The X Cast

A new book has been released by IBM Press “XPages Portable Command Guide” by four IBMers – Martin Donnelly, Maire Kehoe, Tony McGuckin and Dan O’Connor. We’re pleased to talk to the authors.
http://tinyurl.com/xpagespcg

There is also a “Meet the Authors” YouTube video.

Martin Donnelly, IBM
Maire Kehoe, IBM
Tony McGuckin, IBM
Dan O’Connor, IBM

First of all, we speak to Dan about taking over from Maureen Leland. Then onto the main event…

Can you explain the book title? How is this book different then the Mastering XPages Book? What topics does it cover?

Is this a book devs should surreptitiously leave on their admin’s desk?

What’s the most important part of the book for each of the authors?

It’s Martin’s and Tony’s second book. Was it easier second time around? Did it help Maire and Dan having experienced authors on board?

We have a visual editor for Application Properties, and there is a new editor for the xsp.properties in Upgrade Pack 1. Tell us about it?

What’s next for XPages?

Any more books in the pipeline?

And we have a competition for 1 copy of the XPages Portable Command Guide and 1 copy of the XPages Extension Library (due out May 2012). All you have to do is send a comment to this episode telling us what you have done for the XPages community and we’ll pick the best one and send you a book.

The THIRD XPages competition sponsored by We4It is now on. Head over to OpenNTF for more info.

This episode is sponsored by Intec