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I haven’t blogged a great deal recently, but that’s because I’ve been rather busy with ICON UK and refactoring XPages OpenLog Logger into OpenNTF Domino API. I finally completed that work last night, so I’m going to be writing a few blogs to cover what’s been done. That’s for a number of reasons. So people […]
XPages OpenLog Logger and OpenNTF Domino API Read More »
At ICON UK I presented about the OpenNTF Domino API and mentioned a modified Update Site template for dropping the org.openntf.domino jar into a server / Designer install. I was reminded recently that I had not included that in my session material. So here it is. Firstly, a few caveats: This is provided as is.
ICON UK: Modified Update Site to Save Jar Read More »
Yesterday I presented two sessions at ICON UK, one on the OpenNTF Domino API and the other on XPages Mobile Controls. Both were busy sessions and thanks to everyone who attended. Here are the slides and also a demo database for the OpenNTF Domino API. A few things to bear in mind for using the
Session slides from ICON UK and OpenNTF Domino API Demo Database Read More »
Since 8.5.0 I’ve been searching for everything that needs to be done to restore Domino Designer. Some time ago I blogged about exporting and importing Domino Designer preferences but I had always struggled to work out which files / folders were required for Working Sets. Today I decided to do a clean install and finally managed
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A few weeks ago Stephan Wissel blogged about securing XPages applications using an ANT script and, in a side note, also recommended generating a Javadoc at the same time. For some time I’ve seen the Generate Javadoc… option on the Project menu of Domino Designer. If you’ve ever tried clicking on it, you’ll have found that
Generating Javadocs for XPages Applications Read More »
Over the next few weeks I shall be rather busy talking about a variety of topics. Tomorrow is the latest OpenNTF Webinar, How did you do that? Hear from the Winners of the XPages App Dev Contest (10am EST). I shall be speaking about XPages OpenLog Logger project – some of the development techniques I used
Upcoming Activities on OpenNTF and ICONUK, Plus Tack It On Read More »
XPages provides a number of options for holding global variables at various hierarchical levels. Scoped variables allow data items to be scoped to application, session (browser session), view and request. But the values cannot be calculated dynamically within the map itself. However, they can easily be updated by accessing the map from SSJS or Java
Programmatically Accessing and Updating DataContexts Read More »
A few weeks ago Naveen Maurya posted a blog about enabling typeahead content assist for faces-config.xml files. The faces-config formatting is standard for JSF so is available from the Sun / Oracle website under the JavaServer Faces DTDs category. Unfortunately, however, XPages themes resources are not standard. A folder of DTDs has bee provided with
Enabling Typeahead Content Assist in Themes and Using The Eclipse Snippets View Read More »
For some time I’ve been using source control, predominantly for personal projects. The way I’ve used it has changed over time and is still changing. There are a number of source control options, but the ones I’ve used are Mercurial and Git. Personally Git is my preferred option. That’s mainly because when I tried an
Using SourceTree with Domino Designer Read More »
It’s been a busy couple of weeks with me, not least with turning 40 last week! I’d like to thank the judges and everyone else involved in the Appathon and it was wonderful to hear that both projects I’ve been involved with this year were included in the winners. org.openntf.domino has been a big learning
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