I've been meaning to write this post for at least a year but these days I'm always too busy for blogging. Last year, we embarked on a project in which we wanted to regularly exchange data between Domino and a SQL server database on Azure. We looked at several third party options before realizing that HCL Domino had what we needed built-in and out of the box - even better, HCL also had a "codeless" solution (Foundry) available to us to do the whole transfer. This post will most likely be the first part of a series that covers the REST API and a bit of Foundry. I'm no expert on either but there's not a lot of information out there so anything is better than nothing. Prepping the Environment Before embarking on our API journey, we upgraded our servers to Domino 12.0.2. It's something of a sore point with me that people think that it's fine to leave Domino on much older versions, for example, release 9. It isn't. Old versions of any software have se
It's been a long while since I've posted on this blog. It's not because there's no domino news. There is heaps of domino news and it's been coming in leaps and bounds. If anything, the lack of posts indicates that life has gotten busier than ever. Over the weekend, there was a question on Domino on Facebook which I felt needed answering - have I mentioned Domino on Facebook before? Try some of these groups: HCL Notes Domino Administrators HCL Notes Domino Developers HCL Notes Domino Etc Enthusiasts I'm sure there are plenty of others. Anyway, the question was on exchanging Domino data and I mentioned the REST API. My original intention was to cover it in this post but I've decided to use this post to catch you all up on where we are with Domino first. Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay Domino Not Notes We don't generally talk about Notes at work. We try not to create new Notes accounts but we still have to because we have one key (wide