I am listening to this on Rhapsody via my new Sonos and it's a fantastic recording. Lonesome Dave would be very ...

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Monday, December 31st, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

While I only got to see Bobby play a few times during my days in Port Jefferson Station I did get to play as part of a band that backed his sister Dorothy on a few occasions. Bobby kicks ...

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Monday, December 31st, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

On New Years Day I will going off the grid to judge a boatload of amazing applications submitted for the Teamstudio Spotlight Awards. Winners will be announced at Lotusphere 2008. I hope we can see more contests like this in the future as there are so many ...

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Monday, December 31st, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

If you are an NSFDB2 expert I want to talk with you as the Idea Jam dev team are very interested in supporting NSFDB2 for the voting engine data repository. Drop me an email if you or anybody you now is an ...

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Monday, December 31st, 2007 | Comments (2) | Google it!

In July Gayle and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary by spending 4 days out on the Oregon coast at The Stephanie Inn. We were married on the beach in front of Haystack Rock in 2006. Idea Exchange now know as Idea Jam was also announced. Amazing ...

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Monday, December 31st, 2007 | Comments (1) | Google it!

And the finalists are: Chris Blatnick Ed Brill Bill Buchan Jake Howlett Alan Lepofsky Chris Linfoot Chris Miller Go vote now You needa LotusUserGroup.org username and password to see this ...

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Monday, December 31st, 2007 | Comments (1) | Google it!

2007 was a wonderful year for me both personally and professionally. There were many challenges that I faced and with the help of my friends, co-workers and family I made it through the year in one piece - albeit one "big" piece as I still want to lose 20 ...

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Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Back in August 2007, Jake Howlett introduced a Web Session class for Domino Agents. I liked it a lot and saw the potential for reducing the amount of time to create web query open, web query save and web agents. I write a lot of web agents and often need to ...

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Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

For those of you who won't be attending Lotusphere 2008 I am happy to say that Julian "iPhone" Robichaux and I will be podcasting our little tushes off and plan to produce a show each day. We are also happy that Instant Technologies has purchased ALL of our ...

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Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

The packaging of Idea Jam for resale has moved along quicker than we originally anticipated. This has been primarily due to the overwhelmingly high demand by companies wanting to purchase it - sooner rather than later. Idea Jam pricing will be announced at ...

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Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | Comments (3) | Google it!

When building Idea Jam we were wrestling with the decision whether to have our Lotus Domino server serve RSS feeds or to have them served up by a third party such as FeedBurner. Unfortunately we didn't have time to get each and every Idea Space setup on ...

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Saturday, December 29th, 2007 | Comments (1) | Google it!

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Thursday, December 27th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

85%How Addicted to Apple Are ...

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Thursday, December 27th, 2007 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Take this: and turn it into this: Check out this short tutorial on how to create "web 2.0-ish" graphics using Photoshop. Remember - Interface (always) ...

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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 | Comments (1) | Google it!

This just in from the LotusSalon page: You're invited to submit a question and help steer the conversation. Follow these instructions to post your AVI or WMV file: FTP the video file to the Files folder using the information below. FTP server: ...

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Monday, December 24th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

For those of you who will be at Lotusphere 2008 on Saturday afternoon and want to hang out with a bunch of friendly Lotus geeks be sure and head on over to the Big River Brewery on the Disney Boardwalk at 3:30PM for "BALD" or "Bloggers (and friends) Annual ...

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Thursday, December 20th, 2007 | Comments (5) | Google it!

This arrived in the inbox today: Dear Lotusphere attendee: Please join us for IBM Lotus Symphony Developer Day at Lotusphere 2008. When: Sunday, January 20 from 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM or Wednesday, January 23 from 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Where: ...

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Thursday, December 20th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Today there will be over 1,000 votes cast on Idea Jam. Simply amazing.... For more Idea Jam stats check out this page. In other "idea" related news a big congrats to Imaginatik for being a Lotus Award runner up for their Idea Central software. ...

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Thursday, December 20th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

...on Episode 71 of The Taking Notes ...

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Thursday, December 20th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Vince is looking for feedback (both good and bad) on the new OpenNTF UI he has created. Preview the new ...

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Thursday, December 20th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Things have certainly gotten better since Jim O'Donnell Published this story. The grades given to IBM/Lotus were: Overall Performance - C+ Strategic Vision - D+ Improvements in Notes/Domino - B Overall Quality of Notes/Domino - B Particular ...

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Monday, December 17th, 2007 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Today Danielle would have turned eleven. Dani please know that you are in our hearts and souls. We miss ...

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Thursday, December 13th, 2007 | Comments (4) | Google it!

If you head on over to Idea Jam you will see a new link in the upper right hand corner which points to the elguji software blog. Here Matt, Sean, Gayle and myself will post about all things Idea Jam as well as some other new product "ideas" we have ...

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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

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Monday, December 10th, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Both of these books were given to all Dreamforce '07 attendees and are excellent step by step resources that every developer should read. The reader is taken step by step through the creation of a recruiting application including creating workflows, ...

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Monday, December 10th, 2007 | Comments (6) | Google it!

This is a great video on how to play paradiddles (RLRR LRLL) and inverted paradiddles (RLLR LRRL) and apply them to the drum ...

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Sunday, December 9th, 2007 | Comments (1) | Google it!

You can now add Idea Jammy stuff to your IBM Lotus Sametime client. The first version contains a list of recent ideas from all "Idea Spaces". Future versions will add more and more functionality as requested. To add the Idea Jam Sametime Plugin ...

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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 | Comments (20) | Google it!

Here is the first incarnation of the Idea Jam blog sidebar plugin. Simply cut and paste this code into your blog to show the 8 most recent ideas from Idea Jam. You can replace "all" with your name (if you are registered on Idea Jam) to see ideas you posted ...

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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 | Comments (23) | Google it!

To meet the demand for top quality IBM Lotus Notes consultancy throughout Ireland, UK and Europe, Blue Wave Technology Limited has acquired BE Systems Limited, specialists in providing top quality IBM Lotus technology services and support throughout the ...

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Monday, December 3rd, 2007 | Comments (0) | Google it!