Blog & Technical Insights

We are proud to confirm that Intec are now sponsors of OpenNTF, with our Domino Next Step Hub, an area focused on what Domino and Intec can offer. It’s an exciting time for the products that Intec have worked with for a long time. And it’s the right time for a renaissance also for open […]

As one of the first steps in XPages training I cover making configuration and settings changes to Domino Designer to optimise your experience. One of those is switching off Build Automatically. Unless your day-to-day ID only has Editor or below access to applications, sooner or later having Build Automatically enabled will cause problems. Its enabled […]

For a long time Intec have been involved with Engage delivering sessions. In a significant year for the products we’re proud to extend that involvement by sponsoring Engage as well. Engage has long been a prestigious event in the user group calendar, with stunning venues organised by Lifetime IBM Champion, Theo Heselmans. That is reinforced […]

If you’re not primarily coding in (client-side) JavaScript, my recommendation has always been that any XPages developers who have worked with the platform beyond a few projects should be coding in Java. That’s why I developed a course specifically around Java development in XPages*. Server-side JavaScript is a good starting point, but only a starting […]

This week marks the passing of Watson Workspace, one of the few major innovations in the ICS space of the last decade. I say that because it was innovative not only in technology, but openness, open technologies adopted and showcased, design thinking approach, integration and most importantly user experience. It may be gone for good, […]

In the late 1990s there was a temp who had left university not long before, with an MA in Ancient Greek Literature and a PhD to write up. He was applying for academic positions but uncertain where his long-term future applied. He started at a company which used Lotus Notes for a CRM planning events […]

This week I’ve spent a hugely beneficial amount of time at the HCL Factory Tour Episode 2. As with the previous factory tour, the ability to get quality time with key individuals from HCL and IBM, as well as not only hear but feed back on progress is invaluable. Before going I’d also intended to […]

A new IBM technote has been released for XPages Partial Refresh Throwing CLFAD* Errors. As suspected, the cause was tightening up validation and, instead of falling back to reloading the page, it throws an error. I remember in 8.5.1 a similar issue where passing an error object to some logging started throwing an error because […]

As hopefully most developers are aware, at the beginning of the year Oracle changed the licensing terms for Java JREs (Java Runtime Environment), requiring a paid commercial license for any commercial use. For most Notes and Domino customers, that has meant no change. As long as I can remember, Notes (on Windows) and Domino have […]

As you’ve hopefully seen, we’ve relaunched XSnippets as OpenNTF Snippets. There are quite a few changes, some decisions made that are less than traditional, but driven by some key factors. Indeed some may seem bad practice and are certainly not what may be made for other applications. But the driving force is a deep understanding […]