It's been a while since I've looked back at the lotus world. In my spare time, I still play with Xpages (mainly update a pet application). I need to update that application to use the native RDBMS integration instead of the basic integration.

Towards the end of my time as a Notes Developer, I looked at GBS Transformer. Due to role changes, I did not pursue the full evaluation.

I am just curious to hear where the solution is at and whether there are customer studies on it. I did a brief search on PlanetLotus and saw little news (beside the release of Transformer 2.0). I thought that with the odd 350 blogs monitored....there would be at least a few that would have used Transformer (beside the GBS team).

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GBS Transformer - Any case studies? Thu, Dec 15th 2011 9:08a Patrick Picard It's been a while since I've looked back at the lotus world. In my spare time, I still play with Xpages (mainly update a pet application). I need to update that application to use the native RDBMS integration instead of the basic integration. Towards the end of my time as a Notes Developer, I looked at GBS Transformer. Due to role changes, I did not pursue the full evaluation. I am just curious to hear where the solution is at and whether there are customer studies on it. I d [read] Keywords: lotus notes xpages application integration planetlotus

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Farewell to my Lotus comrades and friends Fri, Jan 28th 2011 11:15p Patrick Picard As of Jan 4th, I started my new role as Research Consultant, moving away from the Lotus brand and everything Yellow. However, I leave in good faith. Some yellow/fellow comrades have fallen before me or had technology/career changes (jonvon, codestore to an extent, Tom Duff). I will certainly miss the Yellow community. I spend ~5 years dealing with domino and attended 3 lotusphere's. I was an admin for approximately 4 years and 1 year as developer. During that time, I got to meet many great f [read] Keywords: admin collaboration domino ibm lotus lotusphere notes sametime xpages ajax application archiving blogger community development email enterprise exchange exchange interface java mac mobile mysql office sharepoint wiki xml

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5 years later, Im finally done University (online) Mon, Nov 15th 2010 3:18p Patrick Picard div About 5 years ago, I embarked on a journey that would basically suck up most of my personal time as I worked full-time. When I completed college, I figured it would be silly to stop learning new things, so I decided to take up on online university./divdiv /divdivDoing an online degree was the perfect fit for me because I cannot stand being in class and listen to the same stuff four classes in a row because of some stoners cant catch up quick enough! Also, learning on your own is an impor [read] Keywords: administration database java network

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A year in Lotus Notes achievements Mon, Nov 15th 2010 2:13p Patrick Picard div Almost to the day, its been 1 year since Ive taken out the lotus notes development role at my organization. Prior to that, Ive spent a good 4 years as notes admin./divdiv /divdivLooking back, its amazing how much change you can do in the span of 1 year and how much more could be done. I inherited approximately 100 apps which over the years have been touched by more than 5 developers. The lack of programming standards led to a hodgepoge of Christmas colored forms and code all over the pla [read] Keywords: admin ibm lotus lotusphere lotusscript notes xpages application applications database development interface java oop openntf planetlotus

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Extending lotus.domino.Document....is there a way? Wed, Oct 27th 2010 2:27p Patrick Picard div Recent discussions regarding Xpages/SSJS/Beans and Java have led me to choose Java for the implementation of the libraries found in a href=http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocumentamp;name=.Domino%20FrameworkDominoFramework/a/divdiv /divdivAt first, I was thinking SSJS, but it would be too tedious to implement considering the OO support in JavaScript. Its not that it doesnt exit....its just that I find it clumsy and wasnt designed to be OO from the beginning. [read] Keywords: domino lotus xpages database development interface java javascript openntf

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XPages - Document Locking.....and useless error messages Fri, Oct 22nd 2010 2:30p Patrick Picard div This week, I started porting the Domino Framework to xpages. Basically, to start off, I am emulating the functionality found under Administration/*/divdiv /divdivBasically, there are a bunch of views and action buttons to help the administrator/developer to manage the documents. br /br /One of the admin views lists all the locked documents. Intuitively, there is no point to show a view and actions when document locking is enabled....so i coded accordingly. To test things out....I enabled d [read] Keywords: admin administration domino ibm lotus notes xpages application bleedyellow bleedyellow.com database java javascript workspace xml

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XPages - IE8 (and maybe others) not firing onChange events for radio buttons. Solution... Mon, Oct 18th 2010 9:30a Patrick Picard div I have a view on an xpage that I allow the user to filter using a radio button. Basically, the user clicks on a radio button, and the view refreshes after using the data from the requestScope to filter the view./divdiv /divdivFirefox had no problem....IE on the other hand decides to not fire the onChange on radio buttons. This is apparently a known bug in IE (I only tested on IE8). The bug is documented at br /a href=bug detailshttp://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/11/bug-193-onchange-doe [read] Keywords: xpages bleedyellow bleedyellow.com bug

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Xpages - Dojo Charts and IE8 (not playing nicely) Wed, Oct 13th 2010 12:28p Patrick Picard div Quick warning, IE8 does not play nice with dojo charts and in some cases, axis labels are not displayed. I ran into this issue on the very cool new a href=http://planetlotus.org/765184Homepage project on OpenNTF/a/divdiv /divdivThe Xpages wiki document at a href=http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/Dojox_Charting_for_XPageshttp://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/Dojox_Charting_for_XPages/a provides a workaroundbr /br /Put the following code in the beforeRenderResponse. It will for [read] Keywords: ldd lotus xpages dojo openntf planetlotus planetlotus.org wiki

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Position: Contract -Sr. Lotus Notes/Domino Developer (Vancouver,Canada) Tue, Oct 12th 2010 6:27p Patrick Picard Position: Sr. Lotus Notes/Domino Developer br /br /divbSkills: /bbr /Proficient in Lotus Domino R7 or R8 development for both Notes and web clients; advanced LotusScript skills, including extensivebr //divexperience with the Domino Object Model and custom classes; HTML; JavaScript; CCS; AJAX; excellent written and verbal communicationbr /skills.br /br /divResponsible for projects including br /ulliweb-based application development,/liliwebsite enhancements,/lilidesktop applications, /lilidatab [read] Keywords: domino lotus lotusscript notes R7 R8 ajax application applications css database development javascript mysql server sql

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XPages xp:validateRequired not working on radio buttons? (not radio button groups) Thu, Oct 7th 2010 2:28p Patrick Picard div Earlier this week, I managed to get radio buttons to work in a repeat control thanks to the great help of a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/patpicos/entry/xpages_can_radio_buttons_be_used_in_a_data_table4?lang=en#commentsJohn Cooper/a/divdiv /divdivNow that my radio buttons display, I having issues running server validation on them. br /br /Place 2 radio buttons on the xpage and add a quot;Validate Requiredquot; validator on them. When attempting to save the page...the validator neve [read] Keywords: xpages bleedyellow bleedyellow.com server