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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.

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.

Great resources on XPages

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XPages is the impressive new feature in Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 for web application development – and will be extended to the Notes client in 8.5.1. Did you know that XPages is built upon JSF and the Dojo toolkit?

For great resources and tutorials on XPages make sure to visit and learn from:

Update July 24: more great resources on XPages:

  • Karsten Lehmann shares some very interesting articles on the Mindoo blog on the backend part of XPages  – focusing on the subjects of Java, Servlets and JavaServer Faces (as pointed out by Patrick Kwinten in the comments to this post and by Mikkel Heisterberg in his blog post on JSF in XPages)
  • YouAtNotes has established the YouAtNotes XPages Wiki with tips and tricks on XPages development

Develop iPhone web applications

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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?

Build a website using Domino and Open Laszlo

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A new tutorial has been published on developerWorks on building a community website using Domino and Open Laszlo. The tutorial is part 1 of 3 and focuses on the basic things necessary to create a web application in Domino – including creating an application from scratch with user authentication. In the upcoming part 2 of the tutorial Open Laszlo will be used.

[Via the developerWorks Lotus team blog]

Update: Part 2 and part 3 has been published.

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.

Dojomino: Info and tutorials for using Dojo with Domino

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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!

Tutorial: Design SOA services with Rational Software Architect

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A new tutorial called “Design SOA services with Rational Software Architect” has been posted on developerWorks. The tutorial is part 1 of a series and “you will learn about the relationship between a set of tools in the IBM® Rational® Software Development Platform that you will use as you design an SOA-based service using Model-Driven Development (MDD). You’ll see how to access requirements from different sources, use a customized software development process, and then start to model a design for the required service”.

Tutorial: Hello World, Part 2 – Rational Application Developer

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The second tutorial in the Hello World series has been posted on developerWorks: “Hello World, Part 2: Rational Application Developer“.

The tutorial “introduces you to IBM Rational Application Developer and highlights some of its basic features. It includes practical exercises that show how to create a Java application, create and invoke a Web service, and create a Web application that can access a Cloudscape database using a Relational Record List.“