Is the Notes/Domino platform getting too complex?
Ben Poole posted a link to a rant on developerWorks (notes.net). The post addressed some of the same points that Nathan addressed some time back in his "Hourglass Community" post.
I think it is interesting that a post like this was posted to LDD not too long after Nathan posted about the same thing. I find it curiously interesting that the Notes/Domino platform turns more and more complicated and that the questions posted on LDD turn more and more basic... It could be that (real) developers simply get their information from other sources such as blogs and that those left in the forum really are the newbies. It could also be an indication that the platform getting increasingly complex is revealing to real problem for IBM Lotus.
How do we fix it? How do we get Notes/Domino developers to get smarter? It is really our, non-IBM'ers, job? Something to ponder over the weekend...
Discovering Notes 8: Productivity gain from calendar ghosting and the sideshelf
I just discovered a very nice feature of calendar ghosting in the Day-at-a-Glance component - you can right click a ghosted calendar entry right in there in the sideshelf component and accept it right from there. Now that makes sense and saves time. Nice!
Discovering Notes 8: Spill-over from Eclipse
How's this for Eclipse spill-over and a "free" feature that, at least for me, is the feature of the week? Try pressing Ctrl-F8 in your Notes 8 client...
Pressing the key-combination will bring up a keyboard navigateable list of open tabs. Select the tab you need with the arrow keys (or press Ctrl-F8 successive times) and press Enter. It's basically the same as in Eclipse except in Eclipse it shows a list of active perspectives. In fact the Notes 8 client still refers to "perspectives" in the keyboard shortcut list.
Nice ha?