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Lotusphere 2010 warm up videos

Steve Castledine  14 January 2010 15:57:15 GMT
Found these warm up videos for Lotusphere 2010, getting excited yet?:




and of course:


XPages Discussion Template - new build available on OpenNTF

Steve Castledine  13 January 2010 16:31:41 GMT
I have uploaded a new build of the XPages Discussion forum to OpenNTF. You can download from here.

This update enhances the existing XPage interface allowing more topics to be visible within the views and enhanced discussion thread viewing.

Enjoy :)

Image:XPages Discussion Template - new build available on OpenNTF
Image:XPages Discussion Template - new build available on OpenNTF

    Millies first snowman

    Steve Castledine  6 January 2010 13:34:55 GMT
    We finally have a winter this year. The rest of the country has had a fair bit of snow, but we have had about 2cm max.

    But we still have a snowman:

    Image:Millies first snowman

    Image:Millies first snowman

    For those building Lotusphere Schedule applications

    Steve Castledine  6 January 2010 13:27:50 GMT
    Can I ask you to add this session to your databases (thank you):

    Meeting Name: OpenNTF Annual General Meeting
    Date of Meeting/Function: Tuesday, 1/19 – 6pm – 7pm
    Hotel: Yacht and Beach Conference Center
    Room/Function Area Name: Cape Cod C

    OpenNTF Open Source Lotus Awards nominations close Wednesday

    Steve Castledine  4 January 2010 14:25:17 GMT
    Just a quick reminder that the OpenNTF Open Source Lotus Awards nominations close Wednesday, see here.

    A reminder also that there are entries where the submitter has been asked to add a licence file etc and so far have not. These queries by the IP manager will need resolving to qualify for entry.

    XPages Wiki build 0.06 available

    Steve Castledine  23 December 2009 18:13:54 GMT
    Went through the reported bugs and fixed as many as possible and so a new build is available here.

    Template is Domino XPages 8.5.1 only at this point.

    Will upload another update soon.

    Simple XPages Theme Tip

    Steve Castledine  18 December 2009 11:56:34 GMT
    There was a question "how do I allocate a particular theme to a particular XPage?", this is because in general the theme set is for the entire nsf and changing it for one XPage means changing it for all (via the application properties).

    However if you think about this differently, and almost as an extension to the XPage itself when it builds its header information, you will see that one theme does not mean fixed settings for all as the power of the theme is about computation via the rendered attribute.

    So instead of trying to use multiple theme's and coding the actual theme change via back-end code and reloading the page, just compute everything in the theme itself. For example if we had a red.xsp and a blue.xsp and they needed different style sheets because of their different colour requirements we can compute the delivery of these style sheets from one theme as:

    <resource rendered="#{javascript:facesContext.getViewRoot().getViewId().equals('/blue')}">
            <content-type>text/css</content-type>
            <href>blue.css</href>
    </resource>
    <resource rendered="#{javascript:facesContext.getViewRoot().getViewId().equals('/red')}">
            <content-type>text/css</content-type>
            <href>red.css</href>
    </resource>

      Further discussion template view tweaks

      Steve Castledine  9 December 2009 14:45:07 GMT
      Couple of tweaks just designed to provide even more "visible" topics in one view. Feedback required - demo here.

      New:
      Image:Further discussion template view tweaks
      Old:
      Image:Further discussion template view tweaks

      Don’t forget the Open Source Lotus Awards

      Steve Castledine  9 December 2009 11:43:34 GMT
      For Lotusphere in January 2010 there will be two new Open Source Lotus Awards:

      1. Best Open Source Contribution by an Individual(s) (up to 2)
      2. Best Open Source Contribution by a Business Partner

      Nominations are coming in, however we would like many more (and the deadline is January 6th). Read this blog entry for more detail.

      Last minute entries increase the chance of not being accepted due to any resolvable legal issues. So its imperative to get your entries in as soon as possible.

      XPages - common "upgrade my existing application" questions

      Steve Castledine  7 December 2009 10:45:53 GMT
      A bit of a call for help, but at the same time an offer of help.

      One of my Lotusphere sessions, with Stephan Wissel, will be about upgrading "existing" applications to using XPages, and also showing how some out of the box stuff can get you quick wins for doing this.

      A question I have is what common patterns, use cases or general questions do "you" have for this scenario. What do you need to know the equivalent of doing from standard Domino to XPages, what questions do you currently have which are unanswered? Anything goes here - I'm just looking at creating the best session possible on this theme.

      Examples here are what about my Lotusscript code, $$ view templates, Linked Combo boxes etc etc

      The payback will be 1) The session will be worth attending and 2) I will try my best to cover as many of these questions on my blog as possible before and after Lotusphere so please pass this request around and hopefully everyone can benefit.

      Millie’s Band

      Steve Castledine  7 December 2009 10:37:42 GMT
      Millie really did think this was "her" band. Shame I didn't take this with a real camera, or got any when she was facing frontwards and dancing.

      Image:Millie’s Band

      Did you complain about the OpenNTF forums?

      Steve Castledine  4 December 2009 11:08:16 GMT
      That's not meant to be a rude blog title, but merely to get your attention if you were originally displeased with the discussion template used on OpenNTF. I know there were many frustrations, including my own, with the original template and we have patched it a couple of times to try and improve things.

      However we have now done some work to fix some of the underlying issues and so the best way to avoid future frustrations, is to help us to work out whether the changes go some way towards fixing these frustrations or we are so wrong we need a good kick up the you know what. Like they say many "eyes" make light work.

      There's a blog post here detailing changes, and a demo here to play with. One of my biggest questions is with the all documents view. Is the data order correct for the rows, or should the author be under the topic and the date go the right - what is easier for you to read?


      Image:Did you complain about the OpenNTF forums?
      Image:Did you complain about the OpenNTF forums?
      Image:Did you complain about the OpenNTF forums?