for created records containing moved files. Other part of process was developed by [read] Keywords: domino
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Dynamic binding of fields bug?
Mon, Jan 21st 2013 3:32a Martin Jinoch I was developing very simple XPages component recently and because it was basically loop through a list of field names (and the task was to show something for each of them) I have used repeat control and inside of it there was custom control with properties such as fieldName (String), label (String), isRequired (boolean) and so on. In the custom control I was binding fileDownload and fileUpload controls (based on read/edit mode) to document field via EL as "document1[compositeData.fieldName]" [read] Keywords: notes
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Wanna use Git (with DDE) and you're afraid of command line? Try GitHub for Windows
Fri, Jul 6th 2012 6:14a Martin Jinoch Last two blog posts were about using Git and git-flow with DDE. I use command line as main working interface when interacting with Git repositories. I am used to it, I am more productive this way.
But If you're not used to use CLI, there is GitHub for Windows available for you. Go try it!
And if Git doesn't sound familiar to you, try it in your browser, without the need to install anything.
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Using Git with Domino Designer - the hardcore way, part II.
Thu, Jun 7th 2012 1:24p Martin Jinoch Today's talk about setting up a development workflow for a new project reminded me of my promise to write the second part of this blog post. So here we go:
Installing Gitflow
Just read and follow the instructions in gitflow wiki. You may also want to setup very handy command completion, instructions are here.
Start using it
In the folder with your on-disk project (in our case it is C:Program Filesibmlotusnotesdataworkspacegit_test) simply run the command git flow init and answer the questions ( [read] Keywords: domino
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Using Git with Domino Designer - the hardcore way
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 11:01a Martin Jinoch This is a first part of posts on version control with Git for Notes developers. I'm writing it as an addendum to my BLUG 2012 session "Version control for Notes developers".
Version control for Domino Designer projects - using command line Git (aka the HARDCORE way)
Designer 8.5.3 has built-in capability to link NSF/NTF files with so called on-disk projects that can be used by version control systems. That alone is not enough to successfully use version control systems directly from Designer. [read] Keywords: domino
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BLUG 2012: part 2
Sat, Apr 7th 2012 11:12a Martin Jinoch Day 2: Friday
Waking up in the morning is not my hobby ("good morning" is an oxymoron for me). And after all those beers (Belgian beers are usually stronger than Czech ones, but we are used to drink 0,5l as "one beer") this morning was especially hard. But we made it to the Crown Plaza Hotel just in time to attend "How XPages became mobile" with Earmon Muldoon and Paul Withers. Combination of coffee and interesting information was a nice start of a day. Speaking about the coffee: it was gr [read] Keywords: lotus
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BLUG 2012: part 1
Mon, Apr 2nd 2012 2:20a Martin Jinoch BLUG has been really good event this year. Again!
Theo is a great host, doesn't matter if you're speaker or attendee, he treats you well. Extremely well. All that chocolate in a speakers room! I was full of energy and good mood until late night hours even after the whole busy day at a conference. Splendid!
Day 0: Wednesday
Being a speaker for the first time on LUG event and presenting in English for the first time ever was kind of difficult for me. I was very shy at the opening event on Wedne [read] Keywords: connections
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