TimsterC

I have appeared on the “Someone Once Told Me” website. This is a great daily inspiration site where Mario takes pictures or gets them from his flickr group and posts them. They are all black and white and all have something that the person in the photograph has been told by someone. Simple idea and very well executed. It was a pleasure being “shot” for this even if it was bitterly cold, dark and nearly raining. I intend to shoot some of these for Mario at Lotusphere, so if you see me walking around with my camera and have something that you might want to share with the world, then please stop me and ask.

The next big announcement is that I have published my podcast called “The X Cast”. This is all to do with XPages and can be found here. We are waiting for Apple to come back with an iTunes subscription so I will tell everyone when that happens. In the mean time you can listen from the website or download the MP3 file.

Please tell me what you think about both topics.

WOW, I still can’t really believe that my session has been selected to be part of Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando, FL. Out of over 1000 session abstracts that were submitted Matt White and myself have had ours selected.
Can you guess what it’s going to be about? If you can’t then where have you been for the last 18 months?

Here is my abstract.

How to build an XPages Application from start to finish
Join us as we take you step by step and click by click through building an XPages application. Learn the basics and then grow the complexity as you expand the application.
Including; XPages, Custom Controls, server side JavaScript, single UI methodology, using existing Notes data and adding unlisted dojo objects. Watch the application being built live on stage with everything you need to know condensed into 2 hours.

So Bruce, Gayle and Matt at Elguji have taken another idea and managed to shoehorn it into the JAM format. IQJam is a great looking tool that will allow you to create a question and answer forum. As is synonymous with IdeaJam the community can vote on the questions and the person who asked can mark the question answered. Add to all this that Bruce has decided to openly publish iqjam.net for the benefit of the Lotus community, just like they have with ideajam.net.

Another XPages application from the Elguji stud that looks to be as good as the rest of the stable. It will only run on a Domino 8.5.1 server so we have a little while to wait to try it for ourselves. I’m sure the wait will be worth it.

It’s very rewarding for me to be involved with Elguji and see them working with the new technologies Lotus is creating. Watching the products go from ideas to alpha testing, beta testing and then on release to the market is extremely interesting. I can’t wait to see this product and try it out for myself.

So the folks running the UKLUG must have been drinking some pretty hard stuff recently. They have put out the agenda and I’m on it. I mean come on. I know they weren’t hard up for session abstracts. I guess I had better get on with writing something to show now. ;o)
I have been writing something anyway and I did know that they accepted my submission. I’m working on a small XPages application that I can build in front of everyone and explain it as I go along. The target is 45 minutes for the demo and 10 minutes for intro and questions. The other plan is to get a whole bunch of screen shots or a screen video of some kind that I can post after the session.
Here are the things that I will hoping to show.

• Simple data binding to a notes doc and notes view
• Creating a single UI to use again and again
• Using an unlisted dojo control in an XPage (dojox.image.Lightbox)
• Taking all that and showing it in the Notes client
• Incorporating that into a Composite Application and wiring it to a Google search gadget

So if you think you like the sound of that session then come find me on day 1 of UKLUG (8-Oct-09) 3pm-4pm in room #4. The rest of the agenda can be found HERE

So we made it to Zurich and it’s going well. Half way through day 1 and everyone is getting it so far.
Manchester next week, so watch out for the photo.

I’m trying to work out if anyone wants try taking the XPages workshop as an online presentation and then a self paced set of downloads.

I’m also trying to work out how we go about supporting your question that come up through the exercises.

All good ideas greatly welcomed. (Please leave comments)

Great day yesterday and all of the class turned up again today. I’m looking forward to today and all the learning that is happening. All the questions are great and there are lots of them.

Day 1 of the class went really well with all of the students getting to the end of lesson 14. So Matt and I just have to get them along to lesson 26 today and they can then go of into a brave new world armed with the ability to render Notes applications using XPages.
After the long day 1 schedule Matt & I went into Stockholm city centre and found a drink or two and discussed the day and how tomorrow should go.

Set up is finished, all we need now is a beer, some sleep and the 18 registered attendees to turn up tomorrow.

We're ready for XPages Stockholm

Avnet Technology Solutions in Bracknell are hosting a two day XPages workshop in mid April.
There are only going to be 20 spaces available,  and only available to IBM Business Partners. This is going to fill up fast so please book early using Kam’s contact details below.
It’s the same workshop that we ran in Hursley but condensed into two days. they will be good value days with all of the 26 hands-on labs available.
Myself and Kam will be on hand to answer any questions you might have.

Dates & Times
Thursday 16th – 08:30 – Registration. 09:00 – 17:30
Friday 17th – 09:00 – 17:30

Booking a place
Kam Cheung
Technical Consultant – IBM Software
Avnet Technology Solutions
Tel: + 44 (0)1344 662233
Mob: +44 (0)7841 784808
Email: Kam.Cheung@avnet.com
Avnet Technology Solutions Ltd.
5 The Sterling Centre, Eastern Road, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12  2PW