IdeaJam (LS09 Best Practices Sessions ideas)

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Getting relational with db2

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:00:34 +0000

Author: Bruce Lill
Tags: db2 domino web2.0
Idea:

With Domino 8, Lotus provided a free copy of db2 to use as the filestore. This will help you understand how to use the information in db2 to improve your server based applications. Build Query views that will show documents from different Domino database but work like a normal view to allow you to open the documents. Build a dynamic view that lest you select what data to show in any column, so you can reduce the number of views. Work with SQL queries to get the data you need, in the format you can use. Use JavaScript and JSON to create dynamic views for the web that change based on the parameters passed. What are the limitation and problems can occur like no grand total in views.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : ABSTRACT: LOTUS FOUNDATIONS ADMINISTRATION MADE EASY

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:33:30 +0000

Author: Robert Baehr
Tags: Lotusphere2009
Idea:

If you're looking to support Lotus Foundations, then this session is just what you need. Learn basic and advanced Lotus Foundations installation and maintenance tips, including: installation, webconfig, domino configuration, Foundations/Domino interaction, autoinstall, security, and more. Also presented will be softupdate, logs, and tips and tricks to get the most out of Lotus Foundations.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : ABSTRACT: DEPLOYING APPLICATIONS TO LOTUS FOUNDATIONS - HOW IT ALL TIES TOGETHER

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:32:15 +0000

Author: Robert Baehr
Tags: Lotusphere2009
Idea:

Want to deploy your application to Lotus Foundations, but unsure how to get stated? Here's a session that's just for you. In this session, you will learn about the Lotus Foundations architecture, server licensing, packages, autoinstall, license groups, ACLs, and other essential information to assure successful application deployment. In addition, you will learn about tools available to help you get started, as well as some tech-tips to help you get you application securely deployed to Lotus Foundations!

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Free Stuff! 10 Web 2.0 User Interface Patterns for Notes and Xpages

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:03:56 +0000

Author: Chris Blatnick
Tags: userinterface interface demo xpages pattern ui
Idea:

Proposed Speakers: Nathan Freeman, Chris Blatnick

Well...we're trying to get the team back together again, but this time with more real world, here is the code now take it and run kind of stuff. You can see the abstract below. Cheers!

-----Abstract-----

Sometimes the hardest part of a getting a good UI isn't the design itself, but figuring out HOW to get that design out of Notes/Domino. Take a walk through the best dev tricks of the UI pros, with 10 examples of popular UI patterns implemented in both the Notes client and through Xpages. Topics include: inline user feedback, forgiving input formats, zebra striping, tag clouds, vote-to-promote, and more. Walk away both with the knowledge and the source code!

-----Justification-----

For the last two years, we have presented on the theory and practice of UI design in the Notes client, focused primarily on compatibility with previous Notes releases. This year, we want to take a more concrete approach. Instead of theory and demos, we want to take a deep dive on specific UI patterns, primarily from recent Web 2.0 designs. We want to show specific reusable patterns such a rating systems, live filtering and inline field validation feedback -- with both rich client and Xpages implementations.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Cloud computed IBM Lotus iNotes infrastructure - Using IBM Lotus Domino and IBM WebSphere

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:30:22 +0000

Author: Fredrik S�derquist
Tags: iNotes Websphere Domino infrastructure lotusphere2009 ls09
Idea:

Session abstract/description:

How did SLL design and build their unique, highly available and extremely scalable solution for their 45 000+ iNotes-only users using IBM Lotus Domino and IBM WebSphere Application Server? What are the key elements that made SLL’s IBM Lotus Domino solution eligible for an IBM Best Practice whitepaper? This session will show you why asymmetrical mail-clustering and fully automated user management together with an IBM WebSphere Application Server solution is the way to go for large IBM Lotus iNotes-environments. The session will underline the benefits of this solution and show how SLL migrated their 45 000+ users to a new environment without any type of downtime or disturbance with the IBM WAS front end as a key infrastructure element.

Please outline why it is important that this session be included on this year’s Lotusphere agenda:

I think the following statement from the upcoming IBM Best Practice Whitepaper about SLL’s Lotus Domino-environment says it all (statement from first draft of whitepaper, executive summary):

“Based on an ingenious solution design, in combination with strong standard product functionality and a small set of specific custom changes, Stockholm Läns Landsting created, and now operates, a high performance, highly available and extremely scalable collaboration infrastructure, based on IBM software. Stockholm Län Landsting utilizes IBM Lotus Notes and Domino and IBM Lotus Sametime in combination with an IBM WebSphere high availability solution, to implement what IBM characterizes as an industry good practice installation of a feature rich and resilient collaboration environment. Serving more than 46,000 users and sustaining peek loads of approximately 20,000 concurrent users, the Domino installation at Stockholm Län Landsting represents one of the largest deployments of iNotes in the world.”

I believe that SLL have the only true “Cloud computed iNotes-solution” in the world based on IBM software? If not the only, then surely a very unique solution and a good industry/best practice solution utilizing the best of both IBM Lotus Domino and IBM Websphere Application Server to obtain highly available and extremely scalable infrastructure for iNotes. Want to give Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo a competitor using iNotes? – SLL’s solution can easily scale to these proportions and beyond.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Server Rename Best Practices

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:12:25 +0000

Author: Perry Hiltz
Tags: lotusphere2009 server renames clustering
Idea:

When an organization changes names due to a divestiture, acquisition or simple rebranding, there are often issues around changing server names. Domino does not let you rename a server as you would do with an end user, you must register a new server name. Renaming servers also requires updating many additional steps, such as updating server documents, modifying access control lists, and editing group and other documents in the Domino Directory. Then there is the challenge of updating the user's desktop to reflect these changes. This session will describe all of the components you must be aware of to practice safe server renaming. We will show you how to use simple core Domino techniques to make this process effective and nearly transparent to the user community. We will also demonstrate (and give you the code for) some agents that can be used to execute these tasks, and we will introduce you to the concept of "Virtual Clustering", a methodology that will redirect mail and/or applications to a new server without any coding.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Driven to Abstraction –Your Business Logic and Your Platform Need A Little Time Apart

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:21:54 +0000

Author: Scott Boyer
Tags: ls09 lotusphere2009
Idea:

Let’s face it; your code and your platform have developed an unhealthy codependency. To be sustainable, linked applications must remain independently upgradeable and they must integrate with the increasingly diverse platforms that comprise your enterprise. By leveraging SOA theory, you can achieve loose coupling between your business logic and the underlying platform while retaining strong cohesion between your applications. We’ll show you ways to upgrade and modularize your infrastructure with minimal pain and maximum impact by using Java APIs to abstract business logic from the underlying platform. We’ll also examine how Web Services can modularize each component of your intranet – permitting them to be independently upgraded and reused.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Looking for a 24/7 Sametime environment? Let us show you how to achieve high availability and increase performance using DB2, Tivoli, WebSphere (and others). We will cover all Sametime products!!!

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:38:04 +0000

Author: Luis Guirigay
Tags: samertime tivoli websphere db2 high availability lotusphere
Idea:

Session Abstract:

This session will show you how to use different IBM products and technologies in order to provide a High Available Sametime Deployment no matter which Sametime product you are using. We will also provide a few cool tips that will improve your performance and increase your security. After more than 10 years in the industry, Sametime shows itself as robust and stable platform, but most of the companies can‘t afford any outage. Since Sametime is now a platform, and it involves DB2 and WebSphere, we need to show how organizations still can provide 24/7 deployments.

We will show how to use WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, DB2 HADR and Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatform ( and more ) in order to achieve these goals. Also, based on our previous experience doing Sametime implementations, we will provide some tips and hints that will improve performance and security.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes - Making Notes Personal

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:15:04 +0000

Author: Eric Mack
Tags: Productivity GTD Personal KM
Idea:

PROPOSAL #2 -- If you like the idea, please cast your vote!

Birds of a Feather/Community of Interest

Session Title: Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes - Making Notes Personal

Speaker #1 Eric Mack, eProductivity Specialist & Founder, ICA.COM, Inc.

Speaker #2 David Allen, Chairman & Founder, The David Allen Company *

Session Abstract:

This community of interest will explore ways to make using Lotus Notes more productive by making it “personal.” When tools become “personal,” productivity increases and when personal productivity increases, so does the productivity of the workgroup and the organization. This interactive discussion will bring together expert and novice Lotus Notes users to share how they are using Notes for personal action and information management.

Why I think it is important that this session be included on this year’s agenda:

Many people currently use (or would like to use) Lotus Notes for more than just e-mail, discussion and document libraries. They see the power of Notes as a tool not only for collaboration but for self-organization and personal action and knowledge management. We believe that to truly transform an organization, a bottom-up approach to productivity and innovation works best and we would like to meet with others who share the same interest. A focus on knowledge worker productivity will round out the Lotusphere agenda helping everyone, whether individual or manager, get the most from their Notes deployment.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Developing World Class Web 2.0 Applications with XPages

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:22:47 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Tags: xpages lotusphere2009
Idea:

Below is the session abstract submitted by Matthew White and Bruce Elgort:

XPages are the new web design tool that ships with Domino 8.5. In this session we will show you how we built a completely new web 2.0 application using XPages and very little else. We'll talk about why you would want to use XPages in your applications, and how they compare to classic Domino web development techniques. Join us as we walk through what design decisions you need to be thinking about before you start coding, how to use the default UI and then take it to the next level. You'll see a whole ream of development tips and tricks that we have picked up over the last few months converting applications over to XPages. But most importantly of all, we'll give you our application so that you can go home and hit the ground running with your XPages development.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Learn how a Global leader in bio-sciences modernized Notes applications and increased the ‘coolness’ of Notes for end-users with minimal additional investment!!

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:18:16 +0000

Author: Bill Marsden
Tags: lotus notes lotus domino applications
Idea:

Kerry Bio-Sciences has invested in over 100 Notes applications, including 20 business critical applications across the Strategic Planning & Forecasting, Business Development and Project Mgmt areas.

Users perceived their Notes applications as necessary, but antiquated from a data presentation and usability perspective. As process and IT owners, we tried every possible Notes and non-Notes technology solution to address this problem but were unable to make progress.

Faced with mounting complaints about delayed and incomplete delivery of information to users, we modernized our applications to present a more visually appealing and usable information interface to users with spectacular results.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : YellowHat Hacker - Live Hacking Into A Domino Application

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:05:02 +0000

Author: Gregory Engels
Tags: ls09 lotusphere2009 session security hacker development
Idea:

Hacking Domino Application live! Watch and learn about the web application security "the hard way". See how easy it is to break into an unprotected Notes Database and how to protect yourself from such attacks. Learn (and see with your own eyes) how Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Code Injections, Session Riding and other old school 1337 attacks work.

Warning: this session is not for the faint of heart!

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Sametime on Linux

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:02:42 +0000

Author: Gregory Engels
Tags: ls09 lotusphere2009 session best-practices linux sametime
Idea:

Thinking about moving to Sametime to Linux? Or if you about to start installing your first Sametime Server ever, why not do it on Linux? This session will cover everything you need to know to make your deployment a success - with topics covered like performance considerations, configuration tweaks, networking, shell scripting and especially troubleshooting

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Notes.ini

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:54:18 +0000

Author: Gregory Engels
Tags: notes.ini session best-practices ls09 lotusphere2009
Idea:

In this entertaining session you'll get introduced to some notes.ini settings you probably never have heard of. And probably don't want to hear of again. There will be settings for the admins, for the developers, the longest and the shortest setting there is, the funniest and most bizarre and the most practical too! And you will learn at least 10 ways of how to distribute notes.ini your favourite setting to the server or the notes client! Target Audience: Notes.ini editors

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : The Jekyll and Hyde Administrator, 3 Sides to Every Story

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:46:35 +0000

Author: Keith Brooks
Tags: ls09 admin
Idea:

Gregg Eldred and Keith Brooks presenting

As an administrator or a developer, your job is to manage your users, their expectations, and their attitudes. Come experience all 3 sides of the story, the good, the bad and the users. On a daily basis you are asked some pointed and difficult questions. While training the users is a good idea, many organizations have curtailed or eliminated end user training. This session, using role playing and real world examples, will provide you with some tips and tricks to better educate your users without losing your composure.

Reasons:
While the normal reaction to your users' inane requests may be to show contempt, this session will provide you with some tools to leave the user feeling better about Notes/Domino, you, and your environment. We want to encourage people to see the other side, the 3rd view, that of the user's and how some attitudes hurt your reputation, impact your effectiveness, and may adversely affect your employment within your organization. We provide this under best practices because this should be how admins, and developers, work with their users and clients. Sometimes, you never know how bad you are until you see it live on stage.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Admin for the Developer – Build and secure your own Domino Server Playground in one hour!

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:41:31 +0000

Author: Jess Stratton
Tags: ls09
Idea:

Admin for the Developer – Build and secure your own Domino Server Playground in one hour!

Are you a developer who has only worked with a Domino server already in place? Would you like to learn how to start from scratch and make sure you still end up secure? This session will teach developers who have no prior admin experience get a Domino server up and running. In one hour, learn to create your own development playground by walking through a complete install and basic configuration of a Domino server. You’ll use the Administrator client to create user IDs, and configure and secure Domino as both an SMTP and web server. Learn how to set up your firewall or router to access your server from the Internet. Finally, keep your server running smoothly by providing regular maintenance!

Why should this be included in this year's Lotusphere? Many developers don’t even realize that a Domino domain is not the same as an Internet domain – and this is something they will need to set up if they want to get their own server up and running. At the Blogger’s BoF last year, it came up that it’s OK to blog about *basic* Domino issues – there are plenty of folks out there who want and need to know the basics. It’s not always about high level technical speak! Some bloggers said they were afraid their posts were too basic, and it was discussed that those are often the most popular, most Googled, and declared most useful over time.

This would also be suggested as a Show n Tell Session.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Become a User Whisperer to give your users the best upgrade experience possible!

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:38:57 +0000

Author: Jess Stratton
Tags: ls09
Idea:

Become a User Whisperer to give your users the best upgrade experience possible!

If you're an admin who wants to give your users the best upgrade experience to any version of Notes, you need to become a User Whisperer! Learn techniques for getting your users more involved, tips for easing into the new version, and ways to get them excited about the upgrade. Find out how to speak the language of end users to calm their fears. Make decisions about which silent install option is right for your users and learn the array of training options afterwards (which aren't as involved as you think!). Walk away with the skills you need to properly communicate and customize your installation based on your users and your existing situation. An admin that has the full cooperation of their end user is a happy admin!

Why should this be presented at this year's Lotusphere?

I have been to many, many Lotusphere's, and I have yet to see a session devoted to our *real* clients as developers and admins - the end users. Administrators and end users stereotypically can't communicate - which leads to frustration on both ends. My session is designed to reduce the frustration. An admin that has the full cooperation of their end user is a happy admin! I presented a similar session like this at Admin2008 and it was very well received and got great reviews!

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Advanced error handling - or why error handling is more than logging

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:26:39 +0000

Author: Thomas Bahn
Tags: lotusphere2009 error handling development lotusscript oop
Idea:

We're living in a complex world. Requirements for software are getting more and more complex. And so have our Notes and Domino applications.
But with the increasing complexity the chance of making errors grows, too. Therefore handling errors well - regardless of whether they stem from incorrect code, whether they are caused by problems with external resources or by invalid user input - is essential for healthy and successful applications.
In this session we'll show you, why handling errors is more than just logging them. We'll explain - in depth - a proven error handling strategy and the LotusScript framework, we implemented it in.
Take away a free script library with instructions, how to integrate it into your applications.

Why is this important and why should you attend (and vote) for this abstract:

Error handling is more than just printing the error and line numbers in the status bar, more than gathering and writing the some information about the error and its context into documents. Logging is an important part, but it's just the beginning.
The object-oriented error handling framework, we've developed in LotusScript, allows developers to log errors, notify users, send mails, ignore (!) certain errors and more. It is extendable by creating subclasses of the basic ErrorHandler class (design pattern: Template method) and by adding ErrorHandler objects to a central priority queue.
In the case of an error, all information about the error itself and its context is collected automatically, the registered handlers are iterated through and get a chance to handle it (design pattern: Chain of Responsiblity).
In this session we'll discuss the requirements covered, tell a little bit about the theory of error handling, explain the design decisions made, and how to use this script library in your own applications. The framework is free and open for extensions.
By the way, a German student wrote his Bachelor thesis about this subject and has contributed some ideas and code to this error handling framework, making it even better, more configurable and extendable (class hierarchy for Loggers).

Speakers:

Bernd Hort, Thomas Bahn

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : XPage Yourself! High Performance Domino Application Development

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:51:36 +0000

Author: Tim Tripcony
Tags: lotusphere2009 notes domino development xpages
Idea:

With the introduction of XPages, Domino developers face a whole new world of opportunity to create compelling applications. At the same time, many battle-tested approaches to building high-performance, scalable systems no longer apply. Learn how to design Xpages applications to maximize performance and reliability by looking at specific data layouts and code samples to leverage cross-NSF integration, scoped variables, and AJAX partial refreshes.

XPages provide us an opportunity to revolutionize how Domino is perceived as an application development platform. Making the most of that opportunity maximizes the value Domino provides to the organization and makes our jobs more fun and rewarding in the process.

LS09 Best Practices Sessions / : Fixing it with Brokers!

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:48:21 +0000

Author: Tim Tripcony
Tags: lotusphere2009 notes domino development
Idea:

Discover how you can utilize specific Server and Database architectures and remote Domino Data Management to provide secure, scalable, and feature-rich Domino Applications. Learn how you can extend our enterprise infrastructures through the creation of middleware Domino Applications and utilization of Java Servlets.

Most Domino Applications are plagued by the idea that "all functionality, data, and UI must reside in the same Domino database container". This session will showcase how - through the creation of Domino Applications that act as "conduits" or middleware solutions - we can read and manage data in single or many Domino Applications.