Month: January 2010

I’ll be speaking at EntwicklerCamp 2010

Lotusphere is over and other events are just around the corner. This year’s EntwicklerCamp will start at 08-March-2010 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

The event is run by the crew around Dutchman Rudi Knegt. Every year they do a fantastic job running the conference.

The agenda seems to be completed now and you can see that not only speakers from Germany are presenting their sessions but also international speakers find their way to the venue. Bob Balaban, Rocky Oliver, Maureen Leeland, Ben Langhinrichs, to name only a few of them.

Rene Winkelmeyer, winner of Lotus Awards category ‘Best Open Source Contribution by an Individual’, will show how to build plugins for the Domino Designer. Don’t miss Werner Motzet talking about Project Management. You have questions about OpenNTF? Come and ask Niklas Heidloff.

Oh, before I forget; I’ ll be presenting on ‘C/ C++ API for beginners’. I will show, how to setup a development environment that can be used to develop API programs for both Windows and Linux. We will catch a glimpse of LSX ( Lotus eXtension Toolkit ) and retrieve information about an embedded picture in a RichText item parsing CDRecords with (pure) LotusScript. OK, we have to use LS2CAPI …


Debug AutoPop process

The auto-populated groups feature in Domino 8.5.x is great, but when you run into problems an error message like:

“Search for auto-populated group members failed for group TEST.: Error looking up name on LDAP Server; See server log for further details.”

is not very helpful, because there is no more info in the server log.

Add debug_autopop=2 to the server’s notes.ini and the next time, the autopop process will be more verbose.

restart task update
01/26/2010 08:32:54.59 [0AA8:0005-0A04] AutoPop>  …Shutting down
01/26/2010 08:32:54   Index update process shutdown
01/26/2010 08:32:55.73 [0E40:0002-06F0] AutoPop>  Admin server is CN=MyServer/O=foo/C=de
01/26/2010 08:32:55.73 [0E40:0002-06F0] AutoPop>  Current server is CN=MyServer/O=foo/C=de
01/26/2010 08:32:55.73 [0E40:0002-06F0] AutoPop>  Starting the Auto Populated Groups thread…
01/26/2010 08:32:55.73 [0E40:0002-06F0] AutoPop>  Started the Auto Populated Groups thread.
01/26/2010 08:32:55.74 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Starting up…
01/26/2010 08:32:55.82 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Found [1] Name and Address Book(s), opening first [names.nsf].
01/26/2010 08:32:55.82 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Member update interval 30
01/26/2010 08:32:55.82 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Domain = foo
01/26/2010 08:32:55   Index update process started:
01/26/2010 08:32:56.82 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Time to perform Member updates for all groups: 01/26/2010 08:32:55
01/26/2010 08:32:56.82 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Next Member update time: 01/26/2010 09:02:56
01/26/2010 08:32:56.82 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Looking for autopopulated groups
01/26/2010 08:32:56.96 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Found 1 auto-populated groups to process.
01/26/2010 08:32:57.96 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Starting to work on group = TEST
01/26/2010 08:32:57.96 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Selection Criteria is= [(&(ObjectClass=person)(mailserver=CN=MyServer/O=foo/C=de))], size = 56
01/26/2010 08:32:58.10 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Failed applying selection criteria = Error looking up name on LDAP Server; See server log for further details., (&(ObjectClass=person)(mailserver=CN=MyServer/O=foo/C=de))
01/26/2010 08:32:58.10 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Finished work on group = TEST
01/26/2010 08:32:58.10 [0E40:0005-0218] AutoPop>  Finished Member updates for all auto-populated groups
01/26/2010 08:32:58   Search for auto-populated group members failed for group TEST.: Error looking up name on LDAP Server; See server log for further details.


Chapter No.8 – ‘What’s New In Notes/Domino 8.5 Development’

Read and/ or download  Chapter No.8 – ‘What’s New In Notes/Domino 8.5 Development’ for free.

The chapter is taken from the new released book “IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1” published by Packt Publishing.

I will review the book as soon as I receive my copy. If you do not want to wait for the review, you can order your copy here. Other reviewers so far are Roy Rumaner and PlanetLotus “Blogger of the year” Chris Toohey.


Customize DAOSEST file attachment size

The daoest by default has a large gap in attachment size evaluation between 64k and 1 MB. You may wish to understand the value of setting the object size between these parameters

Set the Notes.ini parameter DAOSEST_BUCKETS to customize the size shown in the report.

For example:
DAOSEST_BUCKETS=16,64,128,256,512,768,1024,2048,3072,4096
The above line sets to 16K, 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K, 768K, 1MB, 2MB, 3MB and 4MB.

It can be set to any set of 10 values in kilobytes.

Source: Lotus Software KnowledgeBase #1418102


There is life after Lotusphere

Everybody is talking about Lotusphere 2010 that is just around the corner. Many people from all around the world will come to Orlando, Florida and will have a great time. That’s for sure.
Well, I am not attending for several reasons. No need to discuss this as I cannot change it.
But there is a life after Lotushere 2010. If you cannot get to LS, let Lotussphere come to you!!

Volker Weber posted earlier today about the edcom Nachlese in München.

A few days later, Ron Sebastian, Ed Brill and Brent Peters will show up at the “Lotusphere Comes To You” event in Düsseldorf, Germany. And I will attend this event.  I attended in 2007 and it was great.

2 weeks later, EntwicklerCamp 2010 will start in Gelsenkirchen. And it is for sure that I will attend this event,  because I will present a session on all  things C / C++ Api.  Bob Balaban also has a session on using the API.

The agenda is not yet completed, but the team around Rudi Knegt will have no problems filling the existing gaps.

Another event in Q1/2010 is run by the Belux Lotus User Group on March, 30th 2010. According to the BLUG website, it will be a full day event with 20 sessions in 3 tracks covering Administration, Development and Business/Other topics.

I have already entered the date in my calendar. Hope to see some well known members of the Yellowsphere and some new one then.


IdeaJam: Make NotesPeek OpenSource

NotesPeek seems no longer be maintained. It is still available as version 1.53. This version supports LND 6, but also works in version 7, 8, and 8.5x. The tool is invaluable if you want to do look into each and every corner of a Notes document or da data structure.
Pls. support my idea of making this tool Open Source: