During Lotusphere 2011 Philippe Riand posted a now infamous tweet asking for members of the YellowVerse interested in writing an XPages book following up on the hugely successful Mastering XPages. It's been a long time in the making, but now XPages Extension Library has been published, written by myself, Paul Hannan, Declan Lynch, Jeremy Hodge and Tim Tripcony. There are also contributions from a number of other XPages experts. Ed Brill's post includes a discount code for 35% off the book. Or if you haven't yet bought either Mastering XPages or XPages Portable Command Guide, there is a 40% off ...
A couple of weeks ago I got a review copy of XPages Portable Command Guide. Being eager, I had already bought the electronic version. First, a couple of points about the differing media. The electronic version is great for bookmarking and searching. Plus, because I always have my iPad with me, I always have PCG with me. But one of the nice additions on the paper version is quick reference material on the inside covers. This allows you to quickly find where to go to in the book based on certain needs. As for the book itself, it's aimed specifically at those ...
Two and a half years ago when I started working with XPages, there was a relative paucity of support materials. Declan Lynch's 50-odd introduction was a god-send as were blog posts from John Mackey and Matt White. The Dojo documentation was okay, but the implementation of Dojo 1.1.1 was very limiting. There had been sessions at Lotusphere 2009, but I was not able to go there, so that was not a reference site. But now, two and a half years on, we have a host of blog and wiki posts. There is the Mastering XPages book and if you've searched Amazon ...
