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Products and Partners
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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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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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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This evening, Julian Robichaux and Bruce
Elgort met up with productivity specialist, Eric Mack (Notes on Productivity),
and IBMer Chris Blatnick (Interface Matters)to discuss a variety
of topics, including:
This episode runs 49:51
and is 45.7mb (128kbs).
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Bruce, Julian, and guest interviewer Sean
Burgess talk to Caleb Barlow
from IBM about the Lotus
Foundations "Start"
server, including topics like:
- What is Lotus Foundations anyway?
- The target audience is small businesses
with 1 to 500 employees. Why would they want this?
- What is an "appliance" server?
What does it mean that the Foundations server is "self-healing"?
- What version of Lotus Domino is included?
What if I want to package up custom applications or upgrade the Domino
version?
- How do Lotus Business Partners fit into
this picture?
- Collaboration
University 2008
- How is Lotus Foundations marketed against
the legacy Microsoft Small Business Server?
- Will there be other versions besides
the current Foundations "Start" server?
- Sean Burgess' Lotus
Foundation blog
- Graham
Dodge's blog
This podcast
was brought to you by Elguji
Software, the makers of IdeaJam
and LinkJam
(social bookmarking for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 22mb and runs 47:19
minutes at 64kbs.
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Bruce and Julian talk to Nathan
Freeman and Chris
Whisonant about the BleedYellow.com
site, discussing things like:
- What the heck is that logo anyway? Is
it Wolverine?
- Unleashing your "inner beast of
collaboration"
- How the site got started and how long
it took to put together and customize
- What can you do with the site now?
- What's coming next? (Sorry, you'll
have to listen to find that one out)
And
if you haven't visited the BleedYellow site yet, go take a peek -- registration
is free and there are plenty of things you can look at without having to
log in. If nothing else, it's a good look at what a Lotus Connections site
has to offer.
This podcast was brought to you by the letter "L". It is 13.8mb
and runs 30:07 minutes at 64kps.
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Bruce and Julian tracked down Paul
Mooney and Warren
Elsmore to discuss the recent
acquisition of BE Systems (Warren's company) by Blue Wave Technologies
(Paul's company) -- Warren also has a very good write-up on the whole thing
on
his website if you're looking
for even more answers.
In the podcast, we talk about not only
what the motivation was behind the merger (because they're both GROWING
their business, not because they're struggling), but also a little about
the state of the Domino consulting market in the UK (very positive).
We then go on to talk a bit about the
recent Admin/Developer 2007 View conference in Barcelona where Paul, Warren,
and Julian were among the cast of speakers, and also about upcoming Lotusphere
2008 where all of us (including Bruce) are doing sessions.
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Mac
Guidera, Senior IT Specialist
on the IBM consulting team, talks about the new (and soon to be released)
Lotus
Connections product, including:
- Tags and tagging
- Web 2.0-ish-ness
- The 5 "pillars" of Connections:
Profiles, Communities, Blogs, Dogear, and Activities
- Activities tie-ins to Lotus Notes 8
According
to the
Connections datasheet on the IBM site,
Connections will be available for GA electronic download on June 29th (same
day as Quickr,
and some Apple
thing), so hurry up and learn
about it.
If you want more information, listen to the Lotus
Collaboration Summit Online
teleconference (probably in replay as you read this), check out the Lotus
Greenhouse, or watch a Flash
demo. It's all good.
This podcast also features another new "Interface
Matters" segment with
Chris Blatnick. The whole kit and kaboodle is 27.6mb and runs 1:00:19 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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Special guest Rob
McDonagh acts as our "man
on the street" to give us some of his reactions on the new Notes
8 Beta client, and Bruce and
Julian talk about all sorts of other stuff. Show highlights include:
The podcast is 17.3mb
and runs 37:55 minutes at 64kps
Technorati tag: notes8beta
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Rob
Novak gives us the scoop on
the new (and soon to be available) Lotus Quickr product, including:
- What happened to Quickplace? ("quick"
answer: Quickr >= Quickplace 8)
- What can you do with Quickr? How do
you customize it?
- What's the difference between running
Quickr on Domino NSF versus J2EE?
- What about the document management part
of the product (including connectors to Microsoft Office, Windows Explorer,
and Sametime)?
- What's the difference between the free
(via Passport entitlement) "Personal" version and the "Standard"
version?
And so much more. Also,
don't forget to check out Rob's Quickr
FAQ, the Quickr
product page, and Stuart McIntyre's
Quickr
blog.
Episode 54 was sponsored by Integra
for Notes, solutions for Lotus
Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.
The podcast is 22mb and runs 47:50 minutes at 64kps.
Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Quickr Taking Notes
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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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Bruce had a chance to speak with Paula Cervoni, VP of Services at Relavis
where they talked about the Lotus Award that Relavis recently received
for "Best
Contextual Collaboration Solution"
and Relavis's plans for Lotusphere 2007.
Congratulations to Paula and the team over at Relavis.
The podcast is 2.4mb and runs 4:47 at 64kps
Lotusphere2007
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Bruce spent a few minutes talking with Laurie Desautels, Chief Solutions
Architect at Kryos
Systems where they talked
about the Lotus Award that Kryos recently received for "Best
Portal Solution" and
Kryos' plans for Lotusphere 2007. There is also some great information
about their winning "Special
Wheat - The Saskatchewan Wheat
Pool Story" portal solution over on the Kryos site including video
clips and slideshow.
Congratulations to Laurie and the Kryos team!
The podcast is 3.4mb and runs 6:49 at 64kps
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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