UKLUG - Open The Toolbox - Tools for the Domino Developer
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The document provides a comprehensive list of tools, resources, and tips for Lotus Notes developers, covering areas like development environments, debugging, performance analysis, and community resources. It includes links to various tools for Java, JavaScript, web services, database management, and visualization. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of error logging and offers resources for unit testing, PDF generation, and network monitoring.
UKLUG - Open The Toolbox - Tools for the Domino Developer
- 1. Tools for the Lotus Notes Developer (no, that is not Comic Sans) © RunningNotes
- 2. Kathy Brown PSC Group runningnotes.net @RunningKathy @NotesDevTips Too many to list Blackberry Today Podcast © RunningNotes
- 3. Julian Robichaux panagenda nsftools.com @jrobichaux @chiasheep TakingNotes podcast © RunningNotes
- 4. Developer Tools! © RunningNotes
- 5. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 6. NoteMan http://www.martinscott.com/Site.nsf/ID/Noteman Editor, DocDelta, Design, ACL © RunningNotes
- 7. NoteMan What do you get for free? See & sort a table of all field values, types, etc. Print, forward and copy See all doc readers and authors Search a database by NoteID, UNID, formula and profile name See a sortable view of profile docs See a sortable view of design elements Find a doc by URL Test a formula on a doc © RunningNotes
- 8. ytria scanEZ aclEZ agentEZ really databaseEZ nice way replicationEZ to change signEZ properties viewEZ on multiple actionbarEZ etcEZ... views/folders http://www.ytria.com © RunningNotes
- 9. Noteshound design element properties profile doc editor code search document locks deletion stubs etc. http://www.noteshound.com © RunningNotes
- 10. OSGi Console for output only, see: Help - Support - View Trace © RunningNotes
- 11. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 12. Agent Profiling Really easy to do To see the results, just right-click the agent and choose “View Profile Results” Works on triggered and scheduled agents LotusScript or Java © RunningNotes
- 13. Agent Profile Before © RunningNotes
- 14. Agent Profile Before © RunningNotes
- 15. almost 50% Agent Profile Before © RunningNotes
- 16. almost 50% Agent Profile Before © RunningNotes
- 17. Agent Profile After © RunningNotes
- 18. Teamstudio Profiler © RunningNotes http://www.teamstudio.com/Develop/Profiler/tabid/184/id/2/Default.aspx
- 19. Error Logging Please, oh please, add error logging to your code I can virtually guarantee you will find errors you didn’t know were happening Some options on OpenNTF: OpenLog Flow Assono Framework © RunningNotes
- 20. Visustin Flowchart © RunningNotes http://www.aivosto.com/visustin.html
- 21. DDE Search © RunningNotes
- 22. Teamstudio LSCalls http://www.teamstudio.com/ Resources/FreeUtilities/ tabid/212/Default.aspx © RunningNotes
- 23. LotusScript Debugger Tricks All the Script Libraries in play Call stack © RunningNotes
- 24. LotusScript.doc http://blog.lsdoc.org © RunningNotes
- 25. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 26. XPages Toolbox http://www.openntf.org/p/xpages+toolbox © RunningNotes
- 27. XPages Debug Toolbar http://www.openntf.org/p/XPage+Debug+Toolbar © RunningNotes
- 28. Print to Console print(“**********”); print(“Starting the OnClientLoad event”); print(“We got this variable - “ +varName; © RunningNotes
- 29. PDF Generation Custom code Use a Java library like: iText (check the license) Apache FOP Some XPages examples: http://www.qtzar.com/blog/7plcn79gsvsw http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/DominoHerald/entry/ pdfs_from_xpages_via_itext_presentation_at_mwlug_2012 http://www.nnsu.com/ApacheFOP.nsf/FOPOC.xsp http://mattwhite.me/blog/2007/5/9/using-itext-for-pdf- generation.html © RunningNotes
- 30. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 31. Debugging Yes, you can debug Java in Notes agents and XPages See Julian and Mark Myers’ Lotusphere presentation: http://londondevelopercoop.com/ldc.nsf/pages/goodies © RunningNotes
- 32. FindBugs Static analysis Bug categories: Correctness Bad Practice Dodgy Code http://findbugs.sourceforge.net © RunningNotes
- 33. JUnit Unit testing! Yes, you can use JUnit with Notes agents and XPages See Julian and Mark Myers’ Lotusphere presentation: http://londondevelopercoop.com/ldc.nsf/pages/goodies http://www.junit.org © RunningNotes
- 34. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 35. Firebug http://getfirebug.com © RunningNotes
- 36. Firefox Web Developer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/web-developer © RunningNotes
- 37. JSLint http://www.jslint.com © RunningNotes
- 38. Aptana JavaScript and CSS editor Which tags work with which browsers Content-assist (including Dojo, jquery, etc.) http://www.aptana.com © RunningNotes
- 39. Mobile Toolkits Lots to choose from: http://mobilecontrols.openntf.org http://www.sencha.com/products/touch http://phonegap.com Check blogs and LUG presentations for examples Third party solutions: Teamstudio, We4IT, etc. © RunningNotes
- 40. json parser http://json.parser.online.fr © RunningNotes
- 41. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 42. Balsamiq http://www.balsamiq.com © RunningNotes
- 43. yslow Web page performance analysis Suggestions for improvement Chrome, Firefox, Safari, iPhone bookmarklet http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow © RunningNotes
- 44. Blueprint.css http://www.blueprintcss.org © RunningNotes
- 45. Twitter Bootstrap http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap © RunningNotes
- 46. Google Chrome https://www.google.com/chrome © RunningNotes
- 47. ie developer tools https://browserling.com © RunningNotes
- 48. Firebug, again Change css directly on the page to “preview” © RunningNotes
- 49. iPhone Simulator Mac only Installed with XCode Not 100% the same as Mobile Safari on the iPhone, but as close as you’ll get Simulate different IOS/iPhone versions https://developer.apple.com/xcode © RunningNotes
- 50. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 51. Paint.net http://www.getpaint.net © RunningNotes
- 52. color pickers Pixie for Windows http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php DigitalColor Meter for Mac just type “color” in Mac’s search bar © RunningNotes
- 53. screen capture SnagIt (Windows and Mac) http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html Faststone Capture (Windows) http://www.faststone.org/ FSCaptureDetail.htm Used to have a free version Shift-Control-4 (Mac) © RunningNotes
- 54. HALFWAY DONE! © RunningNotes
- 55. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 56. Dojo Charts Start with Paul Withers’ blog entries: http://www.intec.co.uk/dojox-charting-tutorial-part-one- background-and-generic-code http://www.intec.co.uk/tag/dojox-charting http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/ Dojox_Charting_for_XPages For additional reference: http://dojotoolkit.org/documentation/tutorials/1.6/charting © RunningNotes
- 57. gliffy http://www.gliffy.com © RunningNotes
- 58. jFreeChart See Julian’s LS 2012 Show ‘n Tell slides for examples and information http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart © RunningNotes
- 59. jqPlot http://www.jqplot.com © RunningNotes
- 60. amcharts / ammaps Charts are now JavaScript or Flash http://www.amcharts.com © RunningNotes
- 61. NotesSQL Still works with 8.5 Treat Notes views like relational db tables Any ODBC reporting program can use a Notes database as a data source http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/notesdomino/notessql © RunningNotes
- 62. ASND Export http://www.openntf.org/p/asnd © RunningNotes
- 63. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 64. TCPView http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437 © RunningNotes
- 65. fiddler http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2 © RunningNotes
- 66. Charles Web Proxy multi-platform, throttling, DNS spoofing, not free http://www.charlesproxy.com © RunningNotes
- 67. Wireshark http://www.wireshark.org © RunningNotes
- 68. Apple Network Link Conditioner https://developer.apple.com/downloads © RunningNotes
- 69. SoapUI http://www.soapui.org © RunningNotes
- 70. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 71. XPages ExtLib http://extlib.openntf.org © RunningNotes
- 72. FlySpeed SQL Query (ODBC) http://www.activedbsoft.com/overview-querytool.html © RunningNotes
- 73. SquirrelSQL (JDBC) http://www.squirrelsql.org © RunningNotes
- 74. Microsoft Excel (really) Data - Import External Data - New Database Query © RunningNotes
- 75. WAMP (has MySQL) Apache MySQL PHP PHPMyAdmin SQLBuddy Easy install Great for quick testing of MySQL http://www.wampserver.com © RunningNotes
- 76. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 77. VMWare http://www.vmware.com © RunningNotes
- 78. Notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org © RunningNotes
- 79. Sticky Notes © RunningNotes
- 80. WinMerge (diff tool) http://winmerge.org © RunningNotes
- 81. hex editor Choices include: Frhed for Windows http://frhed.sourceforge.net HexEdit for Mac http://hexedit.sourceforge.net © RunningNotes
- 82. Evernote http://evernote.com © RunningNotes
- 83. ProcessExplorer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 © RunningNotes
- 84. 7Zip MUCH faster than native Windows zip/unzip gzip and tar files easy viewing of JAR files too http://www.7-zip.org © RunningNotes
- 85. Lotus Notes Client Domino Designer XPages Java JavaScript Web Design and Prototyping Graphics Charts, Graphs, and Reports Networking and Web Services Relational Database Tools General Developer Tools Community Resources © RunningNotes
- 86. PlanetLotus http://planetlotus.org © RunningNotes
- 87. OpenNTF http://www.openntf.org © RunningNotes
- 88. StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/xpages © RunningNotes
- 89. LUGs (duh) © RunningNotes
- 90. LotusUserGroup Newsletters http://lotususergroup.org © RunningNotes
- 91. BleedYellow http://www.bleedyellow.com © RunningNotes
- 92. Skype http://www.skype.com © RunningNotes
- 93. Twitter https://twitter.com © RunningNotes
- 94. THANK YOU! © RunningNotes