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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.

Webcast: Using Rational Team Concert in a Globally Distributed Team

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Erich Gamma from the Rational Jazz team has just recorded and posted a 60 minute webcast on the subject of using Rational Team Concert in a globally distributed team. Erich covers topics such as server setup, release planning, iteration planning and finishing a release.

Have a look if you are interested in agile methods.

Follow a live Domino build project

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Domino Guru Chris Toohey is currently busy with a project build with a deadline tomorrow (December 31st). Despite the tight deadline Chris is “live” blogging the build process for others to learn more about Domino development. I can highly recommend that you follow the project.

So far Chris has written an introduction to the project, his thoughts on the design for the build, and has decided on the technology to use for both the Lotus Notes client front-end and the web browser front-end.

From his tweets on twitter I can see that he is right now busy with some actual coding. So stay tuned for his next updates on the project.

Update December 31: Chris has posted a screencast showing the first coding steps.

Update January 3: Chris has posted episode 2 of the coding screen casts.

Scott Ambler on agile software development

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I have been listening to a developerWorks podcast with Scott Ambler where he discusses agile development.

Scott has an interesting point when he compares agile adoption with the history of astronomy: the agile community is the equivalent of the people who thought that everything revolved around the sun, while the traditional community is the equivalent of the people who thought everything revolved around the earth. In other words, we have to go through several paradigm shifts before the traditional software development community will understand the thoughts of the agile community.

Scott Ambler is Practice Leader Agile Development with IBM Rational and he has a blog at developerWorks where he blogs about strategies for scaling agile software development.

Rational Team Concert 1.0 is now available

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Rational Team Concert 1.0 is now available on jazz.net. You can download a free version with a server and 3 client licenses included. Team concert “provides a development environment that allows developers to collaborate together using integrated Source Control, Work Items, Build, Dashboards, Reports, and Process support. ”

I am especially interested in the support for agile projects via the iteration planning and work item management feature combined with the collaboration support – and all this in the same package.

I do architect related work for a J2EE project at the moment where agile planning takes place in ScrumWorks, source control is via CVS, code development is via Rational Software Architect, overall project planning is via Rational Portfolio Manager, and remote collaboration is done via Lotus Sametime. From that perspective Rational Team Concert looks very interesting!

Jazz is now open to everyone

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Jazz.net is now open to everyone. From the site: “Jazz is an IBM Rational project to build a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for integrating work across the phases of the development lifecycle“.

According to Andy Patrizio from internetnews.com Jazz can be compared to SourceForge and Subversion.

The Jazz team blog has also been opened up for the public.

[Via Bil Higgins]

Building a website using Lotus Domino

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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.