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I Will Be Speaking at BLUG

Hot on the heels of attending a very interesting presentation skills seminar, I got notification over the weekend that I had been accepted to speak at BLUG (Belux Lotus User Group) on 30th March. My session is entitled XPages From A Different “View”-point and here’s the abstract: With repeat controls and data tables you can

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View Optimisation – A Cautionary Tale or When Children Can Help You

At the moment I’m reviewing some older databases to look for performance improvements. Some leap from the screen, like changing GetNthDocument for GetFirstDocument and GetNextDocument in script, removing unnecessary sorting, removing private views that had been created for support purposes. Much of what I’ve been looking at is based on the whitepaper article by Andre

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Embedded View from a Different Database – A Scalable Alternative

One of my standard interview questions is to pose a challenging real-life scenario I encountered a few years ago. The scenario posed is of a suite a databases developed for use on Notes Clients minimum release of 6.5.x and maximum release of 7.0.2. The requirement is for users to open a document in database A

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XULRunner and XPiNC

Not for the first time I came across something I had not been aware of before, and then had a second occurrence within a week. It’s something I’ll bear in mind for the future and, as such, I think it’s worth sharing. The first occurrence was last week. I’ve long held it true that if

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Dojox Charting Tutorial – Part Six: Appendices

As I said in Part One, this series came about through an awareness of dojox charting and a desire to investigate its suitability to replace our current third-party solution. At the time I was not aware of NotesReconn on OpenNTF, which recently won second place in the TeamStudio Spotlight awards, and that’s definitely on my radar now

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Social Collaboration for the enterprise

A few years ago, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn were not around. Not many of us could have predicted how pervasive the social technologies have become not only online, but also in our daily lives. From 3Q 2008 to 3Q 2009, IBM’s social collaboration software install base grew by 34 percent. This growth is representative

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