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Ytria Summer Promotion


If you’re developing in Notes and if you’re not using the Ytria tools you’re crazy! Crazy I tell you! 😉 Once I saw that Ytria was repeating their promo from last summer I had to share it.

I have been using their suite of tools since last year and I’m finding it increasingly difficult to live without actionBarEZ and signEZ. The first because I hate doing repetitive work and it lets me easily copy action bar design styles among views, forms and subforms and the latter because, as a consultant for hire, I do a lot of signing and cleaning up before shipping databases to customers. signEZ lets me do that and it is much easier than using the Domino Administrator.

This is why I don’t find it hard to recommend that you stop by Ytria and take advantage of their Summer Promotion where you can get free license keys that will last you until 25 August.

Oh! And they’re stand-up guys too and look so cute at Lotusphere in their orange t-shirts! 🙂 At Lotusphere 2007 I hung out with Andre Hausberger to talk about a new tool they where doing (agentEZ). Before long Andre had fetched the lead developer and we were taling feature requests and possible solutions… How’s that for accessibility! 😉

YAHOO! Pipes

I have nothing against Duffbert – really! I think he’s a stand-up guy. I appreciate his interest in doing book reviews but I really only want his posts on everything else. To make it possible I created my very first YAHOO! Pipe. It’s so very cool it’s almost indescribable. What I did was to add a feed component with the URL of Duffbert’s main feed, added a filter component to block all items where the title contains “Book Review” (the filter component understands that it is filtering a RSS feed and gives me the fields from the feed to filter by) and pipe that to the output (see below). Simple and effective.

Once the pipe had been created I simply subscribed to that feed instead. What’s really cool is that if I would rather have a JASON feed to include in the web-page I simply have Pipes change the output format for me! Sweet!

If you haven’t looked at YAHOO! Pipes yet you really owe it to yourself to do it.

Eclipse 3.3 is here – what does that mean for Lotus Expeditor?

As you might have heard version 3.3 of the Eclipse platform has been released under the codename of Europa (Eclipse 3.3 Europa) and is now the preferred version of Eclipse for new developers. With the new Eclipse release I’m wondering where that leaves us developing for Notes 8 and Sametime 7.5. Will development for the IBM Lotus Expeditor platform be supported with Eclipse 3.3 or will we need to stay to Eclipse 3.2 to be supported?

I’m just curious. It isn’t too much of a problem for me right now as I’m already running both Eclipse 3.1 and Eclipse 3.2 on different projects so adding a third to the mix shouldn’t be too much of a hazzle. I’m just curious as I think it will set a precedence as to how IBM Lotus plans to keep up with the ongoing development and evolution of the Eclipse platform.

Another reason why it isn’t too much of an issue for me is that I’m on Windows XP. One of the noteworthy features of Eclipse 3.3 is the support for Mac OSX on Intel. This is interesting since we as Notes/Domino developers are extending our reach into the Mac market and hence this kind of support is required.