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Lotusphere 2009: Cool demo - if I may say so myself :-)  
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 4:03p Mikkel Heisterberg
My Lotusphere session preparation is in full swing and as previously mentioned this includes preparing demos.
The latest one I have done is about drag'n'drop and how you can use it to do some cool stuff. The demo shows how you can drag text from an e-mail to a sidebar plug-in and have the sidebar plug-in accept the drop. Then when you drag the text from the sidebar plug-in it is converted into a PDF document hence drag'n'drop from the sidebar plug-in results in a file. Text in - file out.
Us [read] Keywords: document
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Notes 8 - impossible is nothing
Tue, Nov 25th 2008 5:49a Mikkel Heisterberg
Part of going out and preaching the extensible nature of Notes 8 is having a presentation and demos to back it up. The demos I have but I have been working on the presentation and a graphic for the closing slide. You can see the result so far on the right. It's clear that I'm not a graphics wizard but I did manage to follow a description on how to create a rubber stamp effect on top of the Notes 8 graphics. [read] Keywords: notes
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Are you using blog.lekkim.heisterberg.dk? 
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 4:20p Mikkel Heisterberg
If you are please update your bookmarks and feedreader to use lekkimworld.com instead. [read] Keywords: |
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Lotusphere 2009: Demo showing off the extensibility of Notes 8
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 3:57p Mikkel Heisterberg
Part of my preparation for Lotusphere is preparing my session presentation as well as preparing demos for the session. One of the demos is an example of the different extension points available to you as a plug-in developer. As a general rule most of what you see in Notes 8 can be extended.
The demo I did this afternoon is a demo that shows how you might extend the search capability of Lotus Notes by adding your own search provider. In lack of better example I did an search provider that sear [read] Keywords: ibm
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TOP 10 REASONS to upgrade to Notes 8.5 & Domino 8.5
Thu, Nov 20th 2008 1:52a Mikkel Heisterberg
NOTES
Drag/Drop of Text within rich text editor
Offline support for Activities
Choose from multiple addresses for a person in typeahead
Ability to make your own views look like the PIM views
Forward contact as vCard (along with better import/export)
iNotes improvements (e.g. calendar support in Lite mode)
Roaming user available with new file-based option
Support of ID Vault and Single Logon
Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and Ubuntu Linux support
Calendar federation
DOMINO
Expanded platform choices
Inc [read] Keywords: designer
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Lotusphere 2009: Lineup revealed
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 2:49a Mikkel Heisterberg
As Ed posted the complete lineup for Lotusphere 2009 has been revealed at it looks like an impressive lineup as always. This year is going to be all about Lotus Expeditor, Composite applications, Sametime, Connections and XPages. Actually putting together a schedule incl. managing showcase duty is going to be difficult.
If you're registered for the conference you should also have received the e-mail that lets you vote for the sessions and BOF's you would like to see at the conference.
I'm at [read] Keywords: composite
connections
expeditor
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Lotusphere 2009: Session abstract and thoughts on the session
Mon, Nov 17th 2008 1:49a Mikkel Heisterberg
As posted previously I'm so fortunate as have been given a session slot at Lotusphere 2009. The session is titled "From Notes Java developer to Notes 8 plugin developer" and have the below abstract.
"Attend this session to learn the basics for leveraging your Notes Java development skills to start building plugins for the Notes 8.x client. Learn about the extensible nature of Notes 8, how to build plugins (not just for the sidebar) and how to create your own extension points to allow your plug [read] Keywords: ibm
lotusphere
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Lotus Foundations presentation from Dannotes
Thu, Nov 13th 2008 10:39a Mikkel Heisterberg
Here's the presentation from Dannotes in PDF format (in Danish).
Links
Lotus Foundations
Lotus Foundations wiki
Foundations for SMB [read] Keywords: foundations
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I'm at Dannotes today
Thu, Nov 13th 2008 2:19a Mikkel Heisterberg
I'm at the Dannotes user conference today (Danish Notes User Group) doing a demo of Lotus Foundations, how to install it, how to configure it and just how easy it is to configure Domino on it. Should be fun. [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusphere 2009: I'll be presenting a session
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 5:19a Mikkel Heisterberg
I'm happy to say that I once again will be speaking at Lotusphere. This time the title of the session will be "From Notes Java Developer to Notes 8 Plug-in Developer" and it will be in the Best Practices track. I'm very excited about this and I'm already off trying to figure out how to squeeze 3-5 hours worth of stuff into 1 hour. It should be fun... :-)
Oh Bruce - wake up!! [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Upgrading a Lotus Connections Pilot install
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 4:19a Mikkel Heisterberg
For testing etc. internally I use a Lotus Connections 2.x Pilot install which is working fine for me. Now that 2.0.0 FP1 has been out for some time and 2.0.1 has been released I have wanting to update my install. If nothing else to make sure it worked with Firefox 3. As previously blogged it is quite easy to update Connections if you know how. Before starting I had my doubts if it was possible at all to upgrade a Pilot install but I had to try.
For starters I wanted to get my install up to 2. [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2.0.1 available
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 6:59a Mikkel Heisterberg
As posted by Luis Benitez Lotus Connections 2.0.1 as been shipped.
This quarter we shipped Lotus Connections 2.0.1 (on Halloween). If you are upgrading, you can download it from IBM's Fix Central. One question that I'm continuously asked is: "what's new in Lotus Connections v2.0.1?". Well, here's a list of what I've gathered:
Quickr integration with Activities - Push-button publication from an Activity into one of your Quickr Places for permanent document storage
Quickr integration with Comm [read] Keywords: collaboration
connections
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Dragging Sametime buddies around
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 7:39a Mikkel Heisterberg
I have been playing a little with the drag'n'drop support in the Notes 8.5 beta client and found out that a VCard is created the you drag a Sametime contact to a place that accepts dragging files to (this probably also works in earlier versions). This means that dragging a Sametime buddy to the desktop will create a VCard for that person. Nice! Dragging the buddy to an e-mail (or other place which accepts text transfer) will create a mailto-link.
Just one of those nice, time saving features... [read] Keywords: notes
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rcp.install.id and rcp.base for Notes 8.5 codedrop 12
Sat, Nov 1st 2008 8:09a Mikkel Heisterberg
rcp.install.id=1225540129482
rcp.base=6.2.0.200810240838 [read] Keywords: notes
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How I survive using Notes 8 sidebar plugins on my 4:3 display at home
Tue, Oct 28th 2008 9:19a Mikkel Heisterberg
Lets face it! The advent of Notes 8 and the sidebar really requires you to use a wide-screen display if you want to keep the sidebar expanded and have some screen real estate left for mail and business applications. This is a major head ache for me when I'm in my home office as my primary display is a 4:3 (i.e. traditional) display and my wide-screen laptop is the secondary display. I found a solution that works for me though.
The way I solve this is by detaching the sidebar plugins I use the [read] Keywords: ibm
notes
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You can rent this space for 30 days. Interested?
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Do you work across timezones?
Mon, Oct 20th 2008 9:09a Mikkel Heisterberg
Well if you do, do you then use the new feature of Notes 8.0.2 / Notes 8.5 to show an alternate timezone in your calendar? I do and I find it very nice that it's easier to see across the timezones.
To set it up open the preferences, navigate to "Calendar and To Do/Regional Settings" and specify the alternate timezone in the middle box (cleverly named Timezone). The change doesn't require a restart of the Notes client. Below is my setup. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Bob Balfe: Problems enabling the Application/Install menu in Notes 8.5 beta
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 1:59a Mikkel Heisterberg
A big part of installing plugins in the Notes 8.x / Expeditor client is getting the File/Application/Install menu item to show up for users. Bob Balfe has an interesting post on this very topic for the upcoming Notes 8.5 client.
Problems enabling the Application | Install menu in Notes 8.5 beta [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Doing Java in Notes? - make sure you know about JavaCompilerTarget
Thu, Oct 16th 2008 8:28a Mikkel Heisterberg
I blogged about the JavaCompilerTarget back in August last year when Notes 8 came out as you needed it to enable Java 5 in Domino Designer. Last week some nice new info on this notes.ini setting came my way in the Design Partner forum for Domino NEXT. If you're doing Java development in Notes you would want to read on.
And yes - I did check with IBM whether it was okay to blog it. Since this info is on its way out in technote (technote 1320401) it was fine that I blogged it.
JavaCompilerTarge [read] Keywords: agent
designer
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Blogging a retweet - too good to miss 
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 7:42a Mikkel Heisterberg
"sscullion: Retweeting @MaryBethRaven: "Hold the ctrl+alt key while you open a Java view to get the non-java version." Nice Tip, thx!! 7:04a Asturias, Spain"
Of cause I tried this and it didn't work for me unless I reopened the database that is held Ctrl-Alt while opening my mail database from the workspace. Still very, very valuable. [read] Keywords: blogging
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Remember that XPages is built in JSF
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 4:09a Mikkel Heisterberg
As you might know the new XPages design element of Notes/Domino 8.5 is based on a Sun Java technology called Java Server Pages or JSF for short. As such many techniques from JSF development can be reused in XPage development why it might be beneficial for you to follow some of the JSF litterature as well.
As always the newsletters from Sun is a good place to start and just recently there was two articles on composite UI components in JSF. You can find part 1 and part 2 on the web. [read] Keywords: composite
domino
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Sametime Web API disabled by default
Wed, Oct 8th 2008 1:50a Mikkel Heisterberg
Apparently the Sametime Web API is disabled by default (at least as of Notes 8.5 beta 2). This is important since Lotus Connections and other newer wen products from Lotus use the Sametime Web API in the Sametime Connect client / Sametime embedded in Notes for awareness. For more info see this post).
To enable the Sametime Web API do as follows:
Close Notes
Find your plugin_customization.ini File (in /framework/rcp)
Open the file in an editor and toggle the value of "com.ibm.collaboration.rea [read] Keywords: collaboration
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LotusScript.doc - HTML interface progressing nicely
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 3:40p Mikkel Heisterberg
Please donate
Based on prior and recent recommendations I have set up a Paypal account to accept donations to finance the development of the free version of LotusScript.doc version 2. All donations will be very much appreciated and help me justify the time I put into this.
Just a quick update on the progress on LotusScript.doc v.2 which is progressing nicely. As you can see from the below screenshot work is well underway on the "default" HTML interface. The HTML files are rendered usi [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Amazon web services - now with Windows
Mon, Oct 6th 2008 9:09a Mikkel Heisterberg
In the October newsletter from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team they announce that you will soon be able to run Microsoft Windows on the EC2 service.
"Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be able to configure your instances to run the Windows Server operating system. In addition, you will be [read] Keywords: domino
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You speak SPNEGO? If not get out your dictionary at once since lower TCO is in sight if you do...
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 3:39a Mikkel Heisterberg
So the new abbreviation you have to learn is SPNEGO. SPNEGO is a stadardized protocol for single-sign-on (SSO) between diverse systems. The purpose of the protocol is to provide SSO between the operating system and the services you use whether they be on the web or client applications. Basically it means that the credentials of your Windows logon is automatically used and you are logged transparently into any services that are SPNEGO aware (of cause there are provisions for mapping credentials b [read] Keywords: connections
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applications
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LotusScript.doc - an update...
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 3:59p Mikkel Heisterberg
Please donate
Based on prior and recent recommendations I have set up a Paypal account to accept donations to finance the development of the free version of LotusScript.doc version 2. All donations will be very much appreciated and help me justify the time I put into this.
As of today the (new) XML output format of LotusScript.doc is done and I'm starting on the HTML output format on Saturday. Maybe Friday night. [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Want to do Notes 8 development? Check out the Eclipse Training Series
Fri, Sep 26th 2008 4:59a Mikkel Heisterberg
Eclipse.org is doing a series of training series around the world for further development using the Eclipse rich client platform (RCP). They're doing introductory courses and advanced sessions so if you're looking to start developing for the Notes 8 platform check it out.
Eclipse Training Series [read] Keywords: notes
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Lotusphere 2009: Abstracts submitted
Wed, Sep 24th 2008 3:09a Mikkel Heisterberg
This morning, very very early morning, I finally submitted my abstracts for Lotusphere 2009. Two sessions on plugin development and one on developing custom blackboxes for the Sametime business card system. In both plugin sessions I will demonstrate and tell what I have learned developing plugins for the Notes 8 client - both from TwitNotes and my commercial plugins for my company. The Sametime session will be an extension on the similar sessions I have held at a number of Danish user groups. It [read] Keywords: dwa
lotusphere
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Tool of the day: XPather
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 9:09a Mikkel Heisterberg
Simple, powerful and easy to use XPath extension for Firefox to easily work with XPath statements: XPather. [read] Keywords: firefox
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LotusScript.doc - an update...
Sun, Sep 21st 2008 4:29p Mikkel Heisterberg
Please donate
Based on prior and recent recommendations I have set up a Paypal account to accept donations to finance the development of the free version of LotusScript.doc version 2. All donations will be very much appreciated and help me justify the time I put into this.
As promised earlier in the week I have been spending the weekend behind the keyboard working on LotusScript.doc version 2. While the weekend started with a lot of grief and unraveling Subversion merge conflicts I am [read] Keywords: lotusscript
database
development
eclipse
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A call to action for all non-US developers!
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 2:09p Mikkel Heisterberg
In my post titled "XPD - where do you live?" from the other day I discussed some problems with i18n (internationalisation) of applications developed in Java for the Notes 8+ platform using the built-in classes (java.util.Locale). Since that post I have been in dialog with IBM via the Domino NEXT Design Partner program.
It has been confirmed that this is indeed a problem and probably in the core Notes client. The problem probably stems from Lotus Expeditor.
Unfortunately not much light has b [read] Keywords: domino
expeditor
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Lotus Foundations for SMB's
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 11:11a Mikkel Heisterberg
Sean Burgess is running a blog on Lotus Foundations over at asnddesigns.com: Foundations for SMB [read] Keywords: foundations
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Support for Notes/Domino 6,5 extended to April 2010
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 11:11a Mikkel Heisterberg
"Selected IBM Lotus products and Program Services will be extended. The following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement will be extended to April 22, 2010. The previously announced product withdrawal date was April 23, 2009."
Software withdrawal and support extension: Selected IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, and Enterprise Integrator products [read] Keywords: domino
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LotusScript.doc - development has begun (again)
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 6:39a Mikkel Heisterberg
So, inspired by many kind e-mails of encouragement, I'm restarting the development of LotusScript.doc v.2 (once again). The main difference is that this time I have actually set aside some time for the development during the weeekend and sent my girl friend off to Barcelona to avoid being disturbed... :-)
Based on prior and recent recommendations I have also set up a place to donate money to finance my development of the free version of LotusScript.doc version 2. Any donations will be very muc [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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XPD - where do you live?
Thu, Sep 11th 2008 5:13a Mikkel Heisterberg
Disclaimer: I'm trying to get some info from IBM on this subject so please check back as I will update this post as more info becomes available...
Again this is one of those posts that will annoy the heck out of European developers...
Internationalisation - or i18n - is done using the java.util.Locale class in Java. When calling Locale.getDefault() the standard Locale for the JVM should be returned and should be da_DK for me (country: Denmark, language: Danish), en_US for you US guys (countr [read] Keywords: ibm
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Engagement
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 4:19a Mikkel Heisterberg
So I gave up on being a lone wolf and asked my girl friend to marry me and she said "yes" - after hitting me a calling me a moron! :-) The wedding is to be next summer in August. [read] Keywords: |
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A couple of reasons why the update site template in Notes 8 is cool!
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 4:59a Mikkel Heisterberg
Here's a couple of reasons why the Eclipse Update Site template supplied with Notes 8 is a killer template and why it's preferable to use from a Notes users perspective (get the pun?):
Update Site accessible over NRCP (only by Notes clients) or HTTP.
Easy to host on a Domino server even without running the HTTP task.
Replication to other servers.
Easy to control access with ACL.
Easy overview of categories, plugins and features.
Easy to update the update site URL for all/selected features witho [read] Keywords: acl
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The story on Lotus Connections 2.0 and Sametime awareness
Thu, Sep 4th 2008 6:39a Mikkel Heisterberg
So I have been messing a bit with Sametime enabling Lotus Connections the last few days. It all started with the browser blanking out on me once I enabled Sametime Links (stlinks ie. the Javascript API for Sametime normally used to Sametime enable web pages) in the LotusConnections-config.xml (the page source only showing the stlinks HTML). After troubleshooting and fixing the stlinks the Sametime Awareness still didn't work so I opened a PMR with Lotus.
The answer from Lotus Support is howev [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
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Lotusphere 2009: The heat is on!
Wed, Sep 3rd 2008 5:59p Mikkel Heisterberg
So registrations for Lotusphere 2009 opened just a few hours ago and Duffbert is all set after waiting in line for a few hours on Twitter... :-) It's amazing how Lotusphere registration is that special day when the excitement starts building. I know I'm excited and I'm looking forward to heading to Orlando.
This year is going to be a little different as I'm going as part of the Intravision team (this was also true last year but still) and we once again have a both on the showcase. It's weird n [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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FT Searching for empty fields courtesy of Alan Lepofsky
Wed, Sep 3rd 2008 4:19a Mikkel Heisterberg
Searching for blank fields [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sametime blackbox - update needed for Lotus Connections 2.0
Sun, Aug 24th 2008 11:59a Mikkel Heisterberg
I wrote a number of articles in THE VIEW some time back on writing custom Sametime blackboxes (see the March/April and May/June 2008 issues). If you implemented the Sametime blackbox that read data from Lotus Connections (like it's done on bleedyellow.com) and you have upgraded (or are planning to upgrade) to Lotus Connections 2.0 this post is for you.
The database schema for Lotus Connections 2.0 has changed slightly in comparison with Lotus Connections 1.0.x so if you're using a custom Samet [read] Keywords: connections
lotus
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bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
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How to install a Lotus Connections fix (which is different from a fixpack)
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 8:08a Mikkel Heisterberg
Previously I installed Lotus Connections 2.0 fixpack 1 and it took me a while to figure out the syntax so I blogged it. Now I just installed a fix and that too took some figuring out so here is the syntax.
I had to install the LO32615 fix from IBM Lotus (issues with the work location fields) and the syntax is as follows:
Follow the steps in the post I link to above but don't invoke the updateLC.bat command
Use this command: updateLC.bat -fix -install -installDir -fixDir -fixes -wasUserId [read] Keywords: connections
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Show 'n Tell Thursday: Easy access to Lotus Connections Profiles translation files (21 August 2008)
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 6:29a Mikkel Heisterberg
This weeks SnTT post is about Lotus Connections and how to more easily get access to and change the translation files for the UI of the Profiles feature.
Configuring which pieces of information are surfaced in the Profiles feature is pretty easy and well documented using the profiles-config.xml file. Changing the label text however is harder and not that easy to do. As it is documented it involves stopping profiles, locating a jar-file, extracting it using WinZip, changing a properties file, r [read] Keywords: connections
domino
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Eclipse Bundle Management
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 5:20a Mikkel Heisterberg
Understanding Eclipse's new bundle-management mechanism [read] Keywords: ibm
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SWT@Notes 8: Workbench startup and the Accounts API
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 3:19p Mikkel Heisterberg
So one of the things I have been wresteling with over the last couple of weeks is the Accounts API in Notes 8 / Expeditor. While very nice at the core it does leave something to be desired. Trying to interact with the Accounts API from a plugin running in Notes can and probably will result in an exception and the following messages being printed to the OSGi console if you happen to be looking there (which you really should). Look for an upcoming post for any easier approach... :-)
CLFMW0050E: [read] Keywords: admin
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Lotus Connections communities and Java policy files
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 12:39p Mikkel Heisterberg
Brain dump...
Only technote I could find that mentioned tango.policy was technote 1286604 but that wasn't it. I did however find a clue in the Lotus Connections wiki and was able to adapt it to my needs.
\Java and Process Management\Process Definition\Java Virtual Machine\Custom Properties
java.security.auth.policy -> [read] Keywords: connections
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Take the red pill and click your heels 3 times...
Tue, Aug 12th 2008 7:24a Mikkel Heisterberg
"You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
I do not consider myself a total nut job but I invite you and encourage you to listen to this episode of the Daily Source Code podcast for your start to the awakening. If nothing else it's an eye opener... Taste the red pill.
Daily Source Code #781 for Friday August 8th 2008: Confessions Of A MultiMedia HitMan. [read] Keywords: podcast
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TwitNotes - proxy support in v. 1.0.5
Tue, Aug 12th 2008 3:02a Mikkel Heisterberg
So TwitNotes has been out for a while now and I have been discussing various aspects of the application with users. One of the issues that come up time and time again is proxy support. The proxies supported by TwitNotes v. 1.0.5 are the proxies supported by the Notes version you're using.
One of the issues I discovered is that the proxy configuration in location documents doesn't seem to work all the time. Sometimes the proxy configuration is only picked up from the "Network Connections" page [read] Keywords: connections
notes
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Hmmm - disable Send to Bluetooth to get Excel working
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 6:24a Mikkel Heisterberg
Finally solved a problem I have been having with Microsoft Excel 2003 crashing on Windows Vista by disabling the Bluetooth add-in... Read more at forums.microsoft.com if you have the need... [read] Keywords: microsoft
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It's YellowDay (Ye118w Day)
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 3:13a Mikkel Heisterberg
So today is YellowDay and what does that mean? Hmm... I don't know yet but I'm gonna figure it out! :-) [read] Keywords: |
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CURLing on Windows
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 1:09p Mikkel Heisterberg
curl is a well known application for doing HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, LDAP (and more) requests from the command line. curl is also available for Windows from the curl site. I found this installer to be working nicely on Windows after installing the OpenSSL libraries for Windows. [read] Keywords: application
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Notes 8.5 OSGi console madness
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 6:21a Mikkel Heisterberg
Ahhh some of the fun stuff you see when running Notes 8.5 with the OSGi console showing... :-)
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[ 11:11:46:590] partial 0.000 -
cumulative 0.000 -
instantiate controller
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instantiate action dispatcher
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instantiate ComputeAttrs
[ 11:11:48:880] partial 0.010 -
cumulative 2.290 -
instantiate AttrMap
[ 11:11:48:910] partial 0.030 -
cumulative 2.32 -
instantiate distance function
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Servicify with wasservice.exe
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 5:10a Mikkel Heisterberg
Creating a Windows service for WebSphere AppServer [read] Keywords: websphere
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Show 'n Tell Thursday: Cross compiling sidebar plugins for Notes 8.0.x and Notes 8.5 (7 August 2008)
Thu, Aug 7th 2008 3:29a Mikkel Heisterberg
I haven't done a SnTT in months so I guess it's about time. This week it's about cross compiling sidebar plugins for Notes 8.5 and Notes 8.0.2. Enjoy...
Since installing Notes 8.5 I have had a lot of trouble developing in Eclipse 3.4 for Notes 8.5 and having the plugins work in Notes 8.0.x as well. The problem showed itself as a NullPointerException when trying to load the plugin Activator and a "Viewpart is null" message in the Notes UI. Looking at the log trace showed a class incompatibility [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
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Running your own DNS?
Tue, Aug 5th 2008 6:50a Mikkel Heisterberg
If you are be sure to listen to Security Now! episode 155 ("How DNS works") to learn about the DNS exploits circulating the internet these days. Also you might want to test the DNS servers you use to see if they they are subject to the attack.
I know Comcast and some other major ISP's in the US and England are having problems since they haven't patched their DNS servers yet. [read] Keywords: security
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Discovering Notes 8: VMWare, Notes 8 and database corruption
Tue, Aug 5th 2008 3:19a Mikkel Heisterberg
For quite some time I have been a strong proponent of using VMWare for customer development. I used to have 2 or 3 Notes clients in various versions installed on my laptop with a directory pointer per customer linked into my main data directory. A little over a year ago I switched to using VMWare Workstation instead for all development. This setup worked out great for me.
Some customers had their own VMWare images and some customers shared a VMWare image. This also worked out great. Once Notes [read] Keywords: domino
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Amazon web services - amazing!
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 2:39a Mikkel Heisterberg
I just got a billing statement for my usage of the Amazon S3 storage service and it's amazing! Well not the actual statement but the contents of the statement. The statement shows that I have 5.36 USD due.
I uploaded around 3,5 GB of data to my account but what I'm paying for is not the storage costs but the transfer costs. Bandwidth is more expensive than storage! Of the amount due is 0.54 USD for storage and 1.08 USD is tax. The rest is transfer and bandwidth.
For those interested I'm usin [read] Keywords: laptop
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Site of the day: Wordle.net
Fri, Aug 1st 2008 4:29a Mikkel Heisterberg
Discovered a very nice site today that allows you to nicely visualize tag clouds from either a RSS/Atom feed or from the tags a user assigned to links on [read] Keywords: java
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If in doubt throw more memory at it
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 10:50a Mikkel Heisterberg
I have had more memory added to my Tomcat hosting and the blog already seems to be running better. Thanks to those who have been pointing the problems out to me. [read] Keywords: |
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Really like being able to minimize sidebar plugins to icons
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 6:02a Mikkel Heisterberg
Prior to Notes 8.5 it wasn't really an option to load many sidebar plugins as they, even when minimized, would take up a great deal of screen real estate. From Notes 8.5 you can choose to minimize a sidebar plugin to an icon at the bottom of the sidebar panel which is really nice. You do this is in the part menu by selecting "Minimize to Icon".
In my Notes 8.5 client I run the following 10 sidebar plugins:
TwitNotes (well of cause)
Sametime
Day-At-A-Glance
OnTime Team-At-A-Glance (think Day-A [read] Keywords: agent
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Really like being able to minimize sidebar plugins to an icon
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 6:00a Mikkel Heisterberg
Prior to Notes 8.5 it wasn't really an option to load many sidebar plugins as they, even when minimized, would take up a great deal of screen real estate. From Notes 8.5 you can choose to minimize a sidebar plugin to an icon at the bottom of the sidebar panel which is really nice. You do this is in the part menu by selecting "Minimize to Icon".
In my Notes 8.5 client I run the following 10 sidebar plugins:
TwitNotes (well of cause)
Sametime
Day-At-A-Glance
OnTime Team-At-A-Glance (think Day-A [read] Keywords: agent
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TwitNotes - 1.0.5 released to the update site
Wed, Jul 30th 2008 6:05p Mikkel Heisterberg
Finally after talking about it for a long time and working on it for even longer I'm happy to announce that I have uploaded TwitNotes v. 1.0.5 to the update site. This release became bigger than first expected and required more work than expected so I'm really happy to get it out there. Before you go ahead and upgrade/install let me tell you a little about what has happened with TwitNotes since the last public release (v. 1.0.3).
The first and most important is that TwitNotes 1.0.5 runs on Not [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Why patching the org.apache.commons.lang plugin is necessary
Wed, Jul 30th 2008 6:03p Mikkel Heisterberg
As part of the core Lotus Expeditor framework a number of Apache Jakarta Commons libraries are supplied as plugins. Unfortunately the org.apache.commons.lang plugin is incorrectly packaged which means that developers cannot reuse code from this library. This goes for all Notes 8 releases so far (Notes 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2 beta 1, 8.0.2 beta 2, 8.5 beta 1).
The problem is that the plugin manifest file (MANIFEST.MF) doesn't export all the packages of the library but only the root package. The *righ [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Sametime Awareness Simulator finally available for download
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 3:48a Mikkel Heisterberg
The Sametime Awareness Simulator is sponsored and brought to you by IntraVision the maker of OnTime Group Calendar, the leading provider of group calendar and meeting room booking and managing software for the Lotus Notes platform. Read more at ontimesuite.com.
Announcement
I'm happy to announce that the Sametime Awareness Simulator is finally available for general download from the applications main page (lekkimworld.com/sas). More information such as installation instructions, how-to-use in [read] Keywords: lotus
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Messing with JSON?
Thu, Jul 17th 2008 1:05a Mikkel Heisterberg
Working with JSON can be a little tricky since it normally comes in as one long string which means it can be difficult to discover the data structure. I ran into this while pasing the search.twitter.com JSON API and needed a JSON viewer to help me out. A quick Google search later I found JsonViewer which is a very nice small utility for perusing JSON data. No install necessary.
If you're working with JSON check it out. [read] Keywords: google
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TwitNotes - 1.0.5 is coming and has search.twitter.com capability
Wed, Jul 16th 2008 1:11p Mikkel Heisterberg
In whatever spare time I have I'm working on finishing TwitNotes v. 1.0.5 so it's ready for Notes 8.5 and Notes 8.0.2. Among other things TwitNotes now supports proxies by using the HTTP libraries built into Notes. It has been somewhat of a challenge but I'm getting there. Last night I thought I was done but no...
After hearing about the Twitter acquisition of Summize and trying it out I had to add this capability to TwitNotes. First I extended the Twitter Java API I'm using to support the JSO [read] Keywords: notes
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My steps for installing Lotus Connections 2.0 FP1
Wed, Jul 16th 2008 11:27a Mikkel Heisterberg
I installed Lotus Connections 2.0 fixpack 1 at a customer site today. It wasn't as easy as expected and I had to restart the installation program 3 times but eventually I got through. Here are the steps I went through:
Stop all Lotus Connection features
Download fixpack and the update installer
Unzip the installer to a directory called "update" under your Lotus Connections installation directory
Create a directory called fixes in the "update" directory you just created and copy the fixpack to t [read] Keywords: admin
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Adaptors in Eclipse
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 9:51a Mikkel Heisterberg
A new article has been added to eclipse.org/articles and it describes the Adaptor pattern and how it's used in Eclipse. A must read if you're into Eclipse/Notes 8.x plug-in development. Below is the introduction.
"The adapter pattern is used extensively in Eclipse. The use of this pattern allows plug-ins to be loosely coupled, yet still be tightly integrated in the extremely dynamic Eclipse runtime environment. The adapter framework is used extensively by a wide variety of plug-ins, including [read] Keywords: notes
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Eclipse 3.4 features
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 9:31a Mikkel Heisterberg
Found a nice round up of some of the new features in Eclipse 3.4 from a developers perspective (Eclipse 3.4 Hidden Treasures). I found the info on the new dropin folder and "Plug-in Spy" plug-in very interesting. The option of exporting launch configurations is also nice. [read] Keywords: eclipse
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LotusScript.doc - an update...
Thu, Jul 3rd 2008 6:09p Mikkel Heisterberg
So it's been very quiet lately around LotusScript.doc and I'm a bit ashamed that I haven't written anything publicly about it for a long time. Prompted by this comment and numerous conversations at ILUG2008 I think it's time for an update.
The state of affairs is that version 2 is almost done. With that said with new job and rebuilding my appartment I just haven't had the time. Playing with new projects like TwitNotes has also taken some attention away from the project. Since it's been so long [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Back online...
Wed, Jul 2nd 2008 10:25a Mikkel Heisterberg
lekkimworld.com is back online at my new ISP and shortly (I hope) all the redirections etc. have been moved over too. [read] Keywords: |
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Back online...
Wed, Jul 2nd 2008 9:52a Mikkel Heisterberg
lekkimworld.com is back online at my new ISP and shortly (I hope) all the redirections etc. have been moved over too. [read] Keywords: |
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lekkimworld.com going dark for a while
Wed, Jun 25th 2008 8:07a Mikkel Heisterberg
Just found out I have to change hosting provider for my blog. Since I haven't got a new provider on hand I'm going dark for a few days until I find a hosting provider that suits me. I'm looking for a place where I can host Tomcat apps and have about 1GB of storage at an affordable price. Suggestions more than welcome.
See you on the other side... [read] Keywords: |
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Didn't know I could do that!
Thu, Jun 19th 2008 5:49a Mikkel Heisterberg
Didn't know I could do that (don't know whether it was added in Eclipse 3.4) but it sure makes it easier and faster to find the plugins you need to depend on. Instead of having to remember the entire name you can use the *-character. Sweet. [read] Keywords: eclipse
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TwitNotes - why it doesn't run in Notes 8.5 beta and why IBM should care
Wed, Jun 18th 2008 7:29a Mikkel Heisterberg
After getting my Eclipse IDE to work with Notes 8.5 I nailed why TwitNotes doesn't work with Notes 8.5 beta yesterday. For long I was told that the main culprit was me using my own copy of org.apache.commons.httpclient but rather the version of org.apache.commons.lang that IBM supply as part of the platform was the problem.
To get TwitNotes working with Notes 8.5 I had to use both the IBM version of org.apache.commons.lang and org.apache.commons.httpclient and not my own versions. This is fine [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Notes 8.5 - interesting design refresh observation
Tue, Jun 17th 2008 5:24a Mikkel Heisterberg
Refreshed the design of a database modified using Domino Designer 8.5 (Eclipse version) in Notes 7.0.2 and discovered some of the new stuff now stored in the NSF. See screenshot below. Especially the WEB-INF/classes/plugin/Activator.class makes me wonder what kind of Java stuff is stored in there now... [read] Keywords: designer
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Eclipse 3.4 RC3 is out
Tue, Jun 17th 2008 2:40a Mikkel Heisterberg
Get your copy today... [read] Keywords: eclipse
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setlogrlev for Notes 8.5 from Eclipse 3.4
Mon, Jun 16th 2008 10:41a Mikkel Heisterberg
Using the Eclipse configuration I posted earlier the plug-in with the setlogrlev OSGi console command wouldn't launch. To solve this you can either manually to start the com.ibm.rcp.core.logger plug-in from the OSGi console or configure the config.ini file on the launch configuration. The former can be done with the below command. A description on how to do the latter has been added to the step-by-step instructions.
start com.ibm.rcp.core.logger [read] Keywords: ibm
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Configure Eclipse 3.4 for Notes 8.5 plug-in development
Mon, Jun 16th 2008 10:20a Mikkel Heisterberg
So ever since I got one of the first drops of Notes 8.5 and with increasing effort since the public beta of Notes 8.5 came out I have been trying to get my Eclipse IDE ready for Notes 8.5 plug-in development no without success. Shout outs to IBM have been unsuccessful... :-(
Notes 8.5 is built on Expeditor 6.2 which in turn is based on Eclipse 3.4 (codenamed Ganymede). I couldn't get my Eclipse 3.2/Expeditor 6.1 toolkit combo to work with Notes 8.5 and without an Expeditor toolkit for Expedito [read] Keywords: expeditor
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