Blog & Technical Insights

The IBM Champion and User Group day was a great start to IBM Think with some interesting sessions, although my morning was busy with delivering a session twice with Tony Holder and delivering a Lightning Talk. On behalf of OpenNTF we also launched open badges for user groups to thank them for their support of […]

Regardless of recent announcements, XPages is still my preferred option for standalone rapid application web development. Once an appropriate level of understanding of the lifecycle is gained, there’s a comfortable level of logic in how it works. With controller classes in Java and XPages that contain predominantly Expression Language and short SSJS calls to the […]

As others like Johnny Oldenburger have blogged, Notes 9.0.1 FP10 IF2 is out now. This fixes a number of Designer-related issues, including the problem with the Display panel in the Java debugger I encountered when I first installed. One point to be aware of is, as ever, to check <Notes>\framework\rcp\deploy\jvm.properties for the vmarg.Xmx and vmarg.Xms […]

Last week I had an email from Mat Newman passing on a query for a REST servlet plugin. The person was noting that when sending a tell http osgi ss command to the server, the plugin was showing as “<<LAZY>>” and only changed to “<<ACTIVE>>” after the first call, when the code in the Activator […]

Today’s webinar on Domino 10 brought a lot of announcements. I won’t cover the announcements about Notes Client here – we were teased about a slimmer client and auto-updating of that client, but I’m sure we’ll find out more at IBM Think. I’ve already blogged my thoughts about the Notes Client as well. There are […]

In the previous part I covered setting up Node-RED, in my scenario as a Docker image. Triggering Domino code on schedule is surprisingly straightforward, requiring just two nodes. The first is the inject node and the second is the http request node. The inject node allows a process to be scheduled. The payload for the […]

Following on from my last blog post, when I came to installing Domino I encountered two issues, both of which I’ve encountered before and both I’d forgotten the resolution and struggled to find it. Making mistakes is unavoidable. Making the same mistake twice, however, is. So I’m resorting to my standard resolution: blog about it. […]

Just a reminder as you prepare for installing FP10, there are some areas worth backing up (thanks to those who’ve mentioned some on Twitter or chats). On the server: java.policy file, if you’ve made changes java.pol file if you’ve made one Any additional JAR files in jvm\lib\ext osgi-dots folder, if you’ve added DOTS changes You […]