Blog & Technical Insights

Yesterday, Jesse Gallagher wrote a great blog post on using an older version of the Web Tools Platform plugins in Domino Designer to get a better editor for faces-config files. For over a year now, I’ve moved beyond Domino Designer for chunks of my day job – SourceTree for source control, Perforce P4 Merge for […]

At ICON UK I delivered two sessions, one on OpenNTF Domino API and one, with John Cooper, on development OSGi plugins. Both sessions were well attended and jam-packed with content. In addition, as platinum sponsors, it was a busy time for all of us at Intec. It was great to catch up with old friends […]

For someone contributing and using OpenNTF content, for many years Bruce Elgort and Niklas Heidloff were the most visible face of OpenNTF. They presented OpenNTF’s session at Lotusphere and subsequently IBM Connect, so to that extent they have been very public faces. Bruce stepped down last year and this year Niklas Heidloff has also confirmed […]

For Domino 8.5.1, 8.5.2 and 8.5.3 I wrote whitepapers detailing the benefits that XPages gives those who are already on Domino and the reasons for upgrading from the previous version. With the release of Domino 9.0, the format previously used didn’t seem so applicable. Many companies on Domino and Domino developers already had at least […]

It’s now less than one week until ICON UK, and it’s going to be a busy day for me and Intec. Intec are the platinum sponsor and Rooven Pakiri will be delivering Intec’s sponsor session at 10am. My first session at 11am is What’s New and Next in OpenNTF Domino API. The API has grained […]

Nathan has uploaded a new release of OpenNTF Domino API. There are a few significant differences in the upload this time. Firstly there is a separate install for Designer Client and Domino Server. That’s to minimise the footprint for the server. Those who have used M4.5 may have noticed the Javadoc support was lost, because […]

Buttons in XPages are interesting and potentially dangerous elements. They’re dangerous, mainly to less experienced XPages developers, because they have this apparently helpful combo box that immediately attracts the eye for Button type.   Cancel is useful, but to be honest I never set that. All it does, if you look at the source pane, […]

Moment of most celebrated enlightenment usually comes from putting together a frustration with a piece of knowledge gleaned for a completely unrelated reason. A couple of days ago I had such an epiphany. Often when I’m developing I need to check something somewhere else on the XPage or Custom Control. Or I need to add […]

After one of my sessions at IBM Connect I was approached by a developer whose company would not use open source. The comment made me despair more than a little and has festered for some time. I’ve used code and projects from OpenNTF for many, many years before subsequently contributing to OpenNTF. Obviously as a […]