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Lessons in Effecting Change - How We Got A Domino Non-Production Server License

More than ten years ago, Christian Guedemann and I worked with various IBMers to try to get a free Domino server entitlement for developers. It took time - not an unacceptable amount of time, in my personal opinion - but we got more than we hoped. The dev and test server license is no longer available, because licensing for customers changed. Some are critical of that decision. But none, as far as I’m aware, have demonstrated taken the high-agency mindset that Christian and I demonstrated and which is crucial to effect change.

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Framework App to Web App: Part Three - Frameworks and the Internet

A Brief History of Web Development

Until now, the series has focused on XPages. That's understandable considering my previous series that this is inspired by. However, recently it's become apparent that much of this series is relevant to a much wider audience than just XPages developers. Most web developers are used to developing with a specific framework. That's understandable considering the history of the last 20+ years. But that means this series is relevant to a much wider audience than HCL Domino developers using the JSF-based XPages framework.

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XPages to Web App Revisited: Part One - Introduction

Many years ago I wrote a series of blog posts on the topic of XPages to web app. At the time my target technology was Vaadin running in an OSGi plugin on Domino HTTP server (initially) and then CrossWorlds - Daniele Vistalli’s innovative approach to use Domino data via OpenNTF Domino API on a Websphere Liberty server running as a sidecar to Domino. My experience of developing with Vaadin lagged behind the technology, because it quickly evolved not only to Java 8 (and undoubtedly beyond) but used annotations which required Servlet 3.0.

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Engage 2024

Engage 2024 Later this month I will be attending Engage 2024. It will be a bittersweet experience. Engage was the first conference at which I spoke, a session that was way ahead of its time, highlighting the power of repeat controls in XPages and advocating against using View Panels. Ironically, at Engage this year, one of the sessions I'll be delivering has some similarities. But I'll cover the sessions I'm involved in chronologically.

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Eclipse Java Debugging

When XPages came to Domino it introduced many Domino developers to Java. Because the IDE was based on Eclipse, it also introduced Domino developers to standard elements of Java development on Eclipse.

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Domino and JavaScript Development MasterClass Redux

Nearly six years ago I delivered a session at IBM Think with John Jardin called "Domino and JavaScript Development MasterClass", a session I also delivered at Engage in May 2018. The session was delivered at the request of Andrew Manby, product manager for Domino. It was shortly after the first Domino Jams when JavaScript development against Domino was a key point of focus and it pre-dated any specific developments to expose Domino for JavaScript development. Now seemed a good point to revisit and review, not only in the context of Domino REST API and Volt MX Go, but also with the future of VoltScript in Volt Foundry.

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Postman: The Crucial Tool for Any Microservice Developer

My history with REST development is long. In 2018, before I joined HCL, I delivered a session "Domino and JavaScript Development Masterclass" at IBM Think. When I posted about my development tools in 2017, Postman - then just a Chrome plugin - was key amongst them. Then in 2020 I posted an overview of Postman. And just as both John and I used Postman as a crucial tool when building the application we showed at our session at IBM Think, it's the tool that should be used by anyone doing anything with microservices - which is what every scope your create for Domino REST API is.