In this show John Jardin returns with another great XPages meets Bootstrap show. Today he’ll show us how to get a better date picker for your XPages applications.
In this show IBM Champion and great friend of NotesIn9, Mr. John Jardin returns with the first of several shows talking about Bootstrap and XPages.
In today’s demo he’ll show you how to turn the rather bland page into the much nice Bootstrap look and feel. And the best part? You don’t even need to use Bootstrap to do it.
Check out the video to learn the secret!
In case anyone is looking for XPages.TV or XPagesCheatsheet.com… they’re going to be unavailable for a bit due to hardware failures…
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For a little while I’ve been hearing from some respected friends that basically “AngularJS is Awesome”. I’ve sat in some presentations… seen webinars.. had Skype chats…. etc. So it’s on my “Interest List” but I’ve not devoted any time yet to try anything about. As I write this I literally know almost nothing about AngularJS from a practical stand point.
A while back though I did look for AngularJS information. Specifically I wanted to hear negative opinions about it. I wanted something to offset a lot of the Angular cheerleading that seems to dominate the conversation. Because of course there is no one perfect technology. Look at me – I love working with XPages but if you want a list of everything that sucks eggs about it I’d be happy to discuss that as well. It’s good to have perspective on things.
At the time I really didn’t find much negative about Angular. I didn’t spend a lot of time on it and my Google-Fu is usually pretty weak to begin with but I thought that odd.
So today I came across this article today that I wanted to share:
Why you should not use AngularJS
I found this article really interesting. Is it biased or even accurate? I’ve no idea. But I wanted to share this for anyone like me who might have been hearing all this positive vibes about Angular and wanted some perspective.
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Thank goodness for IBM Domino and XPages
So Declan sent me this article the other day. Something from JSFCentral about the development of the website for a “Major” insurance company. Really not much to it but what was rather interesting was the tools that they needed to build this website.
- Dev Platform
Eclipse, Java 6, Maven 3 - UI
MyFaces 2, Facelets, Richfaces3 and Tomahawk - Backbone
Spring 3 framework - Database
Hibernate, String JDBC, DB2, Oracle - Other
Spring Integration, MongoDB, JAX-RS, AXIS, Dojo, jQuery, Freemarker, Blaze rules engine, Drools, Apache, OBM MQ Series - Deployment Platform
JBoss AS5, Tangosol Cache Server
I wasn’t sure if I should say “Wow!” or “WTF?” I admit that I don’t know what half these tools even are but dang that’s a lot of parts for a website. It’s not even Facebook or Twitter. It’s “only” getting 80,000 hits a day which just doesn’t seem like a lot for the amount of tools and work a team of 35 people put into this.
I’m not suggesting that Domino and XPages could be used to built this site. Maybe it can and maybe it can’t. There’s not enough information to even guess at that. But if this is the norm of non XPages websites it sure does make me appreciate what XPages gives us out of the box to develop applications and how easy it is to deploy any applications on the Domino servers.
Now I’m all for embracing and learning non Domino web techniques – but looking at that list I wouldn’t even know where to start.
There’s a lot of things I don’t like about Domino and XPages. There’s just so many things that should be better. But I think for the next several days at least, I’ll just focus on all the good things that I do like about the platform.
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UPDATE: Vince had an interesting followup post here.
In this show, brand new contributor, Bill Fox comes on to give a really interesting demo on Categorizing Repeat Controls. He’ll show repeat controls with 1, 2 and 3 levels of categorization. There’s a lot of other techniques in here as well. He’ll use custom controls with custom properties, View Navigators, Computed CSS stlyes and more.
Hope you like it!
I’m really excited about today’s brand new contributor. Today we welcome Brian Gleeson to the show. I’ve had many great contributors to the show over the years but Brian is the very first member of the XPages Development team to come on with a demonstration. That’s been on my NotesIn9 “bucket list” for long time. I feel like I’ve finally gone “legit”. haha
Anyway Brian, who is a key member behind the Ext. Library on OpenNTF, is going to give use a great demo on the new responsive controls from the latest edition of the Ext. Library. There’s actually a bunch of new features in the Ext. Library but the responsive controls alone are very cool.
Hope you like it!
In this show Oliver Busse returns with a great show on how to get started with Custom Renderers.
His twitter is @zeromancer1972 and he can be found at http://oliverbusse.de
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Need an XPages/Web Developer Job?
I just saw this come across my email.
http://www.hersheyjobs.com/jobs/descriptions/programmer-analyst-hershey-pennsylvania-job-1-5225766
I basically interviewed for this job back in 2008/2009ish. It is in a great facility right next to the amusement parks “Hershey Park” and “Chocolate World”. They seem to do a lot of neat things. At the time I did not get the job – supposedly I came in 2nd due to my lack of web experience. While that was a bit of a blow back then it worked out for the best for had I gotten that job I would have missed out on my current dream job.
But anyway – I wanted to just through this out there in case anyone is interested. I don’t know any of the people involved so I don’t have any more information other then this link.
As an added bonus this is in Hershey Pa so you’d be very near to me. Hmm maybe that’s not a bonus.
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This is one of those shows that I think is really important.
Today we welcome Eric McCormick, a new contributor and IBM Champion, to the show. Eric did a geat demo showing us how to get started using Java to make Servlets inside our XPages Applications. This opens a lot of doors to expose your data to applications outside of the Domino server.
Note: This show doesn’t have great audio. My headset stopped working for some reason and also Eric recorded the show in several takes I think. I tried to clean up what I could – hopefully it’s not a huge problem.