A blog by IBM Champion Mikkel Flindt Heisterberg about IBM Notes/Domino, Websphere, IBM Connections, mobile, web, JavaScript, Java and other appdev topics...
IBM Connections wsadmin commands for newcomers
Wed, Mar 5th 2014 3:05a Mikkel Heisterberg I've updated my IBM Connections wsadmin commands for newcomers page for IBM Connections 4+ and added a couple of new commands. I've also added information on how to easily work with wsadmin from the command line on *nix. Comments are very welcome. [read] Keywords: connections
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Writing command line scripts with node.js
Mon, Feb 17th 2014 11:20p Mikkel Heisterberg Found this little tip this morning to make it easier to use command line scripts written in node.js. Instead of having your node.js file(s) and invoking it using "node myfile.js" on the Mac you can simply do the following:
At the top of the file as the first line add: #!/bin/usr/env node
Make the file executable using chmod +x myfile.js
Invoke away
Now the file is usable by simply using myfile.js. [read] Keywords: mac
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Year in review 2012 (not a typo)
Tue, Dec 31st 2013 5:12a Mikkel Heisterberg Boy 2013 was a busy year. In fact it's been so busy and I have been so bad at blogging that I never got around to finish my year end review for 2012. In a draft blog post I had the following:
"2012 was a busy year - maybe the busiest year I've had in a long time. Besides numerous customer projects here in Denmark I've also been involved in a number of international projects and traveled more than ever before. I went to the US twice, Japan twice, Australia once, and to too many European cou [read] Keywords: connections
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lotus
lotusphere
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My IBM Connect 2014 sessions
Tue, Dec 31st 2013 4:54a Mikkel Heisterberg It's been a very busy fall and christmas for me so I haven't bragged about being chosen to speak at IBM Connect 2014 on my blog besides creating a new static page for the event that will - eventually - sum up what I'm up to at the event. I am fortunate enough be have been selected to speak in two sessions - one with my good buddy Mat Newman (aka Yellow Man) and one solo. Below are the session IDs (probably subject to change), the session titles and the abstracts.
BP301 An Introduction to W [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
xpages applications
development
java
javascript
Trusting certificates in WebSphere Application Server
Fri, Nov 29th 2013 3:33a Mikkel Heisterberg If you make SSL connections from a WebSphere Application Server based application the server (or rather the cell) needs to trust the certificate of the server you are connecting to. This is very easy to do in WAS and is easily done using the Integrated Solutions Console (ISC). The way to establish the trust is as follows:
Log into the WebSphere Application Server Integrated Solutions Console (ISC)
From the lefthand navigator select Security/SSL certificate and key management
In the list of rela [read] Keywords: connections
application
properties
security
server
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IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 Application Development Elective Exam is now available
Wed, Nov 20th 2013 3:00a Mikkel Heisterberg "General availability of the following exam has been announced: LOT-411: XPages Mobile Advanced Topics. Follow the link to read the announcement for this test, which includes links to the exam overview, competency, and preparation pages. Information on the corresponding accreditation - IBM Certified Advanced Application Developer - Notes and Domino 9.0 - including recommended prerequisite skills can be found on the certification page. "
LOT-411: XPages Mobile Advanced Topics [read] Keywords: domino
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xpages application
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Servers upgraded to 9.0.1 and what a difference a point release makes
Thu, Nov 14th 2013 2:04a Mikkel Heisterberg Yesterday night I upgraded two of our internal Domino servers to Domino 9.0.1 incl. Traveler and the new Social Edition components. The entire process for two servers took just about 15 minutes over remote desktop and VPN incl. the restart of the server which strictly speaking was superfluous.
Pretty impressive but hey it's Domino!!
The upgrade was from Domino 9.0.0 and what a difference a point release makes. Not for the Traveler server but for the Social Edition server that runs the embe [read] Keywords: connections
domino
ibm
traveler
desktop
email
office
server
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On the IBM Connections SPI's
Wed, Nov 6th 2013 1:25a Mikkel Heisterberg Earlier this week I had a requirement to interact with the IBM Connections user storage from a servlet running within WebSphere Application Server meaning that I needed to obtain the currently logged in users email address from the username (i.e. the principal name in JEE speak). As I saw it there were three options - 1) reproduce the entire Federated Repositories configuration in the servlet config, 2) use an IBM Connections API if available or 3) try and figure out if there was a WebSphere API [read] Keywords: connections
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lotus
application
email
java
server
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New plugin appdev values for Notes 9.0.1
Tue, Oct 29th 2013 3:36a Mikkel Heisterberg With the release of Notes 9.0.1 we need new values to tweak our configuration to continue developing plugins for Notes. The new values for rcp.base_version and install_id are below. I've also updated the Configure Eclipse 4.2 for Notes 9 page.
Notes versionDescription
Notes 9.0.1install_id=1383036546809
rcp.base_version=9.0.1.20131002-1404
rcp.home=framework [read] Keywords: notes
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List of OpenSocial fixes in 9.0.1?
Tue, Oct 29th 2013 2:58a Mikkel Heisterberg As reported all over the Yellow-bubble we've now got a Domino 9.0.1 server and a Notes 9.0.1 client to install. All is good and the list of fixes reported by developerWorks is 267. The list however doesn't mention OpenSocial at all. This is sad as this is one of the new features from 9.0 and getting an idea as to what have been fixed would have been nice (plus I know that lots have been fixed).
Hope that IBM will release more information as to what was fixed for OpenSocial. [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
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Elusive IBM Connections 4.5 CR2 upgrade issue solved
Tue, Oct 15th 2013 3:03a Mikkel Heisterberg We've had a lot of problems trying to upgrade one of our internal test environments
from IBM Connections 4.5 CR1 to CR2. The only symptom was the we were unable to move
past the screen in the update wizard (updateWizard.sh / updateWizard.bat) where we select
to install or remove fixes. The UI would simply refuse to move past this screen -
no message, no log, no nothing. To try "something else" I got the idea to try and run
the update installer in silent mode (updateSilent.bat / updateSil [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
applications
java
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Designing a plugin platform
Thu, Sep 5th 2013 11:10p Mikkel Heisterberg In the post "When should I choose to create a mail app versus an add-in for Outlook?" the author nicely captures the main issue with plugin development for Notes/Sametime using SWT in the fact that any error you make can tie up the client and make the Notes client look like the culprit when it most likely is an add-on plugin that is doing the harm.
"One main difference of note is that the object models were designed to integrate tightly with the corresponding Office client applications. Ho [read] Keywords: notes
notes client
sametime
application
applications
archive
development
integration
office
outlook
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Sametime Awareness Simulator
Thu, Jul 11th 2013 1:10a Mikkel Heisterberg I've been corresponding with Andy Higgins a bit about the Sametime Awareness Simulator (SAS) I wrote some years back and which is still getting surprisingly many downloads. SAS is written in Java and Andy was unable to make it run on his Oracle JVM but after debugging a bit I found out that a 32 bit JVM was required. Unfortunately Andy was still unable to make it work so he turned to wiser people than me and contacted Carl Tyler who helped him. Apparently there was an issue with the class forma [read] Keywords: notes
notes client
sametime
eclipse
java
oracle
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New cool reference story about IBM Connections and OnTime Group Calendar
Thu, Jun 27th 2013 10:52p Mikkel Heisterberg Good news - yesterday night a new IBM reference story for one of our Danish customers went online. The reference is for Semler Group and talks about their adoption of Social Business using IBM Connections as a platform and how the social components from OnTime Group Calendar are central pieces in this strategy. The reference story is also available as a PDF. [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Connections V in Zurich - I'm speaking
Wed, Jun 12th 2013 12:50a Mikkel Heisterberg I will be giving a condensed version of my An Introduction To Working With the Activity Stream presentation at the upcoiming Social Connections V event in Zurich on 28 June. I'll be in the development track (surprise, surprise) at 11:20. As I only have 30 minutes the session will be highly condensed but the full presentation with all the examples will still be available to get you up to speed.
Hope to see you there. [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM SmartCloud - credit where credit is due
Mon, Jun 10th 2013 3:09a Mikkel Heisterberg On Friday I blogged about the changes that occured on IBM SmartCloud over the weekend (SmartCloud getting an overhaul this weekend with changes that is looooong overdue) and how I was waiting for IBM to add proper Sametime support in SmartCloud meaning Sametime Proxy, Sametime webchat and Sametime app support. As it turns out these capabilities are available just not visible in the dashboard or otherwise readily obvious. So I will give IBM credit for adding it but why didn't I know?! Anyways - [read] Keywords: ibm
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community
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SmartCloud getting an overhaul this weekend with changes that is looooong overdue
Fri, Jun 7th 2013 12:49a Mikkel Heisterberg This weekend (8-9 June 2013) IBM is releasing their June 2013 Update to the SmartCloud for Social Business. Besides layout changes and notes about the URL used to access the service IBM is finally adding support for the Microsoft Office connectors and the Windows Explorer connector so that, using "click to cloud", users may save, open and edit Office documents and other files directory from SmartCloud. This is of course a big win for users and a byproduct of IBM transitioning the SmartCloud of [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
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microsoft
mobile
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System user in IBM Connections activity stream needs to change
Thu, Jun 6th 2013 1:58a Mikkel Heisterberg The other day I noticed an event in my activity stream for an activity that is about to be auto completed due to inactivity as shown in the screenshot below. There was no profile picture for this user so my first comment as "Hmmmmmm...." as all users posting to the activity stream in Connections must be in Profiles and hence would have a profile picture (in our environment).
actor: {
objectType: "person",
id: "urn:lsid:lconn.ibm.com:profiles.person:SYSTEM",
displayName: "SYSTEM"
}
[read] Keywords: connections
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Authentication vs. Authorization
Wed, May 8th 2013 7:39a Mikkel Heisterberg When ever I talk to customers and partners about single-sign-on (SSO) and the concepts of "authentication" I'm quite often baffled by the level of misunderstanding, misconception and lack of knowledge about just how "authentication" works. Now the reason I put "authentication" is quotes is that when we talk about authentication it's really not just authentication we're talking about. When we talk about confirming the identity of a user and confirming that the user is allowed to access a [read] Keywords: acl
domino
ibm
notes
application
database
password
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Websphere Application Server WIM LDAP adapter log trace
Thu, May 2nd 2013 12:50a Mikkel Heisterberg When debugging LDAP login issues for Websphere Application Server (WAS) you're actually debugging the WIM (Websphere Identity Manager) part of WAS. The actual login piece is part of the adapters (database, ldap, file) which is the repository specific piece that WIM delegate the actual authentication to. The best debug string to use is "com.ibm.ws.wim.adapter.ldap.*=finest" as it limits the debugging to the LDAP piece of WIM. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Setting up LDAP failover for Websphere Application Server
Wed, May 1st 2013 2:16a Mikkel Heisterberg As you may know LDAP is crucial to Websphere Application Server (WAS) when using it for IBM Connections so it makes good sense to configure failover for LDAP. If the LDAP server becomes unavailable you can no longer log in (actually you can't even log into ISC) and WAS can have a hard time reconnecting to the LDAP. Failover is set up using either the ISC Federated Security UI or by editing wimconfig.xml directly (or using wsadmin commands). Using wimconfig.xml have some advantages as you can se [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
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security
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Looking up a datasource from an IBM Connections event handler
Tue, Apr 30th 2013 7:33a Mikkel Heisterberg For a customer project I'm working on these days I'm writing an event handler for IBM Connections Profiles to integrate two profile systems in real-time using the IBM Connections 4.0 Event SPI. Pretty powerful stuff in case you've never looked into it.
In IBM Connections an event handler is basically just a Java bean which you register in events-config.xml to be called when certain events occur such as a profile being updated, the photo set, the photo removed etc. In this event handler I n [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
ldd
lotus
application
database
interface
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profile
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Fixing IBM Connections help for IE users
Mon, Apr 15th 2013 5:13a Mikkel Heisterberg At a customer site they were actually using the IBM Connections help documents (a first I know) but it didn't work for the users in Internet Explorer. After some research it turned out to be due to a missing compatability statement in the generated HTML documents (this statement is present in HTML generated for other features). I've previously reported this issue to IBM but it still hasn't been fixed in version 4.0 CR3 so I took it upon me to find a solution. The solution turned out to be sim [read] Keywords: connections
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Hiding the Social Mail username and password from socialmail-discovery-config.xml
Fri, Apr 5th 2013 12:38a Mikkel Heisterberg It's been bothering me a while that the username and password for our LDAP user was visible in clear text in our socialmail-discovery-config.xml. After going looking for a solution by using very specific searching I found a solution where you can hide the username and password and - stupid as I am - it's actually right there in the install docs. Stupid is as stupid does. The solution is to remove the authentication data from the socialmail-discovery-config.xml and replace the and tags with a [read] Keywords: connections
domino
ibm
ldd
lotus
exchange
exchange
password
websphere
wiki
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There's a new sheriff in town
Thu, Mar 28th 2013 2:33a Mikkel Heisterberg Last week was the annual BLUG event this time in Leuven, Belgium, and as always Theo and team created an amazing event. The BLUG event is now the biggest user group in the a World with a staggering 325 attendes and it really makes BLUG a mini-Connect event attracting the top names from IBM as well as the top speakers from all over the World. This year was no exception and the attendees were gifted with 18 IBM Champions covering everything from Domino to Websphere, XPages to widgets and social to [read] Keywords: atlantic
collaboration
connections
domino
ibm
inotes
notes
xpages community
linkedin
twitter
websphere
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Calendar integration example using OnTime Group Calendar API
Mon, Mar 25th 2013 12:09p Mikkel Heisterberg The Solution
To remedy this they decided to use the OnTime Group Calendar API to integrate the two systems using web services using an intermediate Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The OnTime Group Calendar API web services are hosted directly on IBM Domino and performs extremely well. After implementing the solution the insurance agents only need to maintain their calendar in Notes as it will reflect their true calendar showing both internal, external and personal appointments and meetings.
Th [read] Keywords: domino
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inotes
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application
enterprise
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32 bit or 64 bit
Mon, Mar 25th 2013 12:07p Mikkel Heisterberg As part of upgrading the servers here at IntraVision I had to figure out which servers were running 32 bit and which servers were running 64 bit. It turns out there is a very simple way of doing this as there is a server statistic. Simple do a "show stat Server.Version.Architecture" and it will show the currently installed "bit-ness". [read] Keywords: domino
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Remember to secure your IBM HTTP Server when implementing IBM Connections
Mon, Mar 25th 2013 12:03p Mikkel Heisterberg In Security Now! episode 396 starting at 12:22 (to 25:25) Steve and Leo were talking about various SSL attacks and how one could verify sites. I decided to check out one of my own stock IBM Connections installs i.e. I verified the stock IBM HTTP Server (IHS) install. That was not a pleasant experience as the default IBM HTTP Server is very insecure in that it accepts SSL v.2 and hence some very weak ciphers. Using SSLLabs.com and their SSL Server Test it is very easy to test a SSL site.
Below [read] Keywords: connections
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Wow! IBM preemtive here
Fri, Mar 22nd 2013 5:50p Mikkel Heisterberg Received the following notification from IBM by email:
Our Fix Central records indicate that the ID associated with this email address downloaded IBM Connections 4.0 Cumulative Refresh 3 (CR3). IBM support has found an issue that may affect Notes 9 Social Edition clients accessing IBM Connections 4.0 environments with CR3 applied. iFix LO74465 was added to the 4.0 CR3 package to address this issue and is now available from Fix Central. If you have Notes 9 Social Edition clients that will acce [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
lotus
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Notes 9 GA IDs for plugin development
Thu, Mar 21st 2013 7:40a Mikkel Heisterberg Along with Notes 9 finally going GA comes a new install_id and rcp.base version which are required if you do plugin development and done a custom setup of your Eclipse client. I've updated my Configure Eclipse 4.2 for Notes 9 post with the GA info. [read] Keywords: notes
development
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Websphere Application Server training curriculums FREE
Mon, Mar 18th 2013 7:05a Mikkel Heisterberg 100 free educational modules for #IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.0 -- 40 for V8.5 -- Wow! ibm.co/XdADce— IBM Education Assist (@ibmedassistant) March 18, 2013
I just found out via Twitter that loads of Websphere Application Training is available for free online on the IBM Education Assistant. At the page you'll find stuff for both WAS 8 and 8.5 - nothing for 7.x though which is the version that most IBM Collaboration Solution software runs on though. [read] Keywords: collaboration
ibm
application
server
twitter
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ISBG (formerly LSBG)
Thu, Mar 14th 2013 4:00a Mikkel Heisterberg I'm happy to say that I will be speaking at the upcoming Norwegian IBM Social Business usergroup event in Larvik, Norway on 22-23 May 2013. The event used to be called LSBG (Lotus Samhandling Brukergruppe) but have just been renamed ISBG (IBM Samhandling Brukergruppe) to reflect the changes in the branding of the IBM collaboration solutions. I will be at the event with the OnTime team showcasing our amazing group calendar products - and who knows - we might have a little new thing up our sleeve [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Using DiscoveryServlet for debugging Connections Mail
Thu, Mar 7th 2013 7:03a Mikkel Heisterberg When you install Connections Mail having a way to diagnose how Connections sees a particular users mail setup can be very helpful e.g. which mail system, which hostname, mail file etc. Digging through the network traffic in a working Connections Mail install I discovered calls to "DiscoveryServlet" which is a utility that Connections Mail itself uses for that purpose. It's so nice. When called it returns full info about the mail setup for the queried users (by email address). To call it you u [read] Keywords: connections
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New IBM Notes and Domino Certification Available - get 50% off until 25 June 2013
Thu, Feb 21st 2013 5:19a Mikkel Heisterberg IBM has announced a nice new entry level certification for Notes and Domino and until 25 June 2013 you get 50% off the certification test so if it fits a suggest you go and get certified. The page I link to at the bottom has the promo code you need for the rebate.
"IBM Collaboration Solutions is pleased to announce a new associate level certification: IBM Certified Associate - Notes and Domino.
This credential requires successful completion of the test LOT-442: IBM Notes and Domino Fundamenta [read] Keywords: administration
calendaring
collaboration
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xpages security
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Generating DOM events from JavaScript
Wed, Feb 20th 2013 3:00a Mikkel Heisterberg For the OnTime Group Calendar API Explorer I needed manipulate a dropdown element on the page using JavaScript which is easy enough but when doing it this way no onchange events are emitted which caused my page logic to break. Luckily for me there is a simple way to have the element emit an event using the dispatchEvent mechanism of the DOM. The element.dispatchEvent method is your friend here. The documentation shows you how to create a mouse event but I really needed a HTML based event. To cre [read] Keywords: javascript
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developerWorks interview from IBM Connect 2013
Sat, Feb 16th 2013 3:30a Mikkel Heisterberg On Tuesday at IBM Connect 2013 I was interviewed to developerWorks on my presence as an IBM Champion, what it means to me personally and the skills gap which is becoming extremely apparent with the use of all the new social technologies. [read] Keywords: ibm
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I will speaking at BLUG
Mon, Feb 11th 2013 12:11p Mikkel Heisterberg Very happy to say that I again this year will join up with the community in Bruxelles in March and speak at the annual BLUG event on y-22 Match 2013. I'll be giving a talk on how to bring your data to users by writing widgets for IBM Connections. I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone there. [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
community
widgets
swtIbmWrapper (Not found in java.library.path)
Wed, Jan 23rd 2013 3:00a Mikkel Heisterberg When I'm doing proff-of-concept code for SWT based plugins for Notes I often times simply use a popup Shell constructed from Eclipse. This is much easier and faster than using a full Notes launch for this kind of stuff. After moving to IBM Notes 9 I had an issue with this approach and would see stacktraces like the below when trying to launch my shells.
23-01-2013 09:21:20 OS loadIBMSwtWrapperLibrary
WARNING:
Throwable occurred: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: swtIbmWrapper (Not found in java [read] Keywords: ibm
notes
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OnTime at IBM Connect 2013 - Like to win one of 4 iPad minis
Mon, Jan 21st 2013 7:33a Mikkel Heisterberg OnTime is of course present at IBM Connect 2013 and we will be there in a variety of ways. We are sending 4 people so if you want to talk to us about anything from technology, to sales, to vision you should be good to go. Besides me being there and presenting a session (BP209 on Monday afternoon at 3.45pm) we are in the showcase demoing all our group calendaring goodness as well. We have an extremely cool line-up of products and will be demoing our new UIs namely the reintroduced Team-At-A-Glanc [read] Keywords: calendaring
ibm
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facebook
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Ved du nok om IBM Websphere Application Server?
Tue, Jan 15th 2013 12:25a Mikkel Heisterberg Nedenstående er fra IBM Danmark og klart et kig værd hvis du/I overvejer IBM Connections og/eller IBM Sametime eller andre Websphere baserede produkter.
"Denne dag gennemgår vi de helt fundamentale begreber og ser nærmere på, hvorledes WebSphere Application Server danner fundament for henholdsvis IBM Connections, IBM Sametime og IBM WebSphere Portal. Vi kigger også lidt nærmere på arkitekturen bagved og ser ogs&a [read] Keywords: connections
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"Declaratively" binding events when using innerHTML
Tue, Jan 15th 2013 12:17a Mikkel Heisterberg Yesterday I was editing some JavaScript code that used innerHTML to insert HTML into the Document Object Model (DOM). Given it's not the best and even fastest way to accomplish the task the code was written this way so it was what I had to work with. That is I had code like this:
// build HTML into string
var htmlResult = "";
htmlResult += Click me!";
htmlResult += "";
...
...
// insert HTML into DOM
dojo.byId("target").innerHTML = htmlResult;
One major shortcoming of this approach is [read] Keywords: dojo
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Happy to see this fixed for Notes 9
Sun, Jan 13th 2013 11:47a Mikkel Heisterberg "
When a user or delegated user creates a contact within the mail file, the contact is later archived. The ProtectFromArchive, $NoPurge and ExcludeFromView fields are not being saved to the document when contacts are created in the mail file. These fields are generated on contacts in the local names.nsf Contacts lists.
Resolving the problem This problem was reported to IBM Development in SPR PBAO7NKL2X and is resolved in 8.5.4 (aka version 9)."
Technote 1621998: Personal Contacts are Archive [read] Keywords: ibm
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List of some of the noticeable Notes 9 enhancements
Tue, Jan 8th 2013 6:03a Mikkel Heisterberg The below list outlines what I find the most interesting about the Notes 8.5.4 release.
See messages in your Inbox grouped by date
Abbreviated dates
The Mail views now show abbreviated, simplified dates according to the following changes:
If the date falls on the current day, then the date column will only show the time, for example: "4:50 PM"
Yesterday's date will have "Yesterday" plus the time
If the date falls on a prior day within the past year, then the month and day will be shown [read] Keywords: domino
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java
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IBM Notes antivirus scanning recommendation technote
Wed, Jan 2nd 2013 12:53a Mikkel Heisterberg In a technote titled Notes Client Jar files that can be Excluded from Anti Virus scanning (technote 1620953) IBM provides some guidance for setting up client side virus scanning for IBM Notes. The steps are very catch-all-like but at least there is information available. [read] Keywords: ibm
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A very nice touch from Linkedin
Thu, Dec 20th 2012 3:00a Mikkel Heisterberg Received this email from Linkedin this morning - very nice touch...
"Seeing a lot of weekly digests piling up?
Mikkel, we noticed you haven't visited Eclipse Plugin Developers lately. To help keep your email tidy, we've unsubscribed you from this group's digests - we hope this suits you better!" [read] Keywords: eclipse
email
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Social AppDev Toolkit labs and presentations
Mon, Dec 17th 2012 12:27p Mikkel Heisterberg The presentations from the Social AppDev workshop I attended in Dublin is now online in the appdev wiki so I guess they are public and may be shared. All the presentations and labs can be found here (IBM Social Business Toolkit articles) and I highly recommend you look it over. [read] Keywords: ibm
ldd
lotus
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Decrease in blogging year over year - is it a problem?
Sat, Dec 15th 2012 9:21a Mikkel Heisterberg I've know it for quite a while. I've learned to live with it. The amount of blogging The Bubble has been decreasing the last few years ... mine included. Spending 5 minutes on it I decided to graph my own decreasing activity by year - it's very obvious then. From an all time high of 343 posts in 2006 (top month ever been June of 2006 with 47 monthly posts!!) to just 58 so far in 2012. For the entire year - a year where I've probably been more busy than ever. Quite a fall.
I do realize [read] Keywords: collaboration
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sntt
blogging
facebook
skype
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Configure Eclipse 4.2 (Juno) for Notes 9
Sat, Dec 15th 2012 2:37a Mikkel Heisterberg Yesterday after publishing my updated article on configuring Eclipse 3.5 for Notes 9 I wondered why I was still using such an old Eclipse build. Now Lotus Expeditor and hence Notes is still based on Eclipse 3.4 but since we develop for what's called a target platform that shouldn't matter so I wanted to move to Eclipse 4. So I grabbed Eclipse 4.2 (Juno) from Eclipse.org and started configuring (of course capturing what I learned). The steps are actually remarkably similar to Eclipse 3.5 (with [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Configure Eclipse 3.5 for Notes 9
Fri, Dec 14th 2012 4:54a Mikkel Heisterberg Next after upgrading my Notes client to IBM Notes 9 I updated my Eclipse environment to use Notes 9. The steps are basically the same as previously but for good measure I updates my guidelines. The document is now titled Configure Eclipse 3.5 for Notes 9. For those in the know the only thing to update is the install_id (now "135548059835") and the rcp.base_version (now "9.0.0.20121130-2130").
Happy coding. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Humbled to continue in the status of IBM Champion
Thu, Dec 13th 2012 3:26a Mikkel Heisterberg I was very happy and humbled when I received word that I have been renominated and reappointed as an IBM Champion for IBM Collaboration Solutions for 2013. I'll do my best to live up to this great honor and continue my evangelism for the platforms we all use and love.
Thank you! [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The IBM developerWorks newsletter has been retired
Mon, Dec 10th 2012 6:10a Mikkel Heisterberg The IBM developerWorks newsletter was effectively retired on Friday which really bums me out. I've using the newsletter as an easy weekly way of following along with what happened on developerWorks and I'm going to miss the ease with which I could do that. The "new way" (for me at least) is to use the social media outlets (Twitter, Facebook) or the feeds available. I'm going for the latter and just added a series of feeds using the feeds page to my Google Reader. RIP developerWorks newslett [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Connect 2013 session
Fri, Dec 7th 2012 1:26a Mikkel Heisterberg I was really happy to receive confirmation yesterday night that the session that I submitted with Ryan Baxter was accepted for the Best Practices track. I also co-presented with Ryan in 2011 on plugin development (they are cool you know!) and it will be great to be back on stage with Ryan.
The session is titled "In The Land Of Social Apps The API Is King" and will be all about developing API's for your (existing) applications. The mantra these days is really "no api no fun" and it will b [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
inotes
lotusphere
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xpages applications
desktop
development
enterprise
integration
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IBM Notes and IBM Domino Social Edition - FINALLY!!!
Wed, Nov 14th 2012 4:30a Mikkel Heisterberg If you're part of the Notes/Domino community you are probably excited today!
Unless you've been living under a rock you have seen and/or heard the announcements from IBM yesterday about the upcoming IBM Notes and IBM Domino Social Edition. If not do yourself a favor and go watch the recording. And a new major release - no longer is it 8.5.4 but 9.0!
I'm SO pleased that IBM/Lotus/ICS FINALLY took the plunge and stripped the "Lotus" from the product - not that I dislike the Lotus brand [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Missing passthru_nonProxyHosts for IBM Connections widget proxy
Mon, Nov 5th 2012 2:13a Mikkel Heisterberg When writing widgets for IBM Connections (version 1, 2, 3 and 4) and you have an iWidget (judgement still out on the OpenSocial gadget support) that needs to talk to other network resources than the IBM Connections server you need to change the proxy-config.tpl to work around the same origin policy restrictions imposed on JavaScript running in a browser. The change is easy enough and well documented but what do you do if you need to use a HTTP proxy for requests leaving your network? Well you us [read] Keywords: connections
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An IBM webcast you do not want to miss
Fri, Nov 2nd 2012 2:13a Mikkel Heisterberg This is a webcast not to miss. IBM will discuss the next version of Notes and also discuss the open beta that will start soon!! And as one who has been using the next Notes version for a while I can honestly say that you want to see this. Below is the announcement from IBM.
"Join IBM on November 13th at 10am Eastern Time US for an important series of announcements and previews. Learn how IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino, better than any other platform investment, positions you to create [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Domino rules as an API application server platform
Fri, Oct 19th 2012 6:03a Mikkel Heisterberg Over the last 1.5 years we at OnTime have been making a serious investment into rewriting our backend for the OnTime Group Calendar product. The most fundamental change has been the change from a traditional Notes/Domino application (if it ever was a such) to be a server/API first approach. This means that there's now a layer of separation between the business logic on the server and the business login in the clients namely the API. The API is now king!! It means that most, if not all, knowledg [read] Keywords: domino
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Back from loads of travel - thoughts on the Leadership Alliance and Tokyo
Thu, Oct 18th 2012 2:22a Mikkel Heisterberg So I'm back from a 16 day travel which had me home for 50 odd hours after the 5 days away. First Boston for the Leadership Alliance in Boston which of course - as seen other places on the interwebs is very hush hush - and then Tokyo for 8 days to meet up with our OnTime partner there. The trip was far easier from a jetlag perspective than what I had expected but then again I usually cope with jetlag very well. I did come back with pneumonia though :(
As mentioned what happens at the Leadershi [read] Keywords: domino
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Social Connections IV in Amsterdam
Tue, Oct 16th 2012 1:55a Mikkel Heisterberg The agenda for the upcoming Social Connections IV event in Amsterdam is now public and I'm happy to say that it includes yours truly. I will do a 30 minute introduction to the joys of widget development for IBM Connections. I'm pretty sure that there are still slots available for the event so if you're in Europe on 30 November and you're working with IBM Connections you really should join us. Oh - and bring your customers... [read] Keywords: connections
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LCUSER.DUAL is an undefined name doing IBM Connections 3.0.1 side-by-side migration
Mon, Sep 24th 2012 7:03a Mikkel Heisterberg In the process of moving our internal IBM Connections 3.0.1 server to IBM Connections 4.0 we need to upgrade our DB2 to be 64 bit which is giving us some problems. After talking to IBM they convinced us to first do a side-by-side migration of our 3.0.1 DB2 databases to another 3.0.1 instance before upgrading the databases to 4.0. However in the process we discovered that the documentation for this process is inacurate so I wanted to post the solution here in case others needed it. Referring to t [read] Keywords: connections
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Latest pet project
Mon, Sep 24th 2012 12:23a Mikkel Heisterberg My latest pet project has been working with the OnTime Group Calendar API and try to look into new product ideas or use-cases for calendar data. One thing that came up really quickly is a way to expose all the calendars in OnTime in iCal format and using the API and ical4j it took all about 10 minutes to do. So now we have the option to expose each user in OnTime Group Calendar as an iCal feed honoring the access rights of the logged in user. Now that the data is available as iCal as well it mak [read] Keywords: agent
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IBM Connections 4.0 is 64 bit only
Mon, Sep 10th 2012 4:05a Mikkel Heisterberg This weekend we've been upgrading to IBM Connections 4.0 on a number of systems and for one we are having problems. The problem is that it's a small demo environment which is running on 32 bit Windows. The new release is only supported on 64 bits and the DBWizard will actually not run on 32 bit as the JVM supplied with the wizard is 64 bits only. Whether you can run the wizard on a 64 bit machine and connect to a 32 bit DB2 instance remains to be seen. So now you know...
IBM Connections 4.0 [read] Keywords: connections
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UKLUG is about to start
Mon, Sep 3rd 2012 12:13a Mikkel Heisterberg It's Monday morning in Cardiff, UK, and I'm getting ready to head to breakfast and then to the venue for UKLUG. I'm really looking forward to speaking at this event (today at 11.45am - be there or be square) which is always one of the highlights of the European LUG's. You will also see the top of the Pop of LUG/Lotusphere speakers here and the agenda looks extremely good.
For the speakers the event actually started last night where we were treated to a very nice private tour of the Cardif [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Java Maps and load factors
Fri, Aug 17th 2012 11:47p Mikkel Heisterberg When writing Java code be that for standalone Java, Domino agents or even XPages you often need a data structure to map keys to values. In Java this is a map (java.util.Map) and it works much like a List in LotusScript. Maps are used a lot but since Map is an interface you need an implementation whih is most often a java.util.HashMap.
The way to construct a HashMap is using one of the constructors and if you are like me a couple of months ago you just use the default constructor that is the on [read] Keywords: domino
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The monkeysphere
Sun, Aug 12th 2012 2:52a Mikkel Heisterberg This blog post has been lingering for a while but on This Week in Tech (TWIT) episode 344 between 1:06:50-1:11:00 there is an interesting discussion about Dunbar's number and the concepts of artificiel scarecity. Dunbar's number is used to discuss what's called the "monkeysphere" (What is the Monkeysphere?). It's very interesting and applies very well to our new networked and highly social World. I highly recommend listening to the audio and and reading the acticles if you're into social [read] Keywords: social software
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Notes 8.x shortcut of the day
Fri, Aug 10th 2012 1:33a Mikkel Heisterberg If you haven't docked the Open menu in Notes 8 on the left you want to be able to access it using the keyboard. As always the shortcut list is to the rescue. Ctrl-Shift-L shows a list of all shortcuts and in that list you find "Open list" which is what you want. The shortcut for "Open list" is Alt-B so put away that mouse and use the keyboard. [read] Keywords: notes
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Reusing IBM Connections Atom date formatting for custom widgets
Thu, Aug 2nd 2012 7:10a Mikkel Heisterberg In a recent IBM Connections project I needed to display dates in the same as IBM Connections does it that is full dates sometimes but also using "yesterday", "today" etc. Plus it needed to cater for the fact that the customer might at some future point in time allow the user to change the UI language. Coding this is tedious and would take quite some time so I wanted to figure out if IBM Connections had some libraries that could help me.
And it did.
By messing around in Firebug I found o [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM THINK - the app
Thu, Aug 2nd 2012 7:10a Mikkel Heisterberg Explore how progress happens with the THINK exhibit app, for kids, innovators and forward thinkers.
From the very beginning, we've sought to improve the way we live. We've worked to make our world more efficient, accessible, and safe. While each leap of progress has required its own intelligence and hard work, many seem to follow a distinct, repeatable pattern.
The app is available in the Apple AppStore. [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM THINK - the app
Thu, Aug 2nd 2012 7:09a Mikkel Heisterberg Explore how progress happens with the THINK exhibit app, for kids, innovators and forward thinkers.
From the very beginning, we've sought to improve the way we live. We've worked to make our world more efficient, accessible, and safe. While each leap of progress has required its own intelligence and hard work, many seem to follow a distinct, repeatable pattern.
The app is available in the Apple AppStore. [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM THINK - the app
Thu, Aug 2nd 2012 7:08a Mikkel Heisterberg Explore how progress happens with the THINK exhibit app, for kids, innovators and forward thinkers.
From the very beginning, we've sought to improve the way we live. We've worked to make our world more efficient, accessible, and safe. While each leap of progress has required its own intelligence and hard work, many seem to follow a distinct, repeatable pattern.
We see how our world behaves, map what we find, understand causes and effects, believe we can create new outcomes, and act to buil [read] Keywords: ibm
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@IBMLotusND
Wed, Aug 1st 2012 12:34a Mikkel Heisterberg Just wanted to point people towards the heir to the "LotusKnows" twitter id which is a good way to stay on top of all things Lotus. The new id to follow is @IBMLotusND. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Fixing a wierd widget installation issue (Content is not allowed in prolog)
Tue, Jul 31st 2012 2:20a Mikkel Heisterberg For our OnTime Group Calendar 2011 Notes user interface which is Java plugin based we have seen some strange problem reports with customers reporting that the widget installs but after installation an error message is displayed on screen ("The widgets below had issues during the installation. See the log for more details."). The wierd thing about the reports were that the customers reported that the widget (and hence the plugins) actually installed just fine and worked after a client restart. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Watch the names when doing SSO between WAS and Domino
Tue, Jul 3rd 2012 1:32p Mikkel Heisterberg This morning I helped a customer because they couldn't make the beta of the OnTime Group Calendar for IBM Connections work and it turned out to be a Single-Sign-On issue. For the OnTime widgets to work we require SSO between Websphere Application Server and Domino which is trivial to set up. Simply export the SSO keys from Websphere using the Integrated Solution Console (ISC) and import them into the SSO document in Domino Directory. In Websphere Application Server terms this is called cross-ce [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Connections API tip - override Content-Type header
Mon, Jun 25th 2012 11:50a Mikkel Heisterberg When working with the IBM Connections REST API all responses are returned with the application/atomsvc+xml Content-Type which makes it not show up natively in the browser (or at least in Firefox). A quick solution is the install the Force Content-Type extension and change the Content-Type to text/xml on the fly to make the result show up in the browser. Rules are quick and easy to define. [read] Keywords: connections
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It's been quiet around here - what have I been up to?
Mon, Jun 25th 2012 12:59a Mikkel Heisterberg Well it has been very quiet on my front both on the blogging side and on twitter. I've not been lazy but just have had a lot of stuff on my plate the last couple of months. It all started with a very productive trip to Japan and following that AusLUG to catch up with friends and speak at that user group. Businesswise Japan was especially great and we have hooked up with a new OnTime partner out there. Axcel Coporation is our new spearhead into the Japanese market and they are making great progr [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM still in the lead
Thu, Jun 21st 2012 4:04a Mikkel Heisterberg I was pleasantly surprised to again see that IDC for the third year running is ranking IBM as the leader for enterprise social software. As a IBM business partner we too are seeing the increased demand for this transformational software although implementation and realization of the potential is oftentimes hard in smaller companies without the budget to drive adoption with community managers or evangelists. It will be interesting to follow this market and see when and if competitors will catch u [read] Keywords: ibm
community
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Controlling the feature install location
Thu, Jun 21st 2012 3:01a Mikkel Heisterberg When installing plugins (that is Eclipse features) into Lotus Notes and you're running a roaming environment you kind of have a problem. The problem is that the only part of the plugins that roam are the plugin settings (i.e. should the Sametime come of front on new IMs) but not the actual code for the plugin. That means that when a user roams to a new machine the plugin isn't installed and hence the user will experience that the plugin will start installing and prompt for a restart. This is b [read] Keywords: admin
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The easy way to loop an XPage managed bean
Tue, Jun 5th 2012 1:25a Mikkel Heisterberg I got harassed by Nathan (hmmm his blog appears to be down just now) yesterday for not contributing to the XPages dicussions out there so I thought I'd better remedy that. A quick tip is to make sure your Managed Bean implements Iterable if it contains a list of "things" and the obvious behaviour would be to loop over these things. If you implement Iterable you simple loop on the object using the "new" for-loop (when in Java) instead of first returning a List or array and then looping that [read] Keywords: domino
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Using the IBM Connections API from other languages using custom certificates
Mon, Jun 4th 2012 12:35a Mikkel Heisterberg I was reading up on some stuff in the IBM Connections REST API during the weekend and came across a post titled Using IBM Connections API in different programming languages on how to use the REST API from other languages than JavaScript from within IBM Connections. The approach there is very nice and quite valid but it fails to mention what to do if the SSL certificate of the API endpoint either isn't trusted or isn't certified using a "known" root certificate. In this case "known" means t [read] Keywords: connections
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Light reading received
Thu, May 31st 2012 12:34a Mikkel Heisterberg Just received my review copy of the new XPages book on the extensibility library (XPages Extension Library: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Next Generation of XPages Components). Should be an interesting read - it involves plugins :) [read] Keywords: xpages
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IBM moving to electronic support only
Sat, May 19th 2012 12:50a Mikkel Heisterberg Starting June 2012 customers are "requested" to start opening IBM Serbice Requests (SR) using the electronic support portal and from 2013 only electronic entry will be possible for severity 2, 3 and 4. This is in no way a surprise and makes IBM move funds from the probably costly phone based support they are offering now and probably also makes a lot more sense for supplying all the relevant information. This is all well and good so long the quality of the data entry forms are top notch. More [read] Keywords: ibm
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Joda Time comment
Fri, May 11th 2012 12:15a Mikkel Heisterberg While Joda Time is a great library there is an easier way to accomplish what you are trying to do. Simply remove the time component by doing a simple modulus calculation. I am not trying to be smart about it but we do this quite a lot at OnTime :) Code could look like so:
Date d = new Date();
long lngTime = d.getTime();
lngTime -= lngTime % TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(1);
Date dNoTime = new Date(lngTime);
The latter date object creation isn't actually necessary for the comparison. An utility funct [read] Keywords: java
Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work
Sun, Apr 22nd 2012 12:08p Mikkel Heisterberg Excellent TED video on why work doesn't happen at work.
"Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. At TEDxMidwest, he lays out the main problems (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make work work."
"Jason Fried thinks deeply about collaboration, productivity and the nature of work. He's the co-founder of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and other web-based collaboration tools, and co-author of "Rework."" [read] Keywords: collaboration
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AWS Marketplace
Thu, Apr 19th 2012 7:56a Mikkel Heisterberg Just got word today that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now offering a Marketplace (aws.amazon.com/marketplace) where ready made Amazon Machine Instaces (AMI's) can be easily purchased. Besides featuring instances from many top software vendors it also features AMI's for OpenSource solutions such as Tomcat, JBoss, MongoDb etc. There are currently 7 IBM AMI's available.
IBM DB2 Workgroup Edition
IBM WebSphere Application Server
IBM DB2 Express Edition
IBM Tivoli Monitoring on Linux - 50 Virtual [read] Keywords: domino
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Go the f*ck home!
Thu, Apr 19th 2012 7:31a Mikkel Heisterberg Really loved this Ignite Talk with a very provocative title - Go the f*ck home! (link to video on YouTube) as it confirms something I'm a strong believer in - you do not get more done just because you spend more time at the office. The talk also points to an interesting study on this (SCHEDULED OVERTIME AND LABOR PRODUCTIVITY: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS). [read] Keywords: office
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Tag til brugergruppe i Norge
Thu, Apr 19th 2012 7:29a Mikkel Heisterberg Kan du ikke deltage i Dannotes i starten af maj og/eller trænger du til at se nye mennesker eller få nye impulser så tag til den norske Notes brugergruppe LSBG d. 23. og 24. maj i Larvik. Jeg var deroppe sidste år og det er et virkelig lækkert sted helt ud til vandet relativt tæt på vandet. Larvik nås nemt med Norwegian fra Kastrup (kender ikke mulighederne fra Billund). Agendaen kan ses på hjemmesiden hvor [read] Keywords: notes
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Amazon gives Google a run for its money with CloudSearch
Thu, Apr 12th 2012 6:20a Mikkel Heisterberg I'm a big proponent of Amazon Web Services (AWS) so it came as no surprise when Amazon today announced its latest addition to the AWS family - AWS CloudSearch.
"Amazon CloudSearch adds search capabilities for your website or application without the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a search platform. Amazon CloudSearch seamlessly scales as the amount of searchable data increases or as the query rate changes, and developers can change search parameters, fine tune search relevan [read] Keywords: application
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Authenticating a web service request
Tue, Apr 10th 2012 7:07a Mikkel Heisterberg In my current project I needed to place an authenticated web services request from Lotus Domino to an Oracle SOA endpoint. Turned out to be extremely easy using the Lotus Domino web services consumer feature as I just used the setCredentials(String, String) method which then adds the necessary Authorization header to the HTTP call. Below is an example.
MyEchoServiceLocator l = new MyEchoServiceLocator();
MyEcho u = l.getDomino();
u.setCredentials("Domino Admin", "password");
String result = [read] Keywords: admin
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