In this episode Steve Pridemore, a new contributor, comes on the show to demonstation some cool techniques for using the new application layout control available in Domino 8.5.3 with the Extension Library.
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
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XPages: Portable Command Guide.
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!
In this show I talk about what Source Control is, more importantly why even as a solo Domino Developer that you would want to use it, and I go into a hopefully fairly detailed demo on how to install it into Designer and how to use it.
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.
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The new XPages Cheatsheet, “XPages: Social Tools”, that was launched at Lotusphere has been added to XPagesCheatSheet.com and is available for immediate download. This sheet, focuses on integrating your XPages applications with social sites, like Connections, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
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.
I noticed something at Lotusphere. There was a hearing impaired person in many of the XPages sessions. She was clearly starting to learn XPages. She had two translators who would switch off during the sessions. While it was amazing to watch I found myself wondering if she knew about NotesIn9 and if she was even able to make use of the videos. So I did the only thing I could think of… I asked her. Her name is Carolyn and she was very nice. The first bad news is that she did not know of NotesIn9. That’s a marketing problem I’m working on. The other problem is that she probably can’t make much use of the videos without some kind of sub-titles in them. That’s not something I ever thought about before. When I started asking about subtitles to my friends, some of them, like Serdar, thought it would also be really good for people where English is not a first language. Others seemed to echo this. It seems that for people in other countries it’s easier to read English then hear it. Another revelation that I never considered.
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!
In this show, John Jardin comes on to demonstrate Selenium, from http://seleniumhq.org/, which is a FireFox plugin that lets you automate testing of websites. This looks really cool! You can record tests and re-run them later. So if you make changes you can catch regression bugs and such.
This show is not to be missed for XPages Developers.
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In this show Brian Moore returns to give is tips on how to get fancier with the PDF’s that you create from XPages and iText.
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I’m very happy to announce that after the amazing success of last years XPages Cheatsheet, there will be a brand new CheatSheet for this year!
This year’s sheet is titled “XPages: Social Tools” and is intended to be a starting point on how to connect your XPages Apps to Social Services like LotusLive, DropBox, Twitter, FaceBook, IBM Connections, IBM SameTime and the IBM Social Business Toolkit.
This document would not have been possible without the effort of IBMers Dan O’Connor, Niklas Heildoff and Phil Riand. They literally pulled togerther all the content and “all” I had to do was the formatting. I really hope this proves helpful to people who want to integrate their apps with these social services.
I have learned that the original XPages Cheatsheet will return for Lotusphere. I did send IBM a new version with a couple of VERY MINOR updates that people had sent to me. So even if you have the old one feel free to pick the new one up to get those changes. But again 99% of it is the same.
I assume that both cheatsheets will be available at the Lotus Technical Information booth. They might make it into the back of some of the sessions again. I’m not speaking this year so I’m not really certain about that. They might end up in the Labs also since they were last year.
On or after Lotusphere I’ll be adding the “XPages: Social Tools” sheet to XPagesCheatSheet.com, which is the website that I use to host the downloadable versions as well as the Demo database that I use for most of the NotesIn9.com videos. So you will be able to get it even if you don’t attend the conference.
I hope everyone likes them. If you’re coming to Lotusphere safe travels and I hope to see you!