Best Practice Makes Perfect

I'd like to add a Designer wiki entry with a collection of links to the best "Best Practices" documents in different areas. I'm looking for recommendations from you! Please tell me about resources in the following areas (ones I know about are already listed):

• Domino Applications integrating with external relational databases(oracle, db2, etc).
  • Redbook: Implementing IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator 6 is probably a little out of date, but describes both how to set up LEI, and also how to program custom integration using the LC LSX. Note that some LEI features are also included with the Domino server license (this subset of functions is called DECS).
• Logging analysis & trouble shooting of Domino applications.
  • The OpenLog project on openntf.org is the gold standard for error logging in LotusScript.
  • The articles Debugging Domino Applications part 1 and part 2 on developerWorks contain many specific troubleshooting recommendations.
• Object-Oriented programming model using LotusScript.
  • Here are some slides from a good presentation done by Bill Buchan at The View conference in 2006 addressing LotusScript coding standards generally.
• Domino applications/Databases working with Java.
• Search/statistics/report functionality in Domino applications.
  • This seems to be partly an "available tools" topic, but anything that looks like a best practice would also be helpful information.
  • The free download accompanying this article in The View may be helpful as an example of designing user search assistants and user-customized views: Views Part 1: User-Based Views and Query Assistant.
• Applying XML technology in Domino applications.
  • The redbook XML Powered by Domino is the best resource I know of offhand. It's probably overdue for updating, and incomplete.
• General application development including Form design, View design, agent design etc.
  • The Redbook Domino Designer 6 A Developer's Handbook is a good introduction to the basics. There have of course been a lot of features added since version 6.
  • The IBM website contains guidelines for developing accessible Notes/Domino applications.
  • The whitepaper Performance basics for developers is required reading.
  • For user interface design, any resources you can find on the topic generally probably also apply to Notes. In addition, the following might be useful:
    • Chris Blatnick's Interface Matters site.

Andre Guirard | 25 January 2010 05:03:00 PM ET | Caribou Coffee, Plymouth, MN, USA | Comments (1)