TeamStudio is having their annual TeamStudio Spotlight Awards contest and you should really think about entering some of the applicatons you have created. Before you go and read the contest rules I suggest that you have a listen to Episode 91 of the Taking ...

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Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Below are two screenshots of TaskJam, Elguji's free XPages application template that will be available during Lotusphere 2009. If you are interested in learning how we built TaskJam then you may want to attend our session titled "Developing a World Class Web ...

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Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Today Julian and I released two new Taking Notes podcasts. The first is Episode 89 where we talk to Tim Kounadis about Lotusphere 2009 Business Development Day. Episode 90 is an interview with Sandra "Queen of Lotusphere" Marcus where you can hear about ...

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | Comments (1) | Google it!

I just heard about the Balsamiq Mockups application on the net@night podcast. This looks like a great prototyping application for developers and business people. After I test use it a bit I plan to blog some more about it. You can simply click on the "Try ...

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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 | Comments (6) | Google it!

Elguji has been a GotoMeeting customer for almost a year now and we have truly come to rely on this cost effective web meeting service for customer demos as well as customer support. One of the things that has been missing from the service has been the ...

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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Well not my wife but somebody elses. Read this discussion thread ...

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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Say Goodbye is one of my favorite DMB songs. Carters drumming is top shelf and I just love the tympani cymbal work he does. Crank it ...

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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | Comments (4) | Google it!

This evening I poked my nose into the OpenNTF.org site and am happy to see that the site continues to attract thousands of visitors each day: The number of Lotus Notes/Domino template downloads are also quite impressive. Kudos to Vince for his efforts ...

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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Some Taking Notes shows that will soon be available include an interview with: Timothy Kounadis where we talk about the Lotusphere 2009 Business Development Day Scott Johnsen and Craig Schumann from TeamStudio where we talk about the Spotlight Award ...

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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

A daily ritual of mine is to review log files on IdeaJam, LinkJam, the Elguji blog and Elguji website. It's always interesting to learn how people are getting to your site. Recently I found some links from a competitor of ours based in the UK. It's not the ...

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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | Comments (2) | Google it!

I recently received this email from a Notes/Domino consultant who shall remain anonymous who gave me permission to post this: I just thought I would share this with you; A few weeks ago I was doing a consulting gig in NY.  The client had a Microsoft ...

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Monday, November 17th, 2008 | Comments (4) | Google it!

A few months back when I was selling one of my 1972 Rogers drum sets a bunch of guys inquired via email and then proceeded to come see the drums at my house. Little did I know that these guys were from the indie rock group "The Dimes", a local Portland band. ...

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Monday, November 17th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

TaskJam our fortchoming free Lotus Domino XPages based task management Web 2.0 application will soon be entering beta. If you are interested in being the first to use and test LinkJam please let either Matt White or myself know. We would be happy to add ...

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Monday, November 17th, 2008 | Comments (9) | Google it!

You may have read on Ben Poole and/or Matt White's blog that they have started the London Developer Co-operative with some other chaps. First I would like to congratulate them on this new initiative and secondly publicly endorse the quality of work that they ...

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Monday, November 17th, 2008 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Even the dogs run away when they hear this on the ...

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Monday, November 17th, 2008 | Comments (5) | Google it!

Before I finish up a blog post I have in draft covering some discussions around Lotus ISV's providing their applications as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) I wanted to first reach out to the Lotus ISV blogosphere and ask "Have you considering offering your ...

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Monday, November 17th, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

As some of you may have read via my Twitter stream we have three vendor passes for Lotusphere 2009. These passes get you in the Opening General Session, The Product Showcase and the Sunday and Wednesday night parties. At the same time we also need people to ...

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Monday, November 17th, 2008 | Comments (6) | Google it!

Episode 6 of The 1352 Report Podcast was published on Monday and the crew is absolutely blow away by tne number of downloads we are seeing for the podcast. If you haven't checked out The 1352 Report Podcast then now is the time. You won't be ...

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Friday, November 14th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Matthew White and I will be presenting a session on XPages at Lotusphere 2009. Here is the session abstract: XPages are the new web design tool that ships with Domino 8.5. In this session we will show you how we built a completely new web 2.0 ...

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Friday, November 14th, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Many of you have written to ask who did the voice overs on our "What is IdeaJam" video. Well his name is Mike Vaughn and he's available for hire. Learn more about Mike here. Oh, and you may recognize some of his other work. Be sure and tell him that I ...

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Friday, November 14th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Jack blogged about the excellent Quickr 8 webinar Warren Elsmore gave on Monday. Well now you can watch the entire webinar ...

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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 | Comments (2) | Google it!

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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | Comments (14) | Google it!

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Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

On Thursday and Friday I decided to connect my Quickr 8.1 installation to our Active Directory and initially ran into some problems. Quickr gives you the option from the Web UI to select an LDAP source for user authentication. So silly me thought that I ...

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Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Yesterday we toured Oregon wine country and I must say we had a blast. We started our journey with eight of our friends shortly prior to noon and tasted wine from the following vineyards: Ponzi Duck Pond Elk Cove Montinore Estates Here is a photo ...

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Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

With Elguji's commitment to provide quarterly maintenance releases for our products we are happy to announce some of the features that will be available in the Winter '09 release of IdeaJam which will be available in the Lotusphere 2009 time frame. All of ...

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Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Here is a list of articles that focus on the benefits of social bookmarking. A day doesn't go by where I am not explaining to IT and business people the benefits of social bookmarking. Maybe I need a t-shirt ...

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Saturday, November 8th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Today Gayle and I will be going wine tasting in the Oregon wine country with ten of our friends. Our friend Belynda will be celebrating her 40th birthday today and she has no idea about the trip. Kirk, her husband has rented a van that will take us to many ...

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Saturday, November 8th, 2008 | Comments (4) | Google it!

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Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

We have a database that lives on a Domino cluster. The cluster contains three servers HQ1 (V7.0.2), HQ2 (v8.0.2) and HQ3 (V7.0.2). Everything is working as expected on the HQ2 (the Domino 8) server however views on the R7 servers are not showing certain ...

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Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | Comments (11) | Google it!

We have put together five short videos that demonstrate the benefits of social bookmarking as well as how easy it is to install, configure and use. Here are the topics that are covered: Overview of Features - This video covers the benefits of Social ...

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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!