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!

Ok so I got shut out this year. I’m bummed but I’ll get over it.

But rather then getting too bummed about it, I think I’ll take the time and try and get some more NotesIn9′s out before the conference and hopefully even be able to make some improvements to my site(s). Maybe there will be another surprise as well.

Did you also submit a session that got rejected? Then let me suggest this. Publish the material anyway! Either on a blog, or wiki article, or even forum post. Heck – if you are interested in screencasting then please contact me about doing your material for NotesIn9. No it doesn’t have to be XPages specific! I’d be interested in talking to you.

The point is you have material to share. Just because there wasn’t a slot available at Lotusphere doesn’t mean you still can’t present it.

Fasten your seat belts!

http://notesin9.com/index.php/2010/11/09/notesin9-020-adding-woopra-analytics-to-xpages-apps/

Sorry about that.

Thanks again to John for taking the time to contribute this tip. I’m really exicited to have him and a couple more great guests lined up for some upcoming shows.

NotesIn9 029: Combine URL Parameters with Excel Exporting
NotesIn9: 030 – Formatting Numbers in XPages
NotesIn9: EE 008 – XPages: One Man’s Journey
NotesIn9: EE 009 – Using Java HashMaps and TreeMaps with XPages

I had fully planned to publish another show today – to round out “NotesIn9″ week. But it’s Friday… Harry Potter is out now and no one cares.

So I think I’ll save this for next week I think. I also have 2 NEW guest contributors about to come on so I’m considering another 4 shows next week. We’ll see how it goes. I do wonder if 4-5 in 1 week is too much.

As always, I really hope all this stuff helps and I thank everyone for their comments, feedback and interest in the show!

I take the Export to Excel example, and demonstrate how you can improve that by getting and using a parameter from the URL so the exported Excel document has only a subset of records.

I hope it’s helpful.

First, and this was covered in detail on The XCast podcast, but they really did a great job of responding to the community regarding the XPages forum. We asked… ok for some of us, myself included, I think “demanded” would be the more appropriate word. And they delivered. They’re not finished with that but they moved very quickly on working with the community in an unprecedented manner.

The next thing they did is a little more personal.

You see I’m a member of one of the Notes Design Partner program. As such I’ve signed an NDA which means I can run early Beta’s but must not divulge anything inappropriate. That means that I can’t run the beta code in my home environment because of the NotesIn9 screencast. But what do you do when you get to a point where the Beta has such an important feature that you don’t want to go back to 8.5.2? It has something that you’ve always wanted, started using, and now can’t live without? Well here’s what I did:

1.) I emailed a contact at IBM asking if it was ok for me to use the beta code in NotesIn9 as long as it’s a disclaimer. There was a similar arrangement pre 8.5.1.

2.) I hear back – Same day mind you, that sure- it’s not a problem. Yay!

3.) But hold the phone! I then hear that there was a misunderstanding and that technically it’s not ready until the NEXT code drop. But wait. What they will do for me is create a waiver so I don’t have to wait and can continue with the CURRENT software.

How awesome is that?!?! Seriously. IBM is this HUGE company and sure, they’re not perfect – I still have never gotten my Lotusphere evaluations… but in at least these 2 cases they’ve gone out of their way to be accommodating to community requests. I could also mention the fact that they’ve been supplying the LUGS with printed XPagesCheatSheets as another big win.

Do other companies respond to their communites like this? I have no idea but I’m very glad IBM is really taking to heart the whole “Be Social. Do Business” thing. Thanks IBM!

What’s this killer feature I’m so interested in? You’ll have to wait for the next NotesIn9 for that!

So I thought I’d through this out to see of anyone had any thoughts on this.

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Dear David,

I am very new to Lotus notes 8.5.2 and I am trying to learn programming in lotus notes Xpages.

I have to develop a meeting room reservation system using calendar and mail user list of Lotus Notes as the GUI and then save the data in the postgres database.

Can you tell me that is possible to mix read/write the Lotus notes mail and calendar DB with Postgres DB in XPages.

The reason for doing this is, that we have the reservation system online already but we would like to encourage our users to use Lotus notes more and migrate the application within Lotus Notes some how.

I am very grate full for your time in advanced.