Tim Tripcony: What the heck is a bean?
Sun, Jun 12th 2011 10:31p Bruce Elgort For those of you who are wondering about what the heck managed beans are and how they related to all things XPages I highly recommend reading Tim Tripcony's blog entry entitled "What the Heck is a Bean" which he orginally posted on May 5, 2011.
Also, the Mastering XPages book does a good job of explaining managed beans. I am very thankful for both Tim's article and the Mastering XPages book as both of these resources helped me out today preparing some material for my "Social Business Toolki [read] Keywords: xpages
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Students using XPages video and more...
Thu, Jun 9th 2011 9:59a Bruce Elgort In the Fall of 2010 students in the ICT Technology cirriculum at ROC Mandriaan have developed a real-world relationship management system XPages application for the Round Texel Regatta with mentoring from "Lotus Loves People".
Here is a video of the students talking about the app (English subtitles are supplied):
Here is a copy of the slide deck showing the app that they build:
XPages Project Mondriaan ROC
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And also a blog entry by Rob Bontekoe. T [read] Keywords: ibm
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The MWLUG 2011 XPrize Design Competition
Mon, Jun 6th 2011 2:53p Bruce Elgort Hot off the press:
XPages brings Domino Web application development to an entirely a new level. It allows you to modernize your existing Domino applications and provide an incredible user experience and interface. XPages allows you to take advantage of the unique capabilities of the Domino platform and build powerful and dynamic applications that can easily beat out competitive solutions.
As part of the Midwest Lotus User Group Conference 2011, MWLUG is sponsoring the MWLUG XPrize Design Compet [read] Keywords: domino
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Intec Blog: Maximising the Benefits of XPages in 8.5.2 Whitepaper
Sun, Jun 5th 2011 6:17p Bruce Elgort Premier IBM Business Partner Intec has a fantastic updated whitepaper entitled "Maximising the Benefits of XPages in 8.5.2:
Almost a year ago I wrote a whitepaper called "Maximising the Benefits of Lotus Domino 8.5.x with XPages". This was an open discussion of the pros and cons of XPages, based on Domino 8.5.1. I have updated the whitepaper to take into account the significant enhancements in XPages in 8.5.2 and a year's more experience of developing applications in XPages. XPages is stil [read] Keywords: domino
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Tim Tripcony: Taking Themes to the Next Level
Sun, Jun 5th 2011 12:58p Bruce Elgort If you have not yet looked into the power of using themes in your XPages applications, may I suggest that you download and review a presentation given by Tim Tripcony of GBS at the BLUG and UKLUG conferences entitled "Taking Themes to the Next Level - Getting more out of XPages the easy way". The slide deck covers:
What is a Theme?
How are Themes typically used?
How do Themes actually work?
Going beyond the typical to...
Keep your XPage markup clean
Enhance application performance
Maintain [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Mark Barton: Creating Barcodes with an XPage / Reading them with Flex
Sat, Jun 4th 2011 11:26a Bruce Elgort Mark Barton has a must read blog entry on generating barcodes with XPages:
Due to the ability for an XPage to easily leverage Java code it is quite straightforward to integrate an existing Java library, so when the XPage is called a rendered barcode is returned.
For this demo I have decided to use a commercial library – the code will operate in a demo mode and is reasonably priced if you decide to buy it. For this demo I am only interested in the Datamatrix barcode so I downloaded th [read] Keywords: xpages java
