Author: lekkim

Konrad Lagarde at the UC2 Keynote: “Don’t you know – green is the new yellow!”

I went to session AD204 (Customizing the Look of IBM Lotus Notes 8: Coding Tips and UI Guidelines) by Mary Beth Raven and Matthew Hatem to hear about the just published user guidelines for Notes applications. The session was good, although a little short (just 40 minutes). After the session I got to ask two questions to Mary Beth Raven.

1. May we as developers use the gif’s and png’s from the plug-ins supplied by IBM Lotus in our own applications? (try searching your Notes 8 install directory for *.png and/or *.gif to see all the nice icons).
2. Why isn’t one of the personas used throughout the Notes 8 development based in a country using the metric system and A4 letter format?

For question number 1 Mary Beth had to check back with IBM Legal so keep up with her blog for an answer. If she answers me by e-mail only I’ll be sure to post about it here.

Question number 2 was popular based on the applause anyway. I have asked the question before on her blog but with no answer so it was nice to finally get an answer. The reply was that there is one persona that does have the metric system and A4 as a preference but she agreed that the priority needed to be changed. As such it was taken to note by Mary Beth and her manager sitting in the audience so that’s nice. We have to keep her to it!

This is another reason to come to Lotusphere!

Compared to yesterday the number of people sleeping in couches has increased. Definitely! For me this can be the result of

1. too much drinking last night,
2. simply being tired from too much walking or
3. lots of new content to take in.

I choose to believe it’s the latter. I see it as a sign that lots of material is being presented and a lots of new stuff needs to be absorbed. I think it’s great!

Due to technical issues at our booth I didn’t get to go to any sessions yesterday. Today however I managed to get someone else from my company (thanks Martin!) to fill in for me so I can go to sessions. I have the entire day lined up and started out bright and early with a BOF and will continue into in the night before going to an IBM dinner arrangement. Here is my plan for the day:

• 07:00-08:00 – BOF on composite application development
• 08:30-09:30 – UC2 Keynote
• 10:00-11:00 – AD113 (plug-in deep dive)
• 11:15-12:15 – AD202 (view extensibility)
• 13:30-14:30 – AD103 (Eclipse based components)
• 15:00-16:00 – AD204 (UI guidelines)
• 16:15-17:15 – ID208 (what’s new in Domino security)
• 17:45-18:45 – BOF101 or BOF102/li>
• 19:30-??:?? – IBM DP Dinner

Whew! That’s one full day worth of stuff!

The Atlassian Blog: Confluence connects with Lotus Connections

I went to the “Meet the Developers” lab to discuss some Expeditor issues I have been having and got a few questions answered. For one it turns out that Expeditor 6.1 isn’t supported on Windows 2003 due to “strange errors”. This means that the 6 hours I have spent today getting my demo environment on Windows 2003 to work have been in vain.

Apart from that I was told that Notes 8.5 will be based on the upcoming Expeditor 6.2 (out later in the year) which again is based on Eclipse 3.4. This means that Lotus will skip Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) altogether. I was also told that IBM will never remove libraries even though they have been deprecated in Eclipse.

Arrrhhhh…. I’m going to miss HND301 due to technical problems at our booth… 🙁