Lotusphere 2012: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Sun, Feb 5th 2012 4:15p Peter Presnell Lotusphere is over for another year. 2012 was my third Lotusphere. This year was a crazy crazy week just as it had been in each of the two previous years. I had the chance to renew many treasured friendships as well as meet many people for the first time. My employer, GBS, has offices all around the world, so Lotusphere also provides a chance for me to meet face to face with a great many of the people with whom I work every day. I see signs that the event is changing. Many legends of the past n [read] Keywords: connections
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Getting The Most From Lotusphere
Tue, Jan 10th 2012 7:39p Peter Presnell This year will be my third Lotusphere and first IBM Connect. Compared with a great many people attending I am still a newbie. I certainly was not as well prepared as I would have like for my first (or second) Lotusphere and so I would like share a few tips of some of the many things I have learnt in my preparation for this year.
The community itself exists all year round. Lotusphere is the only time in which many of us are together in the same place at the same time. When I try to prioriti [read] Keywords: administration
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RAT -- Part 2: Smoke Testing
Sun, Jan 8th 2012 9:02p Peter Presnell In Part 1 of this series, I provided a general summary of some of the key concepts of Rapid Application Testing. Today I would like to take a closer look at one of the more important aspects of RAT.... Smoke tests.
When developing a set of test cases to test an application the most important are smoke tests. Smoke tests can mean different things to different people. For me, smoke tests are the tests you choose to run each and every time you have a new version of the software to be tested. Beca [read] Keywords: domino
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My Lotusphere Predictions
Thu, Jan 5th 2012 6:15p Peter Presnell Lotusphere is now less than ten days away. The extended weather forecast for Disney World now covers the start of the big event. As the most of us in the yellowverse know, Lotusphere marks the true start of each year. 2011 the year of Get Social Do Business is drawing to an end giving way to 2012 the year of Business Made Social. Thousands of the yellow faithful are now starting to pack in preparation for the annual pilgrimage to the holy shrines of Kimonos, BALD, the Beach Party, Nerd Girl e [read] Keywords: connections
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RAT -- Part I: Rapid Application Testing
Tue, Nov 29th 2011 8:25p Peter Presnell Welcome to the first in a new multi-part series in which I explore a range of ideas related to a style of testing I have developed for my own use at GBS I call Rapid Application Testing.
Rapid Application Development
For many years I have worked as a Lotus Notes Developer creating and maintaining a large number of Lotus Notes applications. In almost all of these projects I used a development methodology known as Rapid Application Development (RAD). RAD is not a measure of how long it takes [read] Keywords: lotus
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My AUSLUG 2011 Presentations
Mon, Sep 5th 2011 5:56p Peter Presnell I had the pleasure of presenting two sessions to an awesome audience at the inaugural AUSLUG conference recently held in Sydney. I have posted the slides for these presentations on slidehsare.
The first of these session IBM XPages: The Next Step In Your Life as A Notes Developer was a joint presentation I did with colleague Paul Calhoun in which we compared and contrasted some of the differences between application development with Notes Classic and XPages. This presentation is an updated ve [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Presentation: ReplacingLotus Notes?
Mon, Sep 5th 2011 10:04a Peter Presnell Some time back I wrote a blog entry: Replacing Notes? Here's How It Really Goes Down. The blog article came up in discussions a few times while I was attending #auslug. I have now converted the material from a blog article into a presentation format and I am working with Stephen Wissel on the idea of converting it into a prezi format. I am not sure, but it does seem like the potential is there to turn this into a full presentation? What do you think? Would you attend a session at a LUG ( [read] Keywords: ibm
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Is Latin Really RAD?
Tue, Mar 29th 2011 4:42a Peter Presnell For some reason I became curious about how long it might take me to develop something of no real value. Not just once, but several times in different languages. The topic I eventually chose was Civilization Rises to Usurp Dinosaurs or CRUD. The requirement is to adapt the following text: into each language- A long time ago before man ruled the earth our planet was ruled by large beasts known as dinosaurs. We don't know for sure what killed them off.Many believe they simply failed to [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere Idol: My 5 Minutes Of Fame
Tue, Feb 1st 2011 7:43p Peter Presnell Before attending my first Lotusphere last year I set a goal for myself to at some point in my career have stood up on stage at Lotusphere and speak. Even if it were just for a few minutes I would be satisfied. Unlike Lisa Duke I am not a natural public speaker so this was always going to be a challenge for me. My attendance at #ls10 was the first step on that journey. I watched and observed. I got some great advice from legends such as Andrew Pollack and Bruce Elgort. On joining GB [read] Keywords: agent
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Will This Be The Last Lotusphere?
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 10:43p Peter Presnell A fascinating first day for Lotusphere 2011 (aka #ls11). There were no major surprises today. Rather we saw a continuation of the trend IBM has been taking with the "Lotus" brand to establish itself as the dominant player in the Business Social Software market. IBM is getting more Social. This was only my second Lotusphere, but I get the impression that the format of the OGS is also evolving. Geeks like me want to see product announcements, demonstrations, and even code. Instead [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2011: Yet Another OGS (Half a)Live Blog/.
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 6:02a Peter Presnell WOW.... where did the last 2 days go. Hard to believe I am already sitting inside waiting for the #ls11 OGS to start. This blog entry will merely act as a initial impression (somewhat) live commentary on the Opening General Session (OGS). The lotusphere buzz has started this little corner of the Dineyworld Resort fills up with a mass of people wearing yellow/black backpacks. Not surprising the talk is about Social. And hints of a renwed focus for developers. 8:000 - Introductory m [read] Keywords: lotusnotes
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The Power Of Notes - Part 14: Database & View Events
Mon, Jan 3rd 2011 5:23p Peter Presnell Following on from my last entry in this series I wish to turn from NotesUIDocument (Form) events to NotesUIDatabase and NotesUIView events. The event model for database and view events is somewhat easier to follow but there are still a few anomalies/surprises that exist. Scenario For the following I have a database opening to a specific view. The database has a database script that makes use of a LotusScript library that sets event listeners for remote DB events. The view makes use of a Lo [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Power Of Notes - Part 13: Form Events
Wed, Dec 29th 2010 2:39p Peter Presnell div I once recall reading a description of the Lotus Notes application
development platform as being a large event engine into which we add
code. I am not sure I agree 100%, but it is certainly true that Lotus
Notes applications come with a large number of events providing us with a
great many ways of shaping the way the application behaves. With the number of events that are fired in a typical Notes application it can
sometime be quite a challenge for a Notes developer to determine wh [read] Keywords: lotus
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A LotusScript Puzzle: With Statement
Wed, Nov 17th 2010 8:20p Peter Presnell divI just love my current project. I spend all day trying to discover every little detail I can about how Notes Classic works. Every UI design element, every @Formula, and every piece of LotusScript. I have to read all the fine print in the documentation, find out what is not documented, and even find where the documentation is wrong. In a few short months I have probably doubled what I know about Notes Classic and some of its more obscure features./divdiv /divdivAs an example, today Co [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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XPages: Let the Evolution Begin
Mon, Nov 15th 2010 10:20p Peter Presnell divSome time back I wrote a series of articles entitled a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/dotdomino/entry/xpages_the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_i5?lang=enXPages, The Good The Bad, and The Ugly/a.
It chronicled my observations about XPages as a new development
platform for building Lotus Notes applications. Looking back a year
later I think the key point I was trying to make was that XPages offered
a lot, but in many ways it needed some further work before it could
completely replac [read] Keywords: domino
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Sometime LotusScript Is Just.... Well Weird
Fri, Nov 12th 2010 10:40p Peter Presnell div A quick quiz for those of you that have a good working knowledge of LotusScript.../divdiv /divdiv1) Once a constant has been assigned a value neither its datatype or value can be changed, True or False?br /font color=#d3d3d3./fontbr /2) The name assigned to a constant (or variable) cannot be any of the designated LotusScript keywords, True or False?/divdiv /divdiv3) The name assigned to a constant cannot also be used as a variable name in the same code block, True or False?/divdiv br // [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Foundations: Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
Fri, Nov 12th 2010 8:02a Peter Presnell divSorry... I had to quote Mark Twain. It seems so fitting for the fiasco that erupted inside the yellow bubble this week. For those not fully immersed inside the yellow bubble... Word leaked out that Lotus Foundations was being killed off by IBM. The (as it seems) rumors of its death generated quite a bit of discussion and then, as is often the case, took on a life of its own. I find this to be yet another classic case study of the yellowverse, the yellow bubble, and the way in which IB [read] Keywords: foundations
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The Power Of Notes - Part 11: Parameters
Mon, Nov 8th 2010 7:40p Peter Presnell divWithin LotusScript is is possible to pass parameters to subroutines, functions, and properties. The following is a summary of some of the key aspects of parameters, along with some of the more obscure features I have discovered over the years (including today!)./divdiv.br /olliBy default when you call a subroutine or function the parameters are typically passed by reference. This means that the subroutine or function can actually make changes to the variable being passed as a parameter. [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Power Of Notes - Part 10: Dim ReDim
Sun, Nov 7th 2010 8:02p Peter Presnell divMy work at Group has seen me taking a deep dive into the LotusScript Dim amp; Redim and Const statements. They seem like fairly simple statements and yet after 30 years of Basic programming and 14 years of LotusScript programming I still learnt a few things this past week. So for those of you still writing code with LotusScript here are some of the key concepts of these statements along with some of their more obscure features.../divdivfont color=#d3d3d3./fontbr /ollifont color=#228b22Opt [read] Keywords: domino
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The Power Of Notes - Part 9: Profile Documents
Thu, Nov 4th 2010 8:44a Peter Presnell div Profile documents are one of the cool ways of adding state to an application, allowing data to be saved and used during the course of a session as well as storing information for the life an application. The following are some of the many cool things I have learnt about profile documents over the years. Many of these you will probably already know./divdivfont color=#d3d3d3./fontbr /olliWhat makes profile documents unique from other documents held in a database is the fact that they will [read] Keywords: domino
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Its A Big Change, But Well Worth It
Mon, Nov 1st 2010 11:44p Peter Presnell divJust over a week ago I set of on a new journey in my life, driving
my car from Los Angeles, California across to Atlanta, Georgia. It was a
four day journey, the first half of which follows the well known
Route-66 from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City. It was a great drive that
gave me a chance to see some great scenery as well as reacquaint myself
with the music on my iPod. It also gave me a chance to reflect on the
recent decision I had made to move out of my comfort zone as a Lotus [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Power Of Notes - Part 7: Undocumented Features
Tue, Oct 19th 2010 2:44p Peter Presnell divYet another of the many great features of Lotus Notes is the additional power (and intrigue) that comes from undocumented features that are to be found within the product. Perhaps the best example of an undocumented feature is XPages (LOL).... Sorry, I couldnt resist that... Seriously, there are a number of features in Notes that IBM have chosen not to document. This typically means they are not supported and should be used at your own risk. But I must say I have rarely found th [read] Keywords: admin
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The Power Of Notes - Part 5: @SetTargetFrame
Mon, Oct 11th 2010 7:44p Peter Presnell divTodays addition to the quot;Power of Notesquot; is a dump of the many things learnt (and relearnt) about the @SetTargetFrame command during the course today while I was trying to develop a strategy for testing this useful @Function added as part of Notes R5./divdivfont color=#d3d3d3./font /divdivolli@SetTargetFrame can be used to designate the target frame for the following six @Command ONLY.... [Compose], [EditDocument], [OpenFrameSet], [OpenPage], [OpenView], and [RefreshFrame]. It is [read] Keywords: agent
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Which Lotusphere Presentation Would You Attend?
Thu, Oct 7th 2010 9:44p Peter Presnell In case you arent aware, submissions for Lotuspehere 2011 are due by the end of Friday. I am very excited as I submitted an abstract for the first time. I still have a short-list of potential Lotusphere sessions here I did not submit. I would be interested in your feedback. Are there any sessions here you would really like to see?br /font color=#d3d3d3./fontbr /olliMarketing Lotus Notes - How To Do it Right?/liliBuilding Notes Apps For Microsofts Kin/liliApp Store? What F**King App St [read] Keywords: domino
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Replacing Notes? Heres How It really Goes Down!
Thu, Oct 7th 2010 3:44p Peter Presnell Ive seen a few interesting blogs/tweets recently from people trapped in organizations that have decided to migrate away from Lotus Notes to Micro$oft Exchange. I myself have worked in a number of organizations in which this process unfolded. Even today it seems so many people get surprised about what happens next. The same mistakes and misconceptions seem to occur time after time...br /font color=#d3d3d3./fontbr /bPhase 1: Replacing Notes Mail:/bbr /olliDomino Administrators arent always [read] Keywords: domino
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The Power Of Notes - Part 2: View Entry @Formulas
Tue, Sep 28th 2010 3:14p Peter Presnell div In a href=http://planetlotus.org/73738cPart 1/a of this series I outlined some of the more obscure features of the Notes view search capabilities. Today I will turn my attention to a collection of 9 (somewhat) obscure @Functions designed specifically to work with View Entries. These functions are @DocChildren, @DocDescendants, @DocLevel, @DocNumber; @DocParentNumber, @DocSiblings; @IsCategory, @IsExpandable, @Responses./divdivolliThe documentation of these @Functions is inconsistent, an [read] Keywords: dblookup
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