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We interviewed Niklas Heidloff (IBM), Chris
Connor (BSS), Michael Gollmick (TIMETOACT), and Herbert Wagger to discuss
the XPages
Mobile Controls project on
OpenNTF.
Niklas heads up the project so he was able to give some great background
and developer information, and Chris, Michael, and Herbet gave us some
perspective on using the project in "real life" situations as
business partners.
The show is 43.2mb and runs 44:56 minutes.
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Bruce and Julian talk with Adam Brown,
Matt Newman and Andrew Welch from IBM Premier Business Partner ISW
about their new Wildfire application available from OpenNTF.
Check out the Wildfire
project on OpenNTF.
Watch
a video demo Wildfire and
Adam's blog.
We talked about:
- What Wildfire is and how it works
- What social networks Wildfire works
with
- How a developer new to Lotus Notes developed
the sidebar app in three weeks
- Their experience with the open source
OpenNTF.org community and how easy it was to get their project started
and publish
- How they benefit from contributing projects
on OpenNTF as a business partner
- John
Heads review of Wildfire
- Why they are excited about sidebar development
- Hear how Matt plays the roles of Mary
Beth Raven
- Info about ISW and what they do
The
show is 22.1 mb and runs 24:04 minutes.
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In Episode 105 we Interviewed IBM's Mary
Beth Raven and Julie
Forgo from the User Experience
or "UX" team.
We talk about:
- What is a "UX person" and
what do they do?
- The UX Lab at Lotusphere 2010
- Designing with "personas"
and why it's important to software design and creating great user experiences
- Group usability
- How users can influence software design
- Learn the secret code word for "user"
- Community based information dissemination
and gathering.
- Learn how the UX team learns from users
- and much, much more...
Please
check out our Lotusphere 2010 sponsors Simplified Technology Solutions
or "STS" at http://simplified-tech.com.
STS also has started a new series of screencasts "TipsInTwo"
at http://tipsintwo.com.
Also, be sure and attend Darren Duke's Show-N-Tell Session at Lotusphere
2010 on Sunday from 4-6 PM in the Swan Osprey room.
The show is 41.3mb and runs 45:02 minutes.
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Craig Schumann and Mike Wetherebee at TeamStudio
talk about the Spotlight
Awards 2010 contest.
These awards honor and reward the developers in the Lotus Notes/Domino
community for their remarkable applications. Take a listen and see
why you should enter and have a chance at winning some really great prizes.
The show is 19.6mb and runs 20:22 minutes.
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Bruce and Julian talk XPages (in Lotus
Notes 8.5.0 and 8.5.1) and Open
Source Lotus Awards with XPages
Blog editors:
This podcast was brought
to you by Conxsys's
nsfRewind and the letter "X".
NOTE: check the blog
entry we linked to above for more
information on due dates, rules, and suggestions for the Open Source Lotus
Awards. There were two conflicting dates we found during the podcast.
The show is 42mb and runs for 44:00.
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Yaacov Cohen CEO of Mainsoft
returns (Episode
88) to the Taking Notes Podcast
to talk with Bruce about:
- Mainsoft's SharePoint Integrator for
Lotus Notes V2.0
- Moving documents between Notes 6.5,
7.x and 8.x Lotus Notes clients and SharePoint
- Seemless integration between Notes and
Sharepoint - no migrations necessary
- Support for DAOS
- Shared Calednars
- Microsoft Cloud Services
- and much more
This
episode is 16.9mb and runs 18:27 minutes.
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In a podcasting cross-pollination experiment,
we bring Chris
Toohey and Tim
Tripcony on the show -- you know
them from the YellowCast
podcast for Lotus Notes developers -- to talk about the pros and cons of
developing Notes applications for free. Or trying to make a small profit
on them.
Oh, and sorry it took so long to push
this out. We actually recorded over 2 weeks ago, but we've all been busy.
You know how it is.
This podcast was brought to you by Elguji
Software, the makers of IdeaJam
and LinkJam
(social bookmarking for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 27mb and runs 57:35
minutes at 64kbs.
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Rob
"Captain Oblivious" McDonagh
and John
Head talk about the forthcoming
Domino Server 8.5 feature called "XPages". During the show
you will learn about:
- Why you need to brush up on your Javascript
skills
- Why XPages are important
- What the heck XPages are
- What XPages can't do
- How XPages will change the way you design
Domino applications
- Will XPages run in the Notes client?
- What are some of the new design elements
in Domino Designer 8.5
- What yellow water is and much more...
This
podcast was brought to you by Elguji
Software, the makers of IdeaJam
and LinkJam
(social bookmarking for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 24mb and runs 52:19
minutes at 64kps.
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Bruce and Julian got a chance to talk to
Mikkel
Heisterberg about his new
"TwitNotes"
sidebar plugin for Notes 8, that allows you to access Twitter directly
from the Lotus Notes client. We talked about things like:
- Where did the idea for this come from?
- How hard (or easy) is it to develop
sidebar plugins for Notes 8?
- What tools do you need to get started?
- The plugin is free, but is it open source?
- Is this just one more example of how
important Java is for Notes developers now?
If
you want to install the TwitNotes plugin for Notes 8 -- and why not? It's
free! -- go to http://lekkimworld.com/twitnotes
for detailed instructions.
This podcast was brought to you by Elguji
Software, the makers of IdeaJam.
It is 15.7mb and runs 34:23 minutes at 64kps.
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Julian and Bruce talk to a cast of [almost]
thousands about using JavaScript frameworks in Lotus Domino, and specifically
about the OpenNTF Domino
YUI project (see
it in action) and the new
project that has grown out of that: ExtND.
We spoke with Matt
White, Jack
Ratcliff, Rich
Waters, Jerry
Carter, and Eli Harris about:
- The kinds of JavaScript frameworks you
can incorporate into Domino (prototype,
Dojo,
ext,
etc.)
- Why create a custom framework for Domino?
- The new ExtND
project -- what it does, and what it's built on
Jake
Howlett and Nathan
Freeman have also had a lot
of impact on this project, and were mentioned in the discussion.
In addition, Bruce and Julian had a few news announcements about
Episode
59 was sponsored by Ytria,
makers of Lotus Notes tools for development and administration. You have
until April 30th to take a free
test drive of their new tools:
AclEZ and AgentEZ.
The podcast is 19.3mb and runs 42:16 at 64kps.
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You have heard of Ytria
(pronounced Y-tree-ah) right? They are the guys who make development
tools for Lotus Notes and Domino that make things "EZ" with their
products scanEZ, viewEZ, actionBarEZ,
designPropEZ and signEZ.
We interviewed Eric Houvenaghel the CEO of Ytria and talked about:
- their line of EZ Notes and Domino development
tools
- several Notes and Domino development
"urban myths"
- how to get started using their tools
without having to pay a dime
- how consultants can rent their applications
for short time engagements
- how much their
products cost
- Ytria's plans for Lotusphere 2007 including
a discussion about their swag that they will be giving away at pedestal
237 in the Product Showcase
Episode
43 was sponsored by Integra
for Notes, solutions for Lotus
Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.
The podcast is 19.6mb and runs 42:38 minutes at 64kps.
Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Ytria Lotusphere2007
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In this episode of the podcast, John de
Giorgio told us all about how the Integra
for Notes products can generate
nicely formatted reports directly from Lotus Notes. Some of the topics
we touched on were:
- Analyzing and reporting on Lotus Notes
data using Microsoft Word and Excel
- The problems with rolling out a custom
reporting/export solution in all of your databases
- How does this product work? Do you need
DLLs? Is it a reporting engine? Do you have to modify your databases or
write code?
- Setting up report profiles, so users
can just run a pre-configured report and have it delivered to them
- Running ad-hoc reports on the local
client, including merging Notes data with other relational databases
- Running scheduled reports on the server
- Generating PDF reports
- How
much does it cost?
Also,
don't forget to stop by pedestal 610 at Lotusphere to talk to John and
the other Integra4Notes folks in person.
Episode 45 was sponsored by Integra
for Notes, solutions for Lotus
Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.
The podcast is 15.6mb and runs 33:54 minutes at 64kps.
Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Integra4Notes Lotusphere2007
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Episode 42 of the TakingNotes podcast features
an interview with Jason
Hook, talking about how to
get going with Blackberry development on Lotus Notes/Domino. A few of the
points we discussed were:
- How to get started, even if you aren't
a Java programmer
- Considerations for using Notes views
and forms in the Blackberry browser (i.e. -- @if(@GetHttpHeader("User
Agent");"BlackBerry"); ...)
- Using MDS Studio for drag-and-drop connections
to Domino R7 web services
- Using J2ME for full-featured Blackberry
apps
- Where to look for help (Jason
just posted some great links on his blog,
too)
- Jason's craicBerry
(the Lotusphere party planner) and openCOD
(the OpenNTF-ish open source Blackberry site) projects
Episode
42 was sponsored by Integra
for Notes, solutions for Lotus
Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.
The podcast is 17.6mb and runs 38:28 minutes at 64kps.
Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Blackberry Lotusphere2007
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You've heard of Teamstudio,
right? The guys who make those tools that allow you to do Lotus Notes source
code control, and check-in/check-out, and design search and replace, and
other wild things like that?
Well we got to talk to Ian Smith and Craig Schumann today and they gave
us the inside scoop on the company. Ian is the President of Teamstudio
as well as a competitive 800M runner. Craig is the Chief Architect and
the owner of a dressed up Arizona Tea bottle named "Jar Man".
Here are some of the things we discussed:
- History of the company (where did all
these tools come from?)
- Some of the more popular tools like
CIAO!, Analyzer, Configurator, and Snapper
- How the Teamstudio tools use advanced
flux
capacitor technology to help
you revert to old versions of database designs
- The Teamstudio consulting arm, and how
they help with compliance issues
- Craig's often
neglected blog
- The ultra-cool (and free) Script
Browser tool for Domino Designer,
Julian's
blog post that helped prompt
Craig to write it (not entirely, but it's fun to say that), and what it
took for a company that sells Notes tools to just up and give one away
like that
Other segments in the
show include:
Good
information, and another fun interview. Thanks guys!
The podcast is 31.4mb and runs 1:05:00 at 64kps.
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Today, Bruce and Julian talk mainly about
the new 7.0.2
release of Lotus Notes/Domino.
It officially came out on Friday, September 29, and it includes such features
as:
- New "Blue" templates for blogging
and RSS feed generation (note that the templates are available on the server
upgrade, not the client)
- Support for installing and running the
Lotus Notes client on a USB drive (Nomad) -- Chris
Whisonant has some install
instructions (but be aware that there can be huge
speed differences between
different USB drives, so choose wisely)
- Native iCal import capabilities
- "Run As Admin" for Smart Upgrade
- Automatic conversion (on the server)
for TNEF/Winmail.dat attachments from Exchange users
- Domino Web Access (iNotes) is supported
on Firefox on the Mac
- New C-API functions for HTML and MIME
- Server support for Novell SUSE Linux
10 and Windows x64 server
- Lotus Notes Access for SAP included
- DXL improvements
We
also got a chance to talk to Steve Castledine about his "IBM Blog"
template, to get the inside scoop. We talk about things like:
- What was involved in transitioning from
"Steve's template" to "IBM's template"? (see this
technote for more details)
- What's the upgrade path for users of
the old template?
- How is comment spam dealt with?
- How do we get started using it?
- What's next?
In
other news, OpenNTF
will be at Lotusphere
2007 pedestal 324 in the Product
Showcase, Chris
Miller makes peace with iTunes
and Feedburner, an OpenNTF update with John
Roling, and a one minute tip
about CGI variables by Mac
Guidera.
The podcast is 26mb and runs 54:31 at 64kps (variable bit rate).
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Quickplace 8.0 is coming! Bruce and Julian
talk to Rob
Novak (president of SNAPPS)
and Satwik Seshasai (team lead for Quickplace
development at IBM) about what's coming in the new release, including:
- nifty new Ajax functionality and open
JavaScript libraries
- integration with Microsoft Office AND
OpenOffice
- integration with Activity
Explorer
- a teaser about the upcoming Collaboration
University
- and much more
Bruce
also tosses in a couple of quick interviews: one with Chad
Schelfhout about the OpenAudit
and QuickElementer
projects on OpenNTF, and another with John
Head regarding the Community
Samples Effort -- a push to
product competitive and open templates for Notes/Domino.
The audio during the interview with
Rob and Satwick is a bit choppy in places due to some problems Skype was
giving us. Sorry about that.
Episode 27 was sponsored by Instant-Technologies.
The podcast is 22.67mb and runs 38:43 at 64kps (variable bit rate).
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Episode 23 of the TakingNotes podcast is
an interview with Damien
Katz -- former Iris/Lotus/IBM
smart guy, current heads-down coder on his own CouchDB project. We talk
about things like:
- what is CouchDB?
- what is a "document oriented database"?
- you used Erlang
to program this thing... what's up with that?
- when will it be ready?
For
a quick intro to Couch, a good place to start is the CouchDb
Wiki. We also plan to do a
part 2 of this podcast, based on questions from the audience. So please
leave some comments and tell us what else we should ask Damien.
The podcast is 19.6mb and runs 36:27
at 64kps (variable bit rate).
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In Episode 21 Julian talks about his excellent
OpenNTF OpenLog
project. OpenLog provides
a common error and event logging framework for all of your IBM Lotus Notes
applications. Julian discusses how to set up OpenLog, how to configure
it, how to add OpenLog to your existing databases, how to configure notifications
and much more. No longer will you have to write to the Notes log file,
the console or to an agent log database.
OpenLog provides you with a single database to collect all of the errors
occurring in your code. We know (and hear) what you're saying so don't
even say that your code is perfect and has no errors - yeah right! Only
Bruce writes perfect code - NOT.
Download
OpenLog Version 1.0
Download
OpenLog Beta Version 1.1
Kevin Pettitt recently
demonstrated OpenLog to the
Washington, DC Notes Users Group. Read
what Chris
Byrne has to say about OpenLog.
What are you waiting for - download and listen to the podcast now, and
while you are listening click and download the code. Enjoy!
The podcast is 16.4mb and runs 29:18 at 64kps (variable bit rate).
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We're baaaack. ;-)
In this installment of the Taking Notes podcast, Bruce and Julian discuss
topics such as:
- New developments in Notes 7.0.2 as reported
on Ed
Brill's blog, including Notes
Nomad (the Notes client on a memory stick, formerly known as "Project
Wanda"), blog and RSS templates, and better Smart Upgrade. According
to the Notes
& Domino Insider Newsletter,
7.0.2 is scheduled for release in September, 2006.
- Are the successful user group meetings
becoming annual/quarterly mini-conferences instead of monthly meetings?
- The Hannover design team now has at
least one
blog (Mary Beth Raven) --
is IBM seeking input, or just doing marketing?
- Julian is in the market for a laptop,
and is wondering if the new Lenovo Thinkpads are as durable and sturdy
as the old IBM Thinkpads.
- Alan
Lepofsky has a great Notes
calendar tip.
And of course the
OpenNTF update with John
Roling.
The podcast is 16.6mb and runs 29:19 at 64kps (variable bit rate).
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Come and listen to our latest podcast --
this time with Bill
Buchan, on the subject of
large-scale enterprise Notes deployments. Topics of discussion include:
- What it is like to migrate a 100,000+
user deployment to a new version?
- Does Notes really work in such a large
environment?
- What are some development mistakes you
need to avoid?
- Why should developers be nice to their
admins?
The podcast also includes
another one-minute power tip from Jess
Stratton.
Download and enjoy!
The podcast is 22.5mb and runs 42:52 at 64kps.
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Today's episode of Taking Notes is a discussion
of Ajax development techniques, and how to use them with Lotus Notes/Domino.
Lance Spellman and Dwight Wilbanks are with us to talk about:
- What is Ajax?
- What are some cool ways we can use it
in our Domino databases?
- What are some things you have to watch
out for?
- What cool Ajax things will we see examples
of in Ben Langhinrich's Lotusphere Sessions database?
Once
again, we have another great "Collaboration News" segment from
Michael
Sampson. We also have a quick
tip from Ulrich Krause, and some bumper music by Notes developer (and sometime
blogger) Alex Hernandez.
Come download the MP3 and take a listen!
The podcast is 18mb and runs 39:09 at
64kps.
Related Links
Lance Spellman -- http://www.workflowstudios.com/lance/blog.nsf
Dwight Wilbanks -- http://www.dwightwilbanks.org
Richard Schwartz's Domino Ajax page -- http://www.rhs.com/poweroftheschwartz/htdocs/lotusdominoajax.htm
Lotus Advisor interview about Ajax and Domino Web Access -- http://my.advisor.com/doc/17019
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