Feedback needed for a new OpenNTF project...
Fri, Jan 27th 2012 8:34a Serdar Basegmez I have been trying to finish this for a couple of weeks in my free time (did I say free time?)... I have some code fragments for that and I need to combine them all. Anyway, This is a very simple database, But it will be very useful for me and I hope for others... Before going forward, I need some feedback about it. The database is called TestCopier. The purpose of this application is to create test/development databases from production ones. The following screen shows a preview. Some [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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A "Storm is over" post with an early birthday of my blog...
Sun, Jan 8th 2012 7:32a Serdar Basegmez A very long period without any blog post... I have lots of excuses. I will catch up just after the Lotusphere. Moreover, this post will be an early birthday of my LotusNotus blog. Many of my friends sent bunches of good thoughts about 3 weeks ago, when Damla was born. A second daughter means a lot to us. It also means busy days and nights. Beyond this fantastic events, I have closed the first IBM Connections deal, which is a great step for my company. I had decided to change my way several [read] Keywords: connections
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Welcome to our world... You made me speechless!
Thu, Dec 15th 2011 3:36a Serdar Basegmez I am relieved and enjoying the moment. No phone calls, no skype chats, no e-mails and no upgrades for me today... Because, my second daughter Damla has been born after a successful operation. Both baby and mom are healthy. Defne welcomed her baby sister with a great excitement. Whole family in the clouds now. Since there is no any complication, now I can arrange my Lotusphere trip... I'll take compliments at the bar... But let me warn you, I need beer, lots of beer :) [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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OpenNTF: Now it is more than a community...
Fri, Dec 9th 2011 1:13a Serdar Basegmez Many of you have seen minutes of the recent OpenNTF Board meeting... Probably, you have noticed the IP Manager issue: Peter Announced that he has been "laid off" as a contractor at IBM effective immediately. OpenNTF Group scrambling to find funding for Peter Tanner's invaluable work for the OpenNTF Entity. Looking for options for hiring Peter as a consultant. We have a quorum. Peter Tanner excused himself from the conversation. Outstanding $4,250.00 in accounts receivable. Discussion of a [read] Keywords: domino
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Congratulations to the community (and the winners)
Thu, Dec 8th 2011 11:22a Serdar Basegmez After an impatient waiting, OpenNTF has announced winners of the second Development Contest... Winner - Mark Hughes for his ITANA Tasks app Finalist - Ferhat Bulut for his Mobile Admin app Finalist - David Marko for his Mobile Contacts and Reminders app The quality of entries were significantly higher this time. There are impressing projects and judgement was very tough this year... Mark absolutely deserved the golden metal with his great mobile application... The name in the fi [read] Keywords: admin
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Latest updates deployed on XSnippets...
Mon, Nov 28th 2011 1:13a Serdar Basegmez As you know, XSnippets project has been deployed as Beta a while ago. Today, we have deployed a new version with some enhancements. First of all, I'd like to remind all that we are actively using the project page on OpenNTF... You may submit defects, feature requests and other comments. We also decided to follow all bugs from this page. The recent version includes a couple of new enhancements. The most important one is the ability to rate snippets. If you remember, I have submit [read] Keywords: community
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Highlight your syntax in Designer style...
Tue, Nov 22nd 2011 4:25p Serdar Basegmez For a while, I am part of a fantastic team, including Niklas Heidloff, Frank van der Linden and Bruce Elgort. We are working with pleasure on an OpenNTF project named "XSnippets". As you may already know, Beta version of XSnippets has been online for a week. Meanwhile, we also welcomed René Winkelmeyer. He will take care of the most shiny part of XSnippets: Designer plugin. So far, I am very happy about the community reaction... Tweets, blogs and personal feedbacks are making us very [read] Keywords: domino
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Mystery Solved: "Error loading USE or USELSX module"
Mon, Nov 21st 2011 4:21a Serdar Basegmez For a week, I was trying to solve a problem with an old database. The problem was a well-known error message: "Error loading USE or USELSX module" in my agents and script libraries. This case, I couldn't update my agents, script libraries, etc. because my designer wasn't compiling due to this error. So after hours of try and error, I noticed that I didn't test one thing I should have tested at the beginning. My friends guess what I'm talking about :) If there is Java, you're l [read] Keywords: lotus
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From My Inbox: Wrong question...
Wed, Nov 16th 2011 2:07a Serdar Basegmez I got a message today, from a very small customer. They are using Outlook and the person wants to know why Lotus is not appropriate for them because she was asked to research about Lotus-Outlook comparison. Wrong question, wrong person... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Normalizing strings with JavaScript
Mon, Nov 14th 2011 12:05p Serdar Basegmez If you have worked on Domino blog template, you may know the issue. You have a descriptive text like title for a content. You want to convert it to a different string to be used in a URL or file name. DominoBlog template is using a simple formula for this: @ReplaceSubstring(@ReplaceSubstring(@ReplaceSubstring(pagename;"?":"&":"@":"£":"$":"%":"^":"":"*":"/":"'":"#":"~":"(":")":"+":"=":"!":";":""":":":",":"|":"\";"");"--":" - ":" [read] Keywords: domino
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There are Leaders and Great Leaders in the history...
Wed, Nov 9th 2011 3:47p Serdar Basegmez 73 years ago, Turkey has lost a great leader: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk... Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, has started a series of political, economic, and cultural reforms, seeking to transform the former Ottoman Empire into a modern, westernized and secular nation-state. The principles of Atatürk's reforms, upon which modern Turkey was established, are referred to as Kemalism. Here are some of his important transformations: - Secularism - Legal equality between sexes - Unification in edu [read] Keywords: wiki
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Mini-Patterns for XPages: Parameter Editing with Dialogs (1)
Sun, Nov 6th 2011 7:51a Serdar Basegmez I were off due to the incredible workload... I've started this blog entry several weeks ago. I think it's time to publish it before people forget me :) This is a new series of articles. I'd like to introduce semi-reusable patterns that may help developers to shorten the design time for common issues. The first article will be about "Parameter Editing". r Many applications use parameters, editable by power users. In classical Notes, we create a form and view; that's all, except [read] Keywords: ibm
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It’s Fifth of November again... Remember!
Sat, Nov 5th 2011 5:06a Serdar Basegmez It's Fifth of November again. This is the day I have to watch "V for Vendetta" again... "Remember, remember The fifth of November The gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot" ...or here is the long version of the scene... [read] Keywords:
Finally: Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.3 has been released...
Tue, Oct 4th 2011 1:17a Serdar Basegmez Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 has just been released. Here is the announcement... We were waiting for this moment for a long time... It is not a simple minor upgrade. Important features and new entitlements will be effective with 8.5.3. We summarized new features of this version on the previous blog... Lots of details have been shared in Taking Notes episode 141 with Ed Brill and Peter Janzen... New versions are ready in Passport Advantage site. [read] Keywords: domino
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9/11: Looking to the west from the east...
Sun, Sep 11th 2011 6:18a Serdar Basegmez I remember this very clear. I was a new graduate from the university. I had some problems in my military service records and I were trying to fix it. In Bursa (my home city near Istanbul), I were in Military Service Office and dealing with the bureaucratic procedures to correct my records. The office was running really slow that day. They sent a fax to the other office that holds my records and we were waiting the response for hours. It was around 4pm and instantly, there were an activi [read] Keywords: laptop
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A new wiki article in response to the gift I received...
Sun, Sep 11th 2011 4:28a Serdar Basegmez On thursday, I have received a very cool gift package from Jim Casale because of my Wikimania participation... Unfortunately, the IBM mug wasn't lucky enough for this long travel but other gifts are cool! Especially I am very glad about my hard copy of "Mastering XPages" book. This will be the first book on my shelf in the new office :) I thought about it and I decided that returning a simple "Thank you" will not be enough! Therefore, I created a new wiki article named "Do's [read] Keywords: ibm
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Getting social, doing business [with IBM]...
Fri, Sep 9th 2011 11:11a Serdar Basegmez I ignored this at first. Stayed away on the second time. But this time, I can't help blogging about it. A couple of days ago, I tweeted: "Dear IBM, which site will we use for collaboration with you! Greenhouse? LotusLive? developerWorks? Partnerworld? Please, make up your mind!" This week, IBM CEE Channel invited us to a partner community inside LotusLive. I am already using Greenhouse to keep up with my fellow IBM Champions. I have a developerWorks profile where I never understand what [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Duel of the Fates: Me and a stubborn SSL Certificate...
Thu, Aug 18th 2011 1:57a Serdar Basegmez Do you procrastinate tasks that you hate? I am... I had a long-waited task to install a legitimate wildcard SSL for my customer's Domino servers for internal access. More than ten servers and nobody achieved to teach people to trust home-made SSL certificates... I have worked with SSL certificates in the past and it's an headache. Because SSL shops think that all servers on the world are using IIS :) First of all, some credits to friends in the yellowverse that helped me with their bl [read] Keywords: admin
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Google, IBM, Microsoft and Localization of everything...
Mon, Aug 8th 2011 1:13p Serdar Basegmez I have posted an entry into the Turkish part over a year ago. I will extend its content a bit... My post was based on this screen shot: The scene above is from Google Reader and in Turkish, as you may notice. It's not 'Google-translated'. But the key part is on the little screen shot on the left. Someone in Turkey created a collection of well-known Turkish RSS resources and prepared a screen shot for this 'localization'! That makes it 'Localization', rather than 'Translation' [read] Keywords: domino
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Message Security on Cloud...
Sun, Aug 7th 2011 12:08p Serdar Basegmez Using cloud-based services for message security makes sense... The problem is simple. You have a mail server, you simply put an Anti-spam/Anti-virus software/appliance on your DMZ to receive your messages at the edge of your network, checks them for spam and virus risks and permit clean messages only. I rather prefer moving the edge system out to the network. You simply change your MX records, a service provider receives your messages, scans them and transfers clean messages to your mail [read] Keywords: administration
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Developi Information Systems joins OpenNTF Alliance...
Wed, Aug 3rd 2011 10:45p Serdar Basegmez I am very proud to announce that my company, Developi Information Systems have been a member of OpenNTF Alliance. As I said in OpenNTF's announcement: So far, we were trying to support OpenNTF activities at an individual level. Because we believe in open source communities leverage the value of their software technologies. It's not only downloading sample codes or ready-to-use projects; such an initiative bands passionate developers together, improves communication and collaboration wit [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Is this LUG working?
Sat, Jul 30th 2011 2:50a Serdar Basegmez We have founded LUGTR in 2008, established an executive committee in 2010, organized the first community event, LUGTR 2011 conference in March. Beginning this year, thanks to our sponsors, we launched a powerful server with Quickr 8.5.1 for our web site. And this is the screen shot from the 'Forum' part of Turkish Lotus User Group... The last message has been received in June. There are only three members participating discussion out of the executive team. There are times people g [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 FP3 has been released...
Tue, Jul 19th 2011 1:37a Serdar Basegmez IBM announced that Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 FP3 packages are ready to be downloaded. The fix pack contains several critical fixes and is recommended for all 8.5.2 users. Preliminary fix list contained by FP3 can be seen on: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/8d1c0550e6242b69852570c900549a74/b23767bb4ff78657852578d1005f85b8?OpenDocument There are a couple of improvements in this release, such as Firefox 5 & Internet Explorer 9 support for iNotes. To download FP3, you can u [read] Keywords: domino
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My Custom Control xInvolve: New version with commenting...
Wed, Jul 6th 2011 11:50a Serdar Basegmez I posted an entry a couple of weeks ago about my custom control for the OpenNTF Contest... I have upgraded xInvolve with commenting ability. New version 1.10 provides a customizable interface for rating and commenting about documents (or other elements based on a unique identifier) for non-anonymous users. Here are some screen shots... [read] Keywords: community
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Second Custom Control for the OpenNTF Contest: xInvolve
Tue, Jun 28th 2011 3:02a Serdar Basegmez The second custom control for the OpenNTF Contest has been released a couple of days before. xInvolve is a customizable and reusable custom control bringing user interaction to your XPages applications. It can be used on single page and views. Current version 1.00 has been designed only to rate documents (or other elements based on a unique identifier) for non-anonymous users. I am planning to extend this control for commenting and anonymous contribution in the future. However, I can't fi [read] Keywords: xpages applications
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It’s classical, also awful: XPages is running Java huh?
Sat, Jun 25th 2011 5:34a Serdar Basegmez One more classical Java problem! Now in air with XPages development! I have completed my second Custom Control for OpenNTF Contest. I were packing up everything. I created a blank database, copied all my design elements and set ACL's and other stuff. Ooops; one more unclear error message launching my XPage: Error 404 HTTP Web Server: Item Not Found Exception OK, calm down, I said. I googled and I found it might be related with building. I tried different combinations, restarted my [read] Keywords: acl
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The lesson of the day: Think simple while debugging XPages!
Fri, Jun 24th 2011 1:10a Serdar Basegmez Server side javascript in XPages is very difficult to debug. XPages lab is aware of that and try to figure out a solution. OpenNTF has lots of tools and recommendations for debugging. However, sometimes error messages make me crazy! Here is an example... I am developing an XPages project and I worked on SSJS persistence and scope issues a lot. Yesterday, in the middle of night, I had a stupid problem in my code. function getDoc(someParams) { // ... do something ... // return [read] Keywords: xpages development
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One of fifty... It feels good :)
Thu, Jun 23rd 2011 1:11a Serdar Basegmez Yesterday, Ed Brill announced 50 special people as IBM Champions of Lotus Software and IBM Collaboration Solutions. I am so honored to be a part of this special group. I'd like to thank all selection committee and of course, Joyce Davis for listening to the community and running this program. Also congratulations to all my fellow champions... [read] Keywords: collaboration
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My Custom Control for the OpenNTF Contest: xProperties
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 12:29a Serdar Basegmez At last I submitted my custom control to the OpenNTF Contest sponsored by We4IT... Now I am waiting for two iPad 3 or 3 iPad 2, whatever comes first :))) Anyway, this is a short summary for the xProperties control. My custom control imitates the traditional document properties box we are using in Lotus Notes client. The reason I have chosen this, it seemed really challenging for me. In fact, it is not possible to imitate our precious Document Properties box completely. Because it [read] Keywords: domino
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About Partnership Programs: I will Resell your product, but?
Fri, Jun 17th 2011 8:12a Serdar Basegmez From time to time, I have been pinging different companies about participation into reseller programs. One thing I never understand is the 'Partnership Fee' payments or other financial interactions between mother companies and their resellers. I admit that I am not an ordinary reseller candidate. Because, sarcastically speaking, I don't believe in 'sales' :) If I were a European company and willing to enter into the Turkish market (talking about the first entrance of course), I wou [read] Keywords:
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Multiple Custom Controls and Events aware of their owners...
Thu, Jun 16th 2011 11:55a Serdar Basegmez I am developing a simple (really simple) custom control for the OpenNTF contest... There are very good controls there and I don't think my humble control will be a revolutionary :) Anyway, I really messed up this thing... Because I didn't plan the architecture right, I have to re-implement everything. The problem started when I tried using multiple copies of the same custom control. This post will be a quick tip for a very simple problem. If you are developing a custom control which may [read] Keywords: ibm
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Social Media and our Multiple Personality Disorder...
Sat, Jun 11th 2011 10:51a Serdar Basegmez Years ago (before 2000), my friend who was studying on the theoretical problems of information technologies, brought this issue on the table... He said that with the evolution of emerging social tools we are going to have a real problem of identities. The issue has multiple dimensions. One is our passwords. It's a technical complication. You are using twitter, friendfeed, facebook, linkedin, gmail, etc. Every service you are using requests a seperate credentials. I am carefully listing [read] Keywords: connections
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Lesson of the day: I need to learn more about XPages
Sat, Jun 11th 2011 9:39a Serdar Basegmez Today, I noticed there are lot more to learn about XPages... Here is the problem. I am creating a custom control for general use. There is a simple business logic behind it and when certain state is achieved, it needs to fire an event at the mother XPages. This event could be a Lotusscript agent, SSJS code, sending a message, data source transaction etc. It could be anything. So it needs to be a 'parameter'. I participated XPages Guru's webcast a while ago. There were an incredibly u [read] Keywords: agent
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The dilemma of Body field: I know it’s wrong, but I’m still using it.
Fri, Jun 10th 2011 9:12a Serdar Basegmez This is from Designer Help - NotesDocument class: GetFirstItem method: If multiple items in a document have the same name, programmatic access is limited to the first item. The remaining items yield invalid data. A work-around is to get the first item, process it, remove it, again get the first item (which was the second item), and so on until you process all the items with the same name. If you do not save the document, the items are not actually removed. However, the recommendation is th [read] Keywords: development
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Don’t ask me about Lotus Workflow...
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 2:11a Serdar Basegmez If there were a Lotus Workflow fan club, I would be the first member. It was a great application with its flexibility, ease of use, customization capability etc. I know lots of customers that are still using... But nowadays, many are stuck with their applications and looking for non-Lotus alternatives to move out. Why? Because IBM does not seem to have a decision on Lotus Workflow. This is going to be another 'Dear IBM' post I think. I am tired to give the political answer: "IBM [read] Keywords: ibm
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CEO Blog with DominoBlog template...
Fri, Jun 3rd 2011 1:14a Serdar Basegmez We were dealing with a cool project for a couple of weeks. My client is Hillside Leisure which created the pioneer and leading brand in 'Feeling Good' business with 2 astonishing hotels, 3 sports/recreation centers, 4 cinemas and a large SPA chain. Their brand is unique with the service quality approach which has been saturated into the corporate culture... You should stay at Hillside Beach Club to understand that. Corporate culture is hard to seed, manage and quantify. Being decentral [read] Keywords: domino
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Translated my presentation: "More XPages!"
Tue, May 31st 2011 10:54a Serdar Basegmez This is Learn XPages Month! So I translated slides of my recent session in Social Business Roadshow Istanbul 2011... Don't expect too much. This is an introductory session for upcoming workshops planned in Turkish LUG. I am putting this here because of two reasons. First, Cristian D'Aloisio (dominobaloney.com) requested :) Second, I wanted to contribute if anyone needs an introductory outline for a session targeting newbie XPage developers... You may use, modify and distribute this. J [read] Keywords: xpages
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After my first UKLUG event: I was there...
Tue, May 31st 2011 10:00a Serdar Basegmez UKLUG is over days ago. I am tired of getting around London and thinking about how I am going to organize so many things in a blog post about UKLUG... This blog post was hard to edit. I started at Manchester-London train, continued between my coffee breaks during London trips and ended in the plane returning home. I have completed whole a week after UKLUG, sorry for that (if you care)... Starting with the participation... There was so many people there. I don't know the exact number, but [read] Keywords: administration
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Still don’t know XPages? Learn in June!
Thu, May 26th 2011 3:11p Serdar Basegmez This June has been declared as the 'Learn XPages Month'. It doesn't mean that we will sit and wait for you until you learn it well :) This month, we are going to participate into discussion! It doesn't matter how much you know... Because even asking a question into a forum or making a comment into any blog entry will help somebody else. As Turkish LUG, we will also be trying to organize a workshop this month. Many companies will have discounts next month. Bloggers (including myse [read] Keywords: xpages development
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Bookmarks opening in new window always...
Thu, May 26th 2011 12:08p Serdar Basegmez One thing that makes me really annoyed about Eclipse based Notes client is the CTRL-TAB key issue. Design team has lifted this key combination as Lotus Notes moved into Eclipse in the R8. At UKLUG, Mary Beth Raven cleared the issue at last (or I hear that for the first time). The design team canceled this key combination due to the accessibility principles. Because according to this principles, Ctrl-tab is an advised combination for rich text fields. Naturally, one thinks about why all b [read] Keywords: ibm
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New features of XPages in 8.5.3
Sun, May 22nd 2011 7:54a Serdar Basegmez In DNUG, I had chance to chat about XPages... Version 8.5.3 is coming with great features. Some key points are like that: I talked with Martin Donnelly. He is a great guy and fantastic presenter. He told us that probably, 8.5.3 will not contain a new extension library. However IBM is planning to release a stable version independent from the release stream, using update sites. XPiNC features will be extended in 8.5.3. XUL will be upgraded to the equivalent of Firefox 3.6.x. A good featur [read] Keywords: ibm
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After my first DNUG conference...
Sat, May 21st 2011 12:36p Serdar Basegmez So DNUG is over. Including preconference, DNUG was a three-day conference. As I said before, most of the sessions were in German. so my participation doesn't count to be educatory :) In my long travel, my point was to see other Lotus communities and user group conferences. DNUG is a great organization. They have been gathering for 17 years and twice a year. While we couldn't find 100 persons together in a free conference in LUGTR2011, getting hundreds of people from different cities of [read] Keywords: domino
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Day Zero in DNUG, Day One in Germany...
Wed, May 18th 2011 3:30p Serdar Basegmez My twitter (version 3.4.2) followers noticed that I am in Germany for DNUG Conference. After organizing LUGTR conference, (even I am late) I decided to see other user group conferences. I picked two very distinct types of events: UKLUG and DNUG. So far, DNUG is not like a user group conference. Looking at the agenda, it seems like European Lotussphere! Well-organized event has a very deep content... I were a bit late for the Day-0 activities and only catched live streaming of Social Bus [read] Keywords: connections
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Dear IBM, It’s time to integrate Skype and Sametime...
Wed, May 11th 2011 4:52a Serdar Basegmez I personally think that Microsoft has overpaid Skype and it won't return that much profit in tangible or intangible quantities. However, I think it's time to connect Skype to Sametime Gateway product. Considering lots of SMBs are using Skype, it will be a benefit. IBM has a strategy to make its products compatible with different competitors' technology. On the other hand, I hear what IBM will say. There are technical problems and uncertainity about the future of Skype. But I just needed [read] Keywords: ibm
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XPages Tip: A modal waiting dialog for background processes.
Tue, May 10th 2011 5:44a Serdar Basegmez When there is a background processing where the user should wait until it's done, I don't want him/her to click anywhere else in the screen. But I also want the user to know s/he'll have to wait. Overdemanding? I found a very simple solution to this problem. Sure there is more elegant solutions without dojo, but let me share it... This is the main screen: When user clicks the pointed button, there is a background process which would take 20-25 seconds. It is a long time fo [read] Keywords: agent
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So, superior features sell the product?
Mon, May 9th 2011 10:56p Serdar Basegmez Do superior features sell your product? Yes? So compare these two products: - Which one is more robust/stable/reliable? - Which has more 'social' capabilities? - Which has more connectvity? - Which provides more features (discussion, commenting, threading...)? - Which is more successful? [read] Keywords:
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Using XPages for Mobile Applications? Wrong!
Thu, May 5th 2011 1:37a Serdar Basegmez Are you willing to design Mobile Applications with XPages? Don't bother. You can't :) What? But they say you can? Nope! Because I'm not comfortable with this phrase :))) We are able to design Mobile Interfaces with XPages or Mobile Browser Applications (if you are using HTML5)... There is a concept of (Native) Mobile Application which is a piece of code working on the phone and developed with the native SDK of those devices. Non-technical people don't see the 'Native' word h [read] Keywords: xpages application
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XPages Tip: A simple CC for prompting SSJS messages to UI...
Mon, May 2nd 2011 1:21a Serdar Basegmez Too many abbreviations :) This is probably given before, but I have received a question last week and it would be useful sharing this. When you run a server-side code at your XPage, your operation may be successful or failed. A newbie developer asked me how to acknowledge the user about the result, like MessageBox functionality in Lotusscript. Usually, that's not possible, you know. Because the code is running between state transitions. I am using a simple custom control to do that. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Dojo vs. jQuery: Can you compare?
Sat, Apr 30th 2011 8:11a Serdar Basegmez I was talking about Javascript frameworks, especially jQuery and Dojo toolkits. I just saw this. I didn't use jQuery, but such difference in builtwith.com stats was a great surprize for me: This is the usage of jQuery: And this is the usage of Dojo Toolkit: I know those are apples and oranges but wow! [read] Keywords: development
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XPages Workshop for Students. Need some input!
Sat, Apr 16th 2011 11:09a Serdar Basegmez I just read Ed's post, "GBS and IBM hosting Application Development Workshops" which reminds me our latest project within Turkish Lotus User Group... As you may know, we recently created a little team inside LUGTR and we are planning some activities targeting university students with coordination of IBM Academic Initiative. Our primary aim is te raise brand awareness within these students. We are currently discussing about organizing series of technical workshops for senior students. XP [read] Keywords: domino
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Replacing notifications of Lotus Quickr for Domino
Sat, Apr 9th 2011 6:50a Serdar Basegmez Today was a spare day between project engagements... So I decided to deal with the LUGTR web site, especially Quickr issues of the site. There were a problem with notifications. There wasn't notifications in fact! Empty bodies... Later, I figured out that in qpconfig.xml file, the template location has been defined with "" instead of "/". Since it is working on SUSE Linux, the engine could not find the templates. That was easy. I tested some notifications and saw that these will not b [read] Keywords: domino
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Ray Ozzie is waiting across Patent and Trademark Office...
Fri, Apr 8th 2011 11:46a Serdar Basegmez Ray Ozzie* and Mitch Kapor* are waiting across USPTO, just to re-take trademark rights of Lotus brand in case IBM drops it :) That was the sentence from a blog post, written in April 1st, as a (not funny) joke. Somehow I forgot to post it... Then, today, I saw the posting by Julian Buss which reminded me this joke. The rumor is around for a while. Earlier this year, I accidentally heard about Lotus Connections - IBM Connections transition. Adding this to the rumor that mentions about a pos [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 FP2 has been released...
Fri, Mar 25th 2011 3:00p Serdar Basegmez IBM announced that Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 FP2 packages are ready to be downloaded. The fix pack contains several critical fixes and is recommended for all 8.5.2 users. Preliminary fix list contained by FP2 can be seen on: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/8d1c0550e6242b69852570c900549a74/91eb8ae5fa35b3cc85257826007a2d94?OpenDocument There are a couple of improvements in this release, such as syntax validation in recent contacts, managed replicas, 'Save as EML' feature, etc [read] Keywords: domino
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LUGTR2011 Opening Track Videos uploaded...
Fri, Mar 25th 2011 3:18a Serdar Basegmez I have just finished uploading opening track videos, including myself, Ed Brill and Ozgur Uckan & Denis Sener... As I told before, Uffe's excellent session has become a silent video. In addition to quality problems in videos, I am so sorry about mono audio :( Anyway, enjoy... Serdar Basegmez - "Welcome Speech (in Turkish)" (Link) Ed Brill - Keynote Speech: "Collaboration Agenda" (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Playlist) Ozgur Uckan & Deniz Sener - "Business, Soci [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Companies that IBM should acquire: Snapps (part.2)
Fri, Mar 25th 2011 1:39a Serdar Basegmez A second suggestion to IBM. They should acquire Snapps. At least, Rob Novak should be included in a payroll :) I think that this fantastic team has leveraged the market value of Lotus Quickr up to another level... I am using Lotus Quickr for a some years. Although it is useful and well-designed tool, you cannot discover how much you can bend it according to your needs. A bare implementation is just another web 2.0 tool... Then I noticed some guys, designing interesting place types fo [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Domino has a disadvantage to be a RAD...
Thu, Mar 24th 2011 12:24p Serdar Basegmez Certainly... Let me explain why... We are going to Domino Designer home page to download it. Oh my god! 618 MB means that I can download it in 105 minutes by my humble ADSL connection! Ooops.. I need a faster RAD tool... Let me look at the closest rival of IBM. Maybe they have a faster solution. Hey, I found it... They named it as ASP.NET MVC... I don't know what it is. I never heard of it. But it used some buzzwords like model, view, controller... It must be a good solution. [read] Keywords: domino
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Companies that IBM should acquire: Prezi.com (part.1)
Thu, Mar 24th 2011 3:05a Serdar Basegmez Today, I am starting a new topic... IBM has an 'excellent' strategy based on acquisitions. This strategy provides a fast growing product portfolio. If you have enough financial power and ability to govern different companies under a large umbrella, 'Growth by Acquisition' would be a great strategy in this market... However, this is a double-sided sword, as legendary Louis V. Gerstner pointed. Taking over a software company can be problematic if 'brain' men left after the acquisitio [read] Keywords: ibm
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LUGTR2011 Gallery...
Mon, Mar 21st 2011 2:47a Serdar Basegmez I am collecting photos and videos taken in the conference. Julian and Manfred provided some and here they are :) About videos, I used a Sony HD camera for recording sessions. In a limited time, we failed to test light conditions. Video quality is extremely low. There were also problems with the sound. For example Uffe's speech has been soundless :( I am still extracting videos and uploading them into youtube. It is a long process but I will share them soon... If you have any materials, [read] Keywords: application
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Afterthoughts about LUGTR 2011...
Sat, Mar 19th 2011 10:08a Serdar Basegmez After a long journey, we finally passed the conference... We recorded everything but I didn't have any chance to view videos yet. I will put them online if they are good enough... At the beginning, our keynote speakers Ed and Uffe had excellent presentations. Ed mentioned about the future of Notes/Domino software, LotusLive and XPages... The most important point is the commitment of IBM in application development. Uffe evaluated the role of Lotus software in the social business transfor [read] Keywords: administration
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After a long journey: Turkish Lotus User Group Conference...
Sat, Mar 19th 2011 7:14a Serdar Basegmez 25-November-2010 Turkish Lotus User Group executive team discussed a possible conference in the first quarter of 2011. Possible candidates for keynote have been shortlisted. I have been assigned to pursue speakers and other details. 30-November-2010 I have delivered an announcement to the community about the improvements. We got feedbacks and expectations from our members with a quick survey. Inputs are incredibly consistent with what we were thinking. I have also blogged our intenti [read] Keywords: ibm
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Blogspot banned: Thoughts on Google’s cloud...
Fri, Mar 4th 2011 5:14a Serdar Basegmez Many may have heard of it. This week, strange things happened in Turkey. One actor of the incident is Digiturk, which is a leading company providing digital broadcasting services and the owner of all media rights for Turkish Super League football matches (with a record deal, 321 mil. USD). Recently, Digiturk has sued a bunch of web site owners, including Google. Court has restricted access for these web sites and Google Blogspot. The problem was that these sites are being used for illegal [read] Keywords: community
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Downgrading Domino: XPages may fail...
Sun, Feb 27th 2011 7:56a Serdar Basegmez I recently downgraded my domino server from 8.5.2 to 8.5.1 to be able to run Lotus Quickr 8.5.1 which requires older version. This is another issue of 'Dear IBM, please...' After downgrade, an XPage application failed in some dojo elements like calendar fields. Specifically, I first discovered the problem with missing calendar icon in date picker object. I have analyzed the code, the only difference between the running testing platform and the production was that my Xpage was loading doj [read] Keywords: domino
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LUGTR2011 Conference News: Announcing sponsors...
Mon, Feb 14th 2011 9:56a Serdar Basegmez Lately, we announced IBM as the main sponsor the LUGTR2011 conference... Now, it's time for others... These companies are confirmed sponsors for LUGTR2011 conference. I would like to thank all on behalf of our user group... Main Sponsor: IBM Turkey - Lotus Software Group Other Sponsors: Crossware Mail Signature: Index Group: Sibnet: Treo: YouAtNotes Software: For detailed information about sponsors, check the conference web site: lugtr2011.c [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Sametime is evolving...
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 11:23a Serdar Basegmez In grand opening today, another set of clues about Lotus Sametime has been public... If you are interested in latest release of Lotus Sametime 8.5.x, you may know that it does not support A/V streaming on web-based meeting client. In addition, Sametime clients outside firewall cannot use media server's capabilities like voice and video chat. Now, Lotus Sametime Next will enable browser-based audio/video streaming providing firewall-friendly broadcasting. Meeting client will be improved wi [read] Keywords: lotus
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IBM Social Business Toolkit has been announced!
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 9:59a Serdar Basegmez At the grand opening today, IBM Social Business Toolkit has been announced. IBM was playing in Social Software arena for a while. But looking at every product they released, lots of ideas pop up in my mind about how we use it, how our customers get advantage from it, etc... But coming into reality, these are all useless if we cannot integrate them with our current applications... Social business toolkit is what we need! It provides a set of tools that enable developers to publish and retri [read] Keywords: domino
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LotusLive Symphony is a revolution!
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 9:06a Serdar Basegmez I have been watching OGS session at Lotusphere 2011. You may (and should) watch it again and again... I were expecting important announcements this year, but it turned out to be an underestimation at my side :) I think I have blogged about 'collaborative content editing' issue dozen time. IBM had no solution over Groove (Sharepoint Workspace, owned by Microsoft), DocVerse (owned by Google now), etc. Now there is. One of today's announcements was "LotusLive Symphony" a.k.a. Project [read] Keywords: ibm
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A simple CAPTCHA test for XPages...
Sat, Jan 29th 2011 6:32a Serdar Basegmez While all are chatting around Lotusphere 2011, I am working for the community :) Here is a simple CAPTCHA test for XPages... It is not a turing test, actually. But it will keep spammer bots away until they become obsessed with your site... You can download a sample database. You are free to use, alter, extend or distribute this code. Just don't forget credits :) The screenshots are here: It contains a custom control and a script library (SSJS). You may simply import these tw [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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There is no Apple in Turkey (!)
Wed, Jan 26th 2011 9:21a Serdar Basegmez We always talk about vendor's marketing strategies, localization failures, etc... Apple does not have an active local office in Turkey. They formed a local team very recently... Many Apple products do not support Turkish language natively. For example, ipad did not have Turkish character support before the latest OS update. AppStore has many restrictions for Turkish customers. Apple does not market its products actively and independently. No ads! So what? Today I was tweeting wit [read] Keywords: apple
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It’s blue&yellow now: IBM Lotus is the Main Sponsor for LUGTR 2011...
Tue, Jan 18th 2011 9:30a Serdar Basegmez Turkish Lotus User Group members are extremely happy these days... We proudly announce that IBM Turkey - Lotus Software Group is the Main Sponsor of Turkish Lotus User Group Conference 2011... Just to remind again, Submissions for Session Abstracts are still open and counting down. Submission form can be downloaded from here... Don't forget that the deadline is 21.01.2011. And we are still looking for more sponsors. Please contact us "conf2011 (at) lotusturkiye.org". Check out [read] Keywords: ibm
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Beginning a new blog-year...
Mon, Jan 17th 2011 11:27a Serdar Basegmez This is the first anniversary with LotusNotus.com... I translated my first blog entry to celebrate myself: Subject: Hello... Here is the blog I have been trying to launch... Last year, we have announced Turkish Lotus User Group during LCTY Istanbul organization. The member count exceeded 200 members now. The LUG experience has expressed me that there is a certain demand for a local initiative. Regarding the deficiency of Turkish blog about Lotus Software has driven me to launc [read] Keywords: ibm
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Apple without Steve Jobs...
Mon, Jan 17th 2011 10:37a Serdar Basegmez What may Apple look like without great master Steve Jobs? I guess it looks like: You can read this here: "Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO" I hope he returns soon :) [read] Keywords: apple
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A little story about an error with ID Vault...
Wed, Jan 12th 2011 8:00a Serdar Basegmez I like blogging such stories about strange incidents in customers :) I hope it helps my newbie readers to learn how to troubleshoot these kind of problems. Today I made a short visit to a customer to chat. A couple of weeks ago, we struggled with some SSO issues between Domino and Portal. It seems that 'Reset Password' feature of ID Vault was not working since SSO operation. I told them there is absolutely no relation between two issues. I were so sure :) Last year, the most popular top [read] Keywords: domino
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N/D Application Development, Product Management, Ed Brill!
Tue, Jan 4th 2011 10:53a Serdar Basegmez Minutes ago, Ed Brill blogged about 'Domino as a rapid application development'... Moreover, he announced that "The Notes/Domino application development product management mission is in my area of responsibility as of 1/1/11". Stuart McIntyre first blogged about a published whitepaper last month. I have posted an entry last week, ended with this sentence: "I will not 'hurray' this but I am so grateful and hopeful it will be continued..." Now I can 'hurray!' to this. It means a lo [read] Keywords: domino
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Academic Institutions and IBM Lotus
Tue, Jan 4th 2011 3:23a Serdar Basegmez Academic relations and universities are hot-topics these days. We were already discussing this issue for a long time, with local IBMers, region and other partners. Two months ago we decided to take an action (seems as a better idea than whining all the time...) We decided to focus this issue in Turkish LUG... Let me explain my humble opinions about this issue. I am actually posting this entry because I am very curious about your comments... Many IBMers and bloggers expressed their opinions [read] Keywords: connections
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Turkish LUG 2011 Conference: Online...
Mon, Jan 3rd 2011 10:56a Serdar Basegmez Turkish Lotus User Group Conference site has been launched... It's easy: http://lugtr2011.com We have designed a small microsite here. You may subscribe RSS news to get to know what's going on... We don't get registrations yet, however, Call for Abstracts are still open! BTW. I would like to thank Paul Mooney and his team for the site template. It would take days and nights to build a similar. They have designed a whole package for an event and they should sell this :))) [read] Keywords: lotus
Turkish LUG 2011 Conference: Guess who is coming?
Thu, Dec 23rd 2010 4:24a Serdar Basegmez As you noticed, Turkish Lotus User Group is organizing the first annual conference in Istanbul on 17.03.2011. As you guess, Ed Brill will be the keynote speaker for the conference! Once again, Ed Brill indicated how he cares about Lotus Community with his sincere approach to our invitation. Turkish LUG will be excited about his participation. If you don't know who he is, it means that you are not reading blogs and following Lotus community :) Here is a very short wrap-up from his site [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Announcing LUGTR 2011 Conference: Call for Session Abstracts
Mon, Dec 20th 2010 2:40p Serdar Basegmez I have announced "Exciting news from Turkish Lotus User Group!" last month... Now here it is :) Timing for the conference has been set. We will be meeting in Istanbul on 17.03.2011. I will blog further details as they are confirmed... Our keynote speaker has been confirmed. Stay tuned, it will be announced next time :))) Submissions for Session Abstracts are open. Submission form can be downloaded from here... ZIP file includes ODF (for Symphony 3) and PDF formats. If you are not us [read] Keywords: lotus
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