I will be speaking at Lotusphere
As most of you have by no doubt noticed, the official responses to all abstracts submitted for Lotusphere 2010 (except, I'm assuming, for the BOFs, if those will be selected based on attendee voting like last year) have been sent, and among them was confirmation that I will be co-presenting with Stephan Wissel the following session: Harnessing the power of Server-side JavaScript and other advanced XPage techniques XPages have ushered in a new era for application development on the IBM Lotus Domino platform. This session will take you beneath the surface of X

inheritance in JavaScript
First, a brief historical recap:Back in January, I admitted my man-crush on SSJS, and mentioned that IBM's implementation of it in XPages supports closures.In February, I wrote a sprawling essay about what closures bring to JavaScript, and why I think they're so useful.In June, I posited that SSJS isn't really JavaScript, explained what I felt to be the most pertinent differences, and promised to post my preferred approach to inheritance in JavaScript... but (until now) never did.A few weeks ago,

Upcoming book review: Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook
Packt Publishing, the same publisher who approached Marie Scott about writing a book about Sametime, has also asked me to review one of their recently released titles, Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook. Long time readers of this blog know that I'm a huge fan of the Ext JavaScript framework, but until now I've never actually read

Another VIEW article about XPages is live
The sequel to our previous article has just been published. This one's massive... and yet is just the beginning of the story, so hopefully we'll be able to keep cranking out more sequels. But I feel reasonably confident there won't be any prequels... at least, none featuring annoying CGI aliens.

XPages safety tip - avoid using hyphens in control ID names
Never, EVER use a hyphen in a control ID (i.e. "repeat-SomeCollection").