Thomas Hampel

 13 November 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Zad5_eWVA

Thomas Hampel

 9 November 2010
Customers and colleagues quite often are asking where to find some special tools to extend their Lotus Notes client.
Using Eclipse Updates is a great method to extend the functionality of the client itself and to keep up to date in case of updates.

Here a list of interesting Eclipse Update sites:

• SNAPPS - SidebarChart, ReCon Remote Console Sidebar, and more
  http://templates.snapps.com/widgets/SnappsUpdateSite.nsf/
• Jeff Geifelt, SecretAgent, Formul8, and more
  http://www.jeffgilfelt.com/eclipseplugins/
• LotusLive Meetings
  http://www.conferenceservers.com/brands/SBS/LLMEETING_EN-US
• Epilio
  http://www.epilio.com/stupdate.nsf/site.xml
• Lemkinworld
  http://update.lekkimworld.com/attentionotes
• OpenNTF
  http://openntf.org/8625767000299513/site.xml

Lotus Learning Plugin
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/learning-plug-in-for-ibm-lotus-notes

PS: Please let me know about other update site's on the internet which provide cool / clever enhancements for Lotus Notes or Sametime.

Thomas Hampel

 9 November 2010
Working in the IT business for several years brings a lot of experience of using different tools to increase our own productivity.
Within this article I'm goping to share some tools which I believe are essential for a Domino Administrator.

Workstation

• IBM Support Assistant
• GIMP, a freeware image editor for complex graphics
• Picasa, useful for managing a large amount of pictures
• SnagIT
• Camtasia Studio
• Total Commander , file manager for people who grew up without a mouse.
• FreePDF XP , create PDF documents by printing them
• VideoLAN
• Google Earth
• Notepad++
• Wireshark - an excellent network traffic analyzer
• FaJo TimeTool, a gread freeware application to track time spent for different projects
• Dia or YEd as a replacement for Visio. Visio viewer will help

Lotus Notes Tools

• Teamstudio
• Ytria
• NotesPeek , allows to analyze Notes applications

Browser plugins, (of course for Firefox)

• AI Roboform - store and manage your (Web-) passwords in a secure way.
• IBM Support Bar - direct access to support material of IBM
• Firefox Sync - sync bookmarks across different computers/operating systems, incl. sync to iPhone
• BetterPrivacy - delete supercookies on the fly
• FireBug - even if you're not a web developer, this tool is a musthave to analyze HTTP related problems
• NoScript - musthave to keep a browser secure.

Other Interesting tools

• lucidchart.com - a browser based alternative to Visio

Thomas Hampel

 7 November 2010
When importing a local update site I still get this error from time to time... it seems to be caused by the number of features within an updatesite.


lsclassimportsite: cimportsite::serialize (line 108)
lsclassimportui: cimportui::importsite (line 141)
dlgimportsite: queryclose (line 13)

Up to now I was not able to find the root cause, nor I was able to work around this problem.
When reviewing support forums it seems like I'm not the only one.

Update: Looks like this is caused by a large "feature.xml" file inside of a JAR package. It seems some vendors like to put a full law book inside this XML file which in the end exceeds the 32k limitation of a plain text field in Notes.

Thomas Hampel

 2 November 2010
Hosting your self developed Domino application does not need a full server.
All you need is a hosting provider which will managed a Domino server for your.
e.g. this one http://dominodeveloper.net/x.nsf/x.xsp?x=services (Note: this is not meant to be advertising of any kind)