Blog & Technical Insights

This week IBM released the twelfth 9.0.1 release of the Extension Library. It’s great to see the inclusion of mapValuePicker and collectionValuePicker tags. That has proved the completion of a journey almost two years in the making, since I first blogged a tutorial series on doing this, back in May 2013. At the time they […]

A colleague asked me last week about the managed beans and whether a requestScoped bean would be loaded for every request. It’s something I had inadvertently already proved but forgotten. It’s always worth clarifying though and of relevance to more than just managed beans, but anything defined in the faces-config. All objects defined in the […]

The following information was published by IBM on 24th February 2015. The information is only available in a restricted wiki, so we’re reproducing it here. Abstract IBM Connections 5.0 CR2 includes new functions that may be optionally used or enabled by making changes to the configuration files. Content IBM Connections 5.0 CR2 includes new functions […]

Since I first blogged about Dojo charting in XPages in 2009, quite a lot has changed with Dojo. Much of what I did then is still valid, including the additional JavaScript file I created at Lotusphere 2011 and contributed to OpenNTF for making the chart legend multi-column and allowing styling on it. However, when trying […]

We all know that XPages URLs are case sensitive. So for a page “Domino_ViewState.xsp”, you cannot use “domino_viewstate.xsp”. However, what’s not so widely known is that the URLs are only case sensitive after the first character. So both “Domino_ViewState.xsp” and “domino_ViewState.xsp” will work for opening the XPage. However, although both will work, there can then […]

Last week I spoke with Tony McGuckin at IBM Connect. This blog post is explaining a problem I had recently, the cause, the investigation and the resolution two possible resolutions. All relate to content I covered in that session, particularly around the JSF lifecycle. It’s also why the JSF lifecycle is something I always cover […]

Last week I delivered two sessions at ConnectED. Here are the session slides. BP106 From XPages Hero To OSGi Guru: Taking The Scary Out Of Building Extension Libraries MAS103 XPages Performance & Scalability To download the slides, go to Slideshare, for BP106 (not sure what went wrong with the URL!) and MAS103.

It’s been a busy week as always. So now the dust has settled here are a few thoughts. No Matter What Changes, The Community Persists Our community is an awesome thing, often mentioned with envy by those working outside what was ICS and is now ESS (Enterprise Social Solutions). Over recent years there have been […]