Last week at the DanNotes conference IBM offered certification tests at half the price. I took the LOT-951 test in record time between lunch and the developer BOF and passed with a score of 87.5%. The test focuses on Domino Designer in Eclipse features, some @Formula and Lotusscript programming enhancements, and a lot of XPages. [...]
A quick blog post to let you know that last week I was invited to be part of This Week in Lotus episode 79 together with Stuart McIntyre, Darren Duke – and Gab Davis as the 2nd guest. We discussed Sametime, OpenNTF, XPages and very naturally the 46th DanNotes conference which took place the day after the recording. It was [...]
The beta version of XSnippets was recently announced by Niklas Heidloff on the OpenNTF blog. XSnippets is a code repository of useful XPages code snippets that OpenNTF contributors can contribute to. If you have useful code snippets then consider adding them to XSnippets. I have added my first code snippet to XSnippets based on my blog [...]
One year ago I started as self-employed consultant at my own company PHL Consult after having worked for IBM for 16 years – and what a great year! Starting on my own has proved to be one my of my best decisions ever. It has been a year of classic Lotus Notes application development work, XPages [...]
It’s October 4th and Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 are now available for download on Passport Advantage. The brand new IBM XWork Server has also been announced. I have been looking forward to this release in general, and in particular because of features specifically for XPages developers: improved JavaScript editor finally a java design element for XPages [...]
My company, PHL Consult, became member of OpenNTF in August and thereby supports OpenNTF and the use of open source within the Lotus Domino/XPages community. This means that I support the idea of open source in general (and support OpenNTF as an organization) – and that I both contribute code to and reuse code from OpenNTF. I [...]
I will be teaching two 3-day courses in August, 2011 on basic XPages application development. The courses are arranged by Intravision. The first 3-day course starts August 23 at IBM in Lyngby. Seats are still available if you are interested in signing up for the course. Please see the course details (in Danish) for more information [...]
Today I was asked: how do you make sure that anonymous users do not see content that only logged on (and thereby authorized) users must see? I often use a simple solution of having a xp:panel for anonymous users and another xp:panel for authorized users (both on the same XPage). Only one of the two [...]
What a great weekend for open source contributions from me! Yesterday I created the XPages SEO custom control – and today I have created a new XPages custom control for the OpenNTF development contest called XPages Web Analytics custom control: the custom control makes it easy to add web analytics to your XPages web site. In [...]
I have contributed to the OpenNTF development contest by creating an open source XPages Custom Control for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The custom control makes it easy to add the following search engine friendly tags to your XPages web site: page title meta description meta robots meta keywords With these SEO tags bundled in a custom [...]
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I am available for hire if you need my assistance within the areas of Lotus Notes/Domino and XPages.
