SOAP Headers in Lotus Domino web service consumers and providers
Wed, Feb 8th 2012 7:32a Mikkel Heisterberg In a current project we're using the web service consumer and web server provider capability of Lotus Domino quite heavily. During the development the need to process the SOAP request headers which are provided in a section above the SOAP body. Problem is that these are not exposed through the proxy classes generated for you when you import the WSDL. Searching Google I came across the blog of Elena Neroslavskaya and more importantly the post that helped me out. Using the MessageContext class de [read] Keywords: domino
lotus
lotusdomino
css
development
google
javascript
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Lotusphere 2012 one-liners
Wed, Feb 8th 2012 7:16a Mikkel Heisterberg Way too busy hanging out, drinking with friends and networking.
Staying of site sucks but as long as the cab driver can find his way it works out fine. Btw staying in the Harry Potter room is cool if you can make your way onto the bed.
Being video taped for the IBM Champions roundtable
When my boss came to Lotusphere one day with two different shoes on
Working with the IBM team and the five other partners on the Social App Throwdown was a lot of work but was great fun. Getting my first android d [read] Keywords: connections
domino
ibm
lotusphere
notes
java
networking
twitter
widgets
If you're writing JavaScript this is a must read
Sun, Jan 15th 2012 11:57a Mikkel Heisterberg Normally with a link like this I would put it on twitter but with Lotusphere 2012 underway it would get lost and it really it too important for that. If you're writing JavaScript - and who isn't - you really should read Understanding JavaScript OOP by Quildreen Motta. I really mean it! [read] Keywords: lotusphere
javascript
oop
twitter
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And we have lift off
Sun, Jan 15th 2012 7:19a Mikkel Heisterberg After a late arrival last night I'm on site today and already in sessions. My day is packed and looking forward to hooking up with friends. Arriving at Lotusphere is just like coming home - you know your way around and your phone automatically logs onto the wifi :-)
See you around. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
wifi
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Getting ready to go
Wed, Jan 11th 2012 12:21p Mikkel Heisterberg So it's that time of year again. It's crunch time at the office to get stuff ready for Lotusphere, crunch time at customers trying to squeeze in the last few project appointments and it's crunch time in regard to session presentations. This year started out with me doing one session with Luis Benitez, then it turned to me doing it alone and now I'm doing something special on the big stage on Wednesday with IBM. Don't know if we're allowed to talk about it but it's exciting and require a l [read] Keywords: ibm
lotusphere
office
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Luis not able to co-present with me at Lotusphere
Wed, Dec 28th 2011 12:06p Mikkel Heisterberg Got word the other day that Luis Benitez wont be able to join me on stage at Lotusphere 2012 due to a conflicting session. So much for planning. So if all you were hoping for to see at our my session was Luis then I have to disappoint you. I will still be there though doing my out most to teach you about widget development for IBM Connections so be sure you mark your calendar for BP207 :-)
See you there! [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
lotusphere
development
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Microsoft's chat service, Lync, going mobile as well
Sun, Dec 25th 2011 2:29a Mikkel Heisterberg Just on the heels of the Lotus Sametime for iOS / Android release comes the release of Microsoft Lync for iPad and iPhone that is a chat client for Microsofts on-premises and cloud based chat solution. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft too is using push-notifications for out-of-app chat notification to save on battery. One of the nice things about the announcement is to see how Microsoft chose to have their mobile solution work with their cloud based offering right away - something Lotu [read] Keywords: lotus
sametime
iphone
microsoft
mobile
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Avoid contacts from mail file gets archived by server-side archiving
Wed, Dec 14th 2011 5:15a Mikkel Heisterberg Open Mail File template in Domino Designer.
Open "Contact" Form.
Create a new field in this form.
Name it as "ProtectFromArchive"
Field Type should be "NUMBER" with setting "Computed When Composed"
Now set default Value of this field to be "1"
Save the form.
Now The mail database created using this template wont be facing any issue of archiving the contacts documents as field "ProtectFromArchive" will prevent contact docs to get archived. Please note that an agent needs to process e [read] Keywords: agent
domino
archiving
database
server
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Files plugin for Lotus Notes
Wed, Dec 14th 2011 5:08a Mikkel Heisterberg A while back I saw the new
IBM Connections 3.0.1 Files Plug-in for Lotus Notes from Mac Guidera's blog. I didn't blog it because it didn't work with LotusLive Engage but since updates was just done to LotusLive it may work now. Must try. [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
lotus
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mac
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Lotusphere 2012 session id is BP207
Sun, Dec 11th 2011 11:53p Mikkel Heisterberg Just received word from the track manager of the Best Practices track that the session I'm doing with Luis Benitez on iWidget development is BP207 so mark your schedule now! Looking forward to seeing you there. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
development
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IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 server performance and IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 client performance
Fri, Dec 9th 2011 12:24a Mikkel Heisterberg Saw this very nice - although very technincal - whitepaper on developerWorks on how Notes 8.5.3 has been optimized to reduce the number of transactions with the Domino server. A small little thing that I haven't seen mentioned before but which can have a big impact on your environment and users. Probably shouldn't be considered light reading.
"IBM Lotus® Domino® 8.5.3 and IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 have been optimized to reduce the transactions from the client to the server. Thes [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
lotus
notes
server
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Searching Profiles programmatically
Thu, Dec 8th 2011 11:36a Mikkel Heisterberg As part og IBM Connections you will find a big REST API that allows you to work with almost every part of Connections such as searching for profiles, managing files and working with communities. As part of our new product (see my previous post) I'm doing a lot with this API. Right now one of my favorite wiki documents is "Searching Profiles programmatically". [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
ldd
lotus
wiki
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WAS profile creation on Windows Server 2008 64 bit
Wed, Dec 7th 2011 1:48p Mikkel Heisterberg When installing Connections on Windows 2008 Server 64 bit the profile management tool doesn't work so profile creation is done using manageprofiles.bat/sh. The syntax is hard to remember so here it is for future reference.
Deployment manager:
c:ibmwebsphereappserverbinmanageprofiles.bat -create -templatePath ..profileTemplatesmanagement -profileName dmgr -profilePath d:wasprofilesdmgr -cellName LCCell01 -nodeName dmgrNode -serverType DEPLOYMENT_MANAGER
Application server:
c:ibmwebsphereapp [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
application
profile
server
websphere
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OnTime Group Calendar for Social Business
Wed, Dec 7th 2011 3:06a Mikkel Heisterberg As part of the OnTime Group Calendar we're building a series of widgets for IBM Connections to allow easier collaboration - the more we collaborate the more we need access to accurate, updated, calendar data. This puts OnTime Group Calendar smack in the middle of the move to social business. We are getting ready to release the widgets as part of the product and we have the first demo ready.
The integration into the Profiles feature is easily understandable and shows the calendar of the user [read] Keywords: collaboration
connections
ibm
community
integration
profile
widget
widgets
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Backup for IBM Connections communities
Tue, Dec 6th 2011 3:15a Mikkel Heisterberg An excellent and a bit overdue addition to IBM Connections is better control over backup of communities. We're not talking fine grained control and integration with e.g. Tivoli Storage Manager but rather backup to and restore from ZIP-files. The asset has been added to the Greenhouse catalog and is described in the New backup & restore tool for IBM Connections Communities post on the Synch.rono.us blog. [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
synch.rono.us
integration
tivoli
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Lotusphere 2012 session accepted
Mon, Dec 5th 2011 2:31p Mikkel Heisterberg I'm very happy that the session I submitted together with Luis Benitez was accepted for Lotusphere 2012 in the Best Practices track. The session is titled "Easy as Pie - Creating Widgets for IBM Connections" and will be about how easy and powerful it is to develop widgets for IBM Connections. On the other hand I am a bit bummed that my JumpStart with Ryan Baxter on plugin development wasn't accepted and we do not get the chance to repeat the success from Lotusphere 2011. Bummer but that's h [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
lotusphere
development
widgets
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20% off OnTime Meeting Manager until December 2011
Thu, Nov 3rd 2011 1:17a Mikkel Heisterberg (click to learn more)
OnTime Meeting Manager is your one-stop organizer dedicated to making the process of organizing meetings quick and efficient, leaving you free to concentrate on what's central to your business.
Booking rooms for meetings or even teleconferences should be an easy process. Most people would agree on that. Adding catering to the booking should not be much harder. However often organisations find that handling this procedure is a lengthy process that absorbs much more time [read] Keywords:
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Tool of the day: websequencediagrams.com
Wed, Oct 26th 2011 5:40a Mikkel Heisterberg Today I needed to draw a number of sequence diagrams and since I do not have a program installed for this I decided to look online. My search was successful and I was very happy to find websequencediagrams.com. What sets this tool apart from others is that you do not draw the sequence diagram but you write it. Just up my alley as a developer. Using easy syntax like the below you can quickly stitch a diagram together.
Alice->Bob: Go do it!
Bob->Alice: Okay!
Bob->Charles: Help me please! [read] Keywords: profile
wiki
The JavaScript Module Pattern - adding namespace
Fri, Oct 21st 2011 8:23a Mikkel Heisterberg The Module Pattern has as added benefit of allowing you to add namespace to classes. The below extends the previous example to make the class COM.LEKKIMWORLD.ModuleAbc. Very cool in my eyes and reduces the chance for name collisions much like with Dojo classes.
// Create a COM namespace
var COM = (function() {
return {};
}());
// Create a LEKKIMWORLD namespace
COM.LEKKIMWORLD = (function() {
return {};
}());
// Add a class called ModuleAbc to the COM.LEKKIMWORLD namespace
COM.LEKKIMWORLD.M [read] Keywords: dojo
javascript
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The JavaScript Module Pattern
Fri, Oct 21st 2011 6:23a Mikkel Heisterberg If you are like me you like object oriented programming and you try to encapsulate the functionality to the best of your ability. And goes to JavaScript as well of course. JavaScript pose an interesting problem though as JavaScript objects are as opaque as air that is you can see right through it.
Normally an object in JavaScript - whether declared though dojo.declare or function/json isn't able to hide it's member variables at all. You can try with "this." or using _neverUser naming but f [read] Keywords: dojo
javascript
Show 'n Tell Thursday: Maximizing tabs in DDE (20 October 2011)
Thu, Oct 20th 2011 1:20a Mikkel Heisterberg It has been a looooooooooooooooong time since I did a SnTT but I found it fitting for this week. The tip is short and very straight forward but will make it easier and more productive for you to work in Domino Designer on Eclipse (DDE).
If you are like me like the navigator in DDE is on the left, and the outline/controls/data views are on the right. You realize that you do not have much space left for code in the center editor. Bummer! :-( To help remedy that you may either minimize or close [read] Keywords: domino
show-n-tell
sntt
xpages eclipse
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New IBM Connections Kick-Start offering
Tue, Oct 18th 2011 5:49a Mikkel Heisterberg IntraVision is happy to offer a fixed price IBM Connections Kick-Start offering to get you started with IBM Connections per the entitlement offered by IBM as part of the Notes 8.5.3 maintenance release. At our Social Business event on Thursday 27 October (there's still time to register) we will be happy to discuss this offering as well as our new OnTime for IBM Connections product with you. More information about event may be found as part of our online newsletter (linked below).
IBM Connecti [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
notes
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IBM Connections Extension license
Tue, Oct 18th 2011 4:01a Mikkel Heisterberg (Of course) Stuart beat me to the punch but I wanted to blog it anyway.
Today IBM officially announced the IBM Connections Extensions Authorized User license as an easy (and inexpensive) way to buy the rest of the IBM Connections suite of features if a customer is making use of the entitlement for Connections Files and Connections Profiles granted as part of Lotus Notes 8.5.3. I too think this is a great move by IBM but asks the question how I'm going to control what parts of Connections use [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
lotus
notes
notesdomino
sametime
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Power of the Javascript console
Mon, Oct 17th 2011 5:00a Mikkel Heisterberg Dmytro Pastovenskyi blogged the other day about the power of the JavaScript console. Now the JavaScript console is a real timesaver for many types of JavaScript debugging but I never realized just how powerful it is. I recommend reading Dmytros blog post (JavaScript: use power of console) and googling "javascript console object". [read] Keywords: google
javascript
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Deploying XTAF dictionaries to Notes clients via a Widget Catalog
Tue, Oct 11th 2011 11:13a Mikkel Heisterberg So Vladislav Tatarincev just blogger this as well but I wanted to highlight it as it pertains to plugins and widget deployment which is so dear to my heart. IBM has written up a very nice technote on how to deploy extra dictionaries for use with Sametime and Notes 8 and it's really worth a read. Especially if you write emails and chats in some languages other than English. And yes there are some of us who do... :-)
Now if just there was an easy ways to switch between the dictionaries at runt [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
notes
sametime
blogger
widget
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Configure Eclipse 3.5 for Notes 8.5.3
Sat, Oct 8th 2011 3:29a Mikkel Heisterberg For completeness sake I just updated my guide to manually configuring Eclipse 3.5 for Notes plugin development to work with Notes 8.5.3 which went Gold the other day. Please find a like to the guide below.
Configuring Eclipse 3.5 for Notes 8.5.3. [read] Keywords: notes
development
eclipse
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IBM Connections wsadmin cheat sheet
Wed, Oct 5th 2011 1:41p Mikkel Heisterberg Starting with IBM Connections 3 the Websphere wsadmin command is even more important as the only way to deploy Connections is using Websphere Application Server Network Deployment or ND for short. The wsadmin command is used to check out the Connections configuration files and check them back in after modification. Because some commands require different configuration services to be loaded I have started compiling a cheat-sheet of some of the commands one use all the time. I have created a page [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
application
network
server
websphere
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Gul Skole (Yellow School) 27 October 2011
Mon, Oct 3rd 2011 3:28a Mikkel Heisterberg On 27 October we'll be hosting another Gul Skole (Yellow School) event where we are fortunate enough to have Stuart J. McRae from IBM come and do a guest lecture. If you're in Copenhagen I highly recommend you stop by. More info below.
Den Gule Skole: Building the Business Case for Social Business (in Danish). [read] Keywords: ibm
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Solved my custom TAI issue with WAS 7
Wed, Sep 21st 2011 1:00p Mikkel Heisterberg I've previously blogged about the goodness of Trust Association Interceptors in Websphere Application Server (WAS) and how I've used it to turn the login procedure for IBM Connections on its head. We recently started upgrading the customer I originally developed this for to IBM Connections 3.0.1 hence they needed an upgrade to WAS 7. After upgrading the WAS servers the custom TAI didn't work anymore. The TAI loaded just fine but it didn't generate the needed LtpaToken2 for the visiting user. [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
ldd
lotus
application
server
websphere
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Tip of the day - my Copy Link Location plugin
Mon, Sep 19th 2011 6:33a Mikkel Heisterberg There are some questions I get asked a lot by customers, colleagues and people I meet at conferences. One of them is why there isn't an easy way to copy links detected in Notes documents using LiveText to the clipboard. And I must admit that it is odd. To remedy I've actually developed a plugin that installs into Notes 8 to add an action item to links in Notes documents. After installing the plugin an action to the Copy Link Location to the clipboard is added to all links in the Notes client. [read] Keywords: notes
notes client
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Make the Integrated Solutions Console (ISC) accessible on standard ports
Sun, Sep 18th 2011 11:04p Mikkel Heisterberg When you install Websphere Application Server (WAS) either standalone or as a network deployment (ND) you normally install the Integrated Solutions Console (ISC) as well to allow you to configure and manage the server. By default the ISC is available on ports 9060/9443 and it not normally mapped onto an IBM HTTP Server (IHS) for access on ports 80/443. This makes it a real hazzle to access it so I normally change WAS to make ISC available on ports 80/443 on servers where port 80/443 isn't used. [read] Keywords: administration
ibm
application
network
server
websphere
OSGi, OSGi, OSGi - OSGi everywhere...
Mon, Sep 5th 2011 4:41a Mikkel Heisterberg As mentioned in my OSGi presentation at AusLUG OSGi is a key technology for you if you dabble in IBM/Lotus products. Among other things it forms the basis for Lotus Expeditor (and therefore Notes, Sametime and Symphony), XPages and the XPages Extensibility Library. OSGi is now also part of Java application servers such as Websphere Application and the free and open source JBoss AS 7. The JBoss AS7 OSGi Full Presentation + Demo highlights OSGi in JBoss and has a nice introduction to OSGi. Highly [read] Keywords: expeditor
ibm
lotus
notes
sametime
symphony
xpages application
applications
java
server
websphere
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IBM Champion box of swag received
Fri, Sep 2nd 2011 6:00a Mikkel Heisterberg When I came into the office today I found a box on my desk with a nice letter attached to it. I wont go into detail but suffice it to say that the box contains some very nice stuff including a very nice WindStopper fleece jacket. Thank you IBM. [read] Keywords: ibm
office
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Made it safely home from AusLUG
Fri, Sep 2nd 2011 1:48a Mikkel Heisterberg So I made it safely home from AusLUG with rather uneventful flights. On both flights I sat besides riders from the Australian Paralympic Team heading to the paralympic road bike World Championships in Denmark the week after next. Very cool.
A warm THANK YOU to the AusLUG organizing commitee and to all the atttendees that made the inaugural AusLUG a BIG success. [read] Keywords:
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Stuff learned while at AusLUG
Tue, Aug 30th 2011 3:09p Mikkel Heisterberg Don't pretend you like the All Blacks when Australia is playing them in rugby them and you're in Australia
Apparently Paul Calhoun knows the FBI
There is no such thing as Tam-Tams and the Chit Chat Tim Tam Challenge just may be a real thing
The Aussies knows how to drink and throw an excellent event
iThings will likely cause the percentage of hearing impaired from 1 in 6 to 1 in 4 over the coming years [read] Keywords:
AusLUG and my sessions
Sat, Aug 27th 2011 1:25a Mikkel Heisterberg G'day! I'm now in Sydney - have been since Thursday evening (GMT+10) - and I'm getting ready for AusLUG on Monday. Besides sightseeing I'm fine tuning my session presentations for the event. As always one of the cool things about the LUG's are catching up with friends and I had dinner with Mat Newman and Paul Calhoun last night. Very nice and from what I hear from Mat it's going to be a stellar event.
I'm honored to be doing two sessions:
How the Jedis do plugin development
OSGi - Appl [read] Keywords: domino
notes
notes client
sametime
symphony
xpages application
development
eclipse
server
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Happy to see Notes/Domino 8.5 certification path change
Sat, Aug 27th 2011 1:11a Mikkel Heisterberg As posted by Ed the day before yesterday (Shorter path to Notes/Domino 8.5 certification) the certification path for Notes/Domino 8.5 is being simplified from September 2011. I used to have a somewhat strained perception of certification but after my own Lotus Connections certification I'm a firm believer. Certification makes you take the product seriously but I haven't always agreed with the required number of tests. This change makes me a happy camper! :-)
I have also within the last two m [read] Keywords: connections
domino
lotus
notes
notesdomino
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Leaving for AusLUG tomorrow morning
Tue, Aug 23rd 2011 6:21a Mikkel Heisterberg Is it tomorrow I'm leaving? Yup - sure it is. I'm really psyched that I'm leaving for Sydney and AusLUG tomorrow. I've been spending some time today making ready for the trip which I'm really, really, really looking forward to. Of course it will be hard to be without my wife and daughter for 9 days but the trip will make up for it.
See you all down under. [read] Keywords:
I will be giving two sessions at DNUG in November
Thu, Aug 18th 2011 4:26a Mikkel Heisterberg As mentioned previously I'll be speaking at DNUG in November in Bamberg in Germany where I will be giving my "jumpstart your plugin development"-session about all the plugin development goodness. Besides that I'm also going to join forces with Rene Winkelmeyer (of among other things File Navigator fame) in a two hour session on XPages Extensibility Library titled "XPages Extensibility under the hood". One hour on the basics and a full hour hands-on labs. Hope to see many of you there. [read] Keywords: xpages development
Stommunity - now released as open source on OpenNTF.org
Fri, Jul 15th 2011 5:57a Mikkel Heisterberg As you might recall we at IntraVision some time back quit running Lotus Sametime on-premises and switched to LotusLive. This wasn't without issues and I also blogged about the apparent lack of public groups in my "Using LotusLive for Sametime - 2 months in" post a couple of months ago. After experiencing this issue I talked to Erik Vos from RealConnections in the Netherlands at NLLUG. Erik was also having the same problem for his SaaS customers so we worked together to develop a proof-of-conc [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
notes
notes client
sametime
community
openntf
twitter
I see this so much that I thought I would repost the solution
Tue, Jul 12th 2011 11:39p Mikkel Heisterberg I see so many people in Lotus Notes copy/pasting addresses to calculate distances for reimbursements, claiming time etc. and wonder why they do not find an easier way. Such as using a widget in Lotus Notes. A while back I created a widget to let you simply select the destination address and then do the route calculation using Google Maps.
But is does more than that. As a route calculation needs a starting address and a destination address (and it's hard for me to know the address you woul [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
google
widget
widgets
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Notes 2011 Accordion widget
Mon, Jul 11th 2011 5:46a Mikkel Heisterberg Part of the OnTime Group Calendar Notes 2011 client is the option to only display favorite groups instead of all public groups. To switch between the two views I wrote a small animated accordion control. Nicely animated and double-buffered. Loving it! [read] Keywords: notes
widget
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DOTS and automatic startup of bundles
Fri, Jul 8th 2011 3:45a Mikkel Heisterberg Domino OSGi Tasklet Container (or DOTS for short) is an uber-cool OpenNTF project that allows you to write addins for the Domino server in Java. The project used to be called JAVADDIN which kind of gives the purpose away.
At UKLUG I was asked if there was a way to specify which bundles to automatically start at server startup. I didn't know the answer so I wrote an e-mail to David Taieb who's the author of the project and he quickly responded that this is indeed possible. Below is Davids ans [read] Keywords: domino
java
openntf
server
workspace
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Going to AusLUG? Maybe you should stay an extra day for the Tack-On events!
Wed, Jul 6th 2011 8:15a Mikkel Heisterberg If you are going to attend the Australian Lotus User Group (AusLUG) in Sydney in August - and you really should - I think you should (at least) consider staying an extra day. The conference is on Monday and Tuesday but on Wednesday there are Tack-On sessions available. Besides presenting sessions at AusLUG I will be hosting a plugin development Tack-on deep-dive/hands-on session titled "Hit the ground running, Eclipse plugins for Lotus Notes and Sametime hands on". If you want to get started w [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
notes client
sametime
development
eclipse
office
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Knowledge path: RESTful web services
Thu, Jun 30th 2011 11:48p Mikkel Heisterberg Found an excellent summary article on developerWorks called Knowledge Path: Build RESTful web services with Java technology. It has some very good information and links to articles split into 5 sections:
Understand REST concepts
Meet the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)
Build RESTful applications with Java frameworks
Combine REST with the Java Persistence API (JPA)
Create RESTful web services with IBM WebSphere sMash
Great reads right there! [read] Keywords: ibm
applications
java
websphere
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RedWiki Residency: Domino Development Best Practices
Tue, Jun 28th 2011 1:27p Mikkel Heisterberg The RedWiki team is now accepting nominations for a new RedWiki project on Domino Development Best Practices. The (remote) residency will cover a total period of 5 weeks, from August 8, 2011 through September 9, 2011 and requires 6 residents. If you want to give back to the community and share your expert experience this is for you.
As one who has been part of the RedWiki process I can recommend it although it does require sufficient time being set aside for this and some writing experience wo [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
community
development
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AbcWidget is trying to be downgraded to a lower installation scope. Reinstallation of this item will not be permitted.
Fri, Jun 24th 2011 12:45a Mikkel Heisterberg When trying to update a plugin (feature) using a widget the installation failed and I got the below message.
is trying to be downgraded to a lower installation
scope. Reinstallation of this item will not be permitted.
I wondered what it meant as I didn't really understabd the "installation scope" thing so I asked IBM and here's the answer I got from Doug MacDonald. Very useful and nicely explains why the installation failed.
When you install a widget, it is assign a scope. The scopes [read] Keywords: ibm
widget
widgets
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IBM Champion
Thu, Jun 23rd 2011 1:17a Mikkel Heisterberg Really honored and flattered to have been both nominated to, and yesterday proclaimed as, an IBM Champion for IBM Collaboration Solutions (i.e. Lotus). Thank you guys who nominated me and voted for me VERY much. [read] Keywords: collaboration
ibm
lotus
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A TAI code example
Fri, Jun 10th 2011 5:56a Mikkel Heisterberg To complete my series posts on writing Trust Association Interceptors (TAI's) for Websphere Application Server I wanted to show a real-life example. Not a good example necessarily but an example never the less... :-)
The below example is a very simple TAI that simply does the following:
The initialize() method reads a cookie name from the configuration done in the Websphere Application Server ISC. It illustrates how you can configure a TAI externally without having to hard code it.
The isTar [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
lotus
application
java
properties
security
server
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Developing TAI's for Websphere Application Server
Wed, Jun 8th 2011 5:11a Mikkel Heisterberg Trust Association Interceptors (or TAI's) for Websphere Application Server is quickly becoming my new favorite technology. They just might be best thing since sliced bread and the reason why why you want to embrace Websphere Application Server. And so quickly.
I have discussed TAI's and why they're important in an earlier blog post.
One thing to know however is when developing them you need to have the necessary stuff in place. For TAI's these are the JAR required on the class path and [read] Keywords: ibm
application
interface
security
server
websphere
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Do you care for TAI? You really should!!
Wed, Jun 8th 2011 12:57a Mikkel Heisterberg Websphere Application Server is a beast. A big beast. But it's a beast that good (even great?!) on a lot of levels and it's definitely not as bad as you might think and it comes with a lot of goodness and loads of functionality. One of the real cool things about Websphere Application Server is the ability you have to extend the core application server (which is something that is hard - becoming easier but still hard - with Lotus Domino). The extendibility I want to mention today is Trust Assoc [read] Keywords: connections
domino
ibm
lotus
application
java
server
websphere
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Gul Skole on Friday - come hear from one of the gurus
Wed, Jun 8th 2011 12:33a Mikkel Heisterberg If you're in Denmark on Friday and want to hear about social media and social software from a Guru come to our seminar with Louis Richardson from IBM at Sofienholm. More information may be found on the event page. If you're contemplating social software within your organization this is a must-attend event and a chance to hear from one of the masters. And it's FREE!!
Please note that this is a business oriented event so no mention of Websphere Application Server, LDAP etc. Unless you hit me [read] Keywords: ibm
application
server
social software
websphere
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Turning the login procedure for IBM Connections on its head
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 6:13a Mikkel Heisterberg In the latter part of last year I was involved in installing IBM Connections at a customer site for initially 20.000 users and then, if all went well, for the full 70.000 users. The challenges in evangelizing the solution and getting people to use it is for another blog post but the project is interesting from other perspectives as well.
Firstly they wanted to change the layout of IBM Connections and add their own colors etc. which wasn't a biggie. Next they wanted to change certain core wor [read] Keywords: connections
domino
ibm
application
database
interface
java
server
websphere
Using a queue to wait for a job to complete
Thu, May 19th 2011 5:26a Mikkel Heisterberg A question I get often is how to perform an operation synchronously (that is blocking) instead of asynchronously when developing plugins. The question stems from the fact that most operations are done using the Job-framework where code is run in a background thread. But what if you need the result before continuing. What if you don't want to wait or the code doesn't lend itself to that approach?
I find that the easiest way (without resorting to Job scheduling rules) is to use the java.util.c [read] Keywords: notes
java
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Why choosing Eclipse for Notes 8 was the right choice
Wed, May 18th 2011 5:52a Mikkel Heisterberg It's been quiet around the blog the last few months because I have been neck deep in work getting a new product ready. I'm slowly resurfacing and as blogged about the last few days we (OnTime) are now shipping the latest release of the group calendar product called OnTime Group Calendar 2011. We showed of the UI's at Lotusphere 2011 but now we're shipping and are ready to go.
Besides having a brand new backend with it's own interesting features and performance improvements (see here) the [read] Keywords: lotus
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A tale from a customer reaching (and exceeding) the 64 gb limit
Wed, May 18th 2011 1:39a Mikkel Heisterberg As I've tweeted I have spent the last couple of days (and the weekend) helping out a customer that exceeded the hard 64 gb database size limit in Lotus Domino. Before discussing how we solved the problem and got the customer back in business I would like you to think about how situations like this could be avoided. And avoiding it is key as once you exceed the size you're doomed.
First --- how and why database platform would EVER allow a database to cross a file size that makes it break. Wh [read] Keywords: acl
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Amazing OnTime Group Calendar performance gains
Tue, May 17th 2011 7:29a Mikkel Heisterberg As I have been tweeting recently I have finished coding the new OnTime Group Calendar Notes UI and we are now shipping it (OnTime Group Calendar 2011 ). This release is a brand new, completely rewritten, product and it's shipping with some very cool features and UI's. Currently we're shipping a standalone UI (Discovery 2011) and the Notes UI (Notes 2011) with a mobile and web UI coming soon (Web 2011 and Mobile 2011). My main contribution is the OnTime Group Calendar Notes 2011 client which i [read] Keywords: acl
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Getting started with CSS
Fri, May 13th 2011 1:17a Mikkel Heisterberg When introducing developers to XPages as I did yesterday the question on where to learn (more) about CSS always comes up. Therefore I was happy to see an article this morning in the developerWorks newsletter. The article is titled "Get started with CSS" and gives a good introduction to syntax and how to use and write CSS. Highly recommended article. [read] Keywords: ibm
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A (dojo.)mixin configuration approach to XAgents in XPages
Wed, May 11th 2011 9:05a Mikkel Heisterberg Continuing my XPages theme from yesterday I also wrote an XAgent base-class in JavaScript to make XAgents easier to do. Part of the base class is that it allows me to pass in a JSON object to configure the XAgent based on the need. Since the information I pass in should override the built-in defaults I needed a way to easily allow the user supplied values to override the defaults. The easiest way to do this would be to use the dojo.mixin.
"dojo.mixin is a simple utility function for mixing obj [read] Keywords: xpages application
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XPages JavaScript utility function of the day
Tue, May 10th 2011 5:55a Mikkel Heisterberg Yesterday and today I've been spending some time doing some XPages coding for a customer project and after spending quite some time doing Java plugin development I'm amazed of how easy XPages are. Don't get me wrong - there is still work to do for the XPages team but it's a joy to work with XPages and coding in JavaScript is just - well - flexible and fun.
One of the real joys of JavaScript is it's dynamic nature and that it allows one to really cut down on the boilerplate and repeated co [read] Keywords: xpages development
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LotusLive Meetings gets a long overdue update
Mon, May 9th 2011 12:52a Mikkel Heisterberg Very happy this morning to see that LotusLive Engage has been updated over the weekend. For me the most noticeable difference is that it's now possible to specify that the meeting requires a password before hosting the meeting. A pleasant, although loooong overdue, change. [read] Keywords: password
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BLUG 2011 presentation
Fri, May 6th 2011 4:03a Mikkel Heisterberg Plug yourself in and your app will never be the same View more presentations from lekkim [read] Keywords:
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Lotus Notes Plugin Installation For Dummies
Thu, May 5th 2011 5:36a Mikkel Heisterberg I often explain plugin installation into Lotus Notes to client and customers at meetings, conferences and user groups. To make it easier to understand I've created the below presentation that hopefully makes it easier to understand. Comments more than welcome.
Lotus Notes Plugin Installation For Dummies View more presentations from lekkim [read] Keywords: lotus
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IBM Collaboration Assessment Tool
Thu, May 5th 2011 1:07a Mikkel Heisterberg You should take 10 minutes out of your day to take a look at the IBM Collaboration Assessment Tool. It's a web-based diagnostic tool designed specifically to help you identify your organization's personalized path to gaining maximum value from your on-line collaboration practices. The assessment will allow you to see how your organization stacks up against industry peers. At the end of the assessment you will receive a customized report which will help you obtain actionable best practice recom [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Developing an Eclipse plug-in from start to finish
Fri, Apr 1st 2011 1:19a Mikkel Heisterberg Ryan Baxter from IBM who I had the honor of co-presenting with at Lotusphere just published a new article on the appdev wiki titled Developing an Eclipse plug-in from start to finish. The article takes you step-by-step through building a nice plugin and uses the Eclipse WindowBuilder (GUI editor) for taking the hassle out of building the UI.
A very nice Friday read. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Community Call presentation
Tue, Mar 22nd 2011 9:18a Mikkel Heisterberg Below is a link to the presentation (click the image for the presentation in PDF format) Tim Parsons and I gave in todays Lotus Community Call. Besides a stunning picture of myself and Tim the presentation contains some info on how to get the RedWiki plugin sample projects from SVN. That info isn't on the wiki yet but I'll get it there as soon as possible. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Why calendaring is hard
Tue, Mar 15th 2011 6:50a Mikkel Heisterberg Part of working with calendars is working with timezones and - dare I say it - daylight savings time (DST for short). A calendar program/service/API that doesn't support timezones, are able to used named timezones and thus handles DST is worthless. Naming timezones is really key to all of this as a timezone like GMT+1 doesn't mean anything and cannot be used to anything meaningful. Why? Well for one there is no indication of whether we're in the Northern Hemisphere or in the Southern Hemisphe [read] Keywords: calendaring
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iWhat?! Should iNotes be renamed?
Mon, Mar 14th 2011 1:11a Mikkel Heisterberg Thursday I returned a call from a customer. The customer called because he had heard about Lotus iNotes and since they had iPhones at the company he thought it would be a perfect match for mail on the phone. Well yes - sort of... While iNotes does have three modes and one of them (iNotes UltraLight) works very well on a mobile web browser it's far from ideal. It actually took me a while to explain that what he was looking for for his "iDevices" wasn't Lotus iNotes but Lotus Traveler.
Now [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM contributes LiveText to Java sample project on OpenNTF
Sat, Mar 12th 2011 5:15a Mikkel Heisterberg As I've highlighted previously on this blog I've done quite a lot of work on LiveText to Java integration in my How to extend Notes 8-series. This week IBM contributed a sample on OpenNTF showing of the same thing - the project is New OpenNTF Sample: Eclipse Live Text Action. I recommend you take a look at the project as well as my series of blog entries for information on how to extend the Notes client yourself. [read] Keywords: ibm
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On language vs. regional settings
Thu, Mar 3rd 2011 8:18a Mikkel Heisterberg At the office we're doing a brand new version of our OnTime Group Calendar (more on that later) and for that we're revamping our entire settings system. Both to make it more flexible and to make it easier for users. Where ever possible we're opting for sensible defaults instead of asking the user.
With sensible defaults and revamping the settings system also comes taking a long hard look at the way settings are set and what they mean. What is a setting? What is a global setting? What is an [read] Keywords: connections
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March Lotus Technical Information and Education (LTIE) community meeting
Thu, Mar 3rd 2011 12:50a Mikkel Heisterberg If you're interested in plugin development and the recently published RedWiki on plugin development for Lotus Notes, Sametime and Symphony (easy url is http://bit.ly/pluginredwiki) be sure to join us for the March March Lotus Technical Information and Education (LTIE) community meeting. The conference call will be on 22 March at 10am Central Time (10am Eastern, 3pm CET).
For more info head over to the Lotus Technical Information and Education wiki on Lotus Greenhouse (look under "When we mee [read] Keywords: lotus
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LotusLive - Your account has been updated. Really?!
Wed, Mar 2nd 2011 12:46a Mikkel Heisterberg Yesterday morning (my time) I received an e-mail informing me that my LotusLive account had been updated. I later found out that this e-mail had been sent to all employees in the company because our LotusLive subscription had been renewed for another year. Later I also found out that at least 5 employees has been affected like this and are experiencing the same cloud fail. Below is a copy of the e-mail from LotusLive.
Hi Mikkel Flindt Heisterberg,
Your user account with LotusLive was recently [read] Keywords: connections
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Ytria EZ Suite 10 - now with DDE integration
Wed, Feb 23rd 2011 12:07a Mikkel Heisterberg A couple of days ago I received an e-mail from Ytria telling me that a new version of the Ytria tools was available and that I could go a read about what's new in EZ Suite 10. I did and I was impressed. Now I have been a user of the Ytria tools for a couple of years and have always been impressed by the ease of use and the power of the tools.
The EZ Suite has always been separate applications and something you launched alongside Notes or Domino Designer (albeit from a SmartIcon) but in versi [read] Keywords: domino
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Intelligent recommendations
Wed, Feb 16th 2011 12:57a Mikkel Heisterberg Just came across the new code.recommenders incubation project over at eclipse.org and wow does that look cool. Very cool indeed especially if you spend part of your day in Eclipse. Actually the uses for this goes beyond code completion just like Mylyn goes beyond code as well (see Imagine combining this with Notes 8!). Imagine this for email addressing and/or collaboration. Think how analytics technology like this could make "recent contacts" so much better. Imagine how spell check could be im [read] Keywords: collaboration
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LotusLive Symphony now available on Greenhouse
Tue, Feb 15th 2011 1:07a Mikkel Heisterberg As shown at Lotusphere conference earlier this month the artist formally known as Project Concord is now available to the general public as LotusLive Symphony. LotusLive Symphony is the IBM productivity suite but 100% web based without any required client install. Just like Google Docs or Microsoft Office 360. For now only document and spreadsheet functionality is available.
Given that I only played with it briefly it looks very promising and interesting. I especially like the way that it has [read] Keywords: connections
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Plugin RedWiki is online
Tue, Feb 8th 2011 8:31a Mikkel Heisterberg The plugin RedWiki is now online and I have created a shortlink for it. Check it out at http://bit.ly/pluginredwiki. [read] Keywords:
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Wi-Fi, Firesheep and Lotusphere
Sun, Jan 30th 2011 6:07a Mikkel Heisterberg Using the Wi-fi at Lotusphere has been a real nice experience so far this year (of course the OGS on Monday being the true test). Coverage is better and the bandwidth seems to have been upped quite a bit. I do find it a bit sad though that the network is still open and unencrypted. Even a passphrase like "Lotupshere" would make security so much better. Why you ask? Why because a place like Lotusphere which is, lets face it, a big gathering of geeks. A worse a big gathering of geeks using socia [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Using LotusLive for Sametime - 2 months in
Tue, Jan 11th 2011 1:04a Mikkel Heisterberg I previously wrote about how we shutdown our Sametime servers and moved to LotusLive for Sametime ("Why we shutdown our Sametime servers"). About 2 months after making the switch I thought it was a good time to sum to the experience and whether it's a move we're happy with.
There's nothing to be said about performance or uptime which has been flawless. Users are happily chatting away and the worries that some had about being available for customer chat in off hours (because we are now in [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2011: BOF accepted
Fri, Jan 7th 2011 3:00a Mikkel Heisterberg The BOF titled "Let's talk plugin development!" submitted by Bob Balfe and I has been accepted for this years Lotusphere. I'm very excited about this and it's shaping up to be my busiest Lotusphere ever - two sessions and a BOF. Wow! [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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When the default isn't enough - creating a new Lotus Connections Files policy
Wed, Jan 5th 2011 4:33a Mikkel Heisterberg As posted earlier today I had to change the default maximum library size of in Lotus Connections Files to accommodate a particular user. Of course 1 GB (double of the default) wasn't enough so I created a new policy for that particular user and assigned it. I was very easy as well. Below are the wsadmin commands.
wsadmin [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections and extending Files Library Sizes
Wed, Jan 5th 2011 2:41a Mikkel Heisterberg Funny thing at a Lotus Connections customer today. A user was complaining that he wasn't able to upload a new version of a file into his Files due to size restrictions. After poking around I found out that the user had uploaded 492 mb of data into Files. After poking some more I found out that a maximum library size is enforced based on policy. By default all users are assigned a policy that allows for 524 mb of data hence why he was unable to upload any more data.
To solve it I changed the d [read] Keywords: administration
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2010 year in review
Wed, Dec 29th 2010 4:03a Mikkel Heisterberg p
2010 was a year of firsts in many ways. It has been my first full year as a married man (an amazing experience). It's been the year where I first flew in a hot air balloon (also an amazing experience). The first time I went skiing with a pregnant woman (my wife btw) and to top it all of the year I became a father. The birth of my daughter Milla has of cause been the pivotal moment of the year if not my life. It has been an amazing experience so far and I am sure it will continue that way. No [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotusphere 2011: Mark your calendars
Thu, Dec 16th 2010 1:09a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Just got word of the date and time for the two sessions I'm involved in for Lotusphere 2011 so I thought I would post them here.
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JMP103 (Jumpstart Your "Jedi Plug-in Development Skills" with the Masters, track: JumpStarts and Master Class Sessions) with Ryan Baxter is on Sunday 30 Jan 2011 at 1:30pm in DL S. Hemisphere I.
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AD201 (How the Jedis Do Plug-in Development, track: Technology for Collaboration Solutions: Application Development) with Bob Balfe is on Monday 31 Jan 2011 at [read] Keywords: collaboration
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LotusScript.doc v2 DDE plugin article
Sun, Dec 12th 2010 5:16a Mikkel Heisterberg p align="center"
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Celebrating the return of the full printed edition of a href="http://eview.com/"THE VIEW/a I was reading through the latest issue (Volume 16, Issue 6, Fall 2010) and was delighted to read the article by Karsten Lehmann and Tammo Riedlinger on integrating LotusScript.doc v2 into DDE using a plugin. Two of my favorite subjects in a single article - it doesn't get muc [read] Keywords: ibm
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Why we shut down our Sametime servers
Thu, Dec 9th 2010 8:41a Mikkel Heisterberg p
I have been getting shocked looks the last couple of weeks when I told customers that we shut down our Sametime servers as part of the move to our new offices. Why would we do such a thing? Well it's not like we didn't utilize Sametime heavily in our day to day work and it's not like we haven't touted the benefits of Sametime far and wide.
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So why did we do this? Well it was a simple calculation of hours spent on maintaining our own environment vs. the benefits of having our own envir [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2011: Session ids now posted
Tue, Dec 7th 2010 8:28a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Courtesy of the a href="http://lotusphereblog.com/blog/lotusphere.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2011-sessions-now-listed"Lotusphere Blog/a we now know the session IDs of many of the Lotusphere 2011 sessions. The ones staring yours truly (and Ryan and Bob of course) are a href="https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/lotus/lsph2011.nsf/sessionabstract?openformsessionid=JMP103"JMP103/a and a href="https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/lotus/lsph2011.nsf/sessionabstract?openformsessionid=AD201"AD201/a.
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New version of the Java UI API Exerciser available from OpenNTF
Tue, Dec 7th 2010 7:30a Mikkel Heisterberg p
A new release of the Notes Java UI Exerciser project has been released on OpenNTF (a href="http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-8BW8JX"OpenNTF Release: Notes Java UI APIs in 8.5.2/a) by our friends on the Java UI team at IBM one of whom I'm lucky enough to co-present with at Lotusphere. Check it out!
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