As a xpage developer I also need to do some styling from time to time. This isnt a big issue ofcourse unless you need to create an app which is also suitable for mobile devices. Now with the mobile controls at hand it isn’t a big problem developing a mobile website but what if you …
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use of stackoverflow
This is gonna be a short post. A few months ago Niklas Heidloff spoke about the use of Stackoverflow in a session I attended. After a while I started to use it more regularly and I have to admit. It is one of the best sources of information when you want to search for any …
A little xPage optimization
When you are developing an application there is a time when performance comes to play. This can be either in the beginning of the project due to certain requirements or after some time developing you’ll notice your application does not performance as well as you thought it would. This post will give you a few …
Use the correct scope.. and use them correctly.
Sometimes I get to see the xPage code other developers made and a thing that still confuses a lot of people is how and when to use the correct scoped variables. Many times people just put everything into the sessionScope. Because it is easy ( its always there!) and it is personal (every user gets …
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xPages: Date formatting.
Update: Mark pointed it out already in his comment but the format I used in the java class contained an error. Fixed it to be dd-MM-yyyy A couple of days ago I came across the following blog post “Custom date field format in an XPage – mm/dd/yyyy“on Mark Roden’s blog. The blog is about changing the …
Yii: specify a default value in a CActiveForm control
This evening I’ve been working again on my measurement system. This is a little application I wrote using the Yii framework to keep track of the energy needs of our household. It keeps track of the gas, water and eletricity usage per day. As said the site is build using the Yii framework. It features …
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And we are back
After a few years of inactivity I decided to start a new blog on my website again. This blog will be about the things I encounter during my development hours. Mostly this will feature xPages, lotuscript or other Notes related development. But sometimes a little php will also show up occasionally.