Almost a year ago I wrote a whitepaper called “Maximising the Benefits of Lotus Domino 8.5.x with XPages“. This was an open discussion of the pros and cons of XPages, based on Domino 8.5.1. I have updated the whitepaper to take into account the significant enhancements in XPages in 8.5.2 and a year’s more experience […]
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One of the great things about XPages is that you can extend your skill-set as you become more confident. You can build a powerful application without needing to write your own stylesheet or use a theme or use Java. But as and when you want to push the boundaries of your knowledge further, you can
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Some time ago I read Chris Toohey’s article on Logic-Driven NotesDocument UNIDs. I have had unfortunate experiences with profile documents where cached values were being returned. So Chris’s technique was extremely useful, because I could define the UNID, so be able to access the document quickly and reliably using getDocumentByUNID(). I’ve used it a number
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Towards the end of last year we were asked about undertaking a Notes client plug-in development project. At the time my plug-in development experience was zero. Apart from a brief look at the source code of the Extension Library source code, my only other Eclipse experience was from about six years ago using the XML editors. And
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The last two days have been filled with more Lotus and XPages goodness at BLUG in Antwerp. As last year, BLUG is a great conference with a wonderful assemblage of speakers, expertly kept in order by Theo. Yesterday I presented “XPages: Enter The Dojo”, a one-man version of the session I delivered with David Leedy
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Thanks to a tweet from Per Henrik Lausten I was alerted to the release of Dojo 1.6. There are quite a few big changes most notably use of “dojo-data-type” for widgets. This is a huge change but one which has been made to fit in with HTML5 standards. I haven’t followed the discussions in depth
While at EntwicklerCamp a couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to share a couple of usability enhancements which seem to have slipped under the radar of some developers. The first is a useful resource for developers using XPages. As many will know, SVN is possible within Domino Designer now and from all the
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During February Bob Balfe has been blogging 28 days of Dojo. To tie in with that I’ve decided now is a good time to blog about a couple of charting enhancements I included in my Lotusphere session with Dave Leedy, XPages: Enter The Dojo. The first is new functionality available with Dojo 1.5.0 to add
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Last week was EntwicklerCamp in Gelsenkirchen in Germany. Although I could only be there for two days of the three-day conference, it was great to see so many new faces as well as some familiar faces. As with so many conferences there was a great buzz around XPages with the XPages Cheatsheet in every bag.
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Shortly after Lotusphere a number of XPages developers came together in the community, for a number of reasons. One of our early discussions was that the Notes & Domino 8.5 forum did not make it easy for those of us with knowledge to help those who don’t. I agreed with the need for an XPages-centric
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