Getting a handle on Scope using Java
Tue, Jun 4th 2013 6:16a Devin Olson XPages gives us some wonderfully cool pre-built containers into which we can throw various variables, and retrieve them later at our convenience. The containers to which I'm referring are the SCOPE ... [read] Keywords: xpages java
Dell Service Tag via WMIC Command
Fri, Apr 26th 2013 7:24a Devin Olson Let me say up front that this post has NOTHING to do with Lotus, XPages, or software development in any way. But it is too good a tip to not post about. I recently needed to get the service tag f ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Bug in DD-WRT on a Netgear WNDR3700 Router
Tue, Apr 23rd 2013 7:17a Devin Olson Yesterday I tried to install dd-wrt (v24 SP1) on my Netgear WNDR3700 v2 router. The installation was a breeze. Then I tried to configure it. That is when the trouble began There is a bug in th ... [read] Keywords: bug
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Regex Reminder: Match the End of a String
Tue, Apr 9th 2013 1:13p Devin Olson I am posting this here because I'm tired of having to think this through every time I need it. Perhaps it will be of some use to somebody else. ^.*substring$ When searching any string using a Re ... [read] Keywords: java
Stupid equality test -my most common Java bug.
Mon, Dec 10th 2012 3:17p Devin Olson I was first introduced to Java (as a Programming Language) around 1997 or 1998, and I've been working with it on a semi-regular basis since around 2001. Since July of this year I have been working ... [read] Keywords: bug
java
Invalid Validation Frustration Situation
Fri, Oct 5th 2012 6:09a Devin Olson Last night just as I was shutting down my boss pointed out a problem in an application I'm working on. It seems validation was failing on a certain field. I did a quick test and was able to reprodu ... [read] Keywords: xpages application
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How not to find things
Thu, Aug 23rd 2012 2:08p Devin Olson Yesterday my buddy Tim Tripcony suggested I check out watrCoolr on OpenNTF.Org. I was interested in real time data serialization and MIME entity conversion, and Tim's application does exactly that. ... [read] Keywords: xpages application
openntf
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Extending Tommy Valand’s clearMap() function
Tue, Aug 14th 2012 5:46a Devin Olson Tommy Valand posted a wonderfully simple function for clearing scoped variables a couple of years ago. I had a need to conditionally clear certain elements from my applicationScope. In my case, ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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XPages SSJS Function: @IsBlank
Mon, Aug 13th 2012 5:17p Devin Olson Testing for blank strings can be kind of a PIA, and there are myriad examples all over the web on how to accomplish this. Here is my version for XPages SSJS. Enjoy: function @IsBlank(source:String) ... [read] Keywords: xpages
Concatenation Baby!
Fri, Aug 10th 2012 6:00a Devin Olson I spent quite a bit of time today trying to figure out why my SSJS wasn't working the way I intended. I created a function that was supposed to return the UniversalID of a document that had a part ... [read] Keywords:
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Episode IV - A New Hope
Thu, Aug 9th 2012 2:01p Devin Olson I am finally getting to work with XPages. Yes, I know XPage technology has been gold for several years now, but I've been a bit busy making a living, so cut me a little slack, OK? I suppose a litt ... [read] Keywords: xpages
