Help to come up with a tagline slogan for Lotus Notes and one for XPages.
That we all can use to get a great feeling when we talk about these products with customers.
if you have any suggestions post a comment
if there is anyone that could sponsor some prices for the best taglines, send me an email thru contact at the top of the page.
After this we can have a vote for the best taglines.
Check out these company tagslines
http://www.chomchomadvertising.com/360-most-famous-business-taglines/
Today I learned a new XPage Designer short command CTRL+Shift+> what does this do you might ask?
Well how many times have you been in the designer and have tag highlighted and started to scroll upwards or downwards searching for the corresponding tag. That is something you can stop doing now.
You only have to use CTRL+Shift+> and volia you end up at the matching tag
Happy Source Coding
Check out my latest contribution to openntf.org Small Talk this is application will help you spread all these small talks around the Coffee Machine in your organization. Small Talk can be added to the Sidebar in your Notes Client, thru a Mobile Client or Directly within the application.
Check it out at openntf.org Link to Project
There is several ways of creating your own @Formula commands. One easy way is to create a serverside scriptlibrary and create a function that is named @MyCommand there. Include this SSJS library into your XPage / Custom Control and you have added a custom @Formula.
function @Getfirstword(data){
return @Left(data,” “)
}
And the second way is to create your own extension to the Domino designer as Ulrich Krause has done in this new openntf project.
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&name=SSJS%20Extension
There is probably serveral more ways of adding new @ commands to XPages, if you know a way make a comment.
I have a little poll Link about what the developer community want from a future debugger I had 62 people responding to the poll, Not a huge amount but anyway enough to see the direction. A future debugger of XPages needs SSJS debugging, java and client side debugging is not necessary.
It was a close run between new debugging features that I listed between conditional breakpoints and
backwards debugging and the backwards debugging won. It would be great to have both these functions in a future debugger. How could a backwards debugger work in Domino, well I think that it could work like this. When you start debugging every change to variables is logged the only variables that can be traced is your own variables. no objects. Then when you start to trace backwards these changes is shown in the debugger like playing a movie backwards.
Looking forward to the day when we get a debugger.
I found this interesting project on openntf.org yeasterday Ruby in XPages if you don’t know what this is it’s an implementation so you can write Ruby code inside an XPage. You might say I don’t know Ruby so how can this be of interest to me.
I don’t either know Ruby but I think the project it self has other interesting things because it shows how to implement another language into XPages, perhaps node.js, PHP or ASP.Net.
Another post about the possibilites to expand XPages was posted by Sven Hasselbach awhile ago show a way to write lotusscript code inside an xpage –>Post (use Chome or Rockmelt to get the post in english)
It has been alot of talk about a debugger for XPages, Do we need a copy of the lotusscript debugger. Or a brand new debugger that gives us new ways to debug our code. Yes please. I think there is several new interesting ideas on how to debug code faster and better. How would you like to debug your xpage code?
[poll id=”5″]
If you look at other languages there is alot of interesting features in debuggers like
I got an idea about how to improve the calendar integration in traveler.
Unfortunatly the idea will only work for the Android version because I don’t think you can control the phone in IOS.
The idea is that you could control settings in the phone using the calendar, this isn’t anything new if we are talking about you office phone but on your mobile phone and the change is not done in the switch board.
What am I talking about then, in an Calendar appointment you setup a profile/Category i.e “quite meeting”
In your traveler client in the mobile phone you can specify your own profiles and you can get predefined profiles from the traveler server. when a meeting ocurr and you have a corresponding profile the settings for this profile apply to your phone i.e go to flightmode, Turn off ringtone, perhaps activate wifi.
Then you can control alot off cool stuff using your calendar. And the profile in the phone specifies what should happened when the meeting starts and what should happens when it ends.
That’s my idea for the future of Traveler.
Remember where you read about it first 
Checkout this IPad magic show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=53_qvMQfvOE
I did a poll some days ago 300 people answered the poll
http://xpagedeveloper.com/2012/3-quick-questions-about-xpages-and-domino
88% of the people who responed has atleast one server with 8.5.2 or 8.5.3 interesting
29% Is seeing an increase in mobile applications and 43% is seeing an increase in web vs client.
55% is still doing 50% XPages and traditional Domino development. But one of the big things is that 24% of the people voating is not doing any XPage development at all that is almost equal to the amount that is doing only XPage development.
This small poll is no science at all 300 people of the hole IBM customer base of Domino 😉
But from this small amount of people 88% of these companies can run XPage Applications.
Client applications is still here so IBM will probably need to increase the investment in XPages Client integration. or perhaps just buy the XPages2Eclipse product from Mindoo. If that product was integrated as a part of the XPage offering from IBM we would get a big jump forward in Client/Eclipse integration and that is needed.
One might wonder if the 24% part that is not investing at all is customers that is moving away from the Domino platform. What can be done to make them believe in the platform again?
1. IBM need to show that Domino still is the leading platform for corporate applications.
(the Domino Server needs it’s own appstore, openntf.org we just need a packager perhaps.)
2. IBM needs to create a demand for Domino, make everybody aware that is a platform that is alive!!!
(Marketing Marketing Marketing and ROI )
3. The platform will need a more modern look that isn’t traditional Notes.
(I’m sad perhaps I’m one of the few that like it)
4. IBM needs to invest alot more money into the Eclipse platform to get the stability that we had before
Eclipse. (Perhaps a way to move to newer releases of Eclipse faster is the answer, I don’t know)
