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Setting Up A RedMine Server On Ubuntu For Source Control
Tue, Jan 3rd 2012 1:40p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
One of the topics I'll be covering in AD102 : Source Control For The IBM Lotus Domino Developer will be using a bug tracking system that is integrated into your Source Control solution. The actual setup of such a system is way beyond the scope of the presentation as it is a bit tedious and [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus bug server ubuntu
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Signature Capture Control Now On OpenNTF
Fri, Dec 30th 2011 10:00a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
The signature capture control is now available on OpenNTF licensed under the APL V2 license. [read] Keywords: openntf
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Using a HTML5 Canvas to capture a signature on the iPad from XPages
Wed, Dec 28th 2011 3:34p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
One of the nice things about the ipad is being able to use your finger or a stylus to 'draw' your signature in an app and then have it captured. There are some easy to use frameworks to do this in native apps but if you are building XPage application then you can't use those frameworks unless [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Source Control for the Domino Developer at Lotusphere 2012
Tue, Dec 6th 2011 7:06a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
The Lotusphere abstract notifications were yesterday and I'm pleased to announce that the abstract that I submitted was accepted. It is a great topic that I hope attendees will be interested in. Source Control For the Domino Developer Application Development Track This is a beginners intr [read] Keywords: domino lotusphere application development
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A new version of fileSendr has been released.
Sun, Jul 17th 2011 12:30p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
A new version of fileSendr has been released on OpenNTF. It features a new multi-file upload control based on jQuery Uploadify that should resolve a lot of the issues people have had with fileSendr in Internet Explorer in the previous versions. I've also reworked the custom messages that ca [read] Keywords: openntf
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Single Copy XPages Design
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 3:40p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
Introduced in 8.5.2 there is a feature called Single Copy XPages Design ( or SCXD ) that hasn't really had a lot of press. Not to be confused with Single Copy Template ( SCT ) this is a feature that can save you a lot of disk space and increase XPages performance if you have a lot of XPages ap [read] Keywords: xpages




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Easier deployment of ExtLib ( and other OSGI plugins ) in Domino 8.5.3
Wed, Jun 15th 2011 4:10p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
  Disclaimer : "This is beta software from IBM and does not represent a commitment, promise or legal obligation by IBM to deliver, in a future release of Notes/Domino or Lotus Notes Traveler, any material, code or functionality described/shown in this presentation." ------------------ [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus notes traveler
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Red and Yellow and Pink and Blue
Tue, Jun 14th 2011 12:33p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
  Disclaimer : "This is beta software from IBM and does not represent a commitment, promise or legal obligation by IBM to deliver, in a future release of Notes/Domino or Lotus Notes Traveler, any material, code or functionality described/shown in this presentation." ------------------ [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus notes traveler
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Baked in Source Control Enabler in IBM Domino Designer 8.5.3
Mon, Jun 13th 2011 2:13p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
  Disclaimer : "This is beta software from IBM and does not represent a commitment, promise or legal obligation by IBM to deliver, in a future release of Notes/Domino or Lotus Notes Traveler, any material, code or functionality described/shown in this presentation." ------------------ [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus notes traveler
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XPages and HTML5 gets easier in IBM Notes/Domino 8.5.3
Mon, Jun 13th 2011 12:03p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
Disclaimer : "This is beta software from IBM and does not represent a commitment, promise or legal obligation by IBM to deliver, in a future release of Notes/Domino or Lotus Notes Traveler, any material, code or functionality described/shown in this presentation."   The embargo on tal [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus notes traveler xpages
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Setting Up A Source Control Server with Domino LDAP : Part 7
Sun, Feb 20th 2011 9:14a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
By now you have your Mercurial Source Control server up and running, If you go to http://yourserver/admin and log in you should be able to create a new repository. Go ahead and create a test repository and then load up Domino Designer. Before you can use Source Control in Domino Designer yo [read] Keywords: admin domino server
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Setting Up A Source Control Server with Domino LDAP : Part 6
Sun, Feb 20th 2011 8:50a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
So now we need to configure phphgadmin so it will work with our Mercurial server. lets start by editing the configuration file. sudo vi /var/www/admin/application/config/phphgadmin.php There are quite a few edits that we need to do to this file to get everything working. First we need to s [read] Keywords: admin domino application server
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Setting Up A Source Control Server with Domino LDAP : Part 5
Sun, Feb 20th 2011 8:40a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
At this stage we now have a fully functioning Mercurial server but we have not created any repositories yet. A repository is where you sync your source code to, you need one for each application/NSF that you'll be building. We could create them manually using the 'hg init' command but if you h [read] Keywords: domino application server
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Setting Up A Source Control Server with Domino LDAP : Part 4
Sat, Jan 22nd 2011 11:15a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
Now that we have our Apache server with Mercurial up and running its time to secure it. We are going to do this using LDAP pointing to our Domino server so make sure your running LDAP on your Domino server before going any further. Once you know your LDAP server is working fine go back to your [read] Keywords: domino server
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Setting Up A Source Control Server with Domino LDAP : Part 3
Fri, Jan 21st 2011 6:00p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
The next stage in the process is to let the Apache web server know about our new Mercurial scripts and folders. We'll start by creating a brand new Apache configuration file for Mercurial and then add that into the default site for Apache. Again you can use pico in place of vi for any of the c [read] Keywords: domino server
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Setting Up A Source Control Server with Domino LDAP : Part 2
Fri, Jan 21st 2011 6:40a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
It's time to start up your Ubuntu server again and log in using the credentials that you were using in the last part of the series. Once your up and running we are going to setup the Mercurial WSGI script so that Apache will be able to use it later. We'll start by copying the basic script file [read] Keywords: domino server ubuntu
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Setting Up A Source Control Server with Domino LDAP : Part 1
Thu, Jan 20th 2011 7:30a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
The first thing that you will need to do is download Ubuntu Server. For my testing I have been using Ubuntu 10.10 but this should all work perfectly with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS if your corporate policy dictates you only use LTS releases. You will then need to install Ubuntu Server onto a machine of [read] Keywords: domino server ubuntu
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Setting Up A Source Control Server with Domino LDAP : Introduction
Wed, Jan 19th 2011 10:50p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
Like many developers out there I was quite excited when I heard that IBM had released a plugin for Domino Designer that would allow it to interact with Source Control Management servers like SubVersion, GIT and Mercurial to name but a few. It works by creating a on-disk version of the NFS and [read] Keywords: domino ibm server
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Enabling Large File Uploads On Your Domino Server for XPages
Tue, Jan 11th 2011 12:13p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
By now you have probably noticed that fileSendr V1.1.0 is now available on OpenNTF. This is the version that allows you to authorize external people to send files into you. It's a really handy XPages based utility for any organization that needs to send large files to and from customers. To [read] Keywords: domino xpages openntf server
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the fileSendr Project on OpenNTF
Fri, Jan 7th 2011 11:38p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
Since figuring out how to get XPages to talk to Amazon S3 I decided to look into an old project I had on OpenNTF called fileSendr and add the functionality to it. fileSendr V1.0.2 is now available on OpenNTF and not only does it have the Amazon S3 support but I also added a few other features [read] Keywords: xpages openntf
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Talking to Amazon S3 from XPages
Wed, Dec 29th 2010 9:56a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
After playing around with the iTextPDF library a few weeks ago I was wondering how easy it would be to use a few other java libraries with XPages and in particular I was interested in looking at the Amazon S3 service to store files for my fileSendr project on OpenNTF. To get started you'll [read] Keywords: xpages java openntf
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OpenNTF : Don't mix your licenses
Wed, Dec 22nd 2010 2:59p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
Earlier today, Julian Buss released a new project on OpenNTF called YouAtNotes xCharting under the GPL license. I have absolutely no problem with his license choice, I fought hard to have the GPL license be a valid license type on OpenNTF so that some people, like Julian, can select it for the [read] Keywords: openntf
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Merging Two Domino Databases With Folders
Tue, Dec 14th 2010 10:34a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
I've had a few cases recently where some users ended up with multiple archives because they moved from having a local archive to a server based archive for their email. When this happens the user eventually asks if there is any way to merge the two archives so that just have a single place to [read] Keywords: domino archive email server
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Dynamic PDF creation using XPages and the iTextPDF Java Libary
Wed, Dec 1st 2010 1:23p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
Recently I was tasked with adding an 'Export To PDF' function to one of our internal applications so I had a quick look around at possible solutions and I found that some others in the Lotus community had been successful in using the iTextPDF library with their applications but only with clien [read] Keywords: lotus xpages applications community java
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Steeler Monkey
Fri, Oct 15th 2010 6:00p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
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Things I Hope Not To See At Lotusphere 2011
Fri, Oct 15th 2010 11:00a   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
It's that time of year again, Lotusphere registration is open, abstracts are being written and submitted ( I'm not submitting any abstracts myself ), and in a few weeks we'll see loads of blog posts from people saying that they will be speaking at Lotusphere and probably one or two comments co [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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New Release of xtalk on OpenNTF
Thu, Oct 14th 2010 9:20p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
I've just uploaded a new release of xTalk to OpenNTF. This new version is a complete overhaul of the original version of xTalk and now uses the OpenNTF XPages Extension Library to create a much easier interface for the forum owner for creating and managing the system. The OpenNTF Extension [read] Keywords: xpages interface openntf
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Cross Domain AJAX / XMLHttpRequest and Domino
Thu, Oct 7th 2010 11:14p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
AJAX is a wonderful tool when it comes to creating interactive websites and XPages uses a lot of AJAX in the background to do its business. All those partial refreshes are done by AJAX, clicking a button to run some SSJS is all done via AJAX.You could say that if it wasn't for AJAX XPages woul [read] Keywords: domino xpages ajax
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XPages And Sequential Numbers
Wed, Oct 6th 2010 9:08p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
Sequential numbers, talk to any Domino developer and they will shudder when you bring up the subject. They are one of the hardest things to implement in a Domino application. There are many suggestions on how to do sequential numbers in domino apps and they all have advantages and disadvantage [read] Keywords: domino xpages application
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Save as EML in Notes 8.5.2 Can't be Disabled But Does That Really Matter?
Fri, Oct 1st 2010 3:57p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
So looking at planetlotus.org today I noticed a blog entry entitled Save as EML in Notes 8.5.2 Can't be Disabled? and I'm confused as to why this is really a problem. I logged into Bleedyellow to write a comment but for some reason comments are disabled on that blog so here is what I would hav [read] Keywords: notes bleedyellow planetlotus planetlotus.org
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Using The XPages Extension Library In Blogsphere V4
Mon, Sep 27th 2010 8:47p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
The new XPages Extension Library from OpenNTF really does make development a lot easier so I thought I'd take some time out from coding the next version of Blogsphere to show everybody some of the places where I have used the features from the library in my code. In the configuration areas [read] Keywords: xpages blogSphere development openntf
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SVN Support For Domino Designer Coming Soon?
Sun, Sep 19th 2010 3:57p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
If you have downloaded the new XPage Extension Library and read the documentation then you may have spotted what might be a hidden announcement. The XPages Extension Library Demonstration database is also checked in the SVN repository. It uses a new extension to Designer that is available as [read] Keywords: domino xpages database
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Should Blogsphere V4 rely on the OpenNTF XPages Extension Library
Sat, Sep 18th 2010 12:40p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
I've been looking at the new OpenNTF project XPages Extension Library and I've come to the conclusion that many of its features are going to make future XPages development a lot faster and easier, in fact I've already used a number of features in a project that I'm doing for work. The amount o [read] Keywords: xpages blogSphere development openntf
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Setting The New 8.5.2 Recent Contacts Features Via Policy
Wed, Sep 8th 2010 7:57p   Declan Sciolla-Lynch
When the Recent Contacts feature was introduced in the lotus Notes client it was touted as a great new feature however as companies started using it its flaws became apparent. If you sent an email with an invalid email address in it to a bunch of people then that invalid address would end up i [read] Keywords: lotus notes notes client email
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A Strange iNotes Issue Caused By Internet Explorer
Tue, Aug 31st 2010 3:50p   CN=Declan Sciolla-Lynch/
After upgrading our servers to 8.5.2 this past weekend a number of users reported that they couldn't log into iNotes using IE8 ( our default web browser ). They would enter in their username and password and the iNotes interface would start loading but would then fail with just a few of the ba [read] Keywords: inotes interface password




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