The 7th LAUG meeting at IBM City centre today went pretty good. A Team (Mitsuru and Mike) from TeamStudio came all the way from Japan to give a presentation on some of their flagship products. Though i have seen some of their presentations through WebEx demos before (courtesy Benjamin Green - TeamStudio) today i managed to see it live. Almost all the tools are quite cool and some of them are a must in the Notes/Domino environment (CIAO - Check In And Out) is one among them.
Nowadays, we hear a lot of people saying their Notes environment is out of control. The reason is simple. Because Notes is a Rapid Development environment we tend to keep building applications and one fine day hundreds of applications sitting in the app server with the least amount of document possible. I have seen in many places, hundreds of design elements with many duplicate copies of the application/design elements with no version control at all. So, then it becomes tedious for anybody to maintain and people start saying Lotus Notes in not good.
But the fact is we didn't put any control in the first place. Had we put proper controls, source code controls etc etc. we would not have messed up this much. That's where TeamStudio products can help. For all other platforms there are tools available for team of developers to manage the versions of the application and if any problem a way to roll back to previous code and so on. Unfortunately they are not available for Notes environment. Products/Tools like Team Studio CIAO, Analyzer and Delta will help in bridging the gap and take the Notes environment a long way.
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