HAL

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Help – I’ve got sticky tooltips (in Domino Designer 9) !

This entry was posted in Eclipse Programming xpages on March 18, 2015 by HAL

This annoyance has been particularly acute as I have been doing development remotely for a client. The remote access is through the excellent ScreenConnect application and I thought that it might have had something to do with that. The symptom is that when working in Designer you activate one of the beige tooltips which advises […]

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Growling notifications in Xpages (Dgrowl)

This entry was posted in Development and tagged dojo XPAGES on March 17, 2015 by HAL

As part of an application being developed with client – was looking for a more elegant messaging and notification scheme for the xpages. So I remembered having seen a Notes In 9 session by David Leedy and Brad Balassaitis – so dug it out from here and followed Brad’s instructions to get the libraries added […]

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Wot – no VSS writers ?

This entry was posted in Backup Software Tips and tagged VSS Windows Backup on March 17, 2015 by HAL

A clients backup failed and on inspection I noticed that the command “vssadmin list writers” which should report the status of the writers that support backups of various components came back blank. Yes Completely Blank !! So that could explain the backup failure and the subsequent issue where I was unable to view the backup […]

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Outlook 2010 starts but does not display navigation pane (open maximised!)

This entry was posted in Software Tips on March 2, 2015 by HAL

A user reported that they had started outlook 2010 – the splash screen had appeared and the icon was showing in the task bar but they could not see their folders or indeed any of the interface. First thought was perhaps a corrupt profile or an addon causing problems but the addons disabled and a […]

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Live Long And Prosper

This entry was posted in Comment and tagged Leonard Nimoy on March 2, 2015 by HAL

In popular culture and indeed in IT there are few icons that stand the test of time. Star Trek and Spock stand out as two of those things that have enjoyed popularity throughout the changes that have taken place since the first series aired. I would suggest that if you asked any gathering of people […]

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ICON UK 2015 (coming not so soon….)

This entry was posted in Collaboration Development IBM Connections IBM Notes 9 Must Have and tagged ICON UK on February 5, 2015 by HAL

So it looks like another trip to London this year for the only Xpages/connections/IBM event for the community. September brings an opportunity to meet and “remeet” colleagues and IBM champions at varied technical sessions. So at this stage it looks like the second half of September for two days. More info once the date and […]

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Steve Jobs – the movie (gets a F grade)

This entry was posted in Comment and tagged Apple Steve Jobs on January 13, 2015 by HAL

Had an opportunity to watch the JOBS biopic movie and have to say it really didn’t get to the meat of the man at all.  Having read a number of titles about the man and Apple’s development over the years I found the treatment to be so superficial and too focused on the 1970 props […]

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I read you loud and clear !

This entry was posted in Gadgets Hardware Uncategorized on December 22, 2014 by HAL

Documentation is one of the least regarded aspects of the work that an IT professional needs to cover. How many times have you had to trace cables in the heat of a problem only to realise that the documentation is either wrong or non existent. However there are tools available to help you with the […]

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