LS10/EC10 session sample #2: Adding custom properties to DDE design elements
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 1:00p Karsten Lehmann Sample 2 of our Lotusphere and Entwickercamp sessions is an add-on for Domino Designer on Eclipse. (I changed the order of the samples, because we need to work on a few others before we can publish them) As a long time web developer for the Notes/Domino platform, I have always missed one Designer feature a lot: There was obviously no easy way to get the pixel dimensions of image resources. My workaround was to extract the image to disk, open it in an image viewer and write down the width an [read] Keywords: domino
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Entwickercamp 2010: our slides about add-ons for Notes Client and Domino Designer 8.5.1
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 9:17a Karsten Lehmann As Julian Buss and Ulrich Krause already blogged, Entwicklercamp 2010 (developer camp), taking place this week from Monday to Wednesday, was a really well organized conference. It was great to meet with other developers and business partners and there were a lot of high quality sessions, mainly focused on XPages for web and Notes Client and Java/JavaScript development. Good to see that more and more developers and end users get interested in the new possibilities. Thanks to Rudi Knegt and hi [read] Keywords: domino
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LS10 session sample #1: Notes Bookmark tools
Sat, Jan 30th 2010 10:51a Karsten Lehmann This is the first sample that we developed for our Lotusphere session about the Java APIs of Lotus Notes 8.5.1. And it's already the first one that we did not actually show at Lotusphere, because we ran out of session time in our rehearsals and felt the need to reduce the amount of live demos. The sample plugin is called "com.mindoo.bookmarktools". It adds two actions to the Open List of Lotus Notes: Locate on workspace This action uses the methods NotesUIWorkspace.addDatabase(NotesData [read] Keywords: domino
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Our Lotusphere 2010 slides: BP203 - Leverage the New Java APIs in IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1!
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:03a Karsten Lehmann We had a very positive response to our session about the Notes Client and Domino Designer extensibility Java APIs in Lotus Notes 8.5.1 at Lotusphere. All the feedback evaluations where either "Excellent" or "Good" and in addition, we also got personal feedback from 4-5 participants (even in the bus to the Hollywood studios on Wednesday) who especially liked the fact that we showed so many demos. Well, to be honest, we even planned and developed more demos than we actually could show. We deci [read] Keywords: domino
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One Lotusphere 2010 session approved!
Tue, Nov 17th 2009 4:28p Karsten Lehmann We just received an email from IBM telling us that one of our session submissions for Lotusphere 2010 has been approved. The title is: Add-ons for Client/Designer leveraging new Java APIs of Lotus Notes 8.5.1 This is really cool, because it's our favorite topic. Those new APIs can be used for many small useful Notes and DDE add-ons and I'm sure we will have some nice giveaways for the session. See you in Orlando! [read] Keywords: designer
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XPages series #8: Dynamically creating the UI of an XPage in Java
Tue, Nov 10th 2009 11:56p Karsten Lehmann This 8th part of the XPages series is more or less a link to a great blog posting that was just published my Tommy Valand. It demonstrates how you can create a dynamic web user interface by leveraging JSF features in your XPages application. In his example, Tommy produces a data table UIComponent with a snippet of Java code that is executed with the click on a button. I'm currently working on something similar for a customer project, but unfortunately I cannot say much about technical [read] Keywords: lotus
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Augmented reality on the iPhone - a cool new concept with great potential
Mon, Aug 31st 2009 8:54a Karsten Lehmann A little sign of life, one week after the last vacation and one week before the next one. :-) Our main work at the moment has to do with a completely new MindPlan version for our partner Haus Weilgut. There already is a standalone MindPlan application on the market that stores its data in Lotus Notes and one version that is directly integrated into the Lotus Notes 8.x client as a Composite Application component. This new version is somehow different. Still using Notes/Domino technologies, bu [read] Keywords: composite
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XPages series #6: Tracking data changes
Wed, Jul 22nd 2009 6:58p Karsten Lehmann We will change and add a lot of code in our XPages/JSF sample implementation in this blog posting, because our current Movie Actor application does note handle data changes very well. Remember part 4 of this series, when we introduced the Actor and ActorList implementation: Our ActorList Java bean is the so called backing bean behind the ActorList XPage, which means that it is used to provide the data and application logic needed by that XPage. Moving all the code from the XPage to the back [read] Keywords: javascript
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XPages series #4: Backing Bean Management with XPages
Thu, Jul 16th 2009 3:58a Karsten Lehmann In this part of the XPages series about an alternative application architecture, I'm going to talk about Backing Bean Management. At the end of this blog entry, you should get the trick how the XPages user interface can be connected to backend Java Beans. I will follow up with another article that contains code snippets you might need after you start working with this technology in a real-life project. And I promise to show an example at the very end of this series, to not leave you alone, [read] Keywords: document
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XPages series #3: How to use version control systems in DDE
Wed, Jul 15th 2009 12:02p Karsten Lehmann Ok, in my previous posting of the XPages series, I said I'm going to talk about faces-config.xml next, but I just wanted to add a side note, because the topic "Version Control in Domino Designer on Eclipse" seems to be quite interesting for the developer community. As you might know, DDE 8.5 is not able to do proper version control for your Notes database, because the CVS/SVN plugins of the underlying Eclipse platform do not support a virtual filesystem (like DDE uses it). But there is a wor [read] Keywords: designer
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XPages series #1: The vision of a better XPages architecture
Wed, Jul 15th 2009 5:45a Karsten Lehmann Well, when I look at all the blog postings and tutorials that have been written so far about XPages, I get the feeling, nobody really asks for some kind of "advanced architecture" for XPages applications. Something that goes beyond just plugging a new UI on top of Notes documents, something with a kind of "master plan" in mind with reusable pieces of code and a clear separation of the UI and the backend logic. Maybe that's because it's a Notes technology and therefore Rapid Application Develo [read] Keywords: designer
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English Mindoo website online
Fri, Jun 19th 2009 12:40p Karsten Lehmann Only three days after the German Mindoo website, the English page is also public. Thanks to our quick translator! The website is available at http://www.mindoo.com [read] Keywords:
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German Mindoo website online
Tue, Jun 16th 2009 6:25a Karsten Lehmann We finally had enough time to work on the Mindoo website. Yesterday, it went live and is available at http://www.mindoo.de An English translation is planned for the near future. We already contacted our translator. [read] Keywords:
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Video of an impressive Notes 8 application UI
Tue, Jun 9th 2009 12:00p Karsten Lehmann I just found a video of a new Notes 8 application in Bob Balfe's blog, that demonstrates what kind of modern user interfaces can be implemented using the capabilities of the Lotus Notes 8.x framework. The product is implemented by another company from the Notes/Domino Design Partner program, Lotus 911, using Lotus Notes 8 and the Lotus Foundations server. Looks like the time has come for more business partners building "modern" Notes application. I'm curious what the next months will brin [read] Keywords: domino
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Developing a Composite Application from scratch (2)
Sun, May 31st 2009 9:19a Karsten Lehmann Welcome to part 2 of our blog series about the development of the "Mindoo CA Document Management System", a DMS based on Composite Application technology. Today, I would like to tell you something about the general idea for the system. Here is a draft of the user interface I have in mind: That looks pretty simple. The UI consists of three main area: The user selects a filing element in the filing tree component in the upper left. Depending on the selection, the upper right component dis [read] Keywords: composite
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Developing a Composite Application from scratch (1)
Wed, May 27th 2009 8:38a Karsten Lehmann With this posting I would like to start a new series in this blog. It's about the development of a new application from scratch that is based on Composite Application technology. The idea is to build a flexible and extensible document management system step by step and documented it in this blog. I know there are already a lot of document management systems for Lotus Notes. However, by using Composite Application technology, a lot of development challenges can be solved in a better way t [read] Keywords: composite
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How to automatically find bugs in Java code
Thu, May 14th 2009 6:38a Karsten Lehmann Animated by a blog posting of Stephan Wissel about automatic code review, I would like to share an interesting article with you. It's about three tools to automatically detect possible bugs in Java code. It compares the tools FindBugs, PMD and TFTP (Test and Performance Tools), which provide rule based code analysis that you can also extend with your own "personal bugs". Here is the article: Destroy annoying bugs part 1: FindBugs and PMD doing good work cheaply Destroy annoying bugs par [read] Keywords: eclipse
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Mindoo has become a member of IBM’s Notes/Domino Design Partner program
Tue, May 12th 2009 10:33a Karsten Lehmann Today we're proud to announce that Mindoo has become a member of IBM's Notes/Domino Design Partner program! As an early adopter of new technology, the Design Partner program gives Mindoo the opportunity to test and evaluate IBM Lotus Notes and Domino based products before they are released. The Design Partner program consists of the following components: PRE-beta software downloads a discussion forum for interaction between Design Partners and developers requirements voting and prioritizati [read] Keywords: domino
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Unit test Composite Application for our Entwicklercamp component
Thu, Apr 2nd 2009 5:14p Karsten Lehmann Did not have much free time to continue with our Entwicklercamp demo series. I moved from one flat to another in Karlsruhe, had project work to do and some problems with my notebook hardware: nVidia graphic chip crash on my Macbook Pro. The last picture of my old Macbook Pro logic board looked like this: Pretty creative :-) Some reinstallation attempts, 1-2 weeks of waiting and a board exchange later, it's working again (did not have to pay money, "just" lost a lot of time -> thanks n [read] Keywords: composite
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Toolbar code to easily change a document field
Sat, Mar 7th 2009 5:07a Karsten Lehmann Here is a tool that I often use to modify fields an a selected document. No Java solution (yet), simple @-formula code that you can just paste into a newly created toolbar icon of your Lotus Notes client. I've only tested with R8 so far, but I think it should also work in R7. After the "installation" of the icon, select a document and click on the icon: Here you can choose which field you would like to change or - as an alternative - you can create a new one. Enter the value of the f [read] Keywords: document
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Our presentation slides from Entwicklercamp 2009 (German)
Thu, Mar 5th 2009 6:17a Karsten Lehmann Lets start our Entwicklercamp slides and demo publication. In this posting you will find the PDF version of our Entwicklercamp presentation in German language. We showed about 8 demos for Java/Swing integration into Lotus Notes in our session. Those will also be available here in the blog, but we would like to do some documentation work to make it easier for you to understand them, e.g. writing a short text and creating a Wink movie of how to use them. Same with the sample Java/Swing CA comp [read] Keywords: lotus
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It’s showtime for Mindoo: Modern Java and Lotus Notes development
Mon, Mar 2nd 2009 6:19a Karsten Lehmann Welcome in the Mindoo blog! Mindoo is a modern "Web 2.0" software company. Maybe that is why we might well be the first company, that has a blog up and running before any actual content on the website. :-) It's been some time since Mindoo has been founded and we've been incredible busy with several development projects. That's why we haven't really found the time to create our website. However, we intend to keep a constant resourceful blog about our work and our vision of how softwa [read] Keywords: lotus
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