diva href=http://planetlotus.org/715034 Yellowday/a has already arrived on some parts of the globe such as Australia. Being an Aussie I am not waiting for Yellowday to arrive here in Los Angeles to kick off celebrations -- we are amongst the last on the planet to do so My contribution for Yellowday is a major update to my a href=http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/.Domino%20Framework∙dominoFramework project/a on OpenNTF. This project represents a collection of much of the knowledge I gained over the past 16+ years doing Notes development. Over that time I have collected ideas and code from all corners of the planet and tried to integrate it into a single consistent framework. For much of these 16 years I have either been a consultant and/or contractor and the framework has been the cornerstone around which most of the my applications have been built. br /font color=#d3d3d3./fontbr /Shortly before joining a href=http://www.gbs.com/GROUP/a (Im the orange guy with no hair and glasses!), I undertook a major rewrite of the entire
framework. This was an update to reflect some of the many things I
have learned over the later part of my career. For a while I played with the idea of using it as the basis for a commercial product. Sadly, for that to work I needed an app store. Rather than continue to develop the framework, I decided it would be a href=http://planetlotus.org/6ff248much more exciting/a for me to start shaping the future of Notes itself by accepting an offer to work with GROUP. That decision will mean that I will only be using the framework sparingly going forward. So I have decided the time was right for me to share the code I have developed and provide the option for others to extend it moving forward by making it available on OpenNTF. a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/patpicos/?lang=en_usPatrick Piccard/a is part of a new generation of Notes developers that are starting to emerge inside the yellow bubble. He is also one of a number of developers who have decided to use the framework to build their own applications and he has been a big help in the beta testing of this latest version. While I will stay involved with the project, I will be adding Patrick as a chef for this project to ensure I do not slow down any future enhancements that may be contributed be him and others./divdiv font color=#d3d3d3./font/divdivI would also like to thank the many other beta testers of the product - Aecio Neto, Bauke de Kroon, Darren Oliver, Fredrik Sjöström, Ian Randall, Joerg Schlusemann, Steve Cannon, Sylvain De Weerdt, Tony Austin, Ulrich Krause, and Ursus Schneider. THANK YOU..../divdivfont color=#d3d3d3./fontbr /For those of you not familiar with the framework, it is an Object Oriented framework containing a large number of classes that extend the core capabilities of Lotus Notes and LotusScript. Notes being Notes, I have tried to make my implementation of OOP as light and fluffy as possible while still adhering to its core qualities. In addition I have developed the UI components that would most commonly be used in creating a generic Notes application. With this release I am making available a separate template that can be used as a starting point for building new applications. Every Notes application I have built over the past 5 years has been created using earlier versions of such a template. The ∙dominoFramework database contains the original components used in this template along with additional libraries and design elements that can be used to extend applications with specific capabilities. The database also includes a number of developer tools (not all mine) that can be used to make the life of a Notes developer more productive. br /font color=#d3d3d3./fontbr /For additional information I would suggest navigating your way through my blogs here on bleedyellow. I originally started this blog with the sole purpose of sharing information about this framework. Somewhere along the way I got caught up with bitching about the a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/dotdomino/entry/does_lotusscript_have_a_future?lang=en_uslack of development for LotusScript/a, a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/dotdomino/entry/xpoages_kindergarten_reading_list15?lang=en_usXPages Kindergarten/a, calling for the a href=http://planetlotus.org/69467adeath of Notes client development/a, a href=http://planetlotus.org/6d8ef4Project Vulcan/a, and letting everyone know that a href=http://planetlotus.org/6df54eSharePoint Sucks/a. But, before and in between all that there are a great many posts that outline some of the great many capabilities this framework provides.br /font color=#d3d3d3./font/divdivTo access the code visit the a href=http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/.Domino%20Framework∙dominoFramework project page/a on a href=http://www.openntf.orgOpenNTF/abr /font color=#d3d3d3./fontbr / /divdiv Happy Yellowday 2010 to all!br //div
Becoming Agile: Meetings
Sun, Feb 12th 2012 5:27p Peter Presnell One of the interesting aspects of moving from a development role to QA is that I have become much more involved in managing process rather than just managing projects. Part of this is the nature of QA and part of it is the result of going from having to just manage my own work to having to coordinate a team of 25 people. Process now becomes just as important as technology to get the most out of each day. In today’s world I am asked to respond to changing needs at an ever increasing pac [read] Keywords: lotus
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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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