Simple Social – It doesn’t have to be difficult
Mon, May 20th 2013 6:14a Fredrik Norling IBM is talking about social business, the press is talking about Social media.
It all comes down to doing things together breaking down barriers and software like IBM Connections makes the gap between you and your customers/colleagues smaller. Your company can works as one because everybody knows what is happening and the interaction with your customers are faster.
If you have the possibility get together with your customers at their location and take a FIKA (Swedish for Coffee break) and liste [read] Keywords: connections
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On my wall, thanks IBM
Wed, May 8th 2013 2:18p Fredrik Norling As soon as I recived my Champion kit, the first thing I did was placing this on my Office wall.
Me and all the other 2013 Champions like to share and will continue to do so. If you have a question around Domino, XPages or anything related to this, I promise to respond. So if you have a question contact me thru email, twitter and I will help you or help you find someone who can help.
Also my thanks goes to Joyce our Champion helping hand. [read] Keywords: domino
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Setting up your Domino server to prevent password attacks
Sun, May 5th 2013 6:17a Fredrik Norling There as been some writing around attacks against WordPress based sites and a lot of them has been taken over and malicious code was injected on these sites. How was most of these attacks done? Well I think that this was probably done thru so called brute force attacks. The hacker have a software that is posting in attempts on the login page and they know that the default admin account is “admin” on WordPress, alot of sites haven’t removed this account. This type of Brute Force [read] Keywords: acl
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Are you using my utilities ?
Fri, Apr 19th 2013 3:04p Fredrik Norling I have released a stability fix for my utility Client Killer now version 3.1 to help you kill the Notes Client if it hangs. You can also clean the log files after you have killed it, I have seen jvm dumps of 2GB in the log folders. If you’re not downloaded it yet get it here –> Client Killer
My other tools designer memory or it should be names Client memory helps you to configure the memory parameters of eclipse in the client. Did you know that the memory configuration is cleared [read] Keywords: notes
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Designer quick tip: Find the design element fast
Mon, Apr 15th 2013 5:21a Fredrik Norling I often have quite large databases at customers and in the QNova development phases with lots of design elements. You look at a button and find that and agent is used or a function is called in a script library, you switch to the agents view and starts to look inside the view for the agent by scrolling down.
But there is a better and faster way to find what you are looking for, Designer filter.
The filter is in all design element views so it’s not a XPage only feature.
The great thing abo [read] Keywords: agent
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What are the visitor looking for?
Sun, Apr 7th 2013 6:09a Fredrik Norling I was doing some reading on google analytics about some stats on my site. The number one search keyword on my site from google is ????
XPages, no
Domino Designer, no
it’s NSD.exe, yes you read this right. with 70% of the search hits is against an article I wrote in 2011 about NSD and cpu usage, the second most searched article is my setup instruction of a mercurial source control server
If I check my articles for 2013 the number one top article is the release of Klient killer 3.0 and the s [read] Keywords: domino
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The shift of Mobile and Browsers
Sat, Apr 6th 2013 1:47a Fredrik Norling Interesting day, 4:th of April 2013.
Google breaks with Webkit and starts a competitor rendering engine Blink and the main reason is that they don’t want to be controlled by Apple what goes into the engine or not. Opera also annouced they will start using this engine. I think this started when Apple did throw out Google from IOS 6, now they throw out Apple from a free ride to browser rendering.
Checkout the developer Q&A
Another big news today was the that Firefox and Samsung is deve [read] Keywords: apple
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Fri, Apr 5th 2013 8:17a Fredrik Norling My first show is on Notes in 9 check it out.
SSJS Debugger Demo in Notes in 9
Check out my two post last year regarding a SSJS Debugger –> Link
Conditional breakpoints was one of the suggestions that was voted up as a function in the debugger and we get that. I don’t know if someone at IBM did read this and the feature is there because of the post but I like to think so
If you have any great tip regarding debugging in Designer 9 please feel free to comment. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Filter and hide closed databases
Mon, Feb 25th 2013 9:07a Fredrik Norling I had some feedback on the designer some weeks ago, that it would be good to filter away closed databases in package explorer. This does already exists in Designer today, Kudros to Dan O’Connor that showed me this. (The icon has changed from 8.5.3 to Designer 9)
And uncheck Closed projects
Now your package explorer is much cleaner and you can find you databases alot faster.
The closed project does also show up directly in the menu so you easily can toggle it.
You can also use workset [read] Keywords:
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Checking if the browser is online
Wed, Feb 20th 2013 2:10p Fredrik Norling There is a easy way to check if the browser as internet access or not. In the wireless and mobile world a check if the loaded page has internet access can be very good, a very easy check can save you alot of problem.
The only thing you need to do is
if(navigator.onLine==true){ alert("Online")}else{ alert("Offline")} [read] Keywords: javascript
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Multi copy paste and increase your productivity
Tue, Feb 12th 2013 12:11p Fredrik Norling How many times have you had multiple blocks of code that you want to copy to a new place.
Or had information in a excel spreadsheet in multi columns that you want to copy to diffident places.
i.e. a company address. and you start to copy them one by one. I have a solution for you that will increase your productivity. It’s a free clipboard manager that is on Sourceforge Ditto
To set it up your should install it and go to options – Keyboard shortcuts
set the send paste check box and ad [read] Keywords:
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Document Locking in XPages
Sun, Feb 10th 2013 8:11a Fredrik Norling People editing documents at the same time can be a big pain for the developer resulting in unwanted problems in an deployed application. To handle this problem I created a managed bean DocLock to handle the problem. The managed bean stores the username and an id each time the users edits a document. If another user tries to edit the document, you can block the user from entering edit mode.
To implement the managed bean in your own database is very simple, Copy the java class and add the managed [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Designer quick tip – Database compare
Sun, Feb 10th 2013 5:11a Fredrik Norling Compare databases for differences
If you have two versions of an application and have missed to document what the differences between them were. Here’s how you could find out how.
Add the two versions to Domino Designer. Goto package explorer, select the two databases and right click.
And when you compare the databases, you will get a structure where you can see what’s different.
There are folders that you can skip to look at like the local folder. If we now open up the xpage folder [read] Keywords: domino
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Installing Raspberry pi with Raspbmc as an media center
Thu, Jan 31st 2013 1:30p Fredrik Norling There is a great new mini computer called Raspberry pi developed as a experimental/educational computer that has blown away in sales with more than 1 000 000 units sold, Google donated 15000 unit for UK schools recently. In the autumn of 2012 a new model was released with 512mb memory making this a great product to build a media center on. My installation is based on Raspbmc a ready to run distro based on Debian and XMBC. What do you need besides the Raspberry pi 512mb model and a microsub powe [read] Keywords: google
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Backup and Restore your Domino Designer settings
Thu, Jan 24th 2013 9:15a Fredrik Norling There is alot of settings in the designer client, displaying linenumbers in the Lotusscript editor, different settings in the editors. And when you have done all these settings you never remember what you have done when everything is working like you want it to do. A backup of you settings would be great but how to you do this?
(My screenshoots are from Designer 9 but this works in older versions also )
Quite simple actually, open up package explorer right click in panel and select Export
Open [read] Keywords: domino
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The registry change for settings in Notes 9
Sat, Jan 19th 2013 9:15a Fredrik Norling If you have tried out the public Beta of Notes 9, you might have noticed that IBM has removed Lotus in the registry also. Earlier versions of Notes are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareLotusNotes but
Notes 9 is stored HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareIBMNotes. This means that all software that uses the registry to find the client directories needs to be updated, as with my Utilities that is updated to work with a Notes 9 installation.
If you have a software that doesn’t work with Notes 9 there [read] Keywords: ibm
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Get the designer client 8.5 and 9 to run smoother
Sat, Jan 19th 2013 3:31a Fredrik Norling Designer memory configurator version 2.0 is released. This version has some enhancements to make your life easier. Support for Notes 9 so you can configure the Notes 9 designer client to run even faster.
I have also added so you can control the program using the commandline to get the max potential.
Check out the extras Group where the Designer Memory Configurator is installed. With this command line switch. you can easily add it to the startup of you computer and never have to care about the m [read] Keywords: notes
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Notes Client Killer 3.0 released
Wed, Jan 16th 2013 9:13a Fredrik Norling I have released a new version of the Notes Client Killer, this new version has support for
Notes 9 it also have a new feature Forced Mode, this will kill the tasks for the Notes client like the old
KillNotes application does. I have also repackaged the software so now it comes with an installer to make the installation process better and primary when you want to use it again.
Enjoy and hope it helps you when you are in trouble.
Download Notes Client Killer [read] Keywords: notes
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What a year for XPages
Mon, Dec 31st 2012 4:14p Fredrik Norling The year started early with the release of Upgradepack 1 for domino.
We have got 3 fixpacks for domino and 6 releases of the extensionlibrary.
And so much knowledge published as blog posts/applications/custom controls/code snippets.
What a year!
I think that 2013 will bring alot of good stuff to. With the release of Domino 9.0 and hopefully Upgradepack 2.
Happy New Year to everybody! [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM Champion I’m honored
Tue, Dec 11th 2012 1:03p Fredrik Norling I’m one of the lucky ones that have been awarded IBM Champion 2013 for Collaboration Solutions.
All the Champions 2013
Thanks again IBM and congratulations to everybody else who got awarded. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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XPages SSJS will run forever if you let it
Wed, Dec 5th 2012 2:31p Fredrik Norling If you add some code behind a button, and a user clicks that button. This code will run until it’s finished no matter what you do.
try{ var LoopBreak=0;var x=0 var thing=1 var now=@Text(@Now()) var nownow="" while(thing==1){ LoopBreak++ print(now+":"+LoopBreak) for(x=0;x30){ break; } } }catch(e){ print("Error:"+e.toString()) } print("Done:"+now)
If you place the cod [read] Keywords: domino
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Preventing the XPages Dialog control to auto center
Wed, Nov 28th 2012 10:10a Fredrik Norling If you ever tried to use a XPage dialog control from the extension library on a mobile device. You’ll probably seen this behavior, the dialog is moving away each time you try to click on a button or a field in the dialog.
The trick to fix this is to force the dialog to a fixed location if you are on a mobile device with a small screen.
There are several ways to detect this:
check out this stackoverflow question how to detect iphone by CSS –>Link
You can use this xSnippet –&g [read] Keywords: agent
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Use the same datasource everywhere in XPages
Mon, Nov 26th 2012 5:28a Fredrik Norling When using custom controls there are several ways of binding fields to backend fields.
1. Create a datasource with the same name as the datasource you are using for the fields
(Warning! if you forgett to remove this when you are done you will get a replica conflict)
2. Pass the Datasource into the custom control and use the compositeData.propertyname["fieldname"] to bind to the field. This article describes how to do this –>Link
3. Use a save function and retrieve the values from [read] Keywords: ldd
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Working from the mailbox
Thu, Nov 22nd 2012 3:11p Fredrik Norling I saw this great video a couple of days ago about the future of Collaboration
Great show how IBM Tech could help you to be more productive. But then I thought how could a organization be more productive today.
One thing could be to start sending smarter emails, make sure that you applications don’t just send stupid plain emails.
Add productive addons today, if your application sends an approval request to the manager, send the information he or she needs directly in the email. Add an appr [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Make your Domino Designer more responsive and stable
Thu, Nov 22nd 2012 7:17a Fredrik Norling I came across a support document by IBM telling that increasing memory in the Domino Designer will make the client more responsive and stable.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21617708
This document also introducted another memory parameter xmca this parameter is now added to
The Designer memory configurator version 1.2 Link [read] Keywords: domino
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Adding a dojo calendar control to traditional Notes date fields
Wed, Nov 7th 2012 2:30p Fredrik Norling When web enabling old Domino forms date fields has never been fun. users setting the wrong format, and the save breaks the form giving a error 500. There has been alot of dhtml calendar pickers that has been used some better and some worse of handling other browses than IE. We all have these applications that is very large and that you don’t can convert directly to XPages, then adding dojo to your old forms can help you.
What do you need to do to get a dojo calendar control to work with [read] Keywords: domino
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Dojo and jQuery part 2
Fri, Nov 2nd 2012 7:05a Fredrik Norling Part 2 should have been some more examples but I feel that I need to write some about the response on my first part there where alot of comments discussing different things around Dojo vs jQuery.
First I like to say that my compare between these two was to show that you can do the same things with Dojo as you can do with jQuery and the code does look almost the same, also that Dojo has so much more inside the “package”.
Joacim wrote why are you comparing an older version of Dojo tha [read] Keywords: domino
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HTML manipulation Dojo vs jQuery
Thu, Nov 1st 2012 12:00a Fredrik Norling I have seen some writing by TexasSwede about how to use jQuery for manipulating the DOM and it seams easy but why import another toolkit for manipulating the DOM? Well perhaps if you know jQuery that might be the case or that you think jQuery is better.
Let’s compare jQuery vs Dojo for some simple DOM changes. I’m using the latest jQuery 1.9 vs Dojo 1.6, why not the latest version well because XPages currently has 1.6 and because 1.8 has a different syntax.
let’s add the class [read] Keywords: lotus
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Client Killer v2.0 released now controlled with cmdline
Sun, Oct 21st 2012 7:59a Fredrik Norling Version 2.0 of Client Killer is released this release can be controlled using the commandline
Client Killer -kill Will automatically kill the Lotus Notes Client
Client Killer -Killandclean Will kill the Lotus Notes client adn clean the log files
Client Killer -Clean Will just Clean the log files (Make sure that the Notes Client isn’t running)
The usage of this is i.e cleanup the log files when users logon to their computer in login scripts.
Link to the new version –>> Clien [read] Keywords: domino
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How I fixed my wireless problem in IOS6
Sun, Oct 7th 2012 6:46a Fredrik Norling After I upgraded to IOS6 I started to get problems with wireless connections in my iPhone. After some investigations I found several suggested fixes. But the one that worked for me was to reset the network settings.
The only sad this is that all your wireless networks and vpn connections is forgotten.
You can find the reset property here
Settings
General
Reset
Reset Network Connection [read] Keywords: connections
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Why Maps needs to change into social
Fri, Oct 5th 2012 12:11p Fredrik Norling Maps in mobile phones, GPS navigators and computers needs to change. There is no value for a company to owning their own maps of the world except that they will be outdated.
There has been a lot of discussions about Apples change from Google Maps to Apple Maps, in Sweden Gothenburg was placed in the sea and alot of other reports of maps showing wrong information. I think it’s interesting that this is happening, Apple’s Map data provider is TomTom and I have never heard of any proble [read] Keywords: apple
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XPageDeveloper – Client Killer v1.1 with log file cleaner
Wed, Oct 3rd 2012 4:11p Fredrik Norling A new version of my Client killer software is released this new version has support for cleaning up log files that the Client is producing in the following folders workspace/logs and IBM_Technical_Support. You can run the client killer with and without the Notes client running, If you only want to clean up the log files.
The size of the log file folders is presented directly when the client is started.
Download the new version here [read] Keywords: notes
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New version of my Tinymce Custom Control
Tue, Oct 2nd 2012 12:10p Fredrik Norling I got an enhancement request from a user if it’s was possible to validate if the tinyMCE control had some text.
Because validation is implemented as a core property on XPage Controls this was a quick fix.
One Tip i can give when creating your own custom controls is when binding computed properties, set the property how the compositeData property should bind to compute at page load, if the data shouldn’t update.
Some properties of controls require this. I don’t know if this [read] Keywords: xpages bug
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Using RegExp to make field validation easier
Thu, Sep 27th 2012 10:10a Fredrik Norling There is alot of ways to validate fields. But if you ask me validating thru regular expression is very powerful because you can test for patterns in strings. You can test for valid email adresses, phone numbers or your required passwords.
Because regular expressions can be tested both on the client and the server using almost the same code you can do tests on the client side without doing round trips to the server when the user exits a field or perhaps while the user are typing.
Lets look at an [read] Keywords: domino
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Another XPageDeveloper.com Utility – Client Killer
Tue, Sep 18th 2012 3:11p Fredrik Norling Tired of killing the Notes client using the command line?
Client killer is the solution for you, a NSD.exe GUI that will find your Notes install folder and with a single click kill the notes client.
Hopefully you will never need to use it but if you do, get your free copy today
Download Client Killer [read] Keywords: notes
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Designer Memory Configurator 1.1 update
Mon, Sep 17th 2012 4:40a Fredrik Norling The utility is updated to version 1.1 after a comment from a user that the memory option of 2048mb doesn’t work. So that one is removed as an option in the utility.
enjoy
Download it using the link below
–>>> Designer Memory Configurator [read] Keywords:
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Domino Designer Memory Configurator is here
Sun, Sep 16th 2012 12:25a Fredrik Norling Do you want more speed in Domino Designer?
Do you want to configure you designer memory but always forget where to do it?
Did you know that everytime you add a Fixpack of the designer the memory is reseted ?
Now this is no problem just use Designer Memory configurator and with 2 click your memory is increased to the level you need.
Download it using the link below
–>>> Designer Memory Configurator [read] Keywords: domino
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If you every used .copytodatabase with a replicated or clustered Domino
Wed, Sep 5th 2012 3:14p Fredrik Norling I had a strange problem with documents that disappears in a replicated or clustered environment.
A more deep investigation lead to the discovery of deletion stubbs being created days/weeks/months before the document even was created, Strange. Documents getting create date the same as the original document.
But then a discovery was made .copytodatabase creates the same UNID everytime if the original document isn’t in the database. OK who cares the document isn’t in the database and no [read] Keywords: domino
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Notes Client as a browser plugin
Fri, Aug 31st 2012 1:05p Fredrik Norling After reading the post by Raj –>link about the Notes browser plugin in 8.5.4
This is great the Notes client as a browser plugin, all you old applications running in “browser notes”
Hopefully an automated install can be preformed so the user interaction is minimal.
UserName and password is hopefully all they need.
According to the blog post 60MB and under one minute in install time.
I just want to say Woow this is real news for the corporate use of Lotus Notes.
Even if it&# [read] Keywords: ibm
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Some minor updates to SmallTalk and TinyMce editor
Sun, Aug 19th 2012 5:08a Fredrik Norling I have today released some small updates to SmallTalk and the tinyMce editor custom control.
SmallTalk needed some polishing to the attachment upload working in the client.
And for the tinyMce control I did some changes in the init scripts because they gave some strange js
errors in older internet explorer browsers so now it should work in IE7 also.
Enjoy [read] Keywords: xpages openntf
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Let’s do a Social Group Activity and what a response
Sat, Aug 18th 2012 12:59a Fredrik Norling Woow what a response. I sent out last night on twitter that we should start a social group activity.
The idea didn’t start last night you might remember that I wrote about that Lotus Notes and XPages needs a great tagline, Post 1 Post 2. The Lotus Notes community needs something to get together around.
If you use Lotus Notes for email or traveler for email in you phone. You should add a line at the bottom to should where the email was sent from. Think of all the people that we send email [read] Keywords: domino
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XPages Q&A tomorrow, also XPages 8.5.4 update
Mon, Aug 6th 2012 3:13p Fredrik Norling Check out what’s new in 8.5.4 regarding XPages.
Ask your XPages questions tomorrow to IBM Specialists.
Do not miss this event
Link to the meeting info
Check out the presentation –> Link
If you can’t attend ask your questions here [read] Keywords: ibm
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Check out the new version of Small Talk live Demo
Sun, Jul 29th 2012 1:15a Fredrik Norling Openntf has enabled to so you can test some of the applications live
check it out here Link
If you like what you see and I think you do you can get your own copy here Link
Read more what new in Small Talk –> Link
Small Talk moves the internal communication to new limits, everybody knows everything and that’s instant!! [read] Keywords: applications
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Small Talk 2.0 – Move your internal communication to new limits
Wed, Jul 25th 2012 9:10a Fredrik Norling Small Talk Release 2.0 has been released on OpenNtf.org
This release has what I think important improvements that gives a new angle of Social
It’s great with likes and retweets of you posts. But with the new version your coworkers can
Flattr you for internal posts done in Small Talk. Internal posts you might say that is internal and you can write about it and certainly not use Flattr. Well that is taken care of in Small talk, Small Talk will only send to Flattr that something has been Fl [read] Keywords: development
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Lotus Notes, XPages Tagline Update
Wed, Jun 27th 2012 1:53a Fredrik Norling We had some talk on twitter using the hashtags
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23lotusnotestag
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23XPagesTagline
My own tagline suggestions for Lotus Notes and XPages are
Lotus Notes – More than a inbox
XPages – Xtending your business
What do you think, post a comment!
I have an Social Idea with these taglines but I will come back to that in a later post. [read] Keywords: lotus
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XPages and Lotus Notes needs a great Tagline / Slogan
Tue, Jun 26th 2012 9:13a Fredrik Norling Help to come up with a tagline slogan for Lotus Notes and one for XPages.
That we all can use to get a great feeling when we talk about these products with customers.
if you have any suggestions post a comment
if there is anyone that could sponsor some prices for the best taglines, send me an email thru contact at the top of the page.
After this we can have a vote for the best taglines.
Check out these company tagslines
http://www.chomchomadvertising.com/360-most-famous-business-taglines/ [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Domino designer short command that saved my day
Mon, Jun 4th 2012 3:12p Fredrik Norling Today I learned a new XPage Designer short command CTRL+Shift+> what does this do you might ask?
Well how many times have you been in the designer and have tag highlighted and started to scroll upwards or downwards searching for the corresponding tag. That is something you can stop doing now.
You only have to use CTRL+Shift+> and volia you end up at the matching tag
Happy Source Coding [read] Keywords: domino
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Small Talk – What’s Up my latest contrbution to OpenNTF.org
Sun, Jun 3rd 2012 4:47a Fredrik Norling Check out my latest contribution to openntf.org Small Talk this is application will help you spread all these small talks around the Coffee Machine in your organization. Small Talk can be added to the Sidebar in your Notes Client, thru a Mobile Client or Directly within the application.
Check it out at openntf.org Link to Project [read] Keywords: notes
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Create your own @Formula
Fri, May 4th 2012 6:12a Fredrik Norling There is several ways of creating your own @Formula commands. One easy way is to create a serverside scriptlibrary and create a function that is named @MyCommand there. Include this SSJS library into your XPage / Custom Control and you have added a custom @Formula.
function @Getfirstword(data){
return @Left(data,” “)
}
And the second way is to create your own extension to the Domino designer as Ulrich Krause has done in this new openntf project.
http://www.openntf.org/internal/h [read] Keywords: domino
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This is the result of the debugger poll
Sun, Apr 29th 2012 3:10a Fredrik Norling I have a little poll Link about what the developer community want from a future debugger I had 62 people responding to the poll, Not a huge amount but anyway enough to see the direction. A future debugger of XPages needs SSJS debugging, java and client side debugging is not necessary.
It was a close run between new debugging features that I listed between conditional breakpoints and
backwards debugging and the backwards debugging won. It would be great to have both these functions in a future [read] Keywords: domino
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New interesting openntf project
Thu, Apr 26th 2012 11:12a Fredrik Norling I found this interesting project on openntf.org yeasterday Ruby in XPages if you don’t know what this is it’s an implementation so you can write Ruby code inside an XPage. You might say I don’t know Ruby so how can this be of interest to me.
I don’t either know Ruby but I think the project it self has other interesting things because it shows how to implement another language into XPages, perhaps node.js, PHP or ASP.Net.
Another post about the possibilites to expand XPag [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Debug XPages code with a debugger of your choice
Sun, Apr 22nd 2012 10:12p Fredrik Norling It has been alot of talk about a debugger for XPages, Do we need a copy of the lotusscript debugger. Or a brand new debugger that gives us new ways to debug our code. Yes please. I think there is several new interesting ideas on how to debug code faster and better. How would you like to debug your xpage code?
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.
If you look at other languages there is alot of interesting features in debu [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Improved calendar integration for Traveler – an idea
Wed, Apr 18th 2012 6:11a Fredrik Norling I got an idea about how to improve the calendar integration in traveler.
Unfortunatly the idea will only work for the Android version because I don’t think you can control the phone in IOS.
The idea is that you could control settings in the phone using the calendar, this isn’t anything new if we are talking about you office phone but on your mobile phone and the change is not done in the switch board.
What am I talking about then, in an Calendar appointment you setup a profile/Categ [read] Keywords: traveler
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IPad Magic about Stockholm
Wed, Mar 28th 2012 9:11a Fredrik Norling Checkout this IPad magic show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=53_qvMQfvOE [read] Keywords:
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Results of my poll
Thu, Mar 15th 2012 1:13p Fredrik Norling I did a poll some days ago 300 people answered the poll
http://www.xpagedeveloper.com/2012/3-quick-questions-about-xpages-and-domino
88% of the people who responed has atleast one server with 8.5.2 or 8.5.3 interesting
29% Is seeing an increase in mobile applications and 43% is seeing an increase in web vs client.
55% is still doing 50% XPages and traditional Domino development. But one of the big things is that 24% of the people voating is not doing any XPage development at all that is almost [read] Keywords: domino
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Donate to Mozilla and get a T-shirt
Thu, Mar 15th 2012 6:13a Fredrik Norling Donate a buck to Mozilla so they can continue to do their great work and get a Official T-Shirt for free.
https://donate.mozilla.org/page/contribute/mozillatshirt/ [read] Keywords:
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Quick tips: if you are importing data in an LS agent
Sun, Mar 11th 2012 12:41a Fredrik Norling If you are importing data in Lotusscript and the imported files is in utf-8 so you have specified in the open command charset=utf-8 make sure that were you are getting the files from don’t suddely produce an ordinary ANSI ascii file. Then you will probably get a server crash, because there is not check if the file is utf-8 so it tries to read the ordinary file as a multibyte file. That will corrupt arrays, lists and eventual crash the client/server.
So make sure the file format is what yo [read] Keywords: agent
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3 Quick questions about XPages and Domino
Thu, Mar 8th 2012 1:22a Fredrik Norling I’m doing a lite poll to see what the future looks like. You don’t have to be an admin or a developer.
If you don’t know the answer on one of the questions don’t answer that question
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit th [read] Keywords: admin
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Standby Widget v2 is now on XSnippet – openntf.org
Wed, Feb 29th 2012 4:11p Fredrik Norling I’ve updated the standby widget on openntf.org after seeing some problems after upgading to 8.5.3
http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=standby-dialog-custom-control
Creds goes to Serdar Başeğmez and Tim Tripcony who found a solution, thanks!! [read] Keywords: openntf
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Setup a Mercurial Source Control server for Windows
Sun, Feb 5th 2012 11:40a Fredrik Norling Declan Sciolla-Lynch held a session at LS 12 AD102 about how to setup a RedMine Server for Mercurial.
I needed to see if there where a way to setup a Mercuial repository server that could run on windows it could probably run on other operating systems also but I haven’t tested any other.
If found scm-manager a java server that could handle Mercurial, Subversion and Git the best part of this server is that it has a .war file container to you could deploy it in websphere if you have this se [read] Keywords: admin
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Check out the great presentation with Guy Kawasaki
Thu, Jan 19th 2012 2:32a Fredrik Norling This is the opening session from IBM Connect 2012 but the best part is Guy Kawasaki
So if you don’t want to see everything you should fastforward until 37 minutes into the show
Watch live streaming video from ibmsoftware at livestream.com
There is also another interview with him, great stuff.
ibmsoftware on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free [read] Keywords: ibm
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Standby Custom control what does it do
Wed, Jan 18th 2012 6:12a Fredrik Norling I have added my first XSnippet today and it’s the Standby custom control.
If you add the code to a custom control and drag in into an XPage all events done in this XPage will be intercepted and if the event taks more than 200 milli seconds the dojo standby widget will show up and prevent the user from clicking.
http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=standby-dialog-custom-control
Some of the code were originally created by two great XPage guys
Tommy Valand and Serdar Baş [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere Live Stream
Mon, Jan 16th 2012 4:38a Fredrik Norling Watch the Lotusphere 2012 live stream here
Watch live streaming video from ibmsoftware at livestream.com
new TWTR.Widget({
version: 2,
type: 'search',
search: 'ls12',
interval: 30000,
title: 'Lotusphere 2012',
subject: '#LS12 search',
width: 300,
height: 300,
theme: {
shell: {
background: '#8ec1da',
color: '#ffffff'
},
tweets: {
background: '#ffffff',
color: '#444444',
links: '#1985b5'
}
},
features: {
scrollbar: true,
loop: true,
live: true,
behav [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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How to prevent databaseName to change datasource
Sun, Jan 15th 2012 5:10a Fredrik Norling Sven HasselBach blogged (Link) about that you could change the datasource of any XPage using a url parameter called databaseName. Doesn’t ACL apply you might ask. Yes it does so that isn’t a problem.
OK, isn’t there a setting to ignore url parameters, yes there are but If you use this you will get problems with the built in controls. They use url parameters.
Is this a problem then ACL apply shouldn’t that be enought?
No because there might be some databases where the [read] Keywords: acl
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New version of TinyMce integration for XPages
Mon, Dec 12th 2011 12:14p Fredrik Norling Version 1.1 of the TinyMce custom control for XPages is released today.
This version contains a fix so the 64K limit is now fixed and also a new option
TinyMcePath is added to be able to add a url that is server wide. And to simplify upgrade of the editor.
Url to the control at openntf.org [read] Keywords: xpages integration
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TinyMce RichText Editor integration in XPages
Fri, Dec 2nd 2011 11:11a Fredrik Norling I have created a Tinymce integration custom control for XPages.
Why is this a good thing?
Well this means that you can edit richtext in XPages both on the web, the Notes Client and it works with IPhone,IPad with IOS5.
You do not need to rely on when a new version of Domino is released. New versions of Tinymce is released more often than Domino releases.
It has alot of features that the Domino RT editor don’t. The custom control is lacking one thing in this version but I believe that this [read] Keywords: domino
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Flattr custom control released
Wed, Nov 30th 2011 9:13a Fredrik Norling Today I have released another custom control on openntf.org
It’s the Flattr control this control makes it simple to add a flattr buttons to your webpages created with XPages. And get micro payments from flattr users that likes what you or your customers do. [read] Keywords: xpages openntf
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QR Code Custom control is released
Tue, Nov 29th 2011 5:12p Fredrik Norling URL QR Codes for you web applications just got very easy.
Just drag and drop add your URL, and you got a QRCode and they work in the Client too.
Link to the Project at OpenNTF.org [read] Keywords: applications
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Load once functionality for client js script libs
Mon, Nov 28th 2011 1:11p Fredrik Norling If you have a custom control and this control can be added more that once on a page.
You will probably get problems if it relies on some clientside libraries.
There is at least three ways to this problem.
1. Don’t add the client lib to the Custom Control add it to the XPage instead
Is this a good approach, no I don’t think so because you need to remember to add it, and also update it.
2. Add it in a theme globally
If you do it this way your library will always be added to a [read] Keywords: javascript
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@TextToNumber Decimal Warning
Wed, Nov 23rd 2011 6:11a Fredrik Norling If you run this formula in traditional Domino
@Text(@TextToNumber(“20,40″)*2)
You will get 80,40 back into the field
But if you run this in some XPage Code you will get
0
Why is this you might ask, well probably because javascript do not recognize comma as a decimal delimiter
So you need to change the formula to this.
@Text(@TextToNumber(@ReplaceSubstring(“20,40″,”,”,”.”))*2)
Then you will get 40,8 back. Not that when you do @Text() on the number t [read] Keywords: domino
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Two new interesting CLFAD:s in XPages today
Tue, Nov 15th 2011 9:13a Fredrik Norling I had some strange problems today in 8.5.2FP1 that resulted in error 500.
CFLAD0246: Exception and CFLAD0134E:
The error occurred when executing this line of code currentDocument.save()
Crap I thought some internal error inside the XPages engine. I was searching for the error and thought
perhaps I should see if the error still occurs in 8.5.3. Yes box it did but in 8.5.3, I got and more developer friendly error .
Could not save the document 18B1E NotesException: Vector must contain objects all [read] Keywords: lotus
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xTrain – XPages seminar in Sweden
Tue, Nov 15th 2011 8:12a Fredrik Norling IBM in Sweden is going to host an XPages day on the 12:th of December in Stockholm.
With Ed Brill as the main speaker.
If you are interested this is the link to sign up for it.
xtrain.lotisverige.com [read] Keywords: ibm
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Perhaps a DAOS inside can be the solution
Mon, Nov 14th 2011 12:11p Fredrik Norling I had a problem with growing Domino databases and didn’t have the option to turn DAOS. And I thought how could this problem be solved if I did some database design. What is the problem today with large Domino databases or large attachments today?
1. Large or many Attachments makes the database slow
2. Opening documents become slow.
DAOS solves these issues by extracting the attachment out of the database and creating a file with a hash name to get a single copy solution, Very clever. The [read] Keywords: domino
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Applications of the future
Mon, Nov 7th 2011 1:12p Fredrik Norling How will applications of the future work.
I believe that applications of the future is webbased, component based and autoupdated.
Simple text editor
I think there will be better way to separate an application into pieces and only those pieces that you need will be downloaded into your local application framework runner. I also believe that these application framework runners will run inside the web browser (i.e Chrome frame) or be apart of the web browser.
The pieces will also auto update afte [read] Keywords: application
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Social Development in Domino Designer
Thu, Nov 3rd 2011 1:11p Fredrik Norling I haven’t seen any development addons for Domino Designer that could make it more social.
It would be great to have some integration that you easy could update what design elements or/and databases you are working with.
Also a easy way to update status in your projects.
I would be happy if you could have integration points in the designer that don’t require the use of creating a plugin.
Perhaps a side panel that can load an xpage and some scoped variables gives integration with th [read] Keywords: domino
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Get a progressbar everytime a partialrefresh is fired
Sat, Oct 29th 2011 6:12a Fredrik Norling I was looking for some code today to get a wait sign when a partial refresh had fired. I found this great article at lotusnotes.com bu that wait sign had to be added to each event (Not my kind of thing ).
function scoringStarted() { ){
if(this.fullStandby==null) {
this.fullStandby = new dojox.widget.Standby({
target: dojo.body()
});
document.body.appendChild(fullStandby.domNode);
fullStandby.startup();
}
fullStandby.show();
}
function scoringCompleted() {
if(this.f [read] Keywords: lotusnotes
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Sharing and Open Source
Wed, Oct 26th 2011 12:11p Fredrik Norling Sharing code is good and open source projects is also good. But neither of them puts food on the table.
When sharing code and software to a community like OpenNtf.org you often do so because you have found some good stuff before and feel that you also should give something back or you want to show your expertise. And there is probably alot of other reasons but those were just two examples.
But did you know that there is several ways to get something back.
What about offer your documentation as [read] Keywords: community
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Local XPages problem and webpreview port
Thu, Oct 20th 2011 6:12a Fredrik Norling I wrote about the new function that you could change the webpreview port in 8.5.3
unfortunately this gives you another problem if you change the port.
You can’t run local XPages in the client web preview works fine, if you change the port back make sure you write 80 in the field. If you just clear the field you will still get problems. [read] Keywords: domino
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My top 5 things that we need in XPages
Sat, Oct 15th 2011 6:12a Fredrik Norling 1. Better Client and OS integration
You need to be able to do things in an XPage that you are used to in an ordinary client.
Copy and paste images and formatted text into a richtext field
Communicate with the eclipse client framework
Integration with other desktop applications
Finally get a full integration with symphony documents.
(Open them directly from an XPage thru code, create from template, set content in Symphony)
2. Integrated Debugger and Memory profiler
Checkout the debugger in v [read] Keywords: richtext
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iOS 5 now Live
Thu, Oct 13th 2011 6:12a Fredrik Norling I have installed iOS 5 on my devices at first I had some problems with a error 3200 in iTunes. But that was from that Apples servers was overloading with everybody upgrading.
Some suggestions before upgrading if you haven’t done this.
1. Remove any apps that you rarely use
2. Make sure that you have updated all apps in your device
3. Make a backup copy of all your photos and remove them from the device
4. Remove and videos and music that you can
All the above things is just so you upgra [read] Keywords: domino
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Strange Javascript numbers in IE9
Mon, Oct 10th 2011 3:12p Fredrik Norling I got a strange error today. I loaded some data using Ajax from a Domino view.
Looped thru the data and did some addition with the numbers. Nothing strange with this and
this code have been in production for a long time.
tot+=parttot
This code stopped working in IE9 both with and without compability mode. The code worked in Chrome and Firefox. If I ran the code using the IE9 debugger it also worked. But in IE9 it started to display the last parttot in the tot variable.
Strange or what???
It [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Notes Foo or will it be XWork Client
Sun, Oct 9th 2011 1:20a Fredrik Norling Ed Brill talks about the roadmap for Domino, this is great customers want to know that the road continues. He has made up a name called Foo for the next version of Notes/Domino because the name is not decided yet. But he tells that there will be a 8.5.4 version and a Foo Version or as I think it will be named
XWork Client.
IBM released the new XPage server a couple of days ago and this server is called XWork Server
Link to some info regarding this (Link 1, Link 2, Link 3).
Due to the fact t [read] Keywords: domino
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Select your web preview port
Wed, Oct 5th 2011 11:24a Fredrik Norling Before 8.5.3 local web preview often didn’t work for a number of reasons. Skype blocking port 80,
HTTP Server: Error – Unable to Bind port 80, port may be in use or user needs net_privaddr error
Or some other problem. Now your problems is solved, just open preference -> Domino Designer and change the port to a higher port i.e. 5000. [read] Keywords: domino
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8.5.3 is live on my work machine
Tue, Oct 4th 2011 12:02p Fredrik Norling I’ve installed 8.5.3 on My work machine. So far everything works great. Need to really get time to try out all the new features sorting of ft results, running web querysave agents and the PostScript event (this name is really funny). There are so many new functions in 8.5.3 great work IBM getting this out. I’m looking forward to start using this in production. [read] Keywords: ibm
Welcome to XPage Developer
Thu, Sep 29th 2011 4:29a Fredrik Norling Welcome to my new site XPage Developer
I will continue writing about XPages and Lotus Domino as I did on my old site
everythinglotus.blogspot.com
All posts before this post is reposted blogg entries from by old blog [read] Keywords: domino
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Where does SSJS print show in the notes client
Thu, Sep 8th 2011 2:06p Fredrik Norling Where does SSJS Print() in the client end up I answered a question in the XPage forum yesterday but I thought that this might be something worth writing
a line about because this is one of the things that I was wondering about when starting with XPages. To view the print statement you should look in the menu
Help -> Support -> view trace
Or you could create a new icon and in the property box for target
add the following -RPARAMS – console
The last param is also great when debugg [read] Keywords: notes
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Where does SSJS Print() in the client end up
Thu, Sep 8th 2011 11:10a Fredrik Norling I answered a question in the XPage forum yesterday but I thought that this might be something worth writing a line aboutbecause this is one of the things that I was wonderign about when starting with XPages. To view the print statement you should look in the menuHelp -> Support -> view trace Or you could create a new icon and in the property box for targetadd the following -RPARAMS - console The last param is also great when debugging Notes clients that doesn't startup. But beware if you [read] Keywords: notes
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Watch what you put in you scoped varables
Sat, Sep 3rd 2011 3:56a Fredrik Norling Your XPage app may run out of memory if you put js functions/classes or domino objects in scoped variables because these objects is not Serializable. So because you can it is not always ok to do that [read] Keywords: domino
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Custom controls and library controls
Mon, Aug 22nd 2011 9:10a Fredrik Norling I read today in a blog post by Niklas Heidloff that IBM has been thinking about of building a converter of custom controls to extension library controls.
I think that isn't any good idea, why because the installation of extension library is alot of work today why would you like to have even more controls that needs to be installed into the designer and updated individually?
If this should become a good idea, then we need a new way of updating all these controls like the updater in Chrome or F [read] Keywords: domino
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Custom controls and library controls
Mon, Aug 22nd 2011 8:10a Fredrik Norling I read today in a blog post by Niklas Heidloff that IBM has been thinking about of building a converter of custom controls to extension library controls.
I think that isn’t any good idea, why because the installation of extension library is
alot of work today why would you like to have even more controls that needs to be installed into the designer and updated individually?
If this should become a good idea, then we need a new way of updating all these controls like the updater in Chrome [read] Keywords: domino
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Changing value of an xpage dojo timecontrol?
Fri, Aug 5th 2011 6:49a Fredrik Norling Does anybody know how to change the value of a xpage timecontrol in a onclick event and the information is still there after a full or partial refresh?
Link to the XPage forum post and all the things already tried [read] Keywords: ldd
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The Oracle Google Android lawsuit
Fri, Aug 5th 2011 6:11a Fredrik Norling I read that the lawsuit that Oracle has done against Google for using Java in the Android operating system demanding $6 billons. That is alot of money. But I also read that Google has bought 1000 patents from IBM and that sale had gone thru recently. I'll bet that one or more of these 1000 patents is going to be used to do a counter lawsuit that will block the use of Oracles database engines. So Oracle will be forced to drop the lawsuit. Apple has also done a lawsuite that is blocking Samsung f [read] Keywords: ibm
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The Oracle Google Android lawsuit
Fri, Aug 5th 2011 1:14a Fredrik Norling >I read that the lawsuit that Oracle has done against Google for using Java in the Android operating system demanding $6 billons. That is alot of money. But I also read that Google has bought 1000 patents from IBM and that sale had gone thru recently.
I’ll bet that one or more of these 1000 patents is going to be used to do a counter lawsuit that will block the use of Oracles database engines. So Oracle will be forced to drop the lawsuit.
Apple has also done a lawsuite that is blocking [read] Keywords: ibm
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