I’m new to Domino Designer and I have to admit I’m kind of lost. I’m interested in a beginner’s guide to Domino book to pick up, or maybe even some online classes that I could take/pay for to get me up and running. Any suggestions?
TIA.
Subject: New to Domino
To be honest, this list is a bit outdated (i’ve not look at it in several months) but it should have some good pointers.
Domino Designer 6.5 Overview
ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/product/dominodesigner/Lotus_DominoDesigner_SS_FINAL.pdf
Domino Designer 6.0 Overview
Domino Designer 6: A Developer’s Handbook (17 December 2002)
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246854.html?Open
Performance Considerations for Domino Applications
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/SG245602.html
Application Performance Tuning, Part 1 (01 Apr 2003)
Part 1 of 2: This article looks at the database, view, and form properties that most commonly affect how well your applications perform.
Application Performance Tuning, Part 2 (01 May 2003)
Part 2 of 2: This article looks at coding practices that can improve application performance. It also examines some common LotusScript methods to see which ones perform best under different conditions.
Tutorial: What’s new with forms and views in Domino 6 (2003 Jun 03)
Domino Designer 6, the familiar rapid application development environment, has undergone enhancements that make it even easier to build powerful collaborative apps for Notes and the Web. This tutorial guides you through a number of new features of forms and views that will improve your applications with less work for you.
LotusScript: Programming views in Notes/Domino 6 (04 Aug 2003)
This article, fifth in a series on new classes and enhancements to LotusScript in Notes/Domino 6, looks at class enhancements and new features to make elements such as the view selection formula and the view’s look and feel programmable.
Decoding the new Notes/Domino 6 agent features (10/01/2002)
Enhancements to the formula language in Domino 6 (11/04/2002)
Meet the Developer: Damien Katz on the Domino 6 formula language (07/02/2001)
Creating context-sensitive help for Notes/Domino 6 applications (10/01/2002)
Debugging LotusScript Part 1 (01 Jul 2003)
Part 1 of 2: This article examines Designer’s LotusScript debugger in detail. It lists several common LotusScript error messages and shows the coding errors that often cause them.
Debugging LotusScript: Domino Applications Part 2 (04 Aug 2003)
Part 2 of 2: A discussion of best practices and advanced techniques for debugging macro formulas, LotusScript in dialog boxes, scheduled agents, and Web agents. Example agents and script libraries help improve your code’s error reporting.
LotusScript: XML classes in Notes/Domino 6 (02/03/2003)
This article, fourth in a series on new classes and enhancements to LotusScript in Notes/Domino 6, looks at new LotusScript classes for exporting, importing, and processing XML data, with example code.
LotusScript: More XML classes Notes/Domino 6 (03/03/2002)
Continuing the series on new classes and enhancements to LotusScript in Notes/Domino 6, this article presents examples of XSL transformation to convert Domino data to XML AND HTML, and using the DXL importer to convert XML to NSF format.
Tutorial: XML-enabling your Lotus Notes application (February 2003)
This tutorial shows how the team at developerWorks used the XML capabilities of Lotus Domino to extract data and transfer it to DB2. The same technique can be used to transform and transfer data to any other relational database engine.
Tutorial: Publishing XML data using Notes/Domino 6
XML, XSL, yadda, yadda, yadda. Lots of hype, but is it all just sizzle and no steak? This tutorial will show you what the fuss is all about. Learn how to use all the cool new XML features of Notes/Domino 6 to integrate XML data or, for that matter, any data that can be converted to and from XML. By understanding how to use these new technologies in your designs, you can produce better applications in less time!
Creating dynamic categorized views (03 Nov 2003)
How to use XML, JavaScript, and the the ReadViewEntries URL command to build categorized views that reduce network traffic and server load, and enhance the UI experience for end-users, with code examples.
Jeff Calow on new Web technologies in Domino 6 Discussion on new Web technologies in Domino 6 and how to work with standard technologies like J2EE.
Making Web browsers look smarter with Domino 6
Building Web applications in Domino 6: A tutorial on Web site addressing
Building Web applications in Domino 6: Web site rules
Building Web applications in Domino 6: Accessing and protecting the file system
Building Web applications in Domino 6: Browser caching and response header rules
Keyword magic for the Web, Part 1 (06 Oct 2003)
Part 1 of 2: How to use @formulas, JavaScript and iframes to create dynamic keyword lists in Web applications. This article shows how to build simple or cascading keyword lists without refreshing the page or building huge JavaScript arrays.
Keyword magic for the Web, Part 2 (13 Oct 2003)
Part 2 of 2: How to use a LotusScript agent to build simple or cascading keyword lists that work dynamically in a Web application, and how to build those keyword lists by accessing a relational database using ODBC.
Creating dynamic categorized views (03 Nov 2003)
How to use XML, JavaScript, and the the ReadViewEntries URL command to build categorized views that reduce network traffic and server load, and enhance the UI experience for end-users, with code examples.
Using Web Site Rules to generate URLs to JSPs
Links to JavaServer Pages (JSPs) stored in Domino databases must omit the NSF file extension in the URL, but it’s easy to forget. This tip shows how to create Web site rules to to omit the file extension.
Tutorial: Simplified JSP page development for Lotus Domino
Do you need the powerful collaborative features that Lotus Domino provides, such as industrial-strength messaging, interactive applications, secured access, workflow, and content management? Do you also want to take advantage of J2EE applications and the object-oriented, portable, multi-threading capabilities they provide? You can have it all with JavaServer Pages (JSPs) technology. The latest release of Lotus Domino – version 6 – provides custom tag libraries that make it easier to build JSP pages that allow you to access, update, create, and delete information in Lotus Domino.
Tutorial: Introduction to Lotus Domino Toolkit for WebSphere Studio
This introductory tutorial shows you how to use the Lotus Domino Toolkit for WebSphere Studio to create a Web application that accesses a Domino database. The application enables you to add or update personal contact documents in the database using JSPs. The tutorial uses WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5, Lotus Domino Toolkit V1.0 Beta (Win32), and Lotus Domino V6.
Tutorial: Building a J2EE application with Domino and WebSphere
WebSphere Application Server and Lotus Domino are both platforms for building distributed, server-based applications. They have different strengths: Application Server provides a complete J2EE platform while Domino provides the unique ability to build collaborative applications. After briefly surveying the various possible ways the two can work together using Java, the tutorial concentrates on how Domino can be used in an Application Server environment using standard multi-tier J2EE design. It pays special attention to the issue of separating presentation logic from business logic and how Domino can participate in the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design using Java ServerPages (JSP), Java servlets, and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB).
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Howard
Subject: New to Domino
A good starter is “Domino Designer 6, A Developer’s Handbook” Redbook.
SG 24 6854 00 on IBM Redbook’s site.
HTH