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.

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.

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.

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!

Now I already starting going down the Twitter Bootstrap path, which I was really liking, but I decided to take another look at jQuery Mobile.  And when I say “I decided to take another look at jQuery Mobile” what I mean is that Declan Lynch wanted to take a look at jQuery Mobile and drug me back kicking and screaming.  haha

So anyway, in no short order Declan had mobilized an internal app and I was playing with footers which can’t easily be done with XPages Mobile controls and working on a custom control for the header, content, and footer.  Just trying to get a feel for it really.

The first thing I really tried to do was get a feel for how viewScope might work.  Unlike Mobile Controls, where you work with Virtual pages, jQuery Mobile lets you work with real XPages.  I like that so much better!  Anyway, the first thing I tried to do is just put a computed field bound to viewScope and a button to update viewScope with the current time. Now the button is a normal XPages core control and I just wanted to do a partial refresh.

Clicking the button did nothing.  Tried partial refresh, tried full refresh. Nothing worked.  I didn’t even see any traffic from the browser.

I did some poking around for an answer, but not a lot.  So I thought I’d just post out here looking for some overall getting started advice.  I liked what I saw of jQuery Mobile but I want to keep Dojo working so I can use XPages controls.

Anyone have any getting started advice?

Around the same time I discovered this XPages community on Google+.  I highly recommend checking that out and I’ll be talking about it more on future shows.  One of the moderators of that community is Rob Bontekoe. I’ve talked to him a couple times since joining that community and he’s a really great guy.  He provides a 4 day  XPages training course that can be given remotely or on your location.  As a supplement to that course he’s created some FREE courses on Java, Managed beans and even some neat videos on other topics like the repeat control and JSF LifeCycle.  Just some really amazing content from an original IBM Champion.  I had no idea about this material.

Now I’m not going to link to everything he’s done because for one thing I don’t have that kind of time and for another he’s already done it and more I believe.  Using the Mind Map website, Rob has created this really really cool “Map” of XPages learning resources. It’s been on the Google+ Community for a while, (see what you’re missing!), but I wanted to blog about it in case you missed it.

Rob’s XPages Learning Map

Now, I personally know a good idea when I see one. And one of my biggest problems with Ni9 is a lack of a good index / table of contents.  So I took a little time to try and create a Map for NotesIn9.

NotesIn9 Episode GuideMap

So please check that out.  Let me know what you think and if you like it or not.  If it’s helpful or not.  I think it might be but I’m not sure.  I’m really worried that I won’t be able to keep up with it as new shows come out.  So I thought about not publishing it but then thought, well I already did this much.  So I don’t know if I can keep up with it.  If people think it’s helpful I’ll at least give it a try. If there are any volunteers that would like to keep this updated for me and maybe prettying it up a little bit I would welcome the help.

Thanks!

In today’s show I get another amazing contributor.  Richard Sharpe of Teamstudio comes on and shows us how to select multiple documents from a repeat control inside an XPages Mobile Controls Application.  Great stuff!

Note: I did a similar show to this way way back in NotesIn9 25.  In that show I demo’s how to select items in a repeat for a “Normal” XPages application. So if interested in this for a NON mobile solution then you might want to check that out.  http://notesin9.com/index.php/2011/04/01/notesin9-025-selecting-documents-from-a-repeat-control/

So I really want to abandon Mobile Controls, if nothing else the whole single page App is just really really hard to debug.  If you navigate to a page you can’t EASILY view source for instance.  You need to catch it with a tool like firebug.

Anyway, so I found this project that I really wanted to use.  https://github.com/commadelimited/jQuery-Mobile-Bootstrap-Theme

In theory it’s a marriage of Twitter Bootstrap and a css “theme” that makes some elements look like you would on a mobile device.  Ideally I’d love to have the mobile look and feel since I think it’s easier for the users then a glorified web page, but I’m desperate to get to normal XPages and away from these virtual pages.  Even if the fancy transitions are lost I don’t really care any more.

So it seems it’s not just a CSS framework like I thought but it does require jQuery Mobile.  Ok – I gave it a try and guess what.  It didn’t work.  not at all.  The mobile goodies would NOT render!

Until I completely disabled Dojo!

Disabling Dojo is not an option for me.  I just can’t hand code all that stuff.  It’s not going to happen.  I’m going to be using XPages I want to USE XPages.  But why didn’t it work?  Well I had to turn to the jQuery Master himself – Mark Roden.  He took a look at it for me which I greatly appreaciated!

We’re not sure, but we think there’s a conflict between Dojo and jQuery Mobile with the “data-role” attribute.  I guess both frameworks make use of that and Dojo 1.8 grabs it first and shuts jQuery out. If I downgraded Dojo I BELIEVE it would work but that’s not an option for me.=

Apparantly I’m not the only one with this problem.

That’s what I think I know at least.  If anyone knows something else please chime in!

Personally I’m not sure what to do.  XPages Mobile controls are difficult and missing things like a bottom TabBar, though I believe the redPill company has solved that problem.  I believe Kendo UI uses virtual pages as well.  JQuery Mobile seems like you need to drop Dojo.

I think I might try the Twitter Bootstrap 3 Release Candidate.  Not really sure though.

Kinda annoying actually…

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.

Highly recommend you check it out.

http://nathantfreeman.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/xpages-performance-pro-tips/

He blogs at http://notesspeak.blogspot.com.  Don’t miss his about page with details how he got started with XPages.  Great story there.

In this show he and I mention Stephan Wissel’s blog post on working with Attachments.  That link is here:

http://www.wissel.net/blog/d6plinks/SHWL-86QKNM

Thanks!

UPDATE:  Don’t miss Steve’s blog post about this technique.

http://notesspeak.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-launch-attachment-from-view.html

If you’re new to the thought of using Java inside XPages, I’d suggest don’t focus on the actual syntax that Jesse’s using here but the overal concepts.  This is very similar to using Lotusscript custom classes to hold your business logic so you have cleaner agents and view buttons.

Hope you like it.

Frederik, is going to give us a really good and indepth demo on using the new SSJS debugger of Designer 9.0.  This isn’t just a getting started, but an indepth guide on using it.  Not to be missed!

I also announce my next “event” in the show.  It’s called “XPages Mobile Madness”. Basically I want to get a bunch of mobile related shows on.  I’ll talk about this more in a seperate blog post.

Thanks for watching!

Dave

So in this show I take a look at the sample I was sent and dissect it.  I’ll try and show you how it was originally coded and what the current problem that Ursus was having it.  I’ll fix that but then take a more indepth look at trying to modify the original code so it’s more on the lines of best practices.

Coding is an art, and I’m only so good at it myself, but hopefully this will be a contructive look at some possible ways to improve things via a code review.  I thank Ursus for sending me this and letting me using the discussion on the show.

One of the main reasons I wanted to do this example, was I thought pretty early on that I could work in an example that I’ve been trying to get on the show.  I wanted to demonstrate how you can return multiple values from a document from 1 SSJS function.  So instead of doing multiple lookups you might be able to do more at once.

Anyway – hope you like the show.  This should be a good one for people newish to XPages.

P.S. Theres like 3 seconds of black at the beginning of this video.  I’ve no idea what I did there.  Sorry about that.

while reading your presentation XPages: No experience Needed I noticed the your screenshot of the layout control differs from what is displayed here in designer.
we downloaded openntfextensions (ExtensionLibraryOpenNTF-853.20121022-1354) and installed ‘em (test/-developer-server and developer-client). everything went fine and  layout control was just like shown in your presentation.dragging the layout control to the panel surface opened up the config dialog. we did some playing around but because of official ibm support for upgrade pack 1 we decided to jump on the upgrade pack train and give it a try. but it seems as if upgrade pack 1 is a little bit outdated in comparrison to openntfextensions – e.g. the layout control doesn’t show a config dialog.

would installing upgrade-pack 2 improove things and also update extensions controls like layout or do we have to stick with upgrade pack 1 and live with it?

perhaps you can help and give us a short hint. thanks in advance.

Here’s my personal opinion of Upgrade Pack vs. Ext. Library.

Always use Ext. Library.

Yes – Upgrade Pack is “Supported” by IBM but I honestly don’t know what that means.  Sure you can make a PMR but I’m not aware of IBM providing hotfixes for bug fixes for the upgrade pack.  Honestly I’m not personally aware that there will be an Upgrade Pack 2. I THINK there’s an “Upgrade Pack 2″ that’s specific to Traveler. I don’t know of a second Upgrade Pack for the Ext. Library stuff for Domino 8.5.3.  I think that the path is to go Domino 9 which pretty much has it built in.  I could be wrong on those points though.

But I do know that even though Ext. Library “is not supported”, it has been getting fairly regular bug fixes and updates.  I believe Upgrade Pack 1 came out late 2011.  Just checking the OpenNTF project I can see that there were 7 releases of Ext. Library since then. Most of those releases are bug fixes I think. So to me, I think Ext. Library has much better real support.

Now I’m a developer at a private company, and we put Ext. Library on all our servers.  Honestly I’ve never downloaded or touched Upgrade Pack 1.  Granted, at my company I have the luxury of working with Declan Lynch, a top Domino admin. But even so, I can’t imagine a situation where I would lean towards Update Pack 1.

Now there is more “risk” with Ext. library in some cases.  At one point the Ext. Library changed some names and that might have caused some people some problems. We use Ext. Library heavily and I don’t think we were heavily impacted by that.  But even though something got changed, so what?  Apple, and Microsoft, and Google change “supported” things all the time.  So I don’t see a big difference here.

I hear from friends and others that they use Upgrade Pack 1 because “customers require support”. I just don’t know what that support really means.  What’s sillier is that some of the same people that run Upgrade Pack 1 for IBM support also ask how to install the experimental pieces from Ext. Library for Relational Database support etc…  That makes no sense to me.  Now they’re asking to run unsupported software in and unsuported configuration.

Domino 9.0 is being released on the 21st it seems.  That has most of the core Ext. Library built in.  My recommendation would be to move to that as soon as possible. I know we are.  I believe there will then be an Ext. Library specific to 9.0 but that’s just a guess.  I’m anxious to hear the Ext. Library plans for 9.0 myself.

It was funny when Kathy and I did that presentation.  She used Upgrade Pack 1 because as a consultant that’s more desirable to her.  I was on Ext. Library and we did see some issue as I had bug fixes that she did not. Was a bit of a pain really.  But don’t tell her that! haha

I’m blogging this in case anyone wants to comment and you can get more opinions.

Hope this helps.

Dave

Also a big Happy Birthday to a great person and NotesIn9 contributor – Mr. Russ Maher!!!

UPDATE:

Download Demo File

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

His blog is www.qtzar.com and he’s blogged today about XPages in Java and I believe has more ready to go for the next several days. The first one is here:

http://www.qtzar.com/getting-to-the-java-roots-of-xpages-part-1/

I’m posting this since Declan to drive visibility to it as he’s not listed on PlanetLotus.org and I didn’t see it show up on CollaborationToday.info

I suggest you keep an eye on his blog.

What I’m finding is even some desktop users use the app from a browser like chrome or safari. Ok not the end of the world. Whatever floats their boat. There is a need to deliver this to the desktop as well.

So I’m in the process of basically starting over from scratch and rebuilding my application so it’s more based on java beans and is just all over cleaner – since I now know things that I never knew before.

I’m just wondering the best way to build it? At least for the iPad. Our corporate stranded is oneUI based so ill probably need a pure desktop version and a mobile version. If I get most of the logic in java beans that shouldn’t be a really big deal I don’t think.

But what about the mobile app? Do I stick with mobile controls? We’ll be upgrading to domino 9.0 pretty much day 1 and under the covers that brings dojo 1.8 with many new mobile features. These features aren’t exposed via mobile controls yet. Should I use a mix of mobile controls and manually grab anything from dojo 1.8 that I need? Or do I avoid mobile controls all together and try to use dojo mobile manually? I’m not sure what the pros and cons there might be to that.

Or do I avoid mobile controls all together and try something like twitter bootstrap or something else? The users do like the native look and feel but honestly, it’s going to be a big app with lots going on. So a more “normal” website might make somethings easier on me. I guess I’d certainly lose page transitions and need to make sure buttons and targets are big enough for the tablet screen. Deal with viewport and all that…..

I’m not really sold or interested in responsive design for this. This isn’t a blog it’s an inventory application. I’ve not seen an example or a real app using responsive design. There will be lots of fields, tables, buttons etc. When the time comes to put this on a phone I imagine there will be yet a third site needed with scaled back functionality that fits the phone screen.

I don’t think jQuery mobile is a good option but I’m not sure. Certainly I won’t be disabling normal XPages dojo stuff and buildings all that manually. I don’t know if I’ve seen an XPages jQuery mobile demo that didn’t first turn all that good dojo stuff off.

This is going to be a web app right now and not a local app. I’m kinda interested in it as a local app but I don’t want any local data. I want all the data to live on the server so I know it’s always accurate and up to date.

Anyway, that’s my story. I do kinda like mobile controls and have had some good and bad luck with them. But I somewhat feel that maybe using bootstrap or something else can help me make it work nice in iPad while getting away from the whole virtual page thing on what is going to be a big app. Just make building it easier and more flexible. But I really don’t know.

What does anyone think about mobile WEB apps? I’d really be interested to hear any advice or experiences. What have you done? What are your trying? What considerations do you have? Etc…

Thanks for your time and any advice.

P.S. this post was written in my new iPad mini and it rocks!!!!!!

XPages Development:  Modernize yourself!

The goal of this session was not to through the kitchen sink and a throw a lot of eye candy at the app.  The goal was to try and get people familiar with key XPages tools and concepts.  The App Layout control, formTables and formRows, Combo Boxes, Scoped Variables, passing properties into Custom Controls, etc…

Here is the download kit for that session.

This contains the slides, some script snippets, the starter application and the more finished application.

It is our intention to do a NotesIn9 video of the bulk of this session.  Since I’ve not had 2 voices on a show at the same time we’re working on how to best make that happen.  But you should see something pretty soon I hope.

Thanks to those that were in the session and took time to fill out evaluations.  The comments were really nice to read.  I also want to thank Gab Davis and Paul Mooney for their advice through out the process.  And a big thanks to Kathy for coming up with the idea, and being a really great partner to work with!!

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.

On top of that VivaStream is currently showing speedgeeking at 5:00 and the conference pocket guide is showing it at 6:30.  So who do you trust?

There’s checkin sites, photo sites I assume, unofficial scheduling apps…  not sure what else there is.  For twitter I know they want the “official” hashtag to be #IBMConnect and personally I think it’s too long so I might end up using #IC13. I just think #IBMConnect takes up too much space of the message.

I’m not trying to be snarky, and there’s no hidden gripe or message.  I’m a speaker who is also just a dumb customer and I have no idea what to use, why to use it and when we might want to use something. It’s like we need a cheatsheet of all these conference tools which you would think in theory is supposed to make the conference easier.

If someone could just tell me what is and is not important I’d sure appreciate it.

P.S. As for being “social” – I’m looking forward to meeting people face to face.  If people have questions for me on any of my sessions my email and twitter (@DavidLeedy) will be on the slides and is also on every single NotesIn9.

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!

2012 was a great year for me from a professional standpoint. I’ve learned a tremendous amount. I was named an IBM Champion again and there is no actual hard proof that my code has crashed a server at the day job! On a personal level I’ve made some great new friends.

NotesIn9 really exploded this year. I think I previously tweeted that Ni9 produced 60 episodes – but that was incorrect. I forgot that I converted the 12 Extended Editions into the normal show number list.

So the final tally is that Ni9 produced 48 shows for 2012. Still a great number I think. I don’t have a yearly hour count but total show time is up over 27 hours from 23 different contributors. And man the contributors are awesome! They make NotesIn9 what it is and I can’t thank them enough!!

The power of the contributors was very evident when I did my end of year event called “Drive to 99″. In about 90 days, we added over 10 hours of content in 28 shows! That success was made possible by the people in this community willing to take time and share what they know. I believe 8 brand new contributors joined in for that event and it was wonderful to have them on the show. I talked to many others that were interested but just didn’t have time so hopefully we’ll continue to see new names in the future.

The Drive to 99 event ended with a special show from IBM’s Dan O’Connor. That show featured the Domino Designer 9.0 Beta preview. That beta is available now for anyone that’s interested in it. That episode came out in the middle of December and has already been viewed/downloaded more then 1,000 times! Simply amazing!

A couple other stats I like to keep track of and share:

Introduction to XPages has been viewed/downloaded almost 13,000 times now! While obviously people are watching that more then once I continue to see new people coming to XPages and even new to Notes people coming on board.

I see over 161,000 total views/downloads for all the NotesIn9 shows! Not too shabby for this little podcast that’s mostly focused on XPages.

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It’s kinda neat that Ni9 is being mentioned in a series of articles along side other podcasts. Here are links to those articles if anyone is interested.

http://blog.libsyn.com/podcaster-voices-what-s-the-hardest-podcasting-related-thing-you-ve-overcome-in-2012

http://imake.libsyn.com/podcaster-voices-19-podcasters-share-podcasting-lessons-learned-in-2012

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What’s next for NotesIn9 for 2013? I have a couple ideas but at the moment it’s hard to think past IBM Connect. I suspect Ni9 will be on hiatus until after IBM Connect. I’ll be blogging more on my sessions in a little bit.  Once the conference is over we’ll see what the future brings and where the next road will go.

Thanks for watching the show!  I do really appreciate that and I always appreciate any feedback.

Have a happy and safe New Years!

Great job IBM!

Full Size: Connect2013_Invitation_Lotusphere Speakers Dec 20

Drive to 99 ran about 90 days and it added over 10 hours of new content in 28 shows. It exceeded my goals and hopes in every way.

Special shoutout to Paul Calhoun who won the Most Valuable Contributor award!! Thanks Paul!

In this show Dan O’Connor returns! Dan is the lead for the Domino Designer product and he will demonstrate some of the new features that are in the public beta that should be available for download on Dec 14th.

I thought it was really appropriate to have a Designer 9 preview for the 99th show! I believe this is the first public look at the actual public beta code that will be released on Dec. 14th. Big thanks to Dan and IBM for allowing this to happen.

There’s a lot in here for the XPages developer. The main event though has to be the SSJS Debugger!!!! That’s right. We’re getting a Server Side JavaScript Debbuger!!

This show is not to be missed!

Demo File

This is show 98!!! It’s almost over! Tomorrow I’ll finish the DriveTo99 event with a very special and I think timely show. I’ll always be announcing an award on the show. Please don’t miss tomorrows 99th episode of NotesIn9!

I know jQuery is something I want to get into a little more myself.

Thanks Russ!

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.

UPDATE: Note in the show slides I mispelled Marks Contact information. His email is: m.leusink at linqed.eu and his blog is: http://linqed.eu I inserted a u after the q that shouldn’t be there.

I’m very pleased to welcome Sean Cull to NotesIn9. Today Sean will demonstrate how to install CentOS Linux and the Domino 8.5.3 server so you can have your own development environment. I’m a big fan of development environments. If you’re still developing on a production server you really should reconsider that. A good Dev server is worth it’s weight in Gold.

A couple of quick notes:

Sean has a blogged Cheatsheet here: http://seancull.co.uk/cheatsheets/linux

Even though CentOS is techically not supported, it’s almost a perfect clone of Red Hat which is supported. Since CentOS is free, it’s a pretty good solution for a development server. I used to run this myself a long time ago.

Sean is working with Domino 8.5.3 and Upgrade Pack 1. I would imagine that installing Domino 9, which is due out in December 14th as a Public Beta, would have a very similar installation.

While this topic is a little more on the advanced scale, I think Serdar has done an excellent job of walking through the concepts of DOTS and then showing how to setup your development environment and finally how to run it on the server. He highlights additional resources such as a Show-&-Tell from Lotusphere2012 and even shows a key tip on outputting messages to the console.

I hope you like it.

What’s really nice about this video is Paul will show you how to implement this on 8.5.3 and even pre-8.5.3 servers!

I think it’s always worth remembering that even though XPages comes with a lot of core controls, and the Ext. Library/Upgrade Pack add a LOT more to that list, there is much more functionaliy built into the Dojo Framework and that comes pre-installed on every XPage server.

Today I just wanted to share an article that Declan sent me regarding Distributed source control like Mercurial and Git. Mercurial is what I use at the day job as well as via bitbucket.org for any personal projects.

I think this article is really well done. It’s great for beginners but gets deep enough to talk about merging in an understandable way.

http://mark-dot-net.blogspot.com/2012/04/understanding-distributed-version.html

Hope it helps someone.

P.S. I have 2 videos on Source control for anyone looking to get started.

This is an odd show because I really don’t know much about this yet. I recorded the show at 5:30PM my time. I asked my first question about how to get started at 3:30PM. Nathan T Freeman very kindly got me started in the right direction so I could install it. So big thanks to Mr. NTF himself!!! Thanks to Jeremy Hodge as well for posting a key comment on Sean Cull’s blog.

So this show took 2 hours from begining to learn about this for the first time to recording what I got so far – the install. I only mention that because I talk to a lot of potential contributors and commonly hear things like “I’m not an expert” or “I don’t know anything worth sharing”. So I’m trying to disprove that. I don’t yet really know how to check for memory leaks, which is the ultimate goal here, but so far I at least know how to install the evaluation copy of the YourKit app. I hope that this helps anyone else with the install. My plan is to do a second show relatively soon where I better demo how to use this app to find leaks. I just need to figure it out myself first.

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

In this show I’ll explain the problem and solution as well has how to troubleshoot it and where to go for help.

Disclaimer: I always try and answer email from viewers – but I only very rarely actively troubleshoot a problem like this. Kate needed help and I needed a show idea. So a win/win. I will always TRY and help where I can – but for highly technical questions/problems I recommend StackOverFlow.com tag “xpages” or the XPages Forum.

In other notes, I was recently featured on the Taking Notes Podcast. This is a podcast run by Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux. Past NotesIn9 contributors, Paul Calhoun and Marky Roden were also on as well. We had a great discussion on NotesIn9 and I want to thank Bruce, Julian, Paul and Marky for their time and interest!

Listen to the podcast here.

Lastly, while we were recording the show I noticed that we hit 150,000 total downloads/views of NotesIn9 content. That’s pretty good I think for XPages based material and I keep seeing increasing interest in the technology.

Big thanks to all the contributors for making this all possible!

Over the course of this series Russ has taught us a lot about Beans, Java, XPages/JSF concepts like variable resolvers and now Managed Properties for Beans.

I want to thank Russ very much for contributing all this great material to NotesIn9. I really appreciate it and I’m sure others have as well.

UPDATE: DEMO FILE for the show

Part 1

Part 2

FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getSessionMap.get(key)

and describes what each piece really means.  Russ will also introduce the concept of variable resolver which seems to be very popular with the advanced XPages developers.

This content should not be missed for an XPages Developer.

Click here for Part 1

Click here for Part 3

Click here for Demo File

Since this show is once again talking about Java I mention some resources on getting started with the Java Language, especially in learning the syntax. I’ve used the Head First Java book and liked it very much but recently I found a great new website designed to teach the Java Language.

http://howtoprogramwithjava.com

This site is run by Trevor Page.  I think it absolutely rocks.  It’s has great getting started with Java information that’s very well written in an easy to follow manner. Trvor also does a Podcast and has produced a really good ebook on the subject.  I highly recommend checking his site out for anyone who’s starting to learn Java.

He also has a site specifically setup for his Java ebook here:  http://javapdf.org You can download a sample and check it out. I bought it as soon as it came out and it’s really well done.

There’s lots more Java XPages material coming to NotesIn9 as well as non Java shows.  Remember, as Paul Calhoun likes to say, “Java is just a tool in your XPages toolbox”. I think it’s a really good tool to have.

UPDATE: DEMO FILE for the show

Before we get to Pauls demo, I also discuss a couple of things.  The first is a review of how to navigate the various NotesIn9 resources on the web – notesin9.com, index.notesin9.com, and cheatsheet.notesin9.com and the second is a little discussion on Scoped Variables and some best practices in my opinion.

Demo file for the show

By the way: Big Happy birthday today to 2 great XPage developers and contributors!

Mark Hughes

Chris Toohey

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?  I went to Disney’s Vero Beach and got to swim with the sharks.  No – it wasn’t an attraction.  Heck there wasn’t even a charge to do it.

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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…..

Also since I’m struggling with this stuff, and have not done a lot with uploading files yet please feel free to comment if I’m missing anything.

The problem is the file upload control. It doesn’t always work – especially inside mobile controls, and now that Apple’s iOS6 allows you to natively upload pictures from the device I really want to take advantage of that. To upload an attachment I believe you must use a full refresh rather then a partial refresh. But even if you might set it for a full refresh it’s not working inside mobile controls and apparantly the ext. library dialog. So when I get stuck I search for help and found a great blog post AND video that Chris Toohey did back in 2011. I asked Chris if I could re-run his demo for the NotesIn9 audience and he said go for it.

So this show is about a problem getting file upload to work inside a dialogbox which I’m pretty sure is the same problem inside mobile controls. Chris will demo the workaround which is to use an HTML iframe element.

IBM is aware of the issue I’m having with using file upload inside Mobile Controls and are investigating. I thank them very much for that.

P.S. This show ends NotesIn9 week. I hope you enjoyed it. No shows next week as I’m away for vacation but I’ll be starting back up once I get back. Thanks for watching!!!

It’s his BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!

So a big happy birthday and NotesIn9 welcome to Dan O’Connor!! Dan is a great guy that I had the pleasure of working with a bit last year as I helped to put together the 2nd XPages Cheatsheet that was focused on Social Tools.

In this show Dan first talks about the Social Enabler and what it is and means. Then he goes into a demo on how you might go about connecting your xpages application to something like DropBox or Connections or Twitter.

Paul is an amazing teacher and he’ll show us how to use the Dynamic View Control. This is a control from the XPages Extension Library that can basically auto-create views for you. Say you have 15 views in your application. Previously you might have to make 15 xpages or custom controls to show them all. Well no longer! The Dynamic View Panel Control can make the views automatically for you. This saves you lots of time! Hmmm Sounds like an infommercial really.

But hold on there’s more!! Paul will also show you how you can individually customize these automatically built views. That’s right friends! Don’t wait! Click on the video now to be amazed!

Download the DEMO FILE.

UPDATE: Per Lausten pointed me to this StackOver Flow article which discussed the Customizer Bean. Be sure not to miss the links to work done by Jesse Gallagher (who I’m trying to get on NotesIn9 himself). Jesse’s project is meant to try and make the dynamic panels replicate the original views more closely.

Just wanted to say another big thanks to Niklas for contributing these videos to NotesIn9 and to the team from OpenNTF.org for creating the application in the first place.

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.

MWLug Demo File – Java Beans

This application requires FakeNames.nsf which can be found at cheatsheet.notesin9.com.

The database might require the Ext. Library because it contains a mobile demo I’ve not screencasted yet. the Java Bean stuff does not use anything from the Ext. Library.

I first talk about some of the tools available to the XPages developer and when you might want or not want to use some.

Then I get into the meat of the show – Java Beans. I try and explain exactly what they are and show what they look like. I talk about managed and “unmanaged” beans and go through what they look like and a little bit on how they can be used.

This is a “getting to know them” type show. Not an indepth getting started on building them. I didn’t intend to do this show quite yet but I’m getting some great contributions as part of the Drive to 99 Event that are starting to talk about Java beans so I wanted to get this little intro out.

There’s lots more Java Beans stuff coming. If you can’t wait Jeremy Hodge did 3 shows for NotesIn9 that are highly recommended. I’ll probably be doing my attempt and an indepth intro to Java in the near future as well.

If you have any questions please ask.

P.S. This show is about 36 minutes and I got it in 1 take! BOO YAY!!

The first part can be found here.

I also talk about the current open nomination period for OpenNTF.org elections. If you have time and desire please consider getting involved in OpenNTF. It’s a worthwhile resource.

Ni9-074-snippet

Niklas was one of the team that built this site.  This is the first part of a series of videos that detail what the site is and how various pieces were built.  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.  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.  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!

I recently spoke at the MWLug conference.  This show is the first part of what might be 4-5 parts of that presentation turned into a screencast.

In this show I talk about Domino Designer and source control first.  These are brief reviews of some longer shows I have done.  Though I talk a little more indepth about source control “Branching” which I’ve not done before.  I then talk about some tools that you need to have in your designers toolbox.

Hope you like it as our “Drive to 99″ starts heading to the highway!

UPDATE: Since I stumbled in the show on what “Xmx” and “Xms” are I was excited to get some feedback from Dan O’Connor of IBM.

I saw you were a little unsure about the xmx and xms variables/args .

xmx is the maximum heap size, it is a variable that is passed to the JVM on startup, and is the maximum size the JVM will allow its heap to expand to.

xms is the minimum heap size, and while you might think setting this to a really low number can do ‘no harm’, it is actually advisable to set it to a ‘reasonable’ number, as the JVM is usually optimized to initialize to the minimum heap size, and if this size is too small for the number of objects needed to initialize the program (in this case Designer), as a result the JVM has to keep cycling until the optimal heap size is reached, which can have a performance impact.

Dan also suggests referring to the book “XPages Portable Command Guide”.  There’s a section in there that starts around page 86 and goes into more detail on what the Java heap is and how it affects performance.  While the book is geared for the server, the same principles apply to the client as well.  I hope to review those pages and go into that in a little more details in a future NotesIn9.

Thanks Dan!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dynamically Expanding xSnippets

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!

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.

In XPages you can separate your code application from your data storage databases very nicely. This is something you really can’t do in notes client development and I find myself seperating logic and date quite often. In this example I have a NSF file with code needed for an iPad Mobile web application. But all the data is in a different database. Separating your code from your data is really seamless and nice to work with. This isn’t a big deal at all, until you get so into the coding that you actually forget where your data is.

I spent way to long yesterday on a piece of code in Java that was supposed to save a document. It was right, I knew it was right but it just didn’t work. Probably every XPager knows that feeling.

Anyway it turns out that it worked fine, but I was simply saving it to the CURRENT database rather then the data database that I needed to. OPPS!! I just completely forgot about the separation.

So the moral of the story is always know where you’re data is supposed to go.

I’ve been working on an Online “CheatSheet” to help with working with URL’s in XPages. Basically how do you get the value you might need or are looking for.

Again this is rough, and I’m FAR from an expert at this stuff so I’ll just ask if people have particular code snippets for this kinda thing, please let me know and I’ll update this page.

here it is:

XPages URL CheatSheet – (Early Draft)

This ad ran a little long so I won’t be using it on the site, but still, maybe you’ll get a kick out of it.

Lotus Notes Baseball Ad

Last night I made my first ever contribution to OpenNTF by contributing this code. I call it XPages Media Library. This is a full application I’ve been working on for a while. The purpose of the app is to be able to present Videos and Audio Media to users and make it easy to find and consume content. I’ve wanted to make improvements for a LONG time.

While my focus is on XPages.TV, it’s designed to be able to host multiple “shows/categories” with multiple authors and contributors. So for example this could be used for an internal corporate training library where media files are separated by application or even department.

For the heart of this app I’ve used the Projekktor player as it seems to me to be the best video project out there. And I’m pretty sure I’ve seen all of them the last 18 months. Projekktor carries a pretty nice GPL 3 license so that’s what the project is as I couldn’t use Apache.

Projekktor is an HTML5 based player with a flash fall back. A key to me is that the videos should play perfectly on most mobile devices, especially iOS devices.

I’ve not included any documentation just yet, I’ll be doing a NotesIn9 on using this very shortly.

There are still a couple of bugs I am working out, especially with the gravatars, and it’s FAR from feature complete so I hope to have updates coming somewhat regularly.

XPages.TV contains a “Feedback” button where you can leave a message for me if you have any problems with the site or videos playing. Please let me know if you have any problems.

Thanks!

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.

I’ve heard that this book is being delivered now from IBM press. It’s not on amazon just yet but it IS available via Apple’s iBooks store. At least in the US.

I’ve looked at the rough draft of this on Safari Books online, but just look at the list of authors to know that this is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

More on a future NotesIn9!

Here’s the original higher res version of the demo.

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

UPDATE: Apparently there’s a problem with how the demo section was rendered. I’m investigating.

UPDATE2: Problems with video fixed.

The best thing for a modem user I think would be to get a feed reader and INDIVIDUALLY subscribe to the blogs of interest. That could be done my finding sites of interest from PlanetLotus.org or Chris Miller maintains an OPML feed

Since I don’t write many technical blogs any more, my content is a little different. This site is embedded some of my videos from Youtube. While I wish there were some text to go with the video mentioning and linking to my site, I guess embedding videos are a little different then copying an article’s content. That’s so much worse.

Interestingly, I typically dual post the NotesIn9 shows.. The first to my sites, and the second to YouTube. The last several shows I’ve not put on YouTube. It started out as laziness, but it’s a pain in the butt, and once no one complained I just kinda stopped it for now. I’m not sure what to do going forward. Sure I want to be on YouTube for searching, but so few of my videos get played over there I’m not sure it’s worth it. I’ll never use them as my primary host because I want better control of the content and presentation. But I guess now I’m off topic.

I honestly don’t want to spend any more time on this subject as it’s already distracted me from some work I’m doing to BETTER the community. I’m more focused right now on building up XPages.TV and improving NotesIn9.com and creating shows. I think those efforts would be a bigger benefit to the community then just maintaining a youTube channel. I fear that some bloggers might get upset enough to stop blogging. What a shame that would be.

I’ll just end with a comment that I posted on the site in question. Just in case it’s not approved by the moderator. This was responding to her post justifying her actions.

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RSS Feeds are consent for an INDIVIDUAL to consume the information in the manner that they want. This could be preferred offline reader or even mobile application. They are NOT a consent for a website to consume and then republish the content of the articles in their entirety.

The better solution, if you want to continue to do this might be for you to MANUALLY post SUMMARIES and LINKS to articles that you find might be of value to the people you deal with.

That’s what PlanetLotus does, and it’s worked pretty well for that site. You ARE STEALING this content by republishing it word for word.

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!

So last night my family and I went over to by brothers for dinner. Near the end of the evening I ended up twisting my ankle pretty bad. This sent a jolt through me which made me dizzy and nauseous. After sitting for a couple minutes I decided to head over to the kitchen to get a little water. I remember cupping my hands under the sick to get water. Next thing I knew I was on the floor. My head was in my wifes lap people were staring at me and there was a pool of blood next to me.

Apparently I passed out while at the sink. When I hit the floor I cut my chin pretty bad. An ambulance was called and got me to the hospital. X-Rays of ankle.. CAT scan of head… blood tests. Heart tests… Maybe some other stuff.. not sure.. 8 stitches to close my 2 inch cut. Kinda felt like a hockey player that lost a fight against Dave Shultz really.

I guess there’s some kind of vasavagal nerve in the body. When it gets stressed it cuts off blood to the brain. This is what causes some people to pass out from the site of blood. While I don’t have that problem in my case it seems that if I get a quick / sharp pain… This nerve is going to take me down. This happened twice before – where I got quick really bad injuries though I didn’t pass out those times probably because I didn’t try to get up so soon as I did last night. I guess standing with that kind of lightheadedness doesn’t go well together.

Here’s an interesting article on this nerve. Again – I don’t pass out from blood at least I don’t think so. Just quick intense pain I guess. Weird….

Anyway – I’m still a bit shaken up but doing much better then last night.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/notesin9/Ni9-063-InViewEditControl.mov

Demo Database
Presentation Slides

Some code from the show:

Setting the “Can Logout” ability:
sessionScope.put(“extlib.user.canlogout”, true)

A link for the manual logout node:

href = facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequest().getContextPath() + “?Logout&redirectTo=” + facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequest().getContextPath()

Control rendering on the manual logout node:

var uName = session.getEffectiveUserName();
if(uName == “Anonymous”) {
return false;
}

else {
return true;
}

Here’s his blog post.

So you can already download and use all my shows offline via iTunes which isn’t to difficult to do. But this should allow you to just do a generic “Get All” and load them onto the device of your choice.

I will add that another great way to learn XPages is Matt White’s XPages101.net site. If you like NotesIn9 his stuff is so much better technically. Though I think I try to get a few more jokes in from time to time. And guess what, if you’re a subscriber you can download Matt’s videos as well and take them with you as needed! Score!!

I think NotesIn9 is closing in on 7-8 hours worth of training videos, I’m sure Matt has the same. Hmm.. Wonder if we could fill up an iPad between us. haha

Apparently I was a little over active this month and the bad news is I’m now up against my 800MB storage quota and the next show doesn’t fit. That’s never happened before. I don’t think I ever saw it hit red before. The good news is it’s a rolling 30 days, so hopefully some space will free up by the time I get back. The bad news is that it’s Vegas and I might not know who I am when/if I get back.

Anyway – stay tuned. A great show coming from John Jardin on using XPages with JDBC and Relational Databases. There’s also an amazing brand new surprise contributor on deck as well.

In this show I take a brief look at a couple of different topics. First I talk about the Extension Library and the Upgrade Pack and what I personally perceive to be differences betwen the two.

Then for the Demo, I talk about several different ext. library controls. The focus is on Field Layout Controls like “Form Table”, “Form Layout Row”, and “Form Layout Column”. But to get to that point I first touch on the App Layout control and the Navigator. I hope you like it.

For more information on App Layout control Steve Pridemore did a great show on it in episode 42.

Prior to the Demo there’s an important service message for the Kennedy Kreiger Institute.  They are directly involved in crucial care for Matt Reimer as discussed in a post by Rob Novak.  The program that benefits Matt is having it’s funding significantly reduced. Here is an article about Matt and the funding issue.

I would only ask that if NotesIn9 has ever benefitted you, maybe you would consider donating to this worthy cause.

The website is: http://helpkids.kennedykrieger.org
To donate be sure to select Other in the Fund Designation section and enter “ALD Research”
To contribute by mail, make checks to Kennedy Krieger Foundation, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205-9851. Memo: “ALD Research”

Thank you for the consideration!

In this show I take another look at Source control in Domino Designer. I feel it’s an EXTREMELY important topic. There will hopefully more more shows coming as well.

In this show I talk more about the servers to hold your repository. We take a quick look back at Declan Lynch’s server that I demo’d in Episode 41 , and then I show how you might go about getting the information needed to build your own internal server.

Finally I take a long look at a hosted server called bitbucket.org. They can host your repositories, have free plans, and are at least a little bit XPAGES FRIENDLY!!! Woo Hoo!!!

http://ntf.gbs.com/nathan/escape.nsf/d6plinks/NTFN-8GP6RP

In other news I’m trying to improve how I use other outlets for NotesIn9 information. If you like, please follow @NotesIn9 on twitter. I also have a facebook page.

Of course that’s not unique users… people watch the same show more then once, but still I think it’s a really good number showing growing interest in XPages technology.

Anyway – I’m very pleased at the interest in my little show. When I started this in the summer of 2009 I never thought it would go this far. And I certainly couldn’t have done it without the awesome help from my growing list of contributors. These people are the true XPages experts and I’m very happy that they’ve come on the show to share their talents and tips.

My most popular show continues to be my original XPages Jumpstart video. A 73 minute session that I originally presented at some user groups. That show is been viewed / download over 8,500 times itself!!

There’s a lot more to come for NotesIn9.

- I’m investigating getting the shows transcribed or maybe even closed captioned/subtitled to help people where english is not their first language.
- I’m desperately trying to do some things to improve my website and consolidate XPages.TV and XPagesCheatSheet.com into NotesIn9 to try and make things easier to find.
- I’ve got some more great contributors coming on soon if all goes well.
- I also have a bunch of my own shows in the queue that I want to try and get to.

So needless to say, NotesIn9 will keep going and hopefully serve up another 100,00 in less time!

I really must thank Chris Miller and his Spiked Studio Productions for supporting NotesIn9 with wordpress hosting and advice. He came to me very early on and gave me some help when I really needed it.

I also want to thank Jeremy Hodge and his ZetaOne company for creating my logos and assistance with other aspects of the show.

And I especially want to thank everyone for watching and for any comments and emails. I really appreciate them!

In celebration of this event there will be some new shows out next week.

UPDATE: Here’s the Demo file for the episode.
THIS HAS BEEN FIXED. Sorry about that.

UPDATE 2: Steve also used the Fake Names database for data. That can be found at XPagesCheatSheet.com

A Compact Resource to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language

This book is now available from Amazon in print and Kindle editions as well as Apple’s iBooks for iPad use and I’m sure other good bookstores as well. I’ve just purchased it via iBooks and will try to do a review at some point in the future.

Great to see!

I must be clear here that everything I know about this I learned from Declan Lynch. Check out his blog at www.qtzar.com. He is the true expert. Hopefully he’ll be able to contribute his Lotusphere session to NotesIn9.

Personally I can’t emphasize enough that we as Notes/Domino developers, whether you’re using XPages or not, start understanding and using Source Control.

It joins the original XPages Cheatsheet which is geared more for the pure beginner starting out with XPages Development.

Both documents are available in 2 PDF versions. The original 11×17 version that gets printed for Lotusphere and a version that is sized for 8.5 x 11 that can be printed at home.

XPagesCheatSheet.com is also the home of online demos that have been featured on the NotesIn9.com screencast. A Demo database and a Fake names Data database is also available for download.

A complete list of NotesIn9 videos, including the award winning XPages Jumpstart video can be found at XPages.TV.

Note: I know the boxes aren’t lining up right. I hate CSS. I’ll fix it as soon as I can. Also, the “Fancy Type ahead” demo has been temporally removed because I broke it. I’ll fix that also soon.

So it seems to me that there’s a potential demand for adding sub-titles to the show. I really have no idea how to add sub-titles to the video feed either for Youtube, or my hosted stuff which is on the website or available via iTunes/RSS for downloading. So I’d need to investigate that. Not sure what happens if the sub-titles conceal pieces of the screen…

Regarding generating the sub titles I THINK there are three ways to do it.
1. There’s a service that does this for $1 per minute. I would certainly try this for a couple of shows, but to do it for every show might get too expensive. I think NotesIn9 is closing in on 7 hours of material….
2. I could try to create subtitles that weren’t a complete translation – but maybe a shortened outline.. not sure the value in that.
3. MAYBE I could find a volunteer to do a fuller translation…

While I’m NOT promising to add subtitles to every show, I am promising to investigate the feasibility.

So my question to anyone who might care is this:

How valuable would adding subtitles be in helping you learn XPages from the NotesIn9 shows?

Any opinions or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!