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Up comming events in May and June 2012

Frank van der Linden 14 May 2012 11:52:14

The next 2 months will be busy for me, by attending and speaking. I also will host a Summerschool session at e-office.

NLLUG ( 15 and 16 May 2012 )
I will attend NLLUG and also host a session about the power of XPages in comparing with 'Classic Domino Development'. It will be a starter session, with lots of examples. Via Bruce Elgort I recieved some (??) OpenNTF, so I will try to be the stickerboy of OpenNTF and spread the OpenNTF message. There will be others who can help me ;-)
On the booth of e-office there will be some hardcopies of the second Cheatsheet, The Social Tools by David Leedy and IBM. So drop by at the booth to recieve one, may be I will be there also.

DNUG ( 12 and 13 June 2012 )
At the DNUG event I will be there only on tuesday 12 June, In the afternoon I will do a session about the Yellow And Blue Stream and how to connect your Domino apps to the Activity Stream om Greenhouse, using oAuth etc. The base of the Yellow And Blue Stream session  is the book written by Roland Hameeteman.
Will stay overnight, because the evening event at formerly mine will be till late.

DominoPoint Days ( 21 and 22 June 2012 )
At DominoPoint 2012 I will do a session about Source Control and how to set up Domino Designer to interact with Source Control. For example I will use CVS, because internally at e-office we use this Source Control system.

Summerschool ( 4 July and 8 August )
At e-office we organize several years the Summerschool. This are sessions/workshops about IBM, Microsoft, mobile technology and adoption etc.. I will do an introduction workshop for Domino Developers to show them the power of XPages.

Looking forward to meet everbody at several events.

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C-API DBoptions has changed in Release 8.5.x

Frank van der Linden 12 April 2012 09:16:36

A customer ran into a strange issue regarding C-API.

This is used to get and set the DBOptions. The User Activity if this database was set to ‘DBOPTION_IS_UA_CONFIDENTIAL’ if necessary.
It works fine in Release 7 of Lotus Notes.
When they were upgraded to 8.5 they noticed that the code is not properly set.
With 8.5 there was introduced a new User Activity Category ‘deletion’
 
The bit mask of DBOPTION_IS_UA_CONFIDENTIAL  is 0x00020000, with result in 131072
When we look to the list of options we see that DBOPTION_IS_UA_CONFIDENTIAL is still there.

DBOPTION_FT_INDEX - Enable full text indexing.
DBOPTION_IS_OBJSTORE - TRUE if database is being used as an object store.
DBOPTION_USES_OBJSTORE - TRUE if database has notes which refer to an object store.
DBOPTION_OBJSTORE_NEVER - TRUE if notes in this database never use an object store.
DBOPTION_IS_LIBRARY - TRUE if database is a library.
DBOPTION_UNIFORM_ACCESS - TRUE if uniform access control should be enforced across all replicas.
DBOPTION_OBJSTORE_ALWAYS - TRUE if NoteUpdate of notes in this database should always try to use an object store.
DBOPTION_NO_BGAGENT - TRUE if database has no background agent.
DBOPTION_OUT_OF_SERVICE - TRUE if database is out-of-service, no new opens allowed.
DBOPTION_IS_PERSONALJOURNAL - TRUE if database is a personal journal.
DBOPTION_MARKED_FOR_DELETE - TRUE if database is marked for delete. No new opens are allowed; the database will be deleted when the reference count = 0.
DBOPTION_HAS_CALENDAR - TRUE if database stores calendar events.
DBOPTION_IS_CATALOG_INDEX - TRUE if database is a catalog index.
DBOPTION_IS_ADDRESS_BOOK - TRUE if database is an Address book or Domino Directory.
DBOPTION_IS_SEARCH_SCOPE - TRUE if database is a "multi-db-search" repository.
DBOPTION_IS_UA_CONFIDENTIAL - TRUE if database's user activity log is confidential, only.
DBOPTION_RARELY_USED_NAMES - TRUE if item names are to be treated as if the ITEM_RARELY_USED_NAME flag is set.
DBOPTION_IS_SITEDB - TRUE if db is a "multi-db-site" repository.
 
What has been changed in release 8.5 in compare with 7?

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BLUG and EntwicklerCamp

Frank van der Linden 6 April 2012 20:47:01

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend and speak at 2 events.
The BLUG event in Antwerp and EntwicklerCamp in Gelsenkirchen
2 very different events, but very good organized.

BLUG
22 and 23 March in Antwerp Theo Heselmans did it again. A splendid usergroup event. Everyone were well threaded.
The speakers were top class, even 16 IBM Champions were present.
Among the speakers I had the opportunity to do a session as a speaker.
This was my first time speaking at such international stage.
My session was scheduled at friday morning, so I started the day in the park a cross the Crowne Plaza hotel, to do some running and start the fresh.

A little tense I went to room A to install my laptop and check if everything is running fine.
The Wifi was not very good, so I told the audiance that my live demo of the application can be a little slow.
I think my session went pretty well, even the demo was acceptable. Some good questions.

After the session the it was time to relax, so I did not attend much sessions afterwards.
Friday evening I went to my family with some goodies.

EntwicklerCamp
After a weekend at home I took the ICE train to Gelsenkirchen to EntwicklerCamp.
I was just in time for the keynote of Philippe Riand.
He had some good points, such as the SSJS debugger,  Apache Server, DOTS will be on part of the Domino
And the purchase of Worklight by IBM. A mobile framework and a server who can perform push notifications.

EntwicklerCamp is all inclusive conference, so hotel and all the meals are included.
And all is very wel organized by Rudi Knegt and his team.

My sessions went well, the audiance contains more hardcore developers. So lots of code and examples
The attendies of the conference were different in Germany. More consumers of the information, not much interactions/questions.

Was also good to speak to Ulrich Krause, Niklas Heidloff, Rene Winkelmeyer and Werner Motzet.

Conclusion
It was an hectic time, 2 conferences so close together. I had experienced the conferences as a speaker differently, than as normal attendee.
But I am looking forward to do more speaking at such conferences.
That will be in the near future, In May I will 2 sessions at NLLUG and in June I will speak at DNUG

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On the road: BLUG and EntwicklerCamp

Frank van der Linden 18 March 2012 20:02:31

The coming weeks it will be a busy time for me.
I will be speaking at different events.

Next week I will be presenting about Yellow And Blue Stream at BLUG.
During my session I will show how easy it is to connect your Domino apps to the Activity Stream.
We have implemented this in our Yellow And Blue System. And internal project who is build to show the vision of Roland Hameeteman, the CEO of e-office.

After a weekend at home, I will travelling to Gelsenkirchen, to present at EntwicklerCamp.
At EntwicklerCamp I will do 2 sessions.
In the first session I will do a more technical session about the Activity Stream and how to connect your Domino apps.
The second will about the possibillities of XPages in comparison with 'classic' Domino development.

I am looking forward the be at both events and meet all the people.
See you there

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Help Request: Make the impossible possible with XPages

Frank van der Linden 1 March 2012 12:41:28

At EntwicklerCamp 2012 I will do a second session, about 'Make the impossible possible with XPages'.
I will show what can be accieved with XPages, what was with 'Classic' Domino webdevelopment hard or even impossible.

I have already some good example, but more are no problem.

If you could think of any good examples, let me know.

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Cool new feature in Domino 8.5.2, silent cluster failover

Arjan Vermeulen 29 February 2012 16:29:48

As from Domino 8.5.2 there is a new Desktop Policy Setting to manage prompts users will get in case of a failover.



When enabled, the ini setting FailoverSilent=1 is used. This new ini setting replaces the setting HidePromptFailoverInc=1 so this one is safe to remove from now.

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Sametime applets signer Sametime 8.0.x certificate expires on 19 March 2012

Arjan Vermeulen 22 February 2012 13:35:25

Please be advised that Sametime applets signer certificate expires 19 March 2012. To prevent users from seeing a warning dialog as the one below, you should update the affected applets.



The affected applets are used in Sametime 8.0, 8.0.1 and 8.0.2. Sametime Entry is not using the applets and as from Sametime 8.5.x the applets are time stamped and will not expire.

Updated applets and a full description of the expired certificates can be found at the following page:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21580492

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Day-at-a-glance standalone, yes it is possible

Frank van der Linden 15 February 2012 16:16:38

Last week I posted here a question about a standalone day-at-a-glance.

The comments were very usefull, so I downloaded the iNotes Customization Redpaper.

Today I have used the XPages code from Tim and implemented at the customer.
They were very happy with the solution. They raise immediately new questions, as always ;-)
One question was to let the user decide, by clicking a radiobutton, what to show, Mail, Calendar or Todo.

It was a nice question to show the power of custom Controls. One custom control, show in 3 different fashions, using some custom properties.

Here are some screenshots

Calendar

Mail

Todo



And because you access iNotes in a iFrame, you have the iNotes functionality, By right mouse click you can immediately create Mail, Appointments etc...
Customer is very happy, and I have a another resusable custom control.

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Day-at-a-glance standalone, possible?

Frank van der Linden 9 February 2012 17:25:56

Yesterday I was at a customer site.
They have specific question. I told them I will check in the IBM Community for possibilities.

Internal they use Lotus Notes and there in the sidebar there is the day-at-a-glance.
A nice feature, who is also working in iNotes.


Is it possible to have standalone version of this feature, so we can display it in a webpage.
A XPage is also not a problem, because they use Domino 8.5.2
Maybe there is a java class who can be accessed by a XPage.

If there is an answer, let me know. It is much appreciated.

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Quick XPages tip: Sample xsp.properties file

Frank van der Linden 30 January 2012 13:43:03

As I was tackleing the problem of the dijit.Dialog and Domino 8.5.2 last weekend. I found in the data\properties directory of my Domino server a sample file of the xsp.properties.
With the xsp.properties file you can enhance or modify some behavior of the XPages application.
This sample file give you an inside of (all) most properties, who can be used in a xsp.properties file.
The best part of this sample file is the sort of documentation of each property.

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