OpenSocial Explorer v0.0.2 Released!
Mon, Nov 4th 2013 8:10p Ryan- Baxter Today I released version 0.0.2 of the OpenSocial Explorer. Â From an end user perspective not a lot has changed, although there are a couple of differences.
The navigator on the left has been updated to use the Dojo Tree control to make it easier to navigate the different sample gadgets.
There is now a Login link in the header that allows you to log in with Facebook and Google OAuth and OpenID. Â This is not really used for anything yet but hopefully in later releases we can use this to configu [read] Keywords: dojo
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#thanksbruce
Wed, Oct 2nd 2013 8:11a Ryan- Baxter Today I would like to say thank you to the one and only Bruce Elgort. Â He is a true thought leader and advocate of all things technology. Â Obviously Bruce's greatest contribution to the IBM community has been his work as chairman of OpenNTF. Â I am sure everyone knows that OpenNTF wouldn't be what it is today without Bruce's involvement. Â For me personally, Bruce has always been there to give honest feedback about the features and products I work on as an IBMer. Â I trust his opinion and a [read] Keywords: ibm
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Apache BarCamp Boston
Wed, May 8th 2013 12:16p Ryan- Baxter In a few weeks, on May 19th, the Apache Foundation will be hosting a BarCamp in Boston. Â The even will take place at Microsoft's NERD Center in Cambridge. Â Ultimately, as with all BarCamps the topics covered will be left up to the attendees, but we have some suggestions as well.
The Apache Way
The Apache Incubator
Learn how to get started contributing to an open source project
Apache Rave
Apache Shindig
Free food and swag will be provided, which is all made posible by our sponsors. Â Please [read] Keywords: javascript
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The OpenSocial Explorer: An Open Source Project For Developers
Mon, Apr 1st 2013 6:14p Ryan- Baxter Today the OpenSocial Foundation released the OpenSocial Explorer, a new open source project meant to help developers learn how to build OpenSocial gadgets. Â One of the biggest challenges any developer faces when trying to learn how to build an OpenSocial gadget is how to get started and use all the features provided by the specification. Â In theory it seems very easy to get started building an OpenSocial gadget, but as any developer knows, it doesn't matter how easy a platform is to understan [read] Keywords: gadget
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Using Jasmine To Unit Test Your JavaScript
Tue, Mar 26th 2013 8:15p Ryan- Baxter Lately I have been writing quite a few Dojo AMD modules for a project I am working on. Â These modules include Dojo widgets and API level code. Â Being a good developer I wanted to make sure I could test the code I was writing. Â I had worked with other JavaScrupt unit testing frameworks in the past and had been frustrated by them because there was no real good "framework" built around them. Â You could do the basics that you would expect, like running some setup and cleanup code but there wa [read] Keywords: development
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Upcoming IBM Social Business Toolkit Community Call
Wed, Dec 12th 2012 2:17p Ryan- Baxter IBM will be hosting another Social Business Toolkit community call on December 17th 2012 at 11:00 AM EST. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the IBM Social Business Toolkit and how you can leverage it in your applications. Experts from the development team will be on the call to answer all your questions. You can download an ICS file to add a reminder about the call to your calendar.
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Social Business App Dev Workshops
Thu, Nov 15th 2012 7:10p Ryan- Baxter Today ended our (IBMs) very first Social Business App Dev Workshop. Â Overall the workshop was a huge success for both IBM and the attendees. Â Over the first 2 days of the workshop we covered various topics including IBM's new Social Business Toolkit and SDK, Â Domino and XPages, OpenSocial, and even mobile app development. Â Best of all attendees got to work through numerous "labs" which demonstrated all the capabilites of IBM's Social Business Platform. Â It was quite the site to see 40 d [read] Keywords: domino
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Connect 2013 Social App Throwdown
Sun, Oct 14th 2012 6:09p Ryan- Baxter Last year at Lotusphere 2012 (now know as Connect) we held the inaugrial Social App Throwdown. Â It was a huge success both from an IBM and partner point of view. Â IBM got to demonstrate the powers of its social business platform and select partners got to demonstrate their apps on the main stage at Lotusphere.
This year we will be bringing back the Social App Throwdown and we are hoping to make it bigger and better. Â The Throwdown will be open to everyone who attends Connect 2013. Â All you h [read] Keywords: ibm
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Post MWLUG
Sat, Aug 18th 2012 10:11a Ryan- Baxter I had a great time at MWLUG.  LUGs are a different beast than Lotusphere, because they are so much smaller there is much more interaction which is great!  I also got to attend other sessions, which was personally really enlightening. Listening to consumers of the (mostly) great products we (IBM) produce give me as an IBMer a completely different perspective on things.  Personally I learned that maybe my sessions are a little to technical for most people  This is why XPages is soooo successf [read] Keywords: ibm
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MWLUG
Sat, Aug 4th 2012 3:10p Ryan- Baxter In a about a week I am going to be heading to Pittsburgh to attend MWLUG. Â This is going to be my first LUG, so I am super excited about going, listening to the sessions and talking with everyone about Social Business. Â I am going to be giving an application development session on OpenSocial. Â As most of you know, OpenSocial will be one of the key technologies developers can leveraged in Notes and Domino Social Edition as well as Connections Next, so I will be prepping all you application de [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotusphere 2012 Social App Throwdown
Fri, Jan 27th 2012 7:12p Ryan- Baxter The video for the Lotusphere 2012 Social App Throwdown was finally posted today.  All the applications demoed in this video were build using OpenSocial and ran inside of email in Notes and Domino Social Edition as well as Connections Next.  For more information on embedded experiences and OpenSocial, see my previous blog post. This video is a great example of the power of OpenSocial and gives you some good use cases for how you can leverage OpenSocial from your existing apps.  Feel free to [read] Keywords: connections
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Trilog Video From Lotusphere 2012 Social App Trowdown
Thu, Jan 26th 2012 6:12p Ryan- Baxter I have yet to get the complete video from the Lotusphere 2012 Social App Throwdown, but one of the participants recorded a video of the demo they gave during the session.
For more information on OpenSocial and embedded experiences, please take a look here. Â Notes and Domino Social Edition will be have complete support for OpenSocial, so get reading!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY5Z2YdhOos
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Lotusphere 2012 Schedule Updates
Sat, Jan 7th 2012 1:10p Ryan- Baxter Since my last post about Lotusphere 2012, I have had a few changes in my schedule.
First I will be co-hosting a BOF on OpenSocial, Activity Streams and any other open standard related to social business. Â The BOF is on Wednesday January 18th at 7AM. Â There will be a number of experts on OpenSocial and Activity Streams on hand to answer your questions and discuss anything you would like.
Second, I will be speaking about OpenSocial to some of the students who will be attending Lotusphere this ye [read] Keywords: ibm
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What Exactly Is IBM’s Social Business Toolkit?
Wed, Nov 30th 2011 7:09p Ryan- Baxter Last year at Lotusphere 2011 IBM "released" its Social Business Toolkit.  Since then there has been much confusion over what the Social Business Toolkit is, both inside and outside IBM.  First, like Project Vulcan, the IBM Social Business Toolkit is not a product!  When the toolkit was released last year there was a sample environment released where you could try out some of the technologies, such as AcitivityStreams and embedded experiences, in the toolkit which really confused people.
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Does The Lotus Community Understand The Importance Of Open Standards?
Tue, Oct 25th 2011 8:10p Ryan- Baxter Do you know what ActivityStreams is?
Do you know what OAuth is?
Do you know what OpenSocial is?
Do you know what HTML5 is?
Do you know what CMIS is?
All of the above technologies are open standards developed by different standards bodies. Â Most importantly, all of these standards are being used in some way by various ICS products. Â The questions you should be asking as customers and/or business partners is...
Why do I care about them? Â Why should I take time out of my day to learn more about [read] Keywords: ibm
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Interested In An Open Standards Conference In Boston Next Year?
Fri, Sep 16th 2011 8:11p Ryan- Baxter This week I got back from a small conference in Boulder CO and while I was out there I thought to myself "Why do I always have to go out west to a conference, why not have one on the east coast?". Â So I thought about taking the initiative and seeing if I can gather enough interest from people to make it worth my time. Â I am willing to do all the leg work I just want to make sure I can get enough quality speakers and attendees. Â I have already put some "feelers" out on some of the mailing [read] Keywords: javascript
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Heading To BoulderUX
Sat, Sep 10th 2011 8:13a Ryan- Baxter I am heading out to Boulder Colorado to a small conference called BoulderUX. I am going to be speaking about OpenSocial and embedded experiences. I am trying to get more and more companies not only interested in OpenSocial but start thinking about how they can use gadgets such as embedded experiences to enrich their end user's experience.  We will be covering the anatomy of the gadget XML, what an embedded experience is, how to use the OpenSocial 2.0 Sandbox, and finally my college Stanton w [read] Keywords: application
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My Blog Is Now In The Cloud…On An EC2 Instance
Thu, Aug 25th 2011 12:42p Ryan- Baxter Up until last week my blog was hosted on wordpress.com. Â When I started blogging, I wasn't sure how much I was going to actually like it so I didn't want to put to much time and money into creating one. Â Wordpress.com seemed like the simplest place to set one up. Â However I ended up really like blogging and I wanted to do different things with my blog which I couldn't do on WordPress.com. Â I decided to look into how I could host my own WordPress blog. Â I eventually found that there were [read] Keywords: applications
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Useful Library For Parsing And Creating JSON In Notes
Wed, Aug 3rd 2011 8:09p Ryan- Baxter If you have ever tried to work with JSON in an Eclipse plugin you know it is not strait forward.  One of the easiest ways to work with JSON is to use the libraries from json.org.  However if your working with JSON inside of Notes 8.5.2 or later, there is actually a library built into Notes you can use.  Your plugin will need to have a dependency on com.ibm.commons.  In this plugin there are several classes you can use to work with JSON.  The Javadoc for the APIs can be found here. Here is [read] Keywords: domino
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Embedded Experiences Demoed At Enterprise 2.0
Wed, Jun 29th 2011 8:14p Ryan- Baxter While  I was on vacation, Enterprise 2.0 took place in Boston Ma.  Since I was out of town one of my colleages, Andrew Davis (IBM), went to represent OpenSocial at the conference.  He was demoing the OpenSocial 2.0 Sandbox which we have been working on for the OpenSocial Foundation.  David Berlind from InformationWeek did a short interview with Andrew at Enterprise 2.0 where he demoed Embedded Experiences in the OpenSocial 2.0 Sandbox.  Remember embedded experiences is one of the new featur [read] Keywords: ibm
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Hackathon Anyone?
Tue, Jun 28th 2011 6:17p Ryan- Baxter I was having a conversation with Mikkel today, and he told me he was taking a trip to AusLug this year to do a few sessions on plugin development/OSGi and possibly an all day type of session. Â A light bulb went off in my head and I thought it would be a great idea to do a “hack day” or hackathon type of thing at Lotusphere this year, even if it’s something unofficial, where we just get a decent size room where people can come and hack. Â Besides, developers love nothing better [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Busy Busy Busy…
Sun, Jun 26th 2011 12:09p Ryan- Baxter I have been MIA lately, for a number of reasons. Â The biggest reason is because I recently got married on June 11th. Â Preparing for that took up a lot of my spare time, although I must admit, my now wife did a majority of the hard work. Â Then I took a 2 week vacation to Tahiti for our honeymoon. Â (Tahiti is amazing by the way, if you ever get a chance to go I suggest you take it.) Â At the same time leading up to the wedding work was getting really busy. Â We are working very hard to build s [read] Keywords: blogging
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Cool HTML5 Video
Mon, Apr 25th 2011 8:14p Ryan- Baxter Not much else to say except this is an excellent video on the new stuff in HTML5. Â I highly recommend you check it out if you are a web developer or are interested in web development. [read] Keywords: development
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Embedded Experiences Drafted Into OpenSocial 2.0
Fri, Apr 22nd 2011 2:10p Ryan- Baxter Yesterday a patch I wrote for embedded experiences was applied to the draft version of the OpenSocial 2.0 spec.  If you recall from my previous posts, here and here, embedded experiences is going to be a huge part of future products at IBM.  However by making it part of the OpenSocial spec we are trying to spread adoption of this technology outside IBM as well.  Any software that has email or an activity stream could take avantage of embedded experiences if they wanted.  You could imagine [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM’s Proposals For OpenSocial 2.0
Wed, Apr 13th 2011 4:09p Ryan- Baxter If you have been following my tweets and some of my blog posts, then you have noticed I have become involved with the OpenSocial foundation. Â At Lotusphere, IBM annouced in the next versions of all our Lotus products we will begin to leverage several open standards, one of those being OpenSocial. Â In fact LotusLive already uses OpenSocial gadgets today. Â I personally have been working on contributing a new feature to OpenSocial called embedded experiences. Â If you were at Lotusphere or have [read] Keywords: ibm
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Defining Default Preferences For Your Plugins
Mon, Mar 14th 2011 8:10p Ryan- Baxter Most plugins have some kind of preferences, which show up in the File -> Preferences dialog inside of Notes. Â The majority of time, these preferences come pre-configured with some default preference values. Â The way to do this is to use an extension point provided by Eclipse called org.eclipse.core.runtime.preferences. Â You can then provide an initializer class to this extension point that will get called when you first try to access any of the preferences. Â Your preference initializer cl [read] Keywords: notes
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oAuth On Domino
Wed, Mar 2nd 2011 6:14p Ryan- Baxter I have been trying to wrap my head around oAuth lately and how we leverage it inside our Lotus products. Â I have seen some tweets about requesting oAuth on Domino and I assume the Yellowverse wants oAuth on other Lotus servers as well, not just Domino. Â I am trying to wrap my head around the use cases. Â oAuth is all about delegation. Â You can allow an application to access data from a service on your behalf. Â If there was an oAuth provider on Domino, than this would allow you to do this wit [read] Keywords: admin
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Using WindowBuilderPro To Build UIs For Plugins [Videos]
Fri, Feb 18th 2011 12:09p Ryan- Baxter At Lotusphere 2011 Mikkel and I demoed a plugin for Eclipse called WindowBuilder Pro in our plugin development jumpstart. Â I figured I would create some short videos on how to install the plugins into Eclipse and how you can use them to build UIs for your plugins. Â The videos are pretty simple and strait forward. Â They don’t go into too much details on all the things you can do, but it should be enough to get you started. Â I encourage everyone to go to the WindowBuilder Pro web site an [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotus Plugin Development RedWiki Is Here
Fri, Feb 4th 2011 1:17p Ryan- Baxter I just noticed the RedWiki for plugin development was posted on the Notes Domino AppDev wiki!  This is an essential resource for plugin developers looking to integrate into Lotus Notes, Sametime, Symphony, and Expeditor.  It was written by people both inside and outside IBM and has a ton of content in it.  It’s a great getting started resource and includes everything from setting up your development environment to creating complex context menus.  Check it out! [read] Keywords: domino
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Ugly Plugins
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 2:14p Ryan- Baxter Last night I met up with Mikkel Heisterberg and Mat Newman at Lotusphere. Â I quickly realized I was in for a long night of bashing about what they hate about plugin development for Notes, and Expeditor in general. Â (Of course it was all in good fun and they had a lot of great feedback, but it was 2 on 1, not a very fair fight.) Â One of the many topics they brought up was the ability for plugins that and user installs into Expeditor to effect the whole client. Â For example Mikkel had brought [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Lotusphere 2011 Schedule
Tue, Jan 25th 2011 7:16p Ryan- Baxter Well it’s been a while since I have blogged, mostly because work has been busy and I have been getting things ready for LS. Â However I thought it would be useful to let everyone know what my schedule will be for Lotusphere 2011 and where people can find me. Â The most useful part of this for everyone is probably be my schedule for the meet the developers lab. Â I know sometimes people stop by the lab looking for someone just to find out they are not there so hopefully this will help anyon [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Containers, Containers Everywhere
Tue, Jan 4th 2011 2:14p Ryan- Baxter If you have at all looked into OpenSocial and Apache Shindig than you surley have come across the samples and containers. Â The good news is that there are alot, the bad news, well there is little documentation that goes along with the samples and containers. Â Without documentation it’s hard to know what exactly the samples are doing. Â Besides that problem there are, or appears to be, three different sample containers that come bundled with Shindig. Â In theory all of these containers sh [read] Keywords: facebook
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Project Vulcan Refresher
Mon, Dec 27th 2010 7:21p Ryan- Baxter With Lotusphere coming up in about a month now, Project Vulcan will surely be a hot topic again this year.  There is at least one session dedicated to Project Vulcan.  If you need to refresh your memory on what Project Vulcan REALLY is, than I sugest you watch this video.  I would be interested in hearing if there are topics related to Project Vulcan that you are interested in learning more about or that you may be unclear on an want a better explanation.  As always leave comments below. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Bridging The Gap Between Plugins And Web Apps
Mon, Dec 27th 2010 12:58p Ryan- Baxter Even since I have become involved with plugin development and Notes I have heard people say, I don’t want to write plugins I want to write a web app to do my integration. When asked why, the answer is generally that they know how to write HTML, Javascript, and CSS, and they have no idea how to even get started with plugin development. Even if they are willing to look into it, people often become frustrated and end up thinking plugin development is a black art. As much as I try to tea [read] Keywords: notes
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Cool Trick For Loading Files From Within Your Plugins
Mon, Dec 20th 2010 3:18p Ryan- Baxter Today while working on a plugin I needed to read in a properties file from within my plugin. Â I have done this before but could not remember how to do it, so I started Googling. Â I eventually came across this page. Â I had found the first method on several other pages while searching, but the second method I had never seen before. Â As expected it worked , and is actually a really simple and clean way to load resource files, like text, or in my case, properties files from within your plugins. [read] Keywords: development
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Creating And Opening A New Notes Document With Some HTML
Wed, Dec 15th 2010 7:00a Ryan- Baxter Over the past few months I have gotten several questions about how to create a email from within a plugin that has some HTML in the body and opens that email in the Notes UI. Â Essentially they want to do something similar to clicking the new email action button and Notes opening a new memo form with an HTML signature in the body already. Â People usually get stuck at two spots. Â First they go down the path of using the NotesUIWorkspace.composeDocument(NotesFormData) API. Â This is a good place [read] Keywords: domino
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MIME Email Improvements In Notes
Tue, Dec 7th 2010 7:27p Ryan- Baxter Recently I have been looking into the functionality of MIME emails in Notes. Â For those of you who are unfamiliar with the tearm MIME, it basically refers to emails from people who do not use Notes as their email client. Â For example, if someone who uses GMail sends and email to a Notes user, that email is a MIME email. Â I am wondering if Notes users have complaints or would like to see improvements in how Notes handles these emails. Â If you do have comments, good or bad, please leave a comm [read] Keywords: lotusnotes
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Essential Resources For Notes Plugin Developers
Mon, Dec 6th 2010 8:03a Ryan- Baxter I was asked the other day to put together some resources for a customer on plugin development in Notes. Â As you all know it can be hard to find resources for plugin development in an Lotus product, but we are working to change that. Â With that being said, I put together a short list of links that are essential for all Notes plugin developers. Â If you are new to plugin development and have never written a plugin before I suggest you start with the general Eclipse plugin development articles. Â [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Heading To Lotusphere 2011
Mon, Dec 6th 2010 7:53a Ryan- Baxter It’s offical, I will be going to Lotusphere 2011 this January. Â This will be my second Lotusphere, last year being my first. Â Last year I was working in the lab, and I am sure I will be there again this year as well, but this year I will also be giving a session on plugin development with Mikkel Heisterberg. Â This will be my first session at Lotusphere, I gave a similar one with Mike Masterson, at the View 2010 this past summer. Â The Lotusphere session is a jumpstart, so we will be abl [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Part 5: Creating Your First Lotus Notes Plugin
Mon, Nov 29th 2010 2:47p Ryan- Baxter In part 5 of this tutorial I show you how to create an NSF update site and create a widget which uses this update. I then show you how to create a widget catalog and how to add the widget to the catalog so you can share it with others. This concludes my tutorial on how to create your first Lotus Notes plugin. I showed you from start to finish how you can begin exploring plugin development within Lotus Notes. If you would like to see more videos like this please let me know what other top [read] Keywords: lotus
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Part 4: Creating Your First Lotus Notes Plugin
Mon, Nov 29th 2010 2:46p Ryan- Baxter In this part of the tutorial I show you how you can install your plugin into Notes using a Widget.
Update Site / Feature Diagram
PDE Tools
In the video I mention a set of tools called PDE tools that you can use to build your plugin. More information on PDE tools can be found here. You can also use these tools to build your widget XML file as well. [read] Keywords: lotus
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