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Products & Applications

Showtime
My Blackberry Enterprise Server Push Utility for the Lotus Notes Client, allows you to create Jobs for individual Channel, Message, and Browser Content Pushes, as well as allows you to delete Pushed Channel Icons from defined recipient devices.

Time Tracker
The idea is simple. At the start of your day - upon completion of your first task - create an entry highlighting what you did and whether you feel it was an efficient or inefficient use of your time. Based on several requests, you can also select the priority, apply categories, or even align your time against a project.

For Lotus Notes Client v8.0 and above, you can use the Time Tracker Widget to make this process even easier!

Zephyr
My Configuration-based Rich Text Mail Merge and Emailing Utility, Zephyr allows you to create rich, data-driven emails to support automated workflow - all via Microsoft Word Mail Merge-like architecture. Dear <firstname> allows you to personalize each email message not only to the individual recipient, but also to the individual application workflow event!

xCopy
xCopy is a simple configurable xCopy client for the Lotus Notes client. By creating and defining xCopy Profiles, you can batch process your file backup or remote upload jobs. With the addition of the xCopy sidebar widget, you can easily kick-off these jobs, and modify both the xCopy Profiles and xCopy itself.

Community & Resources

Lotus Technical Information & Education Community

The Lotus Technical Information & Education community is comprised of IBM, business partner, and customer subject matter experts who use product wikis, published articles, white papers, community blogs and the latest in social media to build and share high quality technical content.

OpenNTF.org - Open Source Community for Lotus Notes Domino

OpenNTF is devoted to enabling groups of individuals all over the world to collaborate on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open source.

developerWorks Lotus : Wikis

Share your deployment experiences and best practices in our wikis and help IBM to create scenarios for successful deployments. Contribute to the community by collaborating on shared content and leverage the shared knowledge from that community.

Welcome to dominoGuru.com!

Focused on being the go-to resource for the IBM Lotus Notes Domino developer, dominoGuru.com delivers introductory-level best practices and advanced development deep dives for the IT professional, book and gadget reviews, and technical weblog, and more!

Lotusphere / IBM Connect 2013 dominoGuru.com Hangouts

01/25/2013 03:12:00 PM by Chris Toohey

dominoGuru.com Hangouts

Based on the amazing feedback to my post from the other day, So you are NOT going to Lotusphere / IBM Connect 2013, I've put together the current schedule of Google+ Hangouts that I'll be hosting...

(View the complete schedule and how you can participate by clicking here...)

So you are NOT going to Lotusphere / IBM Connect 2013

01/23/2013 04:40:00 PM by Chris Toohey

So you are NOT going to Lotusphere / IBM Connect 2013

So you are not attending IBM Connect 2013, and if you're anything like me you're feeling a little left out that you won't be onsite for what promises to be an fun-filled gathering of IBM Collaborative Software experts and enthusiasts.

That's right, I won't be attending IBM Connect 2013 either due to family obligations on the home front (5 kids == too many activities to list here). So, if you're not going... and I'm not going... what should we do to pass the week aside from watching Twitter for #IBMConnect posts?!

In truth, I'm not too sure - but let's do something!

You'll be my surprise guest speaker, right Wilson? I'm seriously considering hosting a few Google+ Hangouts and getting discussions going on various topics. I've also thought of doing a livestream of me XPages-enabling this site... but not too sure if anyone would be interested in that sort of thing.

Have a suggestion for a Hangout topic or livestream/public build we should do next week? Want to watch me copy/paste and Google Search my way through XPages-enabling this site?? Think I'm off my meds for suggesting we keep ourselves busy and entertained while seemingly everyone else is Orlando-bound?!

Let me know via the comments below. There are no bad ideas here, gang -- like always, you guys drive the content you'll see on this site.

Also, don't forget to Like/+1/Share this post to help spread the word!

Adaptive User Experiences in IBM XPages Applications: Overview

02/01/2012 10:46:00 AM by Chris Toohey

Adaptive User Experiences in IBM XPages Applications

For the complete series, check out Adaptive User Experiences in IBM XPages Applications

EXCERPT: This adaptive learning UI/UX will walk the user thru the use of the application and award them experience points upon reaching pre-defined milestones. As the user gains XP, you simply disable the adaptive learning user experience and load the hard core (or power user) experience...

Click here for Part 1: Overview!

Adaptive User Experiences in IBM XPages Applications

01/31/2012 11:57:00 PM by Chris Toohey

Adaptive User Experiences in IBM XPages Applications

Back in November of 2010, I wrote the following editorial: Adaptive Tutorial User Experience for IBM Lotus Notes Domino Apps. I never actually completed the series... until now.

This post will act as the landing page for a multi-part series on creating an adaptive user experience for IBM XPage-based applications.

Table of Contents
Part 1 Overview

Mobile XPages: The Five Ws

01/03/2011 03:07:00 PM by Chris Toohey

In this series, you will be creating a multi-platform mobile device user interface and enhanced user experience for a Domino Server-hosted NotesDatabase app using the Personal Address Book Template.

Mobile XPages The first step in creating an enterprise-level solution on any platform is to stay as far away from the actual development of said solution as possible... until you have a complete understanding of the goals of the project and how it will improve the efficiency of those who use it. In that spirit, our project build kicks off with considerations to be addressed and decisions that must be made before a single line of code is written.

We will use a modified version of the Five Ws technique to ensure that we consider all aspects of the project.

(Click thru for more...)