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May 2012

Taking Notes Episode 5000: 2012.05.29 - Congratulations to the This Week in Lotus Podcast 5.29.2012
Today we celebrate the 100th episode of the "This Week in Lotus" podcast hosted by Darren Duke and Stuart McIntyre. Special thanks to NASA for helping us broadcast this show from the moon.

The show runs 3:36 and is best enjoyed while sitting down.



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Taking Notes Episode 155: 2012.05.23 - An interview with the authors of the XPages Extension Library book 5.23.2012
On this show we sat down with all of the authors of the new "XPages Extension Library" book which is now available for purchase. This 537 page book was written by Paul Hannan (@pdhannan), Declan Sciolla-Lynch (@qtzar), Jeremy Hodge (@jeremyhodge), Paul Withers (@paulswithers) and Tim Tripcony (@timtripcony).

The book is also available as an eBook, on Kindle and as an iBook.


On the podcast we discussed:
  • How the book came to be
  • What tools they used to produce the book
  • The OpenNTF Extension Library Project and the associated Upgrade Pack 1 documentation on the IBM Wiki
  • An introduction to the XPages Extension Library and what it exactly is
  • How the book is goes beyond being "the documentation"
  • Who else was involved with the creation of the book content
  • Paul, Declan, Jeremy, Paul and Tim talk about the chapters they co-authored and some of their favorite XPages Extension Library controls
  • Tim's WatrCoolr project on OpenNTF
  • Russ Maher and his unique way of reading this great new book
  • The XSP Starter Kit Project on OpenNTF by Nathan T. Freeman
  • XPages architect Phil Riand and Tim's upcoming interview with Taking Notes (Exclusive!)
  • and much more....
You can also follow Julian (@jrobichaux), Bruce (@belgort) and The Taking Notes Podcast (@takingnotespod) on Twitter.

The show runs 40:10. Oh and before we forget! Be sure and listen to
Episode 154 of Taking Notes to hear Paul Calhoun and Russ Maher talk about all things XPages. Thanks for subscribing.



Taking Notes Episode 154: 2012.05.21 - XPages Training with Paul Calhoun and Russ Maher 5.21.2012
Paul Calhoun and Russ Maher have travelled to many different countries and cities over the past 2 years, training people on XPages with their basic and advanced multi-day bootcamps. Bruce and Julian caught up with them at the AdminDev 2012 conference to discuss:
  • What kinds of topics are people interested in?
  • Is mobile XPages development "hot" right now?
  • How about XPages in the Notes Client (XPiNC)?
  • Will knowledge of XPages development help you learn Websphere/J2EE?
  • What are some good learning resources?
  • XPages101 and TLCC
  • And more...
This podcast is 21:57 in length, 21mb in size.



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Taking Notes Episode 153: 2012.05.07 - Connections101 with Gab Davis and Paul Mooney 5.7.2012
Gab Davis and Paul Mooney talk about their new Connections101.net website, a project to document the steps involved with building an IBM Connections server from scratch using a "module-based" approach. In the podcast they discuss:
  • What motivated you to do this in the first place?
  • What kinds of questions are customers asking about Connections?
  • Is it really that complicated of a product to set up?
  • What is the difference between Connections101 and the IBM wikis?
  • Do IBM Lotus Notes and Domino customers already have an entitlement to IBM Connections?
  • And much more...
You can contact Paul and Gab directly via their websites (pmooney.net and turtleweb.com) or on Twitter at @pmooneynet and @gabturtle.

Episode 153 runs 35:00.



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