Next week, along with a host of other great speakers and enthusiastic attendees, I will be attending UKLUG in Manchester. This promises to be a remarkable event, if for no other reason but that forecasts say it won’t be raining all the time. (If you haven’t heard the song, take a look at the lyrics from The Beautiful South’s song entitled Manchester, which says it all.)
It will be a busy few days, with preparation fully in swing on Sunday. Intec are a silver sponsor of UKLUG, so we will be exhibiting. If you want to see the kind of thing we’ve done with XPages and what we can offer on XPages and more, drop by our stand on the left as you walk into the event.
As well as helping on the stand, on Tuesday morning from 9am to 11am Paul Calhoun and I will be leading a hands-on introduction to XPages. This is aimed at those who have little or no knowledge of XPages. All you need is a laptop with Domino Designer 8.5.2 on it. If you don’t have a laptop, hopefully people will be able to work through the material together. There will be a number of expert facilitators on hand to help out, including Matt White, Tim Tripcony, Tim Clark and others. At the end of the session, we’ll wrap up with a round-table discussion about XPages. If you’ve never used XPages, you’ll probably never have such a well-informed group to guide you through your initial steps.
And on Monday afternoon from 2pm to 3pm I am presenting with Chris Connor a session called “XPages Developer + Coffee = Code: A Little Cup of Java“. Designed as an introduction into what can be done with Java, the session starts with how to use the Java packages that come with Domino (hint: you’re using them already, but maybe not to the extent that you could) before Chris takes us a little deeper into Java.
And if you want to see what can be done with XPages and Java in advance, over the weekend I will be contributing a new application to OpenNTF, XPages Help Application. This showcases not only Java (after some initial learning, debugging and error management has been so much more enjoyable and easier in Java than SSJS) but also techniques Tim Tripcony will be talking about in his session, which immediately follows mine and Chris’s.
