It’s back! Come and play the Tree on a Truck Game!!
It’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...
View ArticleNotesIn9 187: Highlights from MWLug – Nginx and PageSpeed
In this show, IBM Champion, Eric McCormick, returns with a great show taken from his presentation at the MWLug conference. He’ll be talking about Nginx and PageSpeed and how and why you should care...
View ArticleWhat’s your Christmas Movie Play List?
At this time of year we look forward to watching our “standard” selection of Christmas movies. Here’s our top holiday movies. #1 has to be Christmas Vacation. Good fun for all the family. We’ll...
View ArticleViewer Question about scoped variables in XPages
So I got this in my inbox : Dave, Do you happen to know of a good article or video that talks about scope variables (i.e. applicationScope and sessionScope ) and passing values between different web...
View ArticleAlert! Danger! Chrome has a Dojo Bug that affects XPages
Declan Lynch found this bad news today. ATTENTION There is a known bug in Google Chrome 48 that is affecting DOJO resource loading which in turn is causing XPages application to stop working....
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BlueMix and Spam
Blue Mix and Ham I am Dave Dave I am. I did not sign up for Bluemix today I did not sign up yesterday. I did not sign up thirty days ago I did not sign up with an Eskimo I did not sign up from a plane...
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Updated Pages Url Cheatsheet
So I’m working on an update to xpagescheatsheet.com and the first thing I’m going to do is fix my XPages URL Cheatsheet. It’s UGLY. As in really ugly. So I started with that and made a new one....
View ArticleNotesIn9 188: Adding a “Please Wait” to XPages
In this show I demonstrate a couple techniques for improving your UI when you have a longer running code process. I show how to add a “Standby” custom control to your application for Partial Refreshes...
View ArticleNotes In 9 : 189 Introduction to SonarQube with a side of Docker
In this show Eric McCormick returns to show us how to use SonarQube and Docker to help us improve our code.
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Discussion on using PageControllers in XPages
WARNING: This is a long one. Enter if you dare. In the XPages Slack chat, which is free for anyone to join, hint hint. Whenever I see people working together to solve an interesting problem I...
View ArticleCan anyone help with “Notes 9.0.1 64-bit for Mac Open Database Issues”
Here is a post by CaySal Lackey who’s an rising XPages developer but is losing dev time to problems with the Notes Mac OSX client not being able to open and properly use 14 year old basic Form and View...
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In XPages you can add an id to an event handler and call it from CSJS.
Ok let’s get this out of the way. I’m going to talk about Client Side JavaScript and that’s WAY out of my comfort zone on a good day. But I had a need to work with it and the amazing Declan Lynch...
View ArticleNotesIn9 190: Barcode Scanning in XPages
In this show I demonstrate how I recently improved web pages that let a user scan barcodes with a blue tooth barcode scanner. Big thanks to Declan Lynch for the help on the Client Side JavaScript...
View ArticleWant to talk XPages?
In case you’ve missed this we have an XPages Slack chat. Beginners are WELCOME!! If you’re not already there please join, say hello and talk XPages. You don’t need to program alone anymore....
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XPages at MWLug – what do you want to learn?
It’s no secret that I want to go to MWLug in August in the worst way. And even though I’ve really cut back on my live speaking I would really like to speak at this particular event. This means I need...
View ArticleWHOOPS
Whoops! I just published the wrong show from Eric. I published the one from NotesIn9 189 by mistake. I’ll fix it tomorrow by publishing the more recent one he gave me. sorry!
View ArticleNotesIn9 191: A Beard, an App, and a Blender
IBM Champion Eric McCormick makes a triumphant return with a show that needs to be seen to believed. And I really mean that because I literally can’t describe it and do it justice. Apparently there’s...
View ArticleXPages job Opening!
I was asked to post this from my good friend Dan Soares. We have a FT on-site position that just opened up at Princess Cruises in CA. NOT a telecommuting position. Please ask the applicants to use my...
View ArticleNotesIn9 Live is coming to MWLug
In a couple weeks I’ll be in Austin Texas at the great MWLug event. I’ll be presenting on XPages. I’ll be doing a show with a bunch of tips and techniques that I use in the day job. I’m trying to...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Unofficial MWLUG BBQ Event
On Tuesday at MWLug NotesIn9 will be sponsoring a small “BBQ” event which will be guest hosted by XPages Legend and frequent BBQ critique Paul Calhoun. This will likely be around 11:30 – maybe a...
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