It's been a long while since I've posted on this blog. It's not because there's no domino news. There is heaps of domino news and it's been coming in leaps and bounds. If anything, the lack of posts indicates that life has gotten busier than ever. Over the weekend, there was a question on Domino on Facebook which I felt needed answering - have I mentioned Domino on Facebook before? Try some of these groups: HCL Notes Domino Administrators HCL Notes Domino Developers HCL Notes Domino Etc Enthusiasts I'm sure there are plenty of others. Anyway, the question was on exchanging Domino data and I mentioned the REST API. My original intention was to cover it in this post but I've decided to use this post to catch you all up on where we are with Domino first. Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay Domino Not Notes We don't generally talk about Notes at work. We try not to create new Notes accounts but we still have to because we have one key (wide
Lotus Notes is old software and I should know, I've been using it for 30 years. It's so old that it pre-dates the internet and it's considered to be one of the first popular "email" platforms. It's still widely in use today but many users simply don't want to talk about it. A Quick Apology I want to begin with a quick apology for the inflammatory title and the use of the word "Lotus". After all, we don't call PowerPoint "Forethought Presenter" anymore do we? There's a very specific audience that I'm talking to with this post and if you're not calling it HCL Domino, then that's you. Wormhole Image generated by Stable Diffusion AI Are you still on the platform? A lot of people who believe that they migrated off the Notes/Domino platform many years ago are still using the software. It's so capable that it's hard to replace. It's quite often still running major operations from dusty unloved servers in back r