A few weeks ago I asked the twittersphere what people thought would be a reasonable cost for a one day long, introduction to XPages course. This was before I had investigated the cost of anything such as room hire etc, and also before I had thought about what the content for the course might be. But I liked the idea of running a single day bootcamp that will help you get started with XPages so, taking people’s advice and sourcing all of the elements for the course, I’m happy to be able to open up xpages101.net today.
I’ve managed to find a very reasonably priced training room, and more importantly, written a sample application which includes as much of the elements of a “real world” XPages app as I could squeeze into an eight hour course. The plan for the day is that you bring along your own laptop with Domino Designer 8.5.1 installed, I give you a starting point template and then together we go through the steps to build an XPages application. As we progress we’ll cover all of the major elements of XPages including the new design elements, server side Javascript, Dojo, OneUI and Themes, searching and so on. Then at the end of the day you’ll have a working application (in theory at least!) and be able to go back to your office and use it as a reference point for your first real world development when you deploy Domino 8.5.1.
So please do head on over to xpages101.net, have a look at the site and if you’ve got any questions drop me a line, otherwise I hope to see you in London in February 2010.
Matt White 
Congrats Matt, and good luck with this great initiative.
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Hi Matt,would have been interested a while back but have done a bit of Xpages on my ownI would be interested in a asimilar intermediate course, I suppose the issue is that the topics to cover are less clear as people with some experience usually have their own pet issues, I know I have.
I hope that it goes well, the prce point is very attractive.
Good luck Sean
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@Sean,
Thanks for the best wishes. If you have any specifics in mind for an intermediate / advanced course then let me know. I do have things I’d like to cover if there is the demand for such a course, such as advanced SSJS, Dojo, performance tuning, memory management etc etc.
Matt
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Nice! A while ago I googled for XPages courses and came across a cource titled "XPages 101", this is not the same right?
Alexi
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@Alexi, No this is a new course unrelated to any previous courses to do with XPages.
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Hi Matt – good initiative – does the session involve any example/briefing materials/workbooks at all?
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@David,
Thanks for the question, the course will provide starting point, finishing point and supporting script snippets files, but no workbooks per se. The aim is to work from the starting point to the finish over the course of the day.
Matt
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