On the other side, the future of Lotus Notes and Domino was made clear enough, followed by the imminent launch of the 10th version of the latter, which happened – funny enough – just before the above-mentioned announcement.

Still up and running!

One thing is clear: Domino-based apps are still incredibly important in a lot of offices. Sure, a lot of them found alternatives to the Notes email client, like Outlook, but Domino apps are still standing strong.

So yes, Domino is still present in many back offices, doing their job in supporting businesses, despite this presence being a well-kept secret among many offices. Why? It’s easy: companies use software licenses to Microsoft and IBM, in order to keep Domino.

Domino: Back to life

Surprising or not, IBM left Domino somewhere in the back of the room for a few years, neglecting its capabilities.

But once Domino 10 was out, it looked that IBM was finally aware of what this amazing piece of software can really do.

Let’s take the following example, in order to better understand things: IBM’s Domino App Dev Pack is an incredibly useful tool, enabling JavaScript and Domino devs to build – but also enhance, then integrate – new apps, by using the data it provides. Let that sink in for a moment. And this was just the beginning of the rebirth…

A newer version, Domino 11, is currently ‘under construction’ and promises to be even stronger while used as a low or no-code environment. Just imagine the future-proof apps built using Domino will receive continuous JavaScrip support!

And this is not everything…

The 11th version will also bring a way of running Domino apps on mobile operating systems, like Android or iOS, thus opening up new use cases, taking advantage of the platform’s one of a kind features. Through this, developers will be able to use data without a network connection.

What should we expect?

As mentioned in the beginning, we’re looking forward to a…return to the roots for both Lotus Notes and Domino. To be more specific, we expect a tool able to facilitate fast app development, but also an advanced way of modernizing the already existing legacy apps.

In order to see Domino still present on the market, the main focus should be on acquiring new customers. But this shouldn’t be a problem, considering how fast apps can be developed using it!

However, despite knowing a lot of things about future plans, there’s still a lot of uncertainty surrounding Lotus Notes and Domino. Yes, users sent a lot of positive feedback until now but there’s one problem that’s not difficult to observe: HCL should totally revamp its marketing strategy, in order to acquire new customers. And for a company used with doing service business, this could be a pretty challenging mission.

But, as big fans of both Lotus Notes and Domino, we strongly hope that they will be around here for at least a few more years!

Looking forward to integrating both of them within your company? The team at IB Systems can help you!

Whether it’s customized Lotus Notes and Domino web apps development or administration, as well as migration, installation, and support, they have been successfully providing such services and consulting ever since 1994 and eventually becoming an authorized IBM Lotus Foundations Partner.

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After making Office free for both main mobile operating platforms, Android and iOS, Microsoft announced a completely new open source framework: .NET Core.

Generally speaking .NET Core can be considered a modular, cross-platform, open-source framework for developers, integrating the latest web apps, but also microservices and console applications.

But still, what are the main advantages of using Microsoft’s new framework? Let’s find out together…

Development, testing, and deployment, in an instant

It’s not a secret that making the first steps in web development with ASP.NET is seriously time-consuming. Still, ever since the release of .NET Core – otherwise an open source solution – developers became aware of the fact that the new framework’s possibilities, but also the fact that it can be used with various text editors, including the likes of Sublime Text, Atom, or Visual Studio Code.

Another aspect that we really like is the “Save & Refresh” approach. Basically, this makes it very easy to see the code change effects, but without any deployment at all. Simply write your code, save the work and refresh your browser in order to see what you’ve done.

Finally, .NET Core includes a built-in memory database, which turned out to be an incredibly useful one, especially when it comes to unit testing, but also testing automation practices.

It’s friendly with other platforms

Moving on, Microsoft’s framework makes all the compatibility problems faced by developers forgotten. Considering that all .NET Core framework-based apps are all standalone, they already have the runtime setting. Technically, this means that they don’t depend on the operating system you’re using.

Basically, you can set up apps to run on, let’s say, Windows, in the same way, they run on MacOS or Linux. How cool is that?

And as a side note, the framework is compatible with several database engine platforms, from which we remind SQL Server, MySQL – of course -, My Car, Oracle, MS Access, and many more.

It has everything you need to create cloud apps

Another advantage of .NET Core that’s really worth mentioning is that it’s designed – not especially for this, but it does an excellent job at it – for building high-performance cloud apps.

The framework comes with all the tools you need, as well as the templates needed by developers in order to put together their cloud apps in no time.

So, are you going to give it a try?

IB Systems can assist you with using .NET Core, thanks to its team of skilled developers. Whether you’re after complete software solutions or consultancy, here you can find all the information you need about Microsoft’s framework, as well as many more programming languages, databases and platforms.

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There’s a quite impressive list of available components, not to mention that it keeps growing with each day!

When building apps using Angular Material, they will actually be a collection of components. Also, instead of building your own components from scratch, things are way easier, since you can leverage using Angular Material, which gives you the possibility to use – and this is our favourite part – ready-made styled components, with Material Design written all over on them.

As a side note, Material Design is what Google uses for Android, not to mention that it’s a favourite among developers, mostly because it looks very good.

In order to start developing using Angular Material, there are a few general steps, as it follows:

• Setting up the environment
• Creating your Angular Project
• Installing Angular Material
• Configuring the theme for it
• Create the Angular Material Gesture
• Add some Material Design icons

After these steps, you are technically ready to start creating the apps. Therefore, you move on to the next stage of the development process:

• Importing Material Components
• Add the navigation bar to the app
• Handle the Flex layout with Angular
• Add more features to the app
• Define routes for the users
• Focus on enhancing the amount of data within the app
• Secure your app
• Enable data deletion
• Enable data input

And you’re pretty much getting close to finishing your first app using, of course, Angular. At first, by simply looking at the steps you need to follow. Still, it’s far from being easy, as you need proper experience and development skills.

If you don’t have these – or just lack time – you can let professionals do it. IB Systems USA’s team is backed by more than 20 years of experience and front end development using Angular combined with Material Design has no secrets for them. And getting in touch regarding this can immediately confirm their expertise.

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