by Chris Miller at 01:08:50 PM on Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
This has gotten to be a hot topic in the comments
and the hits from the posting last week found
here. I even saw it pop
up in the internal Business Partner forum (thanks Sean) looking for feedback.
So let me explain, quote and move along a bit further.
This is not a semantics talk anymore about which word a person uses. The meaning has been built in for years. There are major differences to me and others on the proper definition of replication. Dictionary.com tosses out a few meanings:
Amazingly I like number 8 here. Using the words repetition of an event or experiment (called scheduled replication in our world) to ensure accuracy across replicas.
Back to Dictionary.com we have the formal definitions of synchronization:
So Synchronization would be more like clustering according to the first line. So I could see this word used in place of clustering, not replication. Definition 4 describes replication best to me, an echo or reverberation. They do not have to be totally in sync (hmmm, interesting placement of the word) at all times. Replicas can be hours or days different. They then echo, rejoin or reproduce (or delete) as necessary on schedule or on demand.
So some good quotes for you. From Gabriella Davis:
From Jerry Glover taking the other spin:
Of course Sean had a blunt point:
My two cents have been written, spilled and could go on for pages. More words from the faithful and new readers?
This is not a semantics talk anymore about which word a person uses. The meaning has been built in for years. There are major differences to me and others on the proper definition of replication. Dictionary.com tosses out a few meanings:
1. A fold or a folding back.
2. A reply to an answer; a rejoinder.
3. Law. The plaintiff's response to the defendant's answer or plea.
4. An echo or reverberation.
5. A copy or reproduction.
6. The act or process of duplicating or reproducing something.
7. Biology. The process by which genetic material, a single-celled organism, or a virus reproduces or makes a copy of itself: replication of DNA.
8. In scientific research, the repetition of an experiment to confirm findings or to ensure accuracy.
Amazingly I like number 8 here. Using the words repetition of an event or experiment (called scheduled replication in our world) to ensure accuracy across replicas.
Back to Dictionary.com we have the formal definitions of synchronization:
v. intr.
1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous.
2. To operate in unison.
1. To cause to occur or operate with exact coincidence in time or rate: We synchronized our watches.
2. To cause to occur or operate at the same time as something else: They synchronized their trip with the annual tulip festival.
2. To arrange (historical events) in a synchronism so as to indicate parallel occurrence.
3. To cause (soundtrack and action) to match exactly in a film.
So Synchronization would be more like clustering according to the first line. So I could see this word used in place of clustering, not replication. Definition 4 describes replication best to me, an echo or reverberation. They do not have to be totally in sync (hmmm, interesting placement of the word) at all times. Replicas can be hours or days different. They then echo, rejoin or reproduce (or delete) as necessary on schedule or on demand.
So some good quotes for you. From Gabriella Davis:
I also think synchronization sounds much less feature rich than replication
From Jerry Glover taking the other spin:
I think "synchronize" is far more well-known by the general populace
Of course Sean had a blunt point:
It seems to me to be quite a lot of time and money to change something that does not necessarily need to change.
My two cents have been written, spilled and could go on for pages. More words from the faithful and new readers?
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by Chris Miller at 03:33:40 PM on Monday, January 30th, 2006
by Chris Miller at 04:15:00 AM on Friday, January 27th, 2006
While walking back from the Swan to Dolphin,
I had the opportunity to hear an echoing group in front of me having a
conversation. They were stating that one of them was surprised not
to hear questions on why they are changing the name/tab for replication
in the Hannover release. They were actually quite nervous someone
would ask as it has been asked in some internal reviews. So it seems
it might be something like synchronize at this point, as used in
the Workplace Managed Client (WMC). So off I went on a search.
Current Hannover docs I could find anywhere on the web had no mention at all of offline mode and replication/synchronization. I could only find one reference at all to this in some more than basic searching. Way more than basic searching. Crazy amounts on both IBM, LDD and the whole Internet. Docs on LDD and some other marketing and reference material did not point to it. But I whittled down and eliminates until this doc for the Workplace Managed Client (WMC) came up. From what I understood Hannover is following this theory, but not exactly the same menu choices for offline mode..so don't think I am saying that this is exact. But it makes perfect sense.
http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/uafiles.nsf/docs/wcs26/$File/rich_client_ug.pdf
Check starting at the bottom of page 13 (as per the contents) in Chapter 1 under Working Offline.
So what is the big deal you ask? Well we are teaching people and employees for years to use the Replication tab and to replicate. Not the synchronization tab and synchronize. This could bring up a training issue and support calls for this upgrade. Yes, the client is magnificent and magnificently different. Meaning that you should always have training anyway. But why would a change like that be necessary unless they are trying to get it more in-line with Workplace and WMC. Make sense?
Current Hannover docs I could find anywhere on the web had no mention at all of offline mode and replication/synchronization. I could only find one reference at all to this in some more than basic searching. Way more than basic searching. Crazy amounts on both IBM, LDD and the whole Internet. Docs on LDD and some other marketing and reference material did not point to it. But I whittled down and eliminates until this doc for the Workplace Managed Client (WMC) came up. From what I understood Hannover is following this theory, but not exactly the same menu choices for offline mode..so don't think I am saying that this is exact. But it makes perfect sense.
http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/uafiles.nsf/docs/wcs26/$File/rich_client_ug.pdf
Check starting at the bottom of page 13 (as per the contents) in Chapter 1 under Working Offline.
So what is the big deal you ask? Well we are teaching people and employees for years to use the Replication tab and to replicate. Not the synchronization tab and synchronize. This could bring up a training issue and support calls for this upgrade. Yes, the client is magnificent and magnificently different. Meaning that you should always have training anyway. But why would a change like that be necessary unless they are trying to get it more in-line with Workplace and WMC. Make sense?
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by Chris Miller at 02:31:35 PM on Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Surjit Chandra opened with thanks to all customers,
partners and even Sandra Marcus for putting on, once again, an amazing
show all week. He continued on with 3 main points....
The special treat was...... Jim Gaffigin (from Letterman, Conan, etc and I am not sure of the spelling here. looking..) He was decent enough. People laughed and quite a few in the back left. I am sure his stab about watching pr0n at home with Surjit will guarantee he won't be returning. Now he finally got off of food topics after about 30 minutes and got much funnier. Remember, this is all my opinion.
- Commitment - "Yellow is the new Black" was a giant quote put on the wall on the closing screens. Lotus is committed to Notes, Domino, Sametime and everything else. But then tossing in new openness. 96% of all the sessions were delivered using the Workplace Managed Client and Open Document Format
- Attitude - He put bloggers on the screen (screencaps), showing the commitments. He replayed his FUD comment of not putting up with anymore bulls**t (there was even horns in the replay) from the opening session. he is declaring the Gloves are off. Lotusphere for next year has been announced Jan 21-25, 2007 at the same place, same location.
- Crap I missed something....
The special treat was...... Jim Gaffigin (from Letterman, Conan, etc and I am not sure of the spelling here. looking..) He was decent enough. People laughed and quite a few in the back left. I am sure his stab about watching pr0n at home with Surjit will guarantee he won't be returning. Now he finally got off of food topics after about 30 minutes and got much funnier. Remember, this is all my opinion.
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by Chris Miller at 12:47:44 PM on Thursday, January 26th, 2006
More pictures are up once again...
Hit a couple BOF's this morning and people were much slower but still trying to be strong getting up early. BOF314 on C&S was good and it seems everyone has isolated calendar needs and issues. Most widespread issues are well known and documented.
BP106 was on repeat with Paul Mooney. He took some notes from talking to us yesterday and applied them well. I did appreciate he got the light stick from the Disney-bots last night at Sea World. But it broke by this morning, of course.
GURUpalooza - this was awesome again this year. Well attended and the questions were much more detailed and not esoteric. We tried to pass the mic around so everyone could answer, but it seems some of the questions were very directed. I appreciated Wild Bill sitting in the back row since he wore his kilt.
Ask the Developers - Started very slow with comments and thoughts and not questions. It then started to take off. I liked some of the questions that were asked, but very unique to each environment. There were a few global questions, like one on SMTP.
Ed is blogging next to me and eating my bandwidth..... He is typing way too much and it takes more of the 802.11 on each keystroke...
There is was some good comments on making the web and Notes more similar in terms of policies. I agree it is hard to manage security policies that does not affect all aspects since we expect the user to utilize both.
Omnifind was brought up as a solution by the Developers for a question on search enhancements in Domino. Searches on Google showed announcements around that product in 2004, but it was new for me to hear. The web shows the following:
This will be interesting in what resources it needs and where it runs (locally or server). The Websphere Information Integrator and the DB2 Information Integrator middleware are already in place. I can imagine a piece for Domino is soon to follow. If it has the same cost structure as LEI, it might be a tad expensive.
Mary Beth Raven took the stand to answer a client UI question. She turned it right around to a request from all of you. Get your butt on LDD and register as a usability tester to make your complaints about things like the View Unread button and making the default in the mailfile "Reply without attachment". That got much applause. I think that is an awesome idea. Instead of complaints, make the effort. She made a very bold statement:
That is as close as I can get the exact quote but it is darn accurate. But it embodies what one theme here was (to me) at the conference. Make a difference yourself, because Lotus is making changes beyond belief.
"Tell Amgr cancel" starting in Domino 6 will stop an agent that runs away from a server command of Tell Amgr Run. But that changed Julie K's response when she listened to the question again. Her cancel comment will only stop agents running normally, not ones launched from the console. She took it under advisement.
Hit a couple BOF's this morning and people were much slower but still trying to be strong getting up early. BOF314 on C&S was good and it seems everyone has isolated calendar needs and issues. Most widespread issues are well known and documented.
BP106 was on repeat with Paul Mooney. He took some notes from talking to us yesterday and applied them well. I did appreciate he got the light stick from the Disney-bots last night at Sea World. But it broke by this morning, of course.
GURUpalooza - this was awesome again this year. Well attended and the questions were much more detailed and not esoteric. We tried to pass the mic around so everyone could answer, but it seems some of the questions were very directed. I appreciated Wild Bill sitting in the back row since he wore his kilt.
Ask the Developers - Started very slow with comments and thoughts and not questions. It then started to take off. I liked some of the questions that were asked, but very unique to each environment. There were a few global questions, like one on SMTP.
Ed is blogging next to me and eating my bandwidth..... He is typing way too much and it takes more of the 802.11 on each keystroke...
There is was some good comments on making the web and Notes more similar in terms of policies. I agree it is hard to manage security policies that does not affect all aspects since we expect the user to utilize both.
Omnifind was brought up as a solution by the Developers for a question on search enhancements in Domino. Searches on Google showed announcements around that product in 2004, but it was new for me to hear. The web shows the following:
For example, the Armonk, N.Y., company recently took the covers off OmniFind, an enterprise search engine for file systems, content repositories, databases, collaboration systems, applications and intranets. OmniFind integrates with any portal or content management system.
This will be interesting in what resources it needs and where it runs (locally or server). The Websphere Information Integrator and the DB2 Information Integrator middleware are already in place. I can imagine a piece for Domino is soon to follow. If it has the same cost structure as LEI, it might be a tad expensive.
Mary Beth Raven took the stand to answer a client UI question. She turned it right around to a request from all of you. Get your butt on LDD and register as a usability tester to make your complaints about things like the View Unread button and making the default in the mailfile "Reply without attachment". That got much applause. I think that is an awesome idea. Instead of complaints, make the effort. She made a very bold statement:
As you can see we are in a total redesign of the UI for Hannover
That is as close as I can get the exact quote but it is darn accurate. But it embodies what one theme here was (to me) at the conference. Make a difference yourself, because Lotus is making changes beyond belief.
"Tell Amgr cancel" starting in Domino 6 will stop an agent that runs away from a server command of Tell Amgr Run. But that changed Julie K's response when she listened to the question again. Her cancel comment will only stop agents running normally, not ones launched from the console. She took it under advisement.
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by Chris Miller at 11:59:00 PM on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Well I appreciate Paul Mooney read my comments
on his session. We sat (ok stood) for a few last night to talk while
in the Dolphin and I gave my impressions. He did great for his first
year and he has a repeat in the morning. Hope you are there now reading
this live or not reading it yet and seeing him. There is a picture
here hinting at what I talk about below and the rest are on the Flickr
or my Yahoo photo site as linked before.
I did my podcast in the afternoon at LotusUserGroup.org and made sure I did not hear or see the questions before hand. I wanted to wing it for the interview and surprisingly, I was asked some questions no one had asked or at least in a long time. Leave it to Libby Ingrassia for that. So go take a listen. Scroll down the left some for the podcasts.
I managed to miss Wes Morgan's Network Infrastructure Design session, which is one of my personal favorites. I have seen it numerous times, yet he encompasses a 'feature' I try to put into my sessions. No matter how much you know on the topic, the speaker can make it entertaining and teach you at least one thing new that makes it always worthwhile.
Let's get straight on to SeaWorld. I had my hesitations about this one when I saw it announced. It is at the bottom of my list, right above Wide World of Sports. I am not usually this candid, maybe I am tired this morning as I type this (yes it is back dated to keep me by day in postings). But there was not enough time to do everything, and there really was not much to do. Lots of walking, there seemed to be places to eat but everyone so far I talked to ate at the pizza shop. Shamu was cool but such a short show was surprising. One rollercoaster really sucks. I know I love rollercoasters, so there is some bias. I had hoped for a good, known, band. Yet I know they are expensive. Get a few thousand more people back to the conference and we might get lucky again. I will say all the positives from here on though.
I did my podcast in the afternoon at LotusUserGroup.org and made sure I did not hear or see the questions before hand. I wanted to wing it for the interview and surprisingly, I was asked some questions no one had asked or at least in a long time. Leave it to Libby Ingrassia for that. So go take a listen. Scroll down the left some for the podcasts.
I managed to miss Wes Morgan's Network Infrastructure Design session, which is one of my personal favorites. I have seen it numerous times, yet he encompasses a 'feature' I try to put into my sessions. No matter how much you know on the topic, the speaker can make it entertaining and teach you at least one thing new that makes it always worthwhile.
Let's get straight on to SeaWorld. I had my hesitations about this one when I saw it announced. It is at the bottom of my list, right above Wide World of Sports. I am not usually this candid, maybe I am tired this morning as I type this (yes it is back dated to keep me by day in postings). But there was not enough time to do everything, and there really was not much to do. Lots of walking, there seemed to be places to eat but everyone so far I talked to ate at the pizza shop. Shamu was cool but such a short show was surprising. One rollercoaster really sucks. I know I love rollercoasters, so there is some bias. I had hoped for a good, known, band. Yet I know they are expensive. Get a few thousand more people back to the conference and we might get lucky again. I will say all the positives from here on though.
- Shamu show was good for the time on. Very entertaining and amazing as each time. Awesome how much they can get them to do, learn and cooperate.
- The sharks area was great. Long line to get in. I realized that they had turned off the moving sidewalk that is normally on. So instead of getting whisked through, you could take your time. Made it more enjoyable but longer to get in.
- I have a new fish that reached amazing on the cool meter. The Leafy Sea Dragon. I thought they had a bunch of loose plants or weeds in the tank, it was the actual cousin of a sea horse (according to webpages I peeked at). Just amazing how it blended in.
- The pizza was fine (there, I stretched it)
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by Chris Miller at 07:14:01 AM on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
This morning (yes this means waking before
7am to get there at 7) began with a BOF session (BOF512) for
Lotus User Group Communities. As we host LotusUserGroup.org
and I am on the advisory board, I forced myself to actually awaken at the
crazy early hours. I found that IBM does not have as much local participation
at each user group, nor can some of the people get any help. We all
know IBM cannot just give out email addresses of users in the area, but
some emails from the groups trying to begin could be helpful in starting
or growing the local user communities. We talked about bonding together
with other tours that come to town, using remote presentations from speakers
of conferences and even hooking up with other regional groups to tag along
with them until you get yours built.
BP106 - Worst Practices in IBM Lotus Domino was the first session out of the gates for me. Wild Bill and Paul Mooney were the speakers and started with the humor even before the session began. The room filled quick and a lot. Let the live blogging begin......... The laughs are continuous with these two and some very accurate issues that many face. Their layout was making fun of the error, listing the investigation and the jumping right into the listing of solutions for the problem. Everyone identified with many of the problems and couldn't believe some of the errors poeple make. The funniest was the section on a large domain being rolled out, globally. They enabled public key checking for security the evening before it rolls out. The next morning no one can log in. The cause? Someone on the project lost the certifier passwords halfway through and quietly replaced the cert id hoping no one would notice. Need I say more? The session was more than entertaining and everyone enjoyed themselves.
BP106 - Worst Practices in IBM Lotus Domino was the first session out of the gates for me. Wild Bill and Paul Mooney were the speakers and started with the humor even before the session began. The room filled quick and a lot. Let the live blogging begin......... The laughs are continuous with these two and some very accurate issues that many face. Their layout was making fun of the error, listing the investigation and the jumping right into the listing of solutions for the problem. Everyone identified with many of the problems and couldn't believe some of the errors poeple make. The funniest was the section on a large domain being rolled out, globally. They enabled public key checking for security the evening before it rolls out. The next morning no one can log in. The cause? Someone on the project lost the certifier passwords halfway through and quietly replaced the cert id hoping no one would notice. Need I say more? The session was more than entertaining and everyone enjoyed themselves.
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by Chris Miller at 11:08:00 PM on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Ok, I did not finish yesterday right away.
The rest of my day was the blogging BOF (BOF105) where most
of the Lotus bloggers you know were in attendance. I could list but
you can guess. Everyone there was interested in ( in no order or
complete list:
I then headed to the certification bootcamps being held by CertFX. It was nice to see the number of people studying hard and late into the night to get certified. Sad to see Jason knowing so little about Domino, but he is learning. Give him time. :-)
A nice dinner with Kathleen McGivney, Susan Bulloch and Jess Stratton (and Matt of course).
- growing the community
- understanding corporate guidelines on blogging
- internal versus external rules
- linking to other bloggers
- getting outside the circle that we seem to follow to each other and bringing in new readers
- how to reach the world in a timely fashion and generate more comments on your entries and feedback
I then headed to the certification bootcamps being held by CertFX. It was nice to see the number of people studying hard and late into the night to get certified. Sad to see Jason knowing so little about Domino, but he is learning. Give him time. :-)
A nice dinner with Kathleen McGivney, Susan Bulloch and Jess Stratton (and Matt of course).
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by Chris Miller at 01:38:04 PM on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Starting out early with my repeat of HND104
for SMTP. It was overwhelming to see that is full was and closed
before 8am. The session was to start at 8:30am. Lotus brought
in extra chairs to help accommodate. Thanks to everyone that came.
Slides will be up shortly as promised on here and the Lotusphere
Online site.
The food was good at breakfast and lunch. They made up for Monday and opened more tents and more food.
I met some great people full of questions. Most were on SMTP and LDAP following where they saw me earlier but the array of conversation is amazing. I will provide a full day overview later, I am off to another sessions and all pictures are up to date.
The food was good at breakfast and lunch. They made up for Monday and opened more tents and more food.
I met some great people full of questions. Most were on SMTP and LDAP following where they saw me earlier but the array of conversation is amazing. I will provide a full day overview later, I am off to another sessions and all pictures are up to date.
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by Chris Miller at 11:46:21 PM on Monday, January 23rd, 2006
- Vendor floor - packed, dense, filled, capacity, crammed, free stuff
- Sessions - packed to overflow and closed capacity. Reminds me of days of old. You had to fight to get in early and have a seat. Rooms went to overflow so you could hear and not see the presenter. It is back!
- Breaks - crowded and quick. But awesome to see people fighting for coffee
- Lunch - long ass walk to Swan back back
back tent for box lunch today. Decent food but had to make escape
to get ready for my session.
BP402 - Yes this is my session. Big thanks to Kathleen McGivney for putting this Bootcamp track together. The response is overwhelming. I was more overwhelmed to learn this evening that not only did I fill and close my room, but proceeded to fill and close two (yes that is 2) overflow rooms in the Swan. Feedback has been appreciated all day from everyone. I just thank you for coming to a session I enjoy doing.
HND104 - Yes this was me again. Imagine my surprise when I got there at around 2:15 from the LDAP session to see the room full and closed. Done, poof, no way for more people. I had a time getting in the door until they figured out I was speaking. Awesome fun in the hands-on lab. Neat to have it in the track (thanks again Kathleen) and really helps drive the points home when they can play and do it themselves.
MTG601 - I went 10 minutes late due to stops along the way and found myself locked out. damn damn damn, go back to bullet 2, put gun to foot and shoot self
Sorry for the short posting on the rest of the day but sleep calls and I have more tomorrow !!
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by Chris Miller at 08:25:00 AM on Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Packed to the back of the room, not sure of
overflow from where I sat, but packed more than definitely. (Update: Ed
posted that there was overlfow in the Swan Ballroom, quite the hike)
Mike Rhodin (Gen Mgr of Lotus Software)
Jason Alexander was the opening speaker (no not the architect)
Quite funny with stories. He made good fun of how we are working on the future and he wants his past back. Yet he know he has to work on the future. A good segway for the demos.
still blogging and laughing...this entry will get updated more..... I have heard hints about there is more to Sametime than meets the eye so far...
Ok lets get serious after 20 minutes of Jason. Mike Rhodin took the stage again to show how "user friendliness" will be changed in upcoming releases and products. He had 3 questions to ask ourselves as we watched about 80% demo time of live code instead of the normal speeches
Ken Bisconti
Mike Rhodin
He popped back out to discuss Real Time in our communications.
Craig Hayman, vp for Sametime
His quote:
We made a jump from Sametime into forms.. Bowstreet, Portal and tons of other parts together to make the Bowstreet Portlet Factory.
Allister Rennie, vp of Lotus software
He got the run on IBM Workplace overview
He then took off into IBM Lotus Domino
Her demo took a bomb at the last sec but we could tell it worked, she clicked some code wrong. One more time for Workplace Designer on Eclipse and that went well.
Tim jumped back on stage and followed the format for the Identity 2.0 presentation I saw before that set a new standard in presenting. A big impact through hundreds of slides with pictures and a couple words per slide.
Activity Explorer was shown and that got some attention and people woke up. The ability to drag docs and maintain activity information in threads was impressive. All this available now. The future takes Activity Explorer to a web based solution as well.
Mike Rhodin to close it out, the home stretch
Ok, that was it, time up and over!
Mike Rhodin (Gen Mgr of Lotus Software)
- Double digit growth
- Seats, seats and more seats sold and maintenance renewed
- 6,000 attendees in the house
Jason Alexander was the opening speaker (no not the architect)
Quite funny with stories. He made good fun of how we are working on the future and he wants his past back. Yet he know he has to work on the future. A good segway for the demos.
still blogging and laughing...this entry will get updated more..... I have heard hints about there is more to Sametime than meets the eye so far...
Ok lets get serious after 20 minutes of Jason. Mike Rhodin took the stage again to show how "user friendliness" will be changed in upcoming releases and products. He had 3 questions to ask ourselves as we watched about 80% demo time of live code instead of the normal speeches
- what's the big idea?
- how can I use it?
- when can I get my hands on it?
Ken Bisconti
- Announced expanded support for Mac with
Sametime and DWA on Firefox
- Ron Sebastian showed off Notes client on the Mac. Dialog boxes are tied to the look of Mac.
- Also support for Apple's new Intel PC's later this year
- Over 1500 customers did migrations from Exchange
- New support of mobile devices including Blackberry, Nokia, Intellisync, Good Technology (GoodLink)
- WANDA is new initiatives for USB memory
stick (hmm, I think I
said U3 didn't I? no one
listens to early hints)
- Ron Sebastian showed SAP and Lotus integration expanded
- Blackberry and Sametime integration for IM capabilities was shown live...quite cool and got applause
- Blackberry integration using Web Services for databases for live work
- Google Search was shown including mail searches returned with web and local files
Mike Rhodin
He popped back out to discuss Real Time in our communications.
- AOL connectivity is back, even Apple iChat. There will be no additional purchase required to connect the two
- Yahoo! connectivity for IM
- Google talk connectivity (makes sense with the AOL and Google talk agreement)
Craig Hayman, vp for Sametime
His quote:
"We stopped working (sic) on what name it should have, switched it back to Sametime and got back to work on the product"
- Sametime 7.5 with spell checking, emoticons, timestamps, type-ahead name checking, reporting structure, voice chat, photo business cards. It matches Skype on voice since they use the same Codex. Can you say Mac, Linux, Windows??
- Based on Eclipse for make it open and extensible for telephony
- Avaya, Polycom and Nortel announced more partnership
- Of course we are looking at the new user
interface
- Ron Sebastian is the demo man it seems.
- Last chat is shown when you hover over names in Buddy List
- New launch pad for plugins on the bottom
- Misspelled words are underlined in red and can correct
- Screen capture built into the client to show pictures (hey they used Powerpoint, where was the Workplace Productivity Tools)
- VoiceJam was the name they used for the voice chat
- FreeJam and SkillTap was integrated from the IBM Common Tools (ICT)
- The where are they brought up Google tools
- Polling was enabled
- web Conferencing
- Additional slides can be uploaded while in conference
- Real Time Collaboration Gateway was announced
We made a jump from Sametime into forms.. Bowstreet, Portal and tons of other parts together to make the Bowstreet Portlet Factory.
Allister Rennie, vp of Lotus software
He got the run on IBM Workplace overview
- WCS and WMC (Workplace Managed Client) 2.6 is shipping as of today
- Customer story was early adopter using the WMC at the retail stores
- Ron was back again for demos. This time he covered WCS starting with mail and the integrated 130+ file attachment type conversions. Plus documents can be detached to libraries
- Open Document Formats and Office were included in the Productivity Manager of the WMC 2.6
- WBSE (Workplace Business Strategy and Execution) came along next. People got the glazed eye here and I heard whispers behind me asking him to get back to Domino and even Portal. Of course, I know there is at least a handful here wanting to see this new product and more on Workplace
He then took off into IBM Lotus Domino
- He asked for Lotus Developers to stand and take a bow, there was like 4. Eli counted 5 but that guy left out the Disney staff entrance
- Maureen Leland, Chief Architect for the Designer, stepped in
- She covered Workplace Designer 2.6 with built in samples out of the box
- Cool tool that mixed different kinds of code, JavaScript and @Functions. Eli says cool and awesome
Her demo took a bomb at the last sec but we could tell it worked, she clicked some code wrong. One more time for Workplace Designer on Eclipse and that went well.
Tim jumped back on stage and followed the format for the Identity 2.0 presentation I saw before that set a new standard in presenting. A big impact through hundreds of slides with pictures and a couple words per slide.
Activity Explorer was shown and that got some attention and people woke up. The ability to drag docs and maintain activity information in threads was impressive. All this available now. The future takes Activity Explorer to a web based solution as well.
Mike Rhodin to close it out, the home stretch
- 2 Million seats at time of IBM acquisition. Now to 125 million
- For the record, there is no shift or regression, all growth and support for past and future Notes apps adding Eclipse and Java to make it stronger
- Hannover was an early preview but now Ken is back with an update
- Ken Bisconti - Domino "Next" sounds just like RNext years ago. Websphere Portal technology is moving into Domino to move the browser interface forward
- Jeff Eisen (Chief Architect Notes and IBM Distinguished Engineer) took the stage for demos
- Hannover - Preview pane can be on the bottom or left. I don't preview anything personally, either I read it or not, but ok...
- Invitations are ghosted onto the calendar
- Mail threads works pulling mail from all views, not just the current
- Sidebar has frequently used applications on right side. You can add your own app links everywhere
- Recent Collaboration was very cool showing chats, emails whatever that you recently had with the person selected.
- Contacts are greatly enhanced with pop-up window or embedded like now through policies and preferences.
- Quick Find will be found everywhere in the client
- Activities is huge, too much to type at the end here. I will find the slides or something for you
Ok, that was it, time up and over!
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by Chris Miller at 07:21:44 AM on Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Let's make this simple, one attendee said
:
Basically they were running out of food at the Swan tent. No bread, limited eggs left and seating was going to the highest bidder. No really they were.
"I know they were cutting back on variety and quality, but quantity also?"
Basically they were running out of food at the Swan tent. No bread, limited eggs left and seating was going to the highest bidder. No really they were.
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by Chris Miller at 04:41:07 PM on Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
See these two pictures and the album. Can
you say gambling...
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by Chris Miller at 01:29:46 PM on Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
This is how crowded things are this year first
off. A full session at 1:30 in the afternoon from Gabriella Davis
on Domino clustering basics...
Business Development Day opening session and breakfast
Jumpstart sessions
So a quick break to demo for the Best of Showcase Lotus Award and then I will hit the 4pm sessions. More text and pics later
Business Development Day opening session and breakfast
- Ken Bisconti (VP Lotus Workplace I think now) makes the statement "... Notes 7,8,9,10...." letting us know it is not dying. Take that ! Walking around later I see shirts taunting the talks of Notes 11 even.
- Mike Loria states that in attendance for BP Day alone there were 17 countries represented, 10% registered were new and the exhibitor floor is totally sold out (as I mentioned before)
- Mike Loria states that the Lotus Awards had submissions from 31 different countries. Letting you know Domino is everywhere. Of course I would like to win each category we are finalists in.
- Marjorie Tenzer, (BM Software Group, Marketing Vice President, SWG Channel & SMB Marketing) announces the push for partners and Workplace Services Express. Including free marketing with direct mailings and nurturing calls if you get certified in the next few months
- iCollaborate on iSeries announced
- Lotus moved back into AP region with Lotus Days (like Lotusphere) and most every presentation was given by a Business Partner.
- The guest speaker was excellent. She raced in the Eco Challenge in 2000 and finished the race with her team. It was an impressive thing to witness and she had some great comments and ways to make you think about how you approach business
Jumpstart sessions
- I popped in and out as the pictures will show (see below entry for links)
- Tom and Julian had a fine crowd and Gabriella packed the house to the point they were telling people to come back for the repeat
- Jessica did her first stint on stage at LS and did a great job
- We are waiting for McGivney and Susan to take the stage this afternoon
- I could give drab details but take what I think so far as this. Basically people are excited more than last year. The crowds are strong and energetic, even though it is the first day. People are talking about advanced things at lunch letting you know they are using the technology
So a quick break to demo for the Best of Showcase Lotus Award and then I will hit the 4pm sessions. More text and pics later
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by Chris Miller at 11:24:00 AM on Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
I think I will leave it broken :-) Means
less spam mail and phone calls. Wait, I use a mail-in database and
voice mailbox on my registration, no matter
*************
Dear Chris Miller,
If you experience difficulty having your conference badge scanned in the
Product Showcase, please go to the registration area outside the Product
Showcase or to the registration area in the WDW Dolphin Convention Foyer to
have the bar code on your badge corrected.
Thank you,
Lotusphere Registration
*************
Dear Chris Miller,
If you experience difficulty having your conference badge scanned in the
Product Showcase, please go to the registration area outside the Product
Showcase or to the registration area in the WDW Dolphin Convention Foyer to
have the bar code on your badge corrected.
Thank you,
Lotusphere Registration
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by Chris Miller at 11:39:31 PM on Saturday, January 21st, 2006
I posted more pics to the links. After
the quick stop a Kimono's for some drink and sushi with
this person and this
person (who are also presenting
many a session), I headed to the dreaded ESPN where everyone was still
meandering around. Wild
Bill came in full glory as
the pictures will show. Carl
Tyler and I were accused
of being the same person, so we took a picture to prove, yes, there is
two of us. You can actually see the back of Wes Morgan in the next
pictures. This once again proves that 3 people really know Sametime,
no really. Libby
was there making the rounds, but another person was hiding in a back corner
so they shall rename nameless :-)
Oh yeah...insight into Monday's guest speaker. But I was beaten into submission from typing more
Oh yeah...insight into Monday's guest speaker. But I was beaten into submission from typing more
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by Chris Miller at 07:35:28 PM on Saturday, January 21st, 2006
The photos will be found (sync'd) on my normal
Yahoo
photos and also on Flickr
(to keep everyone happy).
There seems to be a bigger buzz here than last year. The flight was full of people destined to see not only Mickey, but Lotusphere. I was impressed at the amount of talk and conversation I could overhear as I rode shuttles and walked around. The bloggers dinner/drinking was going on when I finally got to the Boardwalk, and that is where the pictures start. I managed to pass Libby, Rocky, Volker and Turtle before I even made it to the gathering.
So tonight it is off to the ESPN Sportsbar for more gathering and pictures
There seems to be a bigger buzz here than last year. The flight was full of people destined to see not only Mickey, but Lotusphere. I was impressed at the amount of talk and conversation I could overhear as I rode shuttles and walked around. The bloggers dinner/drinking was going on when I finally got to the Boardwalk, and that is where the pictures start. I managed to pass Libby, Rocky, Volker and Turtle before I even made it to the gathering.
So tonight it is off to the ESPN Sportsbar for more gathering and pictures
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by Chris Miller at 11:08:18 AM on Friday, January 20th, 2006
We have already done some upgrades to 6.5.5
on hosted and managed servers and found out that there are some design
elements signed by a Notes 7 client in the release from a Lotus id. So
if you are running R5 servers or clients for sure we might see some issues
and errors popping up. I will let Lotus pop the SPR's out on the
issues but I wanted to give fair warning. I went and looked at one
of the machines after the upgrade and yes, sure enough, they were there.
by Chris Miller at 08:50:10 AM on Thursday, January 19th, 2006
You can find the thread
here. But I wanted to add
something of my own to the thought. There are so many of us not only
in the blogging world that hang out with each other, but also simple friends
and professional associates. I personally make it a point to get
to a few minutes of each session one of them presents. Even if it
is to step in for ten minutes and race to another that is at the same time.
I find that you learn a lot about speaking styles, even tips you
can use for yourself. I have one friend that not only blogs but has
attended a few of my sessions. It is awesome to hear candidly how
you do as well as hear them say they liked something so much in the way
you present they want to encompass it to their own styles. Flattery
I tell you.
So take the time to make eye contact, send a wave, let them know you came through, even if just for a few minutes. Remember, many of us (like Andrew :-) ) can't sit still in sessions for long times anyway. Or business meetings and other sessions keep us running. I know I am terribly guilty of trying to be everywhere and pulled in different directions. But I love watching my friends present.
So take the time to make eye contact, send a wave, let them know you came through, even if just for a few minutes. Remember, many of us (like Andrew :-) ) can't sit still in sessions for long times anyway. Or business meetings and other sessions keep us running. I know I am terribly guilty of trying to be everywhere and pulled in different directions. But I love watching my friends present.
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by Chris Miller at 12:37:00 AM on Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
More names and listings of what Microsoft
has been tossing out the door the past year (heisted from this
blog page)
Migrate from Lotus Notes: MS tools 2005/2006
Migrate from Lotus Notes: MS tools 2005/2006
| Release Date | |
| Application
Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino Beta
This tool analyzes your Lotus Notes/Domino Applications and is used for developing an application migration and coexistence plan. | 1/13/2006 |
| Microsoft
Exchange Server 2003 Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes
The Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes is a tool designed for organizations that are migrating from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. | 12/7/2005 |
| Microsoft
Exchange Server 2003 Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes
The Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes is a tool designed for organizations that need to coexist during a migration from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. | 12/7/2005 |
| Microsoft
Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes
The Connector for Lotus Notes/Domino is a tool designed for organizations that need to coexist during a migration from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. | 12/7/2005 |
| Application
Analyzer 2003 for Lotus Notes
The Lotus Notes Application Analyzer helps in determining the size and scope of Lotus Notes application migration projects. The Analyzer consists of two parts: the Data Collector and the Data Processor. | 5/2/2005 |
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by Chris Miller at 01:04:35 PM on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
You can find it right
here. If you get it, read
it again, if you don't , then subscribe
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by Chris Miller at 11:37:01 AM on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Ed
has hinted that the numbers are up from last year, which means up from
2004, up from 2003, etc etc back to the heydays of yesteryear. Those
of us that have been there since 2000 recall racing to the website, phone
and fax to register a slot and hope to get a close hotel room. There
was actually a shuttle route that took you across numerous hotels per color.
I always stayed at the Hilton as we were the second to last to pick
up and first to drop (not sure how that worked but it did each year). When
I say shuttle, there was like 7 hotels on our route and people walked even
further from some of those drop points. You got used to rooms being
overflowed and full for sessions. Dining tents had you walking to
Yacht & Beach and you still waited in line. The Sunday night
party made the sand disappear under so many feet. I could go on but
you get the idea. Oh wait, you actually got a gift at the
Sunday night party as you left. The Magic Lotus 8-ball still sits
in the corner of my office.
Let's hope that this upturn continues as Domino sales increase and Lotusphere takes a more technical (and some marketing for new stuff) approach with such things at the Bootcamp Track.
Let's hope that this upturn continues as Domino sales increase and Lotusphere takes a more technical (and some marketing for new stuff) approach with such things at the Bootcamp Track.
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by Chris Miller at 01:41:53 PM on Friday, January 13th, 2006
You can find the thread of documents I had
on the IMLU software
here. Basically it was not well
defined what you did and didn't get, what was covered and where the software
could be had. A technote was released under #1221360 on 1/3/06. Here
you go, an answer! (Also do not forget to see the
FAQ that was posted)
What differences exist between the Sametime Limited Use 7.x Server and the Full Sametime 7.x version?
| Abstract |
What differences exist between the Sametime Limited Use 7.x Server and the Full Sametime 7.x version?
| Content |
Also refer see this Frequently
Asked Questions document for
Sametime Limited Use.
The Sametime 7.x Limited Use Server installation
entitlement is only for the use of the Lotus Notes Instant Messaging client.
The Java Connect client is enabled to support Domino for Web Access
(DWA) entitlement and can be used by IBM Support as a troubleshooting aid.
|
by Chris Miller at 10:19:02 AM on Friday, January 13th, 2006
So you went out and bought the new video iPod
but wondered how you can watch a movie or video on that little screen.
Fear no more. Think geeks look funny with Bluetooth cellphone
headsets, try this
device, that when worn will look
like this on your head. Apparently
it makes the screen look huge if you read the
article.
You think you have bad depth perception now? Try walking with one of these on.
You think you have bad depth perception now? Try walking with one of these on.
by Chris Miller at 09:42:05 AM on Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Why would I blog it? Well for a few
reasons:
First I introduce you to the long prompt that says just send real issues, not things like I cannot find parking or where is the party
Then the prompt after that one
Then the second prompt
The the final one....
- The pop-ups are just too darn hilarious for a production system (see below)
- There are images I wanted to show and had to link them somewhere in the on-line forum since you cannot attach (which I think is a fine idea)
- plus the email to support bounced back due to some incorrect configuration somewhere
| Delivery Failure Report | |
| Your document: | Lotusphere 2006: New Trouble Ticket Submitted |
| was not delivered to: | |
| because: | Error transferring to mail2.zoneedit.COM;
SMTP Protocol Returned a Permanent Error 550 : Recipient address rejected:
User unknown in virtual alias table
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First I introduce you to the long prompt that says just send real issues, not things like I cannot find parking or where is the party
Then the prompt after that one
Then the second prompt
The the final one....
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by Chris Miller at 10:52:21 AM on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
As I prepare to move offices I found old conference
bags, notebooks and stuff from the years of the conference. Here
is the list of what Lotus presented as the theme for each year...feel free
to fill in what I didn't have laying around to show me. Anyone see
the theme with conference topics and the theme?
- 2006 - Future In Sight
- 2005 - Envision Decisions
- 2004 - The Workplace for Innovation
- 2003 - the essential human element
- 2002 - Proof Positive
- 2001 - In the Know
- 2000 - Looking Forward
- 1999 - A Part of Every Decision
- 1998 - Cultivate your senses
- 1997 - Pool of knowledge
- 1996 - More insight. More answers. More opportunity (thanks to Susan B for the image!)
- 1995 - A Worldwide Business and Educational Conference
- 1994 - None if 1994 thanks to Erik F via comments finding some archived web info since the first was Dec 1993
- 1993 - A Worldwide Business and Educational Conference
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by Chris Miller at 11:24:00 PM on Monday, January 9th, 2006
Yes I use a headset like I really believe
everyone should do. For numerous reasons. With the most simple
reason to be along the lines of stopping people from being oblivious to
life while talking. This
article shows radiation levels
across numerous phone types, quite cool. And scary.
by Chris Miller at 03:11:36 PM on Monday, January 9th, 2006
I got the weekly update for DominoPower and
the main
article was a vendor's thoughts
on Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM) and is it a real improvement or just
a smoke and mirrors attempt by Lotus to change the name and update Events
and Statrep. I want everyone to read this article and give me their
feedback and your own conclusion. I am staying out of this for now
as I have my own opinions and ideas about this business partner (as I use
their product) and on DDM (as I present on it at Admin and the Domino 7
Upgrade Seminar).
I will put my thoughts together for tomorrows posting. But that means everyone has homework. Get to it.
I will put my thoughts together for tomorrows posting. But that means everyone has homework. Get to it.
by Chris Miller at 03:12:28 PM on Friday, January 6th, 2006
I went ahead and ordered the Kingston U3
Data Traveler (1GB) to not only
finally get a USB drive, but to add the cool portable desktop theory.
So far I have managed to load and easily configure a few pieces of
software:
First thoughts are that I am impressed with the technology, the ease on installation, the ease of the launcher and a bunch of smaller things. I am planning on loading the OpenOffice version for U3 this weekend to have a look at that functionality too.
Anyone else using U3 before I play around with it this weekend and blog it some more?
- Trillian for U3
- Firefox for U3
- Skype for U3
- Diskshredder
- Filezilla
- A small (1MB in size) PDF reader! Quite quick. Awesome for server work with readme or install files and no Adobe
First thoughts are that I am impressed with the technology, the ease on installation, the ease of the launcher and a bunch of smaller things. I am planning on loading the OpenOffice version for U3 this weekend to have a look at that functionality too.
Anyone else using U3 before I play around with it this weekend and blog it some more?
by Chris Miller at 12:00:49 PM on Thursday, January 5th, 2006
I was reviewing the site following along Ed,
Bruce's and Vowe's postings about redirects and such and how IBM is handling
the lotusphere.com redirect. I just happened to wonder what else
was in the Bootcamp track. Well to my surprise and with a follow-up
call to McGivney,
it is true. So once again here are my sessions and a brief outline
of what I am covering.
HND104 Locking Down, Testing and Fully Understanding Your IBM Lotus Domino SMTP Environment
Jan 23 2:30-4:15pm and then again Jan 24 8:30-10:15am both in Swan Mockingbird 1-2
This session will be interesting. IBM had the test laptop shipped here to be configured. I was happy to see a 2GB RAM machine with wireless and wired connections. So it is configured, then shipped back and I am awaiting it to come back for one final peek of the image. Each classroom is then to have 25 computers with 50 seats for the hands-on. I am only doing this session twice so far, so sign up early!! I am hoping this is worse than overflow and has to repeat some more. I will try and cram as much information into this time as I can. I am still finalizing a couple key areas and seeing how they work on the local laptops that have no connectivity.
BP402 Advanced Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Infrastructure Design (Updated Again!)
Jan 23 1-2pm in Swan 3-4
This session has taken an evolution that past couple years. The first time out is was decently received and worked more on Domino. Then last year I took it a whole new direction at the request of some certain people and it moved into the top 20 sessions in rankings and it was a hell of a lot of fun. So I am adding more technical content to meet the Bootcamp and adding more fun to make learning the LDAP side easier. That was the best comments I had from all of the reviews, how making it fun and simple, made all the difficult areas finally understood. (Thanks to those that wrote that on their evals in one way or another)
HND104 Locking Down, Testing and Fully Understanding Your IBM Lotus Domino SMTP Environment
Jan 23 2:30-4:15pm and then again Jan 24 8:30-10:15am both in Swan Mockingbird 1-2
This session will be interesting. IBM had the test laptop shipped here to be configured. I was happy to see a 2GB RAM machine with wireless and wired connections. So it is configured, then shipped back and I am awaiting it to come back for one final peek of the image. Each classroom is then to have 25 computers with 50 seats for the hands-on. I am only doing this session twice so far, so sign up early!! I am hoping this is worse than overflow and has to repeat some more. I will try and cram as much information into this time as I can. I am still finalizing a couple key areas and seeing how they work on the local laptops that have no connectivity.
BP402 Advanced Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Infrastructure Design (Updated Again!)
Jan 23 1-2pm in Swan 3-4
This session has taken an evolution that past couple years. The first time out is was decently received and worked more on Domino. Then last year I took it a whole new direction at the request of some certain people and it moved into the top 20 sessions in rankings and it was a hell of a lot of fun. So I am adding more technical content to meet the Bootcamp and adding more fun to make learning the LDAP side easier. That was the best comments I had from all of the reviews, how making it fun and simple, made all the difficult areas finally understood. (Thanks to those that wrote that on their evals in one way or another)
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by Chris Miller at 09:33:32 AM on Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Knowing that everyone cannot access the site
partners use to download software, I did not link it. But I am tossing
a small screenshot. What happened is that you used
to jump to a Notes database for the Software Catalog for electronic download
of software. Now recently I have not had to download anything until
this past weekend. It seems they changed over to an all IBM software
delivery of some sort and searching sucks and never returns what is usually
expected.
No, it really sucks. A customer wanted some to load a Macintosh for a new or upgraded user. I entered Mac, then tried OSX and then tried Mac Notes only to find nothing returned. So I went the long route and did 6.5.4 Notes and got way too many results only to find Mac not on the page. Here is the screenshot for Mac and all I got was 2 Websphere returns for Fortran. Fortran!
You have 3 possible choices of searching. By product number (yeah right), By search text (tried that) and by Categories. So I went this route last week and did not have the best luck, it returned far too many results but I finally found what I wanted. So I tried again today.
I limited the search to:
I expected a small listing of returned results. Instead I still got numerous operating systems with 9 eAssemblies and 224 products. We all know there is not 224 Mac products posted in the last year!
No, it really sucks. A customer wanted some to load a Macintosh for a new or upgraded user. I entered Mac, then tried OSX and then tried Mac Notes only to find nothing returned. So I went the long route and did 6.5.4 Notes and got way too many results only to find Mac not on the page. Here is the screenshot for Mac and all I got was 2 Websphere returns for Fortran. Fortran!
You have 3 possible choices of searching. By product number (yeah right), By search text (tried that) and by Categories. So I went this route last week and did not have the best luck, it returned far too many results but I finally found what I wanted. So I tried again today.
I limited the search to:
- Download method: Download Director
- Search brands: Lotus Software
- Product names: Notes/Domino
- Languages: English International, English US
- Platforms: Apple Macintosh Operating System, Apple UX (Apple)
- Date posted: Within past 1 year
I expected a small listing of returned results. Instead I still got numerous operating systems with 9 eAssemblies and 224 products. We all know there is not 224 Mac products posted in the last year!
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Yes this is a blatant theft of the outline that Jess uses on her page, but I asked permission. Why?? Because I am a hardcore admin and can make ugly tables to make you developers frustrated, but this was too nice to pass up.
Also Known As: Chris Miller (when awake)
Boring Certifications: (only because someone asked twice)
- Domino 7 Certified Security Administrator
- PCLP ND8
- PCLP ND7
- PCLP ND6
- PCLP R5
- PCLP R4
- Workplace Collaboration Services 2.5 - Team Collab and Messaging (retired)
- CLP Collaboration (soon to be retired Aug 2006)
- random former R4 exams
- CLI for numerous admin areas including Domino, Sametime and Workplace
- CLP Insane
Yes, I write some of those dreaded admin cert exams you take. I won't say which ones so you don't come looking for me, but I will say they are the real good recent ones that have been coming out.
Weapons/Equipment:
- At work an IBM thing
- At home a plethera of 6 machines with various Windows versions and Red Hat on a wired/wireless LAN
- A Wii
- An 8830 Blackberry
- A Toshiba E740 with 802.11b (yes geek toy)
- An Apple 40GB iPod that is filled to the brim
- I cannot even list all of the items I carry I found
- Compaq RioPort MP3 player (now in storage)
- An EBook (REB1100) also for travel (Love that darn thing)
- Verizon and they always seem to know how to find me, damn cell
Animals:
One dog, a Puggle. He eats anything that includes stuffing. Anything
Music:
Non-stop. At my desk, in my car, walking to work and back to my car downtown. In the house there is a crazy zoned set-up for you home automation geeks.
I am a self-proclaimed MP3 fiend, to which I have tried rehab 4 billion times to no avail. Next is the MP3 hard-drive for the car that I found. Now what kind of music you ask? I will never tell.
Languages:
- Incredibly fast English
- Very slow Spanish
- Emoticon-ese
- Learning Korean
- HTML
- Advanced Sarcasm
Geek class special abilities:
- Notes/Domino overdrive
- Workplace
- Sametime
- Active Directory (huh? kidding)
- Quickplace
- LMS, LVC and the other L's of elearning
- Windoze junk
- MS Exchange versions
- LAN
- TCPIP
- Server Iron
- Yeah, yeah it goes on some
Skills:
Get back to you here
Spells:
Hershey’s Stomach of Holding: Jess and I are fighting over who eats more chocolate.
Character Bio:
This will take far more time than I have today. I will start with I was born and still live in St. Louis, MO. Even though for a couple years I was never, ever here and always on the road, this is smack in the middle of the US. Everything is just a few hour flight. That part is nice. No beach/ocean/coast isn't the best. But with the travel I make up for it.
Looking to find me in person? Here is where I am and will be.
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