Lotus Knows How To Win Oscars
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 9:45a Peter Presnell A few months ago I a href=http://planetlotus.org/5d9da5blogged about one of my clients/a, Summit Entertainment. I commented on the small, but important role that Lotus Notes had played to help one of the smaller players in the Entertainment industry achieve the all-time box office single day gross for any movie with The Twilight Saga: New Moon. At this years Lotusphere OGS, William Shatner outlined the important role collaboration plays in the world of movies so it is perhaps surprising that [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Quick Tip: Running Standard and Basic clients at Same Time
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 10:44p Peter Presnell  I suspect many of you may already know this. But I discovered this by accident today. I have a client (i.e customer) that has decided to deploy Notes 8.5.1 Basic. This creates an issue for me as a developer as I must run 8.5.1 Standard in order to use my Designer client. To test my applications using both the standard and basic clients I can use my Notes Client and my Domino Administrator client. Because the Domino 8.5.1 Administrator client has not yet been migrated to Eclipse it ve [read] Keywords: domino
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Project Klingon Now On-Line
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 3:14a Peter Presnell  For those of you that read my a href=http://planetlotus.org/630dd0blog about Project Klingon/a, the prototype is now available online at a href=http://www.yellowverse.com/Presentations.nsfhttp://www.yellowverse.com/Presentations.nsf/a. The prototype should evolve over the coming weeks as I use this as a way to demonstrate some of the concepts likely to come next year when Project Vulcan becomes available.br / [read] Keywords: planetlotus
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Project Klingon: Vulcanize Notes Applications With 8.5.1 And XPages
Sun, Jan 31st 2010 7:44p Peter Presnell  It is now exactly one week since I arrived home from my first lotusphere. Over the past week (and the week before) I have given a lot of thought to project Vulcan and the potential it offers to redefine our approach to Notes development, especially for those applications that involve (or could involve) an aspect of knowledge management and/or collaboration. Prior to Lotusphere I had already been doing some work on developing an idea on how a modern Notes application could quot;do collabora [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The Weeks Legends
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell divI am slowly recovering from a weekend in Las Vegas and have managed to stay awake long enough to complete research on another four Lotus Legends:-/divolliDaniel Nashed/liliKathleen McGivney/liliLudwig Nastansky/liliPatrick Kwinten/li/oldivA total of 45 profiles can now be viewed at  a href=http://www.dominoframework.comhttp://www.dominoframework.com/a (under Lotus Legends)/divpA special thanks to those members of the community for nominating names, especially the many great names I otherwi [read] Keywords: lotus
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Summary of New LotusScript Enhancements Announcd at LS10
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell In my a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/dotdomino/entry/notes_8_5_2_first_showing_lotusphere7?lang=en_uslast blog/a, I made mention fo the many new features being considered for addition to the coming releases of Lotus Notes. Amongst all the material listed it may not have been obvious the extent to which IBM have announced plans for extending the LotusScript language. So for those of you who are LotusScriot developers, the following is a complete list of all the enhancements for lotus [read] Keywords: ibm
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Notes 8.5.2 First Showing @ Lotusphere
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell One of the many interesting aspects of Lotusphere 2010 has been the first pubic showing of early code drops of 8.5.2. The following is a list of the features I have heard covered by IBM representatives at sessions I have attended so far. There are still more sessions, so the list may grow..... I will provide it now for the benefit of those unable to attend these sessions. I may not get another chance for a while as it was mentioned that a code drop will be made available within a few days [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusphere 2010 Sessions Already Available On-Line
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell I am not sure how long these have been available, but for those of you registered for lotusphere 2010, almost all the slides for next weeks sessions are available on-line for your previewing enjoyment at the lsonline.info Web site. Theres some really cool stuff in there!br / [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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United Nations Comes To Yellowverse
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell  I have created a new precinct within the a href=http://www.yellowverse.comYellowverse/a. I am calling this the United Nations of LUGs. It contains links to all the national Lotus User Groups around the world that have an on-line presence. So if you are looking for a LUG in your corner of the planet or looking around to see what other LUGs have to offer here is a way to quickly navigate to each LUG.br /br /Note: I noticed that Australia/New Zealand is not represented. So I am making t [read] Keywords: lotus
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Yellowverse.com Now IE Friendly
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell Over the past 24 hours I became aware that the Menu system for my new a href=http://www.yellowverse.comYellowverse.com/a Web site was not operating correctly with some versions of IE. I quickly organised a meeting with my Dev Manager (me), Dev Lead (me), QA Manager (me), and QA Analyst (me) to identify what might have gone wrong during testing. With this many people I thought a phone booth might be an appropriate venue, but it turns out that a phone booth was over-catering a bit. Eventuall [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Yellowverse Library Is Now Open
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell  I have previously a href=http://planetlotus.org/60e780mentioned/a the availability of a library of a href=http://www.yellowverse.com/Presentations.nsf/Presentations.xspLotus presentations/a on my a href=http://www.yellowverse.comyellowerse.com /aWeb site. This continues to be enhanced, with the addition of the 2010 Lostusphere presentations. I have now expanded the Library with the addition of additional library services that include Articles, Books, PodCasts, an Videos. Visit the a href [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Wheres Wally? Found Him
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell Anyone who has seen my a href=http://www.yellowverse.com/Yellowverse.nsf/LotusphereSpotto.xspLotusphere Spotto/a card and looked closely will have notice one of the squares is for quot;Wheres Wallyquot;. For those living In the US you my know this character better as Wheres Waldo. In Australia the term quot;Wallyquot; is sometimes used to refer to a person with less than Einstein Intelligence. Or, as we would put it... quot;A six pack short or a picnicquot; or a quot;Snag short of a BBQquo [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Finally: Breaking Out Of The Yelow Bubble
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell b ONE WEEK TO GO....../bbr /Yes there is just one week left to prepare for the biggest event in my life as a citizen of the yellowverse. My first Lotusphere. I can hardly wait. The early forecasts suggest nice warm (for Winter) weather similar to here in LA. And the blosphere is alive with blogs from so many others as they get ready to gather in Orlando.br /font color=#d3d3d3./fontbr /The cost of attending my first Lotusphere is coming out of my own pocket so I want to maximize the retu [read] Keywords: domino
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Do You Need a Home DR Strategy?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell  Yesterday I bounced out of bed for what was going to be a long, but exciting day. It was to start with a 5am conference call with IBM and five other members of the Notes community to preview part of the Lotusphere OGS and end around 10pm when I had completed the deployment of my first major XPage application. In between I was also conducting a two hour XPage training class. Because I had so much to get done I had arranged to do all my work from home. I turned on my computer around 4:30 [read] Keywords: ibm
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I Need Your Presentation
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell  I recently blogged about a href=http://planetlotus.org/60e780a new initiative/a on my yellowverse.com Web site to publish a a href=http://www.yellowverse.com/Presentations.nsf/Presentations.xspcatalog of Lotus Notes-related presentations/a given at Lotusphere and other LUGs around the world. Based upon your feedback, and ideas I lalready had in the works I have now refined this resource and will continue to enhance it to maximize the value it can generate for both those searching for present [read] Keywords: lotus
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A New Home For Lotus Legends
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell During the course of 2009 I started work on my own Web site at a href=http://www.dominoframework.com/DominoFramework.nsfwww.dominoframework.com/a. This was intended to an on-line resource for my a href=http://www.dominoframework.com/DominoFramework.nsf/f7051bc0b616081a882575db005f0c26/$Body/0.1C4?OpenElementamp;FieldElemFormat=gif.Domino Framework/a and a href=http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/xDominoFrameworkxDomino Framework/a projects. Note: It is still under developme [read] Keywords: domino
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My Top 10 JavaScript/SSJS Mistakes
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell I recently wrote about some of the things that could be done to minimize the differences between writing a href=http://planetlotus.org/5fba54LotusScript and JavaScript/a code. These technique hopefully can help reduce the number of mistakes made in writing code when switching between languages - a fact of life for Notes 8.5.1 developers who develop both Notes Classic and XPage applications. Having written LotusScript code for over 13 years I still find myself making some dumb mistakes over a [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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2009: The First 50 Lotus Legends
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell It took a while but I have now managed to complete one of my goals for 2009 and create profiles for the initial 50 members of a href=http://www.dominoframework.com/DominoFramework.nsf/Lotus_Legends.xspLotus Legends/a. These people are not designed to represent the quot;Top 50quot; but rather represent a cross-section of the many people I consider should qualify for such a title. I would like to thank the many people who have assisted by offering names and biographic information. I plan to [read] Keywords: lotus
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Finally, new database icons
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell During the traditional quot;Ask The Developerquot; session this afternoon it was mentioned that the quot;next maintenance releasequot; was almost certainly going to include the ability to create database icons in new ways that break out of the original Notes 1.0(?) 16 colors. I also heard one developer made mention of Notes 8.5.3. That the first time I had heard those numbers used. Based upon everything I had been listening to until then it seemed like an 8.5.2 feature release was planned [read] Keywords: notes
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Happy Australia Day: Aussie Legends
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Peter Presnell January 26 is Australia Day, the day in which Australia celebrates its achievements as a country and what it means to be Australian. Historically it represents the date on which the first settlers from the UK established the first permanent colony in 1788. Australia did not become a country until Federation in 1901 but it has been a proud member of the yellowverse since the very first release of Lotus Notes. As a proud Australian I would like to send a special gday from my new home in LA t [read] Keywords: lotus
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Relearning LotusScript
Wed, Dec 16th 2009 12:45p Peter Presnell When I first relocated from Australia to the USA one of the many things I had to learn was driving on the "other" side of the road. After a while it began to feel natural but then when I returned to Australia for a visit I had to get used to driving on a different side all over again. The experience is somewhat similar to learning to program SSJS and then returning to LotusScript. Suddenly I find myself making mistakes with my LotusScript code as a result of trying to use SSJS syntax. Wha [read] Keywords: document
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Importing PDF Files into a Rich Text Field
Tue, Dec 15th 2009 3:25p Peter Presnell Out of  the box the Notes client does not support the importing of PDF files into Rich Text fields. However, somewhere between Notes 6.0 and Notes 8.5 the Word import utility was changed so that it could process PDF files.  If you take a PDF File or Attachment and save it with a .doc extension then it becomes possible to import a representation of a PDF file into a rich text field using the Word import. It is not a perfect representation but is can often be good enough to meet the needs [read] Keywords: document
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Four Euro Legends
Mon, Dec 14th 2009 10:25p Peter Presnell To ensure recognition is spread across the globe I have completed profiles for four more Lotus Legends. This time these great members of the yellowverse all represent Europe.  Mikkel HesiterbergSteve CastledineThomas BahnVince SchuurmanBeing an Australian I am also hoping to have a few Aussies (and maybe a Kiwi or two) added soon. And if anyone out there has information about other corners of the yellowverse please let me know as much as you can.   Information about these and oth [read] Keywords: lotus
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Three Additional Lotus Legends
Mon, Dec 14th 2009 1:05a Peter Presnell Each week I am trying to spend a little time finding out more about the great many people who have helped to make the yellowverse such a great community. My research has identified three additional members that seem to have all the right stuff to be considered Lotus Legends. Please join me in recognizing the great efforts of these three new inductees:-Andrew PollackBen LanghinrichsMarie ScottI am still gathering material on another 10+ people but if there is anyone out there with any suggest [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes 2010
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 8:25p Peter Presnell One of my favorite software programs (outside of Lotus Notes) is Intuit's Quicken. I like the look/feel of a thick client product. I like the way it integrates seamlessly with the Internet. I like that I can get the latest information off the Internet without the need to switch to a separate browser. I like the ease with which fixes are downloaded an applied. I especially like knowing that a new version will be available the same time each year and I can either decide to upgrade to use the new f [read] Keywords: designer
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Two New Lotus Legends
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 11:06p Peter Presnell I finally found some time to do some research on some more  members of our great community. As a result I have completed profiles for two more members of the Lotus Legends community:- Andre GuirardRob NovakThe profiles for these and the growing list of Lotus Legends can be reviewed at www.dominoframework.com (under Lotus Legends). As always, please forward the names (and any details) of any other deserving folk in our community that I have not yet recognized. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Blog Woes
Mon, Dec 7th 2009 11:10p Peter Presnell My aplogies to those of you who are attempting to read my blog entries using IE. It appears that there is a technical glitch with my blog that is causing the blog entries to not appear via Internet Explorer. The great folk at Lotus911 are presently investigating. Hold the phone...... if you are using IE you probably can't read this to find out anyway! Oh well.... let's hope the issue is fixed soon. [read] Keywords:
Lotusphere Prediction #2
Mon, Nov 30th 2009 12:45a Peter Presnell A
few weeks back I made a bold (some say stupid!) prediction that IBM
might be considering announcing a Home Edition of Lotus Notes at a
certain conference held in January. No inside information, just a
hunch. It seems like IBM now have a huge 5 day extravaganza planned
for mid-January so I can only assume they have lots of great stuff to
share with the yellow faithful. So what else could IBM have planned
for us?:
Almost certainly
we are going to see some live demos of Notes 8.5.2. News is slow [read] Keywords: dxl
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Notes 8.5.1 Helps Break Box Office Record
Sat, Nov 21st 2009 4:28p Peter Presnell This
weekend Summit Entertainment's "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"
broke the all-time box-office record for an opening d ay in the US
and also many countries around the world. In the entertainment
industry communication and contacts are key. And while many of the
larger studios try to rely on Microsoft Exchange, Summit
Entertainment stands out as one of the few entertainment companies
that have placed its trust in Lotus Notes. And with good reason too.
While only a small company with less than 2 [read] Keywords: domino
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Another Four Lotus Legends
Fri, Nov 20th 2009 2:09a Peter Presnell  Thanks to some excellent suggestions I have posted another four Lotus Legends. Bill BuchanBill ErnestStan RogersTim TripconyPlease keep those nominations coming....... [read] Keywords: lotus
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I'm Not Presenting At LS2010 So You Can All.....
Wed, Nov 18th 2009 9:06p Peter Presnell  Yes, I will not be a presenter at Lotusphere in 2010 so you can all join me in congratulating those most deserving people who were selected from 1,000+ talented applicants who made the effort to submit abstracts. From what I have been reading today there seems to be high levels of emotion tied to being selected (or not). This is AWESOME as it shows:- There is a huge number of people all looking to share what they are doing with Lotus products;Lotusphere is still a huge magnet for yellowble [read] Keywords: lotus
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Four New Lotus Legends
Mon, Nov 16th 2009 9:46p Peter Presnell  Please welcome four new members to Lotus Legends as nominated by their peers... Well Rocky kind of nominated himself! (I forgot it was his book I relied upon to learn LotusScript way back when). Carl TylerChris TooheyGary DevendorfRocky OliverYou can find out about the great many contributions these and the other 18 members have made to our community at www.dominoframework.com (Lotus Legends). Note: The list will be expanding as I find time to do my research. Nominations and bios are most [read] Keywords: lotus
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Looking For Legends
Sun, Nov 15th 2009 11:05a Peter Presnell This week my XPage teacher
assigned all us first gaders a new assignment -- to build an XPage that would
demonstrate new ways to represent data inside Notes applications that has traditionally
not been possible in the past.
 :
For my project I decided to
create an XPage that displays information about some of the many people in the
yellowverse that have made outstanding contributions to the Notes community. I have called this project Lotus Legends. You can view my progress on-line by visi [read] Keywords: document
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It's A Good Thing Technology Advances
Sun, Nov 8th 2009 4:44p Peter Presnell Lotus Notes is 20 years old this year... So what if computer technology had not made any of the advances it has over these past 20 years.... The first copies of Lotus Notes were distributed on 5.25" floppy disks holding 360K each. The Notes 8.5.1 (multi-client) download was 618 MB. So by my calculation I would have been receiving in the mail 1,716 floppy disks with the software plus a few more with all the extra goodies that always came. Imagine getting a read/write error during the inst [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Legends
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 11:09a Peter Presnell Over the weekend I had the chance to observe close-hand the making of One Hundredth epsiode of the Taking NotesPodcast. Bruce Elgort and Julian Julian Robichaux are to be congratulated for there dedication to the Notes community in reaching this milestone. Taking Notes is probably the #1 radio station broadcasting across the yellowverse. As you can imagine these podcasts don't just happen. They require a great deal of planning and preparation plus the time to record and produce the final [read] Keywords: lotus
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Adding the "X" Factor
Sun, Oct 25th 2009 7:05p Peter Presnell As I slowly work my way through XPages school I am collecting all my written assignments and placing them in a project folder. This project folder is known on OpenNTF as the xDominoFramework project. The project can be downloaded from OpenNTF or you can view various aspects of it on-line from www.dominoframework.com. : Some of the material was written using crayons while I was in XPages kindergarten. Some material is a little better having been written during my time in first grade. It still has [read] Keywords: domino
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Notes Home Edition - Coming Soon?
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 12:06a Peter Presnell  Amongst the many great things that happened during 8.5.1 week was the announcement that IBM was simplifying the licensing structure. So now we seem to have (in non-legal jargon):- If you wish to use the Notes client and connect to a Domino server you need either a Notes Express or Notes Enterprise CAL.If you wish to develop applications with Notes designer in a stand-alone mode no license is required. A Notes client is provided for free but ONLY for the purpose of testing those apps.If you [read] Keywords: designer
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Notes 8.5.1 Is The Real Deal
Sun, Oct 18th 2009 2:05p Peter Presnell  I my last blog I outlined my excitement at finally getting a Notes/Designer client that provided reasonable performance and was also stable. I have been so impressed that over the course of the past week I have upgraded all my four workstations to Notes 8.5.1 and upgraded my development server to Domino 8.5.1. So I am now operating in a 8.5.1 ONLY environment, both at home and with my clients. I continue to be impressed with the performance and stability of both the Notes and Designer cl [read] Keywords: designer
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8.5.1: Better Than Sliced Bread
Wed, Oct 14th 2009 1:25a Peter Presnell  Oh what a difference 24 hours can make. Yesterday, like many of you, I downloaded and installed the 8.5.1 Gold code. I am not sure what the issue was with Passport Advantage entitlements! The unistall (8.5.1 beta) took 45 minutes and the install a mere 20 minutes. Notes must still be the slowest software product of all time to install! : Having been a beta particpant I knew all the soft spots I had found during the beta program and so I wanted to verify these had all been addressed bec [read] Keywords: designer
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Tagging Design Elements
Sun, Oct 11th 2009 3:26p Peter Presnell One of the cool (many) things about Notes is that the code exists the NSF as documents much the same as data documents. This means we can do many of the same things with design elements as we do documents. And that includes tagging. I have been doing some work over the weekend to take some of the stuff I am developing for Discussion NextGen and adding it to the .Domino Framework to allow users of the framework to easily discussion-enable any application. To assist in this process I need [read] Keywords: domino
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Is It October 12 Yet?
Sat, Oct 10th 2009 5:05p Peter Presnell Somewhere across the expanses of the yellowverse there must be a time zone where it is getting close to being October 12 . 8.5.1 is sitting on its launch pad ready for its date with destiny to arrive. And if all is ready and the 8.5.1 pilots are half as keen as I am they will surely push the necessary buttons that will allow us all to gain access to its cargo as soon as possible thereafter. I was invited to be a test pilot on earlier missions. In fact I must say had more joy flying some [read] Keywords: designer
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XPage Gotcha - Security
Thu, Oct 8th 2009 12:06a Peter Presnell This one has got me a couple of times now. When developing Xpage applications you need to be mindful of the security rights you might need on the server to execute Xpage operations. With LotusScript it was usually pretty clear what those operations were that were restricted and hence required signing by a Notes ID that had rights to run unrestricted.  It seems that a number of typical Xpage operations invoke "restricted" Java operations and hence need to be signed by an ID with these right [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Book Review: Object-Oriented JavaScript
Tue, Oct 6th 2009 10:26p Peter Presnell  I'm not one to either read a lot of books or blog book reviews but this is one of the best technical books I have read for a while (Are there any other types of books?). Object-Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov provides an excellent coverage of JavaScript from an Object-Oriented perspective. It starts with a great coverage of JavaScript itself before it goes into details about the inner workings of functions, object and the Prototype statement. The book is targeted at client-sided Ja [read] Keywords: javascript
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XPage Cheat Sheet #1 - The Page Lifecycle
Tue, Oct 6th 2009 4:26p Peter Presnell  There seems to be a lot of essential documentation about XPages missing from the on-line documentation. One of the key items I have been searching for is a description of the page lifecycle for an XPage. After performing some experiments I have mapped out the following basic lifecycle. I will try and expand on it as time and the need dictates.... : The following example is based upon a single XPage (X) with 2 custom controls (A & B). Note: (controls seem to be processed in the order [read] Keywords: xpages
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Notes 8.5.1 On The Launch Pad
Mon, Oct 5th 2009 10:10p Peter Presnell Based upon the chatter across the airwaves in the past 48 hours I can only conclude that IBM have rolled out Notes 8.5.1 onto its launch pad ready for a launch later this week. So look out yellowverse, here its comes.... After a delay last week due to some last minute technical hitches it is going to be a fitting end to what Ed Brill for some reason is calling "8.5.1 week"! For me this will be perhaps the most exciting release since Notes 6.0. Notes 7 was a dud. Notes 8 was a great releas [read] Keywords: composite
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Add Discussion Threads to Existing Notes Apps In Under 5 Mins
Mon, Oct 5th 2009 12:26a Peter Presnell  As part of my work on the Discussion NextGen project I have been looking at ways the discussion thread capabilities provided by a discussion database could be easily added to any existing Notes Application. I have now taken the work I have done so far on Discussion NextGen and folded it back into my own.Domino Framework project. With a few tweaks I have been able to Add a discussion area to the framework database in which people can add new discussion topics and/or create responses; andAdd [read] Keywords: domino
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Notes 8.5.2 And Notes 9.0 Update
Wed, Sep 30th 2009 1:46p Peter Presnell I previously had been updating this blog entry about the what was known about plans for new features in future release of Notes/Domino. This blog was easily the most read of my blogs, so I guess there was a lot of interest in the topic. Now that most of the information about 8.5.1 is in the public domain I plan on separating out news that leaks out about 8.5.2 & TNMR (The Next Major Release - aka 9.0) into this new blog entry that will be updated as information is put out there. Â
[read] Keywords: domino
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Adding @getProfileField to SSJS
Tue, Sep 29th 2009 11:46a Peter Presnell  One of the many cool things about SSJS is that the language can be easily extended (or redefined). As an example I found that there was not an SSJS version of @getProfileField. Unlike LotusScript it is possible to create functions with the @ character so adding the following code to a SSJS library provides a quick example of the simple way in which the existing @Language can be extended with your own additions.
function @getProfileField(form, field, key) { if (key == undefined) {var docu [read] Keywords: document
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Property Generator for SSJS
Fri, Sep 25th 2009 1:26p Peter Presnell  Release 1.1 of the .Domino Framework will contain an enhanced version of the Property Generator tool that will allow Object Oriented Programmers to generate SSJS property statements. A sample of the SSJS code generated is as follows:-
Employee.prototype.EmployeeID; Employee.prototype.getEmployeeID= function() { if ( this.Document.hasItem("Emp_No")) {this.EmployeeID = this.Document.getItemValueString("Emp_No")} return this.EmployeeID; } Employee.prototype.setEmployeeID= function(value) { [read] Keywords: document
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The Challenges of Learning SSJS
Thu, Sep 24th 2009 7:06p Peter Presnell There are times (like today) when I feel like everything possible has been implemented to ensure that learning Server Sided JavaScript(SSJS) is as difficult as it can be. Me: Lets start by assuming I could well be at least part of the problem. i.e. you can't teach and old dog new tricks and I have been doing Classic Notes development for so long I have a tendency to try and do things the way I have "always" done them.XPages Is Complex: Xpages are a very powerful, but also complex, design element [read] Keywords: ibm
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The Challenges of Learning SSJS
Wed, Sep 23rd 2009 4:06p Peter Presnell There are times (like today) when I feel like everything possible has been implemented to ensure that learning Server Sided JavaScript(SSJS) is as difficult as it can be. Me: Lets start by assuming I could well be at least part of the problem. i.e. you can't teach and old dog new tricks and I have been doing Classic Notes development for so long I have a tendency to try and do things the way I have "always" done them.XPages Is Complex: Xpages are a very powerful, but also complex, design element [read] Keywords: ibm
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XPages - The Good, The Bad and the UGLY - XIV
Thu, Sep 17th 2009 3:47p Peter Presnell I am presently spending a lot of my time back in Xpage school developing real-life Xpage functionaility. So I can again share with you some of my thoughts based upon my latest experiences learning this new technology. The Good: Validation - Yet another of the really cool capabilities Xpages bring to NSF development is a range of new options for validating fields. Most controls have a validation section which allows you to set a property to mark that a field is required. As with most prope [read] Keywords: designer
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Preview: Discussion NextGen - Advanced Features
Wed, Sep 16th 2009 2:07a Peter Presnell I have added a new video outlining some of the advanced features that are being considered for implementation as part of the OpenNTF Discussion Nextgen project
Note: If you missed my previous video covering the basic feature set, please watch this first as it contains much of the background for this latest video. Niklas has also posted several videos on the OpenNTF blog that cover other aspects under development. Peter Presnell - Notes Classic - Basic Feature Set Niklas Heidloff - Can a C [read] Keywords: composite
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Xpages - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly - XI
Wed, Sep 16th 2009 1:26a Peter Presnell And one from the vaults - a missing blog that was posted into the 8.5.1 beta forum due to non-disclosure... Disclaimer: IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 is
prerelease code and there are no guarantees from IBM that the functionality
presented or discussed will be in the final shipping product. The Good - Finally Some Control - One of the definite advantages of Xpages is that is raises the bar on the user experience for "out-of-the box" Web applications. As an independe [read] Keywords: domino
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Whats new in Domino 8.5.1 (unredacted)
Sun, Sep 13th 2009 11:06p Peter Presnell Well it looks like Steve McDonagh has let the cat out of the bag. Being on the beta program I can probably help fill in some of the gaps left in Steve's report... Disclaimer: IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 is
prerelease code and there are no guarantees from IBM that the functionality
presented or discussed will be in the final shipping product. (Steve you forgot this!!!!) "Domino 8.5.1 is very radio-active. It will probably be on CNN and as part of LotusKnows it wil [read] Keywords: domino
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XPages - The Good, The Bad and the UGLY - XIII
Sat, Sep 12th 2009 12:26p Peter Presnell The Good: Page Lifecycle - Prior to XPages, the page lifecycle for Domino Web applications was nice and simple. WebQueryOpen and WebQuerySave. This limited greatly what could be achieved with a Domino application. The most notable was the inability to send a page back to the web client after WebQuerySave. XPages now introduces a full page lifecycle comparable to that found in most modern Web development platforms. We have been initially provided with 5 events - beforePageLoad, afterpagel [read] Keywords: domino
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New Video Includes Sneak Preview Of Eclipse LotusScript Editor
Thu, Sep 10th 2009 1:06a Peter Presnell As many of you many know I have been enough to have the chance to participate in the OpenNTF project to extend the Discussion template. The team includes Niklas Heidloff and Steve Castledine, two of IBM's great application developers. These guys are constantly coming up with great ideas for this project. One of Niklas's contributions was the idea oif using video as a medium to communicate some of the ideas we have for the template. Thanks to Niklas it is now occurring to me that that vid [read] Keywords: domino
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Preview: Discussion Template for 8.5.2
Mon, Sep 7th 2009 10:26p Peter Presnell I have been spending a lot of my "free" time over the past month working on an OpenNTF project to develop the next version of the Discussion Template. My initial focus has been on developing a new Notes Classic interface for the discussion template. Please take a look at the video posted on You Tube and share with me any thoughts. The entire project team is looking for as many ideas as possible about how we can improve the look and feel, ease of use, and functionality of the Discussion tem [read] Keywords: notes
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@Functions Aren't @Functions
Fri, Sep 4th 2009 2:26p Peter Presnell My Xpages Summer vacation has ended and I am now back working on Xpages projects. Here is a quick tip for those like me still in the early stages of learning... SSJS provides a cool emulation of many of the popular @Functions written using much the same syntax as the original language. But there are a few gotchas: They are ALL case sensative... So when they say" @UserName" use @UserName and not @Username or @USERNAME etcThese are functions so if you what the value use @UserName() . @UserN [read] Keywords: xpages
Notes 8.5.1 Is Getting Closer
Tue, Aug 25th 2009 11:47a Peter Presnell As the release date for 8.5.1 gets closer more and more information about 8.5.1 is coming into the public domain. Over the past few months I have been keeping an updated blog entry with links to the various public announcements that have been made so far about what is in 8.5.1, 8.5.2, and 9.0. It is being updated daily as new information appears. [read] Keywords: notes
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LotusScript Knows
Tue, Aug 18th 2009 12:26a Peter Presnell Unfortunately I did not wake up in time for this morning LotusKnows Jam bloggers call. For me 5am meetings can be something of a challenge! So despite missing the call I felt compelled to at least add something on the topic. So how about my top 10 LotusScript Knows... 1) LotusScript knows that not everyone wants to program in Java. 2) LotusScript knows how to exploit the power of the Notes client 3) LotusScript knows it is now under attack from JavaScript 4) LotusScript knows the meaning [read] Keywords: forms
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Did Gartnet Get It Right?
Thu, Aug 6th 2009 11:09a Peter Presnell I was searching for something on the Internet and came came across an article published by Gartner in November 2004 entitled IBM's Workplace Will Be the Future of Lotus Notes/Domino . One quote in particular struck me  "but by 2009 the vendor plans to use a future version of Workplace as
v.8 (or v.9) of Lotus Notes/Domino (0.6 probability). (This is not
IBM's official position.)" So here we are 5 years later between Notes 8 and Notes 9. Yes, Workplace is gone as a product but we now have [read] Keywords: designer
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Going Green
Fri, Jul 31st 2009 2:32p Peter Presnell I am just about to hit the button and submit my first assignment at Xpages kindergarten. Yes, my first Pages application is about to be release into production! The assignment is developed using what I call "green code". It takes an existing application developed using Classic Notes (yellow code) and combines it with Xpages (blue code) to produce a hybrid solution (green code) that combines the capabilities of Classic Notes and Xpages in a single application. Until the features, reliabil [read] Keywords: notes
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Notes 8.5.0 and LotusScript do not play nicely II
Fri, Jul 24th 2009 1:47p Peter Presnell In a previous blog, I commented on the fun I have been having with Notes 8.5.0 getting my LotusScript code to reliably tell me the current view or document using NotesUIWorkSpace. Today I can share another one of the quirks with Notes 8.5.0 that is slowing me down as a Notes developer.... It seems that somewhere between Notes 6.0.4 and Notes 8.5.0 the LotusScript debugger stopped stepping through the code contained in the Initialize module of LotusScript libraries. When the debugger is on a [read] Keywords: agent
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Notes 8.5.0 and LotusScript do not play nicely
Tue, Jul 21st 2009 5:10p Peter Presnell I have been having lots of fun the past 3 weeks using Domino Design 8.5.0. There are LOTS of issues. There is one in particular I would like to bring to the attention of Notes Developers who use LotusScript heavily and have already or will soon migrate to 8.5.0. It seems in the world of Eclipse the NotesUIWorkspace class no longer be relied upon in the same way it could in the past. In particular the CurrentView and CurrentDocument properties of this class can be totally unpredictable. [read] Keywords: designer
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Adding Web Service Connections
Tue, Jul 21st 2009 9:53a Peter Presnell Release 1.0.2 of the .Domino Framework will contain the first small steps for building an SOA. The existing Connections feature (available with 1.0) will be extended to support Web Services. For those not familiar, the concept of Connections is to define all external dependencies an application may have via a series of "Connection" documents. This eliminates the need for hard-coding the information about external resources. As documents these can be changed without the need for code changes [read] Keywords: connections
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DominoDatabase.GetDocumentByUUID
Mon, Jul 20th 2009 3:29p Peter Presnell A little over a year ago Nathan Freeman published an article about Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs). The article also refers to work being done by other Notes developers on exploring ways in which Notes applications can speed up the process for locating documents. The technique involves using the @Password function to create a random UNID for a document based upon some external key you have for the document. This subject came up again in a conversation I was having over the weekend wit [read] Keywords: document
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Daddy, where do Notes applications come from?
Sun, Jul 19th 2009 1:27p Peter Presnell I have often asked myself similar questions? At one of my previous clients an audit was done on Notes applications and it was found that there were 70,000 Notes databases! This led everyone to start asking - where the **** did all these applications come from? During my 16+ years involvement with Lotus Notes I have observed the following key sources for Notes applications:- Non-IT Solutions: My biggest beef with IT departments has been that we often make it harder, rather than easier, fo [read] Keywords: domino
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