At the end of Ed's most excellent "The Boss Loves Microsoft" session, a Microsoft attendee stepped up to the microphone and proceeded to rip into Ed about Notes Mail not having the contacts stored in the mail file for sharing with say your administrative ...

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Friday, January 30th, 2004 | Comments (12) | Google it!

See Declan's current web poll for who should be the closing speaker at Lotusphere 2005. I can't believe I am currently in second place. Of course Wild Bill is the obvious choice. Remember to only vote ...

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Friday, January 30th, 2004 | Comments (5) | Google it!

First Annual Blogger Lotusphere Awards Honorarium (BLAHs) Here's my current list of awards: Most Annoying Vendor Giveaway - Winner Percussion Software for the annoying blinking badge light. Blogger that posted news the fastest - Winner Declan ...

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Wednesday, January 28th, 2004 | Comments (9) | Google it!

I have to admit that I haven't been blogging about Lotusphere as much as I intended to but, I want to say that the show has been great, the sessions are great and tat I am learning a lot about Notes 7 and 8, Lotus Workplace and Websphere and Websphere Portal. ...

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

The OpenNTF BoFwas awesome in my honest opinion. I estimate we had eighty attendees. I first started off by thanking all of the people who help made/make OpenNTF what it is. I then followed up with a brief history of OpenNTF and then got into a review of ...

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Please join me in welcoming Rob McDonagh to the Noes/Domino blogging ...

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 | Comments (5) | Google it!

2 1/2 hours to go to the OpenNTF BoF. I will first be headed to the IBM/Lotus Press Reception to get some food in my stomach. See you all at the ...

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Monday, January 26th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

OK - you all need to stop by Bright Ideas booth at Lotusphere and see a demo of Presentation Foundry. This software is a must have if you have gobs of MS PowerPoint presentations and need an easy to use tool that is unbelievable. Your sales people will love ...

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Monday, January 26th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Wow, it's Sunday night already and already the sphere is in full swing. Yesterday I spent the day hanging out with Rob McDonagh, Julian Robichaux, Tom Duff and John Carini. The weather was a bit chilly yesterday but nice enough to eat dinner outside with ...

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Sunday, January 25th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Just checked into the Dolphin after an all night flight from Portland. Time to shower up. Please also update your whereabouts on Volkers Wiki page. I miss you Gayle and Domino ...

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Saturday, January 24th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Mr. John "Starfish" Head made a suggestion the other day for a new feature for the OpenNTF Mail Experience template that Vince just happenned to put into the soon to be released template. John suggestion was that he would like to be able to add the sender ...

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Friday, January 23rd, 2004 | Comments (5) | Google it!

Today I received my Lotusphere 2004 Online username and password. After I logged on, I clicked on the discussion link in the portal and what do you think popped up? OpenNTF's domBulletin. Good choice IBM. Maybe IBM can make a PayPal donation so Mr. ...

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2004 | Comments (7) | Google it!

Here's Gayle frolicking on the dance floor at the Internoded/GWI/IT Factory party at Lotusphere 2001. Gayle what is that green thing on your ...

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2004 | Comments (6) | Google it!

I will rooming with the famous Tom Duff, better known as "Duffbert" (one half of Team-TSG) at Lotusphere this year and I feel the urge to be a prankster. It's been along time since my college days and the many pranks that I pulled on my classmates and ...

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2004 | Comments (19) | Google it!

My buddy Carl Tyler of Instant Technologies just gave me a sneak preview of what they’ll be showing at Lotusphere, and I have to say it’s not only cool, but looks like it could be really useful. Here’s the scenario, you’re working in one of the Microsoft ...

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Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

iEnterprises will have a live webcam setup at their booth at Lotusphere. Be sure to take a peek next week at John, Matt, Jennifer, Derick and the rest of the iEnterprieses gang. You should also be sure to check out iExtensions CRM which was awarded Best of ...

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Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Appears the M$ attorneys over reacted a bit when they discovered Mike Rowe's domain name "MikeRoweSoft.com". Read the full story on C|NET's ...

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Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 | Comments (0) | Google it!

A friend of mine from the Portland/Vancouver area has developed an amazing Notes application that you owe it yourself to see. The name of the application is PASS for Domino. PASS allows you to create fully functional Notes/Domino applications without writing ...

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Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

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In case you don't know what I look like and wish to say hello at Lotusphere I have attached an updated photo in the read more ...

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Monday, January 19th, 2004 | Comments (7) | Google it!

Jerry Malsam has released V0.1 of the OpenNTF Domino Web Tools project. Here is a list of "tools" Jerry plan to include in this toolkit: webView - Allows you to take any view and convert it to html. Domino's default way of converting a view to html ...

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Monday, January 19th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Be sure to stop by WorkFlow Studios booth (819) at Lotusphere for a free copy of a Notes based blog reader called "Studio Blog Reader". See Lance Spellman's blog posting for more ...

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Monday, January 19th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Mr. Anil Vartak, Master Chef of the domCMS OpenNTF project, today released Beta 2. domCMS is a web content management system and is used by OpenNTF and DominoZone to manage the content on their websites. Beta 2 includes: Content now uses the concept of ...

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Sunday, January 18th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Got the last copy of Apple's iLife 4.0 from the local Apple reseller. iLife 4.0 includes new versions of iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD and GarageBand. I fell in love with my iMac after using the 3.0 versions of these products. Let me get it installed and I ...

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Saturday, January 17th, 2004 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Not for children See the mad cow himself. Thanks Mark ...

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Friday, January 16th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

We have contacts in the new release (0.9) of the OpenNTF Mail Experience. Download and try it out now or be blogged about. ...

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Friday, January 16th, 2004 | Comments (0) | Google it!

I have modified the comments link to now take you directly to the comments section of a posting. You no longer have to scroll down through the blog entry to get to the comments section. To make this modification on your Blogsphere template simply add an ...

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Friday, January 16th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

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Thursday, January 15th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

In the absence of closure, the Notes faithful must console themselves with this immutable fact: The only thing harder than using Notes is getting rid of it. Dead Notes may be, but its apps still keep rising at sundown to roam corporate hallways. Most ...

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Thursday, January 15th, 2004 | Comments (6) | Google it!

Here's an article I was quoted in from the September 23rd, 2003 edition of Intranet Journal. Somehow I missed this one when it was initially released. "We have all these discreet little islands of collaboration, but with a single sign-on mechanism," he ...

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Thursday, January 15th, 2004 | Comments (0) | Google it!

See Melissa's blog posting about her experiences with OpenNTF's ...

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2004 | Comments (5) | Google it!

Read more for a sneak peak at the Lotusphere 2004 CULT ...

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Version 1.0 of the Advanced Domino-Web-Server-Log Template is now available on OpenNTF. Congrats to Mr. Hynek Kobelka who developed the ...

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Today my parents have been married for 42 ...

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

When developing applications for the web you need to consider testing your pages for many browers including Apple's Safari. Safari currently runs only on Macs. You can test your pages without having a Mac using the iCapture site. Thanks to by Ben Poole ...

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2004 | Comments (6) | Google it!

Warning: This article requires a box of tissues This article about Dani was printed in this weeks issue of the Camas Post Record, a local paper. Here is the complete article scanned from the paper in an Adobe Acrobat PDF ...

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Tuesday, January 13th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Last night I re-worked my blog UI a bit. I removed the calendar, recent blogs, referrers, added white space on the left hand side, made the fonts smaller on the right and moved the comments and Google it links to the bottom of the blog entry. I will be ...

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Tuesday, January 13th, 2004 | Comments (21) | Google it!

The Lord is my drummer, I shall not rush. He maketh me to lay out in tasteful place; He leadeth me beside cool meter changes; He restoreth my "one". He leadeth me in the right repeats For His name's sake. Yea, though I read through the trickiest road ...

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Monday, January 12th, 2004 | Comments (4) | Google it!

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Monday, January 12th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

The OpenNTF Mail Experience Project (name subject to change) The developers cooking up the next major release of the acclaimed OpenNTF Mail Template named "The OpenNTF Mail Experience", have added a new useful feature to help end users deal with suspected ...

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Monday, January 12th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Over a year ago Nathan Freeman wrote an opinion editorial on OpenNTF regarding IBM's J2EE initiative. Now fourteen months later, I re-read Nathan's editorial and still tend to agree with most of what Nathan had to say. Here are some quotes from the ...

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Friday, January 9th, 2004 | Comments (7) | Google it!

OpenNTF is a proud sponsor of the Lotusphere 2004 CULT Shirt. OpenNTF is a site devoted to getting groups of individuals all over the world to collaborate on Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open source to the general public with no ...

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Friday, January 9th, 2004 | Comments (8) | Google it!

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Thursday, January 8th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Here's a nice editorial by Ed Brill (Lotus.com blog, EdBrill.com blog) on Lotus.com. It is a true testimonial to the architects that built Lotus Notes that the product has not only endured, but adapted to major shifts in the market. While competitors have ...

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Thursday, January 8th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

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Thursday, January 8th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Just in from my co-worker Paul Yee: Beginning this spring, the Palo Alto, California, company said it will start delivering the HP-branded player, as well as make Apple's popular and easy-to-use iTunes digital music jukebox and online music store available ...

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Thursday, January 8th, 2004 | Comments (0) | Google it!

A big thanks to Mr. Anil Vartak and Mr. Dovid Gross for the new UI enhancements to the OpenNTF Project Management System. You can see them UI ...

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Thursday, January 8th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Read Declan's blog entry about Tom Lyne's OpenNTF kSpam ...

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Wednesday, January 7th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Congratulations to Michael Bourak, who has released R1 of domBulletin, a long-time OpenNTF project. domBulletin is a significant accomplishment for both OpenNTF and the Domino world in general, so please check out the project, grab a copy of the template, and ...

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Wednesday, January 7th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

The OpenNTF BoF will be held on Monday, January 26, 2004 at 6:45 in the Yacht and Beach Club in Salon III. Be sure to escape from the Product Showcase early enough so you can get a seat. Last year the room filled up and many people had to be turned away. ...

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Wednesday, January 7th, 2004 | Comments (5) | Google it!

First I would like to thank all of you for the support you have provided me with over the last couple of months. Your blog comments, emails, telephone calls, cards, donations in honor of Danielle and flowers have helped me through this difficult time in my ...

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Wednesday, January 7th, 2004 | Comments (7) | Google it!