Blog & Technical Insights

Some may have missed the announcement, so I’ll draw special attention to it. The community has the chance to shape the ConnectED agenda by voting on Chalk Talk sessions for a variety of tracks. There are a couple I’d like to raise the priority of. The first is one I’ve submitted myself on OpenNTF Domino […]

Back in January IBM first announced Mail Next and revealed the first prototype images. A lot has changed since then, not least that the HTML mockups have been replaced with working code, as has been shown in webinars, user groups and Design Advisory Panel calls. Now the name has changed too, with the final name […]

On Friday I picked up a query about how to pass a dominoDocument datasource to a custom control. It’s a question that’s been raised before but a definitive answer could not be located. It’s possibly because the answer is not specific to datasources, but any variable. In essence there is a simple rule to apply […]

For those who didn’t notice, the Interim Fix for 9.0.1 FP2 released overnight also included the fix for iOS 8. Not surprisingly, because of the impact of changes to the Dojo code, this fix is only in 9.0.1 FP2, not in the Interim Fix Packs released for older Domino versions – they focus solely on […]

For some time the OpenNTF Domino API has included Tinkerpop and an implementation to store content in a graph database structure. Recently I’ve been digging into that further for potential projects, prompted also by a redevelopment of that area of the OpenNTF Domino API and Nathan’s upcoming session at DanNotes. Graph databases are a common […]

On Friday I blogged about how you can’t include Expression Language in Client-Side JavaScript for an eventHandler. (Because of problems with the blog that prevented comments, I had to re-post it.) The other benefit of blogging is that someone can usually give you some more information that makes everything drop into place. Toby Samples tweeted […]

I have an unwritten rule that if I learn something and I think I’ll hit the same problem again, I try to blog about it; if I hit it again and I can’t find it on my blog, I definitely blog about it. Yesterday I encountered the latter, so today I’m blogging about it. As […]

A couple of weeks ago Jesse Gallagher posted a blog about getting the JSF faces-config visual editor working in Domino Designer. I followed up with how to enable the same functionality in Eclipse by setting up a faceted project. It turned out that had some knock-on implications to the NSF, which you can work around […]

I’ve seen a number of questions recently on StackOverflow related to extending the functionality of the View Panel. Firstly, a bit of editorial. I am not a big fan of the View Panel. The XPages course I went on covered repeat controls on the second morning and every XPages developer should have covered repeat controls […]