Podcast – Page 4 – Bruce Elgort

Podcast: There’s Gold in Them XPages

We talked with XPages developers Jesse Gallagher (@Gidgerby) and Dr. Mark Roden (@markyroden) about:

How Jesse got started with Notes/Domino
How Jesse’s interest in Ruby on Rails spilled over into XPages
How a Notes/Domino programmer like Jesse has approached and been successful with XPages
How to approach XPages app development
What about Lotusscript?
How to write “clean” code
Using source code control
Moving from Lotusscript to MVC
Why Expression Language and Java are important
What XPages can offer that other platforms cannot or offer in a different way
The adaptability and flexibility of the XPages platform
and much more…

Podcast: What’s New with IBM Wikis

We talked to IBM User Experience Development team members Amanda Bauman, Craig Lordan, Kevin Giles, and Mike Stewart about what’s going on these days with the IBM Wikis. Topics included:

History of the IBM wikis
Types of content on the wikis (it’s not just random information spread across various pages)
New features in the latest iteration of the wiki template
Improvements in navigation and search
Dynamic content control
And more…

Bonus trivia: did you know that the short URL to the Lotus (aka ICS) wikis is wiki.lotus.com?

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Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Mission Log is a Roddenberry Entertainment podcast with the sole purpose of exploring the Star Trek universe one episode at a time. That’s right, this podcast will cover six different series and 30 seasons of television by journeying into every one of the 726 episodes with a single mission: to explore, debate and discuss one of the largest science fiction phenomena of all time, Star Trek. Starting with The Original Series’ initial pilot and continuing chronologically until we reach the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, each week our hosts, Ken Ray (@macosken) and John Champion, will tackle a single episode, delving into the most historical and hysterical science fiction that Star Trek has to offer. Along with a variety of guests and interviews, Mission Log will attempt to reach Star Trek’s ethical subtext, understand it’s complex metaphors and finally figure out what was the trouble with those tribbles. Explore strange new details. Seek out new perspectives; deeper understandings. Boldly go where so many of us love to go, again and again. Join us for Mission Log!

Mission Log is produced by Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry and Trevor Roth.

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Podcast: What’s new in IBM Connections 4

IBM Connections product managers Suzanne Livingston, Mac Guidera, Baan Slavens, and Luis Benitez fill us in on the new features of the Connections 4 (IC4) release, including:

Embedded experiences and activity streams
Improvements to the home page
Easily sharing information from any context with the Sharebox
What’s coming in the Connections mobile apps
Reporting and metrics (over 100 new reporting capabilities)
Bridging content from external websites and news sources
And more…

Here are a few links to help get you up to speed on Connections 4:

What’s new in IBM Connections 4?
IBM Connections 4 Reviewer’s Guide
New Capabilities in Connections 4 (there’s also a YouTube video link on that page)

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Podcast: The Evolution of XPages

Russ Maher of QDiligence (@russelmaher) and Paul Calhoun (@ptcalhoun) of NetNotes Solutions talk to us about the evolution of IBM’s XPages rapid application development platform. Russ and Paul are also the instructors of The View’s popular XPages Bootcamp which is taking place in Las Vegas and Chicago this Fall. We would like to thank The View and their XPages Bootcamp for sponsoring this show.

We talk about:

History of the XPages Bootcamp and how they kept the course material in-line with the XPages point releases
Upcoming changes in Domino 8.5.4 (Niklas Heidloff’s blog post)
The new Java jar design element in 8.5.4
Server-side JavaScript Debugger in 8.5.4
What OSGi plugins are
OSGi and the Extension Library and how it has evolved
How XPages in Domino 8.5.4 has evolved since 8.5.0
How OneUI has grown over the years
Dojo and how it has evolved within the context of XPages
XPages in the Notes Client (XPINC) and how it has evolved
and much more..

The show runs 44:50.

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Podcast: IBM Connections, Social Recognition, and TemboSocial

Steven Green, CEO of TemboSocial (@TemboSocial), tells us all about The Hive. It’s peer-to-peer social recognition software that integrates with IBM Connections to help share knowledge, stories, and corporate culture among employees. Topics we covered included:

The importance of awards, achievements, and peer recognition
How all this ties into corporate culture and values
400,000+ stories on The Hive site for TD Bank since 2009
How does this integrate with IBM Connections?
Is it difficult to get management and/or employees to use something like this?
The way that stories become company assets
Analytics and reporting
The use of promotional banners to bring employees back the site

As we mentioned in the podcast, there is a video demo on YouTube and plenty more information on the TemboSocial website. For more information, Chris Miller also has a video interview with Steven Green you can check out.

This show runs 39:32.

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Podcast: Getting started with IBM Connections application development

In this episode of The Taking Notes Podcast (@takingnotespod) we talked about developing applications for IBM’s Connections social software platform. We were joined by three very special guests:

Luis Benitez – IBM Product Manager (@lbenitez)
Adam Brown – ISW Director (@adambrownaus)
Niklas Heidloff – IBM (@nheidloff)

Topics covered during the show included:

Overview of the options available to developers (APIs, Widgets, Java)
How widgets and apps are deployed within Connections
Integrating apps with the Connections Profile
Surfacing apps and widgets within Communities
How IBM Connections Next will utilize OpenSocial and ActivityStrea.ms
How Kudos Badges was built and how it integrates and is managed within Connections
Why developers should use XPages to extend Connections
How you can work with iWidgets and XPages
How to access the Connections REST API’s from XPages
Where you can find and download sample XPages apps
What other extensibility features might be important for XPages developers
and much more…

Resources:
http://ibm.co/StartSocial – Landing for all things ICS development related including Notes/Domino “Next” and Connections “Next”
http://xpag.es/?ForConnections
http://openntf.org/p/xpages%20for%20connections

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Podcast: IBM’s Ed Brill and Trust Factory’s Wouter Aukema

On this episode of the podcast we were joined by IBM’s Ed Brill (@edbrill) and Trust Factory’s Wouter Aukema (@waukema) and talked about:

The new partnership between IBM and Trust Factory first announced on Ed’s blog
Trust Factory’s DNA services offerings
What the partnership means for IBM customers
A special offer made by Ed
Ed’s new book project
What the book will and not be about and when it will be available
Who else will be contributing to the book
Notes Social Edition and what exactly it is
Some of the new enhancements made in the Notes Social Edition
When it will be available for customers
How it can be deployed
Integration with IBM Connections “Next”
and much more

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Podcast: Learning XPages with Mark Myers and Matt White

Based on his recent blog entry about learning XPages, we brought Mark Myers on the show to discuss his approach to wrapping your head around XPages, especially coming at it as a person with a strong Java background. Matt White was also on the podcast to offer the perspective of someone who has been helping people learn XPages for several years now. We discussed things like:

NOT thinking of XPages as “another Notes design element”
Coming to XPages from the Java developer perspective
The amount of learning resources and help available now versus a few years ago
Using Java and server-side JavaScript (SSJS)
Some of the struggles that newbies might face
And more…

Mark and Matt are both members of the London Developer Co-op, and they have graciously renewed the TakingNotes discount code for XPages101 online training courses. If you go to the XPages101.net website and sign up using the discount code “taking notes”, you will receive a 33% discount off the list price of your subscription.

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