Blog & Technical Insights

Next week I’ll be at Engage. It was my first user group as a speaker back in 2010 and it has developed into arguably the premier user group for IBM Collaboration Solutions in Europe. This year IBM Champion (in perpetuity now) Theo Heselmans has gathered a stellar cast of speakers including some key IBMers, a […]

“Steve Jobs described the process of hiring top talent as “the most important job”. Yet, how to find the right employee remains a contested question.” (CIPD) Those in charge of recruitment and talent acquisition are often pushed for time. With this in mind it is easy to neglect recruitment best practices. Not only is time […]

The theme of my session at IBM Connect (which will be repeated at the end of this month at Engage) focussed a great deal on the XPages lifecycle and how to troubleshoot and understand it. Once you do have that level of understanding, there are some powerful things you can do with it. Here is […]

Recently Maven builds stopped working for me in Eclipse. The message didn’t mean much to me. But it wasn’t a huge problem, because I have Maven installed externally and have not had a problem building with that. Until I wanted to build the Extension Library last night. Then I got the error below. So I […]

Table of Contents Introduction Part One – The Application Part Two – XPages Advanced 1 Part Three: XPages Advanced Database Separation Part Four: XPages Advanced Document Wrapper Part Five: XPages Advanced MVC Controller Part Six: Use of OpenNTF Domino API Part Seven: OSGi Application Development Introduction Part Eight: OSGi JAX-RS REST Access with ODA Part […]

IBM Connect is a great opportunity to meet new people, as are any user groups (quick shameless plug for Engage next month). It’s also a great opportunity to return envigorated and engaged. We’ve seen a new release of the Extension Library during Connect as well as the announcement of the XPages Knowledge Base thanks to […]

It’s been a week now since IBM Connect, so time for my review. A Great Feel As many others, I went with a degree of trepidation. Verse was released to a fanfare earlier this year, when the promise was still of Notes Next and on premises Verse by the end of 2015. The focus during […]

Earlier this week I delivered my session at IBM Connect. It was good fun and thanks to all who attended. I’ve posted my slides, which are also available below. There are a couple of additions to the slide deck originally posted to the Event Connect site. As those at the session will remember, the session […]

jason Silva spoke in the OGS at IBM Connect today about exponential growth and how the tools we have build have built us in return. That has certainly been the road for many of the Notes developers over the last five years. XPages was built and has built Notes developers into web developers. That’s not […]

Firstly, a disclaimer, sorry to anyone not attending the conference, this blog post is only relevant to attendees. On Tuesday at 1.15pm in Florida 5 I’ll be delivering my session “Marty, You’re Just Not Thinking Fourth Dimensionally”: Troubleshooting XPages. The session will be XPages-focussed, with an XPages demo application. But there’s more. Back to the […]