Fri, Jul 3rd     234 From my inbox Volker Weber    9:49a Lotus Notes for Nokia N97? Nope. Traveler? Neither. [read] Thu, Jul 2nd     310 Something missing from 8.5.1 Devin Olson    1:19p As many of you are probably aware, I'm using the 8.5.1 Code Drop (for Design Partners) version of Lotus Domino Designer; and am running it on Windows 7 RC (64 bit). So far, I've found it to be much more stable than the previous 8.5 Gold Release version. As with any "test" version of software, there are some issues, but on the whole 8.5.1 is shaping up nicely. I received this dialog box today (when attempting to remove an application bookmark from my DDE workspace); [read] Wed, Jul 1st     227 Lotus Notes 8.x made easy Chris Sparshott    9:56p A colleague shared this document with me on configuring a few functions in Lotus Notes 8.x. I found a couple of hints pretty useful and hopefully you will too. Really useful user configurations forLotusNotes 8.x Related Posts April 27, 2009 — Virtual World access from Lotus Sametime (3) April 22, 2009 — Mind reading email filing in Lotus Notes – Swift File (0) July 8, 2008 — Cisco Telepresence (0) April 30, 2009 — Lotus Sametime offering comparison matrix (0) Apr [read] 224 XPages - The Good, The Bad and the UGLY - VI Peter Presnell    12:09a Slowly but surely this XPage stuff is starting to make sense. A far cry from where I was this time last week... The Good: This Thing Is BIG I am in total awe in just how much stuff is in this XPage thing (including Custom Controls & Themes).  Its so HUGE that my tiny little brain still has no idea how to even conceptualize much of the stuff that is in there.  Every time I open a door its like it opens into hallway with a whole bunch of more doors (a bit like a scene from The Matrix).  Ta [read] 199 Lotus Notes Domino CMS - RenderKit Teaser Video Chris Toohey    12:09a I've put together a simple little teaser video that shows off the RenderKit architecture for the Lotus Notes Domino CMS I'm currently working on and plan to use to host not only this site, but also a few pro-bono websites I'm putting together. Once complete, I plan on publishing the Lotus Notes Domino CMS to OpenNTF.org, so if you have any comments, questions, and suggestions, please feel free to comment in this post! [read] Tue, Jun 30th     195 Calculator Sidebar App for the Lotus Notes 8 Client (Tuesday, Jun 30) Julian Robichaux    10:39a Finally getting around to officially releasing my Calculator Sidebar App to the SNAPPS Widget Catalog: I've actually had it on the Update Site for personal beta testing since last month, so if you are one of the clever people who found it before today please reinstall so you get the latest version. ;-) The premise of this application is pretty simple: it's a calculator. Carl Tyler created the very nice Epilio Calculator Plugin for Sametime some time ago, so I'm certainly not the first one to [read] 162 Be careful with your data at LotusLive Volker Weber    5:00a As you may recall, my LotusLive trial recently expired without notice. It just would not let me in anymore. Today I searched for myself at a page which is linked as "Find people who are using LotusLive" from here. The interesting result: Clicking that link took me here: So, IBM keeps your data, but you can't remove it, since you no longer have access. Be careful out there. [read] Mon, Jun 29th     201 Strange LotusScript Problem Tom O'Neil    11:57p We recently upgraded from R6.5 to R8 (Basic). We’ve run into an issue with memory (clients crashing) because of poorly designed LotusScript. It seems that R6.5 (and earlier) had no problem with variables being declared in multiple declaration sections on the same form. For instance, the view “myView” was dimmed in the declaration section of the form, three to four buttons, and at least one script library all on the same form! Did I fix it? Almost. The users crash maybe once a [read] 292 New Feature Request for Lotus Notes: Remove the ability to use email from Lotus Notes as it is redundant Vaughan Rivett    8:45p Over time things change and so do the way we go about doing things. In the early 1990's there was a huge uptake in the number of people who wanted to be on email, failing to realize that email would [read] 366 SHOW STOPPER: If you’re upgrading from 6.5 to 8.5? Andy Pedisich    1:39p This one's not mine. It's from Franziska Tanner at the Martin Scott blog. http://www.martinscott.com/MSCBlog.nsf/dx/06292009014018AMFTA8NR.htm This looks pretty darn serious and involves policies ... [read] 230 Can parts of Domino really be considered relics? Is it ready for the museum? Carl Tyler    7:39a ThisIBM support technote made me laugh, it references an SPR that refers to some code in the server as "old relic". SPR# WBKK7EKQ7X fixes an old relic of keeping track of the Previous Ticks introduced in Domino 4.0 for OS2, and assures that accurate ticks are obtained. [read] 271 New NotesUI-bug found in Notes 8.5 (includes workaround) Tommy Valand    7:04a I'm back working in the client again. It seems every time I'm working on client code, I discover a new NotesUI-bug. :-\ Purpose: When user tries to create a settings doc, check to see if one already exists. If yes, open the existing doc (by static unid), else set static unid, continue. I'd have thought it would be as easy as (in PostOpen) Source.Close, NotesUIWorkspace.EditDocument. And it would, if the user was running Notes 8.0.X. In Notes 8.5, the client closes both the "Create Settings" i [read] Sun, Jun 28th     132 I'm hoping some of these "annoynaces" in xPages gets fixed in 8.5.1 Jeremy Hodge    1:57p 1. Computed Fields are treated as block elements in the designer, even though they render as spans (thus inline) :: To reproduce, set clear:left; as the style for a computed field,and it clears the left margin in the desiger, but not in the browser (correctly so) - which leads me to the next issue: 2. Change the css on a computed field to display: block and the field's label disappears in designer, so unless you know its there, it just looks like white space 3. I find all that out beca [read] 112 Human Readable Dates in XPages Matt White    4:49a Last year Jake published a really good article (as he generally does) about how to create Ruby style dates in LotusScript. So for example, instead of displaying "28/06/2009 09:35" the page will show "about 30 minutes ago". It's a technique I bookmarked until I had a need for it, which I now have, but for an XPages app. So I have ported Jakes code across to use Server Side Javascript instead of LotusScript, and in "share and share alike" fashion, thought I should republish it for you to use as yo [read] Sat, Jun 27th     186 Domino Framework 1.0 Released Peter Presnell    7:27p .Domino Framework 1.0 has been released on OpenNTF under the Apache License (which basically means anyone can use the code for whatever they want).  This project was thirteen years in the making.  It contains a collection of tools, code, and information to assist Lotus Notes developers build Notes applications. Resources: .Domino Framework Project (Download) .Domino Framework Wiki .Domino Framewrok Web Site .Domino Framework Blog .Domino Framework Community Points of Note: The framework is n [read] 164 My turn to talk XPages, good and bad ... Jeremy Hodge    5:56p Unfortunately, until now, I have not been able to get deep into xpages like I have wanted to. And to be honest, some of the talk around the the virtual water cooler was telling me I was in for a little ride getting into it. Today I started my journey, helped along the way by others ahead of me like Declan and with very little help from the Lotus Documentation (is it just me that finds the help difficult to navigate from a "where do I start and where do I go" perspective)?? Anyway ... s [read] 187 LotusScript v JavaScript Peter Presnell    2:47p I don't normally plug my own ideas on ideajam, but this is one I would like to encourage notes developers in the yellowverse to cast a vote.  As many of you know from reading my blog I am in the process of learning how to develop xpages.  It is still early stages for 8.5, xpages ,and server sided Javascript but I am interested in getting and early indicator based upon your own experiences and insight as to whether or not xpages is likely to change Notes developer programming habits away from L [read] Fri, Jun 26th     155 Phasing out Windows Darren Adams    7:56p Two months after taking one step to phase out Windows (the acquisition of an iMac), I taken another step. Today… or yesterday depending on where you are… okay, on Friday… I converted my work laptop to Ubuntu Linux. While working at IBM’s Warwick office with an older laptop (too busy to ignore work completely), my frolleagues Ray Davies and Stuart Crump assisted in converting me and several other people to the popular Linux distribution. The base installation was extremely [read] 146 XPages - The Good, The Bad and the UGLY - IV Peter Presnell    6:07p Week one completed..  What an amazing learning experience filled with many emotional highs and lows..... The Good - Outline panel: In my last blog I talked about the drag/drop capabilities for editing Xpages.  John Head made some excellent points in response about how he uses the Outline panel almost exclusively to rearrange the content of an XPage.  I didn't even realize the outline allowed you to do that.  But sure enough, you can even use drag/drop within the Outline to rearrange control [read] 101 Fud Buster Friday #46 - Lotus Notes is just about Email Keith Brooks    11:29a A half truth, the whole truth is Lotus Notes is of course email, calendar/schedule, personal information manager but it's also: A Customizable UI, put panels where you want on your 3 screen setup Flexible views and customizations on a basic level, deeper if you are so inclined Runs GTD (Getting Things Done) eProductivity A Widget Player Instant Messaging client Rebate Tracking Wedding lists, invites, addresses and gift registry Home Inventory (for insurance purposes or just good to know) Grocer [read] 213 Empowered Notes users Volker Weber    9:53a There is an interesting thread on Ed's about the applications people use stand-alone on their Notes clients. Read the comments. "I wrote this little application", "Journal can be easily customized" and so on. Do you see the pattern? It seems that all Notes users who love the platform are empowered. They can customize their experience to their personal needs. They can write their own application, how small they may be. The most vocal fans are fully empowered. They can write the most elaborate app [read] 206 Domino-Java development using Eclipse Sahi Rishi    3:20a Few days back,I've tried domiclipse plug-in with Eclipse to test if I can continue my development in Eclipse.I was really impressed with the way my Eclipse started talking to my local( and server ) databases.However, I've found difficulties in accessing Domino objects within Eclipse environment.Also,When I try to sync my work with Notes database , It just creates java class files in my local but doesn't update notes database directly ( I assume need to use "Imported Java" agent to manually uploa [read] Thu, Jun 25th     162 NEOLUG: Declan's XPages Presentation Gregg Eldred    11:32p At NEOLUG today, we were fortunate to have Declan Sciolla-Lynch present on XPages. As there were some "technical difficulties" with the web meeting, he has provided his presentation (in ODF format): XPages XPlained If you want more information on XPages, be sure to seach his blog for an excellent series of articles. . [read] 173 XPages - The Good, The Bad and the UGLY - III Peter Presnell    5:33p Progress is slowly being made and my perceptions of Xpages are constantly changing (not always in the same direction).... First I wish to revise my statements from yesterday's blog about Server-Sided Javascript.  Tim Tripcony wrote an excellent article in which he pointed out some of the inaccuracies in my characterizations of server-sided Javascript.  It seems that server-sided JavaScript should largely be considered a distinctly different language from client-sided (traditional) JavaScript. [read] 323 Does this remind you of Lotus Notes Volker Weber    3:50p I mean back in the days, when you could slap together a small form-based app and put it on the server? Well, now you can do it again. Just somewhere else. [read] 225 Introducing a new Desktop policy Mary Beth Raven    1:29p Cacophonous constituents, Many of you may remember the "Ask the developers" session at Lotusphere 2009, at which an attendee asked for the Admin to be able to enable the "synchronize contacts" function (because, I'll admit, it is pretty obtuse for end users to figure out what to do). I believe the others in the room supported her request with a round of applause. I have some happy news-- we took your input very seriously, and in Notes 8.5.1 there will be a new Desktop policy (on the basic [read] 200 The difference between CouchDB and Lotus Notes Tom O'Neil    8:58a I was trying to search for an old comment of mine and stumbled across this great answer for the question: “What is the difference between CouchDB and Lotus Notes?” This is just the summary: Summery: CouchDB is brand new software that is developing a core that has a similar conceptual but far more sophisticated design to that used in Lotus Notes Domino. Lotus Notes Domino is a mature fully featured product that is capable of being deployed today. CouchDB is starting from scratch, buil [read] 243 Microsoft Defends Its Empire Ed Maloney    8:29a There is an article about the "New Microsoft" on Businessweek today. While the yellowverse rolls up their eyes and groans at "innovations" like this;Another feature of Office 2010 is called "unified communications." When a user moves the cursor over the name of a colleague, up pops a box that shows whether that person is online—and offers the option of e-mailing, calling, or setting up a meeting. The program will also offer new social networking capabilities and ways to track down co-workers [read] 449 I think I have found one of the most powerful applications that has ever been created for Lotus Notes Vaughan Rivett    12:37a When I went to school our teachers use to tell us that "when you leave school computers are going to do everything so you will actually have more time for relaxation". Now, I know some of you folks t [read] Wed, Jun 24th     286 Lotus: We'll give you the air cover you need! Humbug, I say! Humbug! Mikkel Heisterberg    2:25p I agree - this is a rant but I'm frustrated - deeply frustrated. So I was at the Lotusphere 2009 and was happy to hear Kristen Lauria, VP Lotus Marketing, on stage talking about the renewed commitment from IBM Lotus to marketing and about the new SmarterPlanet campaign. IBM was going to provide the air cover we as partners needed. IBM was going to be visible and aggressive. IBM was going to get into to fight. They were shattering windows for God sake! I was thrilled. The crowd was thrilled. [read] 306 A cleaner-looking sidebar is coming your way in Notes 8.5.1 Mary Beth Raven    8:08a In Notes 8.5.1 you'll notice that there are fewer buttons on each of the sidebar panel titles. We (actually, Sheri Branco on our team-- many of you have met her at Lotusphere) did usabiity testing on manipulating the sidebar panels and, now that the dragging and resizing is easier, (as of 8.5) we determined that we did not need the other 2 buttons on each titlebar (for min/restore and for maximize). Both the tests and our anecdotal evidence indicate that none of you use these buttons anyway : [read] Tue, Jun 23rd     222 XPages - The Good, The Bad and the UGLY - I Peter Presnell    4:09p Now that I am back playing around in Xpages kindergarten I am going to try to chronicle some of my "experiences" in learning (and hopefully mastering) Xpages.  In an attempt to be balanced I will try each day to find something good, something bad (and perhaps sometimes) something UGLY. The Good: View Reuse.  Previously it was always necessary to design a view to meet the needs of its ultimate purpose.  Views used in the background could be consolidated but views displayed to the user always [read] 296 OpenNTF goes to ... Niklas Heidloff    6:17a There have been some discussions about what is going on with OpenNTF these days, e.g. in Volker's blog (see here). I'm in a difficult situation since I have no authority to speak on behalf of OpenNTF and as always I cannot speak for IBM in this blog. But here are some personal notes. I think the key value of OpenNTF is the code, nothing more and nothing less. In the strategy working group teamroom (see here) I've documented that I'd like to open source IBM's discussion template (see here), t [read] 408 Customer is considering moving to Microsoft Exchange from Domino 7.x PLANET LOTUS PLEASE HELP Vaughan Rivett    2:02a I was just talking to a client of mine who is based in a country far, far away. He mentioned that he is thinking about moving from Lotus Domino server to the latest version of Microsoft Exchange. He [read] Mon, Jun 22nd     155 Grouping docs in memory Andre Guirard    10:19a I recently dealt with a question from someone who wanted a way using LotusScript to take a document selection and export each document's data into one of several files, grouped based on the value of the "AssignedTo" field -- so, a separate file for each person documents are assigned to. Having too many files open at a time would be a blocker, so they needed to sort the documents first to write all the data for one file, then move on to the next file. When faced with such a problem, a lot of peop [read] 264 Quo vadis, OpenNTF? Volker Weber    9:10a When IBM announced in January it was going to help OpenNTF, this was not what I had hoped for the site: committees, meetings and conference calls. These are the last five headlines: Announcement: IP Working Group Conference Call - Friday, June 19th, 2009 - 10 AM EDT OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee Meeting Minutes from June 8, 2009 OpenNTF.org Alliance Steering Committee Meeting Minutes from May 28th, 2009 Summary of Inaugural Meeting of the OpenNTF.org Alliance Steering Committee Bug submi [read] 210 About to reveal my new secret XPages application... Julian Buss    5:52a You may know that I'm developing with XPages for some months now (and collecting knowledge about XPages development here). I made quite a secret about the project since then, even my collegues at Yo ... [read] Sun, Jun 21st     189 Samsung giveth what Lotus taketh away Peter Presnell    1:47p In the past the battleground in the computing industry always seemed to be between increasing processor speed and increasingly complex software.  This was perhaps summed up by the expression "what Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away".  With Vista, Microsoft probably took too much.  Moore's law seems to be slowing down... Software developers can no longer rely on Intel covering up for slower software.  Even IBM have suffered.  Notes 8.x adds a new shiny interface any many additional features [read] Sat, Jun 20th     140 How to access IBM Passport Advantage, get latest releases and entitlements (aka freebies) Darren Duke    5:58p It amazes me how many times I am asked the following, or some variation thereof: how to do get the latest version of Notes/Domino/Quickr? or where do I get the Tivoli Directory Integrator entitlement for Domino? Literally a few times every month. As this appears to be a common issue, it is time for a blog. 1) Browse to http://www-01.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/ and click the sign in link: 2) If you have an ID already use that or create a new one: 3) To get [read] 306 Microsoft is 19 times as interested in iNotes as IBM? Ben Langhinrichs    3:47p While I understand that the time zones put IBM at a bit of a disadvantage, I find this absolutely unbelievable. It isn't scientific, but it is worth noting. Yesterday, I posted a post titled Why is iNotes a second class citizen? Given that it is currently the most popular post on PlanetLotus.org, and has received at least couple of hundred hits more directly through my website , it is likely you have seen it. But have you read it? No, I am probably not talking to you. I am talking to the fo [read] 151 I need user password reset/change DB ASAP: help!!! Benoit Dubuc    8:57a I am calling to you, Loti fans, to help me find/get a Notes web application that will let users change their HTTP password. I need to set this up ASAP (wasn't urgent until the client said he wanted his app in prod next Monday). I know it should be pretty easy, but I just don't have enough time on my hands right now. I'm running a Domino 8.5 server, and I am willing to send the lucky person who helps me an item from their wish list if that can help!!! A check might also be considered if the a [read] Fri, Jun 19th     105 Apple iPhone 3GS Andy Yiu    10:26p The Apple iPhone 3GS has finally been released to the market and I finally got mine at the Apple store.  While there were some glitches with the point of sale system going down once the store opened, everything with the activation process has gone smoothly.  Apple has definitely learned their lessons from the activation server meltdown which occurred last year when the iPhone 3G was released. The iPhone 3GS is much more responsive than the iPhone 3G and I am impressed with the quality of the n [read] 100 Is your e-mail getting fat? Time to archive! Eric Mack    5:48p While I encourage users to archive their old mail, I don't use the standard mail archiving features of Notes. Instead, I prefer to use the external filing feature of eProductivity which allows me to archive on-the-fly simply by dragging emails to an external database. This way, I am effectively archiving in real-time and with little effort. Also, the line between action and reference remains clear for me.. Today, Julia Brown blogged about Lotus Notes Mail Archiving today on the Lotus Notes 8 [read] 128 The LinkedIn Sidebar is now in "alpha" testing, I just installed it Mary Beth Raven    5:07p Hey LinkedIn lovers, The LinkedIn sidebar for Notes is available to IBM employees on our "Technology adoption" website, so I quickly installed it to take a look. Our own John Lance worked on it. We'll keep you posted as it its external availability! Take a look: [read] 239 Why is iNotes a second class citizen? Ben Langhinrichs    4:16p One of the more baffling things I find about IBM is how they cater to executives and big companies in so many ways, and then stomp all over them in others. Certainly, it is true that executives are not the only folks who could use a highly functional web equivalent to their Notes client mail, but many executives are highly mobile and want access to their mail whenever and where ever they may be. IBM's response has been to go to great lengths to fix up the mail experience, and I have to tell you [read] 235 My Last Day As A Notes 6 Developer Peter Presnell    1:28p For the past six and a half years my job has been to work with and get as much as possible out of the Notes 6.0 client.  I work as an independent contractor and for some reason every one of my clients since lates 2002 seemed to be using this one release.  If things go to schedule the last of the workstations I use will soon be upgraded to Notes 8.5.0 allowing me to start work on my first XPages project on Monday.  This is one of the reasons I will be releasing 1.0 of the .Domino Framework in [read] 177 Two more awesome Domino 8.5 DAOS success stories Ed Brill    8:20a Caught a couple of blog entries highlighting real-world success with the Domino 8.5 DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Service) feature, with 25-50% savings in their real-world environments. Dutch partner Eniac Essentials posted a story of a customer with 7000 Domino users and what was 4 TB of mail...We where able to reduce the storage on the archive servers with around 750GB in total, this cleared the way to archive mailservers again an perform the same DAOS action again on newly archived fi [read] 201 Coca-Cola und Domino Lotus Germany    4:58a Unser Mitbewerber lässt gerad verlauten, das Unternehmen Coca-Cola hätte sich von Domino getrennt und wäre auf ihr Produkt gewechselt. Das ist so nicht richtig, Coca Cola ist teilweise ein Franchise Unternehmen: Die Abfüller deren Getränke heißen auch Coca-Cola und einer dieser Abfüller in den USA hat tatsächlich teilweise gewechselt. The Coca Cola Company - das Herz des Unternehmens mit Sitz in Atlanta - ist ein begeisterter Lotus Kunde. Deren CIO. Jean Michel-Ares war Keynote-Sprecher [read] Thu, Jun 18th     353 Lotus wants to give software away for free Volker Weber    3:20p "IBM is delivering on its commitment to free businesses and consumers from having to pay licensing fees over and over just to access their own personal or company information," said Kevin Cavanaugh, VP of Lotus Software. You may want to keep this quote for your next negotiations about Lotus license payments. Why would you want to pay licensing fees over and over just to access your mailboxes, your calendars, or any other company information. [read] You can rent this space for 30 days. Interested? 157 Polymorphism with LotusScript Peter Presnell    12:09p Of all the terms in programming I think polymorphism is one of the coolest.  While I cannnot include eclipse plug-in developer on my resume, I think being able to feature a cool term like polymorphism on my resume must be worth an extra $10 for my hourly rate!!! Polymorphism is a common feature available in most object oriented programming languages such as java, c#, and VB.Net.  Search the Domino designer help and you will not find any mentions of this term.  In the limited coverage given t [read] 184 How Google Killed Old Yeller! Chris Whisonant    8:59a As many of you may know, we have had a problem with Dogear here for a while. At one point, I started referring to it as Old Yeller (could not resist the dead dog/yellow reference - sorry). After doing a lot of upgrades (to IHS/WAS/Connections), DB troubleshooting, completely deleting the DB (which has since been restored), enabling advanced Windows logging (which did not help much), even moving to a fresh VM with a clean install of WAS, maintenance, etc..., nothing seemed to work. In all the cra [read] 172 Lotus Traveler advanced Christian Petters    6:26a My head is buzzing around Lotus Travler, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 devices. If I would have known how cool this stuff can be I would have started looking into it much earlier! Anyhow, my recent adventure into setting up IBM Lotus Traveler for a corporate taught me more tricks of the trade than I am able to put into one individual blog entry due to limited amount of time. That’s because there is much more to be discovered! Tip #1: Install Domino x.509 root certificates for S60 devices: [read] Wed, Jun 17th     361 Career Advice For the Laid-Off Notes Professional Kevin S Pettitt    8:17p A while ago I was contacted by someone who had recently been let go from their job as a Notes Developer to see if I knew of any opportunities, etc., etc. I did not, but I did share a good bit of advice on networking and job hunting. Today I received a similar email from a former colleague, and thought I really ought to share that advice with the community, just in case it's any good and might prove useful to someone else. Mr. Balaban has also offered his own advice while we're on the topic. S [read] 229 Bullshit detector goes off Paul Mooney    5:51p Nothing to do with Notes/Domino. More to do with poor ass data security and a terrible PR announcement trying to cover one's ass. Bold emphasis is mine. "What has happened? A burglary took place on Friday, 5th June in one of Bord Gáis Energy’s Dublin offices. During this incident four laptops were stolen, one of which contained customer information of 75,000 customers Bord Gáis Energy residential electricity customers. What action has Bord Gáis Energy taken to addre [read] 262 We will have a series of postings on "Whats new in Notes 8.5.1 starting this summer Mary Beth Raven    8:48a Loyal Loti, Many of you have asked for a list (with screenshots!) of what is new and coming in Notes 8.5.1. (of course, you'd have a good idea if you go back and read the postings on this blog) We do plan a series of "what is coming in Notes 8.5.1. But we are waiting for "pixel freeze" when all the final icons and layouts are done so that we can have screenshots that will really look like what you'll get. We'll be starting it probably mid or late July. I might also be giving a talk at IAM [read] Tue, Jun 16th     205 The Good and Bad of Domino ID Vault Roland Reddekop    9:54p First the good news. I went to the Lotusphere 09 session on the new Domino 8.5 ID Vault feature and have read a number of articles about it like this one at Dominoblog.  In all the technical descriptions I've read / heard I think they miss the easiest way to describe it. In a nutshell, ID Vault  makes Notes Domino function as if there were no ID File. If you are in the habit of logging into Notes from multiple workstations (e.g. a desktop and a laptop) no doubt you've experienced the occasio [read] 336 Got OpenNTF? Nathan T Freeman    7:15p If you have an OpenNTF.org account, we need you. For what, you ask? Lots of things. Let's start with John's IP Working Group conference call on Friday. If you've contributed to an OpenNTF project, or you're thinking about contributing, you need to get on this call. John's going to present some information on the current code contribution process, what changes we're thinking of making, and why we need to have a proper process at all. Don't know what the IP Working Group is? [read] 174 Quick UI trick for XPages Tim Tripcony    12:09p If you follow Declan's blog, you already know that using the OneUI CSS template makes it even easier to rapidly give your XPages a pleasant user interface. Here's a quick tip for adding an interesting UI element to your pages that takes advantage of some of the OneUI behavior. When you wrap any link in a span that has a style class of "lotusBtn", the link is rendered with a border and background graphic, so it looks like a button even though it's just a link. This is one approach for ensuring t [read] 221 How does the ideal Notes/Domino 8.5 upgrade looks like Stephan H Wissel    10:53a Lotus Notes and Domino upgrades are comparable easy. The only challenge: poorly implemented Domino server will stay poorly implemented even after an upgrade. Unless of course you fix things. Once you know what you want to achieve there are many ways to get there. You simply could use smart upgrade to push out the clients and just install the new server software. What you end up with is your "old" Notes/Domino installation running with new code. That doesn't really cut it. It is like upgrading yo [read] 313 What if Domino Could Scale? Keith Brooks    9:00a Years ago, I and many others even more intelligent than I pondered what if we could build a Domino infrastructure to support a whole country, say 5 million people. It was a great idea and a great project but we were told, in R5 era, we shouldn't do it. Not that we couldn't or at least try. At the time I asked around in Product Management about this and was met with the usual reasons but no one actually stopped and said, perhaps we can try it. It was just presumed it couldn't do it. The time h [read] Mon, Jun 15th     298 Why enterprises are moving to Google Apps, Gmail Thomas Duff    9:39p From CIO.co.nz: Why enterprises are moving to Google Apps, Gmail This is an interesting article, and shows how (in my opinion) IBM and Microsoft are not competing against each other, but against Google... Though it started selling software to universities and small businesses, Google has pervaded more large businesses during the past year with Google Apps, the company's suite of messaging and productivity software. Analysts say Google Enterprise, the division of Google that run [read] 397 Note 8.5.1 & 8.5.2 Update Peter Presnell    3:27p The following is an updated list of features considered ikely to be included in future releases of Notes based upon postings across the yellowverse.  Note: This is not an official list, nor is it based upon any inside information (limited beta starting soon!).  It is, at best, an educated guess based upon what others have been saying (or hinting). Note 8.5.1 Release Timetable Notes 8.5.1 Beta has been released to Design PartnersA managed public beta will begin before the end of JuneCode has n [read] 517 The New Notes Desktop? Alan Lepofsky    9:49a Nope, its Safari 4. I've had a "start page" since the mid-90's for the links that I use. Its an hand crafted HTML page called starthere.htm, that I update manually using a text editor. I think the Safari version is a bit nicer. [read] Sun, Jun 14th     285 Reflections on 15 years at Lotus Ed Brill    9:49p I started working at Lotus Development Corporation on June 14, 1994. My story today is hardly the longest tenure or most unique among colleagues who have been here for 20 or more years. Still, it seems like a fairly opportune moment, especially in the solitude of a vacation trip, to reflect on the last fifteen years of my professional life. When I joined Lotus in 1994, I had been a cc:Mail administrator for a couple of years. I was responsible for the first major rollout of Lotus Organizer [read] 254 Lost Knowledge of Notes and Domino Administration Philip Storry    3:27p [read] 274 Migrated from Domino to Exchange for an iPhone Mike Burford    12:55a Well, that was a first for me.  A small company – 8 users with Domino and BES on SBS 2003 – had one guy who bought an iPhone and didn’t want the Web access to his mail so the company ditched Domino for Exchange!  One of the other guys from our company did the migration with Exchange and Domino side-by-side on the same server (it went very smoothly, I was quite impressed) and I was called in to migrate BES from Domino to Exchange for the other company members. They were only u [read] Fri, Jun 12th     153 How I use Lotus Notes to NOT multi-task Roland Reddekop    11:55p Truthfully, there is not a single human being that multi-tasks. We're all creatures who occupy time and space, with single-thread of primary consciousness. Like a computer CPU that processes instructions sequentially, albeit at a blinding pace, about the best we can do is switch tasks quickly and appropriately, and re-orient ourselves on the fly to each task's current state and data. In other words, multi-tasking is really just illusory. The efficiency of task switching is the real skill that en [read] 166 Obtaining Notes 8.5 addToKit.exe and trimUpdateSite.exe tools Jean-Yves Riverin    9:18p The Notes 8.5 addToKit.exe and trimUpdateSite.exe tools were not included in the Notes 8.5 install kits but are available here. These tools enable you to either add additional features to the Notes install kit or removed certain supplied features from the Notes install kit. Link [read] 112 Quickly move files in and out of Quickr places with PandaBear Volker Weber    6:09p PandaBear&trade; (Beta) for Lotus&reg; Quickr&trade; is a free desktop application that lets you easily upload or download files from a Lotus Quickr place using an intuitive, friendly interface. Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux because it is built with Adobe Air. More > [read] 264 Today is "String Freeze" for Notes 8.5.1 Mary Beth Raven    3:06p Scattered Schedule-watchers, Today is string freeze for Lotus Notes 8.5.1. This means that it's the last day that we are supposed to change any labels that you see in the user interface. After today, all the strings (properties files, .rc files etc) will be sent out for translation. So any changes we make to any words after today have to be re-packaged up and re-sent out for translation-- and that costs more. So as of today, only really important/really necessary strings will be changed. As [read] 157 Launch! Public beta of PandaBear for Lotus Quickr, FREE end-user utility for Windows, Mac and Linux Rob Novak    11:49a PandaBear (Beta) is the code name for a desktop application for uploading, downloading and locating files stored in Lotus Quickr 8.1 and 8.2. Designed on the Adobe Air framework, PandaBear runs on Windows, Mac or Linux using the same application code. Use cases for PandaBear include: Quickr places designed primarily for file sharing Organizations with Mac and/or Linux desktops Transient users of Quickr, who just need access to files Archiving folders, rooms, or ev [read] 280 Microsoft Exchange 2010 (beta) compared with IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 Christian Brandlehner    10:25a This is another comparison of Exchange vs Domino. This time CRN tests Exchange 2010, which is still beta, and Domino 8.5, which was release in January 2009. "We assessed each in five key areas: installation and deployment, interoperability and customization, feature set, performance and pricing." Read the full report here. [read] 219 Some useful Domino Java code? Ben Poole    6:23a I am told that this could be useful to other newb Java Domino coders. Basically, it’s a wee chunk of code to drop into a Domino Java agent, which sets out a recommended approach for document looping and the whole recycle() thing. I don’t know if it’s utterly correct, and I really don’t want to get into the innards of the Domino JVM—Bob is doing sterling work there—but It Works For Me. // Here we iterate documents in a view try { Document doc = view.getFirstDocument(); Document d [read] Thu, Jun 11th     256 Announcing xTalk the XPages Bulletin Board style Discussion Database Declan Sciolla-Lynch    11:25p The discussion database in IBM Lotus Domino has been around for a very long time getting minor updates as different versions of Domino came out over the years, mostly just color updates. When Domino 8.5 was released the discussion database design was given a major overhaul with a nice new XPages interface and for the future there may be even more changes with the news from OpenNTF that IBM may be looking at open sourcing the template. IBM is considering open sourcing the discussion t [read] 166 Reality check Volker Weber    2:10p The Lotus Symphony 1.3 experience is so much better - i just built a presentation with no hangs, lockups, or screen freezes. Love it! Symphony 1.2 must have been a great experience. I seem to be very spoiled to take these things for granted. Actually, I never had a hang, a lockup, or a screen freeze while building a presentation. But then again, I am not a Symphony user. [read] 164 Why do People Need to Print? Kathy Brown    10:27a I was polled on a request for ongoing printing needs of documents in a Notes application. Documents to be printed off at regular intervals and copied and bound for certain sets of users. These are all documents easily available to view in a Notes application. So that got me to wondering WHY a user would want them printed. Several reasons occurred to me, some with easy solutions and some not. What do you think? What are your solutions? Here are my thoughts… Reason #1) Users go R [read] 209 Password expiration - The dirty little secret Andy Pedisich    7:49a There's a fun axiom that states, "Security and convenience have an inverse relationship." The more secure you make your environment, the more inconvenient it is to use. Make passwords weak and gues ... [read] 151 Lotus "rock solid" Domino 8.5 Martin Schaefer    5:52a Een leuke verassing toen ik de Lotus Domino web administrator op mijn webserver opende: Of dit nou zo bijzonder is weet ik niet, een maandje geleden stond er bij een klant een Lotus Domino server die al ruim 3 jaar aan het draaien was. Nadeeltje is dat je op Windows Server dus de security updates enzo mist. [read] Wed, Jun 10th     239 Update on Notes/Domino 8.x maintenance release plans Ed Brill    2:20p A just-published technote outlines IBM's plans for maintenance releases around Notes and Domino 8.x.8.0.2 is the last planned/scheduled maintenance release (MR) for the 8.0x codestream. Notes/Domino 8.0.x will continue to be supported for a minimum of 5+3 years (following IBM SWG policy). In lieu of producing a Notes/Domino 8.0.3 MR, more frequent 8.0.2 FixPacks will be provided. IBM will continue producing both maintenance releases and fix packs for Notes/Domino 8.5.x, and customers who have [read] 201 XPages... the Biggest Barrier Erik Brooks    12:52p UPDATE: Here's a link to this idea on IdeaJam. So XPages are cool.  VERY cool.  And since they can be bolted onto an existing Notes app you should be really, REALLY tempted to upgrade your existing Domino web apps with screen-by-screen updates. Simply rewrite a form/view/etc. as an XPage and leverage all of the CSS and JSF goodness, give your users a better experience, give your app better performance, etc.  And you can finally code stuff where it's supposed to be, without having to use all [read] 276 Step Away From Notes For A While And This Happens Alan Lepofsky    10:59a Those that understand the true power of Notes have always preached the building of cool applications. Well, this app I could not have dreamed up in a million years. Great job Lotus 911. More about it on Nathan's blog and Ed's blog. [read] 243 How can you make a BONES like application? Bob Balfe    10:22a No “bones” about it, you could definitely make an application like the one Nathan’s team put together but it will not be trivial.  I wish my team could have developed this kind of demo years ago - Notes 8 could have used a first class application like this to demonstrate the power of the Eclipse framework.  This truly is a composite application at its best - mixing the world of Eclipse and Notes so seamlessly you don’t even know its a Lotus Notes based application - con [read] 486 ITWire: Lotus Notes creator says Google Wave violates Web Gregg Eldred    8:39a Interesting article in that the author, David Williams, shows some love for Lotus Notes before launching into his take on a recent interview of Ray Ozzie and Google Wave. First up, let me confess I will always have a soft spot for Lotus Domino. Ok, the user interface has inspired many postings on usability blogs, let alone a web site entirely devoted to “demonstrating that Lotus Notes sucks” (which, ironically, is a bit of a design mess itself.) Yes, the Lotus Notes mail cl [read] 273 Microsoft steals the Lotus Background for Outlook 2010? Keith Brooks    7:41a Seems to me that this looks very familiar if you have seen Lotus Notes R8. tell me what you think? And they chose Yellow too! From ZDnet posting Close enough to me to wonder if this means anything at all. Look at the second picture on their site which shows the client and tell me who is playing catch up? [read] 306 notes 8.5 now has a real back-bone Peter Presnell    3:06a For those of you who took yesterday off and missed all the excitement generated by the posting of the following YouTube video about a new product code-named bones developed by Lotus911 If you are a Notes developer and you have not yet watched this 20 times please do yourself a favor and watch it closely. Not because you may ever be in the market for, or find yourself developing. applications for the healthcare industry but for the way this should challenge your thinking about what a Notes appli [read] Tue, Jun 9th     465 Nathan’s "Bones" Notes app is going viral Ed Brill    3:05p Judging by the number of times I've been e-mailed, pinged, and Tweeted about this, Nathan and Jimmy have gotten a fair bit of attention to their Bones. Bones, you say? Check this out: As Nathan explains, this is a Notes 8 composite application, and what a wow! application it is:It's inside a Notes client, but you don't see much of the Notes interface because we're hiding it. There's some plugin.xml tuning you can do to mask certain pieces of Notes if you're properly motivated. No, I [read] 907 Killer Notes 8 application Bob Balfe    9:30a I got this from a colleague who received it from another colleague who got it forwarded from someone from Lotus911 - no mention of names.  I figure since its on YouTube I can blog about it.  The application is absolutely beautiful with an amazing user interface.   As Nathan explains it is based on Notes 8 and a Foundations server.  It is an excellent display of using Eclipse Java as the front end to Lotus Notes data and of course it comes with all of the benefits of NSF as Nathan explains. [read] Mon, Jun 8th     314 ChannelWeb: Take A Message: It’s Lotus Vs. Exchange (and we win!) Ed Brill    3:32p Been a while since we saw a head-to-head of Notes/Domino vs. Microsoft Exchange/Outlook. Even when given credit for the beta Exchange 2010, Microsoft still loses!For Installation, points go to Lotus. The install process is a smooth one because the installer contains all of the necessary files to get Domino up and running in a relatively short amount of time. ... In terms of interoperability and customization, Lotus is the clear winner over Exchange. However, all of that customization horsep [read] 204 Mail recall in Domino 8 Ed Brill    11:18a Collin Murray, the Domino product manager, and I just finished up a conference call with a customer talking about the Notes/Domino 8 "mail recall" feature. The customer had questions and concerns about how this feature would work in their (regulated) environment, what the limitations are, and what the experience has been in customers who have turned it on. What was interesting about preparing for this call is the relative dearth of information about how you all are using mail recall in Notes [read] 348 Lotus is Drawing A New Crowd ! Jack Dausman    7:05a What are analysts and Microsofties saying about IBM's press releases from last week ? The search engines have picked up the releases, and this new face to Lotus has created some controversy. Even Quickr is being cited outside the core tech sources.It's not just about IBM's press releases, either. Product announcements for mobile devices are much more likely to contain content about Lotus Domino connectivity (e.g., the Nokia E75). 200+ Microsoft Partners Per Month Flocking to Sell IBM Lotus Foun [read] Sun, Jun 7th     193 Lotus Notes Search with all the trimmings Eric Negler    1:48p [read] 141 Standard set of Lotus Domino web services Lars Olufsen    10:47a The other day, John Turnbow blogged about this and also put up an idea on IdeaJam. Where are the standard set of Domino web services? Just about every other application framework has AT LEAST a set ... [read] 243 Here is a little Lotus challenge Volker Weber    5:33a Can you come up with an old slide, that just had "Lotus Workplace Messaging" instead of "LotusLive iNotes"? In any case this looks like a heck of a marketing effort to explain the different offerings Lotus Notes, Lotus iNotes, LotusLive Notes, LotusLive iNotes, LotusLive iNotes Lite, Lotus iNotes Ultralite, some of them based on Domino, some not. [read] Sat, Jun 6th     141 Lotus Notes on The Wire Andy Porter    9:49p I love the TV show The Wire. My Wife and I are halfway through watching the fifth and final season on DVD. It's brilliant TV. All the better for seeing what software Bunk uses for his colloborative needs .... Maybe that is why crime is going down in West Baltimore. (Season 5, Episode 5, 47.14). You feel me? [read] 104 Collaboration Matters 8 - Los dos Luis (en Espanol) Stuart McIntyre    3:17p Neil Burston gets together with two of IBM's most vocal social software evangelists, Luis Benitez and Luis Suarez to chat (in Spanish) about: Lotusphere - the excitement and the challenges Successes and challenges for Social Software Is Social Software "Mainstream"? A Year without email - working in different ways? This podcast is 36MB and runs for 26 minutes at 192kps and is 100% in Spanish, so you have been warned! Enjoy! Collaboration Matters 8 - Los dos Luis (en Espanol) P.S. The [read] 246 Is this normal when creating a new replica? Bruce Elgort    11:56a Every time I create a new replica on my Notes 8.0.2 client I see the folllowing date in the replication tab: Is this the date it creates new replicas by default or is this a bugaroo? I mean 1979? [read] 134 Bye Bye Complex Microsoft Server. Hello Lotus Foundations Roland Reddekop    9:49a About two years ago I inherited the voluntary IT Admin role at my church. My predecessor, a Microsoft Business Partner, left behind an Active Directory infrastructure consisting of an MS2003 server, 4 XP Pro workstations, XP laptop, permanently mounted projector used for Powerpoint during services (songs, sermon outlines), Panasonic copier/printer, and all the networking peripherals connecting the whole domain together wired and wirelessly. Being a trained Lotus Domino Admin/Developer with a lit [read] Fri, Jun 5th     190 Web Analytics II Chris Sparshott    11:51p At the IMPACT conference this year there was a session on Web Analytics.  It provides an overview of the metrics avaialble in portal and a couple of products Omniture, Core Metrics and Webtrends. Integrating IBM Web Sphere Portal With Web Analytic Hosted And Non Hosted Sites V1 R8 View more Microsoft Word documents from chrissparshott. Related Posts August 26, 2008 — WOW - Instant Messaging (0) June 4, 2009 — WebSphere Portal on Amazon EC2 (0) January 31, 2009 — Secure WebSp [read] 110 OpenNTF Steering Committee Meeting Minutes from May 28th, 2009 Bruce Elgort    4:49p Members: Bruce Elgort (acting Chair), Nathan Freeman, Vince Shuurman (absent), Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill, John Head, Rob Novack, Brent Peters (absent), Scott Johnsen Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Steve Proceedings: Meeting called to order at 11:00 am ET by Bruce Elgort Last month’s meeting minutes were approved. IBM has agreed to allow us to record and make public the recording of the OpenNTF Alliance meetings. Welcome Bruce Elgort, acting Chairman of the OpenN [read] You can rent this space for 30 days. Interested? 171 I’m giving away free GTD & productivity software Eric Mack    3:09p I've decided to give away licenses and subscriptions to some of my favorite GTD productivity software. Inspired by this week's GTD with Lotus Notes podcast with GTD Coach, Kelly Forrister, I've decided to take a short break from showing people how to get more done with Lotus Notes and eProductivity to equip them with a way to get more done: Here are ome of the applications I'm giving away: ActiveWords eProductivity for IBM Lotus Notes GyroQ Why am I doing this? This is an experiment to [read] 174 DAOS Confusion! Chris Whisonant    2:14p Or: Can I DAOSify a Server With < 8.5 Clients? Recently I have had some colleagues and clients asking about updating a Domino Server to 8.5 and turning on DAOS while still running a mix of 6 and 7 Notes Clients. There is some confusion related to some upgrade seminars that are happening that appear to be using this slideshow. Here is slide 18 that is causing some confusion: The last bullet is causing confusion. Of course "Domino 6 and 7 clients will not recognize DAOS" - even the 8.0.x cli [read] 174 Let’s move all contacts into the mail file Andy Pedisich    8:39a Like you, I read some other people's blogs. I follow quite a few. The funnier they potentially are, the more often I read them. Life needs more entertainment. Recently, that little likeable Irish g ... [read] 147 Web Services implementation in Domino Sahi Rishi    4:57a Web Service is very useful method to interact other machines over network.To leverage web services in Domino, New feature called Web Service is added in R7 onwards. From R8 onwards this feature further divided into two section "Web Service Providers" and "Web Service Consumers".With both options, you can create web service which can be read by other platform and vice versa Domino can consume web services written on other platform. In this post , I will create a web service using Domino 8.5 and [read] Thu, Jun 4th     210 Microsoft says, "Quick... look over there!" Andy Pedisich    8:39p I'm not a Vista guy. It's funny in a way that I'm not, because I spend almost all of my consulting time helping companies update their environments to new releases with new features and functional ... [read] 272 Two Lotus momentum press releases today ... boom, boom, pow Ed Brill    5:56p IBM is issuing two press releases today, one demonstrating overall momentum for the Lotus brand, and the other specifically focused on Lotus Foundations. Here are some of the quotes:Driven by guidance from Microsoft to abandon evaluation of currently-shipping products, Microsoft customers are choosing IBM Lotus software, driven by the higher return on investment and easier deployment of Lotus software. At the recent Microsoft Tech Ed conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft executives advised cust [read] 246 How to experience Lotus Notes for free Eric Mack    5:09p I receive many requests from people who have learned about Lotus Notes for the first time, either as a result of David Allen's mention of Notes at the Office 2.0 Conference, a public GTD seminar, or podcast or as a result of learning about eProductivity. They usually contact me to ask if individuals can purchase Lotus Notes (yes) and if it is possible to evaluate Lotus Notes for free (yes). Unfortunately, as many people have learned, the IBM web site can be an overwhelming experience for an i [read] 234 Welcome Microsoft Partners! Over 200 of you join us each month! Bilal Jaffery    11:50a Facing waning demand for Microsoft products, more than 1,000 Microsoft Business Partners have already signed up to sell IBM Lotus Foundations "office-in-a-box" appliance for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the first five months of 2009.  Some of these guys partnered up with IBM right after Microsoft launched Windows Foundation, an attempt to create a skelton box for SMBs which has to be replaced when folks outgrow it. "Lotus Foundations is a complete, cost-effective solution that e [read] 252 Google Wave - a developer's eye view Volker Weber    4:39a Last week, Google announced Wave, a new communication tool presumptuously described as "e-mail, if it were invented today." Now, it's a coming of age for technology companies to write a collaboration tool, put a good spit-shine demo on it, and call it a revolution. The idea is nothing new. In ... [read] 239 Simple Domino With Gears Demo / Download | Blog Jake Howlett    4:09a As promised last week here's a simple demo of Gears working with Domino. And when I say simple... How To Test It The proof of any pudding is, as they say, in the tasting. So, err, let's eat. If you visit the demo page and don't have Gears installed you should see a prompt to install it. Either do it that way or just go here and do it. Come back to the demo page and you should see a security warning from Gears asking for permission for the site to use it. Just click on the trust box and press Al [read] Wed, Jun 3rd     188 Is the work/life boundary returning to weekends? Ed Brill    4:49p There is probably some slight irony in it taking me three days to get around to writing this. In the last several weeks, I've noticed a trend on weekends. My blog hits and comments go WAY down. PlanetLotus shows very few new Lotus-related postings. And most indicatively, my Blackberry is quiet, and my work e-mail volume is dropping. In short, weekends are, with the exception of that 7 AM concall on the US Memorial Day holiday, finding some balance again. Last weekend, PlanetLotus had t [read] 253 Google Wave and Today's IBM DP Call Keith Brooks    3:50p I know we didn't compare the 2, but I kept thinking has anyone watched the video inside of IBM yet? Of course they have, they'd be crazy not to. Wave is impressive. How it works and what the User Experience is like is nice. The UI, not so great, very "Google bland" but if that works for you, why change it. Would love to know what the back end looks like, but so does everyone else want to understand Google's server armies. Also how do you manage it, administrate it, all without a proper Directo [read] 210 Lotus Domino 8.5 Interim Fix 5 (85IF5) Manfred Dillmann    5:52a IBM Lotus Domino server release 8.5 Interim Fix 5 (DominoServer_85IF5), which includes fixes for the following four SPRs: SPR #JPAI7MFS69 SPR #JCHS7NNM56 SPR #NEKO7NSNFR SPR #MKIN7PRNX3 Please note the difference between IF4 and IF5: IF5 corrects an issue introduced in IF4 related to the DOLS XPI files. If you do not use DOLS, there is no action to take. Read more... [read] Tue, Jun 2nd     176 My Lotus Notes Workspace Wish list Tom O'Neil    9:51p I see they are having a cute contest to make the Lotus Notes workspace “pretty.” I would be much happier with “functional.” I wish Lotus would learn something from the operating systems of 1999. Why not “steal” some technology from Windows ME. Allow desktop icons to be displayed anywhere on the desktop. I’m tired of the “snap to grid” effect. Allow folders within tabs Allow folders within folders Allow me to drag and drop a folder of icons f [read] 366 Lotus Notes, user expectations and the disaster that is the personal address book Paul Mooney    3:19p Bear with me for a moment, whilst I don flameproof clothing, asbestos underpants and prepare to lock myself in a bunker. I will ask people to comment, offer suggestions or alternative solutions, but please just don't scream "you're wrong". Allow me to take you on a history tour. Lets being with say, Lotus Notes R3. It was nice, and you had your mail/discussion databases etc... all was great. You also had your personal address contacts stored locally in a database called names.nsf [read] 151 Customising the Notes client install? Beware of this 'featurette' that we've just PMR'd Warren Elsmore    1:20p One of the things that we commonly do is to remove the 'Optional database templates' from the Notes client install. Users typically don't need a local discussion database template really! HOWEVER - In Notes 8.5, if you remove 'Optional Database Templates' from the install, it will also NOT install localfeedcontent.ntf and roamingdata.ntf. That means the RSS reader won't work (ever!) and you won't be able to roam either! These two databases are classified as 'OtherOptionalTemplate [read] 326 More News On 8.5.1 Peter Presnell    12:29p FYI: The following screenshot has been spotted on a Notes forum shows how the Database Properties in 8.5.1 has been extended to includes the ability to launch an Xpage from the Notes client:- Ed Brilll has also posted an update of the Lotus Notes and Domino Product family strategy and update presentation which includes details of the improvements to Xpages coming with 8.5.1:- New out of the box XPages Controls to expand capability Outline Menu barTool barTag cloudPopup Dialog, using the D [read] 287 Microsoft Exchange 2007 vs IBM Lotus Domino 8 Christian Brandlehner    7:28a ITComparison.com clearly shows that Domino is way ahead of a competing product. Although the comparison is dated last year, it is still true and the new features in Domino 8.5 (shipped in January 09) makes Domino even more attractive. See the full report here. [read] Mon, Jun 1st     459 Google pwnz collaboration Nathan T Freeman    2:28p Google Wave. If you haven't seen it yet, it really is worth the hour and twenty minutes to sit through the whole thing. For yellow bleeders, here's the simple summary: email, forums, wikis, IM, documents -- all in one seamless interface. I feel really sorry for my friends at IBM right now. If this stuff really works in the real world the way it does in the demo (and let's face, it Google does tend to get these things right) they just smacked down Notes, iNotes, Sametime, Quick [read] 172 Quickr 8.2 licensing bothers me Keith Brooks    2:09p My thoughts around the Lotus Quickr 8.2 requirement around Lotus Domino 8.5 garnered a few interesting discussions and thoughts. I am not a master of licensing but this strikes me as odd. One question I posited was how does IBM license this? I was pointed to this IBM license agreement for Quickr 8.2 by an IBMer. As I understand it I am entitled to Domino 8.5 in order to install Quickr but not to use Domino for any other purpose?! An interesting idea since mail must flow, websites must run, b [read] 120 Midwest Lotus User Group Conference Registration is Now Open Richard Moy    9:53a The registration for the Midwest Lotus User Group Conference 2009 is now open. The registration includes sign up for the pre-conference two-day Domino 8.5 Upgrade workshop that will be held on August 25-26, 2009. This workshop is limited to the first 30 attendees who sign up for this workshop as part of this conference.Domino Interface [read] 243 From Forrester Research, regarding Google Wave: IBM is way cooler than they get credit for Mary Beth Raven    9:48a Curious customers, Over the weekend, I was inundated with emails, pings and Twitter DMs asking me what I thought about Google Wave. I'll start by giving you the opinion from a Forrester researcher, Rob Koplowitz. Oh, and, by the way, my colleague Sandra Kogan discovered this posting by using our internal "proof of concept" information aggregator. You might have seen it in the Innovation lab at Lotusphere last year-- it's called "Spectacular!" Google Waves at the world of collaboration P [read] 340 DAMO R.I.P. Stuart McIntyre    12:49a The development teams at IBM responsible for the Domino Access for Microsoft Office (DAMO) functionality currently plan to continue to support and maintain the functionality. There are no plans to add new features or functions to the technology beyond those that have been developed and tested. Issues brought to IBM Support where it is determined that the functionality is not working as designed will be addressed. The latest version of DAMO is built on the 8.0.x code stream and there are no pl [read] Sun, May 31st     98 Quickr 8.2 Upgrade Technote Darren Duke    3:27p Be sure to review this document before you upgrade. The InfoCenter link contained in the document below seems to be for the gold release. Technote 1388702 - Planning your upgrade to Lotus Quickr 8.2 [read] 174 Sorting out an Admin Worst Practices offender Steve McDonagh    11:53a [read] Sat, May 30th     310 Notes has some magic tricks. Caution: could bring on seizures. Carl Tyler    4:29p The first magic trick Notes 8.5 has is the amazing appearing/disappearing workspace icons. Every now and again I would notice the icons on my Notes 8.5 workspace would go a little crazy, appearing and disappearing really quickly as I moved the mouse over them. Today I figured out how to do it every time. Warning, if you try this yourself I am not responsible for any seizures that may occur. This video doesn't really capture it too well, but you can see it a bit. Next up is [read] 120 IBM Lotus Quickr 8.2 Services for Lotus Domino Windows English (CZ2M2EN) - Released today - 30 May 2009 Dave Hay    1:46p Am downloading as I type .... [read] 275 Cool Lotus things I didn't know about Bjorn Thomassen    8:12a A good reference to NOTES INI HERE --> http://www.admincamp.de/notesini/name?openviewControl + Break on MacBook Pro is [Cmd]+[.] Notes.ini preferences plugin --> http://www.infosana.com/products.htm#notesini_pluginRemote console in the sidebar --> http://www.nsftools.com/blog/blog-05-2009.htm#05-19-09 (Thanks Odd-Åge) [read] Fri, May 29th     224 $KeepPrivate is worse in R8.5 Sebastian Mouras    11:52p It is known that the $keepPrivate is easy to crack. Remember that the $KeepPrivate flag is a field in a document and if this field is set then when a user sees this document, this user should not be allowed to "share" the content of the document. So the user will not be able to forward, print, copy doc/content, or export. The internal implementation of pretty basic. In fact the Notes client will give an error when the user tries to perform any of the forbidden operations. Now you can (as you m [read] 171 Forrester Research - IBM's approach to collaboration is looking pretty visionary Jack Dausman    3:40p Ted Schadler of Forrester Research lays it out for the who's-in and who's-out, for collaboration. In summarizing Google's "Wave," he looks at what it means for "Information & Knowlege Management Professionals and for the industry." WIM #3: Microsoft will have yet another innovation hill to climb (and it will). Redmond will have to digest this advance, but it will shortly ramp up its own conversation-oriented online engine. It will have to make this kind of conversational advance part of its [read] 123 House MD and How The Show Relates to IT Kathy Brown    3:02p I like the show House MD. If the Twitter-verse is any indication, I think lots of other Lotus/IT-types like the show also. One day at work, I was sitting with several users trying to figure out unexplained application behaviour (it couldn't be a bug, I wrote the app, it had to be user error, right?). I sat there and asked them several questions, they responded and in turn tried to suggest possible reasons for the unexplained behaviour. At one point, one of the users said, "Wow! You're just li [read] 150 TechTarget: Update on move to Gmail: Cost-cutting measure, a mix of sun and clouds Gregg Eldred    12:09p TechTarget writer Linda Tucci revisited Hamilton Beach Brands' move from Lotus Notes/Domino to GMail. While Ed Brill, and others, were on a Webcast covering this migration, Ms. Tucci reports that some things didn't transfer too well: The good news is the move to Gmail came in ahead of schedule, on April 30, two months ahead of the June 30 deadline. . . . The bad news is there were a couple of hiccups. For example, at least half the attachments in some parts of the company email did not get t [read] 135 How to launch an NSF from Eclipse Java Bob Balfe    10:20a I was asked this question the other day from a business partner and thought there are a couple of ways to skin this cat.  You can launch a program from pure Java using the Runtime class.  On windows (which meand this is really a poor solution) the command would look something like this: Runtime.getRuntime().exec( “rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler ” + notesURL ); Where notesURL would be something that looks like this:  “Notes:///852568BD0051EF1E/6AE46DA7E9B0F3C18525729700 [read] 167 Domino 8.5 Hardware Refresh (with DAOS) Bruce Currier    9:52a In the past, it was easy to move a Domino server to new hardware - just install the Domino server software on the new box, copy the data folder over and viola it worked.  Since I now have a Domino 8.5 server with transaction logging and DAOS turned on, is there anything special I need to know?  Do I just copy the transaction log folder and the DAOS folder over as well?  Do they need to be re-built from scratch?  Any one who's done this and is willing to share the secrets, I would appreciate [read] 224 IBM offering what Microsoft Offers Carl Tyler    9:19a A few IBMers (you know who you are) falsely accuse me of having a dig at IBM in this post but if you read the post you'll see IBM was never mentioned, today the folks on The Collaboration Soapbox published their evangelist kit for "Work Smarter with IBM Collaboration", has a number of things that will help you demonstrate and talk about Lotus solutions. we've had a lot of feedback from customers that we need to make it easier to find the right stuff, and so we've started collecting t [read] 142 A Quick Guide To Google Gears | Blog Jake Howlett    3:59a What follows is a no nonsense introduction to Google Gears. It's what you need to know but maybe haven't bothered to find out and it comes with as little tech speak and buzzwords as possible. What Does Gears Do? You probably know already that Gears lets you take web applications offline. What you might not know is how it does it and at what cost. How Does it Do it? Gears gives us, the developer, two tools: A local database to store information in. A way to store HTML, JavaScript, CSS and image [read] Thu, May 28th     172 Lotus Forums and UI David Schaffer    4:54p Why is the Notes 8.5 forum so much uglier and harder to navigate than the older forums? Notes 8.5 Forum, Date (threaded) view Same view in Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum ... [read] 171 SnTT: Notes 8.5 Upgrade -- Gotchas with Contacts David Schaffer    3:52p After some head scratching I've discovered a few things to watch out for on Personal Address Book/Contacts when upgrading a user to Notes 8.5. First off, upgrading does not automatically upgrade the ... [read] 261 Behold my roaming workspace! Mary Beth Raven    2:28p The Notes development team is busy making the workspace roam (in 8.5.1 we hope). I'm one of the lucky early testers. The idea is that at some point, Philippe (who is currently a roaming user) will be asked which of his current workspaces he wants to be his "primary" workspace. Then all the others on his other machines will get made to look like his primary workspace. Here is my primary workspace: Here is my workspace on my secondary computer: Now that I've chosen my primary wo [read] 199 The Story of Lotus Symphony Bruce Elgort    9:45a [via Erica on Twitter] [read] 221 SNTT - Nice Designer Popup I Found Keith Brooks    8:49a Found this while editing my PNAB. Designer 8.5, maybe earlier ones asked too, but this is the first time I recall seeing the message. I was editing views to sort by country, state, city for my upcoming UK workation. I also found my PNAB is really not in good order, must update it better. And the message above is what I found when I pasted a copy of one view. Choosing no marks the database so replace design doesn't wipe out your personal views. Another great item in R8 that is one of the litt [read] 262 Lotus Quickr 8.2 delayed Stuart McIntyre - Quickr    4:35a The formal announcement for Lotus Quickr 8.2 stated that its eGA (the date it would be available for download via PassportAdvantage and PartnerWorld) was to be today, 28th May 2009. Unfortunately I've just had a note from the Quickr team to day that that had been a delay:The target date for eGA is now June 4th - the ship date for the physical media is not expected to change.So you can all stop hitting F5 on the downloads site for today - I'll pass on the news as soon as it gets posted for dow [read] Wed, May 27th     260 important news from swan & dolphin Jimmy Bracco    2:24p greetings all, unbelievably, im at the dolphin hotel this week in not so sunny orlando again. but i have good news. seems we are beta testing the "wireless" at both hotels. see the screen shot below. im on the balcony facing epcot on my mac air at the moment. the "speed" choice is also a beta. [read] 302 I just saw the coolest Notes 8 + Symphony composite application Ed Brill    10:19a Yes, I am already leaving the Lotus Software Brukergruppe meeting in Tønsberg, Norway. About 130 people, one of their largest attendee counts ever, turned out for this event. What I liked about this stop in my world travels, in addition the gracious acquisition of a wonderful Norwegian sweater, was that I heard a lot more than I usually do about real-world use of Lotus Notes. After my keynote speech this morning, a demonstration was given by Mona Berg-Henry of Jotun, a Norwegian compa [read] Tue, May 26th     172 Building an XPages Calendar Custom Control Declan Sciolla-Lynch    3:26p If you read my blog directly on my site and not through a RSS reader then you may have seen the nifty calendar that I wrote in BlogSphere. It's AJAX based and allows the reader to move backwards and forwards through the different months to see what other days have blog entries. I wanted to recreate something very similar in XPages and started looking at a few options. The blogsphere version is a table which makes sense as it really is tabulated data but after thinking of a few [read] 193 Boy, how bad bad bad Internet Explorer is... Julian Buss    10:55a We developed a cool web application using XPages for a customer. It has been tested with: - Firefox 3.x - Internet Explorer 8 in IE 7 compatibility mode - Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista - Inte ... [read] 296 Lotus Quickr services for Domino 8.2 announced Stuart McIntyre - Quickr    7:24a Having been part of the beta program for Lotus Quickr 8.2, I am really pleased to see it announced today:IBM Lotus Quickr 8.2 enhances end-user experience and streamlines infrastructure requirements Lotus Quickr 8.2 is focused primarily on Lotus Quickr services for Domino. It includes many feature enhancements requested by customers, in addition to a strong focus on the overall performance and maturity of the product. End-user-oriented enhancements to the Lotus Quickr services for Domino [read] 213 DAOS Chaos ! Breaking the 50% Barrier Jack Dausman    6:32a DAOS is amazing, and maybe revolutionary. The more I work with it, the more potential I see for its implementation. We've begun enabling DAOS on our Win2008 archive servers, and will be turning next to the AIX mail servers. I had expected a 30% gain. I had run the DAOS estimator on a 2.3 TB archive server, and I've been using DAOS on some ND8.5 application servers for over four months. I felt comfortable with DAOS. Thirty percent seemed to me to be a safe region as an estimate. Prior to DAOS, [read] 339 Lotus developers are more productive than other developers because... Ed Brill    12:29a Today's blog post comes courtesy of Angus McIntyre, the Group Product Manager for Notes/Domino application development. Angus was recently at the Lotusphere Comes to You in Cincinnati, and with that audience, played this fill-in-the-blank: Lotus developers are more productive than other developers (e.g. .NET, C#) because.... Some of the example answers provided were: Security is built in, not bolted on. Notes applications are compatible release to release. According to one attendee "No [read] Mon, May 25th     284 How to get complicated data on the clientside in XPages without AJAX Matt White    7:39a So by now, if you've been playing with XPages at all, hopefully you'll know about the #{id:myfield} syntax for referring to fields in your client side javascript. If not then you can read about it here. But I thought it might be useful to break down that syntax and look at a couple of things which may not be so obvious. Firstly is the hash sign (or pound sign for our American cousins). This basically tells the server that it can expect to process some server side Javascript dynamically [read] 144 My Experience (Nightmare?) with DELL Gavin Bollard    1:05a I'm not a person who does a whole lot of product bashing here on my blog but right now, I'm pretty miffed with DELL and it will be a cold day in hell before I give them yet another chance. My first Intel/AMD PC was an IBM XT and I was pretty happy with it at the time. A few years later when IBM went down the Microchannel route, their brand name got so dirty that I thought I'd never see myself going back to it. I was therefore quite surprised when their hardware turnaround (they abandoned microc [read] Sun, May 24th     256 IBM is obviously ceasing support for NSFDB2 Christian Petters    6:44p what a shame: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21384421 Agreed, there is no clear statement in the document that DB2 support is going to be discontinued. But it’s definitely what I am getting between the lines. [read] 196 "Good Enough" solutions Rocky Oliver    12:09p As many of you know, I live on a peninsula on a lake near Atlanta called Lake Lanier. It is a beautiful place, and I really do love living and raising my family here. One day I was driving over Buford Dam, which is the earthen dam that was constructed to create Lake Lanier. It generates power for the city of Atlanta, controls the flow of the Chatahoochee River through Georgia and into Alabama and Florida, and overall is very beautiful. Anyway, while driving over the dam I was struck with how [read] 124 Defrag - new info and whitepaper Victor Toal    9:57a A while back I had a number of threads dealing with defragging and the affect that fragmentation has on SANS environment. I deal with quite a few SANS and defragging technologies in my work and as a m ... [read] Sat, May 23rd     141 Tam Throws In The Towel (at least for now) John Rowland    10:55p I have been one of several people who have tried to come to the rescue of Eric Mack's uconntam -- a new eProductivity user who has been trying to get Notes to perform in the ways she is accustomed to with Entourage and Outlook. Sadly, she is giving up the attempt for now, having reached the point of diminishing return on trying to make the client do what she is used to. I understand her dilemma and don't blame her for "cashing out". She has given it an honest try and has had enough. I hope that [read] 121 Geek-o-Terica 7: Garbage, threads and the CORBA classes in Notes Bob Balaban    12:09p Greetings, Geeks! I actually thought that my previous Geek-o-Terica post on garbage collection (gc) and java and Notes and threads would be the final one on that topic. For one thing, there's only so much you can say about it without falling asleep. However, I had a couple of requests to map that discussion onto the "other" Java APIs for Notes, the so-called CORBA classes. It's a good point, so here we go. First, a brief review of what's different about the CORBA classes. They're differ [read] Fri, May 22nd     186 Using iCalendar to integrate Lotus Notes Domino Applications and the Microsft Outlook Calendar Chris Toohey    4:57p We've all heard of them if not experienced them first hand: a company decides to migrate their email and calendaring & scheduling from IBM Lotus Notes Domino to Microsoft Exchange... but keep their collaborative applications on IBM Lotus Notes Domino. The developers are often then tasked with integrating the aforementioned technologies to provide the customer base an improved usage experience.This basic article shows you how you can create a very simple integration point with a Domino-based [read] 225 One of the reasons Domino admins don't like WAS.... Warren Elsmore    2:29p I'm here in Cardiff setting up Sametime for a big customer of ours. 10's of 1000's big - so lots of Sametime servers, everything working and tested, all on Red Hat. And I've realised why us traditional Domino admins don't like WAS. Lots of Sametime is based on the same sorts of principles as Websphere. Java servlets, text file configs etc etc. It all works fine, so that isn't really the problem. The problem is when you want to change something. For instance, Domino has a directory se [read] 162 IBM demo with Sharepoint in slides Benoit Dubuc    7:55a I went to a very nice IBM Tivoli Identity Manager demo yesterday in IBM's offices here in Montreal. TIM is a really cool product if you are into access management and identities, and it made me realize my client, CN Railroads, is ahead of the game as far as identity management is concerened: many of the new features of TIM are in direct line with how we manage identities today. The only odd thing I saw in that presentation was the mention of Sharepoint in on eof the slides, as one of many ex [read] Thu, May 21st     154 Life continuity Ed Brill    5:58p My first job out of college was at FTD, the flower people. No, I wasn't doing arrangements, delivery, or working with Merlin Olsen. I was hired in 1990 to project manage the development of an online B2B e-commerce system for florists...in an era of green screen terminals and 1200 baud modems. It sounded like a good idea, and one way ahead of its time. But the project was doomed to failure for a whole host of reasons. For me personally, as unhappy as I was with the environment I was working [read] 255 If you were to design a new web framework for Domino...would it look like this? Jesper Kiaer    5:51p If you were to design a new web framework for Domino...would it look like this? [read] 207 Running BES 5.0 Server on Domino 8.0.x You Need to Know This Mitch Cohen    2:13p If you have or plan on upgrading your BES Server to 5.0 and running it on a Domino 8.0.x server you want to be aware of SDR 287348 In a Lotus Domino version 8.0 environment, the BlackBerry Messaging Agent might take longer than expected to send messages and calendar items to BlackBerry devices, and in certain circumstances, BlackBerry devices might not activate with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This issue impacts users whose mail file path in the operating system has a different [read] 181 Using the IBM OneUI in your XPages applications - now with CSS class picker Stephan H Wissel    5:57a In his outstanding XPages tutorial Declan Lynch used IBM's OneUI for designing the layout and colors. This is very smart since it releaves you from thinking about all this and allows you to focus on the functionality. If you haven't worked through that tutorial, go there now and have a look. One thing Declan had a hard time with is to figure out what exactly the CSS classes are that the OneUI makes available - He did a great job here - (and then what to use where) since the CSS style picker does [read] 160 XPages advanced challenges (at least for me) Stephan H Wissel    3:56a I pride myself with being able to help students quickly over their stumbling blocks. But is made me stumble: A good spatial memory and an aptitude for icons helps a lot. We are definitely having fun here. [read] 205 Yet To Get Started With XPages | Blog Jake Howlett    3:49a There was once a time when I was a single man with more spare time than I knew what to do with. Never having been one to sit idle I used to busy myself with learning new stuff and generally playing with things I thought might one day be a useful tool in my career as an IT geek. Those times are gone now. Probably forever. Unless something terrible happens like a nasty divorce followed by a stint in a bed-sit, but let's not go there though. As a family man and home owner I have precious little spa [read] Wed, May 20th     266 Another Exchange to Domino win, plus Symphony and Linux adoption Ed Brill    11:19p Thursday morning, IBM is issuing a press release highlighting a customer win in Italy, Gruppo Amadori. About 1,000 of the company's 6,000 employees access PCs to help manage the production, processing, and delivery logistics of its poultry products for customers within Italy and internationally. In 2009, some of these employees will move to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation client operating system and IBM Lotus Symphony, open standards-based word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations [read] 161 TechRepublic Webcast: Hamilton Beach: Migrating from Lotus Notes Ed Brill    2:19p They never announced an attendance number for this webcast, but from the pings, e-mails, and tweets, it seems like many of the attendees were Lotus customers, partners, or colleagues. In short, I would have to say that a poor implementation of Lotus Notes got blamed for everything. It was hard to get a sense from the call as to how it was possible that for a 500-user organization, the migration would actually be saving money. My only guess is that the old Notes environment was so inefficient [read] 174 Hamilton Beach:Migrating from Lotus Notes to Google Apps- Facts and Fiction Mitch Cohen    1:37p This afternoon I took a little time out to listen to the TechRepublic Webcast case study of Hamilton Beach's migration from Notes/Domino to Google. Among the other odd statements made by Hamiton Beach during the call (my comments in parenthesis): -Google allows us to provide remote support to all of our users which we did not have in Lotus Notes (if only Notes had something like replication) -We no longer have downtime to back up our servers (don't ask me I didn't say it) -We s [read] 293 Welcome Rocky back to the "independence-sphere"! Bob Balaban    12:19p Allow me to be among the first to congratulate my pal Rocky Oliver back to the land of the independent consultants! Read the full story here. One small observation I can't help making: for years it looked as though my "career path" (loosely defined) was following Rocky's. I re-joined IBM a few months after he did in 2005, and I left IBM again a few months after he did in late 2007/early 2008. This time, I'm actually ahead of him! So, Rocky: Welcome back! It is my strong prediction that [read] 272 Notes 8.5 first impressions Carl Tyler    10:29a So a couple of months ago I got a much beefier machine more memory etc. which was more capable of running Notes 8.5. Honestly I had found 8.x too sluggish on a 3ghz dual core 2gb ram machine (and yes anti virus was disabled for the Notes directory). These are my impressions after a couple of months of usage, call them gripes if you want I really don't care, I've been loyal Notes user for over 18 years, so it's not like I'm a newby, and I'm sure that is why I also have some of these frus [read] Tue, May 19th     285 Free Notes 8 Sidebar Applications from SNAPPS Atlanta (the mind of Julian Robichaux!) Rob Novak    2:49p SNAPPS' Notes client development division head and free software advocate Julian Robichaux has put the finishing touches on a few real snappy applications for the Louts Notes 8+ client. The best part, they're free! My favorite, being the schitzophrenic admin / developer / manager type that I am, is the Remote Console. For years after R4 I used a Smarticon to launch the old admin console in a window. Sadly it doesn't work on a Mac. This should be handy, and give me back an hour a week [read] 543 Custom Sidebar Apps For You (Tuesday, May 19) Julian Robichaux    10:29a Hey look, free custom Sidebar apps! Over the past few weeks I've been grabbing slices of my free time to finally finish some Lotus Notes Sidebar apps that have been in various states of unfinishedness on my laptop and in my brain. Here they are, in a Widget Catalog on the SNAPPS template server: http://templates.snapps.com/widgets/SidebarApps.nsf I'll talk a little more about them over the next few days. They're all free, a few are open source, and the more useful ones are the Remote Con [read] 254 MS Groove - RIP Andy Porter    1:48a So Groove is no more. Microsoft have announced that they have renamed it Sharepoint Worksplace 2010. Nice name. I wonder if Ray Ozzie was involved in it being called Workspace? It seems vaguely familiar to a Lotus Notes head like me. They have also claimed that "Groove is to SharePoint like Outlook is to Exchange". What a shame that in Microsoft's world you need to install two rich clients if you wish to do both Messaging and Collaboration. After all, isn't messaging an aspect of collaboration? [read] Mon, May 18th     171 XPages for iPhone Declan Sciolla-Lynch    4:11p Well kinda.... Developing a web application for the iPhone or any mobile browser is a bit different from developing for a desktop browser. You need to take into account the size of the screen, the amount of css file external JavaScript files that are downloaded and, in the case of the iPhone, you may even want to get your application to conform to the Apple iPhone Web User Interface guidelines. If your developing an XPages application you could just leave it as is and quite a lo [read] 212 We need a new developer FAQ... Andre Guirard    1:09p I had reason to look recently at the FAQ we link to from the new topic form in the forums. It seems to me this is not the right format for our main purpose (heading off the same two dozen questions that get asked over and over). I'd like to have a FAQ document that directly addresses those questions, then tells them where to search for more answers. Here's my proposed list of questions; I've probably left off some important ones, so please chime in with any you think should be added or removed. [read] 260 When do you NOT help? Chris Toohey    1:03p I was contacted the other day by someone who came across my website -- specifically my Disabling $KeepPrivate documents! article -- who was looking for a method to add a Readers-type NotesItem to selected emails in his mail NotesDatabase. The issue that he was running into, he explained, was that his company prohibited personal Agents (and I suspect that each user only has Manager access to their mail NotesDatabase).After explaining the potential issues with doing this - from the obvious "you co [read] 133 New Facebook Widget on OpenNTF Niklas Heidloff    1:38a A new facebook widget has been added to OpenNTF (from Rahul Garg). [read] Sun, May 17th     273 This blog interrupted by the Lotus Design Partner Program Andrew Pollack    8:29p There are things I want to tell you about. I've decided it's time to make a statement about some of them. Why haven't I been posting all kinds of neato Lotus Domino tricks? It's this weird side effect of having access to more information. The more you know, the less you can say. a few cynical bastards have suggested that the only reason I'm IN the design partner program is to shut me up. If that's true, it's working and I'm grateful for it. There's no rule against me tell you that I'm in the DP [read] 172 Tools Used Properly vs. Tools Used Poorly John Rowland    2:49p Pardon the perhaps rambling nature of this post. I am aware that a lot of people are Twitter user. I have never seen the value in it, but I decided last week to give it a try and see what I think. My initial thinking going in was "what's the value of telling people what I'm doing right now, especially if they are not following me?" I have used it for just shy of a week and began by doing the sporadic that-i'm-doing tweets. Then I decided to try the "following" thing and began following Ed Brill [read] 184 Geek-o-Terica 6: Now it Gets Complicated: Java, Garbage-Collection, Notes, and Threads Bob Balaban    12:49p Greetings, Geeks! If you're not interested in the swirling, sexy synergy at the intersection of Java memory management and Notes back-end classes and multi-threaded programs, you might want to go catch up on events elsewhere. Don't worry, I don't take this stuff personally. Ok! For the 2 of you still here, have you already scanned my previous post on the topic of garbage collection (gc) in Java? The point of this gloss on the topic is to try to explain what happens to gc, recycle() and s [read] Sat, May 16th     233 Using Lotus Notes to Read Personal Mail Eric Mack    7:25p Lotus Notes Product Manager, Dwight Morse, has just posted a detailed tutorial that explains how to use Lotus Notes to retrieve your personal email (e.g. from a hosted account.) Dwight provides detailed screen shots for each step. If you are a first-time user of Lotus Notes and you want to use Notes as your personal information management system, I think you will find this tutorial helpful. I'm pleased to see this tutorial. Many first-time users are installing Notes for themselves, either to [read] 182 LotusScript: Tags to Field Values Jerry Carter    11:50a Lots of people use this technique, but as usual, I didn't have time to hunt for a function today so I just wrote one that will convert [[tagged]] text in a string to a field on a document if available. >> [read] 119 In memory of Lotusphere 2009 Bilal Jaffery    2:53a Taking it a bit easy this long weekend. Next week will be full of exciting news. Intuit and IBM will be announcing something neat. In the mean time, in the memory of Lotusphere 2009. [read] Fri, May 15th     118 Updated info about re-signed Java applets for Lotus Domino Joy Freeman    7:06p As of Friday, May 15th, the complete set of hotfixes (.zip files) containing re-signed Java applets for Lotus Domino have been posted and are available for download from both Fix Central and the IBM Support FTP site. Additionally, an interim fix will be available for download via Fix Central on May 18th for the latest Maintenance Release/Fix Pack levels. This interim fix will contain the same applet content available in the .zip files, but wrapped into an installer. The interim fix can be appli [read] 128 Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 beta now live on the Lotus Greenhouse Ed Brill    6:30p Breaking news! IBM has announced the beta release of Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 collaboration software, including plans to support Apple iPhone in version 8.5.1 of Lotus Notes Traveler. You can preview this capability exclusively in the Lotus Greenhouse!The Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 beta is now live on the Greenhouse. You can test drive the beta of our Apple iPhone support along with Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 devices. You'll find the full details of how the Lotus Notes Traveler impleme [read] 128 IBM Fix Central server outage canceled Ed Brill    6:20p I haven't blogged before about the Java applets expiration issue for Domino servers. Basically, as has been reported on many other Lotus community blogs, the security certificate for some Java applets expires on May 18, 2009. Anyway, as per this technote, you can download the fixes from IBM Fix Central. Some had noticed that Fix Central was scheduled for downtime this weekend due to a server relocation, but a smart-thinking colleague caught the potential conflict this morning and the schedule [read] 293 I do not accept your apologies Nathan T Freeman    5:19p Please accept our apologies Our system is currently unavailable due to system upgrades. We expect the systems to be available by 8:00 p.m EST on May 17, 2009. Please come back and visit us at that time. Wait a sec.... down until Sunday? But... my servers! So I now have a four-hour Window to download the fix pack!? Good job sucking, IBM. [read] 236 Microsoft: Comparing Lotus Domino/Notes and Exchange Server 2010 Gregg Eldred    4:59p For your Friday reading enjoyment comes this from Microsoft, explaining the differences between Exchange 2010 and Notes/Domino. While I could spend some time arguing each and every point, the one that made me smile was this one: Single, Industry Leading Directory Interoperability: The Exchange team built the first native active directory application, Exchange 2000, almost nine years ago. IBM announced this feature for Domino 8.5.x releases, and by the time it ships, Exchange will have a ten- y [read] 208 Google declares that their cloud service is now mandatory Ed Maloney    8:39a Infoworld has an article today about a cloud computing conference. A Google executive stated that 'cloud deployments are now necessary for a business to stay competitive.' In related news, Farmer Brown stated that drinking milk is now necessary for a business to stay competitive. Obviously, IBM needs to declare that Lotus Notes/Domino is now necessary to stay competitive. Are they able to say these things with a straight face? [read] 469 Lotus Notes 8.5.1 - This has GOT to be the error message of the year Dave Hay    3:26a [read] Thu, May 14th     237 David Killingsworth: Migrating to Exchange - One Domino Admin’s tell all journey ends Ed Brill    9:50p I'm sorry to hear that David Killingsworth has been laid off. It was so refreshing to read someone cut through the hype and document the challenges of a Notes to Exchange migration:-When migrating to Microsoft, keep an eye on the cost of additional hardware, the cost of SQL server licenses, and the cost of bandwidth upgrades which will be inevitable and make sure and factor in those extra costs. You won't have a server for server comparison between your existing products and Microsoft. You may [read] 264 Lotus Notes Sucks? Not so much (A happy ending) Eric Mack    4:26p As a knowledge worker, part of working productively is having confidence in the tools that you use. For myself and David Allen, Lotus Notes is our productivity platform of choice and we can't help but share how we enjoy using it. Unfortunately, not everyone enjoys the same passion and vision for Lotus Notes as a powerful tool for knowledge work as we do. Sometimes, people even complain, blog, Tweet, or otherwise make it known that they are unhappy with Lotus Notes. Fortunately, we have a str [read] 235 Lotus Notes Sucks? Not so much Scott Hooks    2:49p I have recently been watching the public twitter stream of the word Lotus (some might say obsessing). First, it is amazing how many people twitter about the lotus flower, lotus position, clubs called "Lotus", and the Lotus automobile line. Side note: If you want a decent Twitter search string, try lotus -position -elise -flying -flower -yoga -lounge I was specifically looking for complaints about Lotus software. There are far fewer than I thought there would be. I am only finding about 3 or 5 p [read] 266 Is Lotus A Smart Choice? Jack Dausman    8:15a The good news is that IBM understands Lotus collaboration as dead-central to their "Smart Work" initiative. Bob Picciano, the Lotus GM, has written up his attack points at CIO.com, and then took time for a conference call with some bloggers (thanks to Nathan Freeman for his transcript). There is more to Picciano's analysis than a C-level, marketing cold-call for reducing cost. I'm reading his words as a shift into the core strengths of the Lotus platform, and a revitalized effort to engage cu [read] 287 Still Not Quite Sold On XPages. | Blog Jake Howlett    4:09a Despite the fact that XPages seem to solve many of the gripes I've had with Domino over the years I'm still not quite convinced they're the answer to all my prayers (or even that they're of any use to me at all). First of all I want to thanks all of you who helped me on Monday in understanding what XPages are and (more importantly, I guess) what they aren't. There was me thinking they'd fit in nicely with what I've been doing all these years. Turns out I need to radically rethink my approach to [read] Wed, May 13th     227 Finding the silver lining in every black cloud - and why the Anonymous Coward has no place John Head    1:10p It has been a fairly interesting week in my world - and I want to highlight 3 events and two threads that tie them together. Those events are: 1. The closing of 3D Realms and what seems to be the end of the line for Duke Nukem Forever (4) 2. The Office 2007 Service Pack 2 inclusion of Open Document Format (ODF) support and the fallout surrounding 3. The relaunch of OpenNTF.org and the reaction in the Lotus bubble You might look at those three things and wonder what could ever tie them to [read] 304 Notes 8.5.1 Is Coming Peter Presnell    1:05p As most members of the yellowverse probably know by now, IBM have announced the first (closed) beta release of Notes 8.5.1.  I don't know about you but for me (as a Notes developer) this probably represents the single most important release of Notes since Notes R5.  I don't have a copy (yet), but I defintely want Santa to place one under my Christmas tree well before Christmas day. What makes it so important?  While IBM marketing seem to be placing greater emphasis on the extension to mobile [read] 399 Got Domino? READ THIS Warren Elsmore    12:42p [read] 308 OpenNTF feedback Steve Castledine    7:06a So we have been receiving feedback regarding openNTF, which is fantastic, and we will try our best to make sure every bit of feedback is listened to and where appropriate actioned. Remember that this is not an IBM controlled initiative only an IBM "resource injected" one. The steering committee, as with the previous one voted for by OpenNTF community members, will be responsible for its direction etc (IBM is just one of many members - intentionally). The steering committee is also not fixed a [read] Tue, May 12th     167 Lotus Domino 8.5 Interim Fix 4 (85IF4) Manfred Dillmann    4:28p IBM Lotus Domino server release 8.5 Interim Fix 4 (DominoServer_85IF4), which includes fixes for the following four SPRs: SPR #JPAI7MFS69 SPR #JCHS7NNM56 SPR #NEKO7NSNFR SPR #MKIN7PRNX3 Read more... [read] 525 Is OpenNTF In Danger Of Jumping The Shark Declan Sciolla-Lynch    12:59p Back in January at Lotusphere there was a huge cheer when, during the opening general session, it was announced that IBM would be providing some resources to and partnering with OpenNTF. It is something that many in the notes community, especially those who have active projects on OpenNTF have been vocal about in the past and the announcement looked like IBM were going to listen to what the people wanted and help out. Todaysannouncement and OpenNTF redesign, however, makes me feel th [read]