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Tools for the Lotus Notes Developer

(no, that is not Comic Sans)

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Kathy BrownPSC Group

runningnotes.net

@RunningKathy@NotesDevTipsToo many to list

Blackberry Today Podcast

Julian Robichauxpanagenda

nsftools.com

@jrobichaux@chiasheep

TakingNotes podcast

Developer Tools!Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Notes ClientDomino DesignerXPagesJavaJavaScriptWeb Design and PrototypingGraphicsCharts, Graphs, and ReportsNetworking and Web ServicesRelational Database ToolsGeneral Developer ToolsCommunity Resources

NoteManhttp://www.martinscott.com/Site.nsf/ID/Noteman

Editor, DocDelta, Design, ACL

NoteManWhat 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

http://www.ytria.com

scanEZaclEZ

agentEZdatabaseEZ

replicationEZsignEZviewEZ

actionbarEZetcEZ...

really nice way to change properties on multiple views/folders

OSGi Console

for output only, see: Help - Support - View Trace

Lotus Notes ClientDomino DesignerXPagesJavaJavaScriptWeb Design and PrototypingGraphicsCharts, Graphs, and ReportsNetworking and Web ServicesRelational Database ToolsGeneral Developer ToolsCommunity Resources

Source Control

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

Agent Profile BeforeTuesday, March 26, 2013

Agent Profile Beforealmost 50%

Agent Profile AfterTuesday, March 26, 2013

Teamstudio Profiler

http://www.teamstudio.com/Develop/Profiler/tabid/184/id/2/Default.aspxTuesday, March 26, 2013

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:OpenLogFlowAssono Framework

DDE Search

LotusScript Debugger Tricks

Call stack

All the Script Libraries in play

LotusScript.doc

http://blog.lsdoc.orgTuesday, March 26, 2013

XPages Toolbox

http://www.openntf.org/p/xpages+toolbox

XPages Debug Toolbar

http://www.openntf.org/p/XPage+Debug+Toolbar

Print to Console

print(“**********”);print(“Starting the OnClientLoad event”);print(“We got this variable - “ +varName;

Mobile Toolkits

Lots to choose from:http://mobilecontrols.openntf.orghttp://www.sencha.com/products/touchhttp://phonegap.com

Check blogs and LUG presentations for examples

Third party solutions:Teamstudio, We4IT, etc.

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

http://www.junit.org

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

Firebug

http://getfirebug.com

Firefox Web Developer

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/web-developer

JSLint

http://www.jslint.com

json parser

http://json.parser.online.fr

Aptana

http://www.aptana.com

JavaScript and CSS editor

Which tags work with which browsers

Content-assist (including Dojo, jquery, etc.)

jQuery

Re-style dynamically

Cool datepickers

Accordion menus

Typeahead, Photo Galleries, Side Panel Slide-Ins, Website “Tour”, Charting, Table of Contents menus, “Read More”, and so much more

http://xomino.com

Balsamiq

http://www.balsamiq.com

http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow

Web page performance analysis

Suggestions for improvement

Chrome, Firefox, Safari, iPhone bookmarklet

Blueprint.css

http://www.blueprintcss.org

Twitter Bootstrap

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap

Google Chrome

https://www.google.com/chrome

ie developer tools

https://browserling.com

Firebug, againChange css directly on the page to “preview”

Inspect HTML

so much more

http://www.w3resource.com/web-development-tools/firebug-tutorials.php

iPhone Simulator

https://developer.apple.com/xcode

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

HALFWAY DONE!

Paint.net

http://www.getpaint.net

color pickers

Pixie for Windowshttp://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php

DigitalColor Meter for Macjust type “color” in Mac’s search bar

screen capture

SnagIt (Windows and Mac)http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html

Faststone Capture (Windows)http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htmUsed to have a free version

Shift-Control-4 (Mac)

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

gliffy

http://www.gliffy.com

jFreeChart

http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart

See Julian’s LS 2012

Show ‘n Tell slides for

examples and information

jqPlot

http://www.jqplot.com

amcharts / ammaps

http://www.amcharts.com

Charts are now JavaScript or

NotesSQL

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/notesdomino/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

XPages ExtLib JDBC

http://extlib.openntf.org

FlySpeed SQL Query (ODBC)

http://www.activedbsoft.com/overview-querytool.html

SquirrelSQL (JDBC)

http://www.squirrelsql.org

Microsoft Excel (really)

Data - Import External Data - New Database Query

WAMP (has MySQL)

http://www.wampserver.com

ApacheMySQLPHPPHPMyAdminSQLBuddy

Easy install

Great for quick testing of MySQL

VMWare

http://www.vmware.com

Notepad++

http://notepad-plus-plus.org

Sticky Notes

WinMerge (diff tool)

http://winmerge.org

hex editor

Choices include:Frhed for Windows http://frhed.sourceforge.net

HexEdit for Machttp://hexedit.sourceforge.net

Evernote

http://evernote.com

ProcessExplorer

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653

http://www.7-zip.org

MUCH faster than native Windows zip/unzip

gzip and tar files

easy viewing of JAR files too

PlanetLotus

http://planetlotus.org

OpenNTF

http://www.openntf.org

StackOverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/xpages

LUGs (duh)

LotusUserGroup SocialBizUg.org Newsletters

http://lotususergroup.org

BleedYellow

http://www.bleedyellow.com

http://www.skype.com

Twitter

https://twitter.com

THANK YOU!

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