Paul’s thoughts
AD101 – IBM Lotus Domino Designer: Today and Tomorrow
I didn’t realise XPages is (officially at least) only two years’ old. It’s very mature for its age (although of course it existed in Lotus Component Designer before that)
The enthusiasm for the XPages cheatsheet (thanks David!) and the Mastering XPages book was great. Resources that have been asked for continually by the community, now we’re getting them in abundance. Hopefully we can all still find something to blog about!
Cheatsheet: http://xpag.es/?cheatsheet
There were a whole host of XPages sessions (see previous podcast, Ed.), more than one person could go to. Most of the sessions I attended were packed.
In Designer: Now and Next
- 65% of C-level execs are aware of XPages as a development platform
- xpages.info had a slide
- great new XPages enhancements coming in the future
- XPages perspective
- XPages debugger - yay!!
Great enthusiasm from the community. That’s one of the things that makes Domino development so enjoyable.
Gurupalooza and Ask The Developers – not a great deal on XPages. Is that good? I think so. Two areas of contention/query were:
- Persuading admins to install the Extension Library. (Beer normally works, Ed.)
- Easier integration with non-Domino data sources. Jim Quill is working on that.
Teamroom template released, already being used extensively internally by IBM. Includes the iNotes calendar view widget from the Extension Library – something devs have been asking for for a while. Requires recent version of Extension Library, so go and download it. Document Library coming soon.
All in all, a great Lotusphere, promising for the year ahead.
David’s thoughts
Extension Library… I’ve been missing out.
Speed Improvements
Pre-Loading XPages
Better compression/consolidation of JS and CSS files?
Composite Apps – Yuk! BUT…. Soon you’ll be able to run a pure XPages all inside the Notes Client SideBar so no more need for it to be a composite app. Yay!
Mobile Controls – Didn’t realize how close IBM and especially Niklas Heidoff worked with the Dojo team. Native control to API? That means access to the Camera on the phone!!! Cool!
AD104 – What’s New in Lotus Domino Objects and Best Practices
Keep using autouopdate=false
View Navigator is getting all the efforts as far as speed goes.
Tim’s thoughts
BP210 – XPages: Enter The Dojo
Session was very good and to see you both Paul & David with bandana on was very cool and good fun.
Lots of good content in there and the audience were completely enthralled in the session. I also handed out a huge stack of cheat-sheets at the door as people left.
IBM Collaboration Solution Labs were constantly busy on the XPages tables. It was great to see so many people interested in trying out XPages hands on.
Competition
This is your chance to win one of two copies of the Mastering XPages book, kindly donated by the authors.
Just add a comment to this entry tell us what you contributed back to the XPages community since February 10th. (Closing date 31-Mar-11)
We are not looking for anything as grand as the XPages extension library, it could be a small as a wiki article or an answer to a question at the forums or even a blog.
Paul, David and Tim will then chose from the submissions to
Your entry MUST contain the following information
- Your Name
- Email Address
- Your contribution to the XPages Community (Max 100 words – including URL evidence)
We will contact the two winners for postal addresses later.
Good luck!
This episode is sponsored by intec
