org.apache.commons.collections – MultiValueMap
Sun, May 20th 2012 5:40a Ulrich Krause Maps, Treemaps and whatever have you, are a great way to store data for easy access the data by a given key. The disadvantage with this objects is that the key has to be unique. This means that you cannot store different values associated with one key.
I needed a solution to store data in a Continue reading → [read] Keywords: twitter
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Lotus Domino XPages Praxis-Seminar (3 Tage) – Hannover
Tue, May 15th 2012 8:20a Ulrich Krause 2Consultants bietet wieder eines ihrer fundierten XPages Seminare an.
Das XPages Praxis Seminar findet statt in Hannover vom 22. bis 24. Juni mit neuem und eigenem Konzept inklusive deutschsprachiger Unterlagen (250 Seiten in Farbe).
Als einen weiteren Vorteil sehe ich die Durchführungsgarantie. Im Seminarpreis enthalten ist auch die Nutzung des “fliegenden Klassenzimmers”.
Wer sich also im Raum Hannover Continue reading → [read] Keywords: domino
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SSJS Extension – New Function: @GetNextBusinessDayExt()
Sun, May 13th 2012 3:52a Ulrich Krause I have added a new @Function to my SSJS project on OpenNTF.
Syntax
@GetNextBusinessDayExt( [offset] ; [baseDate] ; [excludedDaysOfWeek] ; [excludedDates] )
Parameters
offset:
Number of non-excluded days from the baseDate that the result date will be
basedate:
Date to start counting offset from. If specify “null” defaults to today
excludedDaysOfWeek:
Numer or number list. Optional. Days of the week not counted as business Continue reading → [read] Keywords: openntf
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Joda to the rescue
Wed, May 9th 2012 9:00a Ulrich Krause Today I had to compare to dates to find out, if the are on the same date. Both dates had a DateTime format. So my first thought was to just strip the date part. I looked at the java.util.Date class and found that most of the methods are deprecated.
Sure, you can pass the java.util.Date objects Continue reading → [read] Keywords: java
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Access UserBean from Java
Tue, May 8th 2012 9:30a Ulrich Krause I use the userBean that comes with the extension Library in SSJS very often. It is a convenient way to access various properties of the current user.
Today I wanted to use the UserBean in Java. But I could not figure out, how to do. After some help from Stephan Wissel and a few minutes of Continue reading → [read] Keywords: java
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SSJS – @CancelPartialRefresh
Mon, May 7th 2012 10:18a Ulrich Krause Inspired by the great work of Sven Hasselbach, who blogged about his XSnippet to cancel a partialrefresh, I took the JavaScript code and injected it into my SSJS Extension Project. At the moment, the code is undergoing some testing, but it seems that it is stable and ready for release.
Using a simple @CancelPartialRefresh() in your Continue reading → [read] Keywords: javascript
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[DanNotes] – Presentation SlideDeck
Mon, Apr 30th 2012 5:00a Ulrich Krause DanNotes is just around the corner. This is the second time for me to present at this conference.
Here is the slidedeck from my DanNotes presentation “XPages – beyond the Basics“. The session is an extended version of the content, I presented at BLUG 2012.
At DanNotes I have a 2h timeslot.This gives alot more room for demoes Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages twitter
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Small Cause – Big Effect
Fri, Apr 20th 2012 7:10a Ulrich Krause Got a new laptop this week and had to re-install some software. After installing BIRT and a local Domino, I configured BIRT to acces a database on the local server to test DomSQL.
I spent the whole evening yesterday and could not figure out, what was wrong with my configuration. The connection to the server could Continue reading → [read] Keywords: domino
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[XSnippet:] Refresh applicationScope variables with individual timeout
Tue, Apr 17th 2012 4:00a Ulrich Krause applicationScope is a great way to store data, that is available without constantly reading the values from views or config docs. But from time to time even config data changes and when the values are stored in applicationScope, the changes are not pushed to the application in a reasonable timeframe.
The code snippet lets you update Continue reading → [read] Keywords: application
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My BLUG Presentation
Sat, Mar 24th 2012 7:00a Ulrich Krause Here is the slide deck from my presentation “XPages – Beyond the Basics”
XPages -Beyond the Basics
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[Review] – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 Upgrader’s Guide
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 9:40a Ulrich Krause An new release, a new upgrader’s guide. Due to their work at IBM, the authors Tim Speed, Scott O’Keefe and Barry Rosen have a deep knowledge of Lotus Notes and Domino.
The IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 Upgrader’s Guide begins with an overview of the SOA characteristics of Lotus Notes and moves on to the Continue reading → [read] Keywords: domino
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TabContainer and RichText Control interaction
Fri, Mar 9th 2012 3:30a Ulrich Krause During the last week we were bitten in the leg by an issue with xp:inputRichText in a xe:djTabPane. When opening a new tabPane, the RichText control was not rendered and displyed as a multiline input text control. In Firebug you could see the following output in the error panel.
At least, we were able to find Continue reading → [read] Keywords: richtext
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Using a RamDisk with Notes Client
Sun, Mar 4th 2012 3:01a Ulrich Krause From time to time I have some issues with my Notes Client. In almost every case these issues occur when the CACHE.NDK size is at 30MB.
Bringing the Notes Client down, deleting cache.ndk and let the client create a new file at startup solves the issues.
There is already an entry on IdeaJam to delete the cache.ndk Continue reading → [read] Keywords: notes
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FollowUp: Paul Withers: Extending Themes – Custom Pager Labels
Fri, Mar 2nd 2012 12:51a Ulrich Krause Yesterday, Paul Withers published an interisting article on how to customize pager labels using themes. Themes are indeed very powerful. I would like to show you a more advanced example to customize the pager labels according to the users language.
At is@web we are developing an application that is fully multi language enabled. This means, that Continue reading → [read] Keywords: application
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My BLUG schedule
Thu, Feb 23rd 2012 9:50a Ulrich Krause The next BLUG conference is just around the corner. From March 22-23, 2012 the yellow bleeding community will gather together in Antwerp, Belgium.
I’m proud to be on the speaker list and I will present on “XPages – Beyond the Basics“. The session will cover themes, the eXtension Library, JAVA / JAR design elements and also Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages community
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Access Resource Bundle in XPages from JAVA
Sat, Jan 21st 2012 6:41a Ulrich Krause Today, I tried to figure out how to access a resource bundle and return a value for a given key. I have the extensionLibrary installed and so I’m using some of the methods that are provided by the ExtLibUtils class.
To make the class available in your application, add the following line to your JAVA code.
import Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages application
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PACKT Publishing: IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide
Sat, Jan 21st 2012 5:30a Ulrich Krause It took me a while to go thru all of the content, but inally I made it and here is my review.
“IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide” was written by Gabriella Davis, Marie L. Scott and Thomas “Duffbert” Duff.
I have attended sessions by Gabriella Davis and Thomas Duff at several conferences and while reading the book, Continue reading → [read] Keywords: administration
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Welcome to DomSQL
Wed, Jan 4th 2012 9:20a Ulrich Krause 2012 starts with a big bang. DomSQL has just been released on OpenNTF.
The Domino JDBC Access (a.k.a. DomSQL) exposes Domino data as relational tables and
provides easy access to the tables using a JDBC driver.
JDBC stands for Java Database Connectivity. It is a set of technologies that are part of the
standard Java Runtime environment, used to Continue reading → [read] Keywords: domino
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Using a bigger logo in ApplicationLayout control
Mon, Dec 26th 2011 1:04a Ulrich Krause The applicationLayout control from the XPages Extension Library is a fantastic control. It makes the layout of an application easy ( once you know, how to set the parameters ).
The control also has a property to include a company or product logo. The only problem is, that the logo has to have a height that Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages application
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XSnippets: Custom Array.sort()
Wed, Dec 14th 2011 2:42a Ulrich Krause This function can be passed as an argument to an Array.sort() to perform a case-insensitive sort and also put German umlauts into the right position. It can be easily modified to work with other languages. OpenNTF XSnippets [read] Keywords: openntf
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A quick hack for the XPages Loading Mask Custom Control
Sat, Dec 10th 2011 6:24a Ulrich Krause The control, written by Mark Hughes and published on OpenNTF creates loading masks on the loading of a page and in partial refreshes. Just include the control into your XPage and it will start working immediately. The disadvantage is that it shows a loading mask for ALL partial events that are fired. This can be Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages openntf
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Traveler calendar widget freezes HTC Sense ?
Fri, Nov 25th 2011 9:20a Ulrich Krause Today I’m having some problems with my HTC Desire ( Android 2.3 ). From time to time, the Home Screen becomes completely black and after a few minutes a message appears saying “HTC Sense no longer responding … “. When I OK the message, the Home Screen is rebuild and the phone works for a Continue reading → [read] Keywords: traveler
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Where is my Sametime??
Thu, Nov 24th 2011 11:01p Ulrich Krause I have a small issue with the embedded Sametime Client in Notes 8.5.3. I use a laptop in the office that has a 2nd monotor attached to work in Designer. On the latop screen, I open my mailfile and Sametime.
As soon as I click into the Designer on the second screen, my Sametime client goes Continue reading → [read] Keywords: notes
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Extension Library 8.5.3 – undocumented @functions
Tue, Nov 22nd 2011 3:00a Ulrich Krause Just a quick post before I leave the office for the 46. DanNotes conference.
Looked into source code of the OpenNTF Extension Library and found 2 undocumented functions in the Javascript Extension. (@NormalizeSubject and @ViewIconUrl).
@NormalizeSubject trims a subject to the specified maxlength if it exceeds it and adds 3 dots at the end of the normalized Continue reading → [read] Keywords: javascript
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November is pulmonary hypertension awareness month
Mon, Oct 31st 2011 10:39a Ulrich Krause Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) is high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs that can lead to heart failure. It is still incurable and there is still a lot of research to do to understand, what causes the disease and hopefully find a way to cure it.
My wife has been diagnosed with PH almost 2 Continue reading → [read] Keywords: twitter
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XPages to PDF with iText
Tue, Oct 25th 2011 4:00a Ulrich Krause Yesterday, David Leedy published a new extended edition of his great Notes in 9 video series. Brian Moore talked about how to create PDF from XPages and showed a simple example during the show.
I played a bit with the iText package and like to share some mor code that shows how to add tables and Continue reading → [read] Keywords: notes
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AdminCamp 2011 – Session Slides
Fri, Sep 23rd 2011 10:20p Ulrich Krause Here is the slidedeck for the “Performance” session that I held together with Werner Motzet at AdminCamp 2011.
AdminCamp 2011 Performance
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Sandy Carter – Get Bold!
Wed, Sep 21st 2011 8:30a Ulrich Krause Returned from AdminCamp this afternoon and found a package in my post box. It’s Sandy Carter’s new book “Get Social”; fresh from the press.
The book has not yet been published. So thanks to IBM Press for sending me the book in advance. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Expand last column in Grid
Fri, Sep 9th 2011 9:37a Ulrich Krause In our applications at IS@Web we use the Dojo Grid from the Extension Library to display data in various places. The autoWidth property automatically sets the width depending on columns width.
This can be a problem, if you put the control into a panel with a fixed width. The next screenshot shows this situation,
Well, no problem. Continue reading → [read] Keywords: applications
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Download Mozilla Firefox 6 Final For Windows And Mac Now
Sun, Aug 14th 2011 12:52a Ulrich Krause “If you’ve been eager to download the final version of Firefox 6, you might be happy to know that it’s already available on Mozilla’s servers. While it’s expected to be rolled out through the browser’s automatic updating feature starting next week, you can get it now.” more
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POP3Collect – New release available
Fri, Aug 12th 2011 8:31a Ulrich Krause Andy Brunner has released a new version of his fantastic Pop3Collect. It fixes a few issues. Here is a list of fixes in release. 1.0.
New: Write a message to the log during initialization if the Domino notes.ini parameter JavaMaxHeapSize is not specified.
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Switching between tabs does not keep position of elements
Sat, Aug 6th 2011 9:57a Ulrich Krause I’m using the dojo.Layout TabContainer and TabPane controls from the extension Library. Inside of the tabs I have floating panes. When I move the pane I would like to keep the current position of the pane when I switch from tab1 to tab2. This does not work. The element is always moved to the original Continue reading → [read] Keywords: dojo
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XPages: Issue with Tabs and multiple datasources
Thu, Aug 4th 2011 3:32a Ulrich Krause In my current project I try to open documents from a view in a tab. Each document should open in a new tab. I’m using the extensionLib from OpenNTF ( 2011-04-10 ). This is working so far and I can access data from the underlying document and display in the tab.
But I want to display Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages openntf
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@Formula Magic
Sat, Jul 23rd 2011 7:23a Ulrich Krause How often have you created views to return a concatenated value as a result of a @DBLookup? You normally create a new column and add something like this as a column value:
"fieldname1"+"~"+"fieldname2"+ ...
The complexity of this formula increases with the number of items you like to concatenate.
And it gets even more complex if you want Continue reading → [read] Keywords: dblookup
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XPages FloatingPane Custom Control
Thu, Jul 21st 2011 10:03a Ulrich Krause I have just ( almost ) finished a new control to submit for the OpenNTF Development Contest.
It’s a floating pane control. The control is similar to Ferry Kranenburgs control. The difference is that my control does not use any 3rd party libraries like jQuery. The control is fully built with dojo.
I need to write the Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages development
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Holiday, a new job and upcoming conferences
Sun, Jul 17th 2011 1:55a Ulrich Krause It has been a bit quiet here for the past few weeks. So here is a wrapup of what has happened.
After my wife and I didn’t went on holiday in 2010 due to my wife’s lung desease, we spent almost 3 weeks in Side, Turkey this year. Although I booked the wrong hotel, it turned Continue reading → [read] Keywords: twitter
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Get custom properties from another custom control
Fri, Jul 15th 2011 10:06a Ulrich Krause Here is a quick tipp that can make your work with custom controls easier.
Each custom contConrol can have a set of customproperties that are accessible vie compositeData.PropertyName. But also each custom control has it’s own propertyMap. This makes it impossible to access a custom property from ccParent by ccChild.
I have put together a small piece Continue reading → [read] Keywords: properties
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Using MySQL Data in XPages
Sun, Jul 3rd 2011 1:45a Ulrich Krause In todays world, data is not stored in a single place but in different systems and on different platforms. On possibility is a SQL database. Assume, you want to access this data and use it in your XPages application.
I have created a new project and contributed the code on OpenNTF.
The javascript lib contains a single Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages application
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LNT 8.5.3 – New Widgets For Android
Sat, Jun 11th 2011 2:51a Ulrich Krause Domino and Notes 8.5.3 have reached Code Drop 5 and so I (as members of the Domino Design Partner Program) am allowed to blog about all the awesome features and enhancements that will be brought to you when 8.5.3 will be released later this year.
So here are a few notes on whats new in Lotus Continue reading → [read] Keywords: domino
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OpenNTF: XPages ActiveBar Custom Control
Fri, Jun 10th 2011 7:37a Ulrich Krause Activebar is a crossbrowser information bar, which tries to mimic the look and feel of these bars used by modern browsers. Such bars are commonly used to display important informations to the user. Requests to open a popup window, install some components or to remember some sort of password are prominent examples of what these Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages openntf
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OpenNTF: Xpages PagePeel Control
Thu, Jun 9th 2011 8:53a Ulrich Krause Xpages PagePeel Control is a special control that I created for the Xpages contest on OpenNTF.
You have probably seen these forms of advertisings where you can peel a corner of a website and see a message underneath. It seems most are flash driven, but I decided to try it out using some simple lines of Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages openntf
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Domino on Linux: “Could not load de strings from resource”
Thu, Jun 2nd 2011 6:30a Ulrich Krause Today I had the pleasure to consolidate 2 Domino server on Windows into a brand new Linux based Domino 8.5.2 server.
I did not expect any bigger issues. But I was proved wrong. After starting the http task on the new server I saw the following lines on the server console:
Could not load de strings from Continue reading → [read] Keywords: domino
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OpenNTF: XPages TimeGlider Custom Control
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 9:03a Ulrich Krause I have released a new custom control on OpenNTF: TimeGlider.
Timeglider is a zooming, panning data-driven timeline — great for history projects, project planning, and much more.
The timeline can be zoomed by dragging the vertical slider at right: up for zooming in (less time shown) and down for zooming out (more time shown). The Continue reading → [read] Keywords: xpages openntf
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The Daily Dilbert Navigator
Sun, May 29th 2011 2:10a Ulrich Krause I have released a new version of the XPages Daily Dilbert custom control on OpenNTF and added a navigator.
You can now navigate back and forth between strips of previous and next week. The first section of the strip is displayed as thumbnail picture. Clicking on the image loads the full size strip.
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OpenNTF: XPages DailyDilbert Custom Control
Fri, May 27th 2011 8:30a Ulrich Krause I have just released a new custom control for the OpenNTF Development Competition. It reads the xml data from http://dilbert.com/xml/widget.daily and displays the image for the current days strip.
The control uses only a few lines of code to retrieve and parse the data.
var parsedxml:org.w3c.dom.Document = null;
var domfactory:javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory =
javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
var xmldocument:javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder =
domfactory.newDocume [read] Keywords: xpages development
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DNUG 2011 – XPages Sample Application
Thu, May 19th 2011 8:10a Ulrich Krause Here is the sample application, I used at my Special Interest Group session at DNUG 2011 in Bonn.
The sample shows a very simple XPage application that you can use to learn the very basics of XPages development. The sample includes:
catogorized views ( with custom expand/collapse indicators)
Export to Excel
Dojo charting for data visualization
Screenshot
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DNUG 2011 – Arbeitskreis Anwendungsentwicklung
Wed, May 18th 2011 11:30p Ulrich Krause Zusammen mit Werner Motzet durfte ich gestern im DNUG Arbeitskreis “Anwendungsentwicklung” zum Thema XPages referieren. Dabei ging es in erster Linie darum, den Teilnehmern die unverzichtbaren Grundlagen zu vermitteln. Die Präsentation finden Sie hier:
DNUG ak-anwendungsentwicklung.18042011
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Zur DNUG allgemein noch ein paar Worte. Ich habe zum ersten Mal an dieser Konferenz [...] [read] Keywords: xpages twitter
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OpenNTF: XPages AnalogGauge Custom Control
Tue, May 17th 2011 2:20a Ulrich Krause I have just submitted my contribution for the OpenNTF Development Contest. I have created an AnalogGauge Custom control.
You can place multiple Gauge controls on a XPage. Each control can have one ore more indicators ( Line, Arrow, Needle) and the Gauge segment can be split into multiple ranges.
See the documentation for more information on how [...] [read] Keywords: xpages development
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From the Fix List – DEBUG_AMGR_ENABLE_RETRY_ON_COMPACT
Thu, May 5th 2011 4:03a Ulrich Krause Found this on the fix list for Notes / Domino 8.5.3
SPR# KMUR63DF3V – Fix introduces an ini DEBUG_AMGR_ENABLE_RETRY_ON_COMPACT to allow an agent to run on a time interval once database compact is complete. Previously when a database was being compacted and an attempt was made to load a scheduled agent it [...] [read] Keywords: agent
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XPages Seminare in Düsseldorf
Fri, Apr 29th 2011 4:00a Ulrich Krause Kam gerade per Mail:
… im Mai (23.5. – 25.5. bzw. 23.5. – 27.5.) in Düsseldorf ein (zwei) XPages-Seminar(e) veranstalten (3 Tage Praxis bzw. verlängert 5 Tage Boot-Camp).
… Die Seminare bieten wir ab Montag (2.5.) zum LastMinute-Preis mit einem 20%igen Nachlass an.
Der Veranstaltungsort klärt sich am Montag (2.5.) und wird in der Nähe des [...] [read] Keywords: xpages twitter
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Replication of this database is not permitted
Sun, Apr 24th 2011 2:25a Ulrich Krause I recently investigate an replication issue with an application that refuses to replicate. Not only that the regular replication failed but also the initial
replication after the replication stub was created on the target server.
I ensured that the ACL was set correct and also ensured that the “temporarily disable replication” flag was not set.
Despite all settings [...] [read] Keywords: acl
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I’m a beginner with XPages. Where do I get information?
Wed, Apr 20th 2011 9:16a Ulrich Krause Assume you are a Notes developer starting with XPages development. You are looking for information how to start and do not know exactly where to look into.
Here is a small list of resources that you can use as a starting point.
General information can be found here.
XPages101 is a website run by Matt White. The site [...] [read] Keywords: notes
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No UKLUG speaking for me
Tue, Apr 19th 2011 7:40a Ulrich Krause Received an e-mail from the UKLUG organizers yesterday. My session has not been approved.
So UKLUG is the first in a line of conferences over the past 3 years that I will not attend as a speaker.
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“See attached file: ” – pesky issue
Tue, Apr 19th 2011 2:11a Ulrich Krause I recently wrote about how to replace the “See attached file: ” string in an XPage with a link to the attachment. We enhanced the code to display an icon to make the output more like the user would expect it.
Everything worked fine until we implemented the code in one of our productive applications. The [...] [read] Keywords: applications
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Recognizing advocates for IBM smart solutions
Fri, Apr 15th 2011 11:45a Ulrich Krause If you not already have heard or read about it; IBM launched the “IBM Champion Program” to recognize and reward exceptional contributors to the technical community. Learn more about the program here.
The IBM Champion program recognizes exceptional contributors to the technical community, non-IBMers who work alongside IBM to build solutions for a smarter planet. An [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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Replace “See attached file:” in XPages
Fri, Apr 15th 2011 4:52a Ulrich Krause I got a phone call from a customer today asking if it is possible to replace the “See attached file” string in our corporate intranet by the attachment, so he would not need to scroll down to the end of an article to open an attachment.
After an hour of try and error, I ended up [...] [read] Keywords: xpages twitter
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I’ll be speaking at DNUG
Thu, Apr 14th 2011 2:39a Ulrich Krause On May, 18th, 2011 I’l be speaking at DNUG in Bonn. Together with Werner Motzet I will present a session on how to modernize an existing Applikation by using XPages. I was asked to do a “beginner level” session.
I decided to take one of the applications that has been delivered in 1999 as the “nifty-fifty”. [...] [read] Keywords: xpages applications
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When signing an application, sign ALL elements
Wed, Apr 13th 2011 11:08a Ulrich Krause I installed and tested the xTalk forum application written by Declan Lynch and available for download at OpenNTF.
A great application and a great piece of open source to learn about XPages.
I ran into an error and tried to figure out, why the error occurs. I thought it is a good idea to share my findings.
When [...] [read] Keywords: xpages application
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IBM Launches Maqetta HTML5 Tool
Tue, Apr 12th 2011 7:59a Ulrich Krause IBM announced Maqetta, an HTML5 authoring tool for building desktop and mobile user interfaces, and also announced the contribution of the open-source technology to the Dojo Foundation.
You can use Maqetta only or donload it to your computer. No install. Just extract the downloaded file to a directory of your choice and start a .bat file [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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Die Bahn – “Lesen Sie die AGB”
Wed, Apr 6th 2011 12:40p Ulrich Krause Nehmen wir mal an, Sie wollen am Montag mit der Bahn von A-Stadt nach B-Stadt fahren. Auch haben Sie geplant, am Freitag wieder zurückzufahren.
Flugs ins Internet geschaut und ein Ticket für die Hin- und Rückfahrt gebucht. Sparpreis €98,- 1.Klasse. Geil!
Hinfahrt war super. Keine Probleme. Am Ort angekommen müssen Sie erfahren, daß Sie nicht wie geplant [...] [read] Keywords: twitter
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XPages – categorized view and multiple partial refresh
Tue, Apr 5th 2011 9:20a Ulrich Krause I am currently working with one of my trainees on a webinterface based on XPages for one of our applications. The application is a contant management system and one of our aims is to avoid modifications on the application and therefore having the XPages design apart from the data in a separate application.
Yesterday we tried [...] [read] Keywords: xpages application
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BLUG – A brief recap
Sun, Apr 3rd 2011 1:16a Ulrich Krause BLUG 2011 started for me on wednesday. I drove to Antwerp by car. It is only a 200 something km trip. My satnav took me on a 30 km detour due to some heavy traffic. Took me one extra hour.
I arrived at the hotel and Theo was already busy setting up the venue. At the [...] [read] Keywords: twitter
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BLUG – Session slides
Thu, Mar 31st 2011 12:30p Ulrich Krause Here is the slidedeck from my session: “When Plato Left The Cave – A brief history of Lotus Notes”.
When Plato Left The Cave – A brief history of Lotus Notes
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IBM platform statement for Symbian/Symbian^3 and Windows Phone 7 relative to Nokia announcement.
Thu, Mar 10th 2011 12:05a Ulrich Krause https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470120
Following Nokia’s February 11, 2011 announcement of their plan for a partnership with Microsoft and Windows Phone as their primary smartphone platform, the longtime IBM and Nokia relationship will continue. The IBM 2011 strategy for the Symbian platform remains unchanged. IBM will continue to support its mobile products on Nokia Symbian devices that are in [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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Wie verblödet sind diese GEZ Typen eigentlich?
Sat, Feb 26th 2011 3:00a Ulrich Krause Gerade kam ein Brief der GEZ gerichtet an meine Frau.
“Wir konnten Sie unter obiger Anschrift nicht in unserem Adressbestand finden …”
Na und, was schert es micht? Immerhin wohnen meine Frau und ich seit 14 Jahren dort und zahlen pünktlich unsere GEZ Gebühren.
Und wenn ich mir diese Schreiben der Inkasso Truppe aus Köln anschaue, könnte ich [...] [read] Keywords: twitter
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Entwicklercamp 2011 – Wrapup
Sat, Feb 26th 2011 2:42a Ulrich Krause Last week was packed with conference and 2 LCTY. Iwrote about the LCTY in another article earlier today.
Entwicklercamp 2011 was just great. The team around Rudi once again setup a great 3 days conference. The team acts very professional, either in setting up all the technical stuff that is needed to run a conference of [...] [read] Keywords: twitter
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I’ll be speaking at BLUG
Sat, Feb 26th 2011 1:49a Ulrich Krause The next pre-Lotusphere event will be BLUG. The Belux Lotus User Group is proud to deliver a 2 days event on March 31st and April 1st in Antwerp, Belgium.
The speaker list is impressive and so is the agenda.
If you not have registered yet, do it right NOW –> register here
I will also do a talk [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
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LCTY 2011 – Duesseldorf
Sat, Feb 26th 2011 1:37a Ulrich Krause I had the chance and pleasure to attend LCTY 2011, Rheinland Nachlese last thursday. LCTY 2011, Rheinland Nachlese is the small brother / sister of the edcom LS review in Munic earlier this week.
Small only regarding the timeframe. LCTY Rheinland attempts to put all the great content into one single day while edcom is a [...] [read] Keywords: twitter
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LCTY 2011 – Cologne
Fri, Feb 25th 2011 11:20p Ulrich Krause On Friday, 25-Feb-2011, I attended LCTY 2011 at ebf.de in Cologne. ebf is an IBM Premium Partner for many years and they also work together with RIM. So it is no surprise that they offer solutions for the Blackberry and other mobile devices.
The venue was the IBM building in Cologne near the river Rhine. [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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[Ytria] – New Release available (V.10)
Fri, Feb 18th 2011 11:26p Ulrich Krause A new major version of Ytria’s suite of tools is available.
Ytria tools and a number of their functions are now available directly in the Domino Designer client with a new DDE integration option.
Now you can just right-click a design element to open in a Ytria software tool.
This offers enormous advantages for developers working on remote [...] [read] Keywords: domino
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Packt Publishing – IBM Tuesday Competition
Fri, Feb 18th 2011 3:30a Ulrich Krause Got an email today form PACKT pointing me to the IBM Tuesday Competition. For more information about the competition, follow this link.
This is your chance to win 1 year’s free subscription to PacktLib every Tuesday! [read] Keywords: ibm
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Book Review – IBM Press, Mastering XPages
Fri, Feb 4th 2011 12:48a Ulrich Krause “I never got the chance to meet the inventors of ‘Notes’, but these guys were true visionaries.” This is the first sentence in a 748 pages book about XPages that was recently published by IBM Press.
The book is written by Martin Donnelly, Mark Wallace and Tony McGuckin with a foreword by Philippe Riand. Although all [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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EntwicklerCamp 2011
Sat, Jan 29th 2011 3:20a Ulrich Krause Lotusphere is just about to start in a few hours and there are only a few days to go to EntwicklerCamp 2011. The Camp is one of two big conferences in Germany run by dutchman Rudi Knegt and his team.
As always, the lineup of national and intenational speakers is impressive. Maureen Leeland, Ben Langhinrichs, Paul [...] [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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First steps with my brand new iPad
Sat, Jan 22nd 2011 3:00a Ulrich Krause A few days ago, my boss gave me an iPad 16G WiFi for testing in our company environment. I’m working with an iPhone 3GS for almost a year now and I would not like to miss it any longer.
What do we need the iPad in our organization for? Here are a few from our list [...] [read] Keywords: iphone
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Designer Help: @V2IF Typo or a sack of rice fell over ?
Sat, Jan 15th 2011 6:06a Ulrich Krause I did some investigation on how often an @function is used in the mail template. It is absolutely useless information, but I wanted to test the usage of Teamstudio Configurator from Lotus Script.
Here is a snapshot of the resulting view
Reading through the results I stumbled upon the @V2If formula. This formula is used 21 times [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
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XPages – For … Loop issue
Mon, Jan 10th 2011 11:20p Ulrich Krause While working on some XPages app dev, I encountered a problem with for … loops in an output script block when the loop is used together with other XPages elements in the block.
There are two ways of filling the content of the script block. The picture below shows both ways and in both cases I [...] [read] Keywords: xpages twitter
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NotesHound Developer License is now Free!
Thu, Dec 23rd 2010 10:30a Ulrich Krause Just received a mail from Kenneth Hagman, the maker of Noteshound: Dear Ulrich Krause. First of all, a new version with number 8.3.2 has been released. It contains improvements to the Element Library. - Design elements can now be re-compiled after a ‘put’ - The system tries to handle agents so that the agent data [...] [read] Keywords: agent
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xPages, dojo and Firefox
Tue, Nov 30th 2010 12:00p Ulrich Krause Played with xpages and the dojo toolkit today to create a simple line chart from a view. Everything worked fine in IE and Safari but not in Firefox ( 3.5 ). The same application opened in Firefox 3.6.12 displays the chart. Anyone aware of incompatibilities between xpages and Firefox 3.5? [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Call for entries: Teamstudio Spotlight Awards
Tue, Nov 30th 2010 5:10a Ulrich Krause With Lotusphere just around the corner, Teamstudio is calling for entries for the Spotlight Awards. This year, there’s a slight twist and there are two categories, one for the most impressive Notes app, and a second for the most impressive mobile Notes app. Submit your entry before 31st December to stand a chance of winning. [...] [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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