Well, it’s Thursday night here in Joburg, South Africa. This must have been the longest week I’ve experienced in quite a while. Over and above my normal working week of meetings, clients, functions and Projects, I found myself juggling a Knowledge Base in our Quickr environment, Teaching XPages to my Dev Team, participating in a Sametime Course that’s taking place in the United States, and learning the Basics of C# Development in Visual Studio.
At first I got a little worried I took on too much, and as I type this I have 2 match sticks keeping my eye lids open……but looking back at what was achieved this week……Not bad, not bad at all.
Let’s begin with XPages:
Last week I decided it was time my Development Team got a decent taste of XPages. I scheduled a 4 day Workshop that impressively took 3 days….ending last night around 9:30pm. I take my hat off to the guys. They proved themselves worthy and I can’t wait to see what they come up with in the near future. I also mentioned that there was an XPages Contest currently running which only added fuel to the fire.
The Quickr-verse:
This year I’m on a mission to document everything that I experience in my working day. Everything that matters and that the Ukuvuma Team can benefit from. I tend to favor tutorials and best practices in the form of Videos, as you’ve no doubt seen in my previous Posts, but I must admit I’ve found a place for Wikis. Quickr really helps me achieve this. I decided to have the best of all worlds, so I’m using Quickr, Wikis and Video together.
At the Same-Time:
This was a challenge. I registered to run this Course at my own pace, not being in a position to take 3 days off to sit in a classroom. What I didn’t realise was that this course was running in the United States, so attending this would’ve proved somewhat difficult. I did enjoyed it quite a lot, although it was a little annoying remote connecting to a box in the States. One really needs to understand Java and Eclipse to be comfortable with this course. Sadly i do all my Dev in DDE, so the environment was a little new, and I’m not yet the Java Expert I soon hope to be. But still, it was fun to modify Sametime Windows and build Add-Ons.
C# Tuning:
Here was my biggest surprise this week. I decided to take a bit of time, and have one of my Microsoft Developers show me the way of the C# Ninja. At first it was a little weird getting to understand Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, and creating ASP.NET Projects, but once that was out of the way, creating ASP.NET Pages was pretty much the same as creating XPages. I was really impressed at how similar the development environments are.
I don’t yet know enough of both environments to understand all the tools that are available, but I will say that the Visual Studio editor and debugger is impressive. Very informative and very powerful. I love how I could add break statements to my code, run the Web Page in debug mode, and have it stop in certain sections of my code. I am not used to this when it comes to Web Development, and I am not sure if XPages has something similar, but if so……I will make sure the world knows about it, because that will make such a difference in my life.
Let me repeat this: I am looking for a LotusScript Debugger for XPages. Anyone?
Well, one more awesome working day left this week and then it’s some resting time. I look forward to chilling this weekend, watching some World Cup Rugby and maybe giving God Of War a go.
As always you can find me on Twitter @John_Ukuvuma for all IT-related chats. I wish everyone an awesome weekend, and until my next Post….cheers
TIP: What to try if IBM Notes 9 keeps crashing on Apple OSX
Tue, Apr 23rd 2013 12:36p John Jardin Here’s a quick tip for those who experience continuous crashing of IBM Notes 9 on OSX Mountain Lion.
Before installing IBM Notes 9 Beta on my MacBook Pro, I had Lotus Notes 8.5.3 running. I ran the IBM Notes 9 Beta install without uninstalling Notes 8.5.3. Every time I opened IBM Notes for the first time since starting my machine, it would crash and return an error report. Notes would only successfully open after 2-3 attempts. This happened both with the Beta as well as the official releas [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
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Appcelerator Mobile Development – Chapter 1: Installing Titanium
Fri, Apr 12th 2013 12:54p John Jardin Hi everyone. Welcome to Chapter 1 of my Appcelerator Mobile Development Series. This is my second Blog Post for this series, my first post being the Prologue.
The one thing about Appcelerator that impressed me is how easy it is to get Titanium Studio installed and up and running. There are many tutorials on how to do this. Instead of me re-writing what’s already been written many times, I’ll just be referencing the Documentation I found most helpful and providing my own quick how-to. [read] Keywords: application
blackberry
development
iphone
java
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Appcelerator Mobile Development – Season 1: Prologue
Thu, Apr 11th 2013 6:16a John Jardin Hi everyone. I’m very excited about my next Blogging Project. Over the past year I’ve had some very decent exposure to Mobile Development, whether Phonegap, jQuery Mobile, Dojo Mobile, XPages Mobile Controls, Appcelerator Titanium, etc.
This is a Prologue to some upcoming Video Tutorials that I am grouping together as “Appcelerator Mobile Development – Season 1“, where I will be showing everyone how to get started with Appcelerator Titanium Development to build nati [read] Keywords: domino
xpages application
applications
blogging
development
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Tip: Understand how to compare values in JavaScript
Tue, Mar 19th 2013 11:51p John Jardin Hi everyone. In this post I want to point out a not so common way to compare variables and their values in JavaScript.
For many out there, the common way to compare 2 values is to use the == or != operators. If we look at the example below however, you’ll notice an interesting result that is returned:
Example:
var boolFalse = false;
var boolTrue = true;
var myString = “”;
if(boolFalse == 0) //This returns True
if(boolTrue == 1) //This returns True
if(myString == 0) //This retur [read] Keywords: javascript
My week at IBM Connect 2013
Fri, Feb 22nd 2013 8:12a John Jardin It’s been almost a month since arriving in Orlando for IBM Connect 2013. It amazes me how time flies. I thought I would just give my 2 cents worth on the week, for entertainment purposes.
SATURDAY. THE FIRST DAY
It was one of the toughest days I’ve experienced in a long time. After a 16 hour flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, I arrive in Atlanta around 5:00am. I spent almost 1.5 hours just trying to get through Customs and then had to spend another 30 minutes getting past securi [read] Keywords: ibm
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TIP: Please Browser, do not track me.
Thu, Feb 21st 2013 8:09a John Jardin Hi All. Here’s a quick Tip regarding a certain Browser Setting that I recently became aware of:
As quoted by Mozilla:
Do Not Track is a step toward putting you in control of the way your information is collected and used online. Do Not Track is a feature in Firefox that allows you to let a website know you would like to opt-out of third-party tracking for purposes including behavioral advertising. It does this by transmitting a Do Not Track HTTP header every time your data is requested fro [read] Keywords: firefox
Hello world!
Fri, Jan 18th 2013 10:14p John Jardin Welcome to Ukuvuma Solutions Sites. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! [read] Keywords: blogging
