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While using source control I recently encountered one aspect of traditional Domino development that does not play well with DXL round-tripping. Because I tend to be merging changes outside of Domino Designer, in my preferences (Domino Designer > Source Control) I have Use Binary DXL for source control operations deselected. Recently I was working […]
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Tomorrow (April 23rd) I will be speaking on the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community Meeting at 3pm BST (10am ET). The topic of this month’s meeting is XPages. The main part of the community meeting will see Abby Butts and Sam Bridegroom talking about how they have used XPages to develop applications to benefit a not-for-profit
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Yesterday marked the release of the first milestone of org.openntf.domino, a community-driven project with a number of goal: To make it quicker and easier to handle Domino objects. To avoid gotchas for new Java developers like recycle(). To give useful parameter names to all methods. To extend the packages with additional functionality. To implement best
org.openntf.domino – A New Hope for Java Developers Read More »
Declan Lynch has been writing a very comprehensive introduction to Java for XPages developers. I would strongly encourage it for any XPages developer. Like many Domino Developers, my Java experience was limited at best prior to XPages, but a knowledge of Java opens up a door to greater power. You can take advantage of managed
Beginners' Guide to the Java Debugger and Tips From Using It. And a Teaser Read More »
During February Bob Balfe has been blogging 28 days of Dojo. To tie in with that I’ve decided now is a good time to blog about a couple of charting enhancements I included in my Lotusphere session with Dave Leedy, XPages: Enter The Dojo. The first is new functionality available with Dojo 1.5.0 to add
More Dojo Charting: A Couple of Goodies Read More »
Like so many others, I was glad to read yesterday’s article by Ed Brill about the IBM whitepaper on Domino as a RAD platform. This had come to my attention shortly before Christmas and although the timing was unfortunate in some ways, nevertheless it did provide Ed with the great opportunity to highlight it at
Lotus Domino IS an App Dev Platform Read More »
As I mentioned on This Week in Lotus last week, I’ve been working on a submission to OpenNTF. In fact I’ve had it pretty much ready to go for months now, I just never got round to submitting it and the topic of OpenNTF on This Week in Lotus gave me the opportunity I needed to
New Custom Control Project Contributed to OpenNTF Read More »
This week I was invited to take part in This Week in Lotus, the main topic for which was the XPages Extension Library and OpenNTF. I would strongly recommend any XPages developer to listen to the podcast, it’s one of the resources I use rigorously to keep me up to date on all things Lotus
This Week in Lotus 19 – XPages Xcellerated…and Taking Notes Read More »
Those who have followed my blog will be aware that I posted an article earlier this year about extending the Rich Text Editor. That showed that the Rich Text Editor used an extension of a dojo class, ibm.domino.widget.layout.DominoRichText, and could be extended by defining various dojoAttributes, for example fontName as Arial, extraPlugins as [“createLink”,”|”] to
XPages 8.5.2 & Rich Text: Extending the CKEditor Read More »
With today’s announcement of a release date for Domino 8.5.2, it seems the right time to review some of the features I’ve come to like in the closed beta. Some of them are just usability enhancements, others are functionality enhancements, and many are XPages enhancements. Before continuing, I must include the caveat that this article
Domino 8.5.2: Enhancements I'm Looking Forward To Read More »