Blog & Technical Insights

A couple of weeks ago I received an email from IBM Press about Sandy Carter’s new book ‘Get Bold‘. Shortly afterwards, my copy arrived. I’m not one for reading many IT books – most of my library comprises fiction, often based in the Classical world. But I was interested to get a bit more of […]

Over the weekend I uploaded a new release of the XPages Help Application to OpenNTF (now available under the short URL http://xhelp.openntf.org. As well as a few minor changes, the main enhancement was a change to use the dijit.Tree Dojo widget for all navigation throughout the application. This may seem a relatively small piece of […]

Over the last week or so I’ve been making some major enhancements to the XPages Help Application I provided on OpenNTF earlier this year, now available at the shortened URL http://xhelp.openntf.org. The main areas have been adding dijit.Tree support for the navigation, but also fixing an issue that meant images didn’t appear when viewed in Notes […]

Last week two announcements were made in the world of XPages that were worthy of further mention. The first was the new IBM course on Modernizing IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 Applications. The main author of this course is Jeremy Hodge, with whom I’ve been working on the upcoming Extension Library book. He has been involved […]

This week the “Creating and Deploying a Java Plugin for Notes and Symphony” lab from Lotusphere has been added to the Notes and Domino wiki by Shane Kilmon, an excellent IBMer who was helped me a lot with a plugin development project of my own at the end of last year. Those who have used […]

A whle ago I wrote a blog post on Formatting Dates on Links, which talked about using F4 to identify the methods of the underlying XPages Java classes. It’s something I’ve done for a while ever since Tim Tripcony and Nathan Freeman told me about it. It’s a technique which has proved particularly useful when […]

Two and a half years ago when I started working with XPages, there was a relative paucity of support materials. Declan Lynch’s 50-odd introduction was a god-send as were blog posts from John Mackey and Matt White. The Dojo documentation was okay, but the implementation of Dojo 1.1.1 was very limiting. There had been sessions […]

We chose Intec to help us deliver our EDI migration project due to their wealth of experience in our industry. This has proven to be the right decision as they have been a vital part of the project success.

Last night a new release of the XPages Help Application was launched on OpenNTF. For those who haven’t seen it, this is an XPages framework for managing online help content. The application demonstrates extensive use of themes, use of Java managed beans, and an implementation of the OpenLog Java class specifically designed for use in […]

The twittersphere and the internet are all buzzing with the news that Gmail has added a preview pane, learning from tablets. An article circulated from Twitter calls it “heart-warming” and “exciting” and says it will make Gmail “more awesome than ever”. Google for “preview pane gmail” and you’ll not find any shortage of articles. Excuse me, because […]