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Wednesday
Aug252010

What's new with XPages in 8.5.2

Over on XPages101.net I've just posted (yet another) video. This time we're looking at what's new in 8.5.2 for the XPages developer.

What's New With XPages in 8.5.2

As a bit of a teaser, I thought I'd post the audio from that recording here as well so that you can hear what you're missing. As ever, feel free to subscribe if you want to get a jumpstart on your XPages development. There are 30 different videos up on the site covering all the elements you'll need to get started and then dig a little deeper into XPages development. The full video listing can be found here.

Friday
Aug062010

Heading home

It seems like a long time since I went away on holiday, and it is. Since the middle of July I've been to Latitude (great), Madeira (great), IamLUG (great) and run an XPages101 day (seemed to go well). So all in all it's been a really enjoyable few weeks.

I'm sat in JFK airport in New York waiting to start the final leg of the journey home and much as it's been a great couple of weeks away, I am *really* looking forward to getting back home and just decompressing for a couple of days before getting back into the real world with a vengeance on Monday morning.

IamLUG was a really superb event, Chris and the rest of the team do put on a good show. Everything was run incredibly smoothly, the content was very good indeed and, as ever, the people were great company. I presented my "Ten XPages Design Patterns" session, probably for the last time as I've used it for a year now. So I need to start thinking about future sessions pretty seriously now. (Bet you can't guess what I plan to speak about next time!).

After IamLUG, we had the inaugural "Tack It On" day, and I'd really like to thank David Leedy for his invaluable assistance during the day. I had been rather lax and not given him a huge amount of guidance before the day itself but he dealt with all of the questions with good grace and humour. Things really wouldn't have run as smoothly without him there. Overall I think the day went pretty well. I'm sure there'll be more of these sorts of things happening in the future.

Tuesday
Jun082010

My IamLUG Session

Yesterday Chris Miller announced the first batch of speakers and sessions for this year's IamLUG conference in St Louis. I'm fortunate enough to have had my abstract accepted. And so I'll be presenting an updated version of my "Ten XPages Design Patterns" session.

There is already a great list of speakers and sessions announced, so if you've not registered yet then get over to the IamLUG site quickly to get signed up, it's a free conference remember!

And then, of course, there's the Tack It On extra day of deep dive content provided by Rob Novak and the SNAPPS team, Chris Miller and myself. All in all, three days of great sessions, interesting people, and I'm sure more than a little fun as well.

Tuesday
May042010

XPages101 comes to America

I've been working with Chris Miller and Rob Novak over the last few weeks to put together a great extra day after IamLUG this August in St Louis. 

Basically the plan is that I'll run my XPages101 classroom course, Chris will be running a new "Domino Optimization Tour" and Rob and the SNAPPS team will be running their iPhone Development class. Each of the courses will be running concurrently in the same rooms that IamLUG will have been in for the previous couple of days. And because we're able to get some economies of scale by operating together, the prices for the extra training day, or "Tack It On" day can be kept as low as possible.

So if you're interested in learning XPages, iPhone development or taking a deep dive into Domino server optimisation then visit the information site for more details.

Friday
Feb122010

XPages101 Online is here

One of my big takeaways from Lotusphere this year was that there is a huge appetite for XPages training material. I had already got my classroom based XPages101 course lined up, but now that that's done, it's time to turn attention to the rest of the world and the online format.

So what I've come up with is a new website (same URL as before though) at xpages101.net. From here you can see the details of the classroom based course but there's a whole other section of the site devoted to online material. Now to make this work for me (I run a small business on my own and this stuff takes a *lot* of time to put together) there is a charge for the content. But I've tried to make it as appealing as possible.

You have two choices, either a single user account or a five user account. In both cases you'll get full access to the site, all of the videos and support content for a full 12 months. The aim from my side is to keep on adding new videos every week or two for as long as there are interesting things to talk about. I just worked out what I have to create lessons on and it will take me well into May just from my initial list!

Also, to thank you for your early interest in the site, you can use the coupon code "earlybird" at check out and get a 33% discount until February 26th.

So please, go and check out the site, let me know what you think and if you have any areas that you'd like covered the please either comment here or use the contact us form on the site.