Not to date myself, but I’ve been a Notes/Domino developer for a long time – a certified Lotus Notes developer, administrator and instructor since Notes 2 (long before buttons were
BoxTone for BlackBerry at The VIEW Admin and Lotus Developer Conferences 2009
even in the product). So, I’ve spent lots of time at Domino related events, including the annual Domino Administrator and Lous Domino Developer conferences, hosted by The View magazine. During the last two years – while representing Research in Motion and BlackBerry smartphones – I spoke at these conferences, and I thought that now that I’m with BoxTone, I’d submit some abstracts for the 2009 event, which is next week – April 15-17 – in Boston. I developed three abstracts – one for administrators and two for developers – and all three were accepted. Needless to say, I’ve been very busy lately getting ready for the conference, but I wanted to share some more information about each session, and what you can learn:
- Extending your Domino Applications to Mobile Devices (Wednesday, April 15 at 2:15 p.m.) – This session digs into industry trends in mobile applications, including a discussion of the capabilities of the different mobile platforms. During it, I’ll outline the steps a Domino developer must follow to mobilize an existing Domino Web-based application. I’ll also highlight some tricks I created to optimize the display of Domino data on mobile devices. If you’re looking for ways to optimize the mobile web experience for your Domino applications, I highly recommend this session.
- Preparing for the Mobile Applications Onslaught (Thursday, April 16 at 2 p.m.) - This session is an updated expansion of the presentations I made at the Mobile Professional Network (MPN) meetings New York and Atlanta last year. The idea behind this session came from one of our customers who told us how he was able to block the deployment of mobile applications in his environment. During this session, I’ll outline the possible negative impacts that mobile applications can have on an environment and provide recommendations on how to minimize the consequences. If you’re starting to get some pressure about deploying mobile applications and you want to know as much as you can about the impact, this will be a great opportunity to get the full picture.
- Beyond the Browser: Building Mobile Rich Client Applications to Access your Domino Data (Friday, April 17 at 10:15 a.m.) – The purpose of this session is to show how you can extend Domino applications using something other than the browser. I’ll demonstrate how to build a Web service in Domino and consume it from a rich client (non-browser) applications running on multiple mobile devices. If all goes well – and you know how the demo gods can be – I’m going to be building five different mobile applications that talk to the service using some of RIM’s tools, Windows Mobile and Java Micro Edition (JME). If you’re like me and don’t believe the browser is the perfect client for all applications, or if you’re interested to see how a rich client can talk to a Domino database, you’ll want to attend this session.
If you’ve ever seen me speak, you’ll know that each of the sessions will be very high energy and contain a lot of detailed information for you to take home and use. If you’re at the conference, please stop by and say hello, I’ll likely be in the big RIM booth when I’m not presenting. See you at the show!
- John Wargo, BoxTone Product manager
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