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After one of my sessions at IBM Connect I was approached by a developer whose company would not use open source. The comment made me despair more than a little and has festered for some time. I’ve used code and projects from OpenNTF for many, many years before subsequently contributing to OpenNTF. Obviously as a […]
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Bill F posed a good question on StackOverflow about the issue of object.recycle and when to use it. It’s un understandable question and one I hit years ago after crashing a server looping through 20,000 documents in a search. I raised a PMR, got a response directing me to technotes on recycling in Java. Searching
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Some time ago I wrote about how you have to build twice if you have Build Automatically switched off, then open an application in Designer and make a change – the first build was incremental. Just to revisit, I would always recommend having Build Automatically switched off unless you’re in an instance of Designer that
XPages Build Project Investigations Improvement Read More »
Today there was a question on StackOverflow about how to trigger an eventHandler of control A from control B. I knew I’d done it before, but couldn’t remember where and couldn’t find where I’d blogged on it. So here is the way I originally did it and the better way. The Padawan’s Way Once you
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There have been a few questions lately on StackOverflow trying to troubleshoot activity during the initial page load. So I thought I’d write a post to try to clarify the process. This certainly helps me pre-empt some functionality and provides an explanation for some of the questions I’ve seen. Using code from Jesse Gallagher’s XPages
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In a recent project I’ve extended the document wrapper Tim Tripcony showed in his NotesIn9 series on XPages and Java. Previously I’ve just used the dominoDocument datasource on the XPage. Today I was battling with a problem when editing a document that had been created in Notes. I was getting the very helpful message “Validation
Document Wrappers, Combo Boxes and Blank Fields Read More »
A few months ago Tim Tripcony blogged about a component’s binding property which was followed up with a NotesIn9 episode. On Tim’s blog, Jesse Gallagher asked if it had led to any cool app-structuring breakthroughs. While preparing some XPages training materials, I realised there was one cool use of a component’s binding property that is
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Last week Jesse Gallagher blogged about using enums in a combo box. For those who are not familiar with enums, if you’ve started using Java it’s well worth reviewing the article where I covered them. Thankfully I was involved in a chat around that topic with Jesse and Nathan. I had previously written code to
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I try to avoid using the word “bug” too freely, because those who live by the word “bug” may die by the word “bug”! After all, we’re software developers whose own software may include bugs. Use the word freely and we can’t complain when others also do. But a little while ago I was battling
Java getAllDocumentsByKey / getAllEntriesByKey Problem With Doubles Read More »
Over the last few days my understanding of views and an XPages display of content has become much clearer. I don’t think I’m the only one who has confused the boundaries between the various moving parts and not fully understood the granularity involved. But the objects all have a clear place and function, and when
Understanding XPages Views Read More »