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New IBM supported XPages Extension Framework Deployment Database
It has turned out to be one of those frustrating weekends where servers simply do very odd things ( no css but just on ios devices and on 2 x 853 servers - weird - solved by a full rebuild of the servers ) and the IBM technotes are all 404 ( sounds like a typical...
Is your VMWare Workstation network really slow ?
My VMware desktop system has almost ground to a halt, replicating a 40MB database tot he virtual server was taking 1.5 hours. I came across this post ( item 30 ) and now it takes seconds, basically turn off anything to do with Large Offloads and Jumbo Frames.
7 Steps to making the new XPages Wiki simpler ( about an hour )
The "new" XPages wiki on Openntf ( known as the Xpage Documentation Wiki ) has some useful improvements over the older version but the tailoring for its use in the IBM product Wikis has also made it more complicated. This is a very quick article showing how it can be...
Active Directory / Domino Authentication – easy but not easy enough
I have been working on a scheme to use Active Directory LDAP authentication for an XPages App. I posted about my early experiences with it here - everything seemed very promising but actually putting it into production has proved quite difficult. The scheme is based...
Be thankful for Notes / Domino backward compatibility
At one point about 6 years ago we had looked at developing part of the business around using opensource systems like Joomla for collaborative applications ( the push being a frustration with IBM licensing ). We set up some sites for local charities as a way of dipping...
SNTT : Using Active Directory to authenticate web users
Introduction This article describes how you can use Active Directory via LDAP and Directory Assistance to authenticate your web users. This is particularly useful in our case where we have an XPages based application running in on a black boxed appliance in a MS...
SNTT : Adding embedded Video to the Openntf Domino Wiki Template
I use the Domino Wiki template from OpenNTF for most of the projects that I work on. It has its quirks but it is none the less very useful. We are launching a new XPages product and I wanted the relevant wiki to be a bit more engaging so I added a .swf ( Adobe Shock...
Eliminating debugging messages on Traveler 852 for Symbian
If you are getting debugging messages on your Nokia device after installing Traveler 852 then you will want to download a newer version of traveler 852 which was released on the 19th September. This is not an interim fix or a hot fix but rather a fix that has been...
SNTT : Modifying an Xpage resource file via DXL without a temporary file
In Xpages resource files can be used to store settings. This is a great way of increasing the configurability of your application ( labels, keyword choices etc ) without having to carry the overhead of frequent look-ups to Notes configuration documents. This...
Domino 852 – make sure that you test your Xpage applications first
Just a quick tip for any other "traditional notes client developers". With traditional Notes applications it has been very very rare that an upgrade has caused problems with functionality, I have only ever seen it a couple of times over thousands of applications. We...