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sitepen's dgrid dojo dijit

While just cruising around the web wasting time I stumbled across a grid component on sitepen's site for an alternative to the dojo grid. To me it looks very similar to a jquery grid. But I thought this was very interesting and may play with it at some point in time.

Adaptive User Experiences in IBM XPages Applications: Overview

EXCERPT: This adaptive learning UI/UX will walk the user thru the use of the application and award them experience points upon reaching pre-defined milestones. As the user gains XP, you simply...

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It has long been my opinion that good software designers should understand the basic economics of trade. Ours is a highly specialized practice, and it produces an absolutely staggering surplus when we trade. But this can be very difficult to understand ...

Lotusphere 2012: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Lotusphere is over for another year. 2012 was my third Lotusphere.  This year was a crazy crazy week just as it had been in each of the two previous years. I had the chance to renew many treasured friendships as well as meet many people for the first...

Tip on using BES Transporter

BES Transporter is a powerful tool included in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Resource Kit.

I recently used BES Transporter to move active users from a 4.1.6 customer-managed BES to a 5.0.3 BES hosted at a GBS datacenter.  The beauty is that the users were unaware that the move even happened.  They did not have to wipe or reactivate their devices as part of the process.

However, in the pilot phase, I did encounter one glitch that even stumped RIM support.

Suffice to say, you can create replicas of user state databases before you run the Transporter process. If you do this, be sure to add:

<add key="SkipDominoBBSDReplication" value="true"/>

to the <appSettings> section of the EnterpriseTransporter.exe.config file.

However, do not be tempted to make BlackBerryProfiles.nsf a replica on each server.

Ensure that each BlackBerry Enterprise Server has its own (non-replica) BlackBerry Profiles Database (BlackBerryProfiles.nsf). If you believe you have a need for that database to be a replica on both servers, you MUST permanently cease replication of BlackBerryProfiles.nsf before the first user is run through the Transporter process.

One reason you should not replicate this database between servers is because there is a cleanup process that runs each morning at 3 AM that deletes the state database for any user that has been moved.  This cleanup makes sense on the "old" server, but you certainly would not want that to happen on the "new" server, too.

Workspace Worms!

The Lotus Notes Workspace. Love it or hate it. Can't live with it, can't live without it. But don't get mad at it, get even! The screenshot below shows the aftermath of a napalm strike by Mary Beth on Ben and Volker. From a technical point of ...

Lotusphere: GBS Admins Roundtable

Next week at Lotusphere, GBS will be hosting a gathering of a few of our admin experts to give some quick tips and also have time to ask questions and discuss your issues. David Brown, Chris Whisonan ...

Chrome Broken With IBM Connections

Recently, we've had some internal people receiving the following issue when downloading from Connections Files: Duplicate headers received from server The response from the server contained duplicate headers. This problem is generally the result...

Movement on the Nested Subforms Front

A while back I bitched about how Using Nested Subforms can Crash Designer and my frustrations about IBM not bothering to do anything about it. I'm happy to announce that this is no longer the case. A PMR has been opened, and while there isn't yet ...

What's wrong with this picture - literally

A recent visit to my sons school shows me how inept New York City can be. There is a supposed to be a special entrance for the FDNY but I am wondering -  how they are supposed to get over the concrete barriers that were installed? So now you have 3 schools on a campus tha...

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call for contributors

I've been playing with something off and on since Friday that I think has some serious potential. Rather than silo the idea, I've decided to show you what I've come up with so far and ask if any of you want to lend a hand. First, let me tease you with a ...

Need to share files? Consider this...

  Most of us still use email to send each other files, but it isn't always the best choice; particularly when the file is very large. Be sure to consider these alternatives to email when they suit your needs. Sending a personal file to one...