On Thursday and Friday I, along with a number of others, attended NLLUG. It was a fabulous venue, the Amsterdam ArenA, home of Ajax. The two days were filled with a number of excellent sessions on four different tracks from high calibre speakers. I’m sure that all attendees, myself included, learned something and probably lots. It was also useful to catch up with friends in the Lotus community and meet some community members whose names I knew but had not met.
The conference had a strong set of XPages sessions, all well-attended and all filled with a lot of good material. Personally, as an XPages developer whose experience has predominantly been in Notes client development, Thomas Bahn’s session on Advanced Javascript taught me lots of useful information. I’m looking forward to digging deeper into the material, particularly the idea of using and extending object oriented programming in SSJS.
For those who attended my session, I have attached the slides and sample database below. Hopefully the database is well-commented, but if anything is unclear, by all means contact me. I had to squeeze a lot into the session and one aspect of the sample database that might not be so clear to newer XPages developers will be the combination of languages, so putting SSJS and Expression Language in the middle of literal strings. I would like to direct developers to the article on combining languages I wrote a couple of months ago. For those who were unable to attend or would like to see again the dashboard demo at the end of the session, I’ve put a screencast of the dashboard on Intec Systems’ youtube channel. The screencast was created for Intec’s stand at Lotusphere Comes To You earlier this year. One important point about the dashboard demo – it doesn’t work on IE: this is because of the way I have created the chart’s series, by using a repeat control. Dojox charts do work on IE as well, for code to do so see my Dojox charts tutorial series.
I would also like to thank Femke Goedhart for posting photos from my session.
Next up is a session on XPages and Dojo at ILUG in November.
