Blog & Technical Insights

Now that the dust is settling after IBM Connect, it’s time for a brief review. Last week was a hectic time, my fourth Lotusphere/IBM Connect. During my first, I was shy and finding my feet, so my main takeaways were technical. For my second I was a speaker and made contact with a number of […]

For me, conferences are all about learning, not just in sessions but outside of sessions. The next few days at IBM Connect are going to be full of learning – about the direction for IBM software for the next few years, about technical content, about resolving questions from developers and product managers, about the contacts […]

In the previous two parts of this series I’ve focussed on partial refresh and partial execution. But in order to fully appreciate why partial execution is important, you need to understand the JSF lifecycle. Part two focussed on what gets processed from the XPage, it’s important to understand how it gets processed. Remember that if […]

Towards the end of last year I was on a customer site where a user was scrolling through a view to find entries that were towards the bottom. Needless to say I pointed out that by starting to type, you could jump down to the entries beginning with those letters. Over the next few days […]

Intec used their knowledge of IBM software licensing to work closely with Frost and Sullivan, identifying the most suitable worldwide model for us going forward and overcoming obstacles to secure the best deal.

In Part One I covered off what happens between server and browser in a partial refresh. Careful thinking about the refresh ID can help minimise the amount of content passed back from the server to the browser. But I emphasised that it has no effect on what happens on the server. In this part I’m […]

This is another post based upon learning from the sessions I’ve been doing at LUGs this year. Partial Execution is extremely powerful, probably rarely used, but thanks to Tony McGuckin and Dan O’Connor has been made much easier to use in IBM Domino Social Edition. But before I even discuss Partial Execution, it’s critical to […]

During this year I’ve done a session looking under the hood of XPages and explaining what actually happens. I firmly believe (and the evaluations and feedback suggests I’m not wrong) that when you understand what’s happening, it builds confidence. The starter for the session was XPages and error codes – a gentle introduction, but still […]

Over the last few weeks I’ve been communicating with Paul Hannan about the Value Picker and different behaviour if extlib.dijit.PickerListSearch. With the Value Picker control, you have a number of options. The options can be provided from a list of hard-coded or computed values using the simpleValuePicker dataProvider. They can be provided from a view […]

For a recent project I was involved in building some rather open-ended reporting functionality. Although my preference is to identify clear requirements to develop a targeted solution and avoid over-engineering, in this case it was not possible. One of the huge strengths of Domino is full text searching. In the post-8.5.3 world there is even […]