I’ve created some controls to easily embed Facebook functionality in XPages applications. All controls use the Facebook JavaScript API and Facebook’s HTML extension XFBML. Technically the tricky pa...
Earn Money with your Mobile XPages Apps
There is a big debate going on whether you should develop native mobile apps using platform specific SDKs or via web apps. My personal preference is via web apps because I can use the same skills t...
Display Activity Streams from the Social Business Toolkit in XPages
The IBM Social Business Toolkit is a new cross-product integration with the Lotus Social Business portfolio and extensibility toolkit for developers. The initial version provides an activity stream...
Add Entries to the Social Business Toolkit programmatically from XPages
In my last blog entry I wrote how entries from the activity stream of the IBM Social Business Toolkit can be displayed in XPages. In that sample I created the entries in the activity stream manuall...
15 XPages Applications demonstrated in 15 Minutes
This video shows 15 open source XPages applications in action. Download the applications from xpages.info/downloads or openntf.org.
Setup of my XPages Development Environment
Over the last months I’ve built some XPages controls and functionality via the XPages Extensibility API and an Eclipse IDE. While I realize that most XPages developers use Domino Designer to build ...
Quick Tip: Prereq to run XPages on Blackberry
Before I post this code plus more on OpenNTF, here is a quick tip what you need to do to run XPages apps and Blackberry. If you don’t follow the setup below you’ll always get a zoom in when you tip...
Sample Composite Application using XPages in Lotus Notes 8.5.1
Some images are corrupted below. See here for fixed version As you might know there is a sample application (the extended discussion template) available on OpenNTF (download here) with significant...
Lotus knows Superman
In honor of YellowDay I was thinking about what Lotus means to me. During my time at university I worked for a small company in Germany where we implemented Lotus Workflow. After university I star...
New Project: Initiate IM chats from selected text in documents
This blog entry is redundant to the one on the OpenNTF blog. I needed a place to store the movie. So I had to post it here and refer from OpenNTF to it There is a new project on OpenNTF to initiat...