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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.

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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.

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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!

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Mastering XPages - Complete Review and Giveaway!

04/11/2011 12:58:00 PM by Chris Toohey

IBM Press: Mastering XPages IBM Press recently released the definitive guide for IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5.2 XPages: Mastering XPages: A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language. In this book, authors Martin Donnelly, Mark Wallace, and Tony McGuckin [with contributing author Jim Quill and foreword written by everyone's favorite IBM XPages Chief Architect Philippe Riand] strive to write the definitive printed reference material for all-things XPages.

Cut to the chase...

From the book's back cover:

The Definitive XPages Development Guide -- Straight from the XPages Team at IBM Lotus

XPages is the most significant improvement to Lotus Notes/Domino® development in 20 years. Now, three IBM® Lotus insiders have written the definitive programmer's guide to this breakthrough web application development framework. Packed with tips, tricks, and best practices, Mastering XPages brings together all the information you need to become an XPages expert, whether you're experiences with Notes/Domino development or not.

So without much further ado...

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Targeting Domino XPages Dojo Controls with CSS 3 Selectors

03/28/2011 12:08:00 PM by Chris Toohey

Targeting Domino XPages Dojo Controls with CSS 3 Selectors

The biggest frustration I had with XPages when I first got started was the inability to employ the Element ID attribute-based styling I had been using for years in CSS. To explain, here's an example of Element ID attribute-based styling:

<div id="maincontainer">
    <div id="header">
        <h1>Hello World!</h1>
    </div>
    <div id="body">
        <h1>Content Main Header</h1>
        <p>Some content here...</p>
    </div>
    <div id="footer">
        <p>Some disclaimer here...</p>
    </div>
</div>

Styling the above markup in CSS could be as simple as this:

...
h1 {
    color: red;
}
...
div#header {
    background-color: #000;
}

div#header h1 {
    color: #fff;
}

In the above example, the all H1 Elements would be red, but any H1 Element within the DIV Element [whose ID was header] would be white font on a black background.

The XPage Core Controls do not give you a simple way to control the Element ID, and while you can easily employ regular HTML markup in an XPage [ie., just hand-code the markup for the DIV Elements and add any ID you wish], there are times when you need access to an individual rendered HTML Element!

You can certainly use CSJS to manipulate Core Controls based on their generated/rendered HTML Element ID... but due to the syntax of most generated IDs, that just won't work in CSS...

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First Impressions: Mastering XPages and Upcoming Giveaway!

03/14/2011 08:36:00 AM by Chris Toohey

IBM Press: Mastering XPages IBM Press recently released the definitive guide for IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5.2 XPages: Mastering XPages: A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language. In this book, authors Martin Donnelly, Mark Wallace, and Tony McGuckin [with contributing author Jim Quill and foreword written by everyone's favorite IBM XPages Chief Architect Philippe Riand] strive to write the definitive printed reference material for all-things XPages.

This First Impressions review will deep-dive into Chapters 1-6 [out of 17, not including Appendixes].

From the book's back cover:

The Definitive XPages Development Guide -- Straight from the XPages Team at IBM Lotus

XPages is the most significant improvement to Lotus Notes/Domino® development in 20 years. Now, three IBM® Lotus insiders have written the definitive programmer's guide to this breakthrough web application development framework. Packed with tips, tricks, and best practices, Mastering XPages brings together all the information you need to become an XPages expert, whether you're experiences with Notes/Domino development or not.

So without much further ado...

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Miss my Group Talk: Mobilizing Apps with XPages Webinar? Here's the recording...

03/04/2011 10:58:16 AM by Chris Toohey

GBS - Group Talk: Mobilizing Apps with XPages

I know, I didn't give you that much advanced notice, and despite another XPages webinar that was scheduled for the same exact time, we had a really decent turn-out.

If you missed my recent webinar on Mobilizing Apps with XPages, have no fear: as with all of GBS Group Talk webinars, we recorded it, and have made it available for playback.

Again, from our much-more-eloquent-than-me Marketing Team:

Learn about creating smartphone and mobile device-friendly User Interfaces and User Experiences for your existing traditional IBM Lotus Notes Client applications. In this 1 hour session we'll discuss development and architectural considerations as well as valuable techniques and code you can use to create a Mobile XPages app.

You can view this webinar, download the slidedeck in PDF format, and even download the example/demo NotesDatabases at gbs.com/en/videos.

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IBM Lotus Notes Domino Form Element Hacks

02/22/2010 05:45:00 PM by Chris Toohey

IBM Lotus Notes Domino Form Element Hacks Hacks are ugly, they are unsupported, and they are often totally necessary in IBM Lotus Notes Domino Web Application development! I thought that I'd take the time to discuss several of those hacks -- required for B.XP. LND App Development -- that can get you the desired functionality for your applications and the desired user experience your customers demand!

While IBM Lotus Notes Domino's Rapid Application Development techniques are both amazing for quick-to-create collaborative business solutions and (let's say) well intended, it's HTML Form Element-generation for any Form Design Element can be extremely frustrating.

What's the big deal?! you may ask - if you're creating a Form Design Element, chances are you're using it to Create, Read, or Update a NotesDocument. The problem with IBM Lotus Notes Domino's RAD auto-generation of the HTML Form Element is when you're not using the Form Design Element for NotesDocument CRUD, but rather for the rendering of the overall NotesDatabase Domino Web Application User Interface.

And if you're still asking What's the big deal?!... then consider this: since HTML Form Elements can not be nested, that single HTML Form Element must contain every individual HTML Form-like function in your dashboard.

Let's take a look at an example dashboard-style UI...

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