The Lotus Notes 8.5 and Lotus Domino 8.5 Public Beta is now available for the usual operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X for the client and AIX, Linux, Windows, Solaris and i5/OS for the server).
Via Ed Brill: “Notes/Domino 8.5 public beta available now”
Andre Guirard has just published his whitepaper on “Performance basics for Lotus Notes developers“.
The whitepaper “addresses the most important and most serious factors affecting IBM® Lotus® Notes® and Domino® application performance. It is intended for developers of Notes client applications, to help them maximize performance by identifying problem areas and by offering solutions.“
Version 1.1 of the Dojo javascript toolkit was released a month ago and now Dojomino has been updated to include the version 1.1 code of Dojo. The Dojomino update includes a very cool online demo site where you can try out some of the many features of the Dojo toolkit.
Rocky Oliver and John Kingsley from Teamstudio are hosting a webcast on web-enabling Lotus Notes applications tomorrow Wednesday, April 16 at 2.00 PM eastern.
If you are interested in participating then head over to Rockys blog for more details on the webcast.
Update April 19: if you missed the live webcast, it is now available for playback.
Inspired by Theo Heselmans and many others here is my version of “How I got started with Lotus Notes”.
I have been with IBM since 1994 and in 1997 I worked in a support team that developed and maintained tools to support the product introduction process. IBM had acquired Lotus in 1995 so it was natural for us to start developing tools using Lotus Notes.
I started with Lotus Notes R3.3 and worked with Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino ever since – and in the case of Domino on platforms such as Windows, Linux, AIX and z/OS.
I am a certified developer in R4.5, R5, R6 and R7 – and not yet in R8. I have to start looking at the R8 upgrade path soon 🙂
Who’s left to tell their story?
Earlier this year the IBM Redbooks team were looking for authors for creating a wiki on best practices for building web application for Lotus Domino 8. The team has been assembled and the result is a wiki on developerWorks on Lotus Domino web application development best practices.
The result looks very interesting and I look forward to have a deeper look into the details of the work.
[Via Ben Poole]
Update September 16: The wiki has moved and is now called the Lotus Domino Designer wiki.
Mikkel Heisterberg has just announced TwitNotes: a Twitter plug-in for the Lotus Notes 8.0 Standard sidebar. Mikkel promises in his announcement that he will put it on an update site soon so that we can try it out.
Update March 25: TwitNotes is now available for installation via a remote update site.
Lotus Notes 8.0.1, Lotus Domino 8.0.1 and Lotus Enterprise Integrator 8.0.1 are now available for download on Passport Advantage.
[Via Ed Brill].
An interesting article has just been published on developerWorks: “Develop iPhone Web applications with Eclipse“. The article is a tutorial on how to create iPhone web sites using Eclipse, Aptana’s iPhone Development plug-in, and the iUi framework.
It could be fun to try to use these ideas on a Lotus Domino demo web application. Anyone up for the challenge?
Ed Brill hinted that we would see 8 announcements in the Lotusphere 2008 Opening General Session – we actually saw 8+1:
Now it’s time for Mikkel to count his score!
Update: Stephan Wissel has posted a nice overview of all announcements.