Monthly Archives: May 2012


Ubuntu – is it all that?

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 from 11.10 and the process was painless. I’ve been using Ubuntu from release 4.10 for which support finished in 2006 so it must have been released around 2004. In the early days upgrades were a bit of a lottery but of course at that stage PC’s were not the state […]


Need to export to XLS, RTF, PDF and HTML from your Xpages app ?

At the xpages bootcamp in Amsterdam last year – details were given of a mechanism to export data as pdf. This new project – ITWU Exporter On XPages  – shows how to implement this functionality in a standard defined way without any of the heavy lifting. Aditionally the other formats rtf,xls and html are provided. You […]


Back to the future – Ransomware returns

Viruses have been with us for so long that most people have forgotten some of the memorable ones. An alert I saw this morning related to a worrying trend of machines being locked by virus with money in terms of a credit card payment being the only means to get unlocked. Now this is worrying because […]


Need charts on your xpages ?

Researching charts and diagrams for an upcoming project – I came across this in the OpenNTF catalog. If you need a simple chart mechanism try this. I think this is the easiest approach I have seen to getting the fast results that developers crave when testing proof of concepts or demos. The author Julian Buss describes it […]