Category: Notes In 9

NotesIn9 4 Year Anniversary

Post author By David Leedy
Post date July 19, 2013
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The very first NotesIn9 was published way back on July 11 2009. I usually miss the actual date because I forget and only remember it was in the “summer” sometime. I should probably set a reminder or something. Anyway…

After 4 years, NotesIn9 has now produced 120 episodes from 31 amazing contributors for almost 35 hours of mostly XPages educational content.

Between my libsyn.com account and Youtube, the show has been viewed or downloaded 200,524 times! Not too shabby at all I think.

My best show continues to be the 73 minute “Introduction to XPages” with over 15,000 views/downloads just for that episode.

The cheatsheets continue to be downloaded and some people seem to like the new show map.

In case you didn’t know it, NotesIn9 is available from the iTunes store here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-in-9/id342514883?mt=2. There’s also an RSS feed in the sidebar of the website.

I’m hoping for some big changes in the next year, we’ll see. In the meantime there are more shows coming. A great one by Keith Strickland is up next and I’ve got some I’d like to get out. I’ve also talked to some potential new contributors recently and need to get back to that. So all in all should be some more content coming.

I want to thank Chris Miller of SpikedStudios and Jeremy Hodge of Zeta One for some key support at some crucial times. I want to thank Jesse Gallagher for some key support moving forward.

I also really wanted to take a minute to thank all the contributors for donating your time and talent to the show. I and others really appreciate it. Thanks also to everyone who watches and leaves comments and feedback as that’s really nice also.

Dave

I’ll leave you with a little story.

Probably the most common question I get asked is “What does the 9 mean”? Well back when I started out, YouTube had a 10 minute limit for uploaded shows. I thought NotesIn9 had a much better ring to it then “NotesIn10”. That worked for a while till I just needed more time for longer topics. So I moved from YouTube for the most part to a private host – libsyn.com. That let me get longer shows and also an RSS feed for the Apple iTunes store. So the 9 originally meant that the show would be 9 minutes-ish. Now it has less meaning as some shows have been lengthy. Not quite sure what to do about that. haha.

So that’s my story. More to come. Stay tuned.

The NotesIn9 Guide Map to Learning XPages has been updated.

Post author By David Leedy
Post date July 17, 2013
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There’s been a bunch of new NotesIn9 shows recently with more on the way. I’m really close to getting through my contributor backlog. I even have a several of my own shows I’d like to do.

Since there’s been these new shows I took a couple of minutes to update the Mind Map that should hopefully have links to all of them. The goal is to make things easier to find.

Check it out here.

I hope this is a helpful means of finding other shows and getting into XPages. I’ve not really spent much time on the organization of this map but if anyone has any suggestions, or if there are any problems with any of the links please let me know.

Dave

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NotesIn9 116: Data Contexts and Variable Resolvers

Post author By David Leedy
Post date July 2, 2013
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In this show Paul Withers returns to enlighten us on what Data Contexts and Variable Resolvers are and how to use them in XPages.

In addition I want to send out some Happy Birthday wishes to:

Bruce Elgort and Mikkel Heisterberg and also a belated Happy Birthday Paul Withers himself!

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NotesIn9 114: Using Wrappers with XPages

Post author By David Leedy
Post date May 23, 2013
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In this show yet another NEW contributor comes on to share content with the community. Today, Stephan Wissel, IBMer and blogger at wissel.net comes on the show for a discussion on a programming design pattern called “Facade” and how you might want to use this in your XPages development.

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NotesIn9 113: Learning to use XPages Mobile Controls

Post author By David Leedy
Post date May 22, 2013
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In this show NotesIn9 not only gets a SUPER new contributor, but it also gets it’s first Nerd Girl! In today’s show Kathy Brown comes on to do a demo on using the XPages Mobile controls from the Extension Library / Update Pack 1. These controls are also built into Domino 9.0.

In the demo she uses Designer to show you how to get started building a mobile app with the XPages Mobile Controls.

I hope you like it.

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NotesIn9 112: XPages Mobile Controls Part 3

Post author By David Leedy
Post date May 17, 2013
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In this show Peter Presnell returns to conclude his 3 part series on XPages Mobile Controls. Today he’ll cover outlines and Data Views.

I also talk about the current OpenNTF.org Appathon Contest. There’s a lot of prize money available so be sure to check that out as well.

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NotesIn9 110: Mobile Controls Part 1

Post author By David Leedy
Post date May 13, 2013
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NotesIn9 is back!! Yay!

In today’s show, Peter Presnell, a past contributor comes on to start a 3 part series on Mobile controls. In Part 1 he will give us a very basic introduction to the concepts around the mobile controls. In Part 2 he’ll go through each design element.

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NotesIn9 is Back!

Last week NotesIn9 had a problem where it was redirecting to some weird website and shortly after got flagged by Google as a site delivering Malware.

I had no idea until Sean Cull sent me a note asking if there was a problem. Yep there was! And what a problem it was. Eventually I had to redirect the site to a quick temp page for the time being.

This happened the day before a trip to Orlando for the day job and I think the day IamLug started. Not great timing.

My odds at fixing this problem myself were nil. So I turned to Chris Miller from idonotes.com. Chris is possibly the longest supporter of NotesIn9. He and his Spiked Studio Productions have hosted my Ni9 WordPress blog for several years now. I truly appreciate that as I pretty much stink at WordPress.

Chris is also the key organizer behind IamLug so with that going on and me traveling this hit at the worst possible time.

From what Chris told me, code got injected via an old embedded flash player on one of my posts. Ouch!

I want to thank Chris for his efforts in getting this fixed as soon as he did. I really appreciate it.

All should be fine now. If there are any problems please let me know.

Thanks for watching!

Now that my traveling is done for hopefully a while, I hope to get some long overdue shows out next week so please, stay tuned!

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NotesIn9 108: XPages Mobile Controls Problem and Solution

Post author By David Leedy
Post date April 18, 2013
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This is a rush show. I didn’t mean to make this show at this time, but it looks like I solved a problem that has been frustrating me for a while so I had to take a quick break and document it and get this out.

The problem is with trying to do a refresh in the onChange event of an edit control in the confines of XPages Mobile Controls. I’ve done this before in a production app, but recently I tried making a new version of that app, starting from scratch, and I couldn’t get the same behavior.

Really really frustrating stuff.

Hopefully, if you’re working with Mobile controls this will help you.