How to use Worklight with XPages
Wed, Apr 25th 2012 12:45a Niklas Heidloff In my last blog entry I mentioned that I want to publish instructions for how to use XPages in Worklight. "It is currently not supported to point the Worklight app against a remote web server, e.g. a ... [read] Keywords: xpages server
2012 Technology Trends from the IBM WebSphere CTO
Fri, Apr 13th 2012 12:39a Niklas Heidloff Jerry Cuomo is an IBM Fellow and the WebSphere Chief Technology Officer. I watched the other day a great presentation from him about technology trends for 2012. Fortunately he's published a lot of thi ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Why Dojo? Why PhoneGap?
Tue, Mar 20th 2012 1:33a Niklas Heidloff Several people have asked me why IBM uses the Dojo Toolkit as the client side JavaScript library and not other, maybe more popular, frameworks like jQuery. My colleague Chris Mitchell explains this ve ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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How does OpenSocial relate to XPages?
Wed, Feb 1st 2012 12:47a Niklas Heidloff There has been quite a lot of talk about open social recently. Below is a list of resources and I'll try to explain OpenSocial and it's relation to XPages in my own words. OpenSocial is an open set ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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My Definition of Social Software
Thu, Jan 26th 2012 1:52a Niklas Heidloff In our session "Use Domino and XPages for your Social Business" Herbert Wagger and I spent most of the time doing demos. At the beginning however I explained my definition of Social Software, it's rel ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusphere and XPages News
Wed, Jan 11th 2012 12:08a Niklas Heidloff Next week I'll have two sessions at Lotusphere. Please stop by and say hi. Session AD105: Use IBM Lotus Domino and XPages for your Social Business Speakers: Herbert Wagger, General Manager of INTRA ... [read] Keywords: domino
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2011 - The XPages Year
Wed, Dec 21st 2011 12:32a Niklas Heidloff What a year for XPages, XPages developers and the community. Here is a quick summary of some of the highlights. New XPages feature: Access to relational databases New XPages feature: Social enable ... [read] Keywords: xpages community
XSnippets getting more and more social
Wed, Dec 14th 2011 12:58a Niklas Heidloff The XSnippets team has already blogged about some social features we put in XSnippets recenty, for example anonymous rating and feeds, Facebook comments and embeddable widgets and the share box and re ... [read] Keywords: facebook
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Embed XSnippets from OpenNTF in Blogs
Fri, Nov 18th 2011 2:49a Niklas Heidloff As I blogged earlier this week Frank van der Linden, Serdar Basegmez, Bruce Elgort and I developed and deployed a beta version of XSnippets on OpenNTF. One of the features is the capability to embed ... [read] Keywords: openntf
New XPages Extension Library Documentation and more
Tue, Oct 18th 2011 3:35a Niklas Heidloff Yesterday we released a major update of the XPages Extension Library. As some of you might have read in my blog I've been involved with the implementation of a new feature that we call Social Enabler. ... [read] Keywords: xpages
Developing Java in XPages and Domino
Wed, Aug 17th 2011 1:34a Niklas Heidloff Since I get asked this regularly here is a quick overview of the different ways to use Java in XPages and in the classic Domino app dev model. There are different types of XPages developers. Stephan ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Access Files from Dropbox and LotusLive in XPages
Thu, Jul 21st 2011 12:43a Niklas Heidloff Justin Murray and Daneel Reif are two students who are currently working on a summer internship project that we call social enabler. The main implementation goal is to create functionality to access f ... [read] Keywords: xpages
Quick Tip: Hidden XPages Configuration Options
Fri, Jun 17th 2011 12:06a Niklas Heidloff Last week I gave a workshop to experienced Domino web developers where we dived pretty deep and discussed many detailed XPages functionality. During that workshop I had to show them a couple of times ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Google I/O Sessions on YouTube
Mon, May 16th 2011 2:27a Niklas Heidloff Some (or even all?) of the sessions from Google I/O 2011 from last week are on YouTube. I've watched Google web storage and HTML5 and what's next, both were very informative. Other sessions like mobi ... [read] Keywords: google
Mobile Apps Development - Native or Web?
Fri, Apr 15th 2011 12:46a Niklas Heidloff There is a big debate going on whether to develop mobile apps as native apps or as web apps. I've found a couple of nice articles recently that I want to share. This discussion doesn't only occur in ... [read] Keywords: development
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Something wonderful has happened
Tue, Mar 22nd 2011 1:29a Niklas Heidloff I don't have much time but wanted to share something wonderful with all friends I forgot to include in my mail - my son Jannis was born. He and my wife are doing well. My older son and my daughter are ... [read] Keywords:
Earn Money with your Mobile XPages Apps
Mon, Mar 14th 2011 1:17a Niklas Heidloff There is a big debate going on whether you should develop native mobile apps using platform specific SDKs or via web apps. My personal preference is via web apps because I can use the same skills to b ... [read] Keywords: xpages mobile
Welcome to my new Blog on the IBM Cloud
Mon, Feb 28th 2011 8:03a Niklas Heidloff Yancy Lent just added my blog to Planetlotus (thx) and I saw that even my test entries from some days ago show up. So I guess it's time for me to introduce this blog. I've created this blog to write ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Quick Tip: Prereq to run XPages on Blackberry
Tue, Jul 13th 2010 1:27a Niklas Heidloff Before I post this code plus more on OpenNTF, here is a quick tip what you need to do to run XPages apps and Blackberry. If you don't follow the setup below you'll always get a zoom in when you tip anywhere. You need to disable zoom so that you can actually click links etc. Blackberry supports also the viewport meta tag - see here. However there are some things you need to know: 1. Spaces are not allowed 2. The meta tag has to be under the header tag. This can be done now [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus knows Superman
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 2:24a Niklas Heidloff In honor of YellowDay I was thinking about what Lotus means to me. During my time at university I worked for a small company in Germany where we implemented Lotus Workflow. After university I started to work for this company full-time since I knew that there is a good chance to be acquired by Lotus/IBM. I did this even though at that time employees didn't get (regular) salary anymore. Four months later I was invited to come to Boston for an interview and some weeks later I moved to Boston. [read] Keywords: domino
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OpenNTF goes to ...
Tue, Jun 23rd 2009 4:10a Niklas Heidloff There have been some discussions about what is going on with OpenNTF these days, e.g. in Volker's blog (see here). I'm in a difficult situation since I have no authority to speak on behalf of OpenNTF and as always I cannot speak for IBM in this blog. So I don't know where OpenNTF goes to but here are some personal notes. I think the key value of OpenNTF is the code, nothing more and nothing less. In the strategy working group teamroom (see here) I've documented that I'd like to open sou [read] Keywords: ibm
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Looking for customers using the Notes/Domino discussion template
Wed, Jun 3rd 2009 5:07a Niklas Heidloff As I wrote about earlier in this blog entry I'd like to extend the discussion template. I'm looking for customers, partners or other developers who are either using discussion databases heavily and/or have extended the discussion template to help prioritizing the new functionality. As you can read in the previous blog entry we could do exciting things. Better extensibility, modern rich client UI, better feed support and integrations of custom user profiles are some examples for possible new [read] Keywords: domino
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Two projects on OpenNTF: Mail rules plugin and OSGI admin bridge component
Thu, May 21st 2009 11:15p Niklas Heidloff Bob Balfe published two projects on OpenNTF three weeks ago that I haven't blogged about. The first one is his mail rules sample. It shows how to write an Eclipse plugin to add an icon to the mail Java (CSI) view (e.g. inbox). Then it uses the notes.jar to read and run mail rules. There is an article that describes how this sample has been implemented. This icon ... ... invokes this dialog: The second sample is a composite application component, called the OSGI event admin br [read] Keywords: admin
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Pictures from DNUG Keynote
Tue, May 12th 2009 3:33a Niklas Heidloff As I wrote about earlier Kevin Cavanaugh introduced the new OpenNTF Alliance. Here are his two slides. Because of my composite application background I also enjoyed when Ron Sebastian demonstrated the partner solution from Openspan which can render .NET applications inside of composite applications in Lotus Notes. [read] Keywords: ldd
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DNUG announcement: The new OpenNTF Alliance
Tue, May 12th 2009 3:30a Niklas Heidloff At Lotusphere IBM announced to sponsor a new collaboration with OpenNTF. Today at DNUG Kevin Cavanaugh announced more details about this new collaboration. The new OpenNTF Alliance is a group of equal members with the common goal to provide open source apps based on Lotus Notes/Domino. See here for the OpenNTF press release. See here for a developerworks article about the new Alliance or see here for information about the Alliance directly on OpenNTF. I won't repeat all the information [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Floating Panel XPages Control
Mon, May 11th 2009 3:45a Niklas Heidloff There is a new simple XPages control on OpenNTF - floating panel. Essentially this control is just a wrapper for the dojo.dnd.Moveable class which can now be easily used in XPages. You can run it live here. Custom control: ccFloatingPanel In order to use the floating panel in your app, add this custom control to your XPage. The content to display within the panel can be defined in two ways: 1. Property of custom control Property name Type Default Description Sample value t [read] Keywords: ldd
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Simple Navigator XPages Control
Wed, May 6th 2009 10:30p Niklas Heidloff I've implemented another re-usable XPages control. It is a simple navigator that can be used to display links in a flat list, e.g. in the left sidebar. You can get it from the OpenNTF catalog and you can try it live here. With this control I want to demonstrate how I think re-usable XPages controls (as opposed to custom controls only) should be documented so that they can be as easily as possible reused. Each re-usable control needs to document the following topics: 1. What desi [read] Keywords: domino
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Unit tests for XPages
Thu, Apr 23rd 2009 5:09a Niklas Heidloff Lorcan McDonald from the IBM XPages development in Dublin has posted a unit test framework for XPages - see here. To test functions with the framework you create an object with one or more testcase functions as properties of that object. A testcase is any function starting with the string 'test'. A suite should also have a name property to help identify it in the test results. To run the tests you pass the function into the UnitTesting.runSuite() function (UnitTesting is defined in an exter [read] Keywords: ibm
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XPages Login Control
Wed, Apr 22nd 2009 12:32p Niklas Heidloff There is a new reusable control on OpenNTF to let users log in. Open the OpenNTF catalog and then the XPages login control. This XPage custom "login" control (ccLoginControl) can be added into your XPages. There is a sample "LoginTest" XPage within this nsf together with a cut down "Blue" theme which uses the oneui. The control detects whether authentication is basic or session based and behaves accordingly (no logout for basic etc). There is an optional parameter "logoutRe [read] Keywords: ldd
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Red unread Marks in Notes 8 Standard
Tue, Apr 21st 2009 8:58a Niklas Heidloff There are some Notes users who miss the good old red unread marks in Notes 8 Standard. Qian Liang from the Chinese IBM development lab has added another theme 'classic mail' to his OpenNTF component with which users can now see unread mails in red again. In order to use it go to the OpenNTF catalog and the component 'Notes Themes'. This sample can be installed via drag and drop into your Notes client.. [read] Keywords: ibm
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New composite application component on OpenNTF: Property converter
Thu, Apr 9th 2009 12:52a Niklas Heidloff Kevin Bergin from the IBM development lab in Dublin implemented this sample that we published on OpenNTF now - see here. The property converter is a composite application component that can be put between two components to convert the property that goes over the wire via JavaScript snippets. Here is a little sample to describe the component. The property converter is the rectangle at the bottom. The company of the person you select in the contacts list is sent to the property converter whi [read] Keywords: ibm
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