A couple of evenings ago Gayle and I were talking about music and how our musical tastes really haven't changed much since we were younger. Gayle and my musical tastes are very similar, with the exception of Gayle's love for 50's music. So we got to ...

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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 | Comments (16) | Google it!

Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell III. John Miceli who has been with Meat Loaf now since the mid 90's is the drummer on this recordining. I had the pleasure of playing in high school stage band with John and he was and probably still is a class act. John ...

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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 | Comments (5) | Google it!

Today, our dog Domino Designer turns four years old. Happy birthday buddy! And yes his name is really Domino Designer. Hopefully Jake will pick a normal name for his baby that's due any day. More dog pictures ...

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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Chris "IdoNotes" Miller interviews Julian and I in our first "Taking Ido Notes" cross-cast.  We discuss how the Taking Notes podcast got started, talked about some of the people we interviewed, podcasting at Lotusphere 2007 and a slew of other items in this ...

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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Ben Poole Master Project Chef of the OpenNTF DominoWiki project talks about the recent updates included with V1.1.  New features include multi-lingual support, a new page difference engine, OpenLog integration and much more. More Technorati: Lotus ...

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Monday, November 20th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

It was around 7:15 AM this morning when we arrived in the Starbucks parking lot. We each headed out of the car ready in the direction of the entrance to Starbucks when all of a sudden I hear Gayle's keys drop to the floor. I then quickly turned around and ...

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Friday, November 17th, 2006 | Comments (28) | Google it!

The "BLOG:Lotusphere - The Unofficial Poster Child For Lotus Notes and Domino" just came across in my referrers. It appears to be a blog by Robert Baehr. The blog also states that JAMFest is back for ...

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Thursday, November 16th, 2006 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Does anybody like any of these? If so which one(s). It's Lotusphere t-shirt time again and we are just kicking around some ...

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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 | Comments (33) | Google it!

Part 2 of Julian's developerWorks series on web services is now available. Yee ha! I'm not worthy... More ...

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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Now don't go flogging me for this release of the OpenNTF Mail template but in this version Vince has packaged both the "classic" OpenNTF Mail Experience template with the new colorfule and stylish OpenNTF Mail Experience Anniversary Edition. This special ...

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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

© Copyright 2006 Volker Weber. All rights reserved. Julian and I had a nice conversation earlier today with Lotus General Manager Mike Rhodin. We talked about Notes 8, Ajax, XForms, Lotus Expeditor and much more. More Technorati: Lotus Notes ...

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Thursday, November 9th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

On November 15th I will be presenting "virtually" at the West Michigan Lotus User Group meeting. I will be using Lotus Sametime along with a speakerphone for the presentation. The topic of the presentation is of course OpenNTF. Many thanks to Don McNally ...

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Thursday, November 9th, 2006 | Comments (5) | Google it!

I just recevied an email from the Lotusphere team and they are asking the Lotupshere attendees to pick and choose which Jumpstart Sessions, Breakout, BoF's and Hands on Sessions should be included in the Lotusphere 2007 agenda. You will need your Lotusphere ...

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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

It was during this time back in 2003 when Danielle's brain tumor began to grow rapidly, clawing it's way into Dani's central nervous system and forcing us to place her in a drug induced coma in order to avoid her having seizures. During this time I was ...

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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Today we will break a record for the most templates downloaded in a single day. Back on January 19, 2006 there were 966 downloads. As of 12 PM PST there have been 925. Stay tuned for the final count. Update The record has been officially ...

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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Mikkel talks about implementing Chad Schelfhout's OpenAudit application. More ...

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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Niel Revelle has released a beta version of his new OpenNTF project "Domino YUI". Very rough first pass after exploring the yui-ext libraries (http://www.jackslocum.com) that were brought to my attention by reading the codestore.net on a daily basis. The ...

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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Julian had his first article published on developerWorks today entitled "Practical Web Services in IBM Lotus Domino 7: What are Web services and why are they important?". Way to go Julian. More ...

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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Vince has taken over the work I started with the Web 2.0-ish version of the OpenNTF Mail Experience template. Hopefully the template will soon get a real name. Any suggestions? A beta of the template will be released in the next week or ...

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Monday, November 6th, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

If my memory serves me correctly today is Mr. Robichaux's birthday. Happy birthday podcasting ...

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Monday, November 6th, 2006 | Comments (6) | Google it!

Due to the overwhelming number of session abstracts submitted for the Best Practices track and the limited number of slots available, I was informed today that the OpenNTF abstract "How OpenNTF open source solutions can save you time, money and your hair" was ...

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Friday, November 3rd, 2006 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Our interview with Mike Rhodin, Lotus General Manager is scheduled for Thursday, November 9th. This gives you a few more days to add your questions for Mike over here. The podcast with Mike should be ready on the 10th or 11th. Technorati: Lotus Notes ...

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Friday, November 3rd, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Ben and the crew have just unleashed DominoWiki 1.1 over on OpenNTF. Download it now and start wiki'ing away. Don't forget to read the Quick Start Guide ...

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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Anil writes about integrating Websphere Portal into the OpenNTF site on the OpenNTF Blog. More ...

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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Who would have thought that after one year of podcasting that Julian and I would have thirty four episodes under our belt and a loyal listener base of over two thousand Notes and Domino users. On Friday November 3rd we will mark our one year anniversary and ...

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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Sean Burgess has made it easy for OpenNTF Project Chefs to find out more about all of their projects from one view. You can see a list of your projects and their associated categories, a list of other chefs working on your project with you, the current ...

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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!