Per Henrik Lausten

This is a follow-up to my post on how to create custom 404 and error pages in XPages. A very useful improvement to catching controlled errors such as “page not found” errors is to send the related HTTP status code in the response. So for “page not found” errors the HTTP response code 404 should [...]

My company PHL Consult completed another client project last week involving XPages. The purpose of the project was to modernize an existing Lotus Domino company website by creating a new XPages solution with a related Lotus Notes client CMS for article editing and related content handling (such as menus, graphics, and meta data) – and by [...]

A friendly reminder: if you are running Lotus Domino 32-bit on a Windows Server x64 (64-bit) and need to use ODBC, then you need to define your ODBC data sources in the 32-bit ODBC Administrator program – and not in the standard 64-bit ODBC Administrator program. This is because the Lotus Domino ODBC drivers are 32-bit. The [...]

A project for one of my clients went live last week. It’s a portal on heart failures and defibilator products with a related web shop where you can buy automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and accessories. The portal is in Danish. My company PHL Consult was responsible for the implementation of the portal while Supermouse design [...]

I passed the IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Application Development Update exam (LOT-801) today and have thereby upgraded my certification to IBM Certified Application Developer – Lotus Notes and Domino 8. I primarily used the Lotus Notes/Domino 8.0 release notes and the Notes/Domino Designer 8.0 Help and also the LOT-801 practice test from CertFX. The [...]

Joyce Davis has just announced on the Lotus Technical Information and Education Community Blog that the XPages Forum is here. The forum is for all XPages related questions and discussions so go there and join the discussion.

This post is about creating a custom error page for handling errors (both controlled errors and not controlled errors) in XPages. For handling errors in non-XPages requests a non-XPages 404/error page has to be added. To create a custom non-XPages error page, see the Help topic “Custom Web server messages” in Domino Administrator or have [...]

David Leedy has just announced that his XPages cheat sheet will be available for handout at Lotusphere 2011. I can confirm that it is a useful cheat sheet because David involved me in a 2 hour review of the cheat sheet. It was great fun and I am pleased to have been involved in putting [...]

I was asked by one of my customers to present my view on XPages and my experience with XPages to their development team. The development team had no experience with XPages but instead with classic Lotus Domino development. I gave the presentation on January 6 and the majority of the presentation consisted of live demos [...]

It’s October 18! Today is my first day as a full time consultant in my own company PHL Consult – where I am going to primarily work with Lotus Notes and Domino based solutions. Feel free to take a look around the new offices For my first project for a client I am going to [...]