Hmmm this might be a problem. Guess it has been a busy last 30 days.
Looks like I’ll have to get this increased for a little while to finish out the drive.
Also – The “DriveTo99” Is scheduled to end on Monday the 9th. I will extend it slightly just so I don’t have to release 2 shows on the weekend or do a double feature.
This is a different show NotesIn9. I’m basically re-broadcasting a Google Hangout that Chris Toohey put together with a couple of us discussing XPages. The panel includes Paul Calhoun and Russ Maher as well as myself and Chris. So no real tips here. Just about 50 minutes worth of XPages talk.
Chris might continue to do these with different people or topics. So if you want to keep up with that then follow him on twitter or via his website. I don’t currently plan on rebroadcasting any more via NotesIn9. I’m just doing it here because
1. It’s new and I want to make sure people know about this.
2. Everybody on the show is a Ni9 Alumni! Yay!!!
3. This makes it easy for someone to download it off line until Chris comes up with his own solution
4. It’s an easy show to help me get to that magic 99 number! haha
Ok. Enoughs enough… time to get this show back on the road! In case you missed it I’m trying to do this NotesIn9: Drive to 99 event where I want to get to 99 shows by December 9th. With the help of many generous contributors I’m currently up to 81.
I had a little break as I went on vacation for a week and then kinda lost the last couple of days because of some distractions.
It’s time to get back on the highway. Expect NotesIn9 to start imminently. Hopefully even tomorrow.
I have 2 great new contributors lined up that I’m super excited about. 1 is 2 years in the making. Yep – he’s a really tough negotiator. 🙂 I even have some of my own stuff that I’m trying to dust off and get ready and also have another great show from Paul Calhoun coming.
P.S.
How was the vacation? Â I went to Disney’s Vero Beach and got to swim with the sharks. Â No – it wasn’t an attraction. Â Heck there wasn’t even a charge to do it.
Here’s a post that Becky, my wife made on a Facebook page. Just wanted to share…
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Ok. So when last we met I shared a sip from my font of knowledge titled The Jar and the Suitcase. Today I shall discuss lemonade.
Last night as many of you know, my hubby and I attempted to go to a Halloween party in Disney. The culmination of an awesome anniversary week together.
This event has its own admission, parades, fireworks, trick or treating, characters etc.
Shortly after we arrived, without much warning, the skies opened up. And I’m not talking the little passing Florida rain. Thunder, lightning (it goes sideways?!?!?) and horizontal rain. Before we knew it we were up to our ankles (literally) I half expected a gator with a Mickey hat to float by.
So we had 2 choices. Slog ourselves home in a disappointed defeated heap. Or, find some ponchos and push on.
So, ponchos it was.
As we are sloshing around avoiding lightning and pissy people, we discovered a line formed at the front of the park. This line would rival and Space Mountain line in the middle of July. It was so long, the created a queue for it with ropes and barriers.
What was it for? For people demanding a refund for the weather.
A refund, we were informed, they weren’t going to get (you know, small print and all)
We laughed. And proceeded to ride all of the rides that were wide open because of all the Grumpy’s (and I don’t mean the dwarf) in line because it rained in Florida.
My point? Yes God may give you lemons. But unless YOU bring the water and the sugar, your lemonade is gonna suck.
And for God’s sake, get a poncho and move on…..
In case you were not aware tomorrow is the last day for nominations for the IBM Champion program.
The IBM Champion program is a means for IBM to recognize people who have contributed to the community.
Champions need to be re-nominated each year. So just because someone might be a champion now doesn’t mean they will in the next go around unless they either get nominated or self-nominate.
Here’s what I would ask. If you’ve benefited from someone in the community – either their blog.. or XSnippets… or contributions to NotesIn9 or contributions to OpenNTF, or they answered your question on the forum or StackOverFlow, then please consider nominating them to be an IBM Champion. Especially if they are a business partner as who knows, that might actually really help them. Just go to the form and fill out what you know. You might not know what “certs” the person has… just fill in what you do know and why you’re nominating them. The IBM committee can get any other details I’m sure.
There’s so many great contributors to this Community that deserve recognition and feedback on their work. Please consider taking time to nominate someone you feel is worthy.
Thanks!!!
P.S. I don’t broadcast it much but I’m currently an IBM Champion as well. I was honored with that when the initial group was announced at a View Conference in Las Vegas. Please don’t nominate me. I’m not looking for that. A couple people already have so I’m “covered” I guess. I’d sooner have you spend any “nominating time” on others.
In this episode Niklas Heldloff from IBM and OpenNTF.org comes on the show to talk about the brand new community site: CollaborationToday.info.
Niklas was one of the team that built this site. Â This is the first part of a series of videos that detail what the site is and how various pieces were built. Â This video focuses on what features the site contains and how you might go about setting up your own version when it becomes available.
Big thanks to the team that created this site. Â I think this is a huge contribition to the community, not only the site itself, but the code – which should make it to OpenNTF in a couple weeks or so. Â I think this will be an app that you’ll want to pick apart to see how it was built.
Also I want to thank Niklas for taking the time to make the video and joining me on the “Drive to 99”!!!
UPDATE: I made a mistake on the Slide for Niklas’s website. I typed in http://heidloff.ntf when it should be http://heidloff.net. Sorry about that!
Announcing NotesIn9: Drive to 99
In today’s screencast I announced my attempt at a big “Event” for the rest of the year. My goal is to reach 99 Episodes before year end. That’s an addition of 28 shows in 3 months.
The “Drive to 99” event will begin Sept. 9th and run till December 9th.
Please see the video for more details.
I just got back from an awesome MWLUG conference. A good time was had by all and NotesIn9 was out in full force. Several past contributors gave great sessions. Jeremy Hodge, Graham Acres, Brian Moore and Marky Roden rocked the house. I also gave a session that seemed to fill the room so thanks to those that came to see it! and no one threw anything at me so that’s a big win as well. Hopefully there’s one or two future Ni9 contributors as well from some of the other sessions. 🙂
People are starting to post their slides for the conference. I won’t be posting mine just yet since my session was demo heavy there isn’t a ton of value in the slide deck itself. Rest assured I’ll be doing my complete session on NotesIn9. It probably won’t be a big show but I’ll likely break it into 5 or 6 shows to focus in the individual topics. Expect to see that in early September.
Today marks the 3 year anniversary of NotesIn9. I published my first real video on Repeat Controls way back in 2009 – 6 months after XPages was launched at Lotusphere.
Looking back those really seem like the Dark Ages of XPages. Learning was very difficult due to limited resources. We had a couple of great blog posts from people like John Mackey, Chris Toohey and Nathan T. Freeman. Then Declan Lynch really blew everyone away with an amazing 50+ article series on how to build an application. That was pretty much what we had for the longest time. That series was one of the inspirations of NotesIn9.
Fast forward to today and the XPages world is so bright and alive. There’s tons of new learning resources. We now have 3 books so far. Matt White does much better videos then me over on his XPages101.net site. We have some excellent courses available from TLCC.com. We have XPages.Info – the central hub of XPages resources. And of course we have applications, custom controls, snippets, and examples over at OpenNTF.org. Heck there are even XPages Cheatsheets now. 🙂
There are many “XPages XPerts” these days and they’re more then willing to share via blog posts or answering questions on StackOverFlow.com or the XPages Forum.
Wow! I think we’re now in an XPages Renaissance!
I’m proud of the small part that I had in all this. In that time NotesIn9 has contributed to the community over 15 hours of free XPages training videos from 12 different contributors so far. All the shows should be easily available on XPages.TV. (If you have any problems please leave me feedback on that site.)
Later today I’ll be releasing the 69th episode. Another XPages and jQuery show from Mark Roden.
There’s lots more coming! I have some big things planned if all goes well. I’m also talking to 2 potential new contributors that I’m really excited about.
As always a big thanks to all the contributors and also thanks to everyone who watches the show.
Happy Coding!
P.S. Next month I’ll be speaking live at MWLug. If you’re there please stop by to say hello!
Today I configured XPages.TV to play an “ad” in front of all the videos on XPages.TV. I want to test this to see if there are any technical problems. Please let me know by commenting here or leaving feedback at the XPages.TV site if you run into any problems.
Currently I know of one issue, if you do not have a good HTML5 browser, and do NOT have flash installed, the videos won’t work and it’s not prompting you of the problem. I THINK this is most noticeable with FireFox since FF doesn’t do html5 video correctly. They don’t support mp4 currently. FireFox should work if you have Flash installed. Also these should work on most mobile devices.
I need to figure out how to display a message instead.