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 ?]

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.