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Lessons in Optimising Performance 

By Paul Withers | 9/24/17 8:05 AM | App Dev - XPages | Added by Oliver Busse

Over the last few months I’ve been involved with an application that has needed quite considerable optimisation and architectural modification. A few weeks ago I published a blog post about aspects of developing for performance and then followed up with a discussion about performance and Domino.

New ODA Release and Design API Updated 

By Paul Withers | 9/22/17 8:23 AM | App Dev - Open Source | Added by Oliver Busse

This week two new releases of ODA came out on OpenNTF and also published to OpenNTF’s artifactory repository, for those wanting to use ODA via Maven. They covered a host of new developments and some minor fixes from over the last few months since Domino FP8 was released.

BuildXPages Deployment Automation Tools – v1.0.0 

By Cameron Gregor | 9/21/17 10:04 AM | App Dev - XPages | Added by Oliver Busse

After quite a bit of work I have finally published the first release of BuildXPages! What is BuildXPages? BuildXPages is a project which is useful if you are interested in Automating tasks that are involved in building XPages.

Breaking News: IBM Domino Application on Cloud will be avaiable October 2017 

By Matteo Bisi | 9/21/17 2:38 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Yesterday in Tokio during the IBM Notes/Domino Day 2017 OGS ED Brill has announced the availability of IBM Domino Application on Cloud ( DAC ) for October 2017 !! DAC will be the perfect complement for IBM Connections Cloud / Smartcloud Notes because allows customers to migrate Domino Application to PAAS

Nginx/Domino server setup with websocket plugin 

By Csaba Kiss | 9/18/17 1:42 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

In this blog post, I will show you how to set up an Nginx reverse-proxy server in front of a websocket enabled Domino server to handle SSL/TLS encryption and direct http and ws traffic to the appropriate ports on the Domino server.

Big News for Domino, Connections and OpenNTF 

By Paul Withers | 9/15/17 3:35 PM | App Dev - XPages | Added by Oliver Busse

There are signs you can tell summer is over. For us in the northern hemisphere, the weather starts feeling chillier (although it’s been very changeable in UK most of the “summer”). And things start ramping up as people get back from holidays and Q3 comes to an end.

IBM Connections Desktop Plugin folder sync issue - now solved 

By Robert Farstad | 9/15/17 1:29 PM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

I had an issue with the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin. IBM introduced the "My Drive" and the ability to sync folders and sub-folders some months ago, and this seemed to be working fine when I connected the plugin to on-prem installations of Connections. I was able to sync folders, files and sub-folders.

Say hello to "OpenCode4Connections.org" 

By OpenNTF | 9/14/17 2:04 PM | App Dev - Open Source | Added by Oliver Busse

We at OpenNTF.org are excited to launch our new brand - OpenCode4Connections.org. OpenNTF has a proven track history in building open source communities around interesting technologies and products, e.g. it was the incubinator for the success of XPages.

Generating and Downloading Files Using XPages’ Persistence Service 

By Cameron Gregor | 9/13/17 8:50 AM | App Dev - XPages | Added by Oliver Busse

When developing an XPages application you may run into the need to generate files to be downloaded by the user. For the temporary place problem, some common solution is to either generate the files to some ‘in memory’ representation or alternatively use the Java Temporary Directory..

IBM Domino Community Server for Non-Production intends to meet the high-impact challenges of application testing in non-production environments 

By IBM Corp. | 9/12/17 4:21 PM | Business - Social Business | Added by Oliver Busse

IBM® Domino® Community Server for Non-Production will be a nonwarranted license option that enables your organization to test applications in a non-production environment. This offering will provide students, developers, and vendors with the capability to test their custom IBM Domino applications.

Announcing IBM Bluefizz - goodbye IBM Docs and IBM Connections on Greenhouse 

By Chris Miller | 9/12/17 4:20 PM | Business - Social Business | Added by Oliver Busse

There is no word on how the catalog will be migrated or even if it will be migrated to a new marketplace. It was two years ago (almost to the day they are doing the sunset now) that I wrote a blog posting about Greenhouse was being retired.

Node-RED Samples for IBM Watson IoT Hackathon 

By Niklas Heidloff | 9/11/17 8:31 AM | App Dev - Cloud | Added by Oliver Busse

Recently I gave an one hour webinar to help developers to prepare for a hackathon related to IBM Watson IoT. I demonstrated Node-RED and coded live some sample flows.

I have no confidence in entities 

By Simon ODoherty | 9/11/17 8:12 AM | App Dev - Cognitive | Added by Oliver Busse

I have something I need to confess. I have a personal hatred of Entities. At least in their current form. There is a difference between deterministic and probabilisitic programming, that a lot of developers new to Watson find it hard to switch to. Entities bring them back to that warm place of normal development.

IBM JUMP Session - Whats new in IBM Notes Domino 9.0.1 Feature Pack 9 

By John Oldenburger | 9/8/17 4:57 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

There will be an interesting IBM Jump Session on September 15th, Whats new in IBM Notes Domino 9.0.1 Feature Pack 9. JUMP stands for Join, Understand, Master and Participate.

IBM, please fix the Feature Packs installations! 

By Roberto Boccadoro | 9/6/17 2:53 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Every time there is a HotFix applied on top of a FixPack or Feature Pack, the installation of the new version of the FP fails. It says it found the wrong version. You have to uninstall the HotFix reverting back to the Base FP, then you can upgrade to the newest FP.

Replacing Lotus is…. complex 

By Keith Strickland | 9/4/17 3:31 AM | App Dev - Web | Added by Oliver Busse

If you followed Peter’s series on replacing Lotus he outlined some of the pitfalls, processes and decision points to undertake for success. I wanted to point out the technical side to a lot of those decisions. The short answer is that you need a tool to surface your domino data en-masse until such a time when decisions are made on each application. I have been working on that solution for quite some time now and I have to say, it’s complex.

Orient Me: Rethink your Docker storage driver configuration 

By Nico Meisenzahl | 9/4/17 3:30 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

I did some research around Docker storage drivers, CfC and Orient Me the last days because I had some issues in different Orient Me installations. Finally, I came to the conclusion that the Docker storage driver configuration which is installed by the Orient Me setup might need to be customized for a production environment.

Domino 9.0.1 FP9 SMTP Issue 

By Daniel Nashed | 8/31/17 4:31 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Last Friday a friend contacted me about a SMTP issue. I was able to reproduce the root cause of the issue but the emails I receive still look OK. So it depends on your STMP configuration how much impact this issue has in your infrastructure with FP9.

Introducing the new IBM Champion Wrangler for ICS! 

By IBM Champion Program | 8/29/17 3:54 PM | Community - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I'm super excited that this worked out. There are only two people in the company to whom I would entrust MY IBM Champions. And thankfully, one of them is taking over the IBM Champion responsibilities in ICS! He will not take on the other things, like user groups, community, and customer council, so this is purely an IBM Champion thing.

IBM Domino, a very annoying performance issue now SOLVED 

By Jesper Kiær | 8/29/17 3:03 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

For the past years a customer of mine has had IBM Domino performance issues with a Domino Server. The issue concerned was really felt when working with attachments. The company has small offices around the world, so we use SmartUpgrade (which in general works well) to manage Notes Feature Pack upgrades.

Lessons Learned Replacing Lotus: Part 3 

By Peter Presnell | 8/28/17 7:10 AM | Business - Social Business | Added by Kenio Carvalho

Let’s start by dealing with the 800 lb (363 kg) gorilla in the room. Is “Lotus Notes” dead? Well technically yes, because the official name has now been changed to IBM Notes. Many people, including most of us at Red Pill Now, have been heard to claim this is true even if it perhaps it is not an entirely true statement.

Lessons Learned Replacing Lotus: Part 2 

By Peter Presnell | 8/27/17 9:00 PM | Business - Social Business | Added by Kenio Carvalho

For those of you who have read Lessons Learned Replacing Lotus: Part 1, I have a small confession to make. I do not really own a yellow 1989 Lotus! I wish I did, as it would have been really cool to turn up to Lotusphere each year in one of those. What I do own is a 2011 Lexus RX 350.