Recent by Mark Roden
Thank You NOTES IN 9 !!!!!!!!!!!!! 
By Mark Roden | 9/19/16, 9:54 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
Once upon a time there was a guy who worked for a trucking company and he decided that he needed to learn this new XPages thing – and he figured why not share what I am doing? That was over 7 years ago and it grew into the largest single video repository in the history of IBM Domino.
Having trouble logging into whatever.IBM.com – Could be Cookie overload…
By Mark Roden | 5/17/16, 1:59 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Recently I have been having significant issues getting into IBM websites (Connections Cloud, Bluemix, PartnerWorld etc) and it seems to be because of too many cookies. I am just leaving this here for anyone who thinks they might have a similar issue. I have heard of multiple people also having the same issue recently.
Blisk – a web developer’s browser – first impressions
By Mark Roden | 5/16/16, 1:14 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
On the twitternet last Friday afternoon I saw this thing called “Blisk – a web developer’s dream come true” and frankly that sounds like fun ! This is a record of my first interaction with it and see how it goes. This is not a review – this is just a record of OOOO shiney in action !!
Slides from ICONUS 2016: XPages and Office 365 development – more familiar that you think
By Mark Roden | 5/9/16, 3:46 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Here is the slide deck from my ICON US virtual presentation on XPages and Office 365 development
Speaking at Inform 2016 (no seriously, I am !)
By Mark Roden | 3/7/16, 10:24 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Picture this - John Head and I are hanging out by the pool (working) in Las Vegas, and up turns Tony Holder. What could possibly go wrong...
Speaking at Engage: “Dev04. XPages and Office 365 development – more familiar that you think”
By Mark Roden | 2/29/16, 1:38 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
I am very proud to be speaking at the Engage 2016 User Group conference, in Eindhoven March 24th Thursday, March 24 | 09:00 - 10:00 | D. Saturn This is a very interesting session for me personally because it reflects how my job has allowed me to evolve into areas of development which are not just XPages.
Adding your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate into your Domino keyring file
By Mark Roden | 2/18/16, 12:52 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger
In this article I will show how to use a slightly modified version of IBM help documentation to get your Let’s Encrypt issues certificate to work as the SSL certificate on your Domino server. Since the introduction of R9.0.1FP3 server we have had the ability to load a TLS certificate into the notes SSL keyring.kyr file.
Thank you for another great year, 2015
By Mark Roden | 1/6/16, 2:01 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
This post is a little later than in previous years, lots to reflect on. My job has changed a lot this year, it has been quite an eye opener. It has been the best year of my professional career by far. I would love to be able to say that every year, but that is not always the case. First of all I have to say a perverse thank you to Andrew Barickman for leaving PSC.
OneUI ? IE7? Seriously…………? Another one of *those* days…
By Mark Roden | 9/30/15, 4:21 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Working with a client and we are trying to insert some Bootstrap code into a OneUI site running on IE11 – everything was working smoothly until we actually tested in IE11. (Of course we developed using Chrome – well who wouldn’t….)
So finding the root cause of the problem was simple – Compatibility Mode being run on the customer intranet – AAAAAAh yes that old chestnut – well we overcome that issue with a phaseListener as documented by Mark Hughes many years ago.
MWLUG 2015: Websockets session video and slide deck
By Mark Roden | 8/26/15, 6:35 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
The following presentation was given at MWLUG 2015 in Atlanta Georgia. If you have any questions please let me know :)
This was very kindly recorded by my good friend David Navarre and rendering it to youtube did not apparently help his insomnia. Not sure what to read into that :)
Thank you Richard, et al for MWLUG 2015
By Mark Roden | 8/25/15, 7:49 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse
Last week I attended MWLUG 2015 in sweaty Atlanta, GA and had a great time. I wanted to say a heartfelt thank you to Richard Moy, Lisa and Darren Duke, Ray, Tony, Ulrich and everyone who contributed to a great conference.
The coolest XPages demo ever – revealed
By Mark Roden | 8/20/15, 4:30 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
During the AD105 presentation at MWLUG this afternoon, Ryan Baxter and I demonstrated how you can use an XPages application to control a Drone. We were able to make it take off, take a picture and then land, all from an XPage application interface. For more on how this works check out Ryan’s Video.
Bluemix Monitoring and Analysis – Diagnostics version
By Mark Roden | 7/22/15, 8:20 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
In this article I will show how to utilize some aspects of the paid Bleumix Monitoring and Analysis service to look inside the performance of your applications. I am in a state of shock, as I am writing this post I actually broke my application, and used these very tools to figure out why……………..COOL !!!
Bluemix Monitoring and Analytics – free service
By Mark Roden | 7/19/15, 6:01 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
In this article I will introduce the free IBM Bluemix Monitoring and Analytics service and show some of the available information. From the Bluemix Dashboard select one of your node applications and then “Add a new Service” – scroll down until you find the DevOps section and select Monitoring and Analysis.
XPages in Bluemix – Pushing new changes via Bluemix git repository
By Mark Roden | 7/16/15, 12:28 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
In this article I will look at modifying the out of the box boilerplate application and starting to look at the tooling around the new XPages in Bluemix capability. I will specifically talk about the use of the Bluemix integrated git repository. In the previous article I walked through the basic steps of creating the boilerplate XPages application.
XPages in Bluemix – Looking at the application dashboard
By Mark Roden | 7/14/15, 9:05 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
In this article I will explain the XPages in Bluemix application dashboard and what is available to the developer from the Bluemix web interface.
XPages in Bluemix – where is the design and where is the data?
By Mark Roden | 7/13/15, 7:19 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Digging into the code for the example database - aaaah memories - but I digress.....as normal I am mostly blogging this for my own notes and if someone else happens to get something out of it - great :D Design and Data are separate? So the design and the data are separate - well kinda - in fact…
Creating my first true XPages in Bluemix application
By Mark Roden | 7/12/15, 3:53 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
In this post I will document my attempt to create my first XPages application in Bluemix. I will be following the documentation (ish) and also clicking around to see what happens. This was written July 2015 and is likely out of date soon after.
XPages in Bluemix – Experimental is live
By Mark Roden | 7/10/15, 9:20 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
Finally - we have XPages in Bluemix. It is currently "Experimental" which means nothing is guaranteed to function as expected, it is basically a good Alpha made available to early adopters for testing. This means that at any time, things could change. The model, the process, the everything.
An introduction to creating Domino applications in the Bluemix environment – SocialBizUg Webinar July 23rd
By Mark Roden | 7/9/15, 12:22 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
I am very happy to announce that on July 23rd, myself and Toby Samples, will be presenting a SocialBizUg webinar with the illustrious Martin Donnelly. The topic as the title suggests is an introduction to creating Domino applications in Bluemix. A link for the event is provided below.
Contrast makes a difference: making bootstrap badges “pop”
By Mark Roden | 6/18/15, 12:14 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
We have an application which uses Bootstrap badges to display pertinent field based information in a search result display. We were looking at it and it just doesn't seem to stand out as we had expected. Adding the following simple CSS makes all the difference.
Fixing the XPages R9 dojo define.amd problem once and for all
By Mark Roden | 6/9/15, 12:45 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
Last week I blogged about the fact that select2 v4 used define.amd and because of that dojo screws up the jQuery plugin. This has been a significant issue – not hard to deal with but comes up all the time for XPages developers. In the blog post comments Ferry Kranenburg posted a link to a solution he uses.
Select2 v4 needs AMD fixing in Domino R9 XPages
By Mark Roden | 6/3/15, 12:43 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
As we have seen in the past AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition) in Dojo causes issues with jQuery plugins and other JavaScript libraries, in that it prevents them from loading correctly. The select2 version4 – new release contains AMD checking code.
Guru Guidance: IBM Bluemix — Taking Your Skills to the Cloud
By Mark Roden | 6/2/15, 10:17 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
Guru Guidance: IBM Bluemix — Taking Your Skills to the Cloud. My first article posted today on SocialBizUg.org. IBM Bluemix is a Platform as a Service (mostly) cloud offering and XPages is coming to it. In June 2015 IBM will release XPages in two available forms within Bluemix.
Who? Me? SocialBizUg Clippings guru Guidance
By Mark Roden | 5/17/15, 6:13 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
So the great and phenomenal Sir. Julian Robicheaux has decided to pass the torch and retire from the SocialBizUg Clippings Guru Guidance articles. We are all grateful to him for sharing his vast knowledge with us.
Bluemix docker documentation update
By Mark Roden | 5/12/15, 1:05 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
Sunday night I commented on the Bluemix document site that the instructions did not work for the windows installed version of boot2docker. Only yesterday I posted the following image taken from the site last Friday night and commented how it didn’t work and I had to use curl. I found this, this evening.
Bluemix and docker BETA installation (part 1)
By Mark Roden | 5/11/15, 12:43 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
Currently access to containers within Bluemix is at BETA (May 2015) and you have to request access to get to it. I am writing this for my own sanity and documentation. Having had to figure out how to give my boot2docker access to the internet to download files for Step 1, Step 2 was no easier.
Setting Port forwarding for boot2docker to access the internet
By Mark Roden | 5/7/15, 1:05 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
If you have followed the instructions on how to install boot2docker on windows you will discover that the docker VM may not able to talk to the outside world by default. To correct this you have to add port forwarding from the docker VM to the HOST. This is accomplished by the following.
Passing authentication information through the Bluemix Hybrid Secure Gateway
By Mark Roden | 5/5/15, 7:22 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
In this article I will demonstrate a couple of the things which can be passed through a Bluemix secure gateway, allowing us to create normal web based applications.
Creating a secure Bluemix hybrid app using TLS encryption
By Mark Roden | 5/4/15, 2:12 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
In this article I will demonstrate how to secure a hybrid IBM Bluemix application using the Secure Gateway and the Mutual TLS encryption option. Introduction In the previous article I demonstrated how to create a sample hybrid app which was unsecure because you could just call the gateway URL and access the application behind the firewall.