Episode 22 is a must hear for anybody wanting to learn more about the new IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 instant messaging platform. Julian and interviewed IBM's Adam Gartenberg who is the Sametime Product Offering Manager. We learned tons of great stuff about ...

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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Gayle and I will be headed to Boca Raton, Florida on Thursday to celebrate my mothers sixty fifth birthday. If you live in the Boca area and want to hook up drop me a note. I also hope to drag my dad down to the Apple store and get him hooked up with a 20" ...

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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 | Comments (3) | Google it!

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 setup OpenLog, how to configure it, how to add OpenLog to ...

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Monday, May 29th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

On Wednesday night it was leftovers night at home. I decided to grab the last two slices of pizza (yes mom pizza) that were screaming "eat me" in the refrigerator. I asked Gayle (guilt trip begins here) if she thought the pizza was good and she said "sure - ...

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Friday, May 26th, 2006 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Nike and Apple today formally announced a partnership that will bring the worlds of sports and music together with the launch of a series of Nike+iPod products. "Nike+iPod is a partnership between two iconic, global brands with a shared passion for ...

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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Today's podcast is a quick interview with Andrew Pollack of Northern Collaborative Technologies, ruminating on such topics as: How the Workplace Managed Client technology has merged with Lotus Notes in the past 3 years The resurgence of Lotus Notes as an ...

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Thursday, May 18th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Mac Guidera has a great blog entry entitled "Preparing for Hannover". It's a must read for every Notes and Domino developer: There's a lot of buzz recently about the upcoming Eclipse based release of Lotus Notes, "Hannover”. One of the things I picked ...

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Thursday, May 18th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

On May 15th, 2006 Microsoft went live with the beta version of their CodePlex code repository site: On May 15, Microsoft went live with the beta version of its CodePlex site. The site, which is coded in C# and is built on top of a hosted version of ...

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Thursday, May 18th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Julian and I have lined up some special podcast guests for some upcoming shows. These guests include such luminaries as Andrew Pollack of Northern Collaborative Technologies, Damien Katz, Adam Gartenberg of IBM/Lotus who is the Offering Manager, Real-time ...

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Thursday, May 18th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Warren Elsmore is making his Notes end users very happy: Customer: "Can you update all the migrated Notes 7 users to the OpenNTF template you showed us? - It's really nice" Me: "OK, I'll kick off a task later tonight." 1 console command, 720 mail ...

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Thursday, May 18th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

As many of you know I have had a logo at the upper left hand corner of my blog since I started blogging. The old log looked like this: and the new logo which is now more symbolic of my new soon to be life long partner Gayle: The logo ...

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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Yesterday Gary and I were craving Mediterranean food and didn't feel like shlepping to the Jerusalem Cafe, the place we usually go to. We decided to check out a new place which was also much closer to work. The Galilee Cafe located at 2100 SE 164th Avenue ...

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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Seeing what the Eclipse editors could do for the same experience in Workplace Designer out of the gate, it was clear to me what needed doing. I've been championing a cause inside IBM for a while, gaining support for it, and yesterday, I was thrilled to show ...

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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 | Comments (7) | Google it!

On Monday Ned posted a blog entry about the launch of Tabblo which is a photo sharing site that he has helped build. Tabblo is a new photo-sharing site focused on telling stories. Or is it a story-sharing site focused on photos? Unlike most other ...

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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

So you say you want to see in one concise screen all the latest project activity on the OpenNTF site? Look no further and bookmark this link: http://www.openntf.org/projects/domcms/domcms.nsf/web/Updates The link is also available from the "Start ...

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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

I was looking through my flickr account earlier this morning and noticed that it has gone from beta to gamma. It appears that the UI has also changed a bit for the better. Bruce loves his flickr. Click on the image to see my latest pics. More on ...

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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

From the Apple support site: For prolonged use, place your portable computer on a flat stable surface. Do not leave the bottom of the computer in contact with your lap or any surface of your body for extended periods. Prolonged contact with your body ...

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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Ben Edwards who works for IBM as a manager in new media communications has an entry on his blog discussing corporate podcasting. In his post he says: Check out this terrific podcast from my colleagues at Lotus and then tell me what you think the ...

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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

I have been using Parallels on a MacBook Pro now for a few days and it is fantastic! Domino Designer, Domino Administrator, Outlook 2003 - they all run fantastic on my Windows XP VM. I even have Parallels running full screen which the beta says isn't ...

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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

"Hannover" will include a set of office productivity tools which support the Open Document Format (ODF) standard. These productivity tools include word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation capabilities. "Hannover" users will be able to create, manage, ...

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Monday, May 15th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

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Friday, May 12th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Go listen to it now. What are you waiting for! Technorati: podcast Lotus Notes ...

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Thursday, May 11th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

I simply typed in www.google.com this morning and got this error: Technorati: ...

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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 | Comments (5) | Google it!

I have the resources to put together a video series similar to the new Apple commercials being aired on TV and the web. For this series of videos I need to develop some themes and some scripts for the actors that put Lotus Notes/Domino up against Microsoft ...

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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | Comments (36) | Google it!

John Roling has a great article titled "Enhance Your Lotus Intranet with Open Source Solutions" on the Intranet Journal site. I do love John's disclaimer: For the sake of journalistic integrity, I do need to disclose that OpenNTF.org founder Bruce ...

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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

A friend of mine had a client that decided they wanted to upgrade their Sametime server from Sametime 6.5.1 to the latest and greatest Sametime 7 and was looking for some assistance since he is not to Sametime savvy. I'm glad to say the upgrade went well and ...

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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

It's been a while since I posted a lengthy blog post and as I am typing this post I feel as if they may one of them. Tomorrow night Julian and I will be recording Episode 19 of the Taking Notes Podcast. It's been a little over a month since we recorded ...

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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | Comments (5) | Google it!

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Monday, May 8th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

I was reading a bug post on the OpenNTF site which reported a problem a user was having with an application. The bug post was extremely vague and didn't really describe the problem in much detail. Ben Poole replied with a post to a link to "How to Report ...

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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

There's a nice story on LDD titled "Taking a tour of the new features and technology in IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5" by Todd Page and Jennifer Kelley. If I had a dollar for each time I asked for emoticons in Sametime and was told "it will never happen". I also ...

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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006 | Comments (6) | Google it!