My participation in the various iterations of the "Design Partner" program started prior to the version 6 release of Notes and Domino. In those days, we had a multi-day invitation only event at the IBM Lotus campus in Westford where a serious discussion took place between the development teams and the design partners that had been invited. The program has changed over the years, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. In all that time, I've offered very pointed (as you can imagine) and straigh.....
The next iteration in using Twitter to market -- if Twitter doesn't find a way to control some of this, it will die off in fa
Tue, Apr 24th 2012 9:20a Andrew Pollack Twitter becomes more and more a vector for marketing and less and less a path for valuable (or even just fun) information. If Twitter can't find away to curb this use of their system, they're leaving themselves wide open to be replaced by some other simple tool. To combat almost ubiquitous "reply spam", many of us have closed our Twitter accounts so that our tweets are not public. By keeping them out of the public timeline, we don't get reply spam most of the time. It reduced the value of T [read] Keywords: twitter
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IBM, this is the worst way to handle browser compatibility issues.
Sat, Apr 21st 2012 9:20a Andrew Pollack What you succeed in doing with this method of handling browser compatibility is take something that MAY NOT work, and turn it into something that DEFINITELY DOESN'T work. I know for a fact that this browser works just FINE with the template, because if I change the browser's identifier to claim it is a different version the template works. More important, you've removed the decision from me. This is the kind of arrogant, unthinking, over-controlling, poor user interface design that has users [read] Keywords: ibm
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The usefulness and utility of Notes browser plug-in - promised for 8.5.4 around the end of 2012
Fri, Apr 13th 2012 9:00a Andrew Pollack Sorry for the long time between posts. I've been working on things most of you wouldn't be interested in, and with other social media outlets better suited to the day to day trivialities, I've wanted to keep this blog for things less quotidian. I've also been spending almost no time keeping up with what we call the "Yellowverse". I keep half an eye out through friends in the community but mostly I rely on them to tip me when something really interesting is happening. I'm happier staying o [read] Keywords: domino
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Really enjoying XPages and thrilled to see the market so attracted to it.
Sun, Apr 1st 2012 5:20p Andrew Pollack As I sit writing this, it's a very special day. I've come to realize just how much I love the XPages development tools. The amount of time saved in my development projects is amazing. I'm starting to think I understand why so many companies are halting installation of Sharepoint and rushing back to the Notes and Domino platform to stay ahead of the huge numbers of new IT graduates hitting the streets eager to get their hands on this fantastic technology. April really is off to a great start!. [read] Keywords: domino
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Ok. I was wrong. This is me eating crow. You CAN separate the validation events on the XPages
Fri, Mar 2nd 2012 4:40p Andrew Pollack Earlier today I wrote a very frustrated complaint post about how with multiple different documents on a single XPage, the validation events would fire off on all of them no matter which document you clicked a button for. I also posted on Stack Overflow with details of the problem. I thought I'd tried everything, and I'd searched the web and found only comments about "IBM knows about this and..." Well, I hadn't tried everything. Paul Withers pointed me toward this fix: I just had to check th [read] Keywords: ibm
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Agh. Just when you think your XPage is behaving -- something else IBM failed to do right. Validation on multi-document XPa
Fri, Mar 2nd 2012 12:41p Andrew Pollack You have got to be kidding me. It turns out that if you have multiple data sources (documents) on different parts of your XPage, although you can individually toggle them into and out of edit mode, save them or discard them individually, and generally act on them as you'd expect; if you attempt to use the built in XPages validation functionality (which would be quite nice if it worked) -- you can't realistically separate it so only the validation events related to the document you're acting o [read] Keywords: ibm
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XPages - Suggestion and a Tip for Newbies on Repeat Controls
Fri, Mar 2nd 2012 7:40a Andrew Pollack I've created a two new categories on my blog called "XPages Newbie Tips" and "XPages Feedback". In posts under either of these categories, but especially "Newbie Tips" my goal is to be positive rather than my usual bitching about the product. The idea for the newbie tips is that as I'm digging into serious development with XPages, I'm coming across things that would really have helped me if I knew them at the start. I plan to make these newbie tips into blog entries, and then as I get a [read] Keywords: lotus
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Making progress working with TrialandErrorPages. Some things I've learned
Thu, Mar 1st 2012 7:31p Andrew Pollack Warning. Despite finally getting to the point where my XPage does the things I want it to do and I have the code patterns I wanted to start building a real application that users will interact with, I'm writing this blog post entirely in sarcasm font, specifically to blow off steam after an incredibly frustrating day working with this environment. If you came here looking for deep technical insights for xpages -- you're really too early. I don't have any yet. What I can offer are opinions bor [read] Keywords: domino
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XPages bug - computewithform option for data sources with some formula language commands
Thu, Mar 1st 2012 11:25a Andrew Pollack Bug Specifics: The document you are attempting to save from your XPage may fail to save when the following conditions are all met: 1. You are using the XPage in a web browser (the issue does not seem to happen in the Notes client) 2. You have selected to computeWithForm "On Save" or "On Both" for the bound document ("On Load" does not seem to manifest the bug) 3. There is a computed field on the form which uses the "@UserAccess" function as part of its formula Note: You can work around t [read] Keywords: domino
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Companies that avoid telling the truth about their products and services to avoid losing customers, lose customers
Sat, Feb 25th 2012 8:30a Andrew Pollack If you're going to disappoint your customers, even if you firmly believe that "in the long run" they'll be better off, just tell them. Flying US Airways last night really brought this home, but there are parallels in our software industry that you'll recognize if you stick with me through the airline part of the story first. As a traveler, I understand that some of these delays cannot be avoided. Within the same airspace is Philadelphia, Newark, JFK, and Laguardia with Boston, Baltimore, Wa [read] Keywords: domino
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