The other month, I got my feet wet with Docker after only conceptually following it for a long time. With that, I focused on getting a basic Jakarta EE app up and running with an active Notes runtime by way of the official Domino-on-Docker image provided by HCL.

Having posted a course on how to set up the AppDevPack with the fantastic Mr. Graham Acres leads to more and more questions and help requests. One aspect that keep re-occurring a lot is some confusion on SSL Certificates and which one is used by which part of system and has what requirements.

Yesterday I have been debugging an application issue in my sync tool. It was a very strange behavior which finally lead me to the following. This is only interesting for my C-API development friends in the community and if you use NIFReadEntries for more than 16351 entries you should check your application.

I have spent many years working deep within the Notes Indexing Facility (NIF). I’m not done, because there is more to be done and harvested from the rich functionality well-bundled from day one by the earliest Domino developers. It can be a challenging area because so much variety of data flows through the code and…