For many months now - dating back to the middle of last year when Domino app dev was in limbo - I've been wrestling with what seems to me to be an elephant in the room with regard to Domino, NoSQL and REST. At the...
Read MoreThis final part has taken a while, because of problems that will become apparent during the blog post! But I've finally overcome them, in a (hopefully) future-proofed manner, which I'll also go into. Introduction Another one of Stephan Wissel's projects on GitHub is the Swagger Domino Code...
Read MoreWith a recent project, I've been deep in the bowels of the XPages component tree and run-time, with some detailed debugging involved. This has brought a few things to my attention Dialogs and Component Loading I've been adding a component to an XPage and then using Java...
Read MoreYesterday I fought for quite some time trying to get Edit Boxes in a Form Table to go full width. It's a starter database I've had for some time and converted from OneUI to Bootstrap. So I have some styles for setting the width of...
Read MoreOver the last few days I've been attending Engage. As ever, it was an excellent conference, with a great attendance from across Europe. (If you've not attended a user group recently and will not this year, put it on your list for next year, May 2018.) As...
Read MoreToday at Engage Ed Brill announced that in Q3 there will be a Domino server licensing entitlement for developers. Yes, you read that correct. There are still some logistics to be finalised (e.g. access to feature packs to keep up to date), but this is...
Read MoreNext week IBM Lifetime Champion Theo Heselmans is hosting Engage, back in Antwerp, of which I have fond memories. The last time the conference was there, Tim Tripcony and I spent quite some time discussing all things XPages on a walk around the city and...
Read MoreStephan Wissel - One of Our "IBM" Champions As you may have seen, Stephan Wissel has recently left IBM to join SalesForce, as Rene Winkelmeyer and Mikkel Heisterberg did last year. because this part of my blog series will cover Stephan's session from IBM Connect earlier...
Read MoreIn Part One I gave a bit of background on Swagger. Now onto some tools. The Swagger Editor comes in an online version but you can also install it locally. My preference was previously to use the online version because the local install used NodeJS,...
Read MorePart one of this, which covers the background, is here. Before looking at some code, it's worth just covering performance. Obviously, on a busy production server, if you're running code for every save of a document, code needs to be optimised. To give you an idea,...
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