One of my standard interview questions is to pose a challenging real-life scenario I encountered a few years ago. The scenario posed is of a suite a databases developed for use on Notes Clients minimum release of 6.5.x and maximum release of 7.0.2. The requirement is for users to open a document in database A […]
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Not for the first time I came across something I had not been aware of before, and then had a second occurrence within a week. It’s something I’ll bear in mind for the future and, as such, I think it’s worth sharing. The first occurrence was last week. I’ve long held it true that if
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A few weeks ago one of my colleagues was having a problem with the Date Time Picker control in an XPage. You can see an example here. Whenever he clicked the calendar icon, the form refreshed immediately, before a value could be selected. After further investigation, this was happening only on Internet Explorer, but not
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As I said in Part One, this series came about through an awareness of dojox charting and a desire to investigate its suitability to replace our current third-party solution. At the time I was not aware of NotesReconn on OpenNTF, which recently won second place in the TeamStudio Spotlight awards, and that’s definitely on my radar now
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A few years ago, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn were not around. Not many of us could have predicted how pervasive the social technologies have become not only online, but also in our daily lives. From 3Q 2008 to 3Q 2009, IBM’s social collaboration software install base grew by 34 percent. This growth is representative
Social Collaboration for the enterprise Read More »
In the previous parts of this tutorial (accessible from the link on the left-hand side of this page) I have shown how to use the dojox charting code to create pie charts, bar charts, column charts, and a line chart via javascript. In this part, I will create a line chart similar to the one created in
Dojox Charting Tutorial – Part Five: Line Chart HTML Markup Read More »
I came across a tweet yesterday evening about content assist for LotusScript in Domino Designer being slow. I committed the cardinal sin of assuming that the person in question already knew of the setting in the Preferences. Just in case the information, and more, is of use to anyone else – and because the Full
Domino Designer Content Assist Preferences (in case you're not aware of them) Read More »
Having now returned from Lotusphere 2010 and had time to digest and reflect upon the event as a whole, I thought I would share some product related observations. The next release of Lotus Quickr plans to deliver on IBM’s commitment to enhance and streamline user experiences. Based on customer feedback, Lotus Quickr will offer simplified
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So far in the tutorial I have shown how to create series in javascript, generate a pie chart on an XPage with animations and a legend, and generate bar and column charts using a custom tooltip to show more than just the content of the series. In this part I will show how to generate
Dojox Charting Tutorial – Part Four: Line Chart Via Javascript Read More »
Yesterday I mentioned the announcement of Project Vulcan, and today we’ll take a closer look. How does one describe Project Vulcan? Some initially speculated that Vulcan is like Google Wave – only done properly. However, it is apparent that the platform aims to let users share and take action on data from business applications rather than just being another
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