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Intec defines Social Business as any organisation that embraces networks of people to create business value. By fully integrating the collective knowledge of people-centric networks, Social Businesses accelerate decision-making, strengthen business processes and increase innovation. Intec defines Social Business as any organisation that embraces networks of people to create business value. A Social Business shifts […]

I’ve always been a huge fan of Local History. It’s one of those pieces of standard Eclipse functionality that adds great power to Domino Designer. And because it’s standard Eclipse functionality it’s something developers find out about over time. So a bit of background quickly. Local History allows you to retrieve previous saves of design […]

Over the last decade social tools have become not only prevalent, they have become critical to business. Just under a decade ago I created a LinkedIn profile. I doubt I was in the first wave of early adopters, but I was early. So early I forgot about it for a few years until I started […]

Like many XPages developers, I run a local Domino server installed on my laptop. There are a number of reasons for that: Building an application is quicker when it’s on the same PC. SSJS sessionAsSigner doesn’t work if there are multiple signers for design elements in use on the page. (I’m assuming that’s still the […]

Late last night I released the XPages OpenLog Logger project on OpenNTF. There have been options for logging to OpenLog from XPages for some time – Matt White’s OpenLogXPages SSJS library from TaskJam and the OpenLogItem class I included in XPages Help Application. So why did I bother with this? Firstly, if you think this […]

I’ve recently been looking back at an application I added some XPages functionality into a while ago and realised there were a couple of Server-Side JavaScript tips I have not shared before. The first is actually unnecessary where I’ve used it. I think Tim Tripcony mentioned it and I started using it all over the […]

I’ve been using Java for some time and one of the benefits is that there are a whole host of options for managing collections of objects. In SSJS we have arrays, as we do in LotusScript. LotusScript also gives Lists. SSJS and Java also make use of Vectors, most often for lookup keys, field values […]

Yesterday evening I got involved in an XPages conversation. It started with this tweet from Chris Toohey: Dr Marky Roden then brought me into the conversation, just as I looked on Twitter! A bit of a conversation then ensued, which is shown below.   As I said, I needed to do more investigation on all […]

At IBM Connect 2013 Mike McGarel and I presented BP206, “It’s Not Herculean: 12 Tasks Made easier with IBM Domino XPages”. The session took an alternative approach of covering twelve areas where XPages offers an easier or more flexible option for delivering functionality than Notes Client or traditional Domino web. It was intended to highlight […]

Last year I had the honour of answering a call for sidebar contributions to Ed Brill’s book, “Opting In: Lessons in Social Business from a Fortune 500 Product Manager”. I had no doubt it would be a well-written, informative book. Ed’s announcement today of his new role as Director of Market Management – IBM Mobile […]