Over on the "Mindoo Blog", Karsten Lehmann has started an XPages series about stripping back some of the Notes-centric pieces of XPages and working with the underlying structure, java beans, and more.  While this is more than most Domino only developers may need to get into, the exposure to the underside of how XPages work, JSF, and so on is a great tool in understanding how XPages work behind the scenes, and can help you to design better XPages applications.

Hop over to the first article in his XPages series, and give them a read (5 articles in the series so far.) Its promising to be good stuff.

Happy Coding.

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Request an Article on XPages Fri, Aug 27th 2010 9:45a Paul Hannan So you've searched the web, searched the XPagesBlog, searched the wiki, searched the help, searched PlanetLotus, XPages101, NotesIn9, the forums... you've even searched the biscuit jar in the kitchen and yet you cannot find any information on that particular XPages topic you're interested in. So what do you do? You could post something to your own blog in the hope someone from the community will respond with the information. Or you could make your way to the 'Requested Articles' section on Lotus [read] Keywords: domino ibm ldd lotus notes xpages community planetlotus planetlotus.org wiki

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XPages Server Bug You Might Not Know About, But May Have Already Bit You. Wed, Aug 25th 2010 4:28p Jeremy Hodge Ok, so this is an interesting tip. Some of you may have read my last post on my blog about a serious delay issue I've been having with an XPage application. Through some hard work with Nathan T Freeman (Mr NTF himself) and the XPages Team at IBM, namely Philippe Riand, Mike Kerrigan and more, we've discovered a bit of an interesting issue. The problem lies in DNS name resolution on your server. XPages uses "server" as a server name for some internal URLs to access resources within the NSF. We [read] Keywords: ibm ntf xpages application bug database linux server

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An Easy Way to Set the TAG of Computed Text to Aid in Semantic HTML Structures Wed, Aug 25th 2010 5:44a Paul Hannan There's a new property added to the Computed Field control in 852 called 'tagName'. This started life as an enhancement request from fellow IBMer and XPager Thomas Gumz and this property allows the control to emit a tag for computed text, like h1, h2, h3 tags to aid in creating semantic HTML structures for documents (to help in search engine optimizations, etc). It's pretty easy to use. Add or use any Computed Field control, , select the All Properties panel and in 'basics' you'll see the new p [read] Keywords: ldd lotus xpages application javascript linkedin properties

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Multiple Value Editboxes with Ajax Typeahead and What's Your Favourite Pub? Tue, Aug 24th 2010 10:14a Paul Hannan I'm not endorsing mixing beer and work with this post, not unless you work in a brewery (that and working in a chocolate factory would be my ideal jobs ;-). What I'd like to do is point you to a nice little XPages App posted last week by Paul Calhoun where he invites you to state what are your favourite 'Pubs of the World'. It's all purely for science - Paul is looking for sample data - so a good cause. Go there and select the 'Add a Pub' button. This brings you into a new document to record a [read] Keywords: xpages ajax bug javascript twitter

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XPages multi-column filtering using a vector of non-categorized columns Fri, Aug 20th 2010 12:44p Paul Hannan As requested and hot on the heels of yesterday's post on multi-level categoryFiltering enhancement, here is an example of how you can filter multiple sorted non-categorized columns with a vector. And here we're using the 'keys' property which allow you to filter a view of sorted non-categorized columns. For this example you won't have to wait until 852 is out next Tuesday, this is something you can do right now. And again we're going to use the XPages Demo App from OpenNTF to show this in action [read] Keywords: xpages java javascript openntf

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Learn more about the new XPages Extensibility API Fri, Aug 20th 2010 10:30a Bruce Elgort This week IBM's Phillipe Riand and Jim Quill sat down with the Taking Notes podcast and talked about the new XPages Extensibility API that will be part of Notes/Domino 8.5.2. In the podcast the following topics are covered: What is the XPages Extensability API? How to get started using the API Where to find the XPages Extensability API documentation (on the wiki of course!) How to use the API Does the API support both Notes client and Domino XPages apps? What's coming in the future with Notes/D [read] Keywords: domino ibm ldd lotus notes notes client xpages apple podcast taking notes wiki

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XPages Multi-level Category Filtering - categoryFilter enhancement in Notes Domino 852 Thu, Aug 19th 2010 9:14a Paul Hannan The multi-level category filter is a new enhancement in Notes Domino R852. It's an addition to the categoryFilter feature in the View data source that allows you to filter a view by the category and then the sub-category. It's a neat way for refining your view document collection even further than just by the main category. For example, setting categoryFilter="Fruit" will display all documents under the 'Fruit' category, while categoryFilter="Fruit\Apples" displays the documents under the 'Fruit [read] Keywords: domino notes xpages javascript openntf

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XPages Goes To Belfast for ILUG 2010 Thu, Aug 12th 2010 10:52a Paul Hannan The Irish Lotus Users Group are having their 2010 conference in Belfast this November (12th to 14th), and looking at the sessions on offer - http://www.ilug2010.org/ILUG/ilug2010.nsf/sessions.xsp - there's a healthy selection XPages related content. Domino Designer in 2010 - It's Not Getting Older, It's Getting Better! - Maureen Leland Building an in-context UI with XPages - Tony McGuckin Supercharge your Apps with the XPages Extensibility APIs - Jim Quill XPages Blast, 30 tips in 60 minute [read] Keywords: domino ilug lotus lotusphere notes xpages dojo xml

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Getting Deeper Into The Managed Bean - Part II Wed, Aug 11th 2010 12:59p Jeremy Hodge First of all, Happy Yellow Day all you yellow-peeps ... now on with the show... Yesterday I began a deep dive into creating a managed bean that would create a cached master detail record set. We created two Java classes, one for the master record, Hello World, and one for the detail record, HelloCountry, set up HelloWorld as a managed bean, and wrote an XPage to work with Record set to display the detail and allow the user to interact with that detail. Today, we're going to work more with those [read] Keywords: domino lotus lotusscript notes xpages application best practice database java javascript

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Getting Deeper into the Managed Bean - Creating a Cached Master/Detail Recordset Tue, Aug 10th 2010 11:18a Jeremy Hodge In my first article in the JSF series, I covered the concept of the Managed Bean, and gave you a brief example on how to implement one. I thought for today's post, I would dig a bit deeper and give you an example of a more-fully fleshed out managed bean example. Let's continue to work with the HelloWorld class from the first post in the series and build upon that. The first example I would like to show you is how to build a managed bean to work with a set of master / detail records. This is the [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes xpages apple application database development java javascript properties server xml