Blog & Technical Insights

It’s been a busy week. Last Thursday I had a mixture of good and bad news. Two abstracts I was hopeful about we’re rejected for IBM Connect, but a third was accepted. I’ll be presenting with Mike McGarel – not the first time I’ve presented with someone who works for Czarnowski, but this time there […]

As I blogged when 8.5.3 went live, Dojo is now packaged as 1.5.1 as physical files on the server for iNotes and 1.6.1 in a plugin. So how do you inspect what’s provided in the plugin? That was the focus on one of the comments on the post I made. Well, Nathan Freeman and Serdar […]

In a recent Notes Client development I had the need to programmatically detach images inserted into a Notes Document. The images also needed to be visible in the Notes Client rather than added as attachments. But an image pasted into a Rich Text field is not accessible via NotesRichTextItem.EmbeddedObjects. There was also the challenge that […]

Sometimes a document doesn’t appear where you expect it to in a particular view. Tracking it down can be a laborious task. But it doesn’t have to be. There is a little tip that’s not as widely known as it should be. It’s nothing new, certainly dating back to R6 and probably even back to […]

Earlier this week I was running a technical enablement session on XPages for IBM. One of the first steps was to configure Domino Designer. I’ve championed before some of the benefits that Eclipse brought to Domino Designer, such as the search and local history (which has been my saviour on many an occasion!). But one I only […]

We’ve all done it. We want to create a new view, but we don’t want to create it from scratch. We have one similar. So we copy and paste and modify it. It’s quick, it’s easy, it works. Most of the time. Sometimes it comes back to bite you because of seemingly innocent column settings. […]

Fredrik Norling blogged yesterday about using Regular Expressions to validate in XPages (but also traditional Domino web development). There is one option for validating using regular expressions that Fredrik didn’t mention, and it’s well worth covering. Because although you can find a lot of regular expressions on the web, writing your own or modifying regular […]

I’ve blogged before about VariableResolvers and the more I dig into them, the more powerful they are. Performance-wise, I’ve already blogged they’re as rapid as you can get, the perfect place for regularly-accessed bits of code. Anyone at UKLUG will have seen that I extended that particular performance table to show that a VariableResolver in […]

Yesterday I totally screwed up my Notes install. Bottom line, it thought it was a multi-user install and no matter what I did, I couldn’t install the full client. There was a very simple cause. The usual one. I didn’t RTFM! We’ve all done it. (Please, just agree to make me feel less stupid.) I […]

If you’ve been developing Domino applications for any length of time, you will be aware of the Design Synopsis. Mainly you’ll be aware of it as a major selling point for third-party tools like those of TeamStudio or Ytria. If you’re new to Domino development with XPages, you’re not missing anything. With Notes 8.5 we […]