The XPages Extension Library project on OpenNTF was updated yesterday to version 853-20111215. This version matches the newly released Domino 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1.
If you want to use the OpenNTF version (and not Upgrade Pack 1) you can update your servers and clients using the update site method.
You can find the installation instructions for the OpenNTF version and for Upgrade Pack 1 on the Lotus Notes and Domino Application Development wiki.
Great news for XPages today: Notes/Domino 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1 has just been released.
In short, Upgrade Pack 1 is an IBM supported version of the XPages Extension Library. This should help remove the fear of the Extension Library being open source that some customers have had, and thereby improve the adoption of XPages out there.
Upgrade Pack 1 is available on Passport Advantage as part number CI5HUEN.
Last week we held the 46th DanNotes conference. We had 80 participants and 7 speakers. Some of the presentations are available now as links on the agenda. Others will be added to the agenda later. We will also publish videos from the event once they have been edited.
On the agenda you can find links to the presentations by Chris Connor on XPages, Java, and Mobile – and links to the presentations by Ulrich Krause on compact, compress, DAOS and more. The presentation by Ulrich is also available on Slideshare.
The following presentations held by Stuart McIntyre and Niklas Heidloff have not yet been added to the agenda:
Niklas has blogged about the event – his blog entry contains links to the projects and controls that he showed in his sessions.
Stuart has blogged about his impression of the event. He even calls DanNotes for “the daddy of all user groups“.
I look forward to the 47th conference which takes place in May, 2012. Let me know if you are interested in speaking at the event.
Last week at the DanNotes conference IBM offered certification tests at half the price. I took the LOT-951 test in record time between lunch and the developer BOF and passed with a score of 87.5%.
The test focuses on Domino Designer in Eclipse features, some @Formula and Lotusscript programming enhancements, and a lot of XPages. If you plan on taking the test, then rememember to have a look at the test objectives while preparing for the test.
Next up for me is the LOT-922 test which is required to upgrade my certification to the advanced level.
A quick blog post to let you know that last week I was invited to be part of This Week in Lotus episode 79 together with Stuart McIntyre, Darren Duke – and Gab Davis as the 2nd guest. We discussed Sametime, OpenNTF, XPages and very naturally the 46th DanNotes conference which took place the day after the recording.
It was great fun and I look forward to being a guest again sometime in the future. By the way, this was my 2nd appearance on the show as I was a guest on episode 24 too.
The beta version of XSnippets was recently announced by Niklas Heidloff on the OpenNTF blog. XSnippets is a code repository of useful XPages code snippets that OpenNTF contributors can contribute to. If you have useful code snippets then consider adding them to XSnippets.
I have added my first code snippet to XSnippets based on my blog entry on how to control the HTTP response status code in XPages:
As previously blogged my company PHL Consult and I support OpenNTF and open source. To further show my support I nominated myself for one of the 9 member director positions in the OpenNTF board of directors.
The board of directors for the newly incorporated OpenNTF has now been set and I am happy to have been elected to be part of the board (for one year). The new board had its first board meeting last Thursday and I look forward to be able to add value to OpenNTF.
One year ago I started as self-employed consultant at my own company PHL Consult after having worked for IBM for 16 years – and what a great year! Starting on my own has proved to be one my of my best decisions ever.
It has been a year of classic Lotus Notes application development work, XPages development work, teaching courses and much more. I started with one customer and have since then been doing work for 10 other paying customers and been involved in proposals for a handful more. Furthermore, I reviewed David Leedys XPages cheat sheet, and reviewed the IBM course “Modernizing Lotus Domino 8.5.2 Applications”.
This year I also became member of the boards at NotesNet, DanNotes and OpenNTF.
The following are public sites that I have implemented for customers during my 1st year:
Lessons learned (and assumptions confirmed):
I look forward to the next year and what it will bring me of interesting work and projects.
One final advice: pursue your dream!
Lotusphere 2012 takes place January 15 – January 19, 2012 in Orlando, Florida – and I am very happy to report that I will participate in the conference. This will be my first ever Lotusphere in the US (I participated in the Lotusphere conference in Berlin in 1999).
I arrive Friday evening (January 13) and leave again Thursday evening (January 19). I will be staying at the Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, if you need me 🙂
I look forward to meet a lot of interesting people from the Lotus community – most of whom I have only been in contact with through blogging, Twitter, Skype, mails etc. and never met before. See you soon!
Update: I have created a Lanyrd event for Lotusphere 2012.
It’s October 4th and Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 are now available for download on Passport Advantage. The brand new IBM XWork Server has also been announced.
I have been looking forward to this release in general, and in particular because of features specifically for XPages developers: