Blog & Technical Insights

Firstly, let’s look at WHY your top talent is leaving… You may get varied answers when you ask them, but in at least one out of six cases the real reason is an ineffective employee onboarding process. What does ‘staying engaged’ mean? Surveys asking employees “what do you need to stay engaged?” revealed these 7 elements: Training Regular specific feedback […]

We’ve all made the mistake: we have multiple dominoDocument datasources on a page and we forget to set ignoreRequestParams="true" on one of them and chaos ensues. At which point we start cursing ourselves and the need to do it. It’s a topic I covered in my session at IBM Connect and also at Engage this […]

Table of Contents Introduction Part One – The Application Part Two – XPages Advanced 1 Part Three: XPages Advanced Database Separation Part Four: XPages Advanced Document Wrapper Part Five: XPages Advanced MVC Controller Part Six: Use of OpenNTF Domino API Part Seven: OSGi Application Development Introduction Part Eight: OSGi JAX-RS REST Access with ODA Part […]

Next week I’ll be at Engage. It was my first user group as a speaker back in 2010 and it has developed into arguably the premier user group for IBM Collaboration Solutions in Europe. This year IBM Champion (in perpetuity now) Theo Heselmans has gathered a stellar cast of speakers including some key IBMers, a […]

“Steve Jobs described the process of hiring top talent as “the most important job”. Yet, how to find the right employee remains a contested question.” (CIPD) Those in charge of recruitment and talent acquisition are often pushed for time. With this in mind it is easy to neglect recruitment best practices. Not only is time […]

The theme of my session at IBM Connect (which will be repeated at the end of this month at Engage) focussed a great deal on the XPages lifecycle and how to troubleshoot and understand it. Once you do have that level of understanding, there are some powerful things you can do with it. Here is […]

Recently Maven builds stopped working for me in Eclipse. The message didn’t mean much to me. But it wasn’t a huge problem, because I have Maven installed externally and have not had a problem building with that. Until I wanted to build the Extension Library last night. Then I got the error below. So I […]

Table of Contents Introduction Part One – The Application Part Two – XPages Advanced 1 Part Three: XPages Advanced Database Separation Part Four: XPages Advanced Document Wrapper Part Five: XPages Advanced MVC Controller Part Six: Use of OpenNTF Domino API Part Seven: OSGi Application Development Introduction Part Eight: OSGi JAX-RS REST Access with ODA Part […]

IBM Connect is a great opportunity to meet new people, as are any user groups (quick shameless plug for Engage next month). It’s also a great opportunity to return envigorated and engaged. We’ve seen a new release of the Extension Library during Connect as well as the announcement of the XPages Knowledge Base thanks to […]

It’s been a week now since IBM Connect, so time for my review. A Great Feel As many others, I went with a degree of trepidation. Verse was released to a fanfare earlier this year, when the promise was still of Notes Next and on premises Verse by the end of 2015. The focus during […]