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 🙂
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. There is a significant amount of effort which goes into the conference as Richard explains. What people also do not appreciate is that Richard is personally in the hole for the conference costs unless the conference is a success. I don’t think there are many of us who would be able to do that, let alone have the balls to do it.
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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 🙂
So just over a year ago I got a promotion at PSC and they asked me to go from being a remote worker to working out of the main office. It made sense for both of us and allowed me to learn more about the business, above and beyond developing/managing the projects I already had.
My wife and I moved the family to Schaumburg IL, from Northern Virginia. Everyone said Chicago was a wonderful place and #$!*in’ cold in the winter. They were right.
So another year on and my role has changed again, I am now a Principal Architect at PSC and the chair for the new Technical Committee. My role is designed to allow me and PSC to grow technically, improve overall delivery, support new sales opportunities and starting looking to new technologies on the horizon. I honestly have the role I have always wanted, not just the job(s) I could do. I am really excited.
Over the past few months ago things have been hectic in the XPages team at PSC. As well as the new role I have also inherited a number of responsibilities around our IBM technologies, vacated by Andrew when he moved on to a new position. I have broadened my outlook on technical stack, created my first Azure node.js application, created a docker container for the first time and created my first Cloud Hybrid application. The list of things I want to play with got a lot longer……!
As of this week are the busiest we have ever been with 6 full time XPages developers working on exciting projects ranging from Domino / Google Drive integration to a Bootstrap-enabled XPiNC application enabling offline project management work in rural Africa.
Joining PSC was the best thing I have ever done for myself, professionally. Moving to Schaumburg a year ago was the right thing to do and the right time.
I am really excited………and having so much fun 🙂
In two weeks time Ryan Baxter and I will be taking the stage to talk about IBM Bluemix and how Domino/XPages developers have a whole new vista of opportunities open to this in IBM Bluemix.
I look forward to seeing many old friends and new faces there – please stick around to the end for what will hopefully be,
The coolest demonstration in the history of MWLUG
When?
Thursday August 20th – 4:00pm AD105: IBM Bluemix: Expand Your Horizons
Abstract
As a developer, you always need to add new tools to your developer tool belt. Bluemix gives you many options to take what you already know and build upon it, allowing you to continuously reinvent yourself and your apps. Whether you are an XPages developer looking to leverage new technologies like Watson or Docker, or you want to start exploring new languages and frameworks like the MEAN stack, Bluemix has something to offer you. Using the powerful deployment models and integration services in Bluemix, it is also easy to build solutions that combine the new with the old making it easy to build upon the work you have already done. Expand your horizons, improve yourself and join us for a whirlwind tour of what Bluemix has to offer you!
Be there – or hear about it from your friends……….
An introduction to creating applications in the Bluemix environment
If you missed our recent webcast, “An introduction to creating Domino applications in the Bluemix environment”, don’t worry – it’s now available on-demand. You can view both the video replay and presentation easily right from your desk.
Watch this webcast and learn how to:
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