Welcome to my new Blog on the IBM Cloud

Niklas Heidloff | 03:00:21 PM February 28 2011
Yancy Lent just added my blog to Planetlotus (thx) and I saw that even my test entries from some days ago show up. So I guess it's time for me to introduce this blog.

I've created this blog to write about application development, mobile apps and XPages. While I write regularly on the OpenNTF blog I want to use this blog to write about topics that are not directly related to OpenNTF.

Technically this blog is hosted on the IBM Cloud. I'll document in the next days what I had to do to set this up. In summary it has been really easy and it's amazing to have my own server somewhere in the cloud. My server runs IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 and I've installed the XPages Extension Library via VNC.

My blog uses the out of the box IBM Domino blog template but I've extended it via OneUI and the Extension Library.


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1Darren Duke  2/28/2011 10:58:10 PM  Welcome to my new Blog on the IBM Cloud

DominoBlog with some XPages added in? Please tell me you're thinking of releasing this....please! ;)



2Niklas Heidloff  3/1/2011 6:13:29 AM  I could but haven’t done much

Darren, I could if you/people really want but I haven't done much. I have not reimplemented the blog user interface.

I've only done minor things with XPages. The home page is now an XPage so that I can easily add other widgets to it. Also I use the OneUI controls from the extension library so that I didn't have to come up with my own style. And since I wanted to publish non-blog documents (e.g. publications tab) I created another generic XPage to display my documents.

To make the XPages part look similar to the non XPages parts I simply copied the OneUI style into the blog template.

Should I publish anyway?



3Darren Duke  3/1/2011 1:14:34 PM  Welcome to my new Blog on the IBM Cloud

Hell yeah! Publish away. This has at least 2 advantages:

1) It shows devs how to tweak an existing app

and

2) Being OneUI should make it easier to style than the current blog



4Darren Duke  3/1/2011 1:15:55 PM  Welcome to my new Blog on the IBM Cloud

In fact while I am on a role, why not do a multi-part blog series on the steps taken. We have lots of resources for building new XPages apps, but I can't think of any for "polishing" existing Domino web apps.




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