After a late arrival last night I’m on site today and already in sessions. My day is packed and looking forward to hooking up with friends. Arriving at Lotusphere is just like coming home – you know your way around and your phone automatically logs onto the wifi 🙂
See you around.
So it’s that time of year again. It’s crunch time at the office to get stuff ready for Lotusphere, crunch time at customers trying to squeeze in the last few project appointments and it’s crunch time in regard to session presentations. This year started out with me doing one session with Luis Benitez, then it turned to me doing it alone and now I’m doing something special on the big stage on Wednesday with IBM. Don’t know if we’re allowed to talk about it but it’s exciting and require a lot of preparation. Both coding, rehearsal and planning. It’s all good stuff though and I’m looking forward to doing it. It’s been real fun and exciting to work so closely with the core team at IBM.
As an aside – due to a major planning mistake I will not arrive until late Saturday night and as we’re not staying on site this year I most probably will not be at BALD for the first time in years. Major bummer. Expect to see me cheerful and ready to go first thing Sunday morning.
Can’t wait to see everyone there. See you Sunday.
Got word the other day that Luis Benitez wont be able to join me on stage at Lotusphere 2012 due to a conflicting session. So much for planning. So if all you were hoping for to see at our my session was Luis then I have to disappoint you. I will still be there though doing my out most to teach you about widget development for IBM Connections so be sure you mark your calendar for BP207 🙂
See you there!
Just on the heels of the Lotus Sametime for iOS / Android release comes the release of Microsoft Lync for iPad and iPhone that is a chat client for Microsofts on-premises and cloud based chat solution. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft too is using push-notifications for out-of-app chat notification to save on battery. One of the nice things about the announcement is to see how Microsoft chose to have their mobile solution work with their cloud based offering right away – something Lotus has failed to do with Sametime on LotusLive (still looking for an announcement as to when LotusLive will support the iOS apps). More on the apps at winsupersite.com.
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A while back I saw the new
IBM Connections 3.0.1 Files Plug-in for Lotus Notes from Mac Guidera’s blog. I didn’t blog it because it didn’t work with LotusLive Engage but since updates was just done to LotusLive it may work now. Must try.
Just received word from the track manager of the Best Practices track that the session I’m doing with Luis Benitez on iWidget development is BP207 so mark your schedule now! Looking forward to seeing you there.
Saw this very nice – although very technincal – whitepaper on developerWorks on how Notes 8.5.3 has been optimized to reduce the number of transactions with the Domino server. A small little thing that I haven’t seen mentioned before but which can have a big impact on your environment and users. Probably shouldn’t be considered light reading.
“IBM Lotus® Domino® 8.5.3 and IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 have been optimized to reduce the transactions from the client to the server. These optimizations yield a reduction in server resources, thus lowering the Total Cost of Ownership. This white paper shows the reductions in processor and disk utilization achieved with large numbers of Notes 8.5.3 clients running on a single Domino 8.5.3 server.”
IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 server performance: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 performance
As part of IBM Connections you will find a big REST API that allows you to work with almost every part of Connections such as searching for profiles, managing files and working with communities. As part of our new product (see my previous post) I’m doing a lot with this API. Right now one of my favorite wiki documents is “Searching Profiles programmatically“.
When installing Connections on Windows 2008 Server 64 bit the profile management tool doesn’t work so profile creation is done using manageprofiles.bat/sh. The syntax is hard to remember so here it is for future reference.
Deployment manager:
c:ibmwebsphereappserverbinmanageprofiles.bat -create -templatePath ..profileTemplatesmanagement -profileName dmgr -profilePath d:wasprofilesdmgr -cellName LCCell01 -nodeName dmgrNode -serverType DEPLOYMENT_MANAGER
Application server:
c:ibmwebsphereappserverbinmanageprofiles.bat -create -templatePath ..profileTemplatesdefault -profileName AppSrv01 -profilePath d:wasprofilesappsrv01 -nodeName appNode01