Blog & Technical Insights

Tomorrow (April 23rd) I will be speaking on the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community Meeting at 3pm BST (10am ET). The topic of this month’s meeting is XPages. The main part of the community meeting will see Abby Butts and Sam Bridegroom talking about how they have used XPages to develop applications to benefit a not-for-profit […]

With the inclusion of the Extension Library as core in Notes and Domino 9, there are eleven new @Functions provided for SSJS. They can be found in the Designer Help in IBM Domino Designer User Guide > Designing XPages Applications > Adding Controls from the XPages Extension Library > @Function (Extension Library). Note, you will […]

Will Social Business be a distraction to my employees? Social Business provides a gateway for current and relevant information exchanges across geographies and organizational silos. Building trust and encouraging social interactions is key to driving social change in the workforce. A successful Social Business will not foster an environment whereby employees are constantly chatting to […]

There is a strange problem I’ve come across, but easily worked around. I had the need to capture currency values, some of which could be negative. There is a control in the Extension Library, the Dojo Currency Text Box, but I chose to use the Edit Box control with a number converter. But I wanted […]

[vc_row el_position=”first”] [vc_column] [vc_column_text el_position=”first last”] 12 ways social technologies can add value in organisational functions within and across enterprises Deliver customer insights Co-create products Leverage social to forecast and monitor Use social to distribute business processes Derive customer insights Use social technologies for marketing communications/interaction Generate and foster sales leads Social commerce Customer service […]

Yesterday marked the release of the first milestone of org.openntf.domino, a community-driven project with a number of goal: To make it quicker and easier to handle Domino objects. To avoid gotchas for new Java developers like recycle(). To give useful parameter names to all methods. To extend the packages with additional functionality. To implement best […]

Social Business helps people to connect, collaborate and compete. Becoming a leader in today’s marketplace means using social solutions to transform how business gets done – driving cost savings, increasing revenue and cultivating competitive advantages. When an organisation inspires its workforce to innovate and collaborate more productively, it creates tangible business value. Anticipating needs and […]

Facets are nothing new in XPages. They are the bedrock of what makes XPages so configurable. Drop an Editable Area on a Custom Control and you can place content on that facet when you drop the Custom Control onto an XPage or another Custom Control. As with any other control, they’re not only for use […]

Now that Notes & Domino 9.0 Social Edition is gold, here are a few highlights of new functionality I particularly like. Source Pane Enhancements There are two significant benefits for XPages development here. The first is hyperlink navigation to Custom Controls. This has already saved me a lot of time during the betas. Most of […]

Declan Lynch has been writing a very comprehensive introduction to Java for XPages developers. I would strongly encourage it for any XPages developer. Like many Domino Developers, my Java experience was limited at best prior to XPages, but a knowledge of Java opens up a door to greater power. You can take advantage of managed […]