Lotusphere 2010: My BOF – time and place

Received word over the weekend that the BOF I’m hosting (Let’s talk Notes/Sametime/Expeditor plugin development!) is now officially called BOF211. The BOF was however scheduled in the same time slot as BOF206 (Application Architecture Based on Composite Application Technology) which I thought would have much of the same audience as “mine” so I wrote to the planners. My BOF (BOF211) has therefore been moved and is now not conflicting with BOF206. Sweet!

“My” BOF is now going to be on Wednesday at 7AM in Swan Heron. See you there.

Lotusphere 2010: Thinking of a plugin unconference

As mentioned a few days ago I’m hosting a BOF at Lotusphere 2010 dealing with plugin development. As part of this I’m thinking about how to best do it. I really want to get a good discussion going but as part of this I also want to start a community for those of us with a special interest in plugin development for the Notes platform. I’m already in regular contact with many of the business partners and customers developing plugins for the platform but I think we need a more formal way to hook up at Lotusphere.

I’m also thinking of a sort of unconference on plugin development for the Notes platform. What do you think?

I think that many of us doing plugin development probably are not going to JumpStart sessions anyway so maybe we should do it on Sunday. When should we do it?

TwitNotes 1.0.13 available – retweet and SSL support

TwitNotes 1.0.13 is now available and adds some features I myself have been missing for a long time. Most noticeable is retweet support and that  hashtags highlighted and that you can easily search for  hashtags by simply clicking it. All operations are also over SSL now. Below is a list of changes.

Changes

  • Added retweet support by dragging tweet from the list to the input field
  • Allow drag’n’drop of text to the input field to easily tweet
  • Allow drag’n’drop of text from the input field to any other site accepting text drop
  • Detection of  hashtags in tweets
  • Allow you to click a  hashtag to search for it on the “Twitter Search”-tab
  • Changed behavior when clicking an author name – now a search is performed on the “Twitter Search”-tab instead of filtering the list
  • All operations are now done using SSL

To update TwitNotes either

  • drag the widget descriptor onto your MyWidgets sidebar panel or…
  • do an update installed features operation (for those who know about updates sites etc. this is by far the easiest way to upgrade)

As with previous releases I wish to thank those who kindly reminded me of this problem – nice to see people using it.

I’m very happy to announce that LotusScript.doc v.2 is finally done


I’m very happy to announce that LotusScript.doc v.2 is done – finally! The official point-zero release is available for immediate download. It’s been a looooooooooong process and it’s taken a very long time but it’s finally done. You may download it here (lsdoc_200.zip).

Thanks to all those who have supported and encouraged me during the development. A very special thanks goes out to the people who donated – thank you!

Part of this release is also the website which I’m working on. The website is currently available at blog.lsdoc.org. Once everything is done it will be moved over and replace the current www.lsdoc.org. As I’ve mentioned before version 2 is written in Java and you may actually use the LotusScript.doc code as a general LotusScript code parser if you wish. Quite easy actually – for a sneak peek as to how to use the API see the Using the LotusScript.doc API page.

Comments as always welcome here on the blog or by e-mail to lekkim [at] lsdoc [dot] org.

Open Office / Lotus Symphony will be in trouble


Oh no! Microsoft have realized that free is a very good price and when Office 2010 is released in June of 2010 Office 2010 Starter Edition will be free. Zero cost. Finally every computer sold will be able be have a valid, licensed, version of Microsoft Office. The Starter Edition will be add supported. Just how many adds and how these will be displayed I don’t know.

Office 2010 Starter Edition will be released simultaneously with the rest of the Office 2010 suite, Sharepoint 2010 Server, Office 2010 Web Edition and Office 2010 for Windows Mobile.

I see this as a very wise ploy by Microsoft and Starter Edition will be a treat to the free productivity suites that are currently free. The release looks like a very interesting release and will pose a great and real threat to Google Apps on the web and Open Office and Lotus Symphony as the productivity suite. Of course one could put the opposite spin on the story and see it like Microsoft is reacting to the success of the open source and free counterparts.

For more information on Office 2010 Starter Edition listen to Windows Weekly 133: A Fish Called Windows.

TwitNotes 1.0.12 available – finally working on Notes 8.5.1

Ever since the first beta release of Notes 8.5.1 I have been aware that TwitNotes didn’t work on this release of Notes. TwitNotes was able to display and search for tweets just fine but you were unable to submit new status updates. I have been asked numerous times to update the plugin but I just didn’t have the time.

Today I finally took the time to try and solve the problem. And what a problem. It took all of 3 minutes to solve. Another 5 minutes to upload the code to the update site. If only I had taken the timer sooner… Oh well!

So to update TwitNotes either

  • drag the widget descriptor onto your MyWidgets sidebar panel or…
  • do an update installed features operation (for those who know about updates sites etc. this is by far the easiest way to upgrade)

As with previous releases I wish to thank those who kindly reminded me of this problem – nice to see people using it.