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Combining $ and #: An Alternative Approach

Over the last couple of days there have been a few discussions about combining Compute on Page Load and Compute Dynamically. The full trails are below: Sven Hasselbach’s initial post My explanation of what’s happening in the source code and Java Sven Hasselbach’s response A possible alternative from Mark Roden Both make good points and

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NotesViewEntryCollections

One of the benefits of XPages is the power of repeat controls to effectively perform ‘joins’, whether that is with nested repeat controls or merging data prior to displaying in a repeat control. When it comes to collections of documents I tend to favour NotesViewEntryCollections. This is both for performance (predominantly using getColumnValues().get) as well

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Whither the Notes Client?

This morning I came across a tweet from Ed Brill about Symphony / Open Office with a link to this article about Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition. The article is positive reinforcing that although Symphony 3.0.1 is likely to be the last release, IBM’s commitment to OpenOffice continues (as those of us in the yellow bubble

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Lotusphere in Review

Lotusphere is over for another year (and the perennial debate about the name also seems to have been put to bed – announcements have always said “Lotusphere 2013”). From the Domino standpoint it’s been another step on the road to the Vulcan vision and a reaffirmation of a new deployment model. We’ve seen in the

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Lotusphere Day 2 Review

The second day of Lotusphere began with OpenSocial integration to generate embedded experiences. With Lotus Domino 8.5.4 Social Edition, embedded experiences are going to be a significant addition to the Domino developer’s toolkit through the second half of 2012. With OpenSocial and embedded experiences developers can add functionality into the mails they send. Whereas in

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My Plans for Lotusphere – What I think Will Be Hot

So I’m at Lotusphere now, my plans for this year are learning and being social. So what do I think will be important for XPages developers over the next year? The first is Java. Server-Side JavaScript is powerful, but Java is something I’ve embraced over the last nine months because it offered me more. That’s

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