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XPages and Yellow Water

Take a listen to John Head, Rob McDonagh, Julian Robichaux and myself talk about IBM's Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 XPage technology. More ...

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Monday, June 30th, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

The amazing Mraz

XPages from the mouths of Rob and John

Episode 83 of the Taking Notes podcast will be out sometime this weekend. In this episode we talk with Rob McDonagh and John Head about the next XPages features available in Domino 8.5. Keep an eye on your iTunes podcast feed and/or your RSS ...

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Friday, June 27th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

XPages - Random Thoughts from a Lotus ISV

There has been a lot of blogosphere fanfare regarding the forthcoming Domino 8.5 XPage technology and I wanted to share some things going through me head right now. First off I must say that the capabilities XPages bring to the Domino Developer are fanastic. ...

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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | Comments (21) | Google it!

Triplets around the drum kit

Man the OpenNTF blog has gone cold...

No updates since January. There has to be "some" news worth blogging about over at OpenNTF. Yes Vince I am talking to you :-). The blog isn't listed on Planet Lotus. Time to ping ...

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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Matt is going to hate me for this

The Pitch Meeting (Part 2)

Now how can I do this in the Notes client

I want to be able to present a text link and/or URL in a view column that a user can click on to launch a website without them having to open up the document. Is there any way to do this in the Notes client? I know I can use an action button but this to me ...

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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 | Comments (11) | Google it!

Domino Designer and Bella Luna the calendar pinups pups

Flip through to page 4 for a nice picture of Domino Designer and Bella ...

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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Brent Peters of Lotus comments on iPhone support for Notes/Domino

Let me say, that we have the iPhone as a very high priority. Obviously the new iNotes (DWA) UltraLite is a very quick step that is not dependent on the iPhone SDK (api's). For sync, however, there are issues (not just for IBM), around the currently ...

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | Comments (4) | Google it!

One NTF away from social bookmarking

On Monday, June 16th, 2008 beta testing of Elguji Software's social bookmarking product "LinkJam" will be going into beta testing. If you are interested in participating in the beta please let us know. LinkJam is a single database template (NTF) that you ...

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Lotus.com is broken

Update - Problem appears to have been resolved Try going to www.lotus.com or lotus.com in your browser. I wind up ...

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Learning how to play the Bodhran

It's all Steve McDonagh's fault: More on why it's his fault in a future blog ...

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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 | Comments (1) | Google it!

A Notes 8 idea "Under Consideration"

Somebody is listening at Salesforce.com: More ...

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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

IBM needs to listen to their customers

During our ILUG presentation about building IdeaJam we spent a bit of time in the beginning of the presenation talking about how companies like Salesforce, Starbucks, Dell and WordPress are using idea exchanges to help drive product innovation. These ...

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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 | Comments (16) | Google it!

Session Slides for "Building the Perfect Beast - Birth of IdeaJam"

Get the slides and the PDF handout ...

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Monday, June 9th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

IBM we want iPhone support

TheNorth.com is offline due to a fire in the hosting data center in Texas

This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged ...

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Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!



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