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Quick tip: how to interrupt a Notes operation on the Mac (like STRG+BREAK)
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How to implement an iCalendar feed to emebed into your Notes calendar with XPages
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Quick tip: trigger partial update from client side javascript
Thu, Mar 18th 2010 55
Finally! Internet Explorer catches up. SVG, CSS 3, fast JavaScript Engine.
Wed, Mar 17th 2010 74
Received my first donation for xNamepicker from OpenNTF!
Fri, Mar 12th 2010 116
Entwicklercamp 2010 Fazit
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 53
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Charts on the Notes Client with XPages
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Sorry Ed, we are not allowed to meet in Hamburg at Lotusphere Nachlese
Fri, Feb 19th 2010 156
XPages: how to remember the view position between page changes
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 120
Received my first donation for xNamepicker from OpenNTF!
Fri, Mar 12th 2010 116
Recent updates to xpageswiki.com
Tue, Feb 16th 2010 88
using searchlotus.com is faster than searching in the designer help
Mon, Dec 21st 2009 86
Opening times of car dealers - how is it in your country? (why german car dealers doesn’t want to sell anything...)
Sat, Feb 20th 2010 84
You know that you are on a geeky conference if...
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How to implement an iCalendar feed to emebed into your Notes calendar with XPages
Fri, Mar 19th 2010 79
Finally! Internet Explorer catches up. SVG, CSS 3, fast JavaScript Engine.
Wed, Mar 17th 2010 74


Julian Buss
Blog Title Julian Buss/YouAtNotes Blog about Lotus Notes, Domino, CRM, CMS / Web Content Management, Workflow and other stuff
Blog Description I am a Lotus Notes developer and consultant. I write about IBM Lotus software and other stuff which I come across. Have a nice time here!
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Quick tip: how to interrupt a Notes operation on the Mac (like STRG+BREAK)
Fri, Mar 19th 2010 5:25a   Julian Buss
I always missed the STRG+BREAK key on the Mac client to interrupt a Notes job. Now I found the equivalent key on the Mac: CMD+. ... [read] Keywords: notes mac
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How to implement an iCalendar feed to emebed into your Notes calendar with XPages
Fri, Mar 19th 2010 5:25a   Julian Buss
I just had the idea to implement an iCalendar feed in some application. And guess what? It's really piece of cake! Create a XPage, set all properties - rendered to "false", add some code like this i ... [read] Keywords: notes xpages application properties
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Quick tip: trigger partial update from client side javascript
Thu, Mar 18th 2010 5:25a   Julian Buss
In one app I wanted to have a panel to be updated automatically in 30 minute intervals. You can run a javascript function in intervals with "window.setInterval()". That's the easy part. But how to ... [read] Keywords: xpages javascript
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Finally! Internet Explorer catches up. SVG, CSS 3, fast JavaScript Engine.
Wed, Mar 17th 2010 10:25a   Julian Buss
It seems that web development finally grows up. All good browsers supported technology like SVG, CSS 3, pre-compiled JavaScript and so on - except Internet Explorer. For ages, Internet Explorer was f ... [read] Keywords: xpages css development javascript
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Received my first donation for xNamepicker from OpenNTF!
Fri, Mar 12th 2010 3:25a   Julian Buss
Do you know my xNamepicker OpenNTF project? It's a facebook style namepicker component for XPages. And that was my first project where I placed a "donation" button in the online demo. I was curious ... [read] Keywords: xpages facebook openntf
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Entwicklercamp 2010 Fazit
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 4:28a   Julian Buss
Stephan und ich sind wohlbehalten vom Entwicklercamp 2010 zurückgekehrt. Und wie ich es erwartet habe, war es wieder eine Super, Super, Super Veranstaltung. Nirgendwo anders bekommt man in 3 Tagen ... [read] Keywords:
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Charts on the Notes Client with XPages
Wed, Mar 10th 2010 5:32a   Julian Buss
I'm at the Rocky Oliver's Session at Entwicklercamp 2010, and he opens my eyes about charting with Dojo. Cool stuff. Since I just made my own session about combining XPages and classic design elemen ... [read] Keywords: notes notes client xpages dojo




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Entwicklercamp 2010: Download meiner Session-Präsentation und Demo
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 1:28p   Julian Buss
Vielen Dank für das sehr zahlreiche Erscheinen und Eure sehr positiven Bewertungen! Das hat mich sehr gefreut :-) Hier nochmal die Download-URLs: PDF der Präsentation Demo Applikation Viel Erfolg da ... [read] Keywords:
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You know that you are on a geeky conference if...
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 9:24a   Julian Buss
...someone's cellphony rings during a session with the Star Wars theme :-) Greetings from Entwicklercamp 2010. Maureen just showed a bunch of very nice stuff coming in Designer 8.5.2. Nice to see th ... [read] Keywords:
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Meet me at Entwicklercamp, Germany 8.-10. March
Thu, Mar 4th 2010 7:24a   Julian Buss
My collegue Stephan and I attend the Entwicklercamp in Gelsenkirchen, Germany from 8.-10. March. If you are there, too, you will recognize me easily. Just watch out for the brightest, orange coloured ... [read] Keywords:
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Treffen Sie mich auf dem Entwicklercamp in Gelsenkirchen, 8. - 10. März
Thu, Mar 4th 2010 7:24a   Julian Buss
Mein Kollege Stephan und ich nehmen auch dieses Jahr am Entwicklercamp teil. Wenn Sie auch da sind, können Sie mich sehr einfach erkennen: halten Sie einfach nach dem grellsten orangen Shirt Ausschau ... [read] Keywords:
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XPages: how to remember the view position between page changes
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 8:33a   Julian Buss
You have a XPage with a view control and a pager. The user clicks on the pager to navigate to the next view page. Then the user opens a document and then returns to your page with the view control. An ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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Opening times of car dealers - how is it in your country? (why german car dealers doesn’t want to sell anything...)
Sat, Feb 20th 2010 4:31p   Julian Buss
My car's leasing runs out at the end of this year, therefore I have to look out for a new car. Since I'm working hard and most of the time, I don't have time for this during the week. So, today (Satu ... [read] Keywords:
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Sorry Ed, we are not allowed to meet in Hamburg at Lotusphere Nachlese
Fri, Feb 19th 2010 11:27a   Julian Buss
I just can't resist to blog this: Our competitor GIS organizes the Lotusphere Nachlese event in Hamburg. Since we didn't managed to see Ed Brill at Lotusphere in Orlando, my collegue Michael registe ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Recent updates to xpageswiki.com
Tue, Feb 16th 2010 6:29a   Julian Buss
For all XPages developers out there, here are the recent updates to our Wiki: 16. Feb 10: How add buttons for link and image creation to RichText editor 16. Feb 10: Added information about using cont ... [read] Keywords: richtext xpages wiki
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follow up to: sorted ftsearch results in XPages (with code!)
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
This is a follow up to my previous post about sorted ftsearch results, and it is inspired by ideas Tommy Valand wrote about. The problem with my previous approach was, that I could not cache the res ... [read] Keywords: xpages development
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XPages: how do I subscribe to the full refresh event?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
I want to hook into each time a full refresh occurs to show a "loading..." div. Anyone knows how? I tried so far: dojo.addOnUnload() (does not trigger at all) Checked dojo events via the dojo event ... [read] Keywords: xpages dojo
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SORTED view in XPages after a fulltext search
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
Everyone knows Nathan T. Freemans Tigerstyle demo. It's a good demo, and it shows how to overcome the limitation that a filtered view (filtered by a category, for example) is not sorted anymore in the ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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My wishlist to Notes 9 and Designer 9
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
I just chatted with Andrejus of Infosana about upcoming Notes versions... and while we talked I thought to myself "what are my wishes for Notes and Designer 9"? There are lots of small things, but t ... [read] Keywords: notes
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Schlechte Erfahrung beim Playmobil Kundendienst
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
Mann, mann, ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass so ein großer Hersteller wie Playmobil sich das erlauben kann: Zu Weihnachten haben wir ein Produkt von Playmobil verschenkt (das Fernsteuerset), und ein Te ... [read] Keywords:
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Why is the weather forecast so bad?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
I don't get it. Quite often the weather forecast is not able to predict the weather even for the following day... just take the last two days: - One evening the forecast for Hamburg, Germany said: i ... [read] Keywords:
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new on searchlotus.com: filter the web news (via Ajax, but without XPages...)
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
I decided NOT to use XPages for the searchlotus.com homepage, since I want to be that homepage as fast as possible. As you might know, searchlotus.com provides specialized Google searches and a tagge ... [read] Keywords: xpages ajax development google
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How to use document.write() in HTML loaded via Ajax (and why regular expressions are that beautiful...)
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
While tinkering around with searchlotus.com I just had the problem that I use document.write() to reformat HTML produced by a Notes view. That works without any problem, until I use Ajax for lazy load ... [read] Keywords: notes ajax development
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Mac vs PC rap videos
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
Cool videos, quite funny. First one: Second one: ... [read] Keywords: mac
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new (experimental) service: a list of changed or new pages in the web related to Lotus Notes and Domino
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
Planetlotus does a great job keeping us up-to-date with all Lotus related blogs. But what about the rest of the web? I always wondered how the web changes for all things Lotus... what pages are update ... [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes planetlotus
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XPages on the client: how to open different composite app pages on Notes 8.5.1 and older clients?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a   Julian Buss
When you want to provide 8.5.1 or later clients with a cool XPages UI, while keeping backward compatibility to older clients, you need a way to open the application with different composite app pages, ... [read] Keywords: notes xpages application development
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using searchlotus.com is faster than searching in the designer help
Mon, Dec 21st 2009 4:57a   Julian Buss
I just wanted to look for the LotusScript "like" operator. I opened designer help and started a search, but then the help needed to be indexed first. Which takes some minutes... in the meantime, I ope ... [read] Keywords: designer lotusscript development
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searchlotus.com: search the Lotus universe, or only stuff regarding support, development etc. (Beta)
Wed, Dec 16th 2009 6:59a   Julian Buss
Quite often I have the need to search the Lotus universe in a specific scope, for example only support or development related sites. Google does a great job as a searchengine, but it also returns unre ... [read] Keywords: lotus development google
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Why I love Lotus Notes as development platform... (or, how to use JavaScript in the client to run something on PostOpen, but not in the PostOpen event)
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 8:56a   Julian Buss
...there is always a solution, even for weird problems: I just experienced a crash of Lotus Notes for Mac in the following situation: I have two databases (A and B). I start a script in A which cr ... [read] Keywords: javascript lotus notes development mac
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Recent updates to xpageswiki.com
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 3:56a   Julian Buss
Although I had to do much classic Notes development recently, here are some updates to our xpageswiki: 6. Dez 09: http://xpageswiki.com/web/youatnotes/wiki-xpages.nsf/dx/Work_with_multimedia Added us ... [read] Keywords: notes xpages development wiki
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Microsoft Office on the Mac integrated into Lotus Notes
Mon, Dec 7th 2009 9:56a   Julian Buss
Some days ago I developed a technique to integrate Apple iWork Pages into Lotus Notes. Today I played with Microsoft Office:Mac and it's Applescript interface... and after an hour or so, I was done ... [read] Keywords: lotus notes apple development interface mac microsoft office
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It works! Video demo: Apple iWork Pages integrated into Lotus Notes!
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 11:59a   Julian Buss
Some days before I said that I found a way to automate Apple iWork Pages from inside Lotus Notes. And while it was some kind of tech demo back then, I continued working on that in my spare time this w ... [read] Keywords: lotus notes apple development
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Why do categorized views expand automatically on view update?
Tue, Dec 1st 2009 3:59a   Julian Buss
In all the years I do Notes development, I still don't get one thing: when I have a categorized view which is updated automatically; me and my users often experience that all categories expand *automa ... [read] Keywords: notes development
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I found a way to automate Apple Pages and other iWork apps from Notes
Wed, Nov 25th 2009 12:03p   Julian Buss
As you may know, we have a full flavored CRM suite. In this suite, we have an office integration so that the user can create office documents directly from the Notes CRM. Included in that integration ... [read] Keywords: notes apple development integration office
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xNamepicker is the first entry in the new OpenNTF GPL Catalog!
Tue, Nov 24th 2009 10:59a   Julian Buss
Thanks to the folks at OpenNTF the GPL Catalog is now life! And I'm honoured to have the first entry in that catalog :-) Look and see: http://www.openntf.org/catalogs/gplcat.nsf/Controls.xsp Update ... [read] Keywords: development openntf
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How do you build workflows in Notes? Which product do you recommend?
Mon, Nov 16th 2009 4:59a   Julian Buss
Many Notes apps need some kind of workflow functionality. I'm curious, how do you solve this? Do you code all your workflow needs by yourself? If so, do you code individually in each app? Or do you ... [read] Keywords: lotus notes workflow
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Most recent Domino Designer Help
Wed, Nov 4th 2009 2:57a   Julian Buss
I just learned that IBM provides the Designer Help online and adds more and more content to it. Click here to open the online version of designer help. ... [read] Keywords: designer domino ibm development
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One example why working with composite apps is so hard, only due to lack of documentation
Tue, Nov 3rd 2009 7:58a   Julian Buss
I just asked myself if I can use @formulas in the com.ibm.notes.viewCustomization.filterByCategory property of a NotesViewContainer. First, I hoover over the "filter by category" field in the compo ... [read] Keywords: composite ibm notes applications
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Boy, I LOVE the search feature in Designer 8.5.1!
Tue, Nov 3rd 2009 5:57a   Julian Buss
FINALLY I can solve questions like "in which of my 400+ design elements is field X used?" in a couple of seconds, just by doing a search in Domino Designer. The search looks through all kind of design ... [read] Keywords: designer domino development
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Do you like the music in this video?
Fri, Oct 30th 2009 6:02a   Julian Buss
I'm playing around with Camtasia for Mac to make short 'Screencast' videos of our products. I just finished the first one and we have different opinions about the music in the video here at YouAtNotes ... [read] Keywords: mac
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I am back using Firefox. Why Safari does not work for me.
Sat, Oct 24th 2009 4:03p   Julian Buss
Some weeks ago I migrated from Firefox to Safari on all my Macs. That was pretty easy thanks to XMarks (the famous bookmark sync service). The main reason was that Safari is much faster then Firefox, ... [read] Keywords: firefox mac
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Web 2.0 namepicker for XPages ready for release! Online Demo!
Fri, Oct 23rd 2009 8:58a   Julian Buss
Any XPages developer know this problem: there is no namepicker component. If you have a field were a user should give Notes names, you are lost. Yes, you can use the typeahead feature on the ($VIMPeo ... [read] Keywords: notes xpages web 2.0
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On vacation
Sun, Oct 4th 2009 11:54a   Julian Buss
I'm off for vacation the next two weeks, so it will be silent in this blog. Have fun with 8.5.1 when it comes :-) ... [read] Keywords:
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Was kostet ein Kabel im Versand, Supermarkt, Media-Kette und Fachhändler...?
Sun, Oct 4th 2009 11:54a   Julian Buss
Ich brauch ein optisches Kabel für digitale Audioübertragung, 5m mit Toslink-Steckern, und hatte das letzte Woche bei Amazon (bzw. einem Händler, der bei Amazon anbietet) bestellt. Leider kam das Kabe ... [read] Keywords:
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Why only the toughest and strongest developers are able to work with Composite Applications, and how that could be solved
Wed, Sep 16th 2009 9:58a   Julian Buss
Do you really work with Composite Apps, I mean, more than "creating a page and adding two or three components"? Some people might remember that I tried to use Composite Apps with NSF components for ... [read] Keywords: composite applications
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What does this code say?
Mon, Sep 14th 2009 3:56a   Julian Buss
I got a mail with the subject "important! help needed! and this code from a friend yesterday: dim name as notesguru dim reason as notesevent dim mood as notesstateofmind set name=Julian set reason=b ... [read] Keywords:
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Asking all iTunes users: how do you solve this common usecase?
Fri, Sep 11th 2009 2:58a   Julian Buss
It seems that we will get a bounch of iPhones in the company, which means that my wife and I will get one, too. Having an iPhone means that I need to think about using iTunes again. And still, even ... [read] Keywords: iphone mac
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Why I am very satisfied with Notes 8.5.1 - Part 3
Tue, Sep 1st 2009 5:55a   Julian Buss
Here are some more small goodies of 8.5.1 that I like: DOAS has been optimized, which leads to much less network traffic (example: a client wants to replicate an attachment from local to server, but ... [read] Keywords: notes network server
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Why I am very satisfied with Notes 8.5.1 - Part 2
Mon, Aug 24th 2009 3:56a   Julian Buss
The whole roaming stuff works perfect now in 8.5.1. Roaming is around for so many versions of Lotus Notes now, and it always worked... but there were some glichtes all the time: sometimes a client nee ... [read] Keywords: lotus notes roaming
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Why I am very satisfied with Notes 8.5.1 - Part 1
Fri, Aug 21st 2009 1:57p   Julian Buss
There are so many things I really like in 8.5.1 that it's hard to pick one to start with.. today, I want to write something about: Performance. You know, performance was a hot issue since Notes 8 mo ... [read] Keywords: notes
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What still sucks on my Macs... big time!
Wed, Aug 19th 2009 6:53a   Julian Buss
Even a year after switching to Mac one thing still sucks: the keyboard. Or to be more specific: some keys on the keyboard: "POS1" and "END" (on a PC keyboard) doesn't jump to the beginning/end of th ... [read] Keywords: mac
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Calling XPage gurus: submit button to submit only ONE datasource instead of ALL datasources
Tue, Aug 18th 2009 6:56a   Julian Buss
I had this problem in 8.5.0 some months ago, and now it popped up again. I tried everything I know, but failed so far. Following situation: - one xpage - with three custom components - in each compo ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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Caution with a XPages file upload control and partial refresh
Tue, Aug 18th 2009 5:55a   Julian Buss
If you use a file upload control on your XPages, make sure your submit/save button does a full refresh. When the buttons does a partial refresh, the file control does not work anymore. It just took ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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Internetausdrucker ist der neue Warmduscher
Tue, Aug 18th 2009 2:53a   Julian Buss
Grade gelesen in einem Kommentar zu irgendeinem Blog Eintrag: "...alles Internetausdrucker". Internetausdrucker... ein schöner Begriff. Werde ich ab sofort anstelle von Warmduscher o.ähnl. Begriffen v ... [read] Keywords:
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New in our Service Communicator XPages application: displaying Trouble Tickets, getting Tickets via Webservice from any external system
Wed, Aug 12th 2009 10:53a   Julian Buss
Since we were a software development AND a service company we have a trouble ticket software, just as every other professional service company has. (Our trouble ticket software is a product of our own ... [read] Keywords: xpages application development
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No need for self excuses anymore! Today is Yellow Day! Congratulations to Lotus and the Lotus Community!
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 3:52a   Julian Buss
Yes, a year has passed again. Today is 11th august - Yellow Day! Today we celebrate the brand Lotus and the Lotus Community. With our help, Lotus accomplished a lot in the last years: Lotus is ... [read] Keywords: lotus community
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Watch out for proxy config when coding a webservice consumer
Thu, Jul 30th 2009 4:58p   Julian Buss
I'm working on some web services at the moment, and while I created a web service consumer and tested it from an agent, I always got the message "Web Service ... error connecting to '10.10.0.1' port ' ... [read] Keywords: agent development
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I. Need. Help. From a CSS/Dojo pro.
Tue, Jul 28th 2009 8:56a   Julian Buss
Here is the task, should you accept it: Place a div on your page so that it is not visible. Then use dojo.fadeIn() to make it visible. 1.) Do this in Firefox. You should be done in some seconds us ... [read] Keywords: xpages css dojo firefox
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DbColumn and DbLookup with result as guaranteed array and with a cache
Thu, Jul 23rd 2009 3:57a   Julian Buss
@DbLookup has the issue that it returns a string when it found exactly one result, and an array when it found multiple results. That means after each @DbLookup you have to check if your result is a st ... [read] Keywords: dblookup xpages
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Partial refresh and Firefox 3.5, Safari, Opera on 8.5.0
Wed, Jul 22nd 2009 3:57a   Julian Buss
I just stumbled upon this post in the 8.5 forum: it describes the known problem that partial refreshes on a Domino 8.5.0 server causes the message "_10f.push is not a function". This happens with Fir ... [read] Keywords: domino xpages firefox server
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XPages: don’t use a PNG as favicon or Domino will crash
Mon, Jul 20th 2009 6:03p   Julian Buss
:: Abstract not available :: [read] Keywords: domino xpages
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Finally! Public beta of my new XPages application "Service Communicator"
Mon, Jul 20th 2009 5:02a   Julian Buss
Finally! We added lots of content, created a small website about the application, completed the registration and reset-password functionality and fixed numerous small things. While there is still ... [read] Keywords: xpages application password
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What our secret XPages application is about
Tue, Jul 14th 2009 3:00p   Julian Buss
Here is a first, simple and short page about my new application: http://servicecommunicator.com/ ... [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Secret XPages app - anyone want to join the private beta?
Wed, Jul 8th 2009 4:02a   Julian Buss
Unfortunately, the public beta will have to wait. The software is ready to rock, but there is a lot of additional work to do: putting content into the application, writing informational stuff about th ... [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Ich bin immer wieder sprachlos, was es für bekloppte Menschen gibt...
Sun, Jul 5th 2009 7:01p   Julian Buss
Es ist 1 Uhr Nachts. Mitten im Wohngebiet. Gute Hamburger Wohngegend. Unzählige Leute schlafen, meine Frau und meine Kinder auch. Da kommt hier so ein Vollpfosten mit seinem Motorrad angerast und hä ... [read] Keywords:
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How can I create a multi-language login form for the web? Anyone how did this before?
Sun, Jul 5th 2009 5:58p   Julian Buss
I can tell the HTTP server to use a custom login form via the domcfg.nsf. Now I try to make a custom login form which is multi-language, that means displays it's strings dynamically in the user's la ... [read] Keywords: xpages server
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How important is 100% valid HTML really?
Sun, Jul 5th 2009 4:56p   Julian Buss
I came across an ideajam idea from Jan Schulz. He complains about the code style generated by an XPages web application. In the end, he asks for standard complying pages. "Standard complying" means: ... [read] Keywords: xpages application ideajam
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Secret XPages app preview 5: replying to a content
Wed, Jul 1st 2009 5:56p   Julian Buss
Hi again, here is a new piece of the puzzle. Yesterday I talked about the multilanguage features, and today I talk about getting replies and comments for a content. As you know, we have some type of ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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Secret XPages app sneek preview 4: creating a true multilanguage software
Tue, Jun 30th 2009 6:58p   Julian Buss
Last time I talked about implementing a "how is your mood?" system. As promised, this entry is about multilanguage features. Right from the beginning we planned the application to be available in m ... [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Secret XPages app sneek preview 3: how is your mood?
Thu, Jun 25th 2009 3:57p   Julian Buss
Another day, another piece of the puzzle :-) Yesterday I talked about following a content. Today I like to ask: how is your mood? In various situations in the application a user can express hi ... [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Secret XPages app sneek preview 2: "follow me" logic and how it works
Wed, Jun 24th 2009 10:01a   Julian Buss
Yesterday I told you first facts about my new XPages application named "YouAtNotes CSC". As promised, here is the next piece of the puzzle :-) In YouAtNotes CSC I have some kind of content which a ... [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Boy, the Dojo API reference really sucks, big big big time!
Tue, Jun 23rd 2009 3:56a   Julian Buss
Here is the task, should you accept it: go to the Dojo API reference at http://api.dojotoolkit.org/ and try to find out, how to modify the style of an HTML element. Hint: it should be some function ... [read] Keywords: xpages dojo
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About to reveal my new secret XPages application...
Mon, Jun 22nd 2009 5:52a   Julian Buss
You may know that I'm developing with XPages for some months now (and collecting knowledge about XPages development here). I made quite a secret about the project since then, even my collegues at Yo ... [read] Keywords: xpages application development
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XPages: am I the only one fighting with validation on every partial update?
Wed, May 27th 2009 11:54a   Julian Buss
While working on our new cool app, I often come to this situation: validation kicks in when I don't need it. Simple use case: You have a XPage with some fields on it, which have validators, and a s ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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Extra charge for Internet Explorer compatiblity
Wed, May 27th 2009 3:53a   Julian Buss
Jim nailed it down in his comment to my story about Internet Explorer problems: the fact that Microsoft is unable to do things right with Internet Explorer costs customers money. A lot of money. And ... [read] Keywords: microsoft
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"Damn You IE, Internet Explorer is the Worst Freaking Browser Ever"
Wed, May 27th 2009 3:53a   Julian Buss
This pretty much reflects how I feel about Internet Explorer. I only have to add that things have not improved with Internet Explorer 8 at all. Read this, it is worth it: http://www.slayerment.com/bl ... [read] Keywords: development
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Boy, how bad bad bad Internet Explorer is...
Tue, May 26th 2009 10:55a   Julian Buss
We developed a cool web application using XPages for a customer. It has been tested with: - Firefox 3.x - Internet Explorer 8 in IE 7 compatibility mode - Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista - Inte ... [read] Keywords: xpages application firefox vista
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XPages: how to have multiple submit buttons for multiple data sources on the same page?
Tue, May 26th 2009 9:52a   Julian Buss
I came across the following problem, perhaps someone has an idea? I have a XPage with two document data sources. Field A is bound to the first source, field B to the second. Beside field A I want t ... [read] Keywords: document xpages
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Wolfram Alpha is brave and knows THE ANSWER
Tue, May 19th 2009 11:52a   Julian Buss
Ask Wolfram for life, universe and everything: http://www91.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=life%2C+universe+and+everything ... [read] Keywords:
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XPages: caution when using Number() on values from getComponent().getValue()
Thu, May 14th 2009 4:50a   Julian Buss
If you try to convert a value from getComponent(..).getValue() to number with the Number() function the XPage crashes. The reason is that getComponent(..).getValue() returns a java.lang.string, but N ... [read] Keywords: xpages java
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Are there dojo plugins similar to jQuery plugins?
Sat, May 9th 2009 7:57a   Julian Buss
I'm getting used to Dojo more and more, but in the past I used jQuery and there is one thing I miss in the Dojo world: plugins. In the jQuery world, there is a repository many, many plugins develope ... [read] Keywords: xpages dojo
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Preview release of my namepicker component for XPages
Sat, May 9th 2009 4:57a   Julian Buss
Have a look: It is not perfect yet. But it may be something you can build on. Notes: Tested on Firefox only. Will never work in IE 6. May work in IE 7 sometimes. Should work in Safari. You ent ... [read] Keywords: notes xpages firefox
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New stuff about dojo in our XPages wiki
Thu, May 7th 2009 3:56p   Julian Buss
I just got a good book about dojo and I'm diving into it. I already learned a couple of things and wrote them down: http://www.youatnotes.de/web/youatnotes/wiki-xpages.nsf/dx/Work_with_Dojo ... [read] Keywords: xpages dojo wiki
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Was ist XPages?
Mon, May 4th 2009 6:51a   Julian Buss
XPages sind bei uns seit Monaten ein wichtiges Thema. Wir haben erste Aufträge in diesem Bereich und bauen selbst auch neue Produkte damit. Letztens auf unserer Teambesprechung haben Kollegen gefrag ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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Follow up to my XPages namepicker
Mon, May 4th 2009 4:54a   Julian Buss
As you may know I'm working on a nice namepicker control for XPages. So far I used a jQuery plugin together with a small LotusScript agent. Works fine so far, but I didn't managed to have this jQuer ... [read] Keywords: agent lotusscript xpages
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I’m on the ultimate name picker for web / XPages
Thu, Apr 30th 2009 3:50p   Julian Buss
Here's a screenie: I've got it basically working but have to do some more tests how well it performs inside XPages. And I have to do some more work to pack it into a convenient custom control. Stay ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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XPages: display a panel as nice dojo/dijit dialog on page load
Sun, Apr 26th 2009 3:50p   Julian Buss
Dojo has a widget engine named Dijit, and dijit can display a DIV as a nice dialog. Since Domino 8.5 contains Dojo, and XPages are using Dojo extensively, the wish may come up to display a XPage panel ... [read] Keywords: domino xpages dojo widget
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XPages: how to disable validators to save a document as draft?
Fri, Apr 24th 2009 5:51a   Julian Buss
Assume you have a XPage with some fields on it. The fields have validators. When you save the page, the validation kicks and hinders you from saving. But what if you want to save the document as dra ... [read] Keywords: document xpages
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Developing XPages day and night, an update to my opinion on XPages
Thu, Apr 23rd 2009 8:55a   Julian Buss
I'm developing with XPages for about two months now, and in the last couple of weeks I do nearly nothing else than developing with XPages. I think about XPages first thing in the morning and last thin ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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XPages repeat control inside a repeat control - display data from one view inside another view
Thu, Apr 23rd 2009 8:55a   Julian Buss
You might know that in a XPages view control you can create computed columns which lookup data from another view, which is cool. But, you can do similar (and even more) with repeat controls, too, be ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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XPages tipps and tricks
Thu, Apr 23rd 2009 4:51a   Julian Buss
We decided to publish what we've learned during XPages development here: http://www.youatnotes.de/xpages. Comments and contributions welcome! ... [read] Keywords: xpages development
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XPages: how to set edit mode via javascript?
Wed, Apr 22nd 2009 10:53a   Julian Buss
I wonder how one can switch a document datasource to edit mode from server side javascript, there is no public API for that. In the Domino 8.5 forum there is an idea, but I don't know how to translate ... [read] Keywords: document domino javascript xpages server
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Goodbye iTunes, Hello Amazon MP3
Sun, Apr 19th 2009 7:25a   Julian Buss
I never liked iTunes because it's way too limited for seriously managing a huge music collection and for making music on parties. But, I used iTunes now and then to buy music since there was no altern ... [read] Keywords:
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How to secure a public XPages application - did I miss something?
Wed, Apr 8th 2009 4:16a   Julian Buss
I'm in the process of collection information which steps are neccessary to ensure a public XPages application is secure (beside from the obvious: configure the ACL correctly...). Please have a look ... [read] Keywords: acl xpages application
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XPages knowledge collection in our new Wiki!
Mon, Apr 6th 2009 8:28a   Julian Buss
During our work on XPages we are finding numerous things about XPages to note. Now, we decided to move all our notes to a Wiki and publish, so that everyone can participate. Yes, I know there is a D ... [read] Keywords: notes xpages wiki
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XPages: localisation questions and the dark side of XPages.
Thu, Apr 2nd 2009 2:26p   Julian Buss
In my current XPages projekt I want to deliver my application in english and german. So, I have the need for localisation. In brief, localisation of a XPages app works like this: You define which ... [read] Keywords: xpages application
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XPages: the goodness of custom controls
Wed, Mar 25th 2009 9:20a   Julian Buss
You know, I'm currently diving deeply into XPages and am pretty exited about it. Now I just experienced the goodness of custom controls and I really have to share it: In my project I have one XPag ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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XPages: an input field in a repeat control - do we have a bug here?
Wed, Mar 25th 2009 7:41a   Julian Buss
If you are a developing in XPages, try this: Create a repeat control based on some view. Inside that repeat control, place some stuff (text, label... doesn't matter) and an input field. Give the in ... [read] Keywords: xpages bug
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Video-Demos von Lotus Notes und anderer Lotus Software in deutsch
Wed, Mar 25th 2009 3:19a   Julian Buss
IBM hat einige Video-Demos von Lotus Notes und anderer Lotus Software in deutsch zur Verfügung gestellt: www.demos.ibm.com/brands/lotus/de/ ... [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes
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My opinion about XPages after the first days of heavy development
Sun, Mar 22nd 2009 9:39a   Julian Buss
I have the first days of heavy XPages development behind me. I cannot reveal what I'm working on yet (even my collegues don't know it :-) ). But the project contains a lot of elements which were very ... [read] Keywords: xpages development




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