OpenNTF announced the fourth XPages development contest. I’m very happy that we managed to organize this one. Especially I want to thank the new sponsor hedersoft. This time we wanted to try somet...

Giuseppe Grasso invited me to this year’s Dominopoint Days which I attended for the first time. It was a great event and I had a lot of fun. Thanks a lot to Giuseppe, Daniele Grillo and Claudio Mer...

As part of my blog series I describe below some tips and tricks for how to use the Connections REST APIs from XPages. I strongly suggest to use the XPages Social Enabler infrastructure which is in...

IBM Connections 3.0.1 comes with a set of service provider interfaces (SPIs) that can be used to extend Connections functionality: – Event SPI: Allows third parties to consume event data generated...

There are a couple of resources available for IBM Connections developers. Below is a list of key resources that I used to implement this sample. Wiki The wiki contains both articles from the comm...

As I wrote in my previous blog entry I’ve used the Connections event SPI to update Notes ACLs when community memberships are changed. Since my first implementation attempt didn’t work I started to...

As the readers of this blog will know, I’ve done some work in the area of integrating XPages in IBM Connections. The goal is to use XPages as rapid application platform to extend IBM Connections ea...

XPages can be wrapped in iWidgets to extend IBM Connections 3.0.1 (watch this video). Since Domino 8.5.1 there is a new design element ‘Components’ in Designer to create these widget xml descriptor...

IBM Connections allows customization of the user interface, for example the login page, themes, new tabs, headers, etc. which is important for example to apply a corporate look and feel. There is ...

At the beginning of this week I attended DNUG, the German Notes user group. I gave two sessions, one about the latest OpenNTF projects and one about using XPages in IBM Connections. There were als...