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The other day I made a post
after getting out a session with Maureen Leland. One of the questions
asked what when is it coming to the client? And she had said
8.5.1. I even asked the guy next to me if I hear it right and he
said yep!
Well today at the BOF with the developers
some said asked the XPages in the client question and someone said that
it's coming but there's not commitment on time frame. What? I
followed up the question what I heard early they they said that might have
been a little "optimistic". That they have it working in
some test builds and they do want to bring it to us as soon as possible.
So hopefully it will be 8.5.1 -
We'll have to keep our fingers crossed for now I guess.
I did ask if XPages in the client would
be "Full Fidelity" meaning it will work exact with no "tricks"
to make it work in the client. They said that's the goal but we may
want the client to look different then the website. So there will
be some controls to change the look and appearance.
So while I loved having a commitment
of getting this in for the next release - they didn't say it would NOT
be in at least. So here's hoping!
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Lotusphere
I'm sitting in at the session. Lights everywhere...
loud music blaring... has the feel of a rock concert. Biggest
screens on the stage that I ever saw!!! I wonder if you could hook
up a Playstation?
I don't know if I'll be live blogging
as other people we'll be doing that. But I might be updating this
page with anything really interesting to me. Stay tuned
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Lotusphere
On Sunday I went to a bunch of sessions.
I found it really interesting that in every session except one, the
speakers were using an Apple computer. I think they were all independent
consultants.
The one session that was not running
on an Apple? Maureen Leland and her partner Maire Kehoe (Pronounced
"Mory" I think). They had ThinkPads. They are the
developers of the Designer client. Too bad they're not on Apple -
maybe we'd have a native designer by now. I wonder if we should start
a petition for IBM to get them MacBooks!! :)
While it's been strongly hinted that
Designer might come to "Other Platforms", I haven't heard any
time frame yet.
As for as the attendees go... To
me it looks like most of the consultants and well known bloggers are running
Mac, but the IBM staff and majority of the people in the audience are on
PC Laptops. Though I am seeing a bunch of people with "netbooks".
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Lotusphere
I just finished with Scott
Good's JSON and AJAX jumpstart.
I've seen Scott speak many times at the Advisor Conferences. One
of the great things about him is that he's not only does he just exude
energy, but you can tell that he's really passionate about the subject.
The session was really all about JSON
and a data store and using it in conjunction with AJAX principals to make
your website "POP". The core of JSON I think is using Javascript
arrays with named pairs. To me - not really being a web guy, this
seems a lot like LotusScript Lists. And I LOVE Lists. Interestingly,
a javascript array can contain other arrays or objects. I'm not sure
if you can do this with a LotusScript list. I think I recall seeing
you could but I don't know.
He walked through several simple looking
demos the progressively brought javascript arrays (JSON) to the browser
and dynamically updated the web page.
Then in a moment that seemed right out
of a Greek Wedding he took a glass and smashed it on the floor! (ok.
it was really an accident)
To me the "Holy Grail" is
to bring back the dynamic view data back to the browser and update the
page and his demonstrated that as well.
Even though he didn't write a lot of
code to get the results he wrapped up with a brief mention of jQuery. jQuery
is a lightweight javascript framework and takes the little bit of code
he wrote - and makes is smaller. Definately something to look into.
He'll be posting the demo on his blog
and I'll be looking forward to going through that.
I'm personally pretty excited about
this because I think I've finally going to get my company to load HTTP
on the productions servers!! HTTP and 8.5 getting installed soon.
I won't know what to do first!
Now it's off to Introducing Domino Designer
8.5. I want to go to xPages session first but since that repeats
later I'll catch it then. It seems there's an "Art" to
scheduling and like everything here at Disney, there's just not enough
time to do everything!
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Lotusphere
Yesterday was the annual BALD event. I
was very happy to meet such a great group of people there! Too many
names to mention, I don't want to risk missing anyone. But
I wanted to thank everybody for being so nice!
Probably the best lesson learned is
that the networking comes first and sessions come second.
Today comes the start of the Sessions.
For me the focus is xPages, xPages and then maybe some xPages!
oh yeah! Finding my was around
this maze will also be a priority! :)
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I'm in the airplane, flying at 30,000 from
Philly to Orlando and I'm really working on xPages for the first time.
Let me tell you something...
I'm LOVING IT!!!!!
All I have under my belt is the beginning
Developer Works article that Chris
Toohey wrote. I read it
the other day and walked through the exercise. I printed it out so
I can refer to it if need be but haven't needed to yet.
I guess I would describe working with
xPages as very "Natural" feeling. It just seems to make
sense so far where traditional Domino Development never did. At least
to me anyway.
I've got a little pet project that didn't
exist when I boarded. So far I've got an xPage for the document editing
and an xPage for the view. Dropped some buttons on with simple actions.
Bound the data... Testing and the functionality is just working!!!!
This is just really seems to Rock Big
Time!!! I'm a happy camper. I will most likely be in every
xPage session that I can get too.
Thanks to Lotus for an awesome advancement
and thanks to Chris for a great article to get me started!
Ending now because I want to get back
to Designer!
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Lotusphere
I've been reading about all these high
tech ways of finding people... and like a lot of people I've loaded
Brightkite onto my iPhone and will try and use that.
I'm taking my Macbook with and will
try and do some live or semi-live blogging. Since this is my first
trip I'm not too sure how laptop friendly the famous Lotusphere bags are
so I'll probably have my own that my wife "embellished". Somehow
I think it'll fit in.
Anyway, if anyone sees it please say
hi!
By the way... If anyone sees someone
other then me with it... call Security!! :)
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Lotusphere
I just wanted to remind everyone to vote
for the blog/blogger of the year over at Planet
Lotus.com.
For an extra incentive to vote, and
as means to donate to "the cause" I got my wife, who has a small
engraving/custom product business, to make an award for the winner. I
asked her to make it look like a "Domino".
The winner will receive this plaque.
She'll engrave the winner's name and website on it and I'll get it
to Yancy for the BALD event.
Let's end the voting at 12:00 PM EST
on Thursday. That should give her plenty of time to put the winners
name and site on the plaque.
Good luck in the voting!!
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