New XPages Extension Library book is OUT!

Congrats to the authors!!!

I’ve heard that this book is being delivered now from IBM press. It’s not on amazon just yet but it IS available via Apple’s iBooks store. At least in the US.

I’ve looked at the rough draft of this on Safari Books online, but just look at the list of authors to know that this is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

More on a future NotesIn9!

NotesIn9: 067 Creating a Custom Control

Chris Toohey, a NEW contributor, comes on the show to talk about how to create a custom control that can play HTML5 audio sources. Whether or not your interested in audio, the methods of creating a custom control are not to be missed. Here’s the original higher res version of the demo.

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NotesIn9: 066 Importing Custom Controls from OpenNTF

In this show I show you how to install the OpenNTF Import/Export project into designer and import and use a custom control. Most of this information has already been covered by Niklas Heidloff on the OpenNTF Blog – blog.openNTF.org and I’ve included some relavent links below. Also if you’re a Twitter user you might want [...]

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NotesIn9: 065 XPages Mobile Value Picker

In this show Paul Withers from Intec Systems comes back on to talk about Mobile Controls and picking values. UPDATE: Apparently there’s a problem with how the demo section was rendered. I’m investigating. UPDATE2: Problems with video fixed.

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LotusLearns steals community content and future of NotesIn9 on YouTube.

By now most people know that lotuslearns.com – no I won’t link to it – is copying blog posts under the misguided banner that they are somehow saving the people of Africa bandwidth. While I painfully remember the days of modems, I just don’t see how that’s possible as the the site contains things like [...]

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NotesIn9: 064 Global Custom Controls (Fixed)

In this show Tim Tripcony comes back on the show with an amazing demonstration on how to take an existing custom control and make it globally available to all the applications on your server. I’ve had many conversations with Tim, and he’s so far ahead of the game I’m usually pretty happy if I understand [...]

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About last night…

I figured I’d blog this just to make it easier to tell the story.. So last night my family and I went over to by brothers for dinner. Near the end of the evening I ended up twisting my ankle pretty bad. This sent a jolt through me which made me dizzy and nauseous. After [...]

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NotesIn9: 063 Creating an In View Edit Custom Control

In this show Tip Tripcony returns with the first of a two part series. This first part is about creating a custom control to edit fields on an XPage “in place”. So no opening another page or dialog needed. Really nice UI feature! http://traffic.libsyn.com/notesin9/Ni9-063-InViewEditControl.mov

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NotesIn9: 050 Improving the Type Ahead Control

Today, for my “50th” show I get to welcome another new contibutor to the show. Dr. Mark Roden contributes a video that not only shows us how to improve the built in TypeAhead feature by adding a visual Indicator to tell the user it’s actually working, BUT he also takes a deep dive into FireBug [...]

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NotesIn9: 049 XPages: Login and Logout

In this show I take a look at how to use the Login and Logout node of the Extension Libraries Application Layout Control. It should be noted that currently there’s a bug in the extension library where the logout piece doesn’t actually work. So I demonstrate how to get around that until it gets fixed. [...]

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