IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 is close to be released. Since the 8.5.3 beta version (code drop 5) there has been a lot of talk in the community about the new XPages and Designer features: Erik Brooks, Jul...

In my last blog entry I described how to set up Subversive in Domino Designer 8.5.3. In this entry I describe briefly how to use it. There are three “repositories” that need to be kept in synch: ...

Update 02/16/12: The location of some plugins has changed. There is now one update site including all plugins on OpenNTF. In May the Domino Designer team published a first version of the source co...

Lotus Education offers a new XPages course: Modernizing IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 Applications. << This course is designed for application developers experienced with Domino Designer and XP...

During the summer IBM made a new image available in the IBM SmartCloud. This image comes with Lotus Domino, Connections and Sametime pre-installed making it easy for developers to start building ap...

Since I get asked this regularly here is a quick overview of the different ways to use Java in XPages and in the classic Domino app dev model. There are different types of XPages developers. Steph...

Check out the Sitepen blog over the next month. They want to publish a new Dojo tutorial every day until DojoConf 2011 on September 16th. Today they published a tutorial about data modeling for MV...

When I started to work on OpenNTF at the end of 2008 one of my goals was to host a development contest. It has certainly taken longer than I had hoped for, but we finally hosted the first developme...

Justin Murray and Daneel Reif are two students who are currently working on a summer internship project that we call social enabler. The main implementation goal is to create functionality to acces...

I get often asked why companies should use XPages vs classic Notes/Domino app dev and whether and why they should modernize existing applications using XPages. Here are a couple of points that I br...