How We Built CollaborationToday.info in a Matter of Weeks

Agenda OpenNTF - an IBM Business Partner Team Collaboration Today Why We Built Our Own App Project Goals Demo How It All Came Together Why You Should Use IBM Domino and XPages Looking Ahead 3 Things To Remember Q&A 4 © 2013 IBM Corporation

OpenNTF - an IBM Business Partner Devoted – Enabling groups of individuals all over the world to collaborate on IBM Lotus Notes and Domino applications and release them as open source – Providing a framework for the community so that open source applications may be freely distributed, using widely accepted licensing terms – Increasing the number and quality of templates, controls and code snippets that are shared by the community Value – Global community – Code samples – Reuse, harvest and enhance By the Numbers – Hundreds of projects – Hundreds of Contributors – Development contests 5 © 2013 IBM Corporation

Team Collaboration Today Collaboration Today was created by – Bruce Elgort, IBM Business Partner, Elguji – Per Henrik Lausten, IBM Business Partner, PHL Consult – Serdar Basegmez, IBM Business Partner, Developi – Frank van der Linden, IBM Business Partner, e-office – Jesse Gallagher, I Know Some Guys – Niklas Heidloff, IBM Timeline – We had the idea in June – We assembled our virtual team in July – We started development in August – We launched September 10, 2012 7 © 2013 IBM Corporation

Why We Built Our Own App Possible open source alternatives: Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal No existing CMS solutions geared towards a news-only site We wanted an open source solution for shops using IBM Collaboration Solutions products We wanted to showcase the powerful IBM Domino application server We wanted also wanted to demonstrate the power of IBM XPages 8 © 2013 IBM Corporation

Project Goals A moderated news site for IBM Collaboration Solutions professionals Role based moderation “Truly” popular stories Scalable and fast A great looking app Accessible from any device To be open sourced and available to everybody ... getting it done quickly! 9 © 2013 IBM Corporation

How It All Came Together - The Requirements Remember the project goals? Mobile first, users first Lightweight (no search options, no login for users) Great looking Accessible from any device Scalable API Administer from web browser 11 © 2013 IBM Corporation

How It All Came Together - The Design Why we chose XPages – Granular security model – NoSQL – Scalable Java backend – Open source components – The programming model is based on web development languages and standards including JavaScript, Ajax, Java, the Dojo Toolkit, Server-side JavaScript and JavaServer Faces – A powerful application server: XPages runs on IBM Domino and IBM XWork application servers, and runs on Windows, Linux, Linux on IBM System z, IBM AIX, IBM i and Sun Solaris. Why we chose responsive web design – Optimal experience for all users regardless of device used – Looks great everywhere – All pages are available on every device – It’s what people expect 12 © 2013 IBM Corporation

How It All Came Together - Implementation Everything in one NSF file (a virtual file system) – XPages and custom controls – Java and Javascript – jQuery JavaScript library – Bootstrap JavaScript library and CSS – Custom CSS Responsive web design using Twitter Bootstrap (CSS and jQuery) – Media queries – Left column menu turns into a drop down menu (custom made) Custom built CSS – Bootstrap CSS combined with our own CSS 13 © 2013 IBM Corporation

How It All Came Together - Implementation Caching beans: everything is cached in memory - yes, everything! Click counter (MIME storage of the click counter Java class) REST API Widget RSS/Atom feeds – Automatic posts to Twitter using Twitterfeed Source control using Github – https://github.com/OpenNTF/collaborationtoday 14 © 2013 IBM Corporation

How It All Came Together - Using Open Source The magic of open source software - from OpenNTF and external – XPages Extension Library – WatrCoolr 0.8 – Mobile Documents 1.1 – myWebGate 1.1 – Feed Generator XPage Agent 0.11 – ReCaptcha Custom Control 1.02 – Rome 1.0 – Jdom 1.1.2 – Nekohtml 1.9.15 – Apache HttpComponents client 4.2.1 – Apache HttpComponents Core 4.2.1 – Jericho 3.1 – jQuery 1.7.1 – Twitter bootstrap 2.0.4 – PrettyTime 1.0.8 – myPic 1.1.1 15 © 2013 IBM Corporation

Why You Should Use IBM Domino and XPages You’ve heard our story and we are confident you are very impressed XPages and IBM Domino/IBM XWork is a powerful application server platform Lots of resources available – Books – Notes in 9 – Blogs – Twitter feeds – Vibrant developer community – Stack Overflow – Training courses 17 © 2013 IBM Corporation

Looking Ahead Future enhancements to Collaboration Today – Archiving and search – Improve touch interface – Add management of moderators from web browser – Feed “monster” • Using the Domino 8/9 DOTS extensions – More regional sites 18 © 2013 IBM Corporation

3x3 Things To Remember A great looking application A powerful application server The magic of open source software Collaboration Today was built using XPages The app is available as open source for you to download and try today – http://www.openntf.org/p/Collaboration%20Today The app is responsive and adapts to the size of the screen How to build scalable apps How to build great looking web apps using open source UI components How to use open source in your projects 20 © 2013 IBM Corporation

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