Categories
Uncategorized

Domino Designer on Mac – It’s Social Business!

I just wanted to jump in on the blog posts today about Domino Designer for the Mac.

You can see other’s here:
A Passionate Plea for DDE on Mac at Lotusphere2011
DDE on Mac

This really needs to be made a priority by IBM. Sure, in the grand scheme of things Apple’s market share is still lower the Windows. But Apple has tremendous GROWTH, and GROWTH is what Notes/Domino needs! How many speakers at Lotusphere are using Mac’s? A LOT of them. But they’re crazy enough to use virtual machines. How many students use Mac’s? A LOT of them. But they’re NOT crazy enough to use Virtual machines.

Please IBM – this has to get done. This is like Social Business really. Take Designer to where the people are going!

If it’s easier – don’t do the “full” designer. Do a light version that just has what’s needed for XPages. That’s would be a great product right there!

The Notes/Domino community is a great one. We can evangelize. We can even educate by creating Wiki articles, podcasts/screencasts, and even answer questions in forums and twitter.

But the community can not bring Domino Designer to the Mac. Only IBM can do this. Please IBM – make this a priority. Bring Designer to the Mac so all these Mac people who want the best hardware, can now have the chance to create web applications with the best Web application server out there – XPages via Domino.

Categories
Uncategorized

NotesIn9 Live: Tuesday Feb 15th at IDoSphere

I’ll be bring NotesIn9 Live to Chris Miller’s IDoSphere next week on Tuesday Feb 15th at 8:30 AM EST.

My session is XPages: Beyond the Introduction. It’s kinda meant to be the second part of an XPages Jumpstart where the first part can be found in my Introduction to XPages Video.

I did this session at the summer Lugs where I get a really good response and even ATTEMPTED to use some it at my 5 minute speedgeeking event. Ya know… It’s a little heard to take 60ish minutes of material and boil it down to 5 minutes. But stupid me.. I tried! 🙂

Anyway, I’ll be talking about using XPages to do some common things. We’ll bind to foreign databases, take an indepth look at repeat control tricks, and maybe even take a peak at some custom object in SSJS. In the original version I talked about BluePrint CSS but I might replace that for another neat repeat control example. You’ll have to tune in to see!

IDoSphere is a 2 day virtual conference. With presentations that were NOT used at Lotusphere. There is a SMALL registration fee but the coupon code IDS2011DL will get you 10% off. My session will make it to NotesIn9, but IDoSphere has many more sessions with much better speakers then me. So if you missed Lotusphere, or even if you went, I suggest that this is worth checking out.

Categories
Uncategorized

Finding me at Lotusphere

I’ve seen a couple of these kinds or posts so I figured I’d give it at go.

I doubt anyone will be looking for me, but if anyone does I should be easily findable.  I’ll be sitting up front at most of the XPages sessions.  🙂

That’s about it really I think.  I’ll be at SpeedGeeking tuesday night and blogger open on Thursday.  I present a XPages: Enter the Dojo on Tuesday afternoon and I’ll probably stop by the VideoFest lounge more then once, and thanks to my wife, I’ll even have my own shirts.

So if you see me, please say hi.  🙂

Categories
Uncategorized

XPages Cheat Sheet: Here it is!

Here is the XPages Cheat Sheet that I’ve promised to the community.

I’m releasing this a little earlier then Jan 29th, which I had originally planned,  just in case someone spots an error then I MIGHT be able to fix it before it goes to the Lotusphere printers.

The cheatsheet references the domain xpagescheatsheet.com, which is not currently live.  I originally thought about hosting the files there and using that to assist in translating it to additional languages, but now I’m not sure.  I’m investigating the possibility of hosting this on openNTF.org, so I’ll let everyone know what happens.

Again, I need to thank the community for this. By compiling information from MANY different sites, and discussing and getting advice from several of my friends this was truly a group effort.

Ok – Here they are.  I have 2 versions, one for printing on 8.5 x 11 and another for printing on 11×17 as I originally intended.

XPagesCheatSheet-85×11-v1

XPagesCheatSheet-11×17-v1

Please share this with anyone who’s interested in XPages, and check back here at NotesIn9.com for any update notices.

Thanks!

Categories
Uncategorized

XPages CheatSheet Update

Just wanted to give everybody an update on the XPages Cheatsheet that I blogged about a bit ago.

Last night I sent an almost final version to IBM for some test printing.  Joyce Davis was kind enough to take some pictures for me so I wanted to share.  I have a couple of more tweaks to make and then this initial version will be finished and ready for Lotusphere.

She’ll be printing a BUNCH I’m told, but we have no idea what the interest will be so hopefully there will be enough.

For those that aren’t coming to Lotusphere, PDF’s will be made available.  I’ll also be making available a PDF designed for 8.5 x 11 printing as I know I don’t have an 11×17 printer at home. 🙂

After Lotusphere I’ll start to think about the language translations that people are starting to volunteer for.

Anyway – here’s a sneak peak of that version.  I still have some more adjustments to make.

Categories
Uncategorized

XPages Cheatsheet in other languages?

As I posted yesterday I’m working on an XPages cheat sheet.  Here’s the thing.  I only speak English and some Pennsylvania Dutch. 🙂

If there’s anyone out there that wants to help translate the cheatsheet into another language, like German, or Swedish, or whatever, please let me know and I’d be happy to make a version of it for any particular language. Though that won’t happen before Lotusphere.

Just let me know if you’re interested and we’ll work out the details.

Thanks!

Categories
Community Uncategorized

Lotus Community

I’m a big fan of the Lotus Community, especially the monthy meetings. We’ll now they’re asking for some feedback on how you might participate on the meetings for 2011.

Please checkout this poll from Joyce Davis who is @LotusTechInfo on Twitter.


Categories
Learning XPages Podcast Uncategorized XPages

NotesIn9 051: Introduction to XPages

This is a screencast of the Introduction to XPages Session that I presented at MWLug.  It runs a little over an hour.  The first half is mostly slides and discussion on what XPages is.  The second half is all demo of using XPages inside Domino Designer.

This is a pure intro session and I assume you are a Notes developer but really have no knowledge of XPages.

Demo Application

Categories
Uncategorized

XPages Hands on Workshop MWLug Materials

I’m here at MWLug and Michael McGarel and Roy Rumaner are going to give a hands on XPages learning workshop.

They took a poll of who was interested in this and MANY hands went up. So many they’re moving them to a bigger room. Mike and Roy have limited USB Keys to get the attendees started so to help out I’m making the materials for their workshow available here for anyone to download.

I’m told that the pdf is a complete walk through, so even if you’re not at MWLUG, but are looking to get into XPages you might find this interesting.

Files

MWLUG Session PDF

databases

MWLUG Session Reference

Categories
Uncategorized

NotesIn9 Problem.

I wanted to title this post “NotesIn9 is Canceled?” but thought that might be too sensational and distract from the much more important discussions that have been going on.

Well, I haven’t been actually been canceled, but it sure feels like it at the moment. My “network” has cut me off. This means that the embedded videos in my posts won’t play and I assume any new iTunes subscriptions won’t work either.

Yesterday I recieved an email from the provider that I use to actually host my files, LIBSYN.COM. The letter stated that my account is suspended due to being deliquent. I can only assume that my credit card that I had with them expired and I need to update it.

I say “assume” because that’s all I know at the moment. I got a suspension notice. I did NOT get a “You have a problem coming up” notice. I can’t even log into my account because it’s been suspended. ARGH!

My only recourse is to email them, which I did yesterday and not heard anything back yet. I’ve emailed again this morning.

How’s that for customer service?

So until I can get this sorted, hopefully getting the problem fixed in the short term and in the long term looking for a new host for my videos – all the shows can still be found on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/DaveLeedy

Make sure you use “DaveLeedy” and not “DavidLeedy”.

Sorry for any inconvenience. I have a bunch of videos and in the works and coming soon. Hopefully.

P.S. If anyone has hosting suggestions for the video files I’d really appreciate it.