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Creating Twitter Bootstrap Widgets - Part II - Let's Assemble

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:35:00 +0000

Creating Twitter Bootstrap Widgets - Part I - Anatomy of a Widget
Creating Twitter Bootstrap Widgets - Part II - Let's Assemble

This is two part of my five part series "Creating Twitter Bootstrap Widgets". As I mentioned in part one of this series, Twitter Bootstrap widgets are built from a collection standard HTML elements, styled, and programmed to function as a single unit. The goal of this series is to teach you how to create a Bootstrap widget that utilizes the Bootstrap CSS and Dojo. The use of Dojo with Bootstrap is very limited with the exception of Kevin Armstrong who did an incredible job with his Dojo Bootstrap, http://dojobootstrap.com.

Our example is a combo box that we are building to replace the standard Bootstrap combo box. In part one, we built a widget that looks like a combo box but did not have a drop down menu associated with it to allow the user to make a selection.

In part two, we will create the drop down list associated with the combo box using the Bootstrap list component which is actually a collection of many standard HTML elements. However, before you create the drop down for our combo box, let's take a look at Bootstrap list component. Show below are five Bootstrap widgets that you as a developer should be familiar with: listbox, navigator, menu, tab, and pagination.

What does these five widgets have in common? They all are made of the same collection of HTML components. They are A tag wrapped within a LI tag inside a DIV UL tag combination.

Without the Bootstrap CSS, this HTML element collection will get you this:

Not very appealing. And this is the power of Bootstrap. By using a combination of standard Bootstrap CSS classes, you can make a HTML element combination to represent a tab, navigator, or menu.

For our dropdown list all we have to do is add the class "dropdown" to the DIV wrapper tag and "dropdown-menu" to the UL wrapper and you will get a drop down menu which we will use in our combo box.

One important thing is the class "active". The way that Bootstrap CSS is structured, this class can be used to define the selected tab, menu item or in the case of a navigator, a selected panel. You can continuously use the same structure to build widgets. Later I will show you that this will greatly benefit us when we connect the widget together using Dojo.

As with the input field that we discussed previously, we can append icons before or after the text. For example, to add an icon to a menu item all you have to do place an I tag with an icon class before the text in the menu. Here we have added the icon-wrench icon before the text "Settings".

Tip: To create a blank icon to align the text in the menu use the class "icon-".

Bootstrap CSS also automatically handles the reversal of the icon when your mouse highlights over the menu item. No programming at all.

We now can add the our dropdown menu to our combo box shell and get the structure of our combo box.

Couple of comments here. By having the "dropdown" class in the primary div wrapper, the dropdown menu will automatically align below the input field. The "span3" class is applied to both the input and ul tag so that they will be the same width. In addition, the "span3" class normally applies a margin-left of 30px so we need to add the margin-left:0px style inline to remove that for the ul element. To expand the dropdown list to also beneath the button we will need to use a bit of JavaScript or define another class of span3_30 that is 30 pixels longer than span3. If this is a responsive fluid layout, you will need to resize it using JavaScript and in general that is what I do. Or you can leave it as is.

So far we have not done anything with JavaScript at all and only relied on the Bootstrap CSS to assemble our widget. Bootstrap is just so amazing. Next time in Part III, we will use Dojo and dojo.declare to program our widget and make it functional. We will also discuss how the structure of Bootstrap components lends itself well to Dojo and object oriented classes.

Note: If you want to try this, make sure you add a .dropdown-menu { display:block;} into head/style tag to override the Bootstrap CSS so that you can see the dropdown menu. If not, it is always hidden.

MWLUG 2013 is Now Open for Abstract Submission

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:01:00 +0000

This year MWLUG celebrates it 5th anniversary in providing our IBM community a first-class conference to network and share our knowledge in collaboration technology. This year, MWLUG will be held in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana at the Crowne Plaza Hotel - Union Station.

We invite you to submit your MWLUG 2013 presentation abstract(s) for an opportunity to speak at MWLUG 2013. MWLUG 2013 provides you as a speaker a unique opportunity to share your knowledge of collaboration technology with our vase IBM community.

Each year, we combine outstanding technical sessions with fun activities and networking events to help grow our vibrant community. As always our sessions include not only IBM related topics, but sessions on topics that helps you grow as an IT professional.

MWLUG 2013 will include over 40 technical sessions, workshops, and events. Topics for MWUG 2013 include:

Administration
Application Development
Best Practices and Customer Business Cases
Mobility and Web Security
Social Business

As a MWLUG speaker you are entitled to all the benefits of an attendee plus free admission and more.

As always at MWLUG, reserve about 25% of all speaking slots for new speakers. So whether you are a veteran speaker of Lotusphere, MWLUG, or never have presented at a major conference, here is your chance to speak and present your knowledge to our great IBM community.

To submit your abstract go to:http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug2013.nsf/Abstract.xsp

MWLUG 2013 abstract submission will close on June 14, 2013.

What I did for the Past 5 Months - Becareful When You Are Volunteered

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:27:00 +0000

Right after MWLUG 2012 last year, my son volunteered me to participate with him on his Science Olympiad quest. I figure it would not take too much time. As a kid, I was involved with Science Fair competition for many years. However, it seems things have changed. I discovered that I was volunteered for the Mission Possible competition. I was a bit surprised on the tasks that were required. So over the next five months I had to build a Rube Goldberg machine that had 10 to 13 tasks. In order to complete this machine, I would have had a machine shop at home. Everyone has a machine shop don't they. With no machine shop, I had to improvise with what tools I had. Many many nights were spent in 20 degrees or less weather milling, sanding, cutting, and grinding wood and metal to make this machine. Did I mentioned, that I do not have a heated garage nor is it attached.

So after many competitions and modifications we were successful in winning Gold in the Regional Competition. I am very proud that he won four Gold Medals in every competition he participated. Since my son was not a varsity member, Regionals was the end of this years competition. His school however is going to the Nationals. Unlike, our competitors whom had up to three electric motors to drive their machine, our machine relied only on potential and kinetic energy created by gravity.

As of this weekend, the machine is no longer functional since I needed the ball bearing to fix my bike.

Here is a video of my five months of hard work.

And yes Gregg it was a Miller Genuine Draft Beer Can.

MWLUG 2013 Abstract Submission on Monday

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:51:00 +0000

For those who have been waiting, MWLUG 2013 Abstract Submission will start this coming Monday, May 13, 2013. We expect a significant number of entries this year so make sure you submit your entry.

Creating Twitter Bootstrap Widgets - Part I - Anatomy of a Widget

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:32:00 +0000

Creating Twitter Bootstrap Widgets - Part I - Anatomy of a Widget
Creating Twitter Bootstrap Widgets - Part II - Let's Assemble

Twitter Bootstrap currently is the most popular open source responsive CSS framework. If you are using Bootstrap strictly as a responsive framework, you are missing out. It is also a great framework for creating UI widgets and UI components. Bootstrap normally comes with JQuery plug-ins widgets like buttons, inputs, and drop-down menus. You can use these plugins as a basis in creating more complexity widgets.

In this five part series, I will walk you through the process of creating a Bootstrap widget by first understanding how Bootstrap widgets are structured, how to layout a widget, tie it together using Dojo, turn it into a responsive widget, and how to create it as a XPages custom control for you XPagers out there. There are three prerequisites to continue, you need to have a good understanding of CSS especially CSS3, you need to know Dojo, and have created Dojo classes using dojo.declare. We will be using Dojo 1.52 and if I have time Dojo 1.83 AMD.

Many developers like JQuery since it simple to understand and use. However for our complex projects, Dojo is a better option especially when most of our iPhora Framework currently uses Dojo 1.52. When I looked into creating Bootstrap widgets, my goal was to replace the Dojo Dijits will a simpler and lighter weight widget architecture. I had already created my own widget architecture but I was having issues in maintaining it. By using the Bootstrap CSS and widget architecture, I now not only have a simpler widget architecture, but I also can create widgets that are responsive to changing screen size.

Widgets with Bootstrap takes significant advantage of HTML 5 and CSS3 allowing you to use it both for the desktop and mobile environments. The key to creating Bootstrap widgets is having a good understanding of the core and responsive versions of the Bootstrap CSS, bootstrap.css and bootstrap-responsive.css. It is extremely powerful and gives you tremendous flexibility while minimizing the amount of JavaScript code that you need to make the widget function within your application.

With the aid of the core Bootstrap CSS, you can create countless types of widgets without too much coding. The first step is to look at the structure of a Bootstrap widget. Bootstrap widgets can be divided into four core components just as any type of JavaScript widgets:

Input
Button
List
Display

These components are combinations of standard HTML elements or groups of standard HTML elements that is assembled together and styled as a component using the Bootstrap CSS. Dojo Dijit also does this, but not to the extent as Bootstrap widgets. Dojo Dijit whom are used in XPages mostly restyles a standard HTML element using the Dijit themes. Bootstrap rely heavily on wrapper div and span elements to generate the visual layout of a widget. By combining these four types you can create any types of widgets ranging from listboxes, drop-down menu to complex visual grids. The goal of this tutorial is to walk you through the process of creating a Bootstrap combo box using bootstrap components and tie it all together using Dojo. In our tutorial, we will be creating a combo box. Bootstrap does come with a combo box, but in my opinion it is very ugly as shown in the image below.

So I decided to use basic bootstrap components to create a much more stylish combo box to my liking as shown.

So lets start. A typical INPUT element looks like:

However, with a bit of style of CSS from Bootstrap, the INPUT element now looks much nicer.

When you place you focus into the input field, it will automatically highlight, all without any JavaScript code.

But with Bootstrap we can further enhance the INPUT tag by adding wrapper HTML elements to improve the visual aspect of the INPUT element or any type of standard HTML elements. For example:

You get:

By adding the span tag with the class "add-on" with "%", the user visually understands the type of information that is expected. There is no validation of information, but by adding the span tag after the input tag within a div tag wrapper, the user now understands that they are expected to input a number. The class "span2" defines the width of the INPUT element which we will address when we talk about responsive widgets. Using JavaScript and Regexp we can create client validation. The wrapper class of "input-append" tell the browser that you want to append the visual queue after the input tag. You can add these visual queue in front or after the input. They can be characters like % or $, icons, or even buttons, Now lets expand on this widget by adding an icon instead of character. In this case, we want to let the user know that we are expecting them to input an email address.

You get:

Visually is better to append it to the front of the input tag for an email address input field. We add an icon by adding an i tag with a class of "icon-envelope" instead of a character. Bootstrap comes with a variety of icons through the Glyphicons that are included as part of the Bootstrap assets. There is a number of other open source icons that are available including FontAwesome http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/.

The class "input-prepend" tells the browser that the visual queue will be in front of the input tag. Beside characters and icons we can also include buttons that have characters or icons. So lets append a button with caret to the input as it would be in a combo box.

By adding a span tag with the class "caret" we now have a drop-down caret in the button. We could have had added an icon using the i tag also. So now we have what looks like a combo box However, we do not have a drop-down to make a selection. So we have to create the drop-down list. We could use standard select tag but that would not be consistent and it would not look very good. We can create the drop-down by using the core Bootstrap list component that you can use to create listboxes, navigators, drop-down objects and etc. So next time, we will talk about the anatomy of the basic bootstrap list component and add it to our combo box widget to create the drop-down portion of our combo box and follow up later with a bit of Dojo to create our widget.

Working with Twitter Bootstrap in Creating Widgets

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:18:00 +0000

It has been a long time since I have blogged on a technical subject matter. With MWLUG, iPhora, and family it has been very busy and every time I wanted to blog about some technical subject, time does not permit it. Now that the office next to us is under construction this morning, it is a bit hard to concentrate on work. I have decided to blog on a subject matter that is of interest to many, Twitter Bootstrap.

I have talked about using Twitter Bootstrap in my applications in the past and I abandoned it because of its complexity. I was interested in using Twitter Bootstrap as a responsive design framework. However, I found that it was easier for me to use my own responsive design framework and Twitter Bootstrap was put on the shelve.

Since iPhora uses Dojo, all the widgets were Dijits which are a wonder piece of engineering, but they are also very complex and big. I had already minimized the number of Dojo and Dijit modules that I needed to run the interface of the iPhora products but the loading performance was not what I wanted. So I revisited Twitter Boostrap again, but not as a responsive design environment, but as a widget framework. One of the problems is that all the plug-ins for Bootstrap are written in JQuery which I would love to learn but I do not have the time. Kevin Armstrong created Dojo Bootstrap dojobootstrap.com using Dojo 1.7 + with AMD. These dojo based plug-in work great, but I am still using dojo 1.52 though I am working on converting to 1.83. In addition, iPhora widgets have special widget wrappers not normally found in widgets.

So I decided to spend a weekend looking into the core of the Twitter Bootstrap CSS and determine what I needed to create widgets using the Bootstrap CSS. I had already developed my own custom widgets using Dojo only without using Dijits which eliminated the need to load the associate Dijit css and Dijit module files. However, I did not want to invest any more time into creating my own widgets design, since bootstrap provided a much better visual appearance.

First, I had to determine what bootstrap has already provided as part of the CSS and I was amazed on what was already there built into the bootstrap CSS. I would never have the time to invest in building the core CSS.

I started off with a simple INPUT tag which gave me a better understanding on using Bootstrap CSS to create widgets. What amazed me was the responsive layout allowed me to create the concept of a "Responsive Widget" that I was looking into creating for awhile. From the based components that you find on the Twitter Bootstrap site, http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html , like form, buttons, and inputs you can create amazing widgets quickly like the combo box below which is not part of the basic bootstrap widgets. A Bootstrap combo box looks ugly:

Most of the work that I would normally do using Javascript is handle with CSS, because bootstrap is built from the ground up with HTML 5 in mind. Now that the construct is over with for the day. It is back to work. Next time, I will show how I built this widget.

The MWLUG Wheels are Turning: MWLUG 2013 Sponsorship is Now Open

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:59:00 +0000

The MWLUG 2013 Sponsorship information packages are now ready and are being emailed out to previous sponsors. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of MWLUG 2013, please let me know. This year we have added a number of new events one fun and the other will be intense for you XPages developer.

GRANITE March 11, 2013 Meeting Agenda

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:28:00 +0000

Join us in the March 11, 2013 GRANITE Meeting. We have two excellent sessions, one on creating Dashboards in XPages and the other on status of Web Security that everyone should know. For attendees that can not make it to the IBM Center, we are also broadcasting the session on LotusLive.

Hope you all can make it.

GRANITE

Meeting Notice and Agenda
Monday, March 11, 2013

Attend on-site or in the cloud.

Lotus Live Event ID:

https://apps.na.collabserv.com/meetings/join?id=1947-5148.

Dear GRANITE Members, IBM Social Software and Notes/Domino Enthusiasts,

Join us on-site or at the broadcast.
Please pass this information along to colleagues and others who may be interested in attending.

When:
Monday, March 11, 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Morning refreshments and lunch will be provided.

Where:

Hyatt Center, 6th Floor - Room 6611
71 S. Wacker Drive, (West Loop) Downtown Chicago

Agenda

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast, refreshments, and networking for on-site attendees.

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Presentation: Dashboards in XPages
Presenter: Wil How, Technical Specialist, PSC Group, LLC.

Data is often a shapeless, formless blob which need considerable analysis to understand. Dashboards, on the other hand, reduce this analysis to a glance. While there are many dashboard libraries, which one is best suited for XPages? In this session we will compare 2 popular Javascript charting libraries and see how easy it is to produce usable dashboards in XPages. We will compare the strengths and weaknesses of each library and end the session with a database of working examples.

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Presentation: Summary of IBM Connect 2013
Presenter: Mike McGarel, Collaborative Solutions Developer, Czarnowski

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Presentation: 2013 Security Trends from IBM XForce
Presenter: Bernie Leung, P.E., Mesa Technology, Inc.

Because IT security is now a board room discussion and social interaction is a prime avenue for security risks, this session will focus on preparing our attendees before security incidents hit. In this session we'll highlight findings and trends for 2013, focus on the steps that must be taken to minimize security risks, and develop talking points about security issues for company management.

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentation: MWLUG (Midwest Lotus User Group Conference) 2013 Planning Update
Presenter: Richard Moy, Phora Group

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Lunch
Provided by GRANITE

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Discussion: GRANITE Strategies for 2013
Participants: GRANITE Board, members, and meeting attendees

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Open discussion.

For more information, visit the GRANITE Web site www.granite-ug.org
or e-mail GRANITE President, Bernie Leung bernie@mesatech.com

Help Us Make MWLUG 2013 the Best Conference, MWLUG 2013 Session Survey

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:14:00 +0000

MWLUG 2013 is coming, August 21-23, 2013 and will be held at the Crowne Plaza - Union Station in Downtown Indianapolis, IN. The hotel is in the heart of downtown Indianapolis right next to the Amtrak station. It will be a quick train ride from Chicago Union Station to the Indianapolis Union Station for me. We would like to know the type of topics and sessions that most likely you want to learn about at MWLUG 2013. Please take this brief survey to let us know. See everyone in August.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZK6KMBD

MWLUG 2013 Web Site
http://www.mwlug.com

Domino Application Driving Social Media

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:34:00 +0000

There is a new exciting Domino Social Technology that is emerging.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRqTlTGJeg&list=UUgOlD8TImVB4xalJTiO6eqQ&index=2

If you are a Pride and Prejudice fan. This video is part of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries series an extremely popular video blog adaptation.

http://www.youtube.com/user/lizziebennet

Domino 9 beta on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:31:00 +0000

This year is the first time I missed Lotusphere 2013/IBM Connect 2013 since 2003. Unfortunately, a number of family things takes higher priority. However, this has given me the opportunity to upgrade our servers and also install Domino 9 beta for testing. Domino 9 I see is an important step towards our new release of our iPhora Framework. I have been using Domino 8.51 with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for awhile. However, each time I attempted to install Domino 8.53 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS the start up script would have problems. Since Ubuntu 12.04-1 LTS is now available, my goal was to see if I can use Upstart that was mentioned by Stephen Wissel Upstart to run the start up script. Unfortunately, after many tries, I was not able to get the start up script working. I need to research Upstart more. So I went back to the Daniel Nashed's start script which I was having problems with on 10.04 LTS and Domino 8.53. I happy to say that Daniel's start up script worked very well with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and with Domino 8.53 and Domino 9. For Domino 9, you will need to change the variable location of the start of script from /opt/ibm/lotus/bin to /opt/ibm/domino/bin . Have fun everyone at IBMConnect 2013.

MWLUG 2013 Announcement, August 21-23, 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:51:00 +0000

Planning MWLUG 2013 has been a chore. We could not get a hotel in Indianapolis Downtown for our original dates of August 14 through 16, 2013. GENCON is going on. However, we were able to get a new date and location for MWLUG 2013. We are happy to announce that MWLUG 2013 will be held at the historic Crowne Plaza Downtown - Union Station in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, August 21-23, 2013. This hotel was originally the first Union Station in the United States and is a beautiful hotel similar to the William Penn Hotel that we were in last year, but in some way more grandeur. The Crowne Plaza is currently being renovated so it will be exciting to see how it looks. We have obtained special rates for MWLUG attendees which we will be announcing.

Below is a picture of the Grand Hall Ballroom for which MWLUG 2013 Opening Session and Exhibitor Showcase will be held. If you are interested, in sleeping in an entire Pullman train car as shown below during MWLUG 2013, here is your chance. The MWLUG 2013 web site is now up and running. Hopefully changes that we are doing will final stop the crashing that we had during MWLUG 2012. www.mwlug.com

We have planned a few surprises for this year and yes, we will not have the crazy code word contest like last year. But we have have something else in mind. So if you are looking for a first-class Lotus User Group conference to build your social network and knowledge, MWLUG 2013 is the conference for you. Hope to see everyone at MWLUG 2013.

Photos Courtesy of Trip Advisor

MWLUG Is Social and Community

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:44:00 +0000

MWLUG 2012 was held last week at the Omni William Penn Hotel. It was the most attended MWLUG so far. Hopefully, next year in Indianapolis we will exceed this year's attendance. We as IBM professionals talk about Social Business and Social Collaboration, but it is venues like MWLUG and other LUGs where the true sense of social occurs. It is friends and colleagues meeting together for a common focus. Even competitors at MWLUG were meeting together and having lunch. It is all about us humans as a social beings. Making some like MWLUG possible requires the efforts of many within our community including IBM Partners, Customers, and IBMers plus volunteers and others. I would like to take the time to list all those who were involved, some were in the background and did not attend MWLUG 2012. I just hope I did not miss anyone. Special thanks to 4C Technologies and Sherpa Software:

MWLUG Committee
Richard Moy, Gregg Eldred, Barb Skedel, Susan Hosek

MWLUG Event Committee
Richard Moy, Barb Skedel, Susan Hosek

MWLUG Session Committee
Richard Moy, Gregg Eldred, Barb Skedel, Bernie Leung, Lisa Duke

Web Site
Mike McGarel, Roy Rumaner

Graphics
Josh Schmitt, Jackie McClellan

LUG Team Leaders
Ray Bilyk, Sam Bridegroom, Lisa Duke, Gregg Eldred, Scott Good, Tom Hillebrand, Jim Kersjes, Tom Markovich, Denny Russell, Barb Skedel, Shabana Wollin

Event Planner
Bill Fox

Email Marketing
Scott Sullivan

IBM
Cary Youman and his team, Jim Brungo and his team, Kami Bollwitt and her team, Marvin Vastbinder, Joyce Davis, Lisa Learned

Volunteers
Leann Moy, Allen Moy, Lily-Moy Chin, Kon Chin, Dan Hosek

Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Technology Council

MWLUG 2012 Sponsors:

MWLUG 2012 Speakers
Amy Hoerle, Andrew Barickman, Andy Donaldson, Arif Jaffer, Barbara Skedel, Benedek Menesi, Bernie Leung, Bill Malchisky Jr., Brian Moore, Carlos Casas, Charlie Brown, David Leedy, Denny Russell, Graham Acres, Gregg Eldred, Kathy Olek, Jalpresh Tailor, Jeremy Hodge, Joanne Bick, John Beck, John Head, Jon Schultz II, Julian Robichaux, Kara Francis, Kim Greene, Lindsay Patross, Lisa Duke, Louis Richardson, Luis Guirigay, Mark Roden, Martin Ridgway, Mike McGarel, Olaf Boerner, Paul Mooney, Peyton McManus, Phil Dipieto, Ray Bilyk, Richard Sharpe, Roy Rumaner, Roy Holder, Rupert Clayton, Russell Maher, Ryan Baxter, Sharon Haver, Steve Pitcher, Tony Holder

MWLUG 2012 Starts Tomorrow, Are you Registered? Why Not?

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:57:00 +0000

Tomorrow is the start of fourth annual Midwest Lotus User Group Conference, MWLUG 2012, this year it is in Pittsburgh from August 15-17, 2012 at the Omni William Penn Hotel. If you are not registered for MWLUG 2012 there is still time. This year will be our most attended MWLUG conference. So if you are look for a first class LUG conference, MWLUG 2012 is it. So get registered:

http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Register.xsp

DNP, NEOLUG, and WPLUG User Group Meeting at MWLUG 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:23:00 +0000

This year at MWLUG 2012 we will be have three local Lotus User Group meetings on Friday morning at 7:00 AM. So if you are coming, planning to come or not, please take the time to attend your local LUG meeting. They need you support to continue running. The three LUG are:

Detroit Notes Professional
Northeastern Ohio Lotus User Group
Western Pennsylvania Lotus User Group

To see the agenda go to: http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Agenda.xsp

Winner of the MWLUG 2012 Helping the Lotus Community

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:45:00 +0000

After reviewing all the candidates for this program with the MWLUG team, the winner of the free admission and hotel room for MWLUG 2012 is Paul Stockinger from Ohio who is currently looking for a full-time or contracting position. We would like to congratulate him and see him at MWLUG 2012.

MWLUG 2012: DoubleTree Hotel Extend to August 9, 2012 and MWLUG for Unemployed

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:47:00 +0000

DoubleTree Hotel has extended the discount of $135.00/night for MWLUG Attendees until August 9, 2012. However, they only have two rooms left and that it. The hotel is almost full like the Omni William Penn Hotel. So register as soon as you can. For more information about the DoubleTree registration:

http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Hotel.xsp

Also colleagues in the Lotus community who are unemployed, you must submit your submission to info@mwlug.com on why we should choose you for a free admission and a hotel stay for MWLUG by 1:00 PM CST today. For more information please click on the link below.

http://dominointerface.blogspot.com/2012/08/helping-out-lotus-community-chance-to.html

To register:

http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Register.xsp

If the server is 404, please be patience and notify me so that I can reboot the JVM.

Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Attend MWLUG 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:26:00 +0000

MWLUG 2012 is the one of the biggest LUG events in 2012 for us within the IBM community. And here is the top ten reasons why you should attend:

10) To learn what a community is all about
9) To learn if any of the attendees saw a ghost at the Pittsburgh Haunted Ghost Tour
8) To learn if any of the Friday Night Arsenal Bowling participants get higher then 150 after a few drinks
7) To meet the Turtle and listen to his stories about Lotusphere
6) To learn the true platform of social collaboration, BEER!!!!!
5) To check out how many white hairs Richard Moy got from organizing MWLUG 2012
4) To meet Paul Mooney
3) To see if you can match the partying capacity of Kim Greene
2) To listen to one of Darren Duke's many thousands of interesting stories

and the number one reason for attending MWLUG 2012 ...

1) To see what obscure brands of beer Gregg Eldred will drink at MWLUG 2012

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So there is still time to register for MWLUG 2012 and find out the true meaning of MWLUG 2012.

To register for MWLUG 2012: http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Register.xsp

Reminder the new discounted hotel for MWLUG 2012 is the DoubleTree Hotel which is less than 2 blocks away from the Omni William Penn Hotel. For more information go to:

http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Hotel.xsp

Helping Out the Lotus Community. Chance to Attend MWLUG 2012 for Free

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:48:00 +0000

The past few years have been hard on many within the IBM community, from layoffs to elimination of training budgets. With that in mind, we would like to extend a free ticket and a free room to someone who would like to attend MWLUG.

We earned some free hotel nights from booking all the rooms at the Omni William Penn Hotel. We would like to help out the community and offer anyone who is unemployed and looking for a new position a chance to come to MWLUG 2012, improve their skills, and to network with the attendees.

Please submit a one paragraph description of why MWLUG should choose you to attend. The prize is one free admission to MWLUG 2012 plus a free hotel stay at the Omni William Penn Hotel from Wednesday through Friday.

There is only one winner for this contest. You are responsible for your own transportation to and from the conference. To qualify you must not be self employed nor an IBM Business Partner. You must be currently unemployed. You must submit your submission by Wednesday 08/08/2012, 1:00 PM CST to us. Send your submission to info@mwlug.com. Submissions received after 1:00 PM CST will not qualify. All decisions are final. If we do not receive any submissions by 1:00 PM CST, we reserve the rights to assign the prize to anyone we feel qualifies.

Good Luck Everyone.

MWLUG 2012 Hotel Discount at DoubleTree Hotel

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:13:00 +0000

Our Omni William Penn Hotel allocation is full. If you were not able to register at the Omni William Penn Hotel for the discount rate of $135.00/night, you will be able to receive the same rate from the DoubleTree Hotel that is less than 2 blocks away. To register for the DoubleTree Hotel you must call 1-800-222-TREE (8733) and use the discount code MWLUG.

Special thanks to our professional event manager, Bill Fox from Helms Briscoe for helping us get this rate. The rate is guaranteed until at least August 7, 2012.

Announcing the MWLUG 2012 OGS Speakers

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:54:00 +0000

MWLUG 2012 is two weeks away and I am glad to announce our MWLUG 2012 OGS speakers:

Lindsay Patross, IheartPGH.com
Kathy Olek, 4C Technologies
Louis Richardson, IBM

Below is brief biography of our MWLUG 2012 OGS speakers:

MWLUG 2012 OGS Speaker

Lindsay Patross, Co-founder, IheartPGH.com

Lindsay Patross works in online community building - helping non-profit organizations and businesses grow their online communities. She has managed e-advocacy campaigns for VoteVets.org since 2008. Lindsay has worked with a number of businesses on their social media strategy. Currently she consults with Libsyn.com and pair Networks on their social media and email marketing. Past clients include the Post-Gazette, PR works, and Spreadshirt.com. Lindsay founded the blog IheartPGH.com in 2006.

MWLUG 2012 Platinum Sponsor OGS Speaker

Kathy Olek, Director of Marketing and Strategic Development for 4CTechnologies

Kathy is the Director of Marketing and Strategic Development for 4CTechnologies, this year's MWLUG Platinum Sponsor and an IBM Premier Partner specializing in custom application development and business integration. She has over thirty (30) years of experience in marketing, with experience in all aspects of electronic, social and traditional communications, including planning, market research, advertising, promotions, corporate communications, product development, media and public relations, incentives, event management, fundraising, web development, trade shows and collateral materials. She also manages the creative and graphic design team at 4C, a division known as 4CDesignWorks.

MWLUG 2012 IBM OGS Speaker

Louis Richardson, IBM Worldwide Social Business Evangelist

Louis serves as an IBM Worldwide Social Business Evangelist. In this role, he has the opportunity to meet with executives and business managers who have interest in leveraging social software in their organizations. Some are just starting out while others are well on their way. And in every case these conversations have provided Louis with a broad exposure to the practical and business relevant impact that social software is having on today's businesses. While the topic of social business can be complex, Louis' conversational and story-telling style relates well to non-technical audiences. He enjoys sharing his experiences and observations in conferences, workshops and through social communities and blogs.

Announcing the MWLUG 2012 Friday Social Event

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:17:00 +0000

The MWLUG 2012 Friday Social Event will be bowling at the Arsenal Bowl. We have reserved the bowling alley for 2 hours of bowling, food and drinks. And yes they have good beer. The cost for this event is $11.95 plus shoes, food, and drinks. The transportation cost is still being worked out. So if you are staying over Friday evening, come join us for this event after an intense 3 days of knowledge and fun at the conference.

http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Friday.xsp

Join Us at MWLUG for the "Responsive Web Design Mashup"

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:20:00 +0000

Are you using or looking at responsive web design for developing mobile or web applications, using it with XPages, Dojo, jQuery, PHP, Ruby or other tools? Come join us for the "Responsive Web Design Mashup" at MWLUG. I will be leading an open discussion on the use of responsive web design; talk about the different responsive design frameworks developers may use; and how developers are applying responsive design to both web sites and applications. I will be joined by Martin Ridgway from Perficient who will be presenting NT102: Getting Down and Dirty with Responsive Web Design on Thursday, August 16, 2012. So after learning more about Responsive Web Design in his session come to this BOF and share your thoughts. This BOF will be held at the Sternwheeler Room at 7:00 AM on Friday.

For more information go to: http://mwlug.com

To register for MWLUG 2012 go to: http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Register.xsp

MWLUG 2012 Agenda is NOW online

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:23:00 +0000

The MWLUG 2012 Agenda is NOW online on our web site and we have 40+ sessions. A couple of more sessions were added. Special thanks to Mike McGarel for getting the agenda online. It took a lot of work during the past few weeks in the evenings and weekends.

http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Agenda.xsp.

So make sure you register now because the new rooms are going fast.

http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Register.xsp

Announcing the MWLUG 2012 Thursday Social Event

noreply@blogger.com (Domino Interface) — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:19:00 +0000

The Midwest Lotus User Group Conference 2012 is not just about technology and business. It is also about being social and connecting with your colleagues. We are please to announce the MWLUG 2012 Thursday Social Event will be a mix of tour, food, drinks, and networking with our colleagues. We will first learn about the ghostly things that has happened in Pittsburgh with the Haunted Pittsburgh Ghost Tour. The tour will start at 6:00 PM in front of the Omni William Penn Hotel. We will be assembling at the lobby. Please note that is is a walking tour.

After a scary and exhausting tour of Pittsburgh, we will refresh ourselves for the next full day of sessions and fun at the Easy Street - Restaurant and Bar. So come join us for food and drinks. We will be meeting at Easy Street at 7:30 PM. Easy Street is within walking distance from the Omni William Penn Hotel.

Make sure you have your badge with you when attending.