This blog entry will be my "Show and Don't do Thursday".... Somehow the time on one of my Domino servers got set incorrectly and as a result documents and design elements got stamped with a time twenty years in the future. If I try to edit and/or save ...

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Thursday, April 27th, 2006 | Comments (9) | Google it!

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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Eric asked me to post a link to a problem he is having: I'm looking for a quick and easy way to post screen movies to this blog. The actual video files will be hosted on a media server and the calling code will be part of the page. In other words, the ...

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Monday, April 24th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

My evil twin (emphasis on evil) Nathan has fired back up his blog and has some things to say about Lotus Hannover in his titled "Fear and Loathing in Lotus Hannover". And in response to Nathan's post Mary Beth Raven of IBM posts a response to Nathan on her ...

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Friday, April 21st, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

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Thursday, April 20th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Scott Wenzel a.k.a "The Turtle" just dropped me an email pointing me to his review of his new love - a new MacBook Pro. I think he's in ...

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Monday, April 17th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Alan Lepofsky announces his return to Lotus Software on his blog today: I'm happy to report beginning today I am returning to the Lotus division of the IBM Software Group.  This may not sound like a change to many of you, as you may not have realized ...

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Monday, April 17th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

I have been testing MindManager Pro 6 SP1 which will be released on Tuesday, April 18th 2006 and guess what - it now supports Lotus Notes doclinks. Woo hoo! I believe we have Eric Mack to thank for the addition of this support. I have tested database, view ...

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Saturday, April 15th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

[Via my favorite Mac podcast The ...

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Saturday, April 15th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Brian Green has released his Team Mailbox NTF application. Team Mailbox NTF is a stripped down Notes mailfile that is intended to be used by teams of people who need to share a mailbox. No calendar, no To-do's - nada. It even integrates with Julian's ...

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Friday, April 14th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Yes you heard it here first - on Saturday April 15th at 7:30 Pacific Time Declan and Terri will be getting married in Las Vegas. You can watch the wedding ceremony live at http://wedcast.istreamplanet.com/lwc/whitechapel.asp. For those of you who won't be ...

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Thursday, April 13th, 2006 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Tanny O'Haley and my good friend Eric Mack recently completed a site re-design of Eric's weblog and I have to say that I love the design. The blog is easy to read and navigate and it is was built with the DominoBlog template recently acquired by ...

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Thursday, April 13th, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

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Thursday, April 13th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

so then i got to thinking about Hannover. and the Eclipse thing and so forth. what if that client enabled me to "skin" it? i wonder if there is enough flexibility there that i could say, get rid of all the toolbars at the top. get rid of and/or change ...

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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Please welcome Chris Blatnick and his "InterfaceMatters" blog to the Notes and Domino ...

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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

I heard about Tom Potter's blog on the radio on the way in to work this morning. It even has an RSS feed. And speaking of RSS stuff I gave my "Choose Your News" presentation to a group of twenty five people yesterday and the feedback has been extremely ...

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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Photo by Volker Weber I was reading an article in the latest copy of Modern Drummer magazine that showed up in my mail box yesterday and in it drummers talked about their favorite recorded drumming performances. So I did some thinking and came up with ...

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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 | Comments (24) | Google it!

Alan blogs about several outstanding OpenNTF open-source Notes/Domino applications including DominoWiki, Blogsphere and domBulletin. In my "How OpenNTF Open Source Solutions Can Save You Time, Money and Your Hair" presentation I talk about configuring and ...

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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Looks like The Taking Notes Podcast is climbing the Technorati ranks slowly but surely. Julian and I started the show back in November 2005 and five months later we have a pretty well linked site. Thanks to all for their patronage and ...

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Friday, April 7th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Carol who is an IBM blogger is saying that we may see a beta of Sametime 7.5 soon. Personally after seeing Sametime 7.5 in action yesterday, I can't wait to get my hands on the beta. Technorati: Lotus Sametime Lotus Notes Domino ...

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Friday, April 7th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Jim Anderton has a detailed review of yesterday's Portland Lotusphere Comes to You event. I particularly liked this part of his recap: Following the Sametime session was a real treat indeed. The fabulous Bruce Elgort shared his OpenNTF session with us ...

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Friday, April 7th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

1) Less than ten percent of the attendees read blogs 2) Less than five percent knew what RSS was or how to use it 3) Less than twenty percent knew about Hannover 4) To maximize the feature-set available in Hannover Notes and Domino developers will ...

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Friday, April 7th, 2006 | Comments (11) | Google it!

Somebody pinged me today about mail archiving in Notes/Domino 6.5.4. They said they have a user population with 5gb+ mail files and are having problems using client side and server based archiving. Are there known issues with mail archiving of large mail ...

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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Tonight Julian and I put together Episode 18 of the Taking Notes Podcast. I can't believe we have put out eighteen episodes since mid-November! I think that's quite an accomplishment considering all the other things I have to do in my life-o-sphere if I do ...

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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

This just in from a recruiter: Notes used to be big here (and in Rochester as well) about 10 years ago and then it seemed to fade off.  Now it's back and I am having trouble finding local candidates.  They've either moved away from it or they've moved ...

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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 | Comments (6) | Google it!

Tomorrow morning I am headed off to Seattle to present at the "Lotusphere Comes to You" (LCTY) event. On Thursday it's off to IBM's Beaverton, Oregon office for the Portland LCTY. I hope to see some of you there. Oh and does anybody know how long it ...

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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

This morning on the way to work Gayle and I were following an empty car carrier truck. I was joking with Gayle that we should rev up the engine and drive up onto carrier just like they do in the movies. As the truck was making a slow turn onto the highway ...

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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Congratulations to Steve Castledine and his DominoBlog template on their assimilation into the Lotus development organization. Julian and I have used DominoBlog on the Taking Notes Podcast site and have found it be an excellent blogging and pdcast tool. ...

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Monday, April 3rd, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

9,939 downloads for March 2006 Technorati: OpenNTF ...

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Monday, April 3rd, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Not the type of "demo" I expected - however it's a nice Flash demo ...

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Monday, April 3rd, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

A Domino design template for creating workflow applications. RealWorkFlow provides a flexible alternative to commercial workflow engines and was designed by Domino developers for Domino developers. The template utilizes an object-oriented Java class ...

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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!