Episode 92 recorded on Friday 9th March 2012. Mike McGarel joins Darren and Stuart to discuss the XWork Server offering 6 months on, the new OpenNTF XPages development contest, a new and improved xpages.info site and community efforts to improve IBM Connections documentation.
[The XXX Episode – That’s XWork, XPages contest and xpages.info, hope that still proves arousing ?]
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
| Mike McGarel (blog | Twitter) , As a Collaborative Solutions Developer for Czarnowski Display Services, “XPages marks the spot”in my career right now. All of our new development efforts have been XPages-focused for over a year. I am Vice President of GRANITE, the Chicago-based ICS user group. I also help out with various community get-togethers such as the Blogger Open at Lotusphere and the annual Midwest Lotus User Group conference. |
Topics
XWork Server Update – TNG
- Ed asks what next for the newest member of the Domino family
- “Social Business Databases”?
- ISV chicken and the egg issues?
- “. . . awareness is lower than we expected at this point in time.”Proof that it needs its own marketing campaign?
Third OpenNTF Development Content
- Sponsored by We4IT
- Deadline: June 3rd, 2012
- Two categories (Controls and Applications). Each category will have 2 winners. The Control category winners will receive $800.00 each, the Application category winners will receive $1600.00 each. The winners can choose between Amazon vouchers or payment via Paypal.
“New look”of http://xpages.info
- Fantastic work by Bruce and the team
Connections Community Documentation
- Paul Mooney and Gab Davis are about to undertake a mammoth task
- Will it help?
- Why is it needed?
- IBM Connections Quickstart for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino – 3 week engagement
iPad Fever
- Stresses the need to get up to speed on mobile development. If you’re company is still thinking about mobilizing your apps, it time to stop thinking and start doing.
- So how many iPad 3’s will Stuart be buying? 😉
- Dates: August 15th – 17th
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA at the Omni William Penn Hotel.
- 5 Tracks: Administration, Application Development, Business Cases and Strategy, New Technology and Integration, and Social Business
- YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/mwlug (videos from 2009-2011)
- Website: new XPages-based site plans to debut at the end of March
- Call for abstracts: Planned for mid-April 2012
Tips
Darren:
- Notepad++. Notepad they way it should have been. One of the first things I install on a new machine. Excellent light weight editor.
Mike:
- In the grand tradition of developers stealing borrowing from one other, I saw this site mentioned within a Planet Lotus blog post from Mark Roden: http://jsbeautifier.org/. It makes JavaScript code more readable by adding indents and line breaks.
Stuart:
- Chrome with IBM Connections Files issue workaround. Great job, Sjaak!
