Five Things You May Not Have Known About Me
I was tagged by William Bea.
1) I used to study biochemistry before I started my own company which is where I work today. I hold a bachelors degree in Biochemistry (and a Msc in Internet Technologies).
2) I have crossed Col de Tourmalet in the French Pyrenees (2115 meters above the sea) 3 times on bike.
3) I have driven across USA and back two times and I have been in 45+ states plus the District of Columbia.
4) I know why its funny that the President in The West Wing is called Josiah Bartlett (hint: see who signed the Declaration of Independence).
5) I'm a total sucker for Friends and know many (if not most) of the episodes by heart.
I tag Duffbert, Gana and Stephan Wissel.
New article for THE VIEW
After submitting my presentation for my Lotusphere 2007 session (BP308) I'm busy putting the finishing touches on my next article for THE VIEW. The draft is due before I leave for Lotusphere.
The working title is somewhat of a mouthful ("Solving the native library binding problems of the Notes/Domino Java API in the Sametime 7.5 Connect client plug-ins") and it will probably be changed a couple of times before the article goes to print.
The article is slated for publication in the Mar/Apr 2007 issue of THE VIEW.
Update Site for Sametime - why not simply go local?
As pointed to by Adam Gartenberg there's a new article out on developerWorks (Creating an update site for your IBM Lotus Sametime Connect plug-ins) on how to create an Update Site for your Sametime client deployment. As much as I would recommend the article I really would suggest that readers don't stop there and read the entire story on Update Sites at Eclipse.org (How to keep up to date) before venturing into this territory.
Although the developerWorks article does a nice job of describing the subject for the Sametime inclined I would recommend also reading about the Eclipse foundations...
As an aside I also wants to mention that you can test plugins using an Update Site without having a HTTP server ready (although we all have a Domino server ready, no?). You can do this because the Eclipse framework also allows for local Update Sites (i.e. on the same computer or on a network share). To use this feature simply choose "Local Site" instead of "Remote Site" and point your Sametime client to the Update Site directory under your Eclipse workspace. Very nice for testing.