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    Traffical ’never’ again to late for an appointment

    chatAlmar Diehl 5 March 2010 13:17:56
    I recently installed the Traffical plugin on my BlackBerry. What is does looks very simple, whenever I add an entry to my BlackBerry calendar or accept an invitation in Lotus Notes a Traffical screen automatically opens on my BlackBerry. In the Traffical screen I can enter the FROM and DESTINATION address or ZIP code for the meeting (the destination is already entered if it is available in the location field of the invitation). The application will then calculate the route and time it would take and add an extra entry to your calendar blocking the traveling time.

    But that is just the start of things. 1.5 hours before you have to leave, and from that time on every 10 minutes, for your appointment the Traffical service will check traffic information to look for traffic jam on your route. If so it will notify you (either as a pop-up on your BlackBerry or an e-mail or SMS) informing you on your necessary new departure time.

    For now the plugin is available for BlackBerry and Outlook, but I hope it will be available for Lotus Notes asap.

    Oh yeah, one more thing: it is for The Netherlands only ;-)

    Technical details of our new corporate website

    chatFrank van der Linden 10 February 2010 14:30:00
    The 1st of february our new corporate website has gone live.

    I want to share some technical details.
    First of all is build with xpages, frontend and backend.
    Domino 8.5.1 is used.

    Front end
    Design is made by Gijs Lokker
    In the frontend we don't use anything of Dojo, almost every property referred to Dojo was set to false.
    The reason we dont't use Dojo in the frontend is performance.

    The only framework we use is JQuery. A colleague has build a Jquery plugin to enable OCS on the website.


    Backend
    Image:Technical details of our new corporate website
    In the backend we use lots of Dojo elements.

    For the homepage and subhomepages we use a Flash component, who is communicate with the Notes database by XML.
    The Flash component allow the content managers to add, delete and edit the visuals. Also is it possible to move te visuals around to the required position. The new/edit parameters are saved to the Notesdatabase.

    For navigation of the content documents we use the Xpage Tree control. I made some modifications to this control to display the status of the document as a icon. The second modification of the control gave the Onclick event a link.

    Image:Technical details of our new corporate website

    In a content document you can specify a layout, 1 till 3 columns.
    For every layout you can specify some content blocks.
    For example you can select Twitter for a certain Block, afterwards you only have to fill in the username.
    Image:Technical details of our new corporate website

    One of the requirements was to enable RSS feeds on the website.
    For the aggrigation of the feeds we have installed RNews, it's Open Source. A colleaque, Marco van der Laan, made some modification so authorized feeds, Connections, could be fetched. You can also delete entries from a feed.
    And I made a RSS custom control to present the feeds.

    A colleague, Rene Paul, made a modification to the Dojo Link Dialog javascript file. After the modification the content managers were able to select the target of the link and get 'Test' button, to test if the link is valid.
    Image:Technical details of our new corporate website

    Domino Designer: Strange behavior java source files

    chatFrank van der Linden 5 February 2010 10:16:51
    I am experience some strange behavior.

    On my local Domino 8.5.1 server I have some databases with custom java files, e.g. RSS Reader control and Tree Xpage control.
    In the package explorer you can see this

    Image:Domino Designer: Strange behavior java source files

    When I want to edit a java file after a while, I am missing the files in the package explorer.
    It looks like
    Image:Domino Designer: Strange behavior java source files

    The code still function when you load the Xpage in the browser.

    So after modification a java source file a export it to my file system as a backup.

    Has anybody an idea what is wrong? Or is it a bug??

    Must have for XPage developers

    chatFrank van der Linden 4 February 2010 19:40:24
    On OpenNTF is a very cool project.
    I have just installed this project from the catalog.
    I think a must have for every Domino developer who wants something with Xpages.

    It's an easy way to get the custom controls from OpenNTF. Developing of Xpage application made easy.

    New design Domino weblog

    chatFrank van der Linden 3 February 2010 14:55:41
    Last monday our new corporate website has gone live.
    So it was time to upgrade the design of Domino weblog.

    Prototype to display outline content in the Tree Xpage control

    chatFrank van der Linden 2 February 2010 14:54:43
    Stephan H Wissel dropped a comment at our Domino weblog about my modification of the OpenNTF Tree Xpage control.
    He asked about some help with Outline content display in this Tree control.

    Today I have build a little proyotype.
    - I copied a outline to a database
    - made some extra java methods.

    This is the result.
    Image:Prototype to display outline content in the Tree Xpage control

    The link is not working properly. I had to figure out what to do in the onClick event.

    e-office has a new corporate website, based on Xpages

    chatFrank van der Linden 1 February 2010 13:37:07
    Today the new corporate website of e-office is live. This website is based on Xpages.

    For chat functionality we used the a JQuery plugin for OCS, build by a colleaque.
    The aggrigation of RSS feeds is stored in RNews, we made some customizations to get authenticated feeds.
    Flash is used to manage the homepage images. You can drag and drop the images and save the changes to a Notes database.

    You can see the result at www.e-office.com

    RSS custom control - Update

    chatFrank van der Linden 28 January 2010 13:34:42
    This month I posted a blog about a RSS Custom Control.
    I just submitted it to OpenNTF

    The ZIP file include the java source files, a demo database and a short readme.
    So feel free to use it.
    Any comments or enhancement request are welcome.

    The most important question about the iPad

    chatAlmar Diehl 28 January 2010 08:12:53
    Will Traveler run on it? Does IBM already support it?

    Just kidding, just kidding ;-)

    Would be nice though!

    RSS custom control

    chatFrank van der Linden 18 January 2010 11:40:37
    One of the requirements of the current Xpage project was to aggrigate RSS feeds on the website.
    First I tried with a AJAX call, but it gave some complications with cross domain calls.
    At last I have created a Java class in the database, who is called by Server side javascript  in the custom control.

    2 parameters are required.
    - url of the feed
    - boolean to latest entry or a list.


    Below is a screenshot, with the custom styling

    Image:RSS custom control