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Tags: XPages Lotusphere

So Lotusphere is over for another year. What a great show!!! More sessions around XPages and the 8.5.1 Designer Client, plus you may have even seen some cool tie-died t-shirts .

I had the chance to have a chat with Philippe Riand about various XPage topics, including a question from our own development team regarding using the Design Description for custom controls. Some of the answers I felt should be shared with the Notes community so Philippe kindly agreed to answer a few on camera.

Posted by Richard Sharpe At 2:45 PM | Location: Phoenix, Arizona | Permalink | Comments (0) |      

Tags: Application Development Best Practices Build Process Production
Whether it's simply copying and pasting files to a Domino production server and manually setting the ACLs, or creating a complete system with quality gates and automated approvals, somehow we manage to get our Notes applications out into the world.

Usually, the focus is primarily on the development group’s build and deployment requirements, since the code starts with them. Then we try to figure out how to get the code onto a production server. However, it is just as important--if not more so--to focus primarily on the Domino administrators requirements, as 1) they are ultimately responsible for the server, and 2) most support calls go to admins first. In most organizations, the Domino Administrator is not a full-time position, but these individuals are responsible for managing their Domino servers. So, would it surprise you to hear that many issues developers face are also concerns for administrators?

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Posted by Richard Sharpe At 1:14 PM | Location: Beverly, MA | Permalink | Comments (0) |      

Tags: Lotus Notes Migration

Last week, Google announced its tool to aid migration from Lotus Notes to Google Apps, and they dropped a few respectable names of people/organizations used as case studies to prove how smoothly this all went.

Upon further investigation, it’s apparent that the migration from Lotus Notes currently includes only mail, contacts and calendar. While these are undoubtedly the most used applications in any Notes/Domino -based organization, they are far from the only applications used. If they were, the organization in all likelihood would have moved away from Notes years ago. So what about all the other mission-critical applications and data stored within them?

Well, a whitepaper from Google states:

“Based on where the targets are for various applications, different tools can be used for importing data into Google Apps . Import APIs for Google Spreadsheets and Google Sites are the two primary mechanisms for moving data into Google Apps.”

I searched on Google’s site, and on the web using Google, for more information on these API’s and found nothing. Even a similar question, submitted on Google’s Help Forum on July 16^th, hasn’t been answered, at the time of this post, by Google or anyone else.

Posted by Richard Sharpe At 9:59 AM | Location: Beverly, MA | Permalink | Comments (0) |