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Domino Designer: refactoring issue

Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 4:59 PM UTC
I recently noticed another weird behaviour in Designer using the Eclipse-function to rename a Java class. When using this function, you will instantly notice another problem with the menu entries increasing every time you open it - but this is another story. tl;dr Here is a litte demo video How to reproduce To reproduce this, do the following: Create a new blank database, cre [...] 

HCL Ambassador in 2025? Nope.

Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC
The nomination phase is over (due Oct 31) and now people at HCL are selecting the future HCL Ambassadors for 2025 in the next month and then finally present them in December. This time I won’t be on this list, because I didn’t nominate myself for it - this is a prerequisite for it in general as it states that you want to be part of this remarkable group of people. This time I though [...] 

Problem solved with Native Instruments Maschine

Friday, September 20, 2024 at 5:36 PM UTC
I am using NI products for ages and spent a lot of money. When Apple launched their new SoC, Native Instruments' products weren't compatible for quite a while. My latest finding was that I wasn't able to use certain kits from so called expansion packs in Maschine anymore. Those are using a small special version of "Battery" internally and this kept on making problems though i [...] 

Radomly removed JAR resources: the reason

Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 4:11 PM UTC
Remember my last post about Domino Designer just randomly removing JAR resources from the NSF? I first thought it was something with the ODP and Git but I was wrong. It turned out that you don't even have to work with an ODP or even Git to run into this problem. The real cause of this is still unclear, I add this to the various hiccups of Domino Designer that we all got used to. The solu [...] 

Quick Tip: Did you know? DDE uses .gitignore

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 10:56 AM UTC
One thing I recently found out is that Domino Designer respects the .gitignore of your on-disk-project (ODP). In general it’s obviously helpful that this file is respected in your local repositories and with your favourite git client. I wasn’t aware though that Domino Designer also uses this file to decide whether or not to import a resource from the ODP into the NSF. Scenario [...] 

Force Windows update to a certain version

Friday, April 19, 2024 at 9:28 AM UTC
I am not a Windows guy but I have to use it. I am using it for example on my Apple Silicon MacBook Pro which demands for the Windows 11 ARM version (the one that Parallels Desktop provides). Unfortunately I never got the 23H2 update which delivered such nice things as tabs in Explorer and - more important for me - the old taskbar behaviour regarding tab grouping and labelling. I stumbled upo [...] 

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