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NotesIn9 071: XPages messaging app

I’m really excited about this episode. First there’s a couple of big announcements but then when we get into the good stuff I have a demo from a new contributor – Josh Jolly.

Josh is an intern at a UK based WPCA consultants. What’s exicting about this demo is at the time of recording it he was only introduced to Notes/XPages about 6 weeks before. So I think it’s great to see someone brand new using the XPages technoogy to build solutions.

P.S. In this show I switch to a new intro. I was going to wait till Sept 9th for that but just couldn’t. Hope you like it.

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NotesIn9: 070 Searching Source Code & Importing from Excel

In this show I’ll demonstrate two things.

1. Using Eclipse to search your source code in a single or multiple databases.

2. Importing Excel Data into Notes with Junction.

Junction is a small $5 Notes Client application from Chris Toohey of DominoGuru.com. It lets you easily import your spreadsheets into Notes Applications.

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NotesIn9: 069 Dynamically expanding View Panel Rows

This show marks the 3 year anniversay of NotesIn9. In this show Mark Roden comes back on to talk about using JQuery to dynamically expand view content.

Dynamically Expanding xSnippets

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NotesIn9 celebrates 3 years of Free XPages Training

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!

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NotesIn9: 56 XPages: Beyond the Introduction

This is actually a “repeat” I guess you would say. I’m posting this again because I realized that I never put this show on it’s own post. It was originally posted here which is kind of buried in a post about about an update to the cheatsheet. So I thought I’d give this a proper post for search engines and Internet tools.

This show is actually a part 2 of my own “XPages Jumpstart”. The first being “Introduction to XPages”

This 50ish minute show is very Demo heavy and discusses custom controls, UI Frameworks, Server Side JavaScript (SSJS), Dojo, Repeat Controls, Rendering, and even an early attempt at creating a “Custom Class” with SSJS. Many of the demos are also the basis for xpagescheatsheet.com and the demo app is downloadable from there as well.

Anyway – in case anyone missed this, here it is.

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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.

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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 to consider following @XSnippets to keep up to date with the lastest happenings in the Snippet world.

http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-8TNBVZ

http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-8TEA9D

http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-8SV9JC

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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.

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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 50% of what he’s trying to say. But in this demo, which is a more advanced topic I was able to really grasp what was going on.

Hope you like the show!

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NotesIn9: 063 Creating an In View Edit Custom Control

In this show Tim 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!