OpenSky Computing  

By Christian Guedemann | 6/26/17 10:04 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

In today’s world, everybody is talking about the Cloud. If people talk about Cloud, they are talking in the most case about the location where data are processed and stored. In the mean time, while the “common” people are adopting the concept of Cloud Computing, Fog Computing or Edge Computing is the new upcoming term.

The IBM Domino Developer Edition – It’s coming in Q3 – finally ;)  

By Christian Guedemann | 5/11/17 10:58 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Antwerp – Engage, 1st Day: What an important announcement, there will be a free for non production use licence of the latest and greatest IBM Domino Server. No time bomb and the only limitation is the usage. The purpose of this licence is very simple: Developers of all kind and nature are getting access to the huge ecosystem of IBM Notes/Domino/XPages Application Development.

Watson Workspace & Work Services needs Code, Community and even more Code and Community  

By Christian Guedemann | 10/28/16 4:25 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

IBM has give us glimpse of their plans for the future. IBM has understand the power of conversation. Everything mankind has ever done is based on conversation. Ideas, Research, Progress, Contracts, Family, Love and even Dispute, Conflicts and Wars are based on Conversation.

XPages Designer Plugin 4 Eclipse – The Basics!  

By Christian Guedemann | 4/2/16 11:29 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

First, and please keep it in mind, I’m talking about XPages. Nothing more, nothing else. Some years ago, in an open discussion between the XPages Community and the XPages Development Team, we agreed that it would have a huge value, to have a XPages Designer which is based on the latest and greatest Eclipse Release and can be installed as Plugin / Addon.

Building NSF using the maven headlessdesigner plugin from OpenNTF  

By Christian Guedemann | 3/26/16 5:28 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

I’m using the JUnit4XPages Project to explain how to build the example database with the headlessdesigner-maven-plugin. This project is fully mavenized and uses the tycho plugins to build the plugins, feature and the updatesite. The project is with a parent – child structure organized.

A developers dream – for sure  

By Christian Guedemann | 12/1/15 2:52 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

OpenNTF is in the middle of his biggest transformation since the begining. Core of the this transformation is building communities around visons, problems and projects. This needs communication…. Continious communication, a flow of questions, answers and ideas.

Another nice journey with Maven – or how to sign a jar file  

By Christian Guedemann | 11/26/15 12:12 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Yes I love Maven, for sure. Maven gives you the capability to build project everytime the same and in every environment. I often explain Maven as a brilliant facility manager, who is able to put all the build, test, package and delivery instruments togehter and then build all the stuff according to your building instructions.

Maven and XPages Plugin – From Scratch / Part IV The feature  

By Christian Guedemann | 12/31/14 9:30 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

While Switzerland was covered with snow, the OpenNTF Base project has made some progress. There are two new plugins, one is org.openntf.base and the other is org.openntf.base.lib.internal. org.openntf.base contains all the stuff to register the plugin collection as an extension library and also all "Top Level" classes. org.openntf.base is designed to have all the dependencies…

Maven and the magic of profiles  

By Christian Guedemann | 12/24/14 6:33 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

POI4XPages has a module called poi.assembly. This module builds the final ZIP file which can be uploaded to the OpenNTF website. One step in the assembly is that the module downloads the source code direct from github. This step takes a lot of time, so each mvn clean build takes a lot of time, because…

A word about Maven  

By Christian Guedemann | 12/23/14 1:27 AM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

When I try to explain what Maven is, then I’m using often the following picture: Maven is a factory building with a brilliant factory manager. What Maven can do for you depends on your construction plan and the tools that are available. Your construction plan contains all instruction about what builder should be used, how unit testing should work, and also how the assembly should run.

Maven and XPages Plugin – From Scratch / Part II – The Plugin  

By Christian Guedemann | 12/22/14 7:49 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

The core purpose of org.openntf.base.* is to bring some core plugins to the community. This plugin could be used in conjunction with other plugins, like org.eclipse.core.runtime. The first plugin that I want to build is a JAXB representation of the domino9 dxl. This plugin should offer some basic method to convert any domino object to…

Maven and XPages Plugin – From Scratch / Part I – The Parent  

By Christian Guedemann | 12/22/14 3:25 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Is it a good Idea to start writing a blog series about Maven, XPages Plugin with the topic "The Parent" on your birthday? I don't know but the birthday reminds me a lot about my parents. About my father and mother who gave me the base structure of my life and lot of my being.…

org.openntf.junit.xsp – now with EasyMock support  

By Christian Guedemann | 9/2/14 11:49 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Frank van der Linden asked in his blog post (http://elstarit.nl/?p=157) if EasyMock or PowerMock can be integrated into the org.openntf.junit.xsp and Ryan J. Baxter mentioned also that a testing framework without a good mocking solution is only the half worth.

Using JUnit in XPages Projects  

By Christian Guedemann | 8/21/14 3:23 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Yes! I’ve read some books during my holidays. Clean Code was one of them and also Test Driven Development. Both of them where very interesting and has closed some open questions. Back from holidays, I’ve started to research how I can implement JUnit testing to XPages Applications.

Automated build with Jenkins / Some progress | guedebyte  

By Christian Guedemann | 4/8/14 9:57 AM | - | Added by Christian Güdemann

This saturday was dedicated to do some tests with automated build and Jenkins / Maven. Jenkins is a brilliant tool to let a server do some automated tasks. Maven is the tool which delivers a configuration language to describe how to build something. The goal of maven is to do the same thing always in…

IBM Connections – The next AppDev Plattform?  

By Christian Guedemann | 1/28/14 7:32 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Earlier this week I posted a blog about what I will be showing at IBM Connect. Earlier this week we updated the IBM SBT Playground on Greenhouse which includes the new OpenSocial functionality I talked about in my blog post and demos at my Jumpstart on Sunday.

If you love IBM Domino – please learn Java, NOW!   

By Christian Guedemann | 1/13/14 1:04 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

It’s now over 3 years ago that I head to take over a project, which covers a critical business case. And it was one of my most painful experience ever.

Paid per line programming code? – Why I love refactoring  

By Christian Guedemann | 12/21/13 2:59 AM | - | Added by Christian Güdemann

Earlier this month I’ve started to read a new book called “Effective Java“. Jesse Gallagher mentioned this book as a “must read”. After my positive journey with reading “Design Pattern” (The head first edition) was it no question that I definitely read the sample of “Effective Java”. And yes, after reading the sample, I bought it. (To my colleges at WebGate: Yes be afraid – I have now a new book – Ho Ho Ho).

OpenNTF Essentials deployed in a production enviroment!  

By Christian Guedemann | 12/11/13 12:21 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Today has the WebGate Development Team done the first rollout of OpenNTF Essentials into a production environment.

POI4XPages Version 1.2.4 is out  

By Christian Guedemann | 9/26/13 12:31 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We have released the Version 1.2.4 of the popular POI4XPages framework. The new release contains the following new features.

The “ninja-style” programming model by WebGate  

By Christian Guedemann | 9/25/13 12:22 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

First I’ve to excuse that we are so selfish to call our programming model ninja-style. It was happened based on the fact, that we have programmed ninjas in internal programming course.

<xpt:….> – The XPages Tookit – Beta1 released  

By Christian Guedemann | 9/24/13 12:32 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We have released an early beta of the XPages Toolkit, called beta1 on OpenNTF.

Chairman of OpenNTF  

By Christian Guedemann | 9/20/13 1:58 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I woke up this morning an my first question was. Is it true? Really? Then I hand over to twitter and my mail account… Yes it’s true. I was yesterday nominated and elected as the new chairman of OpenNTF. A dream has become true.

POI4XPages 1.1.5 delivers PDF Creation of Documents and computeValue for Row/Column Export  

By Christian Guedemann | 2/25/13 2:21 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Today we release the version 1.1.5 of POI4XPages. The real big enhancement is the PDF-export for Wordfiles. Thanks to the programmers of docx4j and Apache FOP, we were able to integrate these projects into POI4XPages.

The odyssey of loading a class in a Eclipse plugin – or how we integrated docx4j in POI4XPages  

By Christian Guedemann | 2/21/13 8:07 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

While I was visiting the IBMConnect in Orlando, Lena investigated about how to convert Word files into PDFs. Because of licence reasons, we decide to use docx4j in conjunction with Apache FOP.

New Documentation for POI 4 XPAGES available  

By Christian Guedemann | 2/14/13 11:56 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Today we released some howtos for POI 4 XPAGES on my.webgate.biz/poi.documentation.

POI 4 XPages Version 1.1.0 released!  

By Christian Guedemann | 1/26/13 5:59 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Only a few hours and I will travel with Roman, Peter and Andre to the IBMConnect2013. The last years “LotusSphere 2012″ (the old name of the IBMConnect) was a game changer in my life. I meet great people like Niklas Heidloff, Philippe Riand, Martin Donnelly, Dan O’Conner and many more.

How to export a view to excel with POI4XPAGES  

By Christian Guedemann | 1/18/13 12:20 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

You have built a beautiful web application where you list all your contacts on a page. Although the contacts can be accessed online some users request an export to excel.

POI 4 XPages is under the apache 2 licence available  

By Christian Guedemann | 1/11/13 12:22 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Yesterday I received an email from our IP Manager Peter Tanner, which confirmed that POI 4 XPages is ready for the openNTF apache 2 licence catalog.

40th birthday – time for a present  

By Christian Guedemann | 12/22/12 2:35 PM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

Today is my 40th birthday. I think this is a good moment for a little present. Today we release the first version of POI 4 XPages. A powerfull extension for the XPages community.