Maintaining a Lotus Connections environment? Well then you MUST see this!
Tue, Aug 31st 2010 3:47p Mikkel Heisterberg p
Today a new article on Lotus Connections was posted on developerWorks and it shows you how to install an administration interface for Lotus Connections into Websphere ISC (Integrated Solutions Console). The interface provides easier access to Lotus Connections configuration files and looks like a real killer plugin for ISC. I have got to try and install it tomorrow and see for myself as this is something that has been sorely lacking.
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The article is called a href="http://www.ibm.com/develo [read] Keywords: administration
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Redbook: So we are writing this Redbook on plugin development - what do you wanna know?
Tue, Aug 31st 2010 2:33p Mikkel Heisterberg p
img src="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/rb170x32.gif" style="float: right" /
As posted the other day my nomination to ITSO was accepted and I'm now on the team for writing a Redbook wiki on plugin (or component if you will) development for Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime and Lotus Symphony. We had our first call yesterday and we're currently putting together the table of contents and discussing what to include.
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For products versions we chose to target Lotus Notes 8.5.2, Lotus Sameti [read] Keywords: ibm
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Eclipse Fall Training Series
Tue, Aug 31st 2010 5:52a Mikkel Heisterberg p
i"The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the fall 2010 training class series. The training is an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), BIRT and Modeling technologies. Eclipse experts will lead the sessions, providing practical experience through classroom instruction and hands-on labs. Virtual and on-site classes have been scheduled in several countries from September 20 to Novem [read] Keywords: eclipse
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Use Wireless Hosted Networking to Share An Internet Connection Wirelessly
Mon, Aug 30th 2010 6:43a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Apparently there's a hidden feature in Windows 7 that allows you to share a wi-fi connection to other users using a single wi-fi card. This means that you can buy one access token on for-pay-networks and share that to others. Very cool.
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a href="http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/totw/whn.asp"Windows 7 Tip of the Week - Use Wireless Hosted Networking to Share An Internet Connection Wirelessly/a
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Updated! Introduction to Java programming
Sun, Aug 29th 2010 5:33a Mikkel Heisterberg p
A lot of people ask me how to get started with Java programming so when I saw the below entry in the developerWorks newsletter I thought it should be communicated as far and wide as possible.
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i"developerWorks Java contributor Steve Perry took on the Herculean task of updating the "Introduction to Java programming" tutorials. This two-part series introduces the structure, syntax, and programming paradigm of the Java language and platform."/i
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a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/vi [read] Keywords: ibm
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Redbook residency nomination accepted!
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 9:58a Mikkel Heisterberg p
img src="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/rb170x32.gif" style="float: right" /
Yahooo! Got word that my nomination for the virtual Redbook residency for "a href="http://blog.balfes.net/?p=1529"LO-0W01-R01 Developing Customized Components for Lotus Notes, Sametime, and Symphony/a" was accepted and that I'm on the team. How sweet is that?! First call is on Monday and I'm really looking forward to this. It will be good to do some a href="http://lekkimworld.com/tags/the_view/"more writing/ [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Software Day 2010
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 2:49a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Again this year IBM will be hosting their annual a href="http://www-05.ibm.com/dk/news/events/softwareday/"IBM Software Day/a in Oslash;ksnehallen in Copenhagen on 12 October 2010. You may now sign up for the event and if you're in Copenhagen on 12 October and you're working with IBM software you really should sign up. If nothing else there's normally a great lunch buffet... :-)
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NLLUG 2010: Planning webapp for your smart phone
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 2:18a Mikkel Heisterberg p
If you went to Lotusphere 2010 you probably used our web application for managing your Lotusphere schedule on your iPhone or Android device. I know a lot of people did!!
With the Dutch user group just over 2 weeks away we've done it again and made a version of the web application for NLLUG 2010 available. If you're going simply head over to a href="http://lug2010.nl/agenda"lug2010.nl/agenda/a to browse it and put together your schedule.
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How to extend Notes 8: New version of the demo application
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 1:49p Mikkel Heisterberg p
I just posted an update to the demo application for my a href="http://lekkimworld.com/tags/extending_notes8/"Extending Notes 8/a series of posts. The demo application is discussed in more detail in my previous post (a href="http://lekkimworld.com/2010/08/06/how_to_extend_notes_8_livetext_demo_application.html"How to extend Notes 8: LiveText demo application/a). The issue was that I had a button to create a demo e-mail in the UI which made the plugin depend on the Notes Java UI API which was ad [read] Keywords: notes
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Configure Eclipse 3.5 for Notes 8.5.2
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 6:55a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Just updated my instructions on how to a href="http://lekkimworld.com/pages/eclipse35_notes852.html"configure Eclipse 3.5 for Notes 8.5.2/a with correct install_id and rcp.base_version as Notes 8.5.2 is now GOLD!! :-)
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While I was out...
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 6:20a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Just back from vacation I'm plowing through my feed reader and e-mail and found lots of cool stuff. I thought I would highlight some of it that caught my scanning eye... Julian writes about a href="http://www.nsftools.com/blog/blog-08-2010.htm"Custom SWT Buttons/a, Bob writes about a href="http://blog.balfes.net/?p=1593"Why BrowserFunction is so cool/a, Chris writes about a href="http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/lotusnut/entry/peopledbpurging?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Fe [read] Keywords: connections
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Google Wave discontinued - what will that mean for Project Concord?
Fri, Aug 6th 2010 8:28a Mikkel Heisterberg p
img src="http://sites.google.com/site/mptpro/pleasures/technology/wave/google_wave_logo.png" style="float: right" /
In a post the day before yesterday on the Google Blog Urs Holzle, Senior Vice President, Operations Google Fellow, provides an a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html"Update on Google Wave/a. As it stands now Google uwill stop development on the Google Wave platform/u and provide tools to liberate the data from Google Wave. This decision has been [read] Keywords: collaboration
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How to extend Notes 8: LiveText demo application
Fri, Aug 6th 2010 6:50a Mikkel Heisterberg p
The day before yesterday I posted the first summary post in my a href="http://lekkimworld.com/tags/extending_notes8/"Extending Notes 8/a series with a complete end-to-end approach to a href="http://lekkimworld.com/2010/08/04/how_to_extend_notes_8_dynamic_livetext_recognizers_using_java.html"dynamically adding LiveTex recognizers/a. As part of that post I uploaded a a href=".files/extending_notes8/dynamiclivetextrecognizersusingjava/com.lekkimworld.extnotes8.dynext.zip"demo application (plugin) [read] Keywords: notes
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How to extend Notes 8: case insensitive LiveText patterns
Thu, Aug 5th 2010 8:07a Mikkel Heisterberg p
When you start to do a lot of LiveText recognizers you find yourself wanting to do more advanced stuff with your regular expressions. For instance you might want to do case insensitive patterns or use some of the others regular expression modifiers. This post will show you how to do this.
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By default the regular expressions you specify for your recognizers are case sensitive. This is normally fine unless you really want it to be case insensitive. Since the LiveText engine is in Java you ma [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Connections 3 coming to greenhouse.lotus.com this weekend
Thu, Aug 5th 2010 12:57a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Just got word today from the team at greenhouse.lotus.com that a beta of the next release of Lotus Connections, which is now called 3.0, is being put on greenhouse.lotus.com on the this weekend. Very nice. Below is a snippet from the newsletter.
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i"Starting Friday August 6th we will begin our upgrade and migration of Lotus Connections 2.5 to Lotus Connections 3.0. The Lotus Connections services will not be available from Friday August 6th at 8:00 AM until it comes back online Tuesday Augus [read] Keywords: connections
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How to extend Notes 8: dynamic LiveText recognizers using Java
Wed, Aug 4th 2010 7:07a Mikkel Heisterberg p
As I briefly described in my last post ("a href="http://lekkimworld.com/2010/08/03/how_to_extend_notes_8_dynamic_extensions_using_java.html"How to extend Notes 8: dynamic extensions using Java/a") it's possible to create new extensions to Lotus Notes using Java and hence inject functionality into the client dynamically. It's very cool functionality and it allows you to inject anything from content types and recognizers to sidebar panels.
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In this post I'll build on three previous posts an [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to extend Notes 8: dynamic extensions using Java
Tue, Aug 3rd 2010 7:07a Mikkel Heisterberg p
I get so many question on how to extend Notes 8 that I finally decided to create a series of blog posts on how to do it. All the posts in the series may be found under the a href="http://lekkimworld.com/tags/extending_notes8/"extending_notes8/a tag. In all of the examples I assume a working knowledge of Eclipse and Java programming and how to work with extension points.
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As I briefly mentioned in my last post ("a href=""How to extend Notes 8: capture group LiveText recognizers with a Java [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to extend Notes 8: capture group LiveText recognizers with a Java action
Mon, Aug 2nd 2010 8:44a Mikkel Heisterberg p
I get so many question on how to extend Notes 8 that I finally decided to create a series of blog posts on how to do it. All the posts in the series may be found under the a href="http://lekkimworld.com/tags/extending_notes8/"extending_notes8/a tag. In all of the examples I assume a working knowledge of Eclipse and Java programming and how to work with extension points.
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For this post I'll build on the "a href="http://lekkimworld.com/2010/07/27/how_to_extend_notes_8_coupling_livetext_to_a_ [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to extend Notes 8: using LiveText with capture groups
Fri, Jul 30th 2010 8:38a Mikkel Heisterberg p
I get so many question on how to extend Notes 8 that I finally decided to create a series of blog posts on how to do it. All the posts in the series may be found under the a href="http://lekkimworld.com/tags/extending_notes8/"extending_notes8/a tag. In this post you'll need familiarity with how MyWidgets and LiveText works. A basic understanding of a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression"regular expressions/a would be beneficial as well.
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This post will set the stage for th [read] Keywords: notes
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How to extend Notes 8: coupling custom LiveText recognisers to a Java action
Thu, Jul 29th 2010 7:06a Mikkel Heisterberg p
I get so many question on how to extend Notes 8 that I finally decided to create a series of blog posts on how to do it. All the posts in the series may be found under the a href="http://lekkimworld.com/tags/extending_notes8/"extending_notes8/a tag. In all of the examples I assume a working knowledge of Eclipse and Java programming and how to work with extension points.
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For this post I'll build on the "a href="http://lekkimworld.com/2010/07/27/how_to_extend_notes_8_coupling_livetext_to_a_ [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to extend Notes 8: using the other built in LiveText recognisers with Java actions
Wed, Jul 28th 2010 8:52a Mikkel Heisterberg p
I get so many question on how to extend Notes 8 that I finally decided to create a series of blog posts on how to do it. All the posts in the series may be found under the a href="http://lekkimworld.com/tags/extending_notes8/"extending_notes8/a tag. In all of the examples I assume a working knowledge of Eclipse and Java programming and how to work with extension points.
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This second post builds upon the "a href=""/a"-post posted earlier. Most of the post is the same but you'll need to chan [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to extend Notes 8: coupling LiveText to a Java action
Tue, Jul 27th 2010 8:02a Mikkel Heisterberg p
I get so many question on how to extend Notes 8 that I finally decided to create a series of blog posts on how to do it. All the posts in the series may be found under the a href="http://lekkimworld.com/tags/extending_notes8/"extending_notes8/a tag. In all of the examples I assume a working knowledge of Eclipse and Java programming and how to work with extension points.
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For this second post I'll touch on one of my favorite features of Notes 8 that is MyWidgets and LiveText. From the user [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to extend Notes 8: coupling text selection to Java action
Mon, Jul 26th 2010 6:46a Mikkel Heisterberg p
I get so many question on how to extend Notes 8 that I finally decided to create a series of blog posts on how to do it. All the posts in the series may be found under the a href="http://lekkimworld.com/tags/extending_notes8/"extending_notes8/a tag. In all of the examples I assume a working knowledge of Eclipse and Java programming and how to work with extension points.
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For this first post I'll touch on one of my favorite features of Notes 8 that is MyWidgets and LiveText. From the user i [read] Keywords: notes
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Websphere Terminology for newcomers
Wed, Jul 21st 2010 4:27a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Found this very good document describing the terminology from Websphere Application Server for people new to the platform. So if you're unsure of the exact difference between a cell, node, profile and a cluster I suggest you peruse this document. I also recommend printing the graphics on page 4 and keeping it nearby.
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a href="ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/lotus/info/training/WAS_Terminology_LC.pdf"Overview of IBM WebSphere Application Terminology for IBM
Lotus Connections Administra [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM makes Firefox the default company browser? When will IBM Lotus Notes stop depending on Internet Explorer?
Wed, Jul 14th 2010 3:30p Mikkel Heisterberg p
In recent news IBM officially proclaimed Mozilla Firefox as the corporate browser of choice. The news was picked up by major news outlets such as CNet, readwriteweb.com and ars technica ("a href="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/07/ibm-embraces-firefox-adopts-it-internally.ars"IBM embraces Firefox, adopts it internally/a"). The news even made it to small Denmark as a news item on Version 2 ("a href="http://www.version2.dk/artikel/15457-ibm-goer-firefox-til-standardbrowser-for-40000 [read] Keywords: ibm
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Solving a Lotus Connections 2.5 login performance issue
Tue, Jul 13th 2010 5:08a Mikkel Heisterberg p
During the last week I have been diagnosing a login performance issue at a Lotus Connections 2.5 customer. The issue manifested itself by it taking around a minute for some users to login. It was only an issue for the initial login hence it was caused by something that the Websphere server cached on subsequent login attempts.
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After diagnosing and making sure the install was at the latest fixpack and fixlevel from Fix Central, I finally found out what was going on. By using the Websphere A [read] Keywords: connections
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Eclipse Helios (3.6) and why it's important to Notes administrators
Thu, Jul 8th 2010 8:47a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Notes 8 is based on Eclipse and Eclipse use OSGi for bundle lifecycle and dependency management. Part of OSGi is the OSGi console that is a console into the inner working of OSGi. The console is very useful and may be used to diagnose Eclipse and Notes 8 issues. I've previously blogged about the OSGi console and how to access it in Notes in my "a href="http://lekkimworld.com/2008/04/14/swtnotes_8_console.html"SWT@Notes 8: -console/a" post back in 2008. One of the cool things about the OSGi con [read] Keywords: notes
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Detecting if a sideshelf view is detached
Tue, Jul 6th 2010 7:39a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Found this great tip on how to detect if a view was detached from the parent windows that is if a sidebar plugin was opened standalone. I'm thinking that this could be very useful and used in a variery of ways to allow further functionality in a sidebar plugin if opened standalone. What could this be? Well a sidebar plugin could provide a richer UI and/or more resource intensive operations when the user opens the view standalone as this probably means this is an important application to the us [read] Keywords: application
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Java 4-Ever Trailer - funny as hell
Mon, Jul 5th 2010 10:45a Mikkel Heisterberg p
A must see. Nerdy as hell but man it's funny!! a href="http://jz10.java.no/java-4-ever-trailer.html"Java 4-Ever Trailer/a
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How Eclipse improvements are important to Lotus Notes 8
Fri, Jun 25th 2010 9:26a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Eclipse 3.6 (also called Helios) was just released the other day and with a new release of Eclipse comes a new release of SWT (the underlying widget framework). Among the many release notes you'll find "a href="http://www.eclipse.org/swt/R3_6/new_and_noteworthy.html"Eclipse 3.6 SWT News and Noteworthy/a" outlining core SWT improvements.
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Especially one of the improvements was of interest as I see how it could be used to improve Lotus Notes, the interaction with the OS and in turn the usabi [read] Keywords: lotus
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How the new iPhone OS may expand the use of Lotus Traveler
Tue, Jun 22nd 2010 9:53a Mikkel Heisterberg p
For all us iPhone affectionados today was a day of joy as iOS4 arrived in iTunes. There are numerous nice features in iOS4 but the most important from a Lotus perspective is the fact that iOS4 allows multiple ActiveSync accounts (or as the iPhone calls it: "Exchange accounts"). This means that you may use you iPhone with multiple mail systems whether that be multiple Lotus Traveler systems or Lotus Traveler and another mail system such as Google mail or Exchange. Very nice.
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I just tried i [read] Keywords: lotus
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MyWidgets just got better - Option to specify a custom widget icon for sidebar
Mon, Jun 21st 2010 7:43a Mikkel Heisterberg p
strongPlease note:/strong The following is from the release notes of Notes 8.5.2 so I don't take credit for writing this. Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is in beta and there are no guarantees that the features described here will be in the final product that IBM ships.
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Power users and administrators can add a new viewImageUrl attribute to the palleteItem element in a widget's extension.xml definition to specify a custom icon to use in the sidebar view/title bar for that widget. The viewImageURL attri [read] Keywords: ibm
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MyWidgets just got better - Option to set default widget double-click action
Mon, Jun 21st 2010 7:43a Mikkel Heisterberg p
strongPlease note:/strong The following is from the release notes of Notes 8.5.2 so I don't take credit for writing this. Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is in beta and there are no guarantees that the features described here will be in the final product that IBM ships.
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You can now set a default double-click action to open widgets in the sidebar, a new window, a float window, or a tab. The default does not impact widgets that have a pre-defined double-click action defined in their XML. The supplied de [read] Keywords: ibm
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On TwitNotes, Twitter and the transition to OAuth
Mon, Jun 21st 2010 3:12a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Thanks for all the e-mail and all the IM's reminding me that a href="http://apiwiki.twitter.com/"Twitter would retire the use of basic authentication/a (username/password) in client applications on 30 June 2010. After that announcement it was postponed to 16 August 2010 so there's still time... That's how I read the frontpage of the Twitter API wiki as of today anyway.
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a href="http://nathan.lotus911.com/"Nathan/a was the first to poke me and remind of it and ever since the reminders have [read] Keywords: twitnotes
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MyWidgets just got better - Option to reuse a single sidebar panel for a particular widget's action
Mon, Jun 14th 2010 8:53a Mikkel Heisterberg p
strongPlease note:/strong The following is from the release notes of Notes 8.5.2 so I don't take credit for writing this. Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is in beta and there are no guarantees that the features described here will be in the final product that IBM ships.
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You can now specify if a widget uses only one sidebar panel or if multiple sidebar panels are allowed. You can set a preference in the widget XML to define whether a new Sidebar panel is opened for each widget action or whether the sam [read] Keywords: ibm
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MyWidgets just got better - Option to hide and unhide display of widget thumbnail
Mon, Jun 14th 2010 8:45a Mikkel Heisterberg p
strongDisclaimer:/strong The following is from the release notes of Notes 8.5.2 so I don't take credit for writing this. Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is in beta and there are no guarantees that the features described here will be in the final product that IBM ships.
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You can now control whether a widget's thumbnail is visible in the My Widgets sidebar panel. As an administrator or power user you can add a hideThumbnail=true or hideThumbnail=false parameter to the palleteItem element in the widget's XM [read] Keywords: ibm
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Policy control over business card retrieval settings and retrieval order
Fri, Jun 11th 2010 4:18a Mikkel Heisterberg p
strongDisclaimer:/strong The following is from the release notes of Notes 8.5.2 so I don't take credit for writing this. Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is in beta and there are no guarantees that the features described here will be in the final product that IBM ships.
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You can access a person's business card to find out more about the person and retrieve their contact information. The following products can potentially provide the data that is displayed in the business card:
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Option to install a widget from a .zip file, file structure, and focus on provisioning
Thu, Jun 10th 2010 7:11a Mikkel Heisterberg p
strongDisclaimer:/strong The following is from the release notes of Notes 8.5.2 so I don't take credit for writing this. Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is in beta and there are no guarantees that the features described here will be in the final product that IBM ships.
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Notes users can now install a widget that is supplied to them as a .zip file. Users can either drag and drop the .zip file into their My Widgets sidebar panel or use the Import menu option from the My Widgets sidebar panel.
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Alistair Rennie blogging on the Lotus Knows Blog
Thu, Jun 10th 2010 5:51a Mikkel Heisterberg p
The core Lotus team is now blogging on the a href="https://www-950.ibm.com/blogs/lotusknows"official Lotus Knows Blog/a with Alistair Rennie leading the charge in the first post. I welcome the blog and hope that Alistair will be blogging more frequently than those who went before him (see my "a href="http://lekkimworld.com/2008/05/16/bob_picciano_please_dont_blog_like_mike_rhodin.html"Bob Picciano - please don't blog like Mike Rhodin!/a" post).
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I don't see it yet on a href="http://planetl [read] Keywords: ibm
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Nice Notes 8.5.2 feature - upgrading multiple local databases to a new ODS
Mon, Jun 7th 2010 3:39a Mikkel Heisterberg p
strongPlease note:/strong The following is from the release notes of Notes 8.5.2 so I don't take credit for writing this. Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is in beta and there are no guarantees that the features described here will be in the final product that IBM ships.
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In the latest code drop of Notes 8.5.2, using either the Notes Client, Domino Administrator Client, or Domino Designer Client, a customer can force the client to perform ODS upgrades of all local databases. For most non-essential datab [read] Keywords: domino
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Configure Eclipse 3.5 for Notes 8.5.2
Thu, Jun 3rd 2010 8:09a Mikkel Heisterberg p
As for previous versions I maintain a document outlining how to configure a vanilla Eclipse install to work with Lotus Notes for Java extension development (with install_id and rcp.base). I have made the first version for Notes 8.5.2 as of code drop 5 so please see a href="/pages/eclipse35_notes852.html"Configure Eclipse 3.5 for Notes 8.5.2/a if this is of use to you.
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Please Lotus that Notes 8.5.2 is in beta and there are no guarantees that the features described here will be in the fina [read] Keywords: ibm
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Notes 8.5.2 - preload on startup
Thu, Jun 3rd 2010 5:27a Mikkel Heisterberg p
strongDisclaimer:/strong Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is in beta and there are no guarantees that the features described here will be in the final product that IBM ships.
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Being part of the design partner program for Lotus Notes 8.5.2 I just received code drop 5 i.e. the latest beta of Lotus Notes 8.5.2. Part of this release you are asked a new question while installing which is whether you want to enable preloading Lotus Notes when starting Windows (don't know if this goes for other platforms).
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Send/SMS... Sametime plugin
Mon, May 31st 2010 7:40a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Using a couple of developerWorks articles (a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/sametime-ldap-plugin/"Extending the Lotus Sametime client with an LDAP directory lookup plug-in/a and a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/sametime-sms-plugin/index.html"Extending IBM Lotus Sametime Connect V7.5 with an SMS messaging plug-in/a) for inspiration I wrote a SMS plugin for the embedded Lotus Sametime client in Lotus Notes. The action goes in the Send menu when right [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Properly signed XTAF dictionaries now available for Notes 8.5.x
Fri, May 28th 2010 8:03a Mikkel Heisterberg p
The wait has been long but I just got word (via Christian Henseler) that IBM yesterday released properly signed XTAF dictionaries for Notes 8.5.1. In case you're wondering "XTAF dictionaries" are the common dictionaries shared by Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime and Lotus Symphony. Additional language dictionaries has been available for a while but the Eclipse feature wasn't signed so it was troublesome to install on client machines. The Eclipse features are now properly signed and they are easy to [read] Keywords: ibm
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Picture from NLLUG2009
Tue, May 25th 2010 9:59a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Just received this picture from NLLUG2009 (the Dutch Lotus User Group 2009) of me and Kevin Cavanaugh deep in discussion. Goes to show the level of access possible at these events.
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Speed up WAS restart when configuring with Lotus Connections
Thu, May 20th 2010 6:32a Mikkel Heisterberg p
When installing and configuring Lotus Connections or any other Websphere Application Server based application you'll probably find it beneficial to speed up restarting WAS. I found that disabling auto-start of some of the Lotus Connections applications was an easy way to do this. I simply followed the steps in "a href="http://eichelgartenweg2.blogspot.com/2008/05/startup-behavior-of-application.html"Websphere Experience: Startup behavior of an application/a" to do it.
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Test my SWT interface!! Yes Master...
Sun, May 16th 2010 1:21p Mikkel Heisterberg p
Just found an incubator project at Eclipse.org called a href="http://www.eclipse.org/swtbot/"SWTBot/a which is an extension to test UIs written in SWT. I will need to look into that.
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XPages workshop
Sun, May 16th 2010 1:20p Mikkel Heisterberg p
Today and tomorrow I'll be at a XPages workshop with a href="http://www.tc-soft.com/wordpress/"Tim Clark/a at IBM in Lyngby. Should be fun - probably not a lot of new stuff but it will be interesting to see how others teach XPages.
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SharePoint 2010
Wed, May 12th 2010 9:30a Mikkel Heisterberg p
While parsing my RSS feeds today I found an article on the winsupersite.com on a href="http://www.winsupersite.com/server/sp2010.asp"SharePoint 2010/a. As always when you're involved with a technology it's good to know that the competition is doing and SharePoint is surely a technology platform to watch if you're involved with Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes.
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I find it very interesting to see how Groove has been renamed to SharePoint Workspace. This will make it easier to see how Groove is c [read] Keywords: collaboration
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XPD 6.2.1 known issues and limitations
Wed, May 12th 2010 3:45a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Found this nifty wiki page on a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lewiki.nsf/dx/Expeditor_6.2.1_Known_Issues_and_Limitations"Expeditor 6.2.1 Known Issues and Limitations/a. As always nice to know about the limitations.
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I will be speaking at the Power of Business Applications conference
Tue, May 11th 2010 7:30a Mikkel Heisterberg p
I'm happy to say that I'll be speaking at the a href="https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp006.nsf/v16_agenda?openformseminar=4EAFUNESlocale=en_GB"Lotus UK 'Power of Business Applications' conference/a on 16 June at the IBM Bedfont Lakes, UK. I'll be presenting a session called "Breathe new life into your applications with sidebar plugins and widgets" - I'll post the abstract as soon as it has been written... :-)
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How to install Lotus Quickr connector on 64-bit OS
Tue, May 11th 2010 7:25a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Received these steps from a coworker and thought I would publish for the greater good if others need it. Thanks Bjarne.
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After downloading the connector to Lotus Quickr and trying to install it I found out that wasn't possible to install the Lotus Quickr connector on Vista 64-bit or Windows 7 64-bit. I searched the internet and found a solution but unfortunately it didn't work. After messing around I got it working.
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Formally promoted in the Twitterverse...
Wed, May 5th 2010 3:27a Mikkel Heisterberg p
It always feels good to help out a fellow Yellowhead and especially be appreciated afterwards (by Mike Myers aka a href="http://twitter.com/stickfight/status/13373003148"@stickfight on Twitter/a) :-)
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i"if formally declare @lekkim a god of domino java to be worshiped above all others"/i
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Thanks Mark and happy I could help.
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BAT-files (yup - you heard right!) to sign an entire update site
Tue, Apr 20th 2010 10:02a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Digitally signing an Eclipse update after the fact (i.e. it's not part of the build) can be tedious and time consuming. To make the process easier I wrote two small BAT-files that does the recursive signing of all plugin and feature JAR-files for you. Just stick the two BAT-files (signall.bat and dosign.bat) in the root Eclipse update site directory (together with site.xml) and invoke signall.bat.
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Congratulations to Her Majesty, The Queen of Denmark
Fri, Apr 16th 2010 6:06a Mikkel Heisterberg p
...on her 70th birthday. Long live the a href="http://kongehuset.dk/english/"Queen!/a
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LotusLive annoucements - available in Danish plus some other nice stuff
Thu, Apr 15th 2010 4:01a Mikkel Heisterberg p
The day before yesterday I was invited on a special blogger web conference discussing yesterdays a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29887.wss"press release/a on the new features announced for LotusLive. The conference was hosted by Ed Brill and Sean Pulley (VP, OnLine Collaboration Services). Among the announcements it was very nice to see Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish to be announced as GA languages. Nordic languages among the first 15 languages - yahoo!! Very hap [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Java class line numbers for plugin developers
Wed, Apr 14th 2010 9:30a Mikkel Heisterberg p
If you've been tasked with developing and/or debugging Java extensions for the Notes 8 client you know that line numbers has been missing from the stacktraces produced by Notes. This can be a real problem when trying to debug stuff in a production client. There has been some discussion among the ones of us developing these extensions on how to enable these line numbers. The other day this information was provided by Srinivas Rao of IBM and I wanted to publish it here for all to read.
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IBM Developer Kit-In-A-Box - Composite Application
Wed, Apr 14th 2010 4:20a Mikkel Heisterberg p
I want to bring your attention to a blog entry by Bob Balfe called a href="http://blog.balfes.net/?p=1066"Labs for "Eclipse, extensions, composites and XPages!" are now available!/a The site he points to is really cool and has some very nice hands-on exercises on how to do composite applications incl. XPage components and Eclipse components. If you're new to Composite Applications or want to brush up this is for you.
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Websphere Application Server animations
Tue, Apr 13th 2010 2:47a Mikkel Heisterberg p
As mentioned last week you really should consider learning more about Websphere Application Server if you're into Lotus products. As part of this you might want to check out the a href="https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?lang=en_USsource=sw-appS_PKG=wasdemoS_TACT=100DL15WS_CMP=devWorksca=dnw-1114ca=dth-w"Websphere Application Server animations/a. If requires that you register but there are some nice animations such as
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Want to learn how to write administrative scripts for Lotus Connections?
Fri, Apr 9th 2010 12:06p Mikkel Heisterberg p
While reading my developerWorks newsletter for today I saw this nifty article (a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/1004_gibson/1004_gibson.html?ca=dnw-1114ca=dth-w"Scripting from scratch: Creating a Jython administrative script for IBM WebSphere Application Server/a) that teaches you how to write Jython administration scripts for Websphere Application Server. Now remember that Lotus Connections and Lotus Sametime 8.5 runs on Websphere so it might be worth c [read] Keywords: administration
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Why iPhone OS 4 is interesting for Lotus Traveler customers
Fri, Apr 9th 2010 6:34a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Today on my commute I was reading about the iPhone upcoming iPhone OS 4 (a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/150488/2010/04/iphone4_features.html"Multitasking tops tentpole features in iPhone 4.0/a). Much, and probably way too much, have already been written about the iPhone and iPad lately but one feature of iPhone OS 4 is important to Lotus Traveler customers.
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As you might know the iPhone uses the ActiveSync protocol for communication with the Lotus Traveler server. On the iPhone t [read] Keywords: lotus
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Info centers and wikis
Thu, Apr 8th 2010 6:40a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Really wanted to highlight a href="http://blog.collaborationmatters.com"Stuarts/a blog entries on making it easier to find the wikis and info centers we all use on a regular basis. To find out how see Stuarts two blog entries - for wikis see a href="http://blog.collaborationmatters.com/blog/cmblog.nsf/dx/making-it-easier-to-find-the-lotus-product-wikis?opendocumentcomments"Making it easier to find the Lotus product wikis/a and for info centers see a href="http://blog.collaborationmatters.com/b [read] Keywords: lotus
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Ribbon IDE for Lotus Notes?
Wed, Apr 7th 2010 10:03a Mikkel Heisterberg p
As you know Lotus Notes is built on Eclipse so following Eclipse plugins and projects makes a lot of sense from a platform point of view. Surfing the other day I stumbled over an Eclipse project that provides a a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_%28computing%29"Ribbon IDE/a for the Eclipse platform. It makes your mind wander to Microsoft centric but it might make sense for other applications incl. Lotus Notes.
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For more info see a href="http://www.jroller.com/eu/entry/ribbon_ide"" [read] Keywords: lotus
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Ribbon IDE for Lotus Notes?
Wed, Apr 7th 2010 10:03a Mikkel Heisterberg p
As you know Lotus Notes is built on Eclipse so following Eclipse plugins and projects makes a lot of sense from a platform point of view. Surfing the other day I stumbled over an Eclipse project that provides a a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_%28computing%29"Ribbon IDE/a for the Eclipse platform. It makes your mind wander to Microsoft centric but it might make sense for other applications incl. Lotus Notes.
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For more info see a href="http://www.jroller.com/eu/entry/ribbon_ide"" [read] Keywords: lotus
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Enough with all the widget specifications already!!
Tue, Apr 6th 2010 2:37a Mikkel Heisterberg p
After what feels like a cascade of widget specifications (iWidget, Google Gadget, Wookie) the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is working on a widget specification to unite them all. If you're interested in stuff like this I recommend this developerWorks article (a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-w3cwidget/?S_TACT=105AGX54S_CMP=D0325ca=dnw-1112ca=dth-wd"W3C widget configuration and packaging (Learn about the candidate specification for W3C widgets)/a).
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Lotus Domino on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Tue, Mar 30th 2010 3:27a Mikkel Heisterberg p
img src="http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/logo_aws.gif" style="float: right; margin: 5px" /
Via my blog subscriptions I picked this wiki article on getting started with Lotus Domino for Amazon Web Services (a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/IBM_Lotus_Domino_8.5.1_on_Amazon_Web_Services_A_getting_started_guide"IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 on Amazon Web Services: A getting started guide/a) and decided to look into it. The availability of Lotus Domino on AWS was announced at Lotusphere [read] Keywords: domino
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Know your (Eclipse) Target Platform
Mon, Mar 29th 2010 10:21a Mikkel Heisterberg p
When developing plugins for Lotus Notes you need to know about Target Platforms in Eclipse. The Target Platform is what describes the functionality that's available to your plugin in the, you guessed it, target platform. You can use this to simulate your plugin running in a number of different scenarios or products (such as Sametime, Notes etc.).
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The other day I found this nice blog series about Target Platforms and thought I would share.
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a href="http://ekkescorner.wordpress.com/blo [read] Keywords: lotus
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Fix your calendars week numbering with Notes 8.5.1 FP2
Mon, Mar 29th 2010 3:33a Mikkel Heisterberg p
For us in Europe using the ISO standard for week numbering one of the fixes delivered in Notes 8.5.1 FP2 has been a long time coming. Previously when using the calendar regional setting of "Use my operating system regional setting" Notes would still get the week number wrong. Of course the solution was simply to specify "Always use the ISO standard" though it didn't feel right.
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There is nothing to fear than Websphere itself
Thu, Mar 25th 2010 7:55a Mikkel Heisterberg p
Saw this link on Planetlotus.org and I think it's well worth making sure that more Yellowheads know about it. It's becoming clear that more and more Lotus products are being based on Websphere (which I understand and somewhat support!!) so getting to know Websphere is probably not the worst way to spend a weekend. This PDF from IBM (a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nflsblog.nsf/dx/WAS-course"1 hour course to demystify Websphere Application Server for Lotus is now available/a) is a crash cou [read] Keywords: ibm
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planetlotus
planetlotus.org
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Microsoft MIX10 vs Lotusphere
Thu, Mar 25th 2010 4:11a Mikkel Heisterberg p
With all the talk we have been having around a href="http://www.lotusphere.com"Lotusphere presentations/a and the availability of session presentations and video afterwards it's strangely refreshing to see how Microsoft approach their a href="http://www.visitmix.com"MIX10 conference/a which was just held in Las Vegas. If you go to a href="http://live.visitmix.com/Videos"live.visitmix.com/videos/a you are able to download all presentations and download or stream all sessions as video (WMV for H [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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All you wanted to know about the Notes directory structure
Tue, Mar 23rd 2010 3:47a Mikkel Heisterberg p
All you wanted to know about the Notes directory structure is explained here: "a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/Understanding_the_IBM_Lotus_Notes_8.5.x_client_directory_structure"Understanding the IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.x client directory structure/a" via a href="http://www.wissel.net/blog/d6plinks/SHWL-83SKFA?Openutm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+Wisselnet+%28wissel.net%29"Stephan Wissel/a.
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