IBM/Teamstudion seminar .. and a bit on Notes 8
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I was presenting today at the IBM/Teamstudio seminar which was essentially an review of best practice for Notes/Domino applications development, testing and deployment - with a slant towards Teamstudios version control and build software. My presentation was a 30min review of our environment, where we were and the differences made through the use of Build Manager. It all went well and there were some good discussions had about what organisations are doing (or not doing!) in their Notes/Domino development environment to comply with regulatory requirements and the dreaded internal audit.
Andy Porter from IBM also ran a quick overview of Notes/Domino roadmap/strategy stuff and where its all going - and gave the expected Notes 8 demo....
The UI looks great, very slick ( that kind of statement is almost wearing thin now) and the productivity editors look great - I especially liked the the fact that if your file was an MS Office file the editor would simply save back to that format - no questions asked.
I took the opportunity to enquire about composite applications and its interesting that without any other software ie pure Notes, you will be able to do composite applications using your Notes applications. This means you can 'wire' together various Notes applications to provide the user with a view of information spanning multiple Notes dbs. This in itself sounds good - and apparently the wiring is simply a field mapping.
The IBM chap did say that if you want to surface DB2/sap/peoplesoft data you are going to have to look at a Portal server (it doens't have to be Websphere portal) - but I was thinking afterwards, I currently use Notes apps with web services to pull non-Notes data into Notes ... so why not use the Notes apps to present that data - will Notes/Domino effectively work as you 'portal server'?
And while I'm hear .. if you haven't already check out Ed Brills post on selected LS2007 reviews. In particular, the techies out there will like m3s blog entry which gives you plenty of techy sound-bites to muse over.
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I was presenting today at the IBM/Teamstudio seminar which was essentially an review of best practice for Notes/Domino applications development, testing and deployment - with a slant towards Teamstudios version control and build software. My presentation was a 30min review of our environment, where we were and the differences made through the use of Build Manager. It all went well and there were some good discussions had about what organisations are doing (or not doing!) in their Notes/Domino development environment to comply with regulatory requirements and the dreaded internal audit.
Andy Porter from IBM also ran a quick overview of Notes/Domino roadmap/strategy stuff and where its all going - and gave the expected Notes 8 demo....
The UI looks great, very slick ( that kind of statement is almost wearing thin now) and the productivity editors look great - I especially liked the the fact that if your file was an MS Office file the editor would simply save back to that format - no questions asked.
I took the opportunity to enquire about composite applications and its interesting that without any other software ie pure Notes, you will be able to do composite applications using your Notes applications. This means you can 'wire' together various Notes applications to provide the user with a view of information spanning multiple Notes dbs. This in itself sounds good - and apparently the wiring is simply a field mapping.
The IBM chap did say that if you want to surface DB2/sap/peoplesoft data you are going to have to look at a Portal server (it doens't have to be Websphere portal) - but I was thinking afterwards, I currently use Notes apps with web services to pull non-Notes data into Notes ... so why not use the Notes apps to present that data - will Notes/Domino effectively work as you 'portal server'?
And while I'm hear .. if you haven't already check out Ed Brills post on selected LS2007 reviews. In particular, the techies out there will like m3s blog entry which gives you plenty of techy sound-bites to muse over.
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