Tip of the Iceberg

Category domino
As I mentioned the other day, I've now updated my certification to version 7. As time permits, I'll take the update exam to bump that up to version 8 and be set until whenever 9 comes out... assuming they stay with the sequential numbering convention. Who knows, they might switch to Microsoft numbering, in which case we might get Lotus Notes 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

Though I'll most likely just take that update exam at Lotusphere, I decided last night to take a gander at Designer Help to see if there was anything that was added in 8 that I hadn't previously noticed (as it turns out, there was). I started at the top entry ("What's New in Domino Designer 8?") and just drilled deeper and deeper, but with no breadcrumbs to keep track of where I'd been, I rapidly lost track of which entries I'd already read. And then it struck me: whenever they add something in a new version, the help entry for that new property, method, etc., typically contains the phrase "new with Release {x}", where {x} is the version in which it was added... so it should be easy to create a basic wrapper for the web interface of Designer Help that allows me to isolate only what changed in each release... so I did: presenting Release Diff for Domino Designer Help.