Thanks to everyone for asking where Episode 35 of The Taking Notes podcast is. It's coming later this week. Stay ...

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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

I am sure that the UI is still going to change a whole bunch more so please bear with me. Feedback is encouraged as ...

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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 | Comments (10) | Google it!

Last night I was working on a new application and I had the urge to make it look Web 2.0-ish. So I fired up Google and found a blog entry by Miles Burke. Mile's created a Photoshop color swatch with popular colors used by Web 2.0-ish sites such as ...

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Friday, October 20th, 2006 | Comments (7) | Google it!

Yes you are looking at a screen shot of Lotus Organizer. I have a colleague who depends on the calendar view you see in the screen shot to run her business. They are a Lotus Notes shop but never found a good way to implement this Lotus Organizer ...

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Thursday, October 19th, 2006 | Comments (7) | Google it!

Julian and I will be interviewing Lotus General Manager Mike Rhodin for an upcoming Taking Notes Podcast. We are now putting together a list of interview questions and are soliciting discussion topics and questions for Mike from you, our beloved listening ...

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Thursday, October 19th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Grant Bingham has created a great document entitled "Sametime with a Sangoma 1.1" which illustrates how to configure your Domino Directory to work with new features in Sametime 7.5: This document is a quick guide on how to use the Domino Directory to ...

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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

I created a new project on OpenNTF called "Salesforce.com Integration". This project will contain examples of how to connect Notes and Domino applications to Salesforce.com through COM and web services. Stay ...

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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Thanks to the programming wizardry of Kevin Pettitt the OpenNTF user registration has been improved. Prior to Kevin's changes the registration system would a scheduled agent to process new registrations. Additionally, the views in the address books that ...

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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

The Thirteenth Annual Lotus Awards - - formerly called Lotus Beacon Awards - - will be presented to IBM PartnerWorld Business Partners that have left their mark on our dynamic industry. Lotus software welcomes any IBM Business Partner (Member, Advanced or ...

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Monday, October 16th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Rob is suggesting that we find a new venue for our Saturday night "blogger and friends" party for Lotusphere 2007. I agree that with 50+ people at last years gala event that it's time for a change. I suspect we will top 100 this time. Again, remember to ...

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Thursday, October 12th, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

OpenNTF is looking for some volunteers to help modify the site registration system and to improve some of the views and forms for the project management section of the site. The registration system is based on a very old copy of the system used by LDD which ...

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Thursday, October 12th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

I just stumbled on this article by no other than John Roling entitled "Don't Rely on E-mail During Crunch Time" on the Intranet Journal site. John has also blogged about it ...

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Thursday, October 12th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

My friend and pod casting buddy Julian Robichaux has created "SoapLog", another great logging application you can add to your Notes/Domino tool box. For more information on SoapLog, read Julian's blog entry. I am shortly headed off to San Francisco for ...

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Sunday, October 8th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

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Friday, October 6th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

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Friday, October 6th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Read Anil's posting about Domino 7 and GZIP compression here on the OpenNTF ...

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Friday, October 6th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

We soooooooooooooo need Levelator for our podcast: So what is The Levelator? It's software that runs on Windows or OS X (universal binary) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, ...

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Friday, October 6th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

This link just flew in and is a link to the discussion forum for the newly renamed Workplace Designer. The new name for Workplace Designer is now.........drum roll please..........................Lotus Component Designer 6. Welcome to the IBM Lotus ...

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Friday, October 6th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

The graph illustrates the downloads of Lotus Notes and Domino templates and applications from the project section of the OpenNTF site from January 2006 through September 2006. Monthly downloads range between 8,000 and 10,000 and I expect this number to ...

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Friday, October 6th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

I just heard that Sametime 7.5.1 is being deployed within IBM and that the connect client is performing extremely well. My Sametime 7.5 client works pretty well but, a speed boost couldn't hurt. Stay ...

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Friday, October 6th, 2006 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Chris Byrne will be in Portland, Oregon later today and will be around town for a few days. If you are interested in getting together for a "friends of Lotus" geek lunch, dinner, coffee etc. please drop me a note. I think Tom Duff, Chris, Gayle and I will ...

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Thursday, October 5th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Notes 7.0.2 now lets you import and export iCalendars to and from your calendar. Notes users can import calendars by dragging and dropping a URL or a file into their Notes Inbox or calendar, or they can import a file by using the menu item File Import. Prior ...

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Thursday, October 5th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

In Episode 34 we cover a bunch of new stuff in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7.0.2 including Nomad, RSS Feed Generator, iCalendar and the IBM Blog template. We also had the opportunity to speak with Steve Castledine the creator of the IBM Blog template. Also ...

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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Nomading away.... More on Nomad shortly. In the meantime check out MojoPac. Update Nomad installed without a hitch. After the USB key was loaded up and configured by the installer I was taken through the normal Notes client install and within a ...

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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Tonight Mr. Robichaux and I will be working on Episode 34 of the Taking Notes podcast where we will be talking about all things Notes/Domino 7.0.2. We will also be including a fireside chat with Mr. Steve Castledine, author of the IBM Blog Template included ...

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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 | Comments (3) | Google it!

I will be attending the SalesForce.com event in San Francisco next week. I will be in town from Sunday, October 8th thru Tuesday October 10. If you are interested in hooking up please let me know. I really can't tell you why I will be at this show but ...

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Monday, October 2nd, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!