Blog & Technical Insights

Yesterday evening I got involved in an XPages conversation. It started with this tweet from Chris Toohey: Dr Marky Roden then brought me into the conversation, just as I looked on Twitter! A bit of a conversation then ensued, which is shown below.   As I said, I needed to do more investigation on all […]

At IBM Connect 2013 Mike McGarel and I presented BP206, “It’s Not Herculean: 12 Tasks Made easier with IBM Domino XPages”. The session took an alternative approach of covering twelve areas where XPages offers an easier or more flexible option for delivering functionality than Notes Client or traditional Domino web. It was intended to highlight […]

Last year I had the honour of answering a call for sidebar contributions to Ed Brill’s book, “Opting In: Lessons in Social Business from a Fortune 500 Product Manager”. I had no doubt it would be a well-written, informative book. Ed’s announcement today of his new role as Director of Market Management – IBM Mobile […]

Now that the dust is settling after IBM Connect, it’s time for a brief review. Last week was a hectic time, my fourth Lotusphere/IBM Connect. During my first, I was shy and finding my feet, so my main takeaways were technical. For my second I was a speaker and made contact with a number of […]

For me, conferences are all about learning, not just in sessions but outside of sessions. The next few days at IBM Connect are going to be full of learning – about the direction for IBM software for the next few years, about technical content, about resolving questions from developers and product managers, about the contacts […]

In the previous two parts of this series I’ve focussed on partial refresh and partial execution. But in order to fully appreciate why partial execution is important, you need to understand the JSF lifecycle. Part two focussed on what gets processed from the XPage, it’s important to understand how it gets processed. Remember that if […]

Towards the end of last year I was on a customer site where a user was scrolling through a view to find entries that were towards the bottom. Needless to say I pointed out that by starting to type, you could jump down to the entries beginning with those letters. Over the next few days […]

Intec used their knowledge of IBM software licensing to work closely with Frost and Sullivan, identifying the most suitable worldwide model for us going forward and overcoming obstacles to secure the best deal.

In Part One I covered off what happens between server and browser in a partial refresh. Careful thinking about the refresh ID can help minimise the amount of content passed back from the server to the browser. But I emphasised that it has no effect on what happens on the server. In this part I’m […]

This is another post based upon learning from the sessions I’ve been doing at LUGs this year. Partial Execution is extremely powerful, probably rarely used, but thanks to Tony McGuckin and Dan O’Connor has been made much easier to use in IBM Domino Social Edition. But before I even discuss Partial Execution, it’s critical to […]