Who´s using Ext.nd?
Rich and I are about to release the next beta of Ext.nd which includes support for categorized views and several bug fixes (see the demo app on OpenNTF to see the categorized views in action). I know we have been a bit slow in releasing this release and for the most part, it was ready to be released in June. We have each been extremely busy this summer with work and family issues. We hope you understand and forgive us. But now, the wait is almost over. We'll be releasing the next beta very soon (planned for this week). But I'm curious, how many of you are using Ext.nd and find it useful for your Domino Web development? What kind of enhancements would you like to see? Rich and I have already started the next beta with some new features that I think are simply amazing but tell us, what would you like to see us do? Would you like more work done on the JavaScript API to access the Domino objects? Or do you want us to give you more control of building your own custom UIs instead of using the locked in UI of the DominoUI class? Or would more example apps help? So, let us know if you're using Ext.nd and what you like/dislike and want to see added to the framework. If you're not using Ext.nd let us know that as well so that everyone who stumbles to this blog post can hear of the other options available to Domino Web developers. We know that IBM has worked hard on including support for dojo in 8.x and then there is dojomino that Lance has headed up. Is there any other Domino focused frameworks in the works? Who´s using Ext.nd?
25 August 2008 … 13 - COMMENTS
Why isn´t there a NotesDatabase.WebFilePath property?
Maybe it exists in Domino version 8. Anyone know? If it did exist then it would sure make my life a little easier. We ran into an issue recently where NotesDatabase.FilePath returned the full filesystem path for an application we were accessing from a browser using the "Preview In Web Browser" action. If we accessed the application from a Domino server we got back the path relative to the data directory (which is what we want). However, if we accessed the application by using the "Preview In Web Browser" action, we then got back the complete filesystem path (e.g. c:\notes\data\somepath\db.nsf). Ironically, Tommy Valand blogged on this same issue just last week. Unfortunately, we can't use his solution since we aren't processing any documents when we need to get the web file path of a database. Luckily for us in our need for accessing the FilePath method is that we already know the relative path. So, for now, we'll just not use the FilePath property and hope to one day see a WebFilePath property. Why isn´t there a NotesDatabase.WebFilePath property?
24 August 2008 … 9 - COMMENTS