Blog & Technical Insights

Earlier today Declan Lynch and I presented on source control. Unfortunately we didn’t make it through all 337 slides and, more frustratingly, had to cut short the demo that handled merge conflicts in branches. But I will be recording that in the near future for David Leedy. But the slides below cover all details of […]

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Integrating Java into XPages is not particularly challenging, once you are comfortable with SSJS. There are some gotchas around Domino objects (database.getTitle() and other such methods that return primitive values – strings, etc – still return the value even after the object has been recycled!), but those are the kinds of things the OpenNTF Domino […]

If you’re coming to XPages from traditional Domino development, it’s a bit of a steep learning curve. But once you’ve got comfortable with SSJS and the partial refresh lifecycle, you should be looking to move to Java. Even though the Java compile-time validation is much tighter and avoids a lot of inadvertent errors from SSJS […]

Ray Bilyk posed a very valid question on yesterday’s blog, asking about reasons why to use source control. Although we’ll cover some of this in the session, the main focus is on using source control. So I’ve decided to cover the main reasons I use source control in more detail here. Architecture First, it’s important […]

Over the Christmas period I’ve been rather quiet, mainly because I’ve been working on session for IBM Connect. This year I’m likely to be even busier than normal with two sessions. Beyond that, I’ll probably also be hanging around the OpenNTF stand a bit as well as various activities associated with being selected again as […]

I’ve had the request to post the update site for Eclipse Color Themes that can be used in Domino Designer, built from version 0.12.0. I’m conscious it can be a bit daunting if you’re not familiar with Eclipse, and although I would encourage developers to have a go (the instructions are on my previous post), […]

Jesse Gallagher, amongst others, has blogged before about installing the Eclipse Color Themes plugin into Domino Designer, to give a richer styling for editors. It’s something I did a long time ago and my preferred theme is part of the preferences I have exported from Domino Designer. But when I installed 9.0.1 I did a […]

Recently I’ve been working with the Name Picker where I was using the Name Picker to select values that would then be used for Readers and Authors fields.  I noticed that although it picks from address books, the names are stored by default in abbreviated format, e.g. Paul Withers/MyCompany rather than canonical format, e.g. CN=Paul Withers/O=MyCompany. This […]