Building a website using Lotus Domino

Michel Van der Meiren has been creating several articles on how to build a nice looking website using Lotus Domino – and yesterday he completed the tutorial by providing access to a demo of the web site including an option to download the demo site.

The tutorial includes the following articles:

Please notice that Michel created the website and the related articles during the course of a weekend! That just shows the rapid development possibilities of Lotus Domino.

Dojomino: Info and tutorials for using Dojo with Domino

Lance Spellman has created a site dedicated to using Dojo with Domino. Have a look at dojomino.com. Dojomino was featured in episode 62 of the Taking Notes podcast.

[Via the IBM internal dogear service]

On a similar note: Viktor Krantz has created a post on how to create a sign in form directly on a Domino page using the Dojo toolkit. Very cool!

Lotus Notes 8 Beta reception in Second Life

IBM is hosting a reception to celebrate the launch of Lotus Notes 8 Beta. The reception takes place in Second Life on May 2nd, 2007 at 9 AM EST and 9 PM EST in the Lotusphere region on IBM 9.

From the invite: “The Notes 8 Beta reception gives you a live virtual forum to meet birds-of-a-feather, Lotus Business Partners, and customers. Come tell us about what you think of Notes 8 and what you plan to do with it.

Perhaps we will meet? I am Per Laurasia in Second Life.

[Via Mary Beth Raven and Steve Castledine]

Lotus Notes/Domino Best Practices

As already mentioned by Craig Lordan on the developerWorks Lotus team blog and again mentioned by Ed Brill, but still worth repeating, a series of best practices on Lotus Notes and Domino has been published for “Notes/Domino administrators, Notes/Domino application designers and IT managers with intermediate to advanced Domino experience who wish to better leverage Domino Best Practices within their environment“.

The best practices include: