Author: David Leedy

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Learning XPages Mobile Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 119: XPages Mobile Development First Steps

In this episode Graham Acres comes back on to talk about getting started with Mobile Development with XPages Mobile Controls.

I’ve had some other getting started with mobile shows on NotesIn9, and even though they might seem similar on the surface, each contributor really does bring a different perspective and focus.  Graham does a great job with his presentation and I hope you like it.

I’m starting to hear form potential contributors that it’s getting harder to find a topic that hasn’t been covered. My response is always “So what?  Cover it again with yo’re own spin”.  It will be different.

This show also contains a short public service annoucement of two worthwhile causes.

Here are links for Graham’s cause:

Spark Ideas Presentation

Riding team site

And here’s a link for Troy Reimers son’s site.

Matt Reimers site

 

NotesIn9 is a free service.  So far it’s produced 119 shows, from 30 DIFFERENT contributors, for over 34 hours of content. There are some not insignificant costs involved and I fund this myself.  I don’t have advertisers or sponsors (yet) and I don’t ask for donations (yet).  So all I am asking at this time, is if NotesIn9 has provided value to you, then please consider a donation to either of these 2 community causes, or some other worthwile organization.

Thanks for your consideration.

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Java Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 118:Using Java to Sign a Database in XPages

In this show John Jardin comes back on with an interesting demo on how to Sign a nsf AS THE SERVER from an XPage.  John will create a very small custom Java Class that he uses as a Managed Bean.  A really good demo.

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Learning XPages Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 117: Using the Navigator Control

In this show John Jardin returns to give us a great demonstration in using the XPages Navigator control to do partial refreshes of an XPages Content.  By using multiple custom controls you can simulate 2 or more web pages within a single .xsp page.  This is a really good demo for this who want to work with the Navigator control.

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Java Notes In 9 XPages

NotesIn9 116: Data Contexts and Variable Resolvers

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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Community Learning XPages XPages

XPages Forum has been updated!

I know of 2 main resources to try and get specific help on XPages issues.  StackOverFlow.com and the XPages Forum.

While StackOverFlow (SO) is clearly the best place to go with a specific question, it’s not the best place for every situation.  SO is geared more to very specific questions.  It’s not a place for higher level discussions.

This is where the XPages Forum comes in.  It’s a specific site on developerWorks for XPages focused questions and talk.  I was very excited to see this tweet come up on my screen yesterday from Craig Lordan telling us that the Forum template code has been updated:

forumtweet

 

The forum now has a new UI look and feel and as best as I can tell 1 or 2 minor functionality changes.

While I try to visit there as often as I can, there are a bunch of TRUE experts who try to answer questions. I know XPages Xpert Paul Calhoun, tries to answer many questions and I’ve even noticed more IBM’ers hanging out there more.  Including members from the elusive XPages Development Team!  That’s a big win for the community.

For various reasons the XPages Forum is near and dear to my heart.  I think it’s important to have a complement to StackOverFlow.  I’ve even had some private discussions with some great IBMers on trying to improve / add some more features to the forum to make it more workable.  They seemed interested in the ideas, so I’m REALLY hopeful that with this update to bring it up to speed some needed feature improvements will be coming soon.

If you’ve not visited the XPages Forum in a while I strongly suggest you checking it out.  If you don’t have a question try and answer one, or share an experience of something you’ve learned. There’s a great XPages Community out there but you do need to Join in The Conversation to make the most of it.

Who knows – you might even make some friends.  I did!

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Ext. Library Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 115: XPages Data View Control Part 1 – Implementation

In this show Brad Balassaitis comes back on to give a great demo on how to get started using the Data View Control.  There’s a lot of power in the Data View Control and I highly recommend checking it out.

In other news, recently I did a webinar for OpenNTF.org called “Getting Started with XPages”.  I presented that with Marky Roden and we want to thank those who attended.

Niklas Heidloff has now posted the video, audio and slides to the presesentation.  Here’s the link to find those.  http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-98D7BV

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Community Learning XPages XPages

Live XPages Webinar today at 10 am EST on OpenNTF

Today Marky Roden and I will be doing a Getting started with XPages Webinar for OpenNTF.

This is a rare event because I typically don’t do many webinars do to lack of time.  But one does not simply pass on the chance to speak with Mark Roden.

This session is geared for the person new to XPages or thinking about jumping into XPages.  We assume you know something about Notes Client or Domino Web development.  It really is true beginner / getting started focus but there might be some things for a slightly more advanced XPager.

We have a ton of content and likely won’t get through it all – but the webinar will be recorded, the slides will be available, and a “directors cut” of the demo at least, will be coming to NotesIn9 very soon.

It’s Free. Please join us if you have time.  There will be questions at the end.

http://webinars.openntf.org/

 

UPDATE:  The replay can be found here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbR9e8WWgwM

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Day Job XPages

I love what I do, and what I do is XPages

So I’m sitting here in Midway airport in Chicago.  Kinda bored really so I thought I’d throw out some random crappy post because really, there’s probably not enough of those on the Internet.

I’ve been rather busy recently, traveling to Anaheim, Washington D.C, Las Vegas, Orlando, Chicago, and I’m shortly going back to Las Vegas.

Why am I doing all this travel?  For my day job, and let me tell you I have the best job in the world.  I get to work with completely awesome people like Mike McGarel and Devin Olsen. I’ve got the best manager in the world in Declan “Super Tech” Lynch and above him is John Roling, an awesome PHB! Our company does some incredible things, but that’s for another post I think.

Our development platform of choice is XPages.  Why?  Because it works and works well.  We literally run out business on applications developed with XPages. We can and will use other tech when appropriate of course.  We’re not blinded by XPages. But for the most part it’s been clearly the best tool for our needs.

My part of this and the reason for my heavy travel of late is I’m building Inventory tracking applications.  I’m still using the Notes client a bit but that’s going away to be replaced with XPages only functionality. I big piece of this are screens specifically designed for iPad.  I have a blue tooth scanner that works great and it’s used to track inventory and assist is in shipping and receiving operations.  I’m doing a ton of mobile development – not all of it great yet as I feel my way through things like mobile controls, bootstrap, etc.  I have a lot of people using this app and a lot on iPads. So far they seem really happy and we’ve tracked and shipped a LOT of material. Yay!

Let me just say that putting my core business logic inside Java Beans has been an absolute life saver. But we’ll talk about that later.

So I’ve been traveling to not only train various locations in using these applications but also learn about how each location is different.  What their needs are… what works for them… what doesn’t. It’s been great though I am looking forward to just being home and getting back into development.

Outside of the day job the extra travel has prevented me from going to IamLUG and I probably will pass on MWlug. I do want to get back to the Lugs but want to hang with the family as much as possible right now.

On the NotesIn9 front – this has slowed down the shows of course.  It’s kinda been a problem since last year.  The end of the DriveTo99 then IBM Connect then the day job stuff has created a backlog.  So it’s taking me a long time to get shows from contributors out.  I’ve never had that kind of delay before and I do feel bad about it.  I think I still have 2-3 shows in the queue from Brad Balassaitis and Paul Withers to get out and then I THINK I’m caught up but need to go through all my dropbox directories to make sure I’m not missing anything.  So hopefully Ni9 will pickup in a bit after this last scheduled trip in a couple weeks.

Next week I’m doing an OpenNTF webinar with Marky Roden.  I’m really looking forward to it but need to finish up what I want to talk about and demo.  It’s a “Getting Started” topic so it’s geared for beginners, but maybe there will be something intermediates might have missed.

So that’s my story.  Oh yeah…  I did get a Chicago HotDog

Oh and before I sign off I do want to give a huge shootout to Jesse Gallagher from iknowsomeguys.com who’s helping me with a pet project.  Don’t miss his blog at http://frostillic.us

Great… looks like the plane is a bit late.  Sadly it’s too noisy to do a NotesIn9.

So yeah, I love what I do, and what I do is XPages!

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

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Community

NotesIn9 Live coming to the OpenNTF Webinar Series!

One June 4th I will be participating in a Webinar from OpenNTF.org called “Getting Started with XPages”.  I’m really excited to be presenting with Dr. Marky Roden.  It’s always nice to be able to present with good friends. In addition to being an outstanding developer Marky also happens to be a stellar presenter. So it should be a fun time.

I love doing what I can to support OpenNTF.  It’s a great community run website that is one of the best resources available to the XPages developer.  I don’t do too many webinar’s just because my schedule usually conflicts with hard dated commitments, but when Bruce and Niklas asked if we could do something for OpenNTF, well, how do you say no to that? They’ve both done a ton for the community.

Now – here’s your chance to influence the presentation.  This presentation is geared for the new XPager but we want to try to sneak in things that maybe the intermediate developer might have missed.  So in addition to looking at some getting started type code we want to have things like common mistakes to watch out for, tools you need, and more.

So if you have any suggestions for what you might want to see, or had a problem as you started learning and think it should be mentioned, or any other advice for a new and intermediate XPager  – well I’d love to hear it.  Either leave a comment here or send me an email.  My email address is on every single show. If I can’t get it into the presentation then who knows, it might just make a future NotesIn9.

Thanks so much and I hope you’ll be at the webinar.

 

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Java Notes In 9 Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 114: Using Wrappers with XPages

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.