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Encrypting documents in XPiNC
Tue, May 15th 2012 158
In Defence of XPiNC
Sun, Apr 29th 2012 226
Quick Reminder - IBM Collaboration Solutions Community Meeting - Take Your Social Business to the Cloud with IBM Sametime and IBM Connections
Tue, Mar 27th 2012 55
Andrews Presentation at BLUG
Wed, Mar 21st 2012 158
My BLUG presentation in advance and a request for your help
Tue, Mar 20th 2012 384
Making contacts in your Notes CRM database available as a directory
Thu, Mar 1st 2012 194
Heads up : Cannot Use XPINC with Enforce Consistent ACL in 852
Tue, Feb 28th 2012 229
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My BLUG presentation in advance and a request for your help
Tue, Mar 20th 2012 384
Setting up GIT ( or Hg ? ) for Domino Designer - a collaborative project
Sun, Feb 12th 2012 314
Creating a Clone in Domino Designer from GIT
Fri, Feb 17th 2012 247
Heads up : Cannot Use XPINC with Enforce Consistent ACL in 852
Tue, Feb 28th 2012 229
In Defence of XPiNC
Sun, Apr 29th 2012 226
Please don’t be shy at Lotusphere
Sat, Jan 14th 2012 225
Heads up for upgraders : 8.5.3 cannot support > 1 rich text editor per xpage if the image upload feature is used.
Mon, Feb 20th 2012 225
Solved : Installing Lotus Notes 8.5.2 FP1 on Windows 7 64 bit
Sun, Jan 23rd 2011 218
Making contacts in your Notes CRM database available as a directory
Thu, Mar 1st 2012 194
SNTT : Using Active Directory to authenticate web users
Thu, Mar 10th 2011 189


Sean Cull
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Encrypting documents in XPiNC
Tue, May 15th 2012 10:59a   Sean Cull
One of the nice things that sets XPiNC ( XPages in the Notes Client ) apart from XPages in the browser is the ability to encrypt documents using the native Notes encryption mechanisms. I've just b [read] Keywords: notes notes client xpages
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In Defence of XPiNC
Sun, Apr 29th 2012 4:28p   Sean Cull
This week someone expressed their admiration at how I have persevered with XPiNC - it actually made me wonder about the messages I have been sending out. Anyone who follows my Blog knows that I am p [read] Keywords:
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Quick Reminder - IBM Collaboration Solutions Community Meeting - Take Your Social Business to the Cloud with IBM Sametime and IBM Connections
Tue, Mar 27th 2012 12:13a   Sean Cull
Register Here IBM Collaboration Solutions Community Meeting - Take Your Social Business to the Cloud with IBM Sametime and IBM Connections Date: Mar 27, 2012 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Eastern Tim [read] Keywords: collaboration connections ibm sametime community
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Andrews Presentation at BLUG
Wed, Mar 21st 2012 4:52a   Sean Cull
My colleague Andrew Champion is doing a presentation at BLUG on Friday about his journey from being a Notes Developer to being and XPage developer. I am helping out but it is very much about Andrews [read] Keywords: notes
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My BLUG presentation in advance and a request for your help
Tue, Mar 20th 2012 1:35a   Sean Cull
I am presenting about "The Benefits of XPages" at "BLUG on Thursday. I am just coming to the end of a big XPages project ( 1,000 man hours ) with ABB Global Consulting and they have been good enou [read] Keywords: xpages consulting
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Making contacts in your Notes CRM database available as a directory
Thu, Mar 1st 2012 3:12p   Sean Cull
Just a very quick post to show how you can take contact records in any Notes database and make them available to users in the "To" mail dialogue. Integrating custom applications in this way is not v [read] Keywords: notes applications database




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Heads up : Cannot Use XPINC with Enforce Consistent ACL in 852
Tue, Feb 28th 2012 9:12a   Sean Cull
Just a quick heads up over something that has wasted the best part of a day between us and our customer - oh and IBM who do their IT. You cannot use XPINC in 852 ( it is fixed in 853 ) if the ACL ha [read] Keywords: acl ibm
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Heads up for upgraders : 8.5.3 cannot support > 1 rich text editor per xpage if the image upload feature is used.
Mon, Feb 20th 2012 1:07p   Sean Cull
Just a quick heads up. 8.5.3 ( XPINC and Domino ) cannot support more than 1 rich text editor per Xpage if the image upload feature is used. This will break apps that work in 8.5.2 including the T [read] Keywords: domino rich text rich-text
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Creating a Clone in Domino Designer from GIT
Fri, Feb 17th 2012 4:12p   Sean Cull
Here is a very quick and rough screencast of creating a clone in GIT. The screencast has audio. Apologies for the size, I was trying to get the drop down menus in. If you have some knowledge of sour [read] Keywords: domino
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Setting up GIT ( or Hg ? ) for Domino Designer - a collaborative project
Sun, Feb 12th 2012 8:08a   Sean Cull
I have been working through some community materials trying to set up GIT and although the basics are working there is a lot of detail that I am struggling with before GIT is actually a value adding [read] Keywords: domino community
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Please don’t be shy at Lotusphere
Sat, Jan 14th 2012 9:23a   Sean Cull
Can I ask all of you who are lucky enough to be at Lotusphere one favour ? Please don't be shy. We are all customers of IBM, we pay them hard earned money so that we can use their products and ser [read] Keywords: ibm lotusphere
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Configurable low overhead scheme for date dependent colour coding in views
Sat, Dec 24th 2011 5:12a   Sean Cull
It is useful to have colour coding of target dates in views but in traditional Notes applications ( as opposed to XPages ) this carries a big overhead if you do the date calculation in the actual col [read] Keywords: notes xpages applications
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Configurable low overhead scheme for date dependent colour coding in views
Fri, Dec 23rd 2011 2:39p   Sean Cull
It is useful to have colour coding of target dates in views but in traditional Notes applications ( as opposed to XPages ) this caries a big overhead if you do the date calculation in the actual colu [read] Keywords: notes xpages applications
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So how do you open an xpage in a different database in XPINC ?
Mon, Dec 19th 2011 6:25p   Sean Cull
I have spent a large chunk of the weekend and tonight trying to make a suite of XPages application work in both XPINC and the browser. I'm still confused . How it works when everything is i [read] Keywords: xpages application database
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I am very honoured to be an IBM Champion
Wed, Dec 14th 2011 3:46p   Sean Cull
Warning, long and rambling post ahead. Its been almost a week now since IBM made me an IBM Champion for IBM Collaborative Solutions and it is just beginning to sink in. It is a fantastic honor and I [read] Keywords: ibm
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What advice would you give a MAC newbie ?
Fri, Nov 25th 2011 11:03a   Sean Cull
Having mulled over a new laptop for a very long time I am now the proud owner of a MBP. When I got new Windows Laptops I always imaged them so that I could roll back to a clean machine easily. I a [read] Keywords: laptop mac
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New IBM supported XPages Extension Framework Deployment Database
Sun, Oct 16th 2011 4:47a   Sean Cull
It has turned out to be one of those frustrating weekends where servers simply do very odd things ( no css but just on ios devices and on 2 x 853 servers - weird - solved by a full rebuild of the serv [read] Keywords: ibm xpages css database
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Is your VMWare Workstation network really slow <solved> ?
Sat, Oct 15th 2011 12:13p   Sean Cull
My VMware desktop system has almost ground to a halt, replicating a 40MB database tot he virtual server was taking 1.5 hours. I came across this post ( item 30 ) and now it takes seconds, basically [read] Keywords: database desktop network server vmware
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Apache XPages Survey Applications
Fri, Oct 14th 2011 5:41p   Sean Cull
At FoCul we have been doing quite a bit of XPages work, The biggest single enabler for us has been the generosity of the Lotus community in posting Blogs, Open Source Projects and tutorials - we simpl [read] Keywords: lotus xpages applications community
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Our latest XPage project
Mon, Oct 3rd 2011 1:21a   Sean Cull
Some of you may have seen me present on the ABB Risk Based Inspection System that FoCul have developed and maintained for ABB over the 10 years. It has been fantastically successful and has contribute [read] Keywords:
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7 Steps to making the new XPages Wiki simpler ( about an hour )
Thu, Sep 15th 2011 12:26p   Sean Cull
The "new" XPages wiki on Openntf ( known as the Xpage Documentation Wiki ) has some useful improvements over the older version but the tailoring for its use in the IBM product Wikis has also more complicated. This is a very quick article showing how it can be simplified so that it is easier to use for general projects etc.. The end result Step 1 - Hide the media gallery if you don't want it [read] Keywords: ibm xpages openntf wiki
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SNTT : Pulling Notes data into Excel via http / XML
Mon, Sep 5th 2011 5:20p   Sean Cull
Just a very quick tip to show how you can dynamically pull your latest Notes / Domino data into an Excel Spreadsheet. Note that this method will only work for domino applications which do not require authentication Basic Idea In Excel go to Data and click on the Data and then "From Web" options Next paste in the URL of your Domino XML feed ( more on that later ) Accept all of the options and your data will be added in a nicely formatted table. The table is also given a name so that when you re [read] Keywords: domino notes sntt applications xml
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Thank you to Tim Tripcony and the XCast and how XPages is going for me
Sun, Aug 14th 2011 3:16p   Sean Cull
During a recent XCast podcast Tim Tripcony said some very powerful stuff about how in the Lotus ( or whatever we are called ) community we all benefit from each others contributions via blogs, forums, [read] Keywords: lotus xpages community podcast
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Active Directory / Domino Authentication - easy but not easy enough
Sun, Aug 14th 2011 5:51a   Sean Cull
I have been working on a scheme to use Active Directory LDAP authentication for an XPages App. I posted about my early experiences with it here - everything seemed very promising but actually putting [read] Keywords: domino xpages
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Be thankful for Notes / Domino backward compatibility
Sat, Jun 18th 2011 2:04a   Sean Cull
At one point about 6 years ago we had looked at developing part of the business around using opensource systems like Joomla for collaborative applications ( the push being a frustration with IBM li [read] Keywords: domino ibm notes applications
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IBM’s XPages App Server Dilemma - a faster horse, a cash cow or a compelling new concept ?
Tue, May 31st 2011 1:14a   Sean Cull
"If I asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse" - Henry Ford Introduction I try to keep opinion out of this blog and stick to techie stuff but Ed Brill has tweeted e [read] Keywords: ibm xpages server
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Visit us at LCTY or complete our web survey for the chance to win an iPad 2
Tue, Apr 12th 2011 12:57a   Sean Cull
I've been working flat out to get ready for LCTY at Warrington. Come by our booth ( FoCul Ltd ) to say hello and enter our prize draw for an iPad 2. If you can't make the event then you can enter vi [read] Keywords:
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XPages Web Survey Tool
Wed, Mar 23rd 2011 11:23a   Sean Cull
We have been working on a new XPages web survey product. There will be three versions. A Full version, a "Lite" version and an open source version which we will release via Open NTF under the Apache [read] Keywords: ntf xpages
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SNTT : Using Active Directory to authenticate web users
Thu, Mar 10th 2011 4:34p   Sean Cull
Introduction This article describes how you can use Active Directory via LDAP and Directory Assistance to authenticate your web users. This is particularly useful in our case where we have an XPages based application running in on a black boxed appliance in a MS shop. The example uses a Windows Server 2008 R2 for AD and Domino 8.5.2 running on Linux. The scheme is simple enough but I struggled to piece the bits together so I thought a write up would be useful. Useful tools I found that the Apach [read] Keywords: domino sntt xpages application linux server
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Solved : Installing Lotus Notes 8.5.2 FP1 on Windows 7 64 bit
Sun, Jan 23rd 2011 3:15p   Sean Cull
I rebuilt my PC with Windows 7 64 Bit this weekend but couldn't get 8.5.2 FP1 to install on W7 64 bit and it took me a while to come across the fix. See technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes
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IBM is listening
Mon, Dec 13th 2010 12:17p   Sean Cull
At an impromptu event at ILUG2010 inspired by the Lego story Mary Beth invented the idea of a "Listen Cast" - a means for IBM to listen to what the community would like to see in 2011. The Listen Ca [read] Keywords: ibm community
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Concerns about the speed of Xpages in the client ( XPiNC) - please comment.
Thu, Nov 25th 2010 2:39a   Sean Cull
Please bear with me on this, it is a long post but I feel it is very important, probably the most important issue on my radar at the moment. Introduction As anyone who reads my Blog will know I am a huge fan of XPages. One of the most exciting things about it is the promise of designing only once for the Web and the Client. XPages in the Browser is definitely fast enough to use today but I have been struggling with the speed of XPages in the client to the point where I have not been able to reco [read] Keywords: xpages
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Speaking at ILUG 2010
Mon, Nov 8th 2010 5:27a   Sean Cull
I am very pleased to be speaking at ILUG 2010 in Belfast next week, I will be presenting a case study on a project that I have been working on with ABB for the last 8 years. I think that it is an e [read] Keywords: ilug
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Chuffed to bits - our first XPage product goes live
Thu, Nov 4th 2010 9:15p   Sean Cull
I started FoCul way back in 2000. At the time I was an experienced Industrial Engineer with a passion for process improvement and who thought he knew about IT and Lotus Notes in particular ( Donald R [read] Keywords: lotus notes
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Thank you to everyone how contributed to and sponsored the LTAP 2010 event
Thu, Oct 28th 2010 5:27p   Sean Cull
Can I just say thank you to everyone who contributed to the LTAP 2010 conference. My actual user experience was mixed due to my own connectivity problems and the site itself but that does not take awa [read] Keywords:
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SNTT : Adding embedded Video to the Openntf Domino Wiki Template
Thu, Oct 28th 2010 5:27p   Sean Cull
I use the Domino Wiki template from OpenNTF for most of the projects that I work on. It has its quirks but it is none the less very useful. We are launching a new XPages product and I wanted the rel [read] Keywords: domino sntt xpages openntf wiki
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Eliminating debugging messages on Traveler 852 for Symbian
Wed, Oct 6th 2010 6:27p   Sean Cull
If you are getting debugging messages on your Nokia device after installing Traveler 852 then you will want to download a newer version of traveler 852 which was released on the 19th September. This [read] Keywords: traveler
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SNTT : Modifying an Xpage resource file via DXL without a temporary file
Wed, Sep 22nd 2010 8:26p   Sean Cull
In Xpages resource files can be used to store settings. This is a great way of increasing the configurability of your application ( labels, keyword choices etc ) without having to carry the overhead [read] Keywords: dxl sntt xpages application
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Spam Articles - is this IBMs latest strategy for documenting XPages
Mon, Sep 6th 2010 5:27p   Sean Cull
Everyone is agreed that IBM needs to do more with Xpages documentation but I was a bit surprised when I saw these links in an IBM edited wiki article. The links are to a site which promotes arti [read] Keywords: ibm xpages wiki
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852 XPages runtime engine faced an OutOfMemoryError on EC2
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 7:54p   Sean Cull
Ever since I upgraded my EC2 Ubuntu 8.04 instance to 852 I have been having daily crashes due to Outofmemory Errors. 08.26.2010 23:19:48 HTTP JVM: 08.26.2010 23:19:48 HTTP JVM: The XPages run [read] Keywords: xpages ubuntu
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Domino 852 - make sure that you test your Xpage applications first
Wed, Aug 25th 2010 6:39a   Sean Cull
Just a quick tip for any other "traditional notes client developers". With traditional Notes applications it has been very very rare that an upgrade has caused problems with functionality, I have only [read] Keywords: domino notes notes client applications
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This blog is now running on 8.5.2 on Amazon EC2, S3 Firefox Organiser was useful
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 6:33a   Sean Cull
Now running on 852, the whole upgrade took 5 or 6 minutes, in fact the hardest part was getting the install files to the server. I used Amazon S3 storage and the wget command from Linux. One usefu [read] Keywords: firefox linux server
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Xpages and why my tendency to Gold Plate has got harder to manage.
Mon, Jul 26th 2010 5:06p   Sean Cull
When we are working on a new application we often talk about bronze, silver and gold plating. I have a tendency to want to make things too good when in fact the customer is no better off for my effo [read] Keywords: xpages application




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