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NotesIn9 4 Year Anniversary

The very first NotesIn9  was published way back on July 11 2009.  I usually miss the actual date because I forget and only remember it was in the “summer” sometime.  I should probably set a reminder or something.  Anyway…

After 4 years, NotesIn9 has now produced 120 episodes from 31 amazing contributors for almost 35 hours of mostly XPages educational content.

Between my libsyn.com account and Youtube, the show has been viewed or downloaded 200,524 times!  Not too shabby at all I think.

My best show continues to be the 73 minute “Introduction to XPages” with over 15,000 views/downloads just for that episode.

The cheatsheets continue to be downloaded and some people seem to like the new show map.

In case you didn’t know it, NotesIn9 is available from the iTunes store here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-in-9/id342514883?mt=2. There’s also an RSS feed in the sidebar of the website.

I’m hoping for some big changes in the next year, we’ll see. In the meantime there are more shows coming.  A great one by Keith Strickland is up next and I’ve got some I’d like to get out.  I’ve also talked to some potential new contributors recently and need to get back to that.  So all in all should be some more content coming.

I want to thank Chris Miller of SpikedStudios and Jeremy Hodge of Zeta One for some key support at some crucial times.  I want to thank Jesse Gallagher for some key support moving forward.

I also really wanted to take a minute to thank all the contributors for donating your time and talent to the show.  I and others really appreciate it. Thanks also to everyone who watches and leaves comments and feedback as that’s really nice also.

Dave

I’ll leave you with a little story.

Probably the most common question I get asked is “What does the 9 mean”?  Well back when I started out, YouTube had a 10 minute limit for uploaded shows. I thought NotesIn9 had a much better ring to it then “NotesIn10”.  That worked for a while till I just needed more time for longer topics.  So I moved from YouTube for the most part to a private host – libsyn.com.  That let me get longer shows and also an RSS feed for the Apple iTunes store. So the 9 originally meant that the show would be 9 minutes-ish.  Now it has less meaning as some shows have been lengthy. Not quite sure what to do about that. haha.

So that’s my story. More to come.  Stay tuned.

 

 

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The NotesIn9 Guide Map to Learning XPages has been updated.

There’s been a bunch of new NotesIn9 shows recently with more on the way.  I’m really close to getting through my contributor backlog.  I even have a several of my own shows I’d like to do.

Since there’s been these new shows I took a couple of minutes to update the Mind Map that should hopefully have links to all of them. The goal is to make things easier to find.

Check it out here.

I hope this is a helpful means of finding other shows and getting into XPages.  I’ve not really spent much time on the organization of this map but if anyone has any suggestions, or if there are any problems with any of the links please let me know.

Dave

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Ext. Library Learning XPages Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 120: XPages Data View Control Part 2: Customization

In this show Brad Balassaitis comes back on with a show on how to customize the Data View control.  This is the 2nd video that Brad’s contributed on this control.  Part 1 is at http://notesin9.com/index.php/2013/06/05/notesin9-115-xpages-data-view-control-part-1-implementation.

This show also has a lot of great detail on how Facets/Editable areas work.  He also shows you how to inspect elements on the XPage.  Really great stuff in this show.

Do NOT miss this show!

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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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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