Last week I attended the Let’sConnect Nordics event in Stockholm. Always nice when there is an event nearby. Also it is always nice to meet familiar faces and hear the plans HCL has for their portfolio. I will not give a summary about each presentation, I just mention things that come to mind (a week later). The keynote was excellent, with Richard Jefts emphasizing the importance of the Domino portfolio for HCL. With HCL things are moving, perhaps not everything in the desired direction, but at least their is change. HCL is daring some initiatives like Leap, Nomad, Volt, Domino IQ and Domino Rest API. I hope this will resonate through organisations because the ice we are walking on in the Nordics is thin.
A personal high-light for me was Heiko Voight demonstrating an application he built for a German community using the layout from the framework I once posted on OpenNTF.
Plans around Domino IQ seems to be interesting. I assume main focus is initially on Domino documents. I see opportunities to extend it to also design elements, because all things in an NSF are notes anyway. Perhaps scan the design of an NSF after vulnerabilities, memory leaks in code and so on. Or simply build a proper bridge between NSF and HCL’s Appscan?
Too bad no news regarding CICD and the new source code management in Domino 14. I remember the developer talking in a Web conference that he managed to build and NSF from source code in an automated process?
Day 2 included a workshop with the Domino REST api. I went through the tutorials so I had some kind of pre-knowledge. Take away from the workshop was the BRUNO as replacement for PostMan. Looking forward to embed the REST API in some applications, just to downsize the code-base from maintenance. But first, as always, do some performance benchmarking first.
Keep up the good work HCL to make Engage 2025 an interesting one!