notesin9

THANK YOU NOTES IN 9 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marky Roden NotesIn9, XPages ,

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. Dave Leedy is coming to the end of his XPages-casting career and is hanging up his cleats in this arena. Not only did Notesin9 lead to more opportunities for Dave, it also helped many many other people.

Dave will not admit it, but http://www.Notesin9.com site has helped more people be successful that he could have ever imagined,

Dave and Notesin9 are a huge reason for my personal success in the last few years and I know I am not alone. Dave’s encouragement and the hosting costs he provided out of his own pocket provided a platform for my success unmatched in my professional career. I owe him a huge debt of thanks personally and many others do too.

So a few friends (44 people!!) and I got together and decided it would be cool to create something memorable that Dave could relate to and I really hope it gives you some idea of the love……

So today we are releasing the unofficial-official #thanksnotesin9 video. I hope you enjoy it. Share it, trend it, it’s worth it to everyone in the IBM Domino community.

I know there are many others who would like to contribute but we had to keep this on the quiet and had to be completed eventually. If you have a thanks video you want to make then link it in the comments below. The more the merrier 🙂

Cheers,

Marky

 

PS

make sure you watch it to the end 😉

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And the gloves are off……

Marky Roden NotesIn9, XPages ,

Picture this: I have been away for 5 days and during that time “someone” has been posting cryptic comments on twitter about how the next notesin9 is going to be different….and scaring me.

So I am waiting at the airport this afternoon, about to board my plane home and I get this link from this “friend” who tells me to watch the new video it and enjoy. I download it and watch it on the plane. People start to look at me funny as I start to snort and giggle at my phone.

I am sitting here are 30,000 feet laughing my ass off at the video. Not only at the brutal use of apparently free Child labor, the amazing feminine  likeness of my voice and the awesome lip synching 🙂

The video is of course the latest notesin9 episode 141 and for the record Dave is smarter than he let’s on!

Dave is a good friend and I metaphorically love him to bits – I loved the episode – loved the fact that he took so much time to create it – love the creativity – love the humor / love love love. Thank you I am very flattered.

The gloves are off is a reference I get, something to do with Canadians and this guy called Neal who plays for the Penguins…..I dunno…anyway….

Dave’s overall point is right, horses for courses, the right language for the job and the right job for the customer.

He is right that front end and back end  are 50% equal in importance. The end user doesn’t care about back end and it has 0% importance to them. Your IT manager cares nearly 100% about the back end code and making it maintainable. Who is your customer? 😉

This healthy discussion will go on forever apparently and only serves to demonstrate how complex XPages can be. To IBM’s credit they have created a technology which is equally at home as:

The original and arguably still best secure NoSQL data store who’s primary task is serving JSON to a JavaScript framework such as Angular or backbone

An interoperable, integration platform which provides an application building capabilities with simple drag and drop data controls and a powerful back end data parsing capabilities.

and everything in between.

Love ya Dave 🙂 thanks for the laugh.

I can’t wait to get off the plane and see everyone else’s reaction 🙂

PS
Next time we have a beer I’ll point out the significant errors in your video 😉