Blog & Technical Insights

This weekend has been quite busy for me. In addition to umpiring my first National Premier League netball match of the season, I decided to build two things. One was a new rabbit hutch and the other was a source control management system. I’ve never been that good at practical exercises. I’m very adept at […]

Over the last few days there have been a few releases of the OpenNTF Domino API. One of the issues was something I first came across on Friday evening where Factory.getSession() was throwing an error when triggering a partial refresh from a button in a brand new database. It was fine the first attempt after […]

In this blog post, I’m going to explain two of the concepts I covered when describing my work on XPages OpenLog Logger – interfaces and enums. Firstly, I will state categorically that diving into Java not a step I recommend to those starting out on XPages development from a Notes Client development background. There is […]

The structure prior to my recent work was one-dimensional. As part of the development for XPages OpenLog Logger, I made all the methods of the OpenLogItem class static. The reasoning was so that developers didn’t need to create an OpenLogItem object before calling any method, like logError(). So instead of: OpenLogItem oli_ = new OpenLogItem(); […]

I haven’t blogged a great deal recently, but that’s because I’ve been rather busy with ICON UK and refactoring XPages OpenLog Logger into OpenNTF Domino API. I finally completed that work last night, so I’m going to be writing a few blogs to cover what’s been done. That’s for a number of reasons. So people […]

At ICON UK I presented about the OpenNTF Domino API and mentioned a modified Update Site template for dropping the org.openntf.domino jar into a server / Designer install. I was reminded recently that I had not included that in my session material. So here it is. Firstly, a few caveats: This is provided as is. […]

Yesterday I presented two sessions at ICON UK, one on the OpenNTF Domino API and the other on XPages Mobile Controls. Both were busy sessions and thanks to everyone who attended. Here are the slides and also a demo database for the OpenNTF Domino API. A few things to bear in mind for using the […]

Since 8.5.0 I’ve been searching for everything that needs to be done to restore Domino Designer. Some time ago I blogged about exporting and importing Domino Designer preferences but I had always struggled to work out which files / folders were required for Working Sets. Today I decided to do a clean install and finally managed […]