Blog & Technical Insights

Some time ago Niklas Heidloff blogged about three kinds of XPages developers – those who just use drag and drop with SSJS / JavaScript; those who use Java but only in an NSF; and those who develop with Java outside the NSF. For some time I’ve been doing some development outside the NSF, but after […]

This rant is not the result of any individual project,I’ve been meaning to write it for a while. It’s also as much out of disillusionment of believing web developers who say you can switch off compatibility mode, because it’s not what happens necessarily. When developing for a corporate environment, the default browser is usually Internet […]

There has been considerable work on the Discussion Database over recent years, adding an XPage interface and a host of features. If you look at the R9 installs, you’ll see there is a version for 8.5.3 and another for R9. But you need to be careful if you have upgraded a server to 9.0.1 because […]

I’ve just released a new version of XPages OpenLog Logger. It’s predominantly a release to catch SSJS errors of classes NotesException and java.io.IOException, as well as wrapping processUncaughtException code in try/catch blocks, to capture any classes I haven’t come across yet. I and other developers have encountered these unexpected error class types when no try/catch […]

There have been a few posts today on StackOverflow about SSJS being run when it’s not expected. I think a lot of that comes from a misunderstanding of what’s happening on the server. Parsing of Values Firstly, property values are just plain text.That’s reinforced if you look at the Java class for an XPage or […]

Niklas Heidloff’s session with Henning Schmen at IBM Connect – AD206: Build Apps Rapidly by Leveraging Services from IBM Collaboration Solutions on Wednesday 5:30 – was very interesting from a number of aspects. I’ve long believed that part of the barrier to Connections development is that many developers not to mention end users can’t envisage […]

First of all, I’m not saying back-end developers are real men or are the only ones who have “Curiosity”! But I’ve begun to realise more and more that XPages developers are either back-end or front-end, features or look & feel. In the old days of Notes Client development, the two were so tightly coupled that […]

Notes and Domino have long been lampooned as a bad user experience. From an app dev point of view, XPages came along and gave us some freedom. Notes 9.0 gave us a fresh UI and some nice usability enhancements (Ctrl + v to paste as plain text, Quick Find box, Group By Date etc). On […]

Here are the slides and demo app Mike McGarel and I used for our session on Tuesday, “It’s Not Infernal: Dante’s Nine Circles of XPages Heaven”. Below is the link to a zip file containing the demo applications. The Infernotes.nsf version will work if you don’t have the OpenNTF Domino API. The one suffixed “OpenNTFDomino” […]