Blog & Technical Insights

Recently I’ve realised that for all the host of materials there have been on XPages, there are not the same amount of materials for OSGi Plugin investigation. John Dalsgaard and John Cooper have blogged some, but most of the blogs tend to focus on building plugins. Indeed that’s also the focus of my upcoming session […]

It’s great news that both myself and Tim Malone have been renewed as IBM Champions for 2015. I’ve been an IBM Champion every year since 2011, but I still strive to be an active member of the community. My involvement has ramped up significantly since I started blogging in 2009 and it’s a pleasure to […]

Yesterday I heard that I was accepted for two sessions for IBM ConnectED at the end of January. They are: Title: XPages Performance and Scalability Conference/Track: Track 7: Master Classes Speaker(s): Tony McGuckin; Paul Withers Abstract: This session by Tony McGuckin and IBM Champion Paul Withers is a deep dive on key aspects of the […]

Some may have missed the announcement, so I’ll draw special attention to it. The community has the chance to shape the ConnectED agenda by voting on Chalk Talk sessions for a variety of tracks. There are a couple I’d like to raise the priority of. The first is one I’ve submitted myself on OpenNTF Domino […]

Back in January IBM first announced Mail Next and revealed the first prototype images. A lot has changed since then, not least that the HTML mockups have been replaced with working code, as has been shown in webinars, user groups and Design Advisory Panel calls. Now the name has changed too, with the final name […]

On Friday I picked up a query about how to pass a dominoDocument datasource to a custom control. It’s a question that’s been raised before but a definitive answer could not be located. It’s possibly because the answer is not specific to datasources, but any variable. In essence there is a simple rule to apply […]

For those who didn’t notice, the Interim Fix for 9.0.1 FP2 released overnight also included the fix for iOS 8. Not surprisingly, because of the impact of changes to the Dojo code, this fix is only in 9.0.1 FP2, not in the Interim Fix Packs released for older Domino versions – they focus solely on […]

For some time the OpenNTF Domino API has included Tinkerpop and an implementation to store content in a graph database structure. Recently I’ve been digging into that further for potential projects, prompted also by a redevelopment of that area of the OpenNTF Domino API and Nathan’s upcoming session at DanNotes. Graph databases are a common […]

On Friday I blogged about how you can’t include Expression Language in Client-Side JavaScript for an eventHandler. (Because of problems with the blog that prevented comments, I had to re-post it.) The other benefit of blogging is that someone can usually give you some more information that makes everything drop into place. Toby Samples tweeted […]