"Programming Domino With Java" - Final Flush
Mon, Jan 2nd 2012 3:10a Bob Balaban Happy New Year, Geeks! Here's the 7th (and final) installment of the book. Thanks again for all the positive feedback. The first installment can be found here The 2nd installment is here The 3rd is here The 4th is here The 5th is here and the 6th is here All of the book content (as is all of the content on this blog) is Copyright 1998 and 2011 by Looseleaf Software, Inc. You may not reproduce or distribute the book's content without permission from me. Some Caveats and ex [read] Keywords: domino
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"Programming Domino With Java" - Sixth Sip
Tue, Dec 6th 2011 10:30a Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Here's the 6th installment of the book. Thanks again for all the positive feedback. The first installment can be found here The 2nd installment is here The 3rd is here The 4th is here The 5th is here All of the book content (as is all of the content on this blog) is Copyright 1998 and 2011 by Looseleaf Software, Inc. You may not reproduce or distribute the book's content without permission from me. Some Caveats and explanations: - This book is now 12 ye [read] Keywords: domino
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"Programming Domino With Java" - Fifth Slug
Mon, Nov 28th 2011 4:30p Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Here's the 5th installment of the book. Thanks again for all the positive feedback. The first installment can be found here The 2nd installment is here The 3rd is here The 4th is here All of the book content (as is all of the content on this blog) is Copyright 1998 and 2011 by Looseleaf Software, Inc. You may not reproduce or distribute the book's content without permission from me. Some Caveats and explanations: - This book is now 12 years old. There are [read] Keywords: domino
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"Programming Domino With Java" - Fourth Hit
Sun, Nov 20th 2011 12:50p Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Here's the 4th installment of the book. Thanks again for all the positive feedback. The first installment can be found here The 2nd installment is here The 3rd is here All of the book content (as is all of the content on this blog) is Copyright 1998 and 2011 by Looseleaf Software, Inc. You may not reproduce or distribute the book's content without permission from me. Some Caveats and explanations: - This book is now 12 years old. There are lots of things in [read] Keywords: domino
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"Programming Domino With Java" - Third Gulp
Mon, Nov 14th 2011 5:50p Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Here's the second installment of the book. Thanks again for all the positive feedback. The first installment can be found here The 2nd installment is here All of the book content (as is all of the content on this blog) is Copyright 1998 and 2011 by Looseleaf Software, Inc. You may not reproduce or distribute the book's content without permission from me. Some Caveats and explanations: - This book is now 12 years old. There are lots of things in it that are a [read] Keywords: domino
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"Programming Domino With Java": Chunk the Second
Wed, Nov 9th 2011 3:40p Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Here's the second installment of the book. Thanks again for all the positive feedback. The first installment can be found here All of the book content (as is all of the content on this blog) is Copyright 1998 and 2011 by Looseleaf Software, Inc. You may not reproduce or distribute the book's content without permission from me. Some Caveats and explanations: - This book is now 12 years old. There are lots of things in it that are amusingly dated, even laughab [read] Keywords: domino
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"Programming Domino With Java" - First Installment
Wed, Nov 2nd 2011 6:11p Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Here's the first installment of the book. Thanks again for all the positive feedback. All of the book content (as is all of the content on this blog) is Copyright 1998 and 2011 by Looseleaf Software, Inc. You may not reproduce or distribute the book's content without permission from me. Some Caveats and explanations: - This book is now 12 years old. There are lots of things in it that are amusingly dated, even laughable. One example: the absurd emphasis on Java [read] Keywords: domino
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Anyone interested in me posting my 1998 book?
Sat, Oct 29th 2011 8:50a Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! In 1998 I published a book titled "Programming Domino 4.6 With Java" (see the Amazon page here). It did fairly well, but of course it's a bit dated now, and it went out of print in 2000. While you can apparently get a used copy for $0.59 (plus shipping), I was thinking I might post the PDF version of the whole thing here on my blog (the rights to the book reverted to me when the publisher declared it out of print, so it's legal). There are bugs in there, which I suppo [read] Keywords: domino
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Check out CouchConf in New York, October 24
Mon, Oct 10th 2011 5:10p Bob Balaban CouchDb has gained notice in recent years as an innovator in the "NoSQL" data management space. CouchDb was invented by Damien Katz (http://damienkatz.net/), a former colleague of mine from the old days at Iris Associates. Couch is now open-sourced (via Apache, I think) and Damien's new company, CouchBase (http://www.couchbase.com/), helps organizations use it effectively to solve all sorts of business (and other) problems. If you're in the New York City area on October 24th, check it out. [read] Keywords:
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Geek-O-Terica 16: Easy conversion of Notes documents to MIME format (Part 2)
Mon, Apr 4th 2011 5:10a Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Recently I posted some sample code showing you how to convert Notes documents to MIME format on disk, using the Notes Java APIs. Unfortunately, if you need to do this kind of conversion using some other platform (such as .net), the job is a bit harder. A key method on the Document class (doc.convertToMIME()) is missing in the COM classes for Notes. Why? No idea, someone should ask Lotus about that. Probably has something to do with fear (but that's just speculation on my p [read] Keywords: lotus
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Using Fiddler to monitor HTTP traffic in Domino Java agents
Mon, Mar 14th 2011 4:00a Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! If you're writing Domino Java agents that use HTTP requests to talk to the Internets, you might need to debug your code by capturing the actual bits that leave your computer as Web requests, or even by looking at the responses that come back. I recently had to do just that for a customer project. I could write debug logs for the URLs and "payloads" that I was sending and receiving, but you don't easily get to see the HTTP headers that come and go. I found that I cou [read] Keywords: connections
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Backup your GMail account to NSF
Mon, Feb 28th 2011 10:30a Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! I read with concern the recent reports of some GMail accounts disappearing, as I use a couple of them for business and other purposes. I thought about writing a program to download all my mail and store as backup in a Notes database, but then I remembered that Notes already has a built-in feature for doing that: IMAP integration. It took me 5 minutes to set it up and download over 7000 messages from my (thankfully still operating) GMail account. It even converted GMail " [read] Keywords: lotus
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Presenting at "IDoSphere" - Debug Domino Java Agents With Eclipse
Wed, Feb 9th 2011 5:50a Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Suffering from post-Lotusphere let-down? Never fear, sign up now for "IDoSphere"! It's cheap, it's got great content, and it's all online, no need to leave the comfort of your own desk. Register HERE for the special 10% discount, use the coupon code IDS2011BB My session is: Debugging Notes Java Agents With Eclipse There is still no Java debugger (that humans can use) built into Domino Designer. If you want to build a complex Notes or Domino agent using Java, h [read] Keywords: agent
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Geek-o-Terica 13: Notes Response Hierarchies - Without Views
Mon, Dec 6th 2010 3:00a Bob Balaban Greetings Geeks! So. Everyone who's written any interesting amount of LotusScript (or Java) code in Notes or Domino has done the whole "get a view, get a document, get the first response to that, travel the (possibly deeply nested) response hierarchy..." thing. Probably more than once. It can be tedious, and you often have to create special views in your app that are used only for code navigation, which can blow up the size of the NSF. Yes, you can use the NotesViewNavigator class to manag [read] Keywords: domino
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Busy 2 Weeks: ILUG and DNUG
Sun, Nov 7th 2010 4:40a Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Welcome to USian Standard Time (1 hour earlier in most states). I'm off later today for an 11-day swing through Northern Ireland (note proper spelling as supplied by Mr. Steve McDonagh: "Norn Iron") and Germany for ILUG2010 and DNUG. ILUG continues its tradition (and I believe it was the first to establish this tradition) of having people attend for free: the sponsors pay the freight. The conference is organized and staffed by volunteers. It's a terrific event, [read] Keywords: agent
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32K limit exceeded, huh?? Why SUMMARY is not always your friend
Wed, Oct 20th 2010 5:40p Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! So there I was (don't you love stories that start out that way?). I was writing an agent to take journaled email messages, expand group names in the various recipient lists (SendTo, CopyTo, etc.), and then save a copy of the message with expanded lists in another database. The group expansion issue was a little tricky, because Notes lets you nest group names (an email or security group can include the name of another group). That was fun to solve, maybe I'll post that [read] Keywords: agent
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Tri-State LUG slides and demos posted
Tue, Oct 12th 2010 10:40p Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Had a great time yesterday at Tri-State LUG in New York. We had a good turnout (more than 100 people), and it was fun. I've posted my slides and sample Java code on their site: http://tristatelug.org/tristatelug/tslug2010.nsf/session.xsp?action=openDocument&documentId=5C0A5710D1B8B6F780257791005AA0AE The "download" demo is nearly identical to my "Drain Google" sample, which you can also find here. Enjoy! (Need expert application development architecture/cod [read] Keywords: ibm
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Tri-State LUG is Happening October 11
Fri, Sep 17th 2010 6:40a Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Tri-State Lotus User Group are having their annual day-long event in New York on 11 October. Attendee registration is free! I did a session at last year's gathering, it was a terrific group of sessions, and a great chance to really interact with the "showcase" sponsors. This year I'm doing a session titled "Cloud" Computing with Notes: Using Google APIs to get stuff done". Here's the abstract: If you're like many, many people these days, more and more o [read] Keywords: agent
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Slides and demo code from ATLUG presentation: Debugging Java Agents for Humans
Fri, Aug 27th 2010 9:00a Bob Balaban Greetings Geeks! I had a great time at the Atlanta Lotus User Group (ATLUG) meeting yesterday. Many thanks to IBM for helping me with expenses, and many many thanks to Darren and Lisa Duke for letting me sleep at their house! The presentation I did was a slightly updated version of my "2-headed beast" deck, which you can also find here and here Here is the revised slide deck: balaban2HBeast..pdf And the associated java files: Agent1.java Agent2.java DebugAgentContext.java [read] Keywords: domino
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Want to debug Java agents INSIDE Designer? You can! (sort of)
Wed, Jul 7th 2010 1:20p Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! Here's a little something I stumbled upon last night: (using Designer 8.51) a way to actually debug Java agents *without exiting Domino Designer*! I'm pretty sure this is not documented, or actually, even supposed to be possible. But, here's the scoop. First, this only works if your agent is also set up to be a Java "application", i.e.,it has to have a main() method in it. To see how to do that, visit my previous posts on the "2-headed beast" technique. A [read] Keywords: agent
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I’m speaking at ATLUG (Atlanta Lotus User Group) in August
Thu, Jul 1st 2010 3:30p Bob Balaban Greetings Geeks! I am very pleased to report that I've been invited to speak at the August ATLUG meeting, in Atlanta, on the 26th. My topic will be: "Debugging Java Agents for Humans", basically a demonstration of some techniques, collectively called "The 2-headed beast", that allow you to code and debug Domino agents in Eclipse, then paste them into Designer without changing a line. So, Come On Over! Should be a rockin' good time. Check out http://www.atlug.org for details. Thank [read] Keywords: domino
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I am doing 3 sessions at The View Admin/Developer Conference this week
Mon, May 10th 2010 3:18a Bob Balaban Greetings, Geeks! This week is a big annual geekfest here in the Boston area: The View's Admin/Developer conference. This year I am presenting 3 different sessions: Debugging Notes Java agents with Eclipse (the "2-Headed Beast" technique) Advanced programming with Notes/Domino COM classes (stuff you never thought you'd be able to do) Deconstructing Web services: How do they really work and what to do when they don't Tuesday is "jump-start" day, and the regular ses [read] Keywords: admin
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