Monthly Archives: April 2011

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Xpages Bootcamp Day 3 – an avenue of possibilities – even more tools for the job

This entry was posted in Development and tagged Xpages Bootcamp on April 29, 2011 by HAL

Todays session hasn’t started yet but I am already looking forward to it. I have so many new questions that  I could easily use another 3 days to get answers and develop new skills.   Todays seminar focuses on extending the xpages design toolkit in a number of different directions. Given that its base is […]

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Xpages bootcamp day 2 – return of the javascript

This entry was posted in Development and tagged Xpages Bootcamp on April 28, 2011 by HAL

Day 2 was a game of two halves. First half exploded the mysteries around styling and theming applications. Those that know me will appreciate that UI design would not be regarded as my strongest suit but I have to say I took a lot away from theses sections since themes are most definitely a  real […]

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Xpage Bootcamp Day 1

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged Xpages Bootcamp on April 27, 2011 by HAL

Day 1 was a fairly intense affair with going from 0 to 60 rapidly the order of the day. The conference is in the well run Casa 400 hotel not far from Amstel station in Amsterdam and has approximately 50 attendees. Most I suspect have at least a few years Notes and Domino experience and […]

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Time for XXX – its Amsterdam – with the least guilt

This entry was posted in Development and tagged XPAGES on April 26, 2011 by HAL

In this case the XXX is XXXPages not the XXX tham Amsterdam is famous for. Arrived this afternoon and was impressed with the smooth efficiency of the Dutch public transport network. Was able to get booked in and finish of the day having a quick drink just off Dam square. Noted the new proximity cards […]

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Summer finally begins

This entry was posted in Development Interesting and tagged XPAGES on April 25, 2011 by HAL

The first annual barbeque and a great evening heralds the beginning of another season of hayfever and social events. The Easter Bank Holiday always provides an opportunity to sketch out plans for projects and work until the end of the summer. I have no doubt that much more of the next raft of projects will […]

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A simple backup mechanism for ESX servers

This entry was posted in Software Tips Virtualisation and tagged Trilead VMWare on April 22, 2011 by HAL

If you are responsible for a small virtual environment running VMware  you will have no doubt looked at the various backup options – paid and unpaid.  Each has their own merits and some fit better for the small vmware infrastructures with only a few esx or esxi servers. I usually try to advise clients to […]

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UKLUG coming soon

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged ILUG UKLUG XPAGES on April 21, 2011 by HAL

UK Lotus User Group 2011 is in Manchester this year. It is to be held  at the home of computing, where ‘Baby’ the first ever programmable computer now resides. Join a range of venerable speakers at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry on the 23rd and 24th May 2011 for the 4th UKLUG conference! The agenda is […]

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Notes 8.5.2 Fix Pack 2 – whats in it ?

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged FP2 Lotus Notes 8.5 XPAGES on April 20, 2011 by HAL

I was wondering what exactly had made it into FP2 before installing – I grabbed this from IBM as a summary and to check if some issues I had encountered were corrected. Interestly one or two were and I was able to apply this onto an 8.5.2 unpatched client without incident. Download now from IBM’s […]

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