Resources for AD201 – How the Jedi's Do Plug-in Development

As promised, here is the list of resources referenced for the AD201 Lotusphere session.

You can drag and drop the following links to your My Widgets panel in the Notes client:

Attachment Viewer Widget

Mail Rules Widget

Multiple Database Search Widget

Referenced Project links:

Deploying trusted plugins to your enterprise

This is a pretty hot topic for enterprises deploying the now many plug-ins available in the Lotus community. Do you want to deploy trusted plug-ins? Do you want to control what plug-ins can be installed? Then you may want to consider reading these resources:

First thing you need to know is how to sign your plugin, check out this great article for how to do that: Explore Eclipse’s plug-in signature mechanism.

Next, you will need to setup the Domino policies to restrict what certificates can be accepted by your clients. Check out the Domino wki for that: Pushing trusted certificates to Lotus Notes clients.

Lotusphere: Meet the developers lab!

Every year I am surprised by how many people that do not know about the Meet the Developers Lab at Lotusphere. This year  it is in the Dolphin, Asia 1 and 2. Usually the rooms right next to the escalator down to the product show case. If you have any level of technical questions that are not clear or answered in a session then this is the place to go!

I will also be in the lab at designated times, see below. If you want to know the schedule of a speaker for lab time then you can simply ask the podium at the front of Asia 1 to print it out for you. This way you can visit the developer you want to see on your time.

Here is my schedule:

Mon 11:00 – 12:00
Mon 05:00 – 6:00
Tue 11:00 – 12:00
Tue 01:00 – 5:00
Wed 11:00 – 1:00
Wed 02:00 – 5:00
Thu 09:30 – 11:00

Java tops the list of "in-demand" and highest paid skills!

Great article on IT skills in demand with some key points taken from a survey.

“.NET were relatively low on the scale, compared to Java, C, and even ColdFusion Developers” – link

A couple of shockers – Apex, the language of SalesForce.com and Python over Ruby…really??

Java/J2EE commandeer the highest salaries on average

It looks like general Network and Security people also have a pretty nice path. The article also eludes to cloud specialists not getting paid so high in the future.

How do I do that in Lotus Notes?

I have been watching my video “watched” counts for a bit and I am very surprised the most widely watched videos on my YouTube and Videos page are the ones targeted for end users. I mostly write about very technical things like API’s, Java, Dojo, or using Eclipse, etc so this is kind of surprising to me. I also have many friends and family who use Lotus Notes on a daily basis at work and I am shocked to hear some of their questions. I might go ahead and create a series of quick tip videos specifically for Lotus Notes use. If you have any cool ideas you want to see in a quick tip video let me know.

Also, don’t forget, the Lotus VideoFest ends next week!