• New web interface to the Ext.nd database
• New included demo database
• Simplified deployment, no longer a requirement to copy over tons of design elements
• Uses Ext 2.0.1
• New ViewSuggest component
• Automatic conversion of several basic @formulas
• Lots and Lots of Bug fixes

Check out the Release Thread for the download

Also a quick update on our new release. We’re almost finished with everything, just down to some final testing and cleanup before we release it as I expect this version to see a whole lot more use than the prior ones

To take a break from things for a bit I decided to see what it would take to hack up one of the Wordpress plugins I use called Sociable. This plugin gives you a listing of more social web sites than you’ve ever heard of to simply checkmark those you want to include and place links at the bottom of each post (seen below). Wanting to support the new public Dogear offering, I wanted to add a button so that posts could be easily added to Bleed Yellow.

Since they all have nifty little icons, I first needed to find a picture of ‘the claw’ that I could use. Luckily someone had already created a favicon version. I downloaded it and simply converted it over to a PNG file to remain consistent with the other Sociable icons. ->

Next I needed to edit the sociable.php file to add my new site to their listing. Right near the top of the file they have an array containing all of the site definitions called “$sociable_known_sites”, within that array I added:

‘BleedYellow’ => Array(
‘favicon’ => ‘bleedyellow.png’,
‘url’ => ‘http://www.bleedyellow.com/dogear/post?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE’,
),

Following the known sites array is an array listing all of the files Sociable uses. Within this ‘$sociable_files’ array I added a simple:

‘images/bleedyellow.png’,

(Which corresponds to the location that I put the image file)

After the quick hacks, my new site showed up in the options page and a simple check added it to my site. After hacking this up I thought I would try my hand at BlogSphere, but after searching for short while I wasn’t able to decipher where this would go. Perhaps someone more familiar will add it in.

I’m certainly excited to share everything that we’ve been working on and think the new release comes a long way in making things even easier on developers. Everything has also been converted over to the Ext 2.0 framework which alone provides vast improvements to performance and consistency.

Some things to look forward to:

• Simplified implementation – you no longer need to copy over design elements into your database
• Application Profiles – this is a bit more difficult to explain without going into a lot of detail, but the basic idea is that you will have an easy configuration form that will drive how Ext.nd deals with the various components within your application.
• Simplified HTMLHead/JSHeader – after filling out an application profile you can implement the Ext.nd code into a page or form with a single @DBLookup
• And More – There’s some other really cool stuff, but I want to leave some surprises

I’ll be moderating a BOF and giving a presentation showing off the Ext.nd project.

BOF104: Integrating Open Source AJAX/Javascript Frameworks with IBM Lotus Domino
- Monday 6:15PM – 7:15PM – Swan Peacock 2

BP207: From IBM Lotus Notes Client Application to AJAX-Powered Rich Internet Application in Less than 10 Lines of Code!
- Tuesday 8:30AM – 9:30AM – Swan Pelican

See you there!

As for Ext.nd, I plan to continue working on the project and will still be giving the presentation next month at Lotusphere– See you there!

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Notes 8 Beta 2

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Some newlines have been stripped to shorten things a bit. Anyhow, someone said before that they would be dropping the @ as it doesn’t translate well to javascript (and doesn’t allow direct access to the properties of the serialized object) but that doesn’t appear to be the case. They updated all the attribute names and values to make sure everything is enclosed in double quotes. They also changed the content type from “application/x-javascript” to “application/json”.

Looks like the updates are as promised, and this should not require any code updates for those who implemented code on the 7.0.2 version.

My presentation ended up getting canceled since there wasn’t a large turnout and we started a bit late to see if others would show. So instead of our formal presentation recapping Lotusphere we just chatted about it a bit.

I know that these gatherings can become popular…. Just looking at the ILUG (Ireland lotus users group) which has turned into a two day mini-conference is amazing.

Anyway, if you haven’t seen Interface Matters (Chris’s blog) before, I highly recommend it. He does some amazing things within the Notes client.