Author: David Leedy

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Community Notes In 9 Uncategorized XPages

XPages.TV is dead. XPages.TV is born again.

For years I’ve known that my XPages.TV site sucked. For years you knew that also. Well finally I’m starting to do something about it.

XPages.TV was meant to be an on line catalog of all the NotesIn9 shows. Since the shows have a longer shelf life then a typical blog/podcast I wanted some way to get to them easier. And I didn’t know a way to do something clever in wordpress itself. So I wrote a little template to try and do some clever things and it was a total failure. So tonight I’ve killed that.

XPages.TV is currently showing the raw data of the NotesIn9 shows. Big thanks to Tim Briley for helping me gather the data. It’s barebones and ugly, but already should be doing a better job then my last attempt.

So if you’re looking for a particular NotesIn9 show, check out XPages.TV for the complete list and you can open links to get to the Youtube video or even the blog post.

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Community XPages

Announcing the XPages Development chat on Slack

If you’ve never heard of Slack, it’s basically a “messaging app for Teams”.  You can access it via the web, desktop application or mobile app. Slack is a persistent chat experience with really good software behind it.  It allows for different “channels” inside the room so we currently have “general”, “beginner”, “advanced” and “random” discussion area.

I little while ago Jesse Gallagher and I setup an XPages Development chat on Slack.  We’ve been playing with it and would now like to make this available to the public.

The goal of the chat is to be a place where people can come together and talk XPages. There’s no good public place to really do this that I know of.  The XPages Forum is a disappointment.  Stack OverFlow wants specific questions and abhors actual “discussions”, and you can’t really start a discussion on someones blog.

So where do you go to just discuss an idea, ask a generic question or even just say hi to like minded individuals? We give you:

XPages.slack.com

Because this is an open invite we do have some rules that are needed to maintain decorum.  Those rules are at the bottom of the post.

How do you join?  Unfortunately email addresses have to be “approved” currently.  There are ways around this but we’ve not really looked into it yet.  So for now just send me an email and I will add you to the group as I FIND THE TIME.  So don’t expect instant access.  🙂

UPDATE: Thanks to Declan Lynch you can now auto join. Please use this link :

http://xpages-slack-invites.herokuapp.com/

Thanks!

Dave

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XPages Slack Chat Rules

1. No Bitching at all. We are about Doing.

2. Stay close to the XPages topic.  Off topic is allowed in #random. Bitching is never allowed.

3. All content discussed in the chat should be considered public. Do not share code or ideas that you consider private. Do not discuss NDA material.

This is a community chat of XPages enthusiasts and NOT a support group. While questions may be asked do not expect a solution.  If you get one great.  If not then realize that everyone is busy with their day jobs.

The recommended way to ask a question is to post it on StackOverFlow and then post a link to the question in the chat.

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Community XPages

Ask the XPages Experts Webinar Next Week!

Next week, on Tuesday November 17th from 10:30 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST TLCC and Teamstudio will be hosting an XPages webinar called “Ask the Experts”. For FREE!!!!

I’ll be joining the panel with  3 true experts in the form of Mike McGarel, Jesse Gallagher and Nathan T. Freeman.

We’ll each be bringing a SHORT 5-10 minute XPages topic.  The rest of the time will be dedicated to any question you might have.

So please, if you’re working with XPages.  Come join us next week.  Watch the short demos.  Say Hi. Ask any question you want.  We’re all happy to try and help out.

http://www.tlcc.com/xpages-webinar

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Bluemix

Come on Bluemix. You’re better then this.

Let’s be clear.  I AM interested in Bluemix.  I’ve had several NotesIn9 shows dedicated to it already and I’d like to get more. I do want to play with it myself – especially the XPages experimental bits. Even forgetting about XPages stuff,  Bluemix seems to have a wealth of capabilities.  It looks like a developers candy store. Sadly I suffer from a lack of time, knowledge of the options and I still some trepidation over possible costs and capabilities.  So for now, I’m watching and waiting for a good opportunity to check it out.

But that doesn’t mean I want to be “tricked” into using it.  I recently found 2 emails in my inbox about Bluemix.

The first email came to an address that I rarely use because it’s from my wife’s laser engraving business’s domain. Contrary to what the email says I did NOT sign up for Bluemix at that address.  I THINK I used that address for Lotusphere in 2010 because my company at that time, refused to send me but I’m not sure. I know I did not use it for anything Bluemix related.

The second email came to me at a different, more common address that I use.  While I honestly don’t think I’ve ever registered for Bluemix, it’s possible I might have under that address a long time ago. But the fact that I don’t actually have a “confirmation email” in my inbox makes me a little suspicious as well.

To be honest, both emails feel like SPAM type tricks where my emails addresses, given to IBM for other purposes, are re-used to try and trick my into signing up for Bluemix.

Hopefully this was an honest mistake somewhere down the line.

If not then I’d simply ask IBM / Bluemix to not do this.  Don’t try and trick people into using your tools.  Just make the best tools you can and people will want to give it a try.

 

 

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Community

WordPress resolution…

So last week I came to realize my site was hacked.  Not being an expert at WordPress and with a lot going on in work and home life I was a little, shall we say, “distraught” at the prospect of dealing with this.

But luckily I follow my own advice.  You see I’ve been preaching for a long time the benefits of “Joining the community”.  That the benefits of sharing information will give you back rewards ten fold.  I could certainly do better in my own sharing but I’ve still managed to shared a bunch over the years.

What have I gotten back from all that sharing? Let’s see, knowledge, experience, speaking opportunities, a dream job and oh yes….  FRIENDS!

I had several friends help me with getting my site back in order.  A huge thank you to Bruce Elgort, Eric McCormick, Declan Lynch and Marky Roden for technical and even “venting support”.

I ended up adding some plugins to the installation:

iThemes Security

Sucuri Security

Word fence

 

One of them told me the problem files, which I deleted.  I then in place re-installed wordpress.  Then I used the plugins to try and better “harden” the site.

Hopefully that’s the end of that.

P.S.

If you want to get off the bench and start sharing – let me know and I’ll help you.  If you want a no cost blog that looks pretty cool check out this article from Eric:

The right tool for the right job.

 

 

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Notes In 9

ummm can anyone help me with WordPress please?

So a little while ago I got some notification that my notesin9.com WordPress site was hacked.  I reached out to my host – dreamhost about it and just got back an automated message.  Rather disappointing to be honest.  The fact is I don’t know WordPress much at all.  I went to dreamhost because of their “easy 1 step install”.  Sure I could learn more I guess but I just don’t have the time.  I’m happy to be able to post and embed videos quite honestly.

I did ftp into my site and deleted the files highlighted below because they were clearly not supposed to be there, but I don’t know if that’s enough or what I should do to prevent this in the future.

I’d appreciate any help or advice on this!  Feel free to comment, email, skype, twit, facebook, call, smoke signal or whatever….

Thank you!

P.S. Big thanks to Stephanie for reminding me about this problem!!! I had kinda forgot about it due to the speed of life going on.

 

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Bluemix Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 186: XPages and IBM Bluemix Part 3

In this show IBM Champion Oliver Busse concludes his 3 part series on getting started with XPages inside IBM Bluemix.

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Bluemix Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 185: XPages and IBM Bluemix Part 2

In this show IBM Champion Oliver Busse returns to talk more about using XPages inside IBM Bluemix.

 

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Mobile XPages

Turn off Phone number Detection in iOS

Today I had a problem where iOS on an iPad was thinking some numbers where phone numbers when they really weren’t.  Normally that’s not the end of the world but in this case it converted the number to a blue link, and I was expecting it to be white on a dark background.  The blue made it difficult to read.

I quickly found these 2 links :

https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/PhoneLinks/PhoneLinks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007899-CH6-SW1

https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008193-SW5

Which detail the solution of adding a meta tag to the XPage.  But where do you add the meta tag in XPages?

There’s a couple ways to do it I think.  I don’t really do much with themes but I chose to go that route so it’s once and done for the application.  I found this blog post :

XPages – Theme – Add Meta Tag

which gave me all the information I needed to do this :

 

<resources>
 <metaData>
 <name>format-detection</name>
 <content>telephone=no</content>
 </metaData>
</resources>

Problem solved!  Thanks Ferhat for the blog post.  I tried to leave a comment while signed in as twitter and it didn’t work, so I figured I’d thank him here.

 

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Bluemix Notes In 9 Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 184: XPages and Bluemix Part1

In this show, IBM Champion and all around awesome person, Oliver Busse returns to kick off a three part series on using XPages with IBM Bluemix.