Contributing Authors
Niklas Heidloff is a software architect working for the software group in IBM. He is focused on invigorating the application development community and promoting XPages as IBM’s web and mobile application development platform for collaborative and social applications. In this role, he is the technical committee chair and a director of the Board of Directors of the open source site OpenNTF.org. Previously, Niklas was responsible for other application development areas in the IBM Lotus Domino space, including composite applications. Before this, he worked on IBM Lotus Notes, IBM WebSphere® Process Choreographer, and IBM Workplace Client Technology. In 1999, he joined IBM as part of the Lotus Workflow team. Niklas studied at the university in Paderborn, Germany, and has a degree in Business Computing (Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker).
Stephen Auriemma is an advisory software engineer currently working in the IBM Littleton software lab on an XPages and Domino Access (REST). Stephen has a master’s degree in computer science from Boston University. In the past, he worked as a developer on various projects, including Composite Applications for Notes 8.0, the open source project on Apache called Xalan for IBM Research, and Domino Offline Services for Lotus. Stephen started his career with IBM in 1996, providing development technical support for Notes programmability. He lives in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters, Jessica and Amanda.
Simon McLoughlin is a graduate software developer in the IBM Ireland software lab in Dublin working for the XPages mobile team. A graduate of the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, he was responsible for reworking and adding the mobile front end to the Discussion and TeamRoom templates delivered with the XPages ExtLib. In college, he studied computer science. In his last year there, he joined with IBM on a research project; the result was a smartphone push alert system to alert native iPhone/Android users that a server undergoing a long run test was running low on resources or approaching some critical state. This project finished in the top 3 for the Irish software awards for the student category of most commercially viable/innovative. Living in Dublin, Simon enjoys experimenting with new mobile technology and suffers greatly from an addiction to computer games.
Lorcan McDonald is a senior software engineer on the XPages team in the Dublin office of the IBM Ireland software lab. He is the tech lead on the XPages Mobile controls project and has worked on the Domino platform for three years, split between the XPages Runtime team and Quickr® Domino. Before coming to IBM, Lorcan worked on financial web applications for the credit card and trading industries. Born and raised in Sligo, he has been living in Dublin for more than a decade. He never stops thinking about computing problems. He has been known to perform and record music as 7800 beats, presumably via some sort of web interface.