The Taking Notes Podcast

   

June 2006

Taking Notes Episode 24: 06.20.06 - Interview with Rocky Oliver 6.21.2006
Taking Notes episode 24 is an interview with Rocky Oliver, longtime LotusGeek and recently pulled (back) into the ranks of IBM. Bruce, Julian, and Rocky discussed topics such as:
  • Lotus Notes Access for SAP, and Rocky's involvement on that project
  • How that fits in with the larger Project Harmony, which extends to both Lotus Notes and Workplace
  • Is it too early to start planning for Lotusphere?
  • Why did Rocky leave a successful independent consulting practice to go to work for IBM, anyway?
Episode 24 was sponsored by Genii Software.

All this and much, much more. See what you think!


The podcast is 19.4mb and runs 34:36 at 64kps (variable bit rate).



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Giddy up - here comes Rocky Oliver 6.15.2006
Julian and I will be interviewing Rocky Oliver a.k.a. "Lotus Geek" of IBM for an upcoming podcast.  Rocky has been a long-time luminary in the Notes and Domino world and has recently helped develop Notes Access for SAP Solutions or NaSS as it is known within IBM.

We are preparing a list of questions for the interview and would love to receive some questions from you such as "How did you become such a Lotus Geek" or "What is it like to be a track manager for Lotusphere".  Let the question submission process begin!

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Taking Notes Episode 23: 06.07.06 - CouchDb with Damien Katz 6.7.2006
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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