Warren
Elsmore wrote a book! It's called
Brick
City and Warren describes it as
"a celebration of the worlds' architecture, recreated solely using
the celebrated toy of the century, LEGO bricks."
- In our podcast with him, we discussed:
- Is this an instruction book or an idea
book?
- Who is the target audience?
- What was the book writing process like?
- How and when can people buy this book?
- And many more LEGO-rich topics...
Brick
City will be in bookstores in several different countries on May 6th, and
it is already available for pre-order on Amazon - check Warren's Brick
City page for links. Warren's
website also has more information on his large
scale models and his commission-based
work.
Podcast trivia: Warren was briefly a Guinness World Record holder for "Largest
LEGO Mosaic" from the 2012
LEGO Show, with a mosaic measuring at 143.9 square meters (1607 square
feet).
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On this episode we interview Mat Ellis
(@matellis),
CEO of Cloudability
and talk about how Cloudability can help companies manage their cloud spend.
We talk about:
- How Mat got started with Cloudability
- How much cloud spend they are currently
managing
- What types of things are moving to the
cloud
- What newbies to the cloud should look
out for
- How Cloudability helps manage cloud
spend
- The services that they offer and their
associated costs
- The future role of "The IT Department"
- and much more...
We
would like to thank Dr. Marky
Roden of the PSC
Group for standing in for
Julian on this show.
The show runs 25:51.
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Today we interviewed Lynda.com author Jess
Stratton. Jess has been a member of the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community
for over decade. She has spoken at Lotusphere and other industry events.
Jess now works for the online learning company Lynda.com
where she helps author video training for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office
and other products and technologies.
Rather than listing out all of the super cool things Jess talks about we
suggest that you just push play and start listening. Jess does recommend
that you "Like" the Lynda.com Facebook Fan Page where you can
find out about the latest tutorials and promotions.
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Today we spoke with Ed Brill (http://edbrill.com),
Director of Social Business and Collaboration Solutions at IBM, about his
new book. It's called Opting In: Lessons in Social Business from a Fortune
500 Product Manager, and it's available both on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Opting-In-Lessons-Business-Fortune/dp/0133258939)
and directly from IBM Press (http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/store/opting-in-lessons-in-social-business-from-a-fortune-9780133258936).
We discussed:
- Why did you write this book?
- Who is the audience?
- What is the message of the book?
- What has surprised you about the book?
- What's going on at IBM Connect related
to the book?
- And more...
If
you'd like to catch up with Ed (about the book or anything else), he has
posted a few places where you can definitely find him at IBM Connect next
week. (http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/where-to-find-me-or-my-book-at-ibm-connect-2013)
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On this episode we interviewed IBM's Paul
Brunet, Vice President ISVs, startups and academic relations, IBM about
the recent release of the IBM
2012 Tech Trends Report. During
the interview we talked about:
- Paul's role at IBM
- What exactly does the Tech Trends Report
covers
- What surprised Paul in the report
- The growing skill gaps in technology
- What IBM Is doing to help shrink the
skills gap
- Paul's advice for developers and IT
admins that are trying to keep up with all of the changes in IT
- Social Business and Collaboration. Did
the report uncover anything interesting in those areas?
- and much more...
On
the recording you will hear the show be identified as episode 172 when
in actuality it's really 173. The show runs for 28:08 minutes.
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Today we had the pleasure of interviewing
the creator of the awesome Notesin9
screencast - David Leedy (@notesin9).
We were also joined by special guests Paul Calhoun and Dr. Mark Roden.
We talked about:
- How and why David got started with Notesin9
- Where the name for the show came from
- What goes into producing a show
- What community resources David provides
- The
XPages Cheat Sheet
- What is the "Drive
to 99" Event?
- The number of shows David has published
- The number of contributors who have
appeared on the show
- How people can get involved and contribute
to the show and what do they need to do
- Which XPages topics do people want to
learn more about
- and much more...
The
show runs 31:36 and best listened to while eating Pennsylvania OR Texas
BBQ.
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We talked with XPages developers Jesse
Gallagher (@Gidgerby)
and Dr.
Mark Roden (@markyroden)
about::
- How Jesse got started with Notes/Domino
- How Jesse's interest in Ruby on Rails
spilled over into XPages
- How a Notes/Domino programmer like Jesse
has approached and been successful with XPages
- How to approach XPages app development
- What about Lotusscript?
- How to write "clean" code
- Using source code control
- Moving from Lotusscript to MVC
- Why Expression Language and Java are
important
- What XPages can offer that other platforms
cannot or offer in a different way
- The adaptability and flexibility of
the XPages platform
- and much more...
This
episode runs 37:42.
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We talked to IBM User Experience Development
team members Amanda
Bauman, Craig
Lordan, Kevin
Giles, and Mike
Stewart about what's going on
these days with the IBM Wikis. Topics included:
- History of the IBM wikis
- Types of content on the wikis (it's
not just random information spread across various pages)
- New features in the latest iteration
of the wiki template
- Improvements in navigation and search
- Dynamic content control
- And more...
Bonus
trivia: did you know that the short URL to the Lotus (aka ICS) wikis is
wiki.lotus.com?
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Trevor Nimegeers of WMode and Bill McNaughton
of Castlebreck talk with us about all things "Velocity
AppXtender" which allows
you to mobilize your Notes and Domino applications as well as those built
with other technologies. This episode wraps up our "mobile mini-series".
During the 25 minute show we covered:
- Who are Trevor and Bill and what is
their background with Notes/Domino
- Who are WMode and Castlebreck and what
they do
- What AppXtender is and what it can do
- What kind of changes need to be made
to customers apps if any at all in order to use AppXtender
- How to setup and configure AppXtender
- How to get started with AppXtender
- Which apps are best suited for mobilization
- Working offline/disconnected
The
show runs 25:37.
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IBM
Connections product managers
Suzanne
Livingston, Mac
Guidera, Baan
Slavens, and Luis
Benitez fill us in on the
new features of the Connections 4 (IC4) release, including:
- Embedded experiences and activity streams
- Improvements to the home page
- Easily sharing information from any
context with the Sharebox
- What's coming in the Connections mobile
apps
- Reporting and metrics (over 100 new
reporting capabilities)
- Bridging content from external websites
and news sources
- And more...
Don't
miss the InformationWeek
simulcast on IBM Social Technologies
coming up tomorrow. A few more links to help get you up to speed on Connections
4:
What's
new in IBM Connections 4?
IBM
Connections 4 Reviewer's Guide
New
Capabilities in Connections 4
(there's also a YouTube video link on that page)
This show runs 32:55
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