About the rant of mine:

 

It is not my goal to mope around. I do thank anyone whose blog helped me understanding the technology better. Especially people at IBM like Paul Hannan, Stephan Wissel and others who had a significant role in my understanding of xpages, but also anybody else  I cannot think of right now. What I do miss (and that is where the frustration comes from) is an education program for xpages development beyond the simple click'o'rama within the xpages design element editors. I am willing to learn, our company is willing to pay for training. But I will not attend the next xpages for noobs training where all you get is how to put a little bit of JavaScript behind a DOJO control so it spreads all over the xpage. I would like to have education on how to approach complex solutions, best practices on testing, information on how the build in the domino designer works (thus understand when "clean a project" could help, for example). I looked into the current training program from IBM here in Austria/Germany. I was not able to find a single (!) training interesting regarding this aspects, are you kidding me?

 

To me it almost seems like a dissociative personality disorder in whale scale. On the one hand I am told that xpages is the one technology I need to learn, but on the other hand I have to figure out myself how to gain the know-how to leveraging myself onto it. When I read that IBM hosted this forum, I thought about it like it having administrators, moderators, people responsible that questions get answered. I didn't think that hosted by IBM basically just means it's on their servers and IBMers take a look at it at leisure. If xpages technology is as important as Lotusphere is trying to make us believe (and I actually do think the technology is important), then give us the means to learn it properly, please. Pretty please with cherry on top!