This Week in Lotus

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 ;-)]



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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? ;)

MWLUG 2012

• 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!