This month I had some interviews for new Java projects and I noticed when you start about Notes and Domino the first reaction is of ‘is this still around…….’. I thought what is the reason of this reaction?? Most it comes for not knowing the real power of the new Development platform created by IBM, Read More
Lesson Learned: a Button need an id to trigger action
Sometimes I type in the xml in a XPages app, rather then drag and drop a component. Yesterday I did the same for a button. Everything looks great as a button with the required label text. So I added the event handler, this time not by typing in, but via the properties pane in the Read More
Quick XPages tip: add Fullcalendar plugin to your application
In one of my XPages projects there was the need of a calendar display of data. First stop was the Demo application of the OpenNTF Extension Library, which contains a calendar control. After some attempts to get my data displayed in this control, I skipped it and moved to a JQuery plugin, FullCalendar. I was Read More
Quick XPages tip: Show validation status icon on bootstrap tabs
In one of my XPages projects I use bootstrap tabs to make it user friendly. One down side is that on different tabs are required fields, so when the validation failed there is no clear overview which fields need to be filled in. On the web I found the JQuery project, form validation, with a Read More
My take on JSoup
Next to my daily projects I am working on a new pet project, based on XPages. May be later more about this project 😉 One of the requests was, more a nice to have, to import lots of data in the new application, to avoid to do it manually. So I searched on Google and Read More
Power of Themes part 2, the XML syntax
Last month I wrote a small blog about the Power of Themes. To me the must start of a XPages project. A themes is in the basic just a XML file, like many other files in a XPages application. So when you are forget a XML tag to close properly you will be prompt when you build Read More
Power of Themes part 1, get started
In the beginning of XPages development I had some diffeculties to get my head around Themes. Now a days I benefit from the benefit of the themes. It is one of the first files I create in a database Themes are extremely powerful. With a theme you can control your whole XPages application, both web Read More
My presentation – Don’t worry with bower
I had submitted an abstract for Engage, due lots of great speakers I didn’t make it as a speaker, this year. But I want to share my presentation, any way. http://www.slideshare.net/flinden68/dont-worry-with-bower
My take on a Multi Growl messages phaselistner for XPages
I was triggered by the blog entry of Michael Smith about BootAlert share my code I am using currently in some XPages apps. Back in august 2014 I wrote already a blog about adding Growl messages to my XPages. There is also described which Bootstrap Growl library I am using. It was easy to implement, Read More
Jackson JSON mapper plugin for XPages
To work in Java with JSON there are several libraries, like GSON, JSON-simple and even the IBM version. They are very easy to use. In my recent J2EE projects their was always a need of consuming JSON and returning JSON. The library we used their was Jackson JSON library. It was a refreshing way to work with JSON Read More