Author Archives: Per Henrik Lausten

I will start on my own as a Lotus Notes/Domino consultant

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I have exciting news! I am leaving IBM October 15 to start on my own as a self-employed consultant at PHL Consult. I will work primarily with development and administration of Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino solutions.

I have been with IBM for 16 years and had almost never thought that this day would come – but I have been dreaming of working as a self-employed consultant for many years. I am very happy that I finally took the plunge and look forward to the exciting new adventure!

To quote Mark Twain:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Wish me luck.

A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum

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I have received my copy of the recently published “A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum”. The book covers much of what I have already experienced in my role as an IT architect for 4 Scrum teams consisting of developers from Denmark, Lithuania, Belarus and India. So I look forward to read through the practical suggestions in the book to see if our teams can improve – and to see if I have other practical advices and lessons learned to add.

These are some of topics in the book that I find interesting:

  • distributed teams
  • backlog and release plans
  • preparing for sprint planning
  • the actual sprint planning
  • continuous integration
  • test automation

The book is written by Elizabeth Woodward, Steffan Surdek, and Matthew Ganis. The book is available at Amazon: A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum.

Update July 18: As commented by Matthew Ganis: 100% of the proceeds go to charity (Children’s Hunger Fund and the Alzheimer’s Association).

Update August 16: A Facebook page for A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum is now available – and the web site for A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum for has been updated.

I have somehow contributed to OpenNTF

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I woke up this morning to a comment by David Jeyachandran to my blog post on Sorting a NotesDocumentCollection by multiple field values. David wanted to let me know that he is using the sort function in the Notes Reconn project at OpenNTF.

That is great news – and I am happy to know that I have contributed to a project on OpenNTF (although just a very small part).

Apple iPad

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I am now the happy owner of an Apple iPad 3G 64 GB . I bought the iPad while in London last week – actually on the iPhone 4 launch day on June 24. It was fun to experience the buzz in the Apple Store on Regent Street.

I have been doing a bit of iPhone app programming and I look forward to try to program for the iPad. My first project will be to upgrade my current iPhone project to an universal app that runs on both the iPhone and the iPad. More on that later.

On my iPhone I have access to my work mail and calendar via Lotus Traveler – using VPN. I have yet to try to set this up on my new iPad but it should work exactly as on my iPhone – except for the much better mail and calendar experience due to the much larger display on the iPad.

Rational Software Architect 8.0 beta and Rational Application Developer 8.0 beta

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Rational Software Architect 8.0 beta is now available for you to try out as part of the Rational Software Architect open beta program. For information on all of the new Rational Software Architect enhancements visit the Rational Software Architect wiki – specifically the v8 beta pages on the wiki, and the Information Center for the 8.0 beta.

The related Rational Application Developer 8.0 beta is also available. More information is available on the Rational Application Developer wiki pages for the beta program and in the Information Center for the 8.0 beta.

The two 8.0 beta programs are related to the Websphere Application Server 8.0 beta that I have previously mentioned.

Thanks to Andy Piper for pointing this out.

WebSphere Application Server V8.0 Alpha

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An alpha version of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 has just been released. Features include:

  • Key portions of Java™ Enterprise Edition 6.0 specifications including:
    • Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1
    • Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0
    • JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0
    • JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.2
    • Servlet 3.0
    • Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6
  • Increased developer productivity during the edit-compile-debug cycle through directory-based drag and drop application install, uninstall and update
  • Simplified product install with integrated prerequisite and interdependency checking
  • Enhanced security and governance capabilities
  • JPA L2 cache and JPA L2 cache integration with DynaCache
  • High Performance Extensible Logging

You can find more details about the alpha program including how to download the server at ibm.com. You can also visit the forum.

[Via the Websphere Community blog.]

Free course on using Lotus Domino Designer 8.5

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TLCC is offering a free course/tutorial on using Lotus Domino Designer 8.5. The course requires that you have Domino Designer 8.5.1 installed as the course is delivered using the Lotus Notes 8.5 client – very cool!.

The course covers:

  • What is Notes and Domino software?
  • The role of the Notes client and Domino server
  • Domino Application Architecture
  • Using Domino Designer software
  • Creating a Domino Application
  • Creating Forms and adding fields
  • Designing Views
  • Creating XPages for your application
  • Programming options in Domino Designer applications
  • Deploying a Domino application

So if you are looking for courses and tutorials on Domino Designer 8.5 then have a look at this one.

List of IBM IT architects on Twitter

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I have created a Twitter list of IBM IT architects. If you are interested in following IBM IT architects on Twitter then follow this list. If you are an IBM IT architect and not on the list, then let me know on Twitter.

Remember that when you follow a list, you do not follow every user on the list. So tweets from the users on the list will not show up in your main Twitter stream. You will have to visist the list to see the tweets. This makes lists a very useful way of keeping up with a group of people when you find it convenient.

New Redbook: Building Domino Web Applications using Domino 8.5.1

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As stated on the XPages Blog, a new Redbook has been published on the Lotus Notes and Domino Application Development wiki on building Domino web applications using Domino Designer 8.5.1: Building Domino Web Applications using Domino 8.5.1.

The objective of the Redbook is to “provide guidance on Best Practices for Domino Web Development, with emphasis on the new XPages design element. We introduce the key new features of XPages and discuss how and why these are meaningful within the context of Domino Web Development.“

The Redbook serves as a great tutorial on how to use the latest Domino Designer 8.5.1 features. You can read the Redbook directly on the wiki or download it as a PDF. Enjoy.