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Expeditor and more 11 May 2007

I know, I know, still slacking on the weblog front… Anyway, a post to say that things are finally happening that may be of interest to you, dear patient reader. A brief summary:

  • DominoWiki is actually under active development. I hope to have the new version out imminently. The wiki mark-up processor has been split so that mark-up is parsed when saving, leaving just the “live” wiki links to be parsed at run-time (hat-tip to John Smart for getting me to actually commit to doing this!)—needless to say, this change should help performance. I have also been working on various CSS, Javascript and mark-up tweaks so that DominoWiki starts to become a better web citizen. Like I say, a release soon.
  • Expeditor. You may have heard of this… Chortle. Anyway, the ’blog silence this week is attributable to Lotus Expeditor. I have just returned from a four-day Innovation Centre workshop covering the fundamentals of Expeditor. Given that said tool is the basis for Sametime 7.5x and Lotus Notes 8 (standard), it makes sense to get to know the beast (think Eclipse RCP on steroids).
  • General web development and tinkering. Various random projects, bits of code, investigating new Javascript libraries like moo… It all adds up.

I have a load of stuff to write up and make sense of. I hope to publish said witterings on this very site shortly, so if there’s something you particularly want to know about, do shout!

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Comments

  1. Love to see what you think of developing for Expeditor. I'm reading everything IBM publishes about it, but I seem to have a steep learning curve. Presumably it all makes perfect sense if you already know how to develop in eclipse?Rob McDonagh#
  2. I too am waiting with bated breath on what you have to say about Expeditor. I have a huge project facing me and think that it might be well served by the new platform. Of particular interest will be the mixed data access model and object persistence.Andy Broyles#
  3. The MooTools library is quite nice to work with, I implemented the webpolls and calendar functions of BlogSphere V3 with MooTools and I'm using a third party script called SlimBox for the photo part of BlogSphere.Declan Lynch#
  4. @1 / 2: yup. Creating applications in Expeditor, at the basic level, is akin to creating Eclipse plug-ins. Expeditor then offers a whole lot more in terms of provisioning the client and applications, the property broker, personalisation / branding, data stores, synchronisation options, and so on and so forth.

    I will write some thoughts once I’ve digested the material we ran through. It was a good course, and really showed how far IBM has come with rich clients (a far cry from the early betas of the managed client in Workplace 2.x).

    @3: so far I’m pretty impressed. I especially like the way the moo site lets you build a Javascript library on the fly, depending on which bits you need: useful stuff.Ben Poole#
  5. Add me to the list of those interested in what you have to say about Expeditor. My interest stems from how to describe/educate on this technology within the Notes customer base, since, as you say, it's part of Notes 8 (and Sametime 7.5). Ed Brill#
  6. Now that’s definitely going to be an interesting challenge :-) Ben Poole#

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