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Wi-Fi, Firesheep and Lotusphere

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:13:27 GMT

Using the Wi-fi at Lotusphere has been a real nice experience so far this year (of course the OGS on Monday being the true test). Coverage is better and the bandwidth seems to have been upped quite a bit. I do find it a bit sad though that the network is still open and unencrypted. Even a passphrase like "Lotupshere" would make security so much better. Why you ask? Why because a place like Lotusphere which is, lets face it, a big gathering of geeks. A worse a big gathering of geeks using social software sites. And using them a lot.

Lotusphere will be a nice place for someone running Firesheep to come in a harvest 5000 accounts in a day or so. I wont let it stop me but I think people should be aware of it. If you are afraid of it I suggest using a tunneled VPN connection to access your accounts.

If you want to learn more about Firesheep see the Wikipedia article or simply search for Firesheep on Google. Also just to be fair - this is a problem, and will continue to be a problem at all conferences or gatherings with open wi-fi hotspots.

Lotusphere 2011: BOF accepted

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:04:51 GMT

The BOF titled "Let's talk plugin development!" submitted by Bob Balfe and I has been accepted for this years Lotusphere. I'm very excited about this and it's shaping up to be my busiest Lotusphere ever - two sessions and a BOF. Wow!

Lotusphere 2011: Mark your calendars

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:05:12 GMT

Just got word of the date and time for the two sessions I'm involved in for Lotusphere 2011 so I thought I would post them here.

JMP103 (Jumpstart Your "Jedi Plug-in Development Skills" with the Masters, track: JumpStarts and Master Class Sessions) with Ryan Baxter is on Sunday 30 Jan 2011 at 1:30pm in DL S. Hemisphere I.

AD201 (How the Jedis Do Plug-in Development, track: Technology for Collaboration Solutions: Application Development) with Bob Balfe is on Monday 31 Jan 2011 at 3:45pm in SW 7-10.

Lotusphere 2011: Session ids now posted

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:24:53 GMT

Courtesy of the Lotusphere Blog we now know the session IDs of many of the Lotusphere 2011 sessions. The ones staring yours truly (and Ryan and Bob of course) are JMP103 and AD201.

Looking down the list of sessions it's shaping up to be a great conference as always.

Lotusphere 2011: Hoping for shuttle launch

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:04:06 GMT

The nasa.gov website reports that the November Shuttle launch has been postponed to 3 Feb 2011 1:34 AM at the earliest. Wow cool would be be if a shuttle will get launched during Lotusphere? I'll so be at, or near, Cape Canaveral, if it happens.

Lotusphere 2011: Two sessions accepted

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:58:25 GMT

If you're following Lotusphere and if you sent in abstracts you know that Friday was abstract-reply-day. I too got my replies and keeping with tradition I would like to tell how it went. I sent in three abstracts and had two of them accepted. I'm honored to be co-presenting both sessions with IBM'ers - one session with Bob Balfe and one with Ryan Baxter. Both sessions are on plugin development as you might imagine.

Below are the abstracts and if you have comments or input to what you would like to see in the sessions let me know by commenting, by e-mail or on Twitter.

Jumpstart Your "Jedi Plug-in Development Skills" with the Masters

Two hour jumpstart session on Sunday with Ryan Baxter.

Come to this session to get up and running on plugin development for Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime and Lotus Symphony and learn the ropes to get started. We will take you from getting the Eclipse IDE and Lotus Expeditor Toolkit installed to configuring, testing and verifying your setup. Next you will learn the basics of plugin development and based on real life examples you will see just how easy plugin development can be and how to reap the rewards. As there's no good in having great plugins if they never reach user workstations we will finish of the session with end-to-end information on plugin signing and widget deployment. This is a must see session it you want to get started with plugin development but never knew how.

How the Jedis do plugin development

One hour regular session with Bob Balfe.

So you did your first sidebar plugin for Lotus Notes and deployed it to users but now you're stuck... If you want to do more with your Lotus Notes or Lotus Sametime client, you want to learn cool extension points, learn best practices and see real life examples then this session is for you. Learn about object contributions, fly the magic carpet and do OAuth authentication from plugins. This is how the Jedis do it - may the Force be with you!

Lotusphere 2011: Why go to Lotusphere?

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:50:12 GMT

If you haven't registered yet I strongly suggest you do. The below quote from Willie Sutton illustrates it very well.

Q: "Willie, why do you rob banks?"
A: "Cause that's where the money is."

Why go to Lotusphere? Cause that's where the Lotus is!! :-)

Lotusphere 2011: lotusphere.com active

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:11:44 GMT

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