Microsoft Teams is probably one of the most used tools this year, it was already quite popular before the pandemic started to spread across the world this spring, but now most of the businesses I work with use it. After using it just like a chat/conferencing tool, many start to explore further capabilities of the platform. When working with Domino data in apps that are web-enabled, it can be quite easy - just add a web tab anywhere you want. The problem is, that you need to deal with user authentication.

Running HCL Volt Docker test server on Windows is now really easy. New Windows Subsystem for Linux allows easy integration with Linux sub-system that can be used to build a Docker image using domino-docker project. Exploring new Domino and Volt features is now easier than ever.

While doing optimization of application load time I found that XPagesPreloadDB notes.ini parameter didn't work in way I expected. With quick google search I realized that I'm not the first one to hit this problem as John Dalgaard wrote about the issue few years ago.

Recently I encountered a problem, where Notes Java agent contained strange characters. My Domino Designer was set to UTF-8 and everything looked fine when I changed those characters to correct ones, but only until I reopened this design element again.

Last month I had opportunity to speak at ICS.UG user group together with Martin Jinoch. It was great event as I mentioned in previous post. Our slides are available on ICS.UG session list, but I also want to publish demo video and GIT repository that I used for the demo.

It's been long since I wrote my last post. For part of that period I completely left world of Domino and XPages. During that time also many interesting XPages technologies and project appeared or got more popular. One of them is build automation using Maven, so my plan for holidays was to check recent posts from Christian and Jesse about mavenization of XPages libraries.