Steve Castledine
Hi I'm Steve Castledine a long time sufferer
of the pains of web development with Lotus Notes/Domino.
It has been an interesting and enjoyable journey
over the years.
Lotus Notes is something I stumbled into back
at version 4 and for most of my career since
have been heavily involved in. Version 4.6 is
what really set the web thing off for me - html
tags where help descriptions were meant to go
- isn't the technology fantastic!
My first really big web project was with 4.6
- an online insurance quotation system for a
large financial company - it won an IBM Global
Solution award in New York and is still in use
today.
One thing I have always learned from domino
development is the way it doesnt really work
as you would like - it inherited legacy architecture
from years gone by and so you always have to
be very clever at making it do what you wanted
it to do. Hence where my DX Framework has come
from - all these cheats,hacks,ideas whatever
you want to call them in a central design and
architecture.
Therefore this website is the fruits of my
labour over the last few years. I hope to share
all I have learned in making domino a better
and easier web platform to work with. Whilst
IBM are on the path of Domsphere I aim to show
you how to make the most of what is still with
us (r5, Domino 6) and also perhaps provide an
insight into possible roadmaps into the future.
Things I should point out - firstly I am a
terrible graphic designer, web site creator
etc etc - so have a laugh - I do! I even found
the cheesiest photo I could find of myself.
I'm 100% developer/programmer and proud of it
so I have none of the above skills - I also
have little creative writing skills - so bear
with me.
The technical information I aim to bring to
this site will be firstly around tried and tested
techniques for Domino Web development, and secondly
introducing you to my DX Framework.
I currently work as a freelance web developer/architect/consultant
with Lotus Domino and i'm usually available
for hire - especially for brain dump sessions,
consultancy, development acceleration for your
development teams. I live in the city of Leicester
which is in the centre of England, United Kingdom.
Any comments you wish to raise - suggestions
- anything - aim them at steve.castledine@projectdx.org
regards
Steve Castledine
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