divLife has proven too hectic for me since joining Group to be able to continue my efforts of a daily summary of Lotus development news. But we had a lot of of great posts on August 11 (Yellow Day) it is worth the effort to summarize some of the goodness shared by members of the Lotus community. br //divdivfont color=#d3d3d3./font br //divollia href=http://planetlotus.org/71848cCorey Davis/a announced the Gold release of his Flow LotusScript Logging Engine on OpenNTF./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/718f7cCorey Davis/a also announced a 33% discount on all of Conxsys products for the next week./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/718fe0Nathan T Freeman/a provided us with some insight into how simple the hybrid model for LotusLive will work./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/718a04Nathan T Freeman/a then announced the relaunch of his Escape Velocity blog that has moved onto the GROUP Live site./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/719558Nathan T Freeman/a also covered the exciting opportunities presented by IBM working together with GROUP to develop a new set of XPage extensions that will be released on OpenNTF. The objective of the project will be to fill in some of the gaps in XPages such as Picklists, name picker, computed quot;subformsquot; draggable framesets, scrolling dojo grids, dojo layouts, and calendar views./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/719684Nathan T Freeman/a announced the immediate availablilty of @Transmogrifier, a tool that allows Notes developers to convert @formulae into SSJS code. The tool is supported by a plug-in that adds a new set of @functions to the SSJS language./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/7197b0Nathan T Freeman/a saved the best for last with the announcement of Genesis. A project Nathan and his team at GROUP (which include me) are presently working on that aims to provide a way for organizations to take any Notes Classic application and convert it to an XPage application. And that is just the start! As Nathan later commented, dont be surprised if a later release adds the ability to migrate SharePoint (or other) applications to XPages too! I am still in complete awe of what this project can, and will in the future, do. This was one of the main reasons i decided to join GROUP last month./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/7183c4John Head/a posted a new version of the Contacts Experience project on OpenNTF. This project, which extends the standard Contacts template, now supports Office 2010 and makes a start with support for labels, and custom fields./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/profiles/martin-humpolecMartin Humpolec/a announced the availability of a new Notes sidebar plug-in (PDF Signer) that signs PDF files using your own certificate./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/718874David Leady/a has announced that NotesIn9 can soon be downloaded onto your iPad for viewing and will soon be adding Admin tips./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/719044Yancy Lent/a dressed up PlanetLotus for the day before announcing an amazing new site (Domino Directory) that showcases some of the great Web sites developed using Domino technology./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/7193c8Mike McGarel/a contributed some Beatles lyrics with a Yellow Day twist./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/717870 Peter Presnell/a: My own contribution was the release of ∙dominoFramework 2.0 on OpenNTF. A project that encapsulates much of my work as a Notes developer over the past 16 years./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/719620Chris Toohey/a announced a two for $5 promotion of his dominoGuru.com applications./lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/7188d8Chris Whisonant/a announced a new look/feel to the Bleedyellow.com site - an implementation of Lotus Connections available for use by members of the Lotus community for free. (Hint: youre probably looking at it now!)/lilia href=http://planetlotus.org/718eb4Garrett Wolthuis/a has added NotesAdmnTips and NotesDevTips to Twitter as a way for the community to share admin and dev tips./liliAnd thank you to a href=http://planetlotus.org/717d20Gregg Eldred/a for his posting quot;I think Ill have a few more beersquot;./li/oldiv ./divdivHard to believe a day after IBMs announcements for Notes 8.5.2 and LotusLive Notes we had so much other great stuff to talk about. Than you to all those who contributed to the days success.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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