In recent conversations I have had with companies on their recruitment process, it has become clear how their own recruitment strategy is a jumble of trial and error and outsourcing it to agencies. Not many take into account how their own employees are feeling, working and performing. How can we expect to recruit the top […]
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It’s been about a year since I last blogged about XOTS. Just to recap, XOTS is a method of running background multi-threaded tasks coded within an NSF. It’s basically DOTS tasklets within XPages. The tasklet extends Runnable if you just want to call it and let it run in the background, or Callable if you
XOTS: Background and MultiThreaded Tasks the OpenNTF Domino API Way (Part Four) Read More »
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
From XPages to Web App Part Sixteen: OSGi JAX-RS REST Access with ODA Revisited Read More »
Reading an article recently I was surprised to learn that social is now the #1 use of the internet, with 94% using it to learn, 78% to share knowledge and 49% to engage experts. Of course that is across all users, but even businesses are increasingly gaining greater visibility into the sentiments, activities and behaviours
A New Way to Work. Understanding, Empowering & Trusting both Customers and Employees Read More »
developerWorks has become the de facto site for a lot of IBM community content. For some time it has been the portal to Digital Experience projects uploaded to OpenNTF. It has become the source for Bluemix-related blog posts and forums. And more and more (Connections) communities are being managed via developerWorks rather than (Lotus) Greenhouse.
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There are times when you want to secure an application using the ACL, but Anonymous still needs some access to hit a home page. In those scenarios, a common approach is to enable the Read and/or Write Public Accss Documents privilege on the ACL for Anonymous. The relevant XPage needs enabling for public access as
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There have been some lively discussions over the last week about application development and Domino, initially prompted by a blog post by Niklas Heidloff but continued on Twitter. The comments included quite a wish list from IBM, but to my mind the future of application development – on Domino or elsewhere – can be summed
The Future of (Domino) App Dev in a Single Word Read More »
78% of business leaders rated retention and engagement urgent or important, according to the 2014 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report. 70% of employees in the USA are either ‘not engaged’ or ‘actively disengaged’ costing huge amounts in lost productivity, and worse still, the number of people not engaged Worldwide was 87%. Additionally, a 2015
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One of the key learning points from my session at IBM Connect and Engage last week was around datasources and using viewScope. It was only when I was initially creating the demo application that I learned what is in this blog post, but it drew upon something I was aware of for some time and
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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
HR – Stop Wasting Company Money and Improve your Onboarding Process Read More »