In this extended edition, Chris Connor comes back on the show to talk about extending and XPages app to the mobile platform by using the mobile controls from OpenNTF.
Category: XPages
Today I’m very excited to release my latest “NotesIn9” Show. This is an Extended Edition that comes in at 51 minutes. It’s called:
XPages: Beyond the Introduction
Some time ago, I did another show called: Introduction to XPages. That 73 Minute show was always meant to be “Part 1”, and “Beyond” was meant to be “Part 2”. Taken together I consider this a free XPages Jumpstart coming in right around 2 hours. I’m particularly proud of the “Beyond” show as there are TONS of demos from pretty basic to a little more advanced.
But rather then just show a video of demos, I wanted to come up with something that might be a little more helpful. I really like the Demo app of the XPages Extension Library, so I decided to come up with my own. No Extension Library needed.
So today I’m announcing the grand opening of:
XPagesCheatSheet.com
The first purpose of this site, is to be the home site for the XPages Cheatsheet(s). In addition to holding the PDF’s, this site also contains many of the Demo’s used in the “Beyond” show. I’m making the template, cheatsheet.nsf, downloadable along with the FakeNames.nsf data database that I use. Feel free to pick it apart. It’s my intention to try and continue adding to this database with additional tips and demos as I create more NotesIn9 shows.
I hope the video and demo app area good resource to the XPages community.
In this show I try and do something rather dangerous. I attempt to explain a Tim Tripcony blog post on creating Fancy TypeAheads which are TypeAheads that show additional data in the lookup results. This helps aid the user to select the correct record.
I had some technical problems in the show. The sound changed for the demo portion somehow. Also I messed up due to the last Extended Edition and missed episode 23. So the next one will be 23. 🙂
So anyway – here you go. I hope you like it.
I’m really happy about this show because I have another great guest speaker. Â Chris Connor has come one to take a look at a production application and then go into designer and talk about how some of the pieces work.
This is an Extended Edition so it’s a little longer and more detailed then the normal shows. Â Chris opens up designer to show how some of the features on his website was built. Â Lots of good nuggets of information in there.
In this show I do a review of TLCC’s distance learning products. I talk about what they offer and then do a demo of what their courseware by looking at their XPages lessons.
Disclaimer:
I was not paid for this review. Over the years I’ve purchased with my own personal money several TLCC courses, including the first XPages course. However, I was given a free review copy of the second XPages course and I do talk about that course during the show.
If’ you’re going to Lotusphere one event that shouldn’t be missed is SpeedGeeking on Tuesday night.
What’s SpeedGeeking? It’s this big room with 12 tables. Each table has 1 presenter. A host takes the crowd and divides them up between the tables. Usually by birth month I THINK.
Each presentation is 5 minutes. NO MORE! The presenters repeat themselves 12 times as everybody goes around to each table.
DRINKING is involved typically. 🙂 It’s a lot of fun and shouldn’t be missed. There’s a host with a microphone so it’s loud and there’s a lot of energy in the room.
Let year I did a presentation on using BluePrint with XPages. I created a slightly slower version in Episode 11 of NotesIn9.
I thought it was lame to repeat that so I’m going to come with something different this year. Here’s my abstract:
XPages: The Red Pill
XPages can’t be explained. Â It must be seen to be appreciated. Â Free your mind of all the rules Client development imposed on you and embrace the power that is XPages. Â While Agents do exist in XPages we’ll spend our time looking at Data Binding, Rendering and Repeat Controls.
Hope to see everybody there!
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Learning XPages? Here’s how to Cheat.
I won’t bore you with the entire back story of how this got started, so let’s just say that I blame it all on Joyce Davis from the Lotus Technical Education Community. 🙂 Anyway…
Most developers have seen “Cheat Sheets” before. They have them for PHP, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Blueprint CSS…Â They even have them for Math subjects like Algebra,Calculus and Trig and other school type subjects…Â You can buy pretty ones in bookstores… There are websites devoted to them… I could go on and on. Cheat sheets are everywhere.
So I thought to myself…Â Why don’t we have a cheat sheet for XPages?
I think there’s a need for a one. Anything that helps the XPages developer get a head start is a good thing right? Heck, that’s the whole point of the NotesIn9 Podcast really.
So, several weeks ago I took it upon myself to ATTEMPT to create a cheat sheet for XPages. This is the reason for the lack of NotesIn9 shows recently actually. There’s only so many spare hours in the day. 🙂
Anyway, it’s not quite finished yet, but I wanted to post this early so people know to look for it at Lotusphere. Joyce is getting them printed and will be giving them away. It will be printed on 11×17 paper, both sides, and can be folded into a booklet. They will be available at the VideoFest Lounge which will be near the escalator I think. They will also be available at the very least in my session with Paul Withers, “XPages: Enter the Dojo” as well as Tim Clark and Matt White’s session, and hopefully some others. I’ll also try and have some on hand for speedgeeking.
This couldn’t have been done without the wonderful resources of the Lotus Community. The bulk of the information came from various websites and blog posts. I leaned heavily on Julian Buss’s great XPagesWiki.com. Thanks Julian! I also got many suggestions for improvements from my friends like Jeremy Hodge, Mark Hughes, Per Henrik Lausten, Kathy Brown, Mike McGarel and MANY others.
This will be available at Lotusphere and of course it’ll be on the web somewhere. Probably in some of the wikis. I’m not posting the full versions just yet simply because there’s still things getting adjusted and I have to test some of the code that I’m not familiar with. But rest assured this will be made available to all by Lotusphere
I hope this will be valuable resource for the XPages Developers out there.
In this episode I’m going to give thanks to two people who helped me with the content for this show.
First I’ll be talking about a bug in XPages dealing with Dates – specifically @Now(). Then I’ll show how to use the onComplete event handler to combine Server Side and Client Side Code.
In this show Jeremy Hodge comes back to continue his ongoing series on helping XPages Developers get started with Java.
If you like this video, please give it a rating for the Lotus VideoFest event.
Thanks!
Woopra allows you to have live tracking and Analytics for your website. In this show I’ll demonstrate how easy it is to add Woopra to your XPages applications.