Per Henrik Lausten

A free tutorial on “Building Databases with Domino Designer 7″ has been published by IBM. The tutorial is 248 pages long and include sample databases – it is primarily for novice Domino designers.

Yesterday on April 27 IBM announced a new mainframe for small and medium sized businesses called the IBM System z9 Business Class.
From the press release:
“IBM today launched a new System z9 Business Class mainframe with pricing starting at around $100,000 and designed to tackle the critical computing challenges of our time: the coming wave of [...]

This is my first contribution to the Lotus Notes and Domino Blogging Community Show’n Tell Thursday series. I will give a high-level introduction to architectural patterns using Patterns for e-business as the specific example of architectural patterns and introduce how Patterns for e-business can be used for Lotus Domino applications.
What are Patterns for e-business?: Patterns [...]

A new tutorial called “Explore database tools in Rational Data Architect” has been posted on developerWorks.
The tutorial “guides you through the steps to begin database development using Rational Data Architect. You will learn how to create, edit, deploy, and debug SQL stored procedures. This tutorial also covers how to share a project in CVS.”

I have recently found two online architecture journals that are available for free:

Enterprise Architect (and the related architecture channel) (by Fawcette Technical Publications)
The Architecture Jounal (by Microsoft)

At FTPOnline you can even find other free online journals on subjects such as Java and Visual Studio.
You can subscribe to both online and print subscriptions of the The [...]

Peter Eeles (Senior IT Architect, IBM) has published his third article on developerWorks Architecture in a series on software architecture – this time on the process of software architecting.
The article also appears in the latest edition of The Rational Edge.
Enjoy!

The “Lotus Notes and Domino 7 Enterprise Upgrade Best Practices” redpaper has been published and provides “best practices for enterprise customers about how to approach the planning and deployment of their upgrade to Lotus Notes and Domino 7. It serves as a guide to planning and deploying a successful upgrade for administrators and IT [...]

IBM is hosting an online webcast on April 27 where the features of Rational Data Architect will be presented.

Rational Application Developer V7.0 and Rational Software Architect V7.0 will be released in the second half of 2006.
[Via Bobby Woolf].
Update December 2006: Rational Application Developer V7.0 and Rational Software Architect V7.0 has been released.

Today I passed the IBM Lotus Notes Domino 7 Application Development Update exam (701) with a score of 92% and have thereby upgraded my certification to IBM Certified Advanced Application Developer – Lotus Notes and Domino 7.
I used the material presented earlier and also used the 701 certification test from Advanced CLP. I can [...]