Category: Community

Just to give anyone a heads up as someone asked me about NotesIn9 and new shows.

I wanted to get more shows out by now, but I’m in the middle have some heavy traveling as I’m training people on how to use this XPages Application I’ve been working on for the day job. It uses Mobile controls and a bluetooth barcode scanner so it’s pretty cool. At least I think so. haha

As I type this I’m heading out in 30 minutes for 2 days off with the family. Then Saturday I come back and need to cook 3 Porks and a Brisket for my son’s schools “International Food Fesitval” on sunday. I’m doing a BBQ booth because really… what’s more international then Texas?

As soon as I have time I’ll have more new shows coming. I’m probably sitting on 4-5 shows still that have been delivered by great contributors that I just need to wrap up and get out. And I keep getting emails from people with more to offer. So I’m really sorry I’m having trouble keeping up but hope to clear the backlog as soon as possible. There is great stuff coming. And even more new contributors coming!!

If anyone has emailed me and I’ve not responded – please feel free to email me again. That’s hard to keep up with as well but I do try and respond to everything I get.

So as always thanks for watching. The best is yet to come!!

Dave

Next week I’ll be speaking at IBM Connect.  I’m presenting 3 times.  When speaking at Lotusphere I’ve always had awesome partners.  Long before I worked with him I presented with Declan Lynch in 2010 on CSS and Themes.  Then in 2011 I teamed up with Paul Withers and even though he made me wear a Karate headband we had a lot of fun with a Dojo session. Now I’m really excited to present with the wonderful Kathy Brown from PSC.  Not only is Kathy an excellent speaker and developer – she also runs more in a week then I drive my car.

We’ll be presenting a Show and Tell on Monday at 4:30 – 6:15 in Swan Osprey 1-2.

SHOW111: XPages: No Experience Needed

This is a very beginner session.  We’re going to try and show you how to build an app with XPages.  Rather then throwing the kitchen sink at it, we’re going to try and focus on the “meat and potatoes” aspect.  Using App Layout control and form tables.  Working in the Source pane, creating reusable custom controls, and more.  I hope you like it. My goal is to try and introduce the new XPage developer to the toolset and try and establish a comfort zone of what the pieces are and how to use them.

Then for the first time ever I’ll be presenting a solo session. This session is on Tuesday and <GASP> repeats!  The first one is at 10:00 in Swan Mockingbird 1-2 and the other is at 5:30 in Swan Pelican 1-2

BP202: XPages Development: Modernize Yourself!

This session is also geared for the newish XPages Developer but hopefully will be good for the Intermediate Dev who might have plateaued.   I’m going to talk about why you want to learn XPages and methods and resources you can use. XPages is not the Notes Client and if you don’t adjust your approach a bit, you might run into problems. We’re going to look at what tools and languages are available and how it’s not that difficult to move from one to another. And finally we’re going to look at some example code in Java Beans that I think is a pretty modern approach to building a report.

Public Service Announcement:

Just to help anyone who might be on the fence with planning their schedules.  I’d say that there’s a REALLY REALLY GOOD chance these sessions will hit NotesIn9 in some shape or form.  So I’d love to see you there, but if you do have a conflict with another XPages session and are torn as to which one to go to, keep that in the back of your mind.  Just don’t skip out for some dumb Admin session! 🙂

Thanks.  I do hope you like the presentations.

IBM Connect, the conference formerly known as Lotusphere, is closing in.  Once again I’ll dusting off “NotesIn9 Live” and will be actually presenting during the show.  I’m doing 2 sessions this year.  The first is a Show and Tell called “SHOW 111 XPages: No Experience Needed”.  I’m presenting that with the awesome Kathy Brown. I’m also presenting “BP202 XPages Development: Modernize Yourself!”  But I’ll talk more about these sessions in a future post.

Today I wanted to release my internal “NotesIn9 Contributor, Sponsor, Advertising Cheatsheet”.  This is a document that I typically send to the great people who contribute to the show.  Since they take time out to do something for the community I like to try and make it as easy for them as possible.

NotesIn9 Contributor Cheatsheet

I’m getting more and more people asking me either, how to contribute to the show,  or what tips do I have for their own screencasting projects. So I wanted to put this out for any one who’s interested.  Even if you don’t want to contribute to the show, but are interested in screencasting – hopefully this will be helpful to you.

I’m looking forward to Connect and meeting people.  Please don’t be afraid to just come up and say hi!  I do like talking to and meeting new people!!

I also wanted to post this ahead of time to get YOU thinking about the possibility of contributing to the show. My hope is that maybe YOU will read it and realize that  it’s not that difficult to record YOUR screen. So I’d also be interested in talking to YOU about being on the show, or in helping YOU come up with a means of sharing information that works for YOU.

Often people will say to me:

1. “I have nothing to share.”
2. “I can do something but it’s not like I’m an expert”.
3. “This has been posted before so there’s no point of me posting it.”
4. “This has been posted before and I don’t want to take away from the original poster”.
5. “This is too easy. Everyone knows this”

To each of those excuses I call BUNK!

1. Everyone has something to share.  If it took you 5 minutes to figure something out it might take someone else (probably me) 10 minutes.  So you might just save someone 50% of their time.
2. No one is an expert on everything. It doesn’t matter.  If you post something and it’s not perfect then guess what?  Someone will probably comment on it and then you and anyone who follows the post will learn.  It’s “Social Education”
3. So what if it’s been posted before.  People forget, Google does not always find everything, and new XPagers keep coming in.  Have you ever heard the expression “The more the merrier?”
4. When someone posts something they WANT to share it.  Don’t feel like you can’t do a topic because someone else did.  Everyone has their own voice.  Some people learn better from a different voice.  Several NotesIn9’s came from other peoples blog posts. Just link back to the original article as a courtesy.
5. There is no such thing as “Too easy” or “everyone knows this”.

So please – if you’re nervous or scared about blogging, posting in the forum, creating videos just talk to me.  I have all those things memorized. 🙂 Regardless I’d love to meet you at Connect no matter what.  If you want to talk about contributing we can do that also.

The cheatsheet also has a section for potential advertiser’s or sponsors.  So if you’re interested in that I’d love to talk to you also.

Finally – It looks like IBM will be re-printing the Original XPages Cheatsheet and the XPages Social tools cheatsheet. So look at for them if interested!  Since I’m doing 2 sessions I’m not doing a 3rd cheatsheet this year, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be a brand new one at Connect.  Paul Withers has created something really cool.  I won’t say the topic yet until he does – but I suspect you’re going to want more then one copy of his new cheatsheet!

Thanks for the interest in NotesIn9!