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NotesIn9 172: XPages Java Debugging

In this show XPages “Professor” and IBM Champion, Mr. Paul Withers returns for an in depth look at how to use the Java Debugger to step through the Java code in your XPages applications.  In the beginning and end of the show he’ll also talk about OpenLog which was originally an AMAZING project from Julian Robichaux that Paul has enhanced for the XPages world.

This show finally sees a slightly different format that I’ve been wanting to do for a while. We did this demo via Gotomeeting so I was able to talk to Paul and ask some questions throughout the demo.  I’m hoping this will be a benefit for certain topics and maybe even certain speakers – especially new ones that might not feel comfortable in doing a demo solo.  So really there should be no more excuses. 🙂

Let me know what you think!

Thanks

Dave

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Community

And now we take a moment to eat…

This Sunday is the International Food Festival at my kids school.

For the third year in a row I’ll be dusting off my crack BBQ team and we will be manning a table of smoked Pulled Pork, Brisket, Burnt Ends, and our new item Bacon Tater Bombs.

It’s always a fun event.  We sold out the first year then last year I doubled the amount we made and sold out twice as fast.  This year I’m bringing enough there’s no way we’re selling out.  I think at least.  🙂

Anyway if anyone is in the local area please feel free to stop by for some BBQ and International offerings. They even have a ton of desserts.

This year my wife made a new “Pub Style” menu with the help of her laser engraver.  Yep – we go all out for this event. 🙂

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Bluemix

NotesIn9 171: IBM Bluemix Text to Speech

This show will feature our very first, but definitely not our last, look at IBM Bluemix.  Bluemix is a Platform as a Service solution from IBM that gives you tools to quickly build web and mobile applications. IBM is even adding XPages capability and the original NoSQL database, Domino .nsf , capability to Bluemix.

In today’s show Mark Roden comes on to show how you can connect with IBM Watson and harness it’s Text to Speech capability.  It’s very cool.

Links:

Bluemix

http://www.bluemix.net

5 new IBM Watson services

https://developer.ibm.com/watson/blog/2015/02/04/new-watson-services-available

Text To Speech demo

http://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net/

Getting started with Text to speech 

http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/doc/text-to-speech/

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AngularJS

NotesIn9 170: AngularJS and Pocket

In this show, Shean P McManus returns with an awesome demo on using AngularJS and the Pocket website.

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Learning XPages XPages

NotesIn9 169: Show Single Category View

This show comes direct from the XPages Forum.  I attempt to answer someone’s question on how to do a show single category view inside of XPages.

In the beginning of the show I talk about a couple of things community and XPages related.  Where to ask XPages questions for instance.

However the biggest news is this:

I’ve been elected the director of XPages.Info!

I talk more about this in the opening of the show.  Please tune in.

Note: This demo and show was a RUSH job.  🙂

 

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NotesIn9 hits 300,000 downloads

Between my libsyn.com hosting and YouTube, the total downloads/views for NotesIn9 have now hit 300,000.

Not too shabby for my little corner of the internet I think.  Was almost a year ago that I announced 250,000 downloads.  So looks like there’s still strong interest in XPages.  It’s also good to see people doing lots of videos on their own site or via OpenNTF!

I do have more shows coming up.  A great one by Sean McManus will be up next.

Hope everyone has a great 2015!  Thanks for watching the show.

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Community XPages

Would you like to play the Tree on a Truck game?

tree2014It’s the time of year again. Every year my family plays a simple game to get into the holiday spirit.  It’s competitive and borderline cut-throat at times but at the core it’s simple.  We count the number of Christmas Trees that we see on cars and trucks.  By count I mean the first one who sees it and calls it gets a point.  And by calls it I mean the first person who shouts “TREE!” get’s that tree as a point.  It’s actually loads of fun while still stressful haha.

Last year I made a website – http://treeonatruck.com and wrote a quick little XPages Mobile Controls app where you could sign up, enter all the players in your family and keep track of the score.  Last year there were 25 groups from several different countries and several hundred trees spotted.  That was pretty cool.

Anyway – this year I waited too long to start working on it but I ditched the mobile Controls app and relaunched the website app using XPages, Bootstrap and the really cool BootCards project.

I’m still working on the site in my off hours.  I hope to get the leaderboard working next and integrate pictures.  Once it’s all done I’m sure it’ll be coming to NotesIn9 as well.

Anyway, if you want to play along – just sign up.  Add members to your team.  Read the rules.  It’s an honor system thing so play fair.  🙂  The game starts FRIDAY.  Not before.  We’ve already seen one tree on a car AND a whole truck carrying trees to a store. And even though they didn’t count I’m still ticked that certain family members called them before I could.

I just added a comment section so please leave me a note if you have any problems with the site.

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Notes In 9 Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 168 – Updating Source Control for Page Controllers

In today’s show I take a break from the Learning XPages series and do a little demo on updating a project in source control.  So it kind of goes with the Learning XPages series but really isn’t part of it.

The Learning XPages series is going on a little break while I work on a more important holiday project – but hopefully that project will turn into shows as well.

As always let me know if you have any comments or questions.

Thanks!

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Java Learning XPages Notes In 9 Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 167: Learning XPages Part 8 – Working towards CRUD

In this show I continue on to the goal of CRUD. CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update and Delete. By the end of this show we should be able to achieve all 4 actions against the Company document.

I’ve not done anything to really make this app look pretty yet.  Honestly I’ve given the UI very little thought so far.  I’m trying to just focus on the core functionality at the moment so the UI stuff doesn’t distract.  I do want to better integrate Bootstrap to clean up the UI at some point when it makes sense.

Note: I’ve been pushing a bunch of these shows out quickly. I filmed them a while back in one evening. I believe I have one more small one then I’ll probably take a little break from this series as I have another personal XPages project that must be ready by Thanksgiving.

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NotesIn9 166: Learning XPages Part 7 – Company Controller

In this show I demonstrate how to setup and set using a Java “Page Controller”.  This is a technique that Jesse Gallagher came up with and I absolutely love.  Without a doubt it saved me a TON of work on a recent day job assignment.  There’s a little effort involved in setting it up but it’s so worth it in the long run.