Domino/Notes 12
My company is having a devil of a time finding a developer. If we decide to train someone from scratch where can we get decent Notes Developer training?
This might be a good place to start at least https://hclsoftwareu.hcltechsw.com/. There are also a number of talented Business Partners in this community. Let’s see if any of them offer training.
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The one that jumps to mind is TLCC. Their training is somewhat dated, but the core pieces are still very much applicable, and the content was developed by very experienced members of the community. tlcc.com
Thank you. I just came upon that site. I can find admin basics and security basics. I know those were part of the agenda for any new developer that last time we went through that training (a time period measured in decades). I cannot find any development courses. Perhaps they have such grandiose names nowadays that one cannot determine they are Notes dev courses?
Do they have like a suggested list of courses for a new dev?
Last time we did this we drove to Indy for training. One of the big national accounting firms also did Notes/Domino training. Was a profitable branch but the accounting firm decided it wasn’t the “right profit” and shut them down. I think that whole accounting firm faded away.
As posted above, there is also HCL University (HCLSoftwareU Domino New) which has prep material for the Admin certification written in the V12 timeline, so as recent as you are going to get. No real Dev material unfortunately. You might also want to check out the latest OpenNTF webinar from last month where Jesse and I did a crash course in Domino Dev topics (OpenNTF.org - The Open Source Community for Collaboration Solutions)
HCL Domino Education Team has launched 3 Instructor Led Paid Trainings
Domino Designer Fundamentals - 5 Days Course
LotusScript - 2 Days Course
XPages - 3 Days Course
You could drop an email to ds.academy@hcl.com for more details
We will also have some free trainings for Domino Application Development in HCLSoftware U in the coming months.
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I do have all Dev courses (Lotus/IBM) for 8 and 9. And even xPages
What kind of developer are you after ? 
Apparently they have finally found one. He started today.
The other thing you can do, of course, is find a developer in this community who can help you. Where are you based?
When I worked for Intec we ran custom XPages courses. But you have to bear in mind creating content for a course takes a lot of time (and skill, to build content that pitches at the right level). So it will cost.
But I’ll also echo comments above, that it depends what kind of development you want. Support and minor tweaks to Notes Client applications requires different training to XPages. Notes Client has overlap with developing for Nomad Mobile in terms of skills, but you need to consider the screen size, so the way you structure the application should change. If it’s support for traditional Domino web, that’s again something very different. But if you want to deploy modern web applications that interact with Domino via Domino REST API, the learning you need should largely be non-Domino-specific.
OpenNTF’s latest webinar covered basics of Notes Client development. There are various tutorials in Domino REST API documentation. I also wrote a blog series about taking an XPages application and converting it to use Domino REST API and framework-less web standards. I wrote a tutorial for Nomad Web before joining HCL.
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