Life has proven too hectic for me since joining Group to be able to continue my efforts of a daily summary of Lotus development news. But we had a lot of of great posts on August 11 (Yellow Day) it is worth the effort to summarize some of the goodness shared by members of the Lotus community.
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- Corey Davis announced the Gold release of his Flow LotusScript Logging Engine on OpenNTF.
- Corey Davis also announced a 33% discount on all of Conxsys products for the next week.
- Nathan T Freeman provided us with some insight into how simple the hybrid model for LotusLive will work.
- Nathan T Freeman then announced the relaunch of his Escape Velocity blog that has moved onto the GROUP Live site.
- Nathan T Freeman also covered the exciting opportunities presented by IBM working together with GROUP to develop a new set of XPage extensions that will be released on OpenNTF. The objective of the project will be to fill in some of the gaps in XPages such as Picklists, name picker, computed "subforms" draggable framesets, scrolling dojo grids, dojo layouts, and calendar views.
- Nathan T Freeman announced the immediate availablilty of @Transmogrifier, a tool that allows Notes developers to convert @formulae into SSJS code. The tool is supported by a plug-in that adds a new set of @functions to the SSJS language.
- Nathan T Freeman saved the best for last with the announcement of Genesis. A project Nathan and his team at GROUP (which include me) are presently working on that aims to provide a way for organizations to take any Notes Classic application and convert it to an XPage application. And that is just the start! As Nathan later commented, don't be surprised if a later release adds the ability to migrate SharePoint (or other) applications to XPages too! I am still in complete awe of what this project can, and will in the future, do. This was one of the main reasons i decided to join GROUP last month.
- John Head posted a new version of the Contacts Experience project on OpenNTF. This project, which extends the standard Contacts template, now supports Office 2010 and makes a start with support for labels, and custom fields.
- Martin Humpolec announced the availability of a new Notes sidebar plug-in (PDF Signer) that signs PDF files using your own certificate.
- David Leady has announced that NotesIn9 can soon be downloaded onto your iPad for viewing and will soon be adding Admin tips.
- Yancy Lent dressed up PlanetLotus for the day before announcing an amazing new site (Domino Directory) that showcases some of the great Web sites developed using Domino technology.
- Mike McGarel contributed some Beatles lyrics with a Yellow Day twist.
- Peter Presnell: My own contribution was the release of ∙dominoFramework 2.0 on OpenNTF. A project that encapsulates much of my work as a Notes developer over the past 16 years.
- Chris Toohey announced a two for $5 promotion of his dominoGuru.com applications.
- Chris Whisonant announced a new look/feel to the Bleedyellow.com site - an implementation of Lotus Connections available for use by members of the Lotus community for free. (Hint: you're probably looking at it now!)
- Garrett Wolthuis's tip was using Kathy Brown's NotesAdmnTips and NotesDevTips addresses on Twitter as a way for the community to share admin and dev tips.
- And thank you to Gregg Eldred for his posting "I think I'll have a few more beers".
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Hard to believe a day after IBM's announcements for Notes 8.5.2 and LotusLive Notes we had so much other great stuff to talk about. Than you to all those who contributed to the day's success.
Comments (2)
Peter -- it was actually Kathy Brown who set up the NotesAdmnTips and NotesDevTips Twitter accounts. Garrett is a contributor to NotesAdmnTips.
Thx Marie. I have updated the entry to better reflect that.