I recently signed up as a LinkedIn App Developer, which gave me an shiny new API Key to allow me to leverage LinkedIn for IBM Lotus Notes Domino Web-based application authentication via OAuth with some pretty slick results. Really makes SaaS/Cloud authentication easy when you're leveraging a business-specific social network vs. something like Twitter or Facebook.

Now leveraging LinkedIn is even easier...

Introducing the LinkedIn JavaScript API!

Our new JavaScript API is now available to all developers! With just a few lines of JS, you can import a compact framework (~25KB) that provides full access to our REST APIs along with new Login and Share buttons. Everything works directly from the user's browser and we handle OAuth 2 for you - so no need for manual request-signing or re-architecting your backend. You can have a "Sign in with LinkedIn" button up and running in 10 minutes.

Early Access

Our JS API is brand new, so we're releasing it to get your feedback. In the coming months, we'll be adding features and enhancing functionality. Of course, we'll do our best not to break anything, but please understand that this is a beta release. Stay tuned to the developer blog for updates.

You can find out more information online at http://developer.linkedin.com/community/jsapi .

The aim of this utility is to allow users, administrators, and developers to search a document based only on its NoteID or UNID. There are many situations where you need to quickly get a document from a view and the only information you have is its NoteID or UNID... Now with this utility you start typing for example "NoteID: 2E34A" in the standard "Starts with..." dialog and Notes will find the 2E34A NoteID instead of searching the document starting with "NoteID: 2E34A".

Find out more about Extended Quick Search for Lotus Notes here or visit the product page at http://www.doctorapi.com/ExtQSearch.html.

Have an app that you think could sell? I can not recommend enough that you follow suit and get it out there!

... did I tell you that I have an iPhone now? An iPhone 4, actually. And prior to that, I was testing an iPad. This on the heels of purchasing two iPod Touch devices for my children (oldest girl and boy birthdays are only a few calendar weeks apart).

And I can say that I'm becoming more and more of a fan of iOS. In fact, I'm currently downloading 4.1 while I write this post. My poor Zune 30 is sitting here on my desk, it's last charge well-past spent, and I'm almost completely used to the clunkiness of iTunes.

Why the sudden jump? Well, I have customers that wanted the iPhone... after a C-level employee was given an iPad as a gift.

Funny how that works, huh?

... the problem that this particular customer ran into was that they were unable to upgrade their Domino infrastructure. They are currently mid-upgrade of their environment, and for some reason are upgrading the Lotus Notes Clients before they upgrade their Domino environment. Cart before the horse, I know... but it's the reality that they're steadily working through.

So, how do you implement IBM Lotus Traveler 8.5.2 in a Domino environment that you can't upgrade?! Simple really... but let's first look at a standard Traveler implementation...

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... have you ever had to open the Domino Admin client just to sign a freshly-downloaded OpenNTF.org project or a 3rd-Party NotesDatabase Template? One of the new Domino Designer features with 8.5.2 addresses this issue: you can right-click on a NotesDatabase from the Designer Working Sets Pane and sign it... but that's in 8.5.2.

Even in 8.5.2, you can't click-to-sign a NotesDatabase with a Production ID. Y'know... since you shouldn't let Domino Developers to write code in production, nor allow them - via their IDs - to execute code in production... so you have a Production ID.

That's where Tesla, my IBM Lotus Notes App Signer Utility, addresses a simple need: to quickly and securely sign a NotesDatabase Template without the need to access the Domino Admin Client (or the 8.5.2 Domino Designer Client for that matter...).

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Remote Console is an IBM Lotus Notes Domino Application (for Releases 6.0 and above) that allows you -- the Lotus Domino Administrator -- to create a list of Lotus Domino Console Commands accessible via smartphones (including the iPhone and BlackBerry mobile devices) and web browsers (including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome).

You can maintain the list of Console Commands via the Lotus Notes Client application user interface (Admin Client), which gives you the ability to restrict access to individual Server and Command Documents. You can perform Remote Console Commands against defined Domino Servers via the Web Browser or Mobile Device application user interface (User Client).

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