Author: lekkim

Positive, competent, out-spoken, frank and customer focused architect and developer with a strong foundation in web, cloud and product development. I'm a strong advocate for API first and cloud based solutions and development. I have a knack for being able to communicate and present technically complicated matters in conference, customer and training settings. I've previously acted as team member and leader in a product organisation.

Eclipse Fall Training Series

“The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the fall 2010 training class series. The training is an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), BIRT and Modeling technologies. Eclipse experts will lead the sessions, providing practical experience through classroom instruction and hands-on labs. Virtual and on-site classes have been scheduled in several countries from September 20 to November 5, 2010. “

Eclipse Fall Training Series

Updated! Introduction to Java programming

A lot of people ask me how to get started with Java programming so when I saw the below entry in the developerWorks newsletter I thought it should be communicated as far and wide as possible.

“developerWorks Java contributor Steve Perry took on the Herculean task of updating the “Introduction to Java programming” tutorials. This two-part series introduces the structure, syntax, and programming paradigm of the Java language and platform.”

Get started with Java technology

IBM Software Day 2010

Again this year IBM will be hosting their annual IBM Software Day in Øksnehallen in Copenhagen on 12 October 2010. You may now sign up for the event and if you’re in Copenhagen on 12 October and you’re working with IBM software you really should sign up. If nothing else there’s normally a great lunch buffet… 🙂

NLLUG 2010: Planning webapp for your smart phone

If you went to Lotusphere 2010 you probably used our web application for managing your Lotusphere schedule on your iPhone or Android device. I know a lot of people did!!
With the Dutch user group just over 2 weeks away we’ve done it again and made a version of the web application for NLLUG 2010 available. If you’re going simply head over to lug2010.nl/agenda to browse it and put together your schedule.

But what’s an user group application without a prize?! The application also gives you the option of entering into our drawing for an Apple iPad!! So what are you waiting for? Go, go, go!

If you’re looking for more screenshots before you decide to try it out I suggest your read my post from Lotusphere 2010 (Lotusphere 2010: Check out this killer Lotusphere planning web app!!).

How to extend Notes 8: New version of the demo application

I just posted an update to the demo application for my Extending Notes 8 series of posts. The demo application is discussed in more detail in my previous post (How to extend Notes 8: LiveText demo application). The issue was that I had a button to create a demo e-mail in the UI which made the plugin depend on the Notes Java UI API which was added in Notes 8.5.1 and hence meant that the demo application wasn’t installable on previous Notes versions… 🙁

To remedy that I built an new version where the button using the offending API is added from an Eclipse plugin fragment and using a custom extension point (if you’re running Notes 8.5.1+). More on that approach at a later date. For now you may install the new version using the updated widget descriptor (extension.xml) (simply drag the link to your MyWidgets sidebar plugin).

If you do an update – which there’s absolutely no reason to if it already works for you – the only way to tell is by verifying that the version number at the bottom of the sidebar application is changed to 1.0.1.

That’s all for this post. All the posts in the series may be found under the extending_notes8 tag.

Google Wave discontinued – what will that mean for Project Concord?


In a post the day before yesterday on the Google Blog Urs Holzle, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow, provides an Update on Google Wave. As it stands now Google will stop development on the Google Wave platform and provide tools to liberate the data from Google Wave. This decision has been made due to users not adopting Google Wave to the extent they would have wanted. Urs Holzle emphasizes that many of the protocols and technologies have already been made open source and that they hope that developers will continue to innovate on top of the technology.

I find this very interesting. First of all there was no end to the amazement and hype that was built around Google Wave when it was first announced. Second of all it looked like very cool technology though a lot of discussion was being had on the applicability to business and how it would fit in. Would it be the next killer application and what e-mail would become down the road? Sadly the technology never stuck and we will never know.

The announcement is however also interesting from a Lotus perspective.

As you might remember IBM unveiled Project Concord at Lotusphere 2010. Project Concord is IBM Lotus’ next generation web collaboration environment which also featured live character-by-character typing etc. Many of us thought of Project Concord as being a clear response to Google Wave and a way to compete with Google in that (new) space. Now that Google is halting development of Google Wave what will happen to Project Concord? Will it be left for dead as well as the technology has been proved inadequate or “not wanted” or will it provide a clear opening for IBM Lotus to pursue? Does IBM Lotus have some “other stuff” up its Project Concord sleeve that will prove it to be the killer platform that will replace e-mail as we know it. I guess only time can tell.

R.I.P. Google Wave – we loved you although we never really got to know you…