Blog & Technical Insights

Last week I spoke with Tony McGuckin at IBM Connect. This blog post is explaining a problem I had recently, the cause, the investigation and the resolution two possible resolutions. All relate to content I covered in that session, particularly around the JSF lifecycle. It’s also why the JSF lifecycle is something I always cover […]

Last week I delivered two sessions at ConnectED. Here are the session slides. BP106 From XPages Hero To OSGi Guru: Taking The Scary Out Of Building Extension Libraries MAS103 XPages Performance & Scalability To download the slides, go to Slideshare, for BP106 (not sure what went wrong with the URL!) and MAS103.

It’s been a busy week as always. So now the dust has settled here are a few thoughts. No Matter What Changes, The Community Persists Our community is an awesome thing, often mentioned with envy by those working outside what was ICS and is now ESS (Enterprise Social Solutions). Over recent years there have been […]

In just a short few days, fellow IBM Champion Tim Malone and myself (Paul Withers) will be heading off to IBM ConnectED. With one less day but just as much to do, it’s likely to be even more hectic than ever. Here’s a summary of things I intend to be involved in. OpenNTF Domino API […]

For the first time I’ve got an application that would benefit from Single Copy XPage Design. The challenge is how to develop that in a way that can best be managed via source control and deployed through development, test and live environments. That’s because, unlike design inheritance, Single Copy XPage Design is set in Domino […]

For anyone who has used the slides from my Show and Tell on source control in January or the subsequent NotesIn9 episode, the recommended Git / Mercurial client was SourceTree. It’s an excellent tool for those who prefer a GUI and runs on Windows and Mac. The advice at the time was to use the […]

The next step is to configure it for work with Domino. Thankfully, Nathan Freeman has done a great job at making it very easy to do so. I’ll go through the installation first and then explain what’s set. You need to download and install XPages SDK for Eclipse RCP project from OpenNTF into Eclipse. This […]

The recommended IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for looking at plugins is Eclipse. You can open them in Domino Designer, but I prefer to keep my development environment clean – I have enough Notes Applications and On Disk Projects there, without confusing the matter further. Plus, if you’re looking to debug them, Eclipse is a better […]

Earlier this week I was prompted to upgrade Firefox and I’m now on 34.0.5. Suddenly I was unable to access some Domino servers and got this message when connecting via https: Needless to say, this is not going to be a problem with Domino 9.0.1 FP2 IF2. But for some projects I need to develop […]

One aspect in which browsers are significantly poor compared to rich client applications like the Notes Client is in keyboard shortcuts. WAI-ARIA roles exist for specific areas of a page, like navigation. But browser manufacturers seem to have done nothing to help those who prefer to (or have to) use the keyboard instead of the […]