On OpenNTF: XPages Document Locker Managed Bean
Fri, May 17th 2013 12:40a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Fredrik Norling
has contributed a project called XPage
Document Locker.
The project includes a managed bean
with methods to lock and unlock documents. The mechanism works if all users
access the same replica. The documents are not physically locked but instead
a programming convention is used to check whether documents are locked
before some [read] Keywords: ibm
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On OpenNTF: Extended FilteringSelected XPages Control
Thu, May 16th 2013 3:10a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Ferry Kranenburg
has contributed a project called XPages
FilteringSelected Extended.
The project includes a control which
extends the FilteringSelected control which comes with the XPages Extension
Library. Watch the video
to see the control in action. Below is Ferry's description:
"This widget adds some nice features
to the dojo Filt [read] Keywords: ibm
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Interview with Bruce Elgort about OpenNTF
Mon, May 13th 2013 1:44a Niklas Heidloff Celia Hamilton from socialbiz User Group
interviewed
Bruce Elgort, the chair of OpenNTF, about several OpenNTF related topics.
Listen to the podcast.
Celia's description: "Bruce Elgort
called in to SocialBiz to discuss his work with OpenNTF.org, XSnippets.info,
Collaboration Today, and XPages.info. Take a listen to find out what Bruce's
favorite XSnippet is and which XSnippets are the most popular overall.
Also, get info from Bruce on OpenNTF.org's Appathon contest that
is [read] Keywords: collaboration
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OpenNTF Webinar Replay has been published
Wed, May 8th 2013 12:54a Niklas Heidloff Thanks to everyone who attended our first webinar "OpenNTF - The IBM Collaboration Solutions App Dev Community" yesterday.
If you missed it, you can watch the video, listen to the audio or read the slides.
On 06/03/13 David Leedy and Mark Roden will present in the next webinar "Get Started with XPages". Don't miss it! [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New Release of the Trouble Ticket Application
Tue, May 7th 2013 1:31a Niklas Heidloff In my IBM Connect session I used a trouble ticket application as example to show how to access IBM Connections from XPages and to show how to put XPages in the Embedded Experience in Connections, Notes and iNotes.
My colleague Yun Zhi Lin has now created an open source version of this application and documented how to set up it up. There is a version for IBM Domino 8.5.3 and another one for 9.0 which uses the new 'send mail' action. Both versions use the XPages Social Enabler which comes w [read] Keywords: connections
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On OpenNTF: Dynamically compiled XPages
Tue, May 7th 2013 12:18a Niklas Heidloff Philippe Riand has published a new version
of the XPages
Bazaar which includes functionality
to execute XPages that have been developed outside of IBM Domino Designer.
Below is Phil's description.
"This release features a new capability
that will make my fellow hackers curious: the ability to dynamically compile
Java code on the server, and inject the resulting class in a classloader.
Then you follow me, it is the foundation for dynamic pages, including XPages.
It even provides a [read] Keywords: domino
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Attend the first OpenNTF Webinar on Tuesday
Mon, May 6th 2013 12:16a Niklas Heidloff On Tuesday 05/07 at 10:00 AM EST the
first OpenNTF webinar will take place where we'll describe OpenNTF itself.
Find the meeting information on http://webinars.openntf.org.
No registration is required.
Agenda:
1. Welcome
2. OpenNTF Overview
3. XSnippets
4. Collaboration Today and XPages.info
5. Contests
5a. Demo: Forms'n Views
6. Intellectual Property
7. Get engaged [read] Keywords: collaboration
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On OpenNTF: Calendar Service for IBM Domino
Thu, May 2nd 2013 1:42a Niklas Heidloff The latest release
of the XPages Extension Library contains the first version of the calendar
service (REST API) for IBM Domino 9.0. Dave Delay and the Domino REST services
team have posted the documentation
and are asking
for feedback. Below is a short
introduction of the new service.
"The Domino calendar service is
now included in the extension library. The calendar service represents
calendar data in both JSON and iCalendar formats. The calendar service
lets you send HTTP reque [read] Keywords: domino
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New IP Policy
Wed, May 1st 2013 8:14a Peter Tanner A few weeks ago, OpenNTF's Board unanimously
approved an update to the Intellectual Property Policy. I know – people's
eyes glaze over when you talk about IP issues and open source – however,
these changes are going to affect the look and feel of the site, and perhaps
the way you use OpenNTF contributions.
The main thrust of the changes is replacing
the concept of the “Catalog” with the concept of “Clearing” releases.
Before, any project release t [read] Keywords: openntf
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New OpenNTF Project: JavaScript Aggregator
Wed, May 1st 2013 1:26a Niklas Heidloff Dan Dumont and Chuck Dumont have contributed
a new project, called JavaScript
Aggregator. You can find the source
code also on GitHub
and the documentation in the Wiki.
Below is a short description from Dan and Chuck.
"The JavaScript Aggregator is an
OSGi servlet that provides aggregation and code minification services to
AMDs loaders that supports the loader extension API. Features include:
- JavaScript minification using the
Google Closure compiler
- Code trimming using has.j [read] Keywords: css
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New Video: XPages Advanced Lifecycle Optimization
Tue, Apr 30th 2013 12:38a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages Masterclass video series, Tony McGuckin has published the fourth part which describes advanced lifecycle optimization.
The video is almost two hours long. Here is a timeline:
1. Understanding the XPages Request Processing Lifecycle [Timeline: 2 mins 11 secs]
2. Reliability, Integrity, Consistency, Efficiency (RICE) [Timeline: 5 mins 33 secs]
3. Advanced Lifecycle Optimization [Timeline: 8 mins 41 secs]
3.1. Reliability [Timeline: 8 mins 41 secs]
3.2. In [read] Keywords: xpages openntf
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Announcing the OpenNTF Webinars
Thu, Apr 25th 2013 12:06a Niklas Heidloff OpenNTF is happy to announce a new initiative
- the OpenNTF webinars.
OpenNTF plans to host one webinar per month on various IBM Collaboration
Solutions app dev topics. This includes sessions about OpenNTF projects,
but also other educational, not open source related topics. We've planned
to cover the wider range of ICS technologies, especially XPages and IBM
Connections.
Our intent is to deliver high quality content which is presented by various
experts from the community. Th [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New on OpenNTF: Activiti Workflow Engine integrated in XPages
Wed, Apr 24th 2013 12:20a Niklas Heidloff Qian Liang and Stephan Wissel have contributed
a new release of the project Workflow
for XPages. See below for their
description.
"The project Workflow for XPages
targets to provide an easy way to develop workflow applications with XPages.
There is a built-in lightweight workflow engine in this project allowing
XPages developers to create workflow applications quickly. Also with this
project it's easy to connect to other workflow engines.
What's new in this release?
1. [read] Keywords: domino
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First Release of the XPages Extension Library for IBM Domino 9.0
Tue, Apr 23rd 2013 12:37a Niklas Heidloff Paul Hannan has published the first
release of the XPages
Extension Library for IBM Domino
9.0. Below Paul describes the release.
"This is the first release of the
XPages Extension Library (ExtLib) of the IBM Notes Domino 9.0 code stream.
It matches closely the ExtLib that is now part of the core IBM Notes Domino
9.0 release and it includes the Extended Components features – ExtLibX
(social enabler and RDBMS). This release also includes a small number of
fixes which are not i [read] Keywords: domino
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New OpenNTF Project: Timeago for XPages
Mon, Apr 22nd 2013 3:30a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Naveen Maurya
has contributed a new project - Timeago
for XPages.
The project contains a custom control
to display the time difference to a specific date in an easy to understand
format, e.g. "five days ago" rather than "04/17/13".
Watch the video
to see the control in action.
Test page:
Custom control: [read] Keywords: ibm
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Announcing the Winners of the Fourth XSnippets Contest
Thu, Apr 18th 2013 8:13a Serdar Basegmez OpenNTF continues to award high quality
code contributions
made to the XSnippets
site. Today we are happy to announce the fourth set of winners of the contest
who will each receive $100 (US).
As you may know, the contest
format has been updated
effective this quarter. Therefore four snippets have been selected among
all that have been submitted during this quarter (Jan.1 to Mar.31).
The judging panel of Mark
Leusink, Per Henrik Lausten and Serdar Basegmez selected the followi [read] Keywords: dblookup
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New OpenNTF Project: XPages Insights into Big Data
Wed, Apr 17th 2013 12:09a Niklas Heidloff Tony McGuckin has contributed a new project - XPages Insights into Big Data. Below is his description and a video.
With the dawning of "Big Data" and analytics, we as developers need to, more than ever, efficiently utilize computing resources, both hardware and software, in order to optimally harvest such data.
This project contains a sample application that demonstrates two things:
- A data partitioning pattern to enable “Big Data” scalability (potentially TeraBytes ++). A [read] Keywords: domino
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New Release of the Social Business Toolkit SDK
Tue, Apr 16th 2013 5:52a Niklas Heidloff Mark Wallace has uploaded a new release
of the Social
Business Toolkit SDK. Below he
describes the new functionality.
What's New
1) Reusable controls
a) Grids which display data from IBM
Connection Communities, Files and Profiles
b) Work with Dojo versions 1.4.3 or
higher
c) Associated samples available in Playground
or Sample Framework
2) Playground
a) Import snippets from GitHub
b) Import for documentation database
3) Persistent token store using RDBMS
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New OpenNTF Project: Category Bean for XPages
Thu, Apr 11th 2013 12:20a Niklas Heidloff I've published a new project Category
Bean which I implemented in order
to build the new page on OpenNTF.org to display a list of blog
entries.
The project contains functionality to
display entries from Notes views in categorized flat lists. The managed
bean reads view entries from NSFs and then categorizes the ones with the
same column values dynamically. In XPages repeat controls with nested repeat
controls can then be used to display the data without querying the view
again.
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More awesome OpenNTF Feedback
Tue, Apr 9th 2013 1:28a Niklas Heidloff Recently OpenNTF hosted a survey. We
blogged
about some of the responses already. Below is more great feedback we've
received. If you've missed the previous blog entries, check out the new
feedback
page.
"Thanks for the excellent OpenNTF
site who gives true value to the IBM Notes software."
"Like the many new projects and
the way twitter is used to promote them. I like the content - hope to submit
something in the future."
"Thanks contributors and website
admin! [read] Keywords: admin
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How to find the OpenNTF Projects you're looking for
Thu, Mar 28th 2013 2:39a Niklas Heidloff There are more than 800 projects on
OpenNTF which is more than on other popular open source sites which have
less but bigger projects. The big number of projects makes it sometimes
hard though to find the projects you are looking for.
That's why Christian Guedemann has improved
our projects
page which provides different ways to find projects. In addition to Google
searches via the search box in the upper right corner, there are three
other ways.
1) The combobox allows selecting [read] Keywords: connections
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Integration of GitHub in OpenNTF Projects
Wed, Mar 27th 2013 1:58a Niklas Heidloff As we blogged
about, OpenNTF developers can use GitHub to collaborate on OpenNTF projects.
In this case GitHub is used as source control system and as defects tracking
system while OpenNTF provides the ability to store project releases, screenshots,
documentation, etc.
We've extended the OpenNTF project management
application to be able to refer to GitHub projects. When project owners
choose this a new 'Source Control' entry shows up in the left navigator
that points to the GitHub [read] Keywords: xpages application
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OpenNTF.org WebSite Changes
Mon, Mar 25th 2013 1:24a Niklas Heidloff We've started to do some updates to
OpenNTF.org. While we want to improve the functionality of the site, another
goal of this effort is to simplify as much as possible so that a later
UI/design update will be much easier. Below is a first set of changes we've
implemented.
The 'Explorer OpenNTF' section has been
updated. For example we removed links to unused pages and added new links
to GitHub, YouTube, etc.
We also changed full text search. Rather
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On OpenNTF: Extended Attachment and Image Handling for Rich Text
Thu, Mar 21st 2013 8:49a Niklas Heidloff Tony McGuckin has contributed a new project - XPages Rich Text Editor Evolution. Below is Tony' description and a video.
"The OpenNTF.org XPages Rich Text Editor Evolution project contains a sample application that evolves the Rich Text Editor control to provide custom inline attachment handling directly within the editor complete with a new embedded image handling user experience with new toolbar actions and dialog experiences.
It demonstrates advanced scripting and component extensio [read] Keywords: rich text
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Awesome OpenNTF Feedback
Wed, Mar 20th 2013 2:00a Niklas Heidloff Recently OpenNTF hosted a survey. We
blogged
about some of the responses already. Below is more great feedback we've
received:
I really appreciate all that you do
and it has made a HUGE difference to the success of Lotus. Part of this
is just being a focus point for the enthusiasm of the community.
Really useful for out-of-box applications
& to improve personal skills.
OpenNTF is great and belongs to the
community. What would we do without OpenNTF?
I think the [read] Keywords: domino
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On OpenNTF: OpenSocial Gadget for Facebook in Embedded Experience
Tue, Mar 19th 2013 1:11a Niklas Heidloff Tao Shang and Rui Qi Shi have contributed
a new project - OpenSocial
Gadget for Facebook in EE.
They describe the functionality of this
gadget in the IBM Connections wiki.
The gadget assumes that Facebook entries
have been pushed into the IBM Connections activity stream. When users then
click on these entries the Embedded Experience shows more information for
the particular entry which is read from Facebook.
Technically the sample shows how to
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On OpenNTF: IBM Connections Toolbar for Firefox
Mon, Mar 18th 2013 1:05a Niklas Heidloff Gearoid O Treasaigh, Ciaran O'Hallachain
and Paul Magrath have open sourced the IBM
Connections Toolbar for Firefox.
It's the same version that is also available in the IBM Collaboration Solutions
Catalog, but now available under the Apache license.
The IBM Connections toolbar for Firefox
facilitates searching and using IBM Connections directly from the toolbar
without the need to navigate or search the IBM Connections UI. The toolbar
supports IBM Connections 3.0 to 4.0.
The [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Connections 4 Image available for OpenNTF Developers
Mon, Mar 11th 2013 3:54a Niklas Heidloff As part of the IBM Connections App Dev Contest OpenNTF provides a shared development image instance running in the IBM SmartCloud. This image runs Connections 4.0 CR2, Domino 8.5.3 FP3, the latest OpenNTF extension library, 80 test user accounts, single sign on configured and the latest Social Business Toolkit SDK and the playground from OpenNTF.
Contest developers who want to use this image should contact Niklas Heidloff (niklas_heidloff at de dot ibm dot com).
Watch the video to lean [read] Keywords: connections
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OpenNTF Project: Unplugged XPages Mobile Controls
Wed, Mar 6th 2013 11:50p Niklas Heidloff Richard Sharpe, Matt White and Steve
Ives have contributed the OpenNTF project Unplugged
XPages Mobile Controls. To use
these controls you need IBM Domino and infrastructure provided by Teamstudio.
Richard Sharpe from Teamstudio has written
a series of blog entries describing the controls (part
1, part
2, part
3).
Below Taline Badrikian from Teamstudio
describes the project:
"Teamstudio
Unplugged is a mobilization platform
that enables customers to develop corporate app [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM ICS Community Webcast - OpenNTF Updates
Wed, Mar 6th 2013 12:30a Niklas Heidloff Yesterday Serdar Basegmez and I talked about OpenNTF in the IBM Collaboration Solutions community call. Specifically we talked about the survey results, Appathon and Collaboration Today.
Below are our slides. You can also watch a recording of the meeting on YouTube. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New Release of IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK
Tue, Mar 5th 2013 4:51a Niklas Heidloff There is a new release of the Social
Business Toolkit SDK with a lot
of extensions and fixes. See below for the description of this release
from Bhavesh Shah.
Playground
AMD Compatibility for ND 853
Toolkit servlet fixes for Domino Environment
Playground works with ND 853 and 9.0
Better layout in the main page
Ability to import snippets from Git
repository
Playground submitted as a source code
project
JavaScript Library
jQuery support added
Improvements / Bug fixes
Co [read] Keywords: connections
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New OpenNTF Project: XPages Masterclass
Mon, Mar 4th 2013 4:38a Niklas Heidloff Tony McGuckin has contributed a new project - XPages Masterclass. The first release describes the JSF request processing lifecycle. The release comes with sample databases and a series of four videos describing the samples. Today Tony published the samples and the first video.
More from Tony:
Follow the XPages Masterclass Video Series throughout 2013 where four series will be published covering various topic areas vital to building robust, performant XPages applications.
In this firs [read] Keywords: xpages application
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OpenNTF Survey Results
Mon, Mar 4th 2013 1:09a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF survey we've received great feedback. Below is a summary of the survey and some really nice quotes from people.
Thanks a lot to everyone who participated and congratulations to Barbara Hegnauer, the winner of the $100. [read] Keywords: openntf
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OpenNTF Projects to generate Office and PDF Documents
Thu, Feb 28th 2013 1:39a Niklas Heidloff There are several projects on OpenNTF
to generate office and PDF documents via XPages for data in NSFs. Here
is a quick overview.
POI
4 XPages (Christian Guedemann,
Lena Troxler): Generate word and spreadsheet documents with dynamic content
by building files with placeholders inside. Based on Apache POI. Read
more.
ITWU
Exporter on XPages (Stephan Schramm,
Christian Annawald): Export your content of a database, like views or documents
to HTML, XLS (Excel), RTF (Word & Co.) [read] Keywords: xpages database
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New Release of the XPages Extension Library
Wed, Feb 27th 2013 1:33a Niklas Heidloff There is a new bug fix release of the
XPages
Extension Library. Paul Hannan
described the changes:
"This is another bug fix release
of the XPages Extension Library that contains a number of fixes since the
last release in December 2012. These fixes are mentioned as one-liners
in the readme.pdf of the attached zip.
Another release is planned in the coming
month. Until then enjoy this release.
Source Change Log since December 2012
(20121217)
- Back button UI issue fixed [read] Keywords: notes
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Announcing and launching the Appathon - Social App Dev Contests
Mon, Feb 25th 2013 11:56p Niklas Heidloff OpenNTF is happy to announce and launch the
Appathon
sponsored by TIMETOACT
GROUP, WebGate
Consulting AG and IBM
developerWorks. Contribute your open
source project between now and June 23th and have a chance to win one of
ten $1000 prizes.
With the Appathon contest OpenNTF and the
sponsors want to further increase the number of IBM Connections and XPages
open source projects to help with the adoption of IBM Connections and XPages.
John Head, chair of the OpenNTF [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Two new OpenNTF Projects for IBM Connections
Wed, Feb 20th 2013 3:10a Niklas Heidloff Xujin Liu has contributed two open source
projects for IBM Connections - Poll
iWidget for IBM Connections and
EMail
Notifications for Connections File Comments.
Both samples are described in his developerWorks
article.
Poll iWidget
EMail Notifications for Connections
File Comments [read] Keywords: connections
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OpenNTF Survey
Mon, Feb 18th 2013 1:20a Niklas Heidloff We would like to receive feedback how you use the OpenNTF web sites and services and what value OpenNTF provides for you.
One of the people who'll provide feedback until 03/03 (within next two weeks) will win $100. OpenNTF will pick the winner randomly.
You can participate in several different ways. Pick the most convenient option for you. One option is to fill out the survey below. [read] Keywords: openntf
An important note from the IP Manager
Wed, Feb 13th 2013 9:12a Peter Tanner Just a heads up - there will be no IP
Manager monitoring the OpenNTF site or scanning code from February 18th
to March 1st, 2013. I will be travelling, without a laptop, during
that period. So, if you would like me to scan new contributions, please
post them by Feb 15.
Thanks
Peter Tanner [read] Keywords: laptop
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OpenNTF XSnippets Contest Update
Wed, Feb 13th 2013 5:12a Serdar Basegmez OpenNTF is organizing "XSnippets
Contest" quarterly. Contributors can win prizes at a total of $400.
XSnippets contests will continue with a little change. In previous contests,
there were two categories: Randomly selected two contributors who submitted
four or more snippets and two contributors of chosen snippets via judging.
Effective this quarter, XSnippets contest has been changed to award contributors
of four snippets which will be selected via judgement.
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Tools on OpenNTF to access the Design of XPages Applications
Wed, Feb 13th 2013 12:40a Niklas Heidloff There are several tools on OpenNTF to
read and manipulate the design of XPages applications programmatically
(without Designer).
XPages
Bazaar (Philippe Riand): XPages
interpreter which allows executing XPages code that is developed outside
of Domino Designer (video)
Forms
'n' Views (Jesse Gallagher): Forms
'n' Views is intended to be something of a "Designer Lite" for
the web - a tool for making quick changes to classic design elements without
loading Designer (video)
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1000 XPages Questions on StackOverflow
Tue, Feb 12th 2013 7:44a Niklas Heidloff One
year ago the XPages community
decided to use StackOverflow for XPages related questions.
Since then 1000 XPages
tagged questions have been asked
with a 84% answer rate and lot's of responses/comments.
Personally I think this is a huge success
and a big value add for XPages developers.
One of the goals has been to reach out
to other communities and leverage their expertise and services. For example
the nice thing with XPages being based on Java is now that other Java de [read] Keywords: xpages community
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Debug Tools for XPages Developers on OpenNTF
Tue, Feb 12th 2013 12:46a Niklas Heidloff There are several debug tools available
on OpenNTF for XPages developers. Below is a summary.
XPage
Debug Toolbar (Mark Leusink):
See debug messages from server side code in web browsers (and more)
XPages
Log File Reader (Jakob Majkilde):
Read server side log files in web browsers
XPages
API Inspector (Tommy Valand):
Get the server side DOM representations of client side objects
OpenLog
(Julian Robichaux) in combination with TaskJam
(Bruce Elgort): Logging to a centr [read] Keywords: notes
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Request for Proposal - New OpenNTF.org Website User Interface
Mon, Feb 11th 2013 12:30a Niklas Heidloff OpenNTF is seeking proposals for the
design and implementation of a new user interface for the OpenNTF.org website.
Please read this document
to find out details about the scope and the timeline for this project.
If you are interested please send your
proposal to support@openntf.org until February 24th. [read] Keywords: interface
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Open Source for IBM Connections Developers on OpenNTF
Thu, Feb 7th 2013 2:11a Niklas Heidloff Over the last months developers have
contributed several open source projects on OpenNTF.org to build extensions
to IBM Connections and to access IBM Connections from custom apps. Below
is a short overview.
IBM released the Social
Business Toolkit SDK which can
be used by web and Java developers to easily access IBM Connections. Phil
Riand said in his Connect
session that you can expect frequent
updates to this SDK with even more functionality. Watch this video
for an overview of t [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New OpenNTF Project: WebDAV for IBM Domino
Wed, Feb 6th 2013 5:25a Niklas Heidloff Stephan Wissel has contributed a new
project on OpenNTF - WebDAV
for IBM Domino. The project contains
an extension to Domino to support access to attachments in NSFs via the
WebDAV protocol. This allows for example using Microsoft Word users to
open attachments, edit them and save them back without detaching them first.
Read more details in the documentation
and the specification.
Here is Stephan's description:
"Round-trip Editing Library for
Domino is built by the Lotus deve [read] Keywords: domino
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Don't forget: OpenNTF Birds-of-a-Feather at IBM Connect is today
Tue, Jan 29th 2013 7:51a Bruce Elgort Please join us at the OpenNTF Birds-of-a-Feather
session which will be held on Tuesday, January 29 at 6:30pm in the Swan
Toucan 1 room. This has always been one of my favorite times at Lotusphere
where many of the community application developers come to talk about their
projects, OpenNTF and app dev. Please consider joining us for this 60 minutes
of open source and community centered goodness. Will we see you there? [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Release of the XPages Documentation Wiki
Thu, Jan 24th 2013 2:19a Niklas Heidloff Just in time for Connect 2013, IBM has
published a new
version of the popular XPages
Documentation Wiki which is the template used for several IBM
Collaboration Solutions Wikis.
The new version has a lot of new functionality and a new look and feel.
Read the documentation
for a complete list of new features. Below is a summary from Michael Stewart:
The IBM Collaboration Solutions development
team has been working on an update to the XPages
Documentation Wiki template. The
XPages D [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New OpenNTF Release: Demonstration Application for XPages
Wed, Jan 23rd 2013 3:39a Paul Hannan This version (2.0.0) of the XPages
Demo App shows some of the additional
XPages features and enhancements in IBM Domino Notes 9.0.0*. The app has
been updated to use OneUI
V3 and now uses the XPages Extension
Library (com.ibm.xsp.extlib.library) which now comes out of the box with
IBM Notes Domino 9.0.0.
The layout out of the demo app now use
the Application Layout Control (xe:applicationLayout) from the XPages Extension
Library, and with it the app makes extensive use of the Naviga [read] Keywords: domino
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New Release of De-Mail for IBM Lotus Notes
Thu, Jan 17th 2013 12:03a Niklas Heidloff Matthias Schneider has contributed a
new release of De-Mail
for IBM Lotus Notes. Below is
his description.
The OpenNTF De-Mail add-in for Lotus
Notes has been developed to support exchanging of legal electronic documents
between organizations that use Lotus Notes for e-mail as well as with citizens,
leveraging De-Mail, the German E-Government communications service.
The newly published release of the add-in
has been extended to not only provide an even better and easier integrat [read] Keywords: domino
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New Documentation of REST Services in XPages Extension Library
Tue, Jan 15th 2013 1:25a Niklas Heidloff Dave Delay posted some new documentation
about the REST services in the XPages
Extension Library.
The most important addition is the documentation
of custom Wink
services.
A Custom Wink Service is the most advanced
type of REST service. You use the open source Apache Wink project to define
your service. Your servlet is contained in a plug-in
that is deployed directly to Domino
s OSGi framework. This means your service is not tied to a single database.
It can access any data y [read] Keywords: domino
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Announcing the Winners of the Third XSnippets Contest
Fri, Jan 11th 2013 1:50a Serdar Basegmez Last year, OpenNTF has
announced the launch of a new series of contests centered on community
code contributions made to the XSnippets
site. Today we are happy to announce the third set of winners of the contest
who will each receive $100 (US).
As you may know, the contest
has two category. Two contributors who submitted four and more snippets
during the contest are selected randomly and two contributors are selected
by judging.
During the third contest,
there is only one con [read] Keywords: community
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New OpenNTF Project: IDVault Password Reset
Thu, Jan 10th 2013 12:52a Niklas Heidloff Barbara Hegnauer and Christian Guedemann
have contributed a project called IDVault
Password Reset.
Here is their description:
"This XPage application is a self-service
application where users have the possibility to reset their own Lotus Notes
ID Password stored in the Lotus Notes ID Vault. The password reset dialog
is available using the browser. The configuration document and all usage
log documents are only visible thru the lotus notes client by authorized
administrators." [read] Keywords: id vault
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application
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New OpenNTF Project: Generate Word and Excel Files from XPages
Wed, Jan 9th 2013 12:26a Niklas Heidloff Apache
POI is an open source project
providing a Java API for Microsoft documents: "The Apache POI Project's
mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file
formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's
OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). In short, you can read and write
MS Excel files using Java. In addition, you can read and write MS Word
and MS PowerPoint files using Java."
Christian Guedemann and Lena Troxler
have publi [read] Keywords: xpages applications
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New Release of Collaboration Today
Tue, Jan 8th 2013 1:39a Niklas Heidloff Jesse Gallagher has published a new
release of Collaboration
Today.
The biggest change is the addition of
the award winning OpenNTF project mypic.
Collaboration Today can now not only refer to author pictures via URLs
but also store pictures. This is important if there are no pictures available
that can be referenced via URLs and it's also important since the sizes
of the pictures can be reduced.
mypic allows cropping pictures and pictures
can then be a referenced via URLs. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Announcing the Winners of the 4th OpenNTF Development Contest
Thu, Dec 13th 2012 8:06a Bruce Elgort The 4th
OpenNTF Development Contest kicked off back in July 2012
and today I am happy to announce the winners. So without any further ado
here they are:
For the “Open” the three winners are:
Intrapages
by Thomas Adrian
Forms
'n' Views by Jesse Gallagher
Mypic
by Jeremy G Hodge
The prizes for this category are $1,000
(US) to each of the winners.
For the “IBM Connections” category
the two winners are:
Notes
Mail and Calendar for IBM [read] Keywords: connections
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On OpenNTF: ProjeX - XPages based Project Management Application
Wed, Dec 12th 2012 1:08a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF development contest
sponsored by hedersoft,
Ryan Buening has contributed a project called ProjeX.
Watch the video
to see the project in action. Here is the description from Ryan:
"ProjeX is a XPages based project
and testing issue management web application.
What it features:
- Developer and tester dashboards
- Ability to create new projects, testing
issues and feature requests related to each project
- Automatic numbering of projects and
testin [read] Keywords: xpages application
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On OpenNTF: XPages for Presentation
Sun, Dec 9th 2012 11:51p Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF development contest
sponsored by hedersoft,
Frank van der Linden has contributed a project called XPages
for Presentation.
Watch the video
to see the project in action. Here is the description from Frank:
"I have build this small application
to show how to use XPages for presentation. But it can also used for a
small temporary websites.
A BIG thanks to Mark Roden to provide
me his MWLUG Database, so I have a kickstart. My inspiration came also
from [read] Keywords: xpages application
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On OpenNTF: DocumentCollection Tool on XPages
Fri, Dec 7th 2012 12:53a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF development contest
sponsored by hedersoft,
Vasiliy Solyanik has contributed a project called DocumentCollection
Tool on XPages.
Watch the video
to see the project in action. Here is the description from the Vasiliy:
"This is a simple database-tool
for copy the values from the collection of documents from the source database
to the determinate fields of the document from the collection of documents
from the target database. Source and target collections a [read] Keywords: xpages database
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On OpenNTF: Xpage RSS Feed for Connections
Fri, Dec 7th 2012 12:49a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF development contest
sponsored by hedersoft,
Gayathri Viswanathan and Linoy K George have contributed a project called
Xpage
RSS Feed for Connections.
Watch the video
to see the project in action. Here is the description from the authors:
"- RSS Feed Widget is a iwidget
which contains the Notes document as the feed
- Feeds are get from various Notes Database
which is configurable through the Settings
- Can able to view the Notes document
and its detai [read] Keywords: connections
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OpenNTF launches Japanese Version of Collaboration Today
Fri, Dec 7th 2012 12:05a Niklas Heidloff OpenNTF has launched a Japanse
Version of Collaboration Today.
Atsushi Sato, Atsushi Ono, Hiroaki Komine and Tatsuya Sobue are the moderators
of this new site. There is also an new Twitter
account.
As you know the Collaboration Today
application is open
source. If you want to host a
local version, please contact us. As CollaborationToday.info, OpenNTF.org
and XPages.info the site is hosted by Prominic
again.
The description below is from Sato:
A Japanese version Collab [read] Keywords: collaboration
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On OpenNTF: IFrame-able View Controls
Wed, Dec 5th 2012 1:05a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF development contest
sponsored by hedersoft,
Jesse Gallagher has contributed a project called IFrame-able
View Controls.
Watch the video
to see the project in action. Here is the description from Jesse:
"This database contains three small
XPages:
1) View - This just displays a view
designated by the query parameters using the Dynamic View Panel and my
DynamicViewCustomizer bean
2) FTSearchPage and the FTSearch CC
- This performs an FT search in the [read] Keywords: connections
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On OpenNTF: Timeglider
Wed, Dec 5th 2012 1:01a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF development contest
sponsored by hedersoft,
Patrick Kwintensson has contributed a project called Timeglider.
Watch the video
to see the project in action. Here is the description from Patrick:
"Timeglider JS is a zooming, panning
data-driven timeline widget written in Javascript.
This project delivers an XPages application
to manage the documents in a Notes DB so you can distribute corporate timelined
information with Notes security (ACL)." [read] Keywords: acl
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development
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On OpenNTF: Intrapages - The Social Intranet
Tue, Dec 4th 2012 12:00a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF development contest
sponsored by hedersoft, Thomas Adrian has contributed a project called
Intrapages
- The Social Intranet.
Watch the video
to see the project in action. Here is the description from Thomas:
"Intrapages is a social website
you can easily setup from a template (ntf) and you can run as many intrapages
you like on the same server. each intrapages may serve different purposes
i.e you might want to setup one intrapages for the whole company a [read] Keywords: administration
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linkedin
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On OpenNTF: xLog - logger framework
Mon, Dec 3rd 2012 12:37a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF development contest
sponsored by hedersoft, Olle Thalen has contributed a project called xLog
- logger framework.
Watch the mini video
to see the project in action.
Here is the description from Olle:
"The purpose of this project is
to provide a logging implementation which is easy to start using, but also
configurable so it allows customizations. All logging is done via the apache
commons Log interface, and logger objects are provided by a custom Log [read] Keywords: xpages development
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On OpenNTF: Attendance Widget for IBM Connections
Wed, Nov 28th 2012 11:24p Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF
development contest sponsored
by hedersoft,
NithyaPriya Rajkumar and Abeish Babu have contributed a project called
Attendance
Widget for IBM Connections. The
project contains a custom attendance / time tracker application and a widget
that can be put on the Connections home page providing a button to check
in and check out.
Watch the mini video
to see the widget in action. [read] Keywords: connections
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New OpenNTF Project: Access Notes Mail and Calendar in IBM Connections 3
Wed, Nov 28th 2012 10:54a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF
development contest sponsored
by hedersoft,
David Marko and Stanislav Marszalek have contributed a project called Notes
mail and calendar for IBM Connections
which contains an iWidget that allows access to Domino mail and calendar
from within Connections 3. It also provides functionality to add links
to mails easily to Connections bookmarks and attachments from mails to
Connections files.
Watch the mini video
to see the widget in action. [read] Keywords: connections
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New OpenNTF Project: Forms 'n' Views
Mon, Nov 12th 2012 6:48a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF
development contest sponsored
by hedersoft,
Jesse Gallagher has contributed an project control called Forms
'n' Views which is a web based
XPages application allowing users to change design elements like views,
forms, folders and stylesheets.
Watch the mini video
to see the control in action.
Jesse's description:
Forms 'n' Views is intended to be something
of a "Designer Lite" for the web - a tool for making quick changes
to legacy desi [read] Keywords: dxl
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New Releases of popular OpenNTF Projects
Tue, Nov 6th 2012 2:58a Niklas Heidloff Phil Riand and Christian Guedemann have
contributed recently new releases of the Extension Library, myWebGate Social
Software and JDBC access for Domino.
JDBC Access for IBM Lotus Domino
(download)
From Phil:
Here is a new version matching the growing
interest for this project. It fixes some bugs:
- Crash when using multiple value items
with many entries
- Sometimes using a bad index for NOTEID
and UNID
But even more interesting, it provides
a new capability for [read] Keywords: domino
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Collaboration Today available as Open Source
Mon, Oct 29th 2012 2:43a Niklas Heidloff Bruce Elgort, Per Henrik Lausten, Serdar
Basegmez, Frank van der Linden, Jesse Gallagher and I have open sourced
the initial release of Collaboration
Today.
We also put the sources on GitHub
which we use for source control management. The GitHub project is part
of the OpenNTF
GitHub space.
We'd appreciate feedback. Please create
feature
requests or defects.
As always you can leverage parts of
the application in your own apps or use it as is, e.g. to host local versions
[read] Keywords: collaboration
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On OpenNTF: XPages Document Property Viewer
Fri, Oct 26th 2012 12:58a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF
development contest sponsored
by hedersoft,
Aneesh M Nair has contributed an XPages contro called Document
Property Viewer (XPages) which
is a web based version of the Notes document property box.
Watch the mini video
to see the control in action. [read] Keywords: notes
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On OpenNTF: LDAP Compatibility Directory Extensions
Thu, Oct 25th 2012 2:42a Niklas Heidloff Stephan Wissel contributed the project
LDAP
Compatibility Directory Extensions
based on ideas from OpenNTF
LDAP Compatibility Directory Extensions.
The project contains a jar file which
provides a patch mechanism that you run against a local copy of your pubnamesmod.ntf
(which you created using File - Database - New Copy from pubnames.ntf).
Copy the jar into [Notes]/jvm/lib/ext
and start it with the Notes jvm java -jar LDAPFixForDomino.jar.
More details what it does can b [read] Keywords: notes
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Some more great XSnippets
Tue, Oct 16th 2012 3:22a Niklas Heidloff Bruce Elgort announced
the winners of the last XSnippets contest.
In addition to the two winners ...
DynamicViewCustomizer
(Jesse Gallagher)
userIs...
VariableResolver to Check Roles
(Paul Withers)
... there are also some very good additional
ones. Here are some examples:
Enhanced
Error Messages control (Tommy
Valand)
"Shows messages for any control
with validation errors. Shows link on label if present, message if not
present. When you click the link, focus is [read] Keywords: dojo
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Announcing the Winners of the Second XSnippets Contest
Wed, Oct 10th 2012 9:11a Bruce Elgort In April 2012 OpenNTF
announced the launch of a new series of contests centered on community
code contributions made to the XSnippets site. Today we are happy to announce
the second set of four winners of the contest who will each receive $100
(US).
The two contributors who
were randomly selected from a pool of contributors who submitted four or
more snippets during the contest are:
- Koll S Cherizard
- Ulrich Krause
Congratulations Koll and
Ulrich!
The two contr [read] Keywords: community
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OpenNTF Election Results
Mon, Oct 8th 2012 6:06p Peter Tanner The votes have been cast,
counted and audited, and OpenNTF has a several new Directors:
Member Directors:
1. Per Henrik Lausten - PHL Consult
2. Serdar Basegmez - Developi Information Systems
3. Justin Hill – Prominic
4. Frank van der Linden – e-office
Contributor Directors:
1. Niklas Heidloff
2. Ulrich Krause
3. Christian Gudemann
Congratulations to the winners – and
many thanks to all the candidates for their willingness to be part [read] Keywords: office
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On OpenNTF: Generic HTML and XPages Widgets for IBM Connections
Thu, Oct 4th 2012 11:11a Niklas Heidloff I've open sourced the generic HTML
widget and the generic XPages
widget as part of the project
XPages
for Connections.
The main purpose of these widgets is
to allow community moderators to extend communities without having to deploy
new iWidgets for every extension. Having to deploy new widgets is not easy
in some IBM Connections deployments since the community moderators are
typically not the administrators with rights to run wsadmin commands and
such. With the new generic iWidge [read] Keywords: connections
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New Release of myWebGate Social Software
Thu, Oct 4th 2012 2:07a Niklas Heidloff The WebGate team has released a new
version of myWebGate
Social Software. Below is a list
of new functionality. You can find more details in the documentation
and on the WebGate
web site (German). Below is their description.
Profile Editor:
- Profile Photo: Profile photo uploader
now supports webcam as input using WebRTC API (no plugins/ no flash). Currently
only supported by Chrome 21++. Other browsers will follow as soon as they
support the new API.
- Profile Photo: Community [read] Keywords: admin
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New OpenNTF Project: Trouble Tickets Notes-to-XPages Example
Thu, Oct 4th 2012 1:52a Niklas Heidloff Hunter Medney has contributed a new
project - Trouble
Tickets Notes-to-XPages Example.
Below is his description.
Description
This application was created to demonstrate
adding an XPages interface to an existing Notes application. It was
developed as a pure Notes application, and the XPages interface was added
after. The project contains 2 NSFs - the application as a pure Notes
app and the same application as a hybrid Notes/XPages app. The reason
for 2 separate NSFs is some o [read] Keywords: domino
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New OpenNTF Project: XPages Bazaar - XPages Interpreter and Dynamic Lists
Tue, Oct 2nd 2012 4:07a Niklas Heidloff Philippe Riand has created a new project on OpenNTF - the XPages Bazaar. The bazaar is a set of unrelated functions from which you can pick the ones you are interested in. As of now there are two main features.
XPages interpreter which allows executing XPages code that is developed outside of Domino Designer
Dynamic lists so that users (not developers) can define something similar to Notes views and documents on the fly
Read Phil FAQ and the documentation for more details and watc [read] Keywords: domino
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OpenNTF Election – And the voting is underway...
Sat, Sep 29th 2012 2:54p Peter Tanner Ballots have been sent out, by email,
to all OpenNTF Members and Contributors. If you haven't received an email
– please let me know (ip-manager@openntf.org).
The ballots are due next Friday – October 5.
Just a reminder – the candidates are:
1. Contributor Directors – who represent
OpenNTF software Contributors. We have four candidates vying for the three
positions on the Board. They are:
- Christian Gudemann
- Niklas Heidloff
- Ulrich Krause
[read] Keywords: collaboration
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On OpenNTF: XPages 3dmenue Custom Control
Mon, Sep 24th 2012 3:01a Niklas Heidloff As part of the OpenNTF
development contest sponsored
by hedersoft,
Ulrich Krause has contributed an XPages project called XPages
3dmenue custom control, a three
dimensional and space efficient menu.
Watch the mini video
to see the control in action. [read] Keywords: xpages development
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10 more Days to submit your XSnippet to win $400
Thu, Sep 20th 2012 12:11a Niklas Heidloff As hopefully most of you know OpenNTF
is hosting a regular / ongoing XSnippet contest.
Every quarter contributors can win 4 x $100 for submitting simple code
snippets to the XSnippets
application. In 10 days (09/30) the current contest will end. So make sure
to contribute your code snippets soon.
We are also looking for volunteers again
to help with the judging. If you are interested, please contact us.
Below is the description of the contest
again:
XSnippets are simple sni [read] Keywords: application
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Nominations for OpenNTF Board of Directors close this Friday
Mon, Sep 17th 2012 10:11a Peter Tanner This is your opportunity to influence
the direction of OpenNTF.
If your employer is a member of
OpenNTF – you can run as a Member Director. There are four positions open.
If you are a Contributor to OpenNTF
– you can run as a Contributor Director. There are three positions
open.
And yes – you can nominate yourself.
All you need to do is to send a note to the IP Manager (IP-Manager@openntf.org),
and follow up with a statement saying why you think you shou [read] Keywords: openntf
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OpenNTF Embraces GitHub
Mon, Sep 17th 2012 10:11a Niklas Heidloff OpenNTF developers can now use GitHub
as their source control management service for OpenNTF projects.
From the GitHub page: "Git is an
extremely fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for
the collaborative development of software. GitHub is the best way to collaborate
with others."
On GitHub 2,159,346 people are hosting
over 3,759,381 repositories, some of which are jQuery, reddit, Sparkle,
curl, Ruby on Rails, node.js, ClickToFlash, Erlang/OTP, CakePHP, and [read] Keywords: domino
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Podcast about the fourth OpenNTF Development Contest
Thu, Sep 13th 2012 12:16a Niklas Heidloff The last episode of This
Week in Lotus covers the fourth
OpenNTF Development Contest (download).
The part about the contest is between minute 12:10 and 41:15.
Christian Guedemann from WebGate talks
in this podcast about his experience in participating in the previous contest
in which his application myWebGate
Social Software was one of the
winners.
As appetizer here are some of his statements:
"Several customers came to us and
told us 'There is something we have seen on [read] Keywords: domino
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