Development Blog

At FoCul we pride ourselves in our technical skills and knowledge. We have developed this knowledge in large part through the IT community and this blog is one of our ways of giving back.

We have benefited greatly from the input of other members in the tech community. This BLOG is one of the ways that we give back and help others to enjoy developing modern web applications.

SNTT: Examples of accessing data on Xpages

There are several ways of getting at the data on an Xpage. I wanted to understand this better so I have created this example which gives examples of getComponent( "element name").getValue(); getComp onent("element name").getSubmittedValue()...

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Application Debug Mode

A while back someone asked what was my best tip for Lotus Notes development - this is it - it is used in every single application I have developed in at least the last 5 years and it was passed on to me by my cousin ( thanks Martin )! Most Notes forms will have hidden...

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Balsamic Wire Mockups – a days work

I've been working on a concept for  new Notes application. I've used Balsamic  a few times before but this was the first time I have tried to sit down and flush out a scheme in a day. The results are below, its obviously still at concept stage but a day with...

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Installing 8.5.0 FP1 on Ubuntu Server

I have been upgrading a development server running on Ubuntu 8.04 from 8.5.0 to 8.5.0. FP1 ( yes I know that it is not supported ) The standard install for the fix pack does not work and gives the following errors : @ts13-001:~/Desktop/linux$ cd domino...

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simple xpages thing – what am I doing wrong ?

update :   This now works fine under 8.5.1 Beta ( CD8 ) out of the box so the problems has gone away OK, this should be trivial, what am I doing wrong ?? I can't get the post save event to run an agent but I can run it via a button. I have an Xpage here >>...

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Should you be trying Xpages ?

Let me start by saying that Xpages is really cool and very powerful. It has absolutely captured the enthusiasm of the Lotus developers Community ( don't worry admins you have DAOS ) and it has great potential. But... should you start using it YET ? The key word is...

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