I have the IT Conversations feed as part of my podcast line up and there has been two exceptionally great podcasts the last couple of weeks. Below are the iTunes links to both of them (I also think you can get the episodes directly from IT Conversations).
Enjoy!
Guy Kawasaki: The Art of Innovation (shownotes)
Jeff Bonforte: Anger Drives Innovation (shownotes)
Rocky posted his slides from his “Lotus Notes and Domino 8:
What’s New in LotusScript and Formula Language”-session from the Advisor summit. Besides being an interesting read it had two slides that really caught my attention (slide 11 and slide 25).
When describing what’s new in the upcoming Notes 8.0.1 (1Q2008) he mentioned a welcome change to a dear old friend: @Now (see slide 11):
On slide 25 Rocky mentions two additional commands to the ReadViewEntries beside getting the output in JSON instead of DXL. The two new nice parameters are &EndView and &KeyType=<text/time/number>. &EndView returns entries from the end of the view and &KeyType allows you to specify the datatype of the key which allows you to use other key types than text.
Replace
Dim tmpVar as Variant Dim commonUsername As String tmpVar = Evaluate( |@Name( [CN] ; @UserName )| ) commonUsername = tmpVar(0)
with
Dim commonUsername As String commonUsername = Implode(Evaluate(|@Name([CN];@UserName)|))
See full post at Codestore.net (It’s Always The Simple Tips That Are Best) and a link to Tommy who first blogged about it.
I experienced an empty LotusScript debugger couple of times today in my Notes 8 on Windows XP Prof. SP2 and went to see whether it is a known issue. It is a known issue and is already tracked by Lotus.
I’m happy to announce that as of today I’m employed by IntraVision makers of the Ontime Calendar Suite for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and Novell Groupwise. It has been final for some time now but as of today it is public. After 8 years of being self-employed time had come for me to try out something new and I’m happy to join IntraVision. In my new job I’ll continue working with Notes/Domino and to service existing customers. I will also continue to be an active part of the Notes/Domino community.
Apart from the Ontime Calendar Suite some of you might recall the IntraVision from Lotusphere 2007 where they won a Lotus Award in the “Best Messaging and Collaboration Solution” category.
Feel the winds…
As mentioned I was considering whether to get a N95 or a Windows Mobile based phone to be ready for Notes Traveler and I think I’m set on the latter…
The following is a technote was sent to me from a LotusScript.doc user: LotusScript and Java code hangs Notes when exporting certain documents to .dxl/.xml. Only difference was that his client redboxed.
Anyways – upgrading to Notes 6.5.6 solved the issue.
I listened to the Windows Weekly podcast today (episode 36) and Lotus Symphony was mentioned (from 28:55-32:30). The podcast is from the TWIT network. Besides being a very positive review, although they mention that it’s still beta 1, they also mention that it’s the same technology used in the Notes products. Very nice.
Some quotes:
I strongly need a new mobile phone as the joystick on my Sony Ericsson is completely worn down due to wear and tear. I guess a couple of trips over the Pyrenees on bike in my back pocket didn’t help either… Anyways – I have been looking at the Nokia N95 and it seems like a really nice phone I can see myself owning – built in Wi-Fi is very nice!. However with the recent announcement of Lotus Notes Traveler I seriously have to wonder if I want to commit to a Symbian based phone. Maybe Windows Mobile is the route to take so I’m ready come 1Q 2008…
On the other hand I’m not really an email-on-the-go! person so maybe I should opt for the Nokia. I’m torn!
Rumors are circulating that Lotus/Mike Rhodin plans to pull the plug on the Lotus Redbook center. This can’t and must not be true… Be sure to chime in over at the Business Controls Caddy…