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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Giulio Campobassi and Frank Maric of IBM
Business Partner Salient Solutions (@goMobilite)
talked to us about their Mobilite
product for mobilizing Notes
and Domino applications.
We talked about:
- Frank and Giulio's bacgkround using
Notes and Domino
- How and why they came up with the Mobilite
product
- Why IBM Domino is a great delivery mechanism
for mobile apps
- Installation, setup and configuration
of Mobilite
- What customers looking for in terms
of mobilizing their apps
- The business climate in Australia
- and much more...
The
show runs 26:48.
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Russ Maher of QDiligence
(@russelmaher)
and Paul Calhoun (@ptcalhoun)
of NetNotes
Solutions talk to us about
the evolution of IBM's XPages rapid application development platform. Russ
and Paul are also the instructors of The View's popular XPages
Bootcamp which is taking place
in Las Vegas and Chicago this Fall. We would like to thank The View and
their XPages Bootcamp for sponsoring this show.
We talk about:
- History of the XPages Bootcamp and how
they kept the course material in-line with the XPages point releases
- Upcoming changes in Domino 8.5.4 (Niklas
Heidloff's blog post)
- The new Java jar design element in 8.5.4
- Server-side JavaScript Debugger in 8.5.4
- What OSGi plugins are
- OSGi and the Extension Library and how
it has evolved
- How XPages in Domino 8.5.4 has evolved
since 8.5.0
- How OneUI has grown over the years
- Dojo and how it has evolved within the
context of XPages
- XPages in the Notes Client (XPINC) and
how it has evolved
- and much more..
The
show runs 44:50.
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In this episode we talked about developing
applications for IBM's Connections social software platform. We were joined
by three very special guests:
Topics
covered during the show included:
- Overview of the options available to
developers (APIs, Widgets, Java)
- How widgets and apps are deployed within
Connections
- Integrating apps with the Connections
Profile
- Surfacing apps and widgets within Communities
- How IBM Connections Next will utilize
OpenSocial and ActivityStrea.ms
- How Kudos Badges was built and how it
integrates and is managed within Connections
- Why developers should use XPages to
extend Connections
- How you can work with iWidgets and XPages
- How to access the Connections REST API's
from XPages
- Where you can find and download sample
XPages apps
- What other extensibility features might
be important for XPages developers
- and much more...
Resources:
http://ibm.co/StartSocial
- Landing for all things ICS development related including Notes/Domino
"Next" and Connections "Next"
http://xpag.es/?ForConnections
http://openntf.org/p/xpages%20for%20connections
The show runs 41:53.
Show Rewind:
Be sure to listen
to our interview with IBM's Ed Brill and Trust Factory's Wueter Aukema
about the new partnership between their companies, news about Notes Social
Edition and Ed's forthcoming book.
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Walfred Marzahn from YouAtNotes
spent 20 minutes talking to us about their "Domino
To Go" product. Domino To
Go allows you to create native mobile apps that can access your Notes/Domino
databases. We covered:
- Who is YouAtNotes and what do they do?
- Which mobile platforms are supported
- How easy it is to create apps with Appcelerator's
Titanium and Domino To Go
- Which development languages you need
to know
- The pricing tiers for Domino To Go Cost?
- Are there any limits to the number of
databases you can access from a single app?
- What about offline access?
- and more...
Be
sure to check out the Domino
To Go FAQ.
This show runs 21:33.
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Today we talked to Mark
Roden about using jQuery in
XPages. Topics included:
- Why use a JavaScript toolkit?
- Why use jQuery instead of (or along
with) Dojo?
- Any considerations about using jQuery
and Dojo on the same page?
- What are some good jQuery plugins to
look at?
- What about jQuery for mobile web apps?
- How about documentation?
Mark's
website is xomino.com
and his Twitter handle is @markyroden.
Other links mentioned in the show were docs.jquery.com,
stackoverflow,
and Matt White's XPages101
(lesson 27).
This episode runs 37:23.
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On this show we sat down with all of the
authors of the new "XPages
Extension Library" book
which is now available for purchase. This 537 page book was written by
Paul Hannan (@pdhannan),
Declan
Sciolla-Lynch (@qtzar),
Jeremy
Hodge (@jeremyhodge),
Paul
Withers (@paulswithers)
and Tim
Tripcony (@timtripcony).
The book is also available as an eBook, on Kindle and as an iBook.
On the podcast we discussed:
- How the book came to be
- What tools they used to produce the
book
- The
OpenNTF Extension Library Project
and the associated Upgrade
Pack 1 documentation on the
IBM Wiki
- An introduction to the XPages Extension
Library and what it exactly is
- How the book is goes beyond being "the
documentation"
- Who else was involved with the creation
of the book content
- Paul, Declan, Jeremy, Paul and Tim talk
about the chapters they co-authored and some of their favorite XPages Extension
Library controls
- Tim's WatrCoolr
project on OpenNTF
- Russ Maher and his
unique way of reading this
great new book
- The
XSP Starter Kit Project on OpenNTF
by Nathan T. Freeman
- XPages architect Phil Riand and Tim's
upcoming interview with Taking Notes (Exclusive!)
- and much more....
You
can also follow Julian (@jrobichaux),
Bruce (@belgort)
and The Taking Notes Podcast (@takingnotespod)
on Twitter.
The show runs 40:10. Oh and before we forget! Be sure and listen to Episode
154 of Taking Notes to hear Paul Calhoun and Russ Maher
talk about all things XPages. Thanks for subscribing.
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Paul
Calhoun and Russ
Maher have travelled to many
different countries and cities over the past 2 years, training people on
XPages with their basic and advanced multi-day
bootcamps. Bruce and Julian
caught up with them at the AdminDev
2012 conference to discuss:
- What kinds of topics are people interested
in?
- Is mobile XPages development "hot"
right now?
- How about XPages in the Notes Client
(XPiNC)?
- Will knowledge of XPages development
help you learn Websphere/J2EE?
- What are some good learning resources?
- XPages101
and TLCC
- And more...
This
podcast is 21:57 in length, 21mb in size.
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In today's show we talk about all things
OpenSocial with Ryan
Baxter of IBM and Mikkel
Heisterberg of IntraVision.
We talk about:
- What is OpenSocial? How did it
get started?
- How is IBM involved? How can I
get involved?
- How is IBM leveraging OpenSocial?
- What is Apache Shindig and how is it
connected to OpenSocial?
- What are the advantages to building
OpenSocial gadgets over existing technologies? Will I be able to
leverage XPages?
- How do I get started building gadgets?
- What about the community? Is there
a community built around OpenSocial, should the ICS community become involved?
- How can we also leverage the OpenNTF
community?
- Where else can I leverage OpenSocial
outside of embedded experiences?
- What other companies are involved in
OpenSocial?
- What does IBM need from the ICS community
when it comes to OpenSocial?
Also,
here are some links to a few of the things we discussed in the podcast:
the
OpenSocial website, the
OpenSocial sandbox, and Ryan's
Lotusphere slides.
The
Lotusphere 2012 Social App Throwdown video.
This episode runs 43:12.
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On Episode 143 of Taking Notes we interview
IBM's Mike Riegel (@mikeriegel,
LinkedIn,
Blog),
Vice President - ISVs, Startups, Developers, and Academic Programs. We
talked about IBM's
SmartCamp program and what
it's all about. Topics included:
- When people think about Big Blue, start
up companies isn't something that comes to mind. So when I heard about
your SmartCamp program and some of the other things you are doing around
the world for entrepreneurs I was a little surprised. Tell us what exactly
is IBM doing with StartUps and Entrepreneurs?
- Why are entrepreneurs and start ups
important to IBM?
- What is a SmartCamp?
- Is it working? How successful are previous
participants?
- Are you looking for companies that are
doing work in collaboration and social business?
- How does a startup company qualify for
SmartCamps?
- What should our listeners do if they
want to participate in 2012?
- I heard the World Finals is coming up.
What do you expect to see from the companies taking part?
- and much more...
The
show runs 25:25.
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Today we talked with Mark
Myers from the London
Developer Co-op about all things
NoSQL.
Topics include:
- The four different types of NoSQL databases
- Why the need for NoSQL
- Why NoSQL has become some popular over
the last few years
- How the NSF has provided NoSQL type
functionality for a long time
- Some discussion about CouchDB, MongoDB
and other NoSQL offerings
- The role of Javascript in NoSQL
- Mark's blog entry about how
to improve the NSF
- How and why Mark thinks XPages are much
easier to use for development than other technologies he has used
- How the IBM XWork Server is well positioned
to become a database server
- Who will be buying the first round of
drinks at Lotusphere 2012
- and much more....
The
podcast runs about 40 minutes and is chock full of great NoSQL goodness.
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On the podcast today are Ed
Brill and Pete Janzen from
IBM, to talk about the release of Lotus
Notes/Domino 8.5.3 as well as
the new IBM XWork Server. The discussion included:
- What is the IBM XWork Server?
- Who is the target market?
- How is it licensed, and what are the
restrictions?
- How much does it cost?
- What are the changes in licenses and
entitlements with Domino 8.5.3?
- What are some of the architectural changes
and enhancements with Domino 8.5.3?
- The OpenNTF extension library, feature
packs, and extending Domino server functionality
- Niklas
Heidloff's blog post about his favorite 8.5.3 features
- Anything new with Traveler?
- and a whole lot more!
The
podcast is 38.9 MB in size and 40:30 in length. For other news about the
XWork Server and Domino 8.5.3, check out Chris
Miller's webcast and the IBM
XWork Server page on the IBM website.
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In Episode 140 we sat down with Urban
Airship CEO Scott Kveton.
For those of you not familiar with Urban Airship here is what they do:
"Urban Airship powers the world's
most successful mobile apps. Providing breakthrough technology, Urban Airship
makes mobile marketing far more engaging, effective, and efficient. Top
brands depend on Urban Airship's innovative platform to reach and engage
target audiences and increase app revenue streams through push notification,
rich messaging, in-app purchase, subscriptions and user engagement tracking."
In the show we talk about:
- Something near and dear to us all -
"bacon" and specifically Scott's bacn.com
project.
- How Urban Airship got started.
- What exactly Urban Airship sells.
- Why building apps that customers want
and need is important. Just don't build apps because they are technically
cool.
- The difference between mobile advertising
services and Urban Airships "Platform-as-a-Service" or "PAS".
- Why a developer would use Urban Airship's
PAS rather than adding push notifications themselves.
- How geolocation ties into push.
- How Urban Airship makes money and how
customers are making money using their products and services.
- The number of push notifications served
as of August 2011.
- Scott's involvement with the Portland
Incubator Experiment. Listen
to Episode 138 of Taking Notes
to learn more about the Portland Incubator Experiment with Rick Turcozy.
- A
blog post Scott wrote talking
about boots trapping a startup company.
- What's next for Urban Airship.
- and much more...
This show runs about 28 minutes. On Episode 141 we will be interviewing
IBM's Ed Brill about Notes/Domino 8.5.3 and more.
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On this show we talk with the CEO of Appcelerator
Jeff Haynie. You may have heard of Appcelerators' Titanium development
platform.
"Titanium makes cross-platform
native application development easy. A free and open source application
development platform, Titanium lets you create native mobile, tablet and
desktop application experiences using existing web skills like Javascript,
HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP."
We talk with Jeff about:
- Who is Jeff Haynie and how did Appcelerator
get started.
- How the Titanium product has evolved
over time.
- That time in history when Steve Jobs
said that developers could only use XCode to develop native apps for all
"iThings".
- How someone can get started with Titanium.
- What products and services Appcelerator
offers.
- Where you can download
Titanium.
- What the differences are between the
community and paid versions of Titanium.
- The upcoming "Code
Strong" Appcelerator Developer conference and "hackathon"
being held in San Francisco September 18-20..
- and much more...
The
podcast runs 29:43.
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On this episode of Taking Notes we sit
down with Rick
Turoczy the Co-Founder of the Portland Incubator Experiment
or "PIE".
In the show we talk about:
- Who Rick Turoczy is and his background
in industry
- The Silicon Florist blog
- Some history about the www.bacn.com
website and how it got started
- What is an incubator
- How ideas get turned into companies
- How things don't always go the way people
envision them to go
- More about what PIE is/does and how
it got started
- The Wieden
and Kennedy partnership
- What companies are involved with PIE
- What companies are helping mentor PIE's
classes
- What industries are participating in
PIE
- The PIE application process
- Which companies have graduated PIE
- When the next round of PIE will be
- What startups get in terms of financing
and office space
- and much more...
Listen
to Rick Turoczy talk about the Portland Incubator Experiment >
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On this episode we talk with IBM's Jim
Quill and Phil Riand about the forthcoming relational database support
for XPages coming with Domino 8.5.3 and the OpenNTF Extension Library.
We cover:
I
guess this
idea on IdeaJam can now be
marked as "Completed" :-)
The podcast runs 30 minutes. We hope you enjoy it!
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In this episode of Taking Notes we spoke
with IBMers Dave Delay and Phil Riand about the forthcoming REST API's
for Domino and XPages. We cover:
- What REST services are
- What the XPages
Extension Library is
- How you can add REST capabilities to
your XPages applications
- How you can get at the Domino data model
using REST
- A walk through of what you need to do
to start using the new services and controls
- and much more
To
learn more about these REST services you should also read these posts from
the OpenNTF blog:
This
episode runs 27:28.
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For episode 135 Bruce sat down with Niklas
Heidloff from IBM/OpenNTF and Vanessa Hutchinson from We4IT
where we talked about the first ever development contest being hosted by
OpenNTF. This contest is being sponsored by We4IT and you can learn all
about the contest by first listening to this episode of Taking Notes and
then heading on over to the contest
announcement page over on OpenNTF.org.
Episode 135 runs about 24 minutes.
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This year at Lotusphere 2011 Brian Benz
(blog)
presented a session entitled "Running a Business on XPages" (slide
deck, session
abstract). Julian Robichaux
and I spent 30 minutes with Brian discussing with him an incredible XPages
app that he helped develop for Deloitte
Recap. Brian also discusses
things he learned during the project, recommendations for developers new
to XPages, source control management and much more.
Brian also has posted
a collection of excellent videos on YouTube which demonstrate
the app and are required watching. Got it?
32:22 with Brian. Enjoy and code on with XPages.
This podcast was brought to you the letter X, IBM Watson and of course
extra crispy bacon.
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At Lotusphere 2011 Bruce Elgort spend 10
minutes with IBM's VP of Open Starndards Angel Diaz. Topics included:
- Angel's role at IBM
- The evolution of web and mobile standards
- Some advice for Notes/Domino developers
- Follow Angel on Twitter http://twitter.com/angelluisdiaz
- Challenges with the HTML5, Oauth, OpenSocial
standards
- ODF and Symphony
The
podcasts runs 9:57.
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TeamStudio's Craig Schumann and Karen Frasca
talk about the Spotlight
Awards 2011 contest. Theo
Heselmans, the winner of the 2010
Spotlight Awards joins the podcast and shares his experiences with the
submission process and especially how easy it is to enter this exciting
contents.
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.
Oh and this year there is a brand
new spanking category for Mobile Apps! The DEADLINE is fast approaching,
so be sure and get your contents submissions in. It's easy to enter!
Here are some blog entries Theo wrote about the awards:
http://blog.xceed.be/Blog.nsf/dx/spotlight-award-the-winning-app
http://blog.xceed.be/Blog.nsf/dx/spotlight-award-walking-on-clouds
The show is runs 20:22 minutes.
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Today Bruce and Julian interview Bob
Balaban from Looseleaf Software
and Andrew
Pollack from Northern Collaborative Technologies
about:
- Bob's "Drain
Google" project
- Andrew's Second
Signal product
- The history of the Lotusphere C.U.L.T.
shirt
- Why cloud computing is a lie
- Using Domino as a "swiss army knife"
app server
- Bob's role as a Lotusphere track manager
- and lots more...
The
episode runs 37:05. Oh and thanks for staying subscribed.
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NOTE - This podcast is being re-posted
due to an issue with the audio on the original mp3 download. There was
a section of the podcast where the audio was inadvertently leveled.
Let's talk Eclipse plugins! It's not
just an Eclipse thing, plugins can be used to extend the functionality
of your Lotus Notes client.
Mikkel
Heisterberg has been instrumental
in helping developers wade through the murky waters of Lotus Notes sidebar
app and plugin development for several years, through Lotusphere and user
group presentations, blog articles, and onsite training. Bruce and Julian
talked to him about how this plugin technology can be used and what's going
to be in the new IBM
Redbook he's been working
on (HINT: it's about plugin development).
The promo codes to receive a 33% discount on XPages video training "TN119"
and "TN120" are still valid for another two weeks over on the
XPages101.net
XPages video training site.
Have you signed up yet?
The podcast runs 44:11.
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Let's talk Eclipse plugins! It's not just
an Eclipse thing, plugins can be used to extend the functionality of your
Lotus Notes client.
Mikkel
Heisterberg has been instrumental
in helping developers wade through the murky waters of Lotus Notes sidebar
app and plugin development for several years, through Lotusphere and user
group presentations, blog articles, and onsite training. Bruce and Julian
talked to him about how this plugin technology can be used and what's going
to be in the new IBM
Redbook he's been working
on (HINT: it's about plugin development).
The promo codes to receive a 33% discount on XPages video training "TN119"
and "TN120" are still valid for another two weeks over on the
XPages101.net
XPages video training site.
Have you signed up yet?
The podcast runs 44:11.
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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
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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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