Combining IBM Lotus Notes Domino XPages with the Google Maps Data API, my proof-of-concept mashup app leverages NotesData stored in the Personal Address Book (names.nsf). Article - complete with source code - should be available later this week!

If you're interested in being part of the demo, send me your business-friendly vCard containing your contact info -- complete with OfficeStreetAddress, OfficeCity, OfficeState, OfficeZip, and ContactPhoto -- I'll get them into the local Personal Address Book NotesDatabase.

I've talked before about progressive enhancement in the context of application development and supporting multiple User Agents - be they the Lotus Notes Client, various Web Browser Clients, or even Mobile Devices like the iPhone, iPad, and BlackBerry! The idea is simple enough -- render unto the User Agent what works for that particular User Agent.

(Click thru for the tutorial and downloadable example/demo XPage application...)

A 5-minute screencast and demo of the presentation I recently gave at the North Eastern Lotus User Group, I show how you can simplify your XPages while using Custom Controls to create user-maintained functional XPage markup!

You may want to go full screen to see the markup, or download the demo build app for more details!

I was contacted recently by a reader of this site asking if there was a product or utility that would allow them to create a rich text mass mailer, complete with file attachments, and allow for Dear <FirstName> Microsoft Word-like Mail Merge functionality from data in a Lotus Notes application. As luck would have it, I had Zephyr, my Configuration-based Rich Text Mail Merge and Emailing Utility!

So I thought I would create a simple screencast showing how you can - with a simple LotusScript Agent - create a configurable Mass Mailing engine from your Lotus Notes Client Personal Address Book.

(Click thru for the tutorial and the LotusScript Agent code...)

I think it was Bruce Lill who mentioned the other day that he uses a Computed Text instance to generate read-only data tables in a Lotus Notes Form via Pass-Thru HTML and Stylesheets... something that I think is absolutely brilliant!

I thought of taking it a step further and making a more interactive example, which I call the Computed Passthru Example, or CPE for short...