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Congrats to John Head for being named one of this year’s IBM Champions for IBM Collaboration Solutions. Way to go, John. The honor and the recognition is well deserved for someone who’s been a tireless champion of Lotus for so many years.
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The folks at Packt Publishing are continuing to expand their shelf of IBM Lotus books. Their latest addition – Classic Web Application Development Techniques by Richard G. Ellis. Before I tell you how absolutely awesome this book is, I have to get something off my chest. The word “Classic” in the title is the absolute key [...]
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In THIS book I was fortunate enough to be a reviewer of Packt’s new book in the IBM’s series: Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration.
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It was last week this time that I was saying goodbye to the sunny and warm Orlando and dreading facing the 6-foot piles of snow on my driveway back home in Chicago. A week later, I keep looking back at Lotusphere 2011 and wondering what it was that I walked away with. Last night, someone [...]
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Many congratulations to Luis Guirigay for having his article on Advantages and Best Practices of Local Mail Replicas published in the Domino Wiki. After many review cycles the article was finally added to the wiki. If there’s anything you wanted to know about local mail replicas but were afraid to ask, Luis is the ultimate [...]
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I took the plunge. I finally did it. I moved. As some folks read and reacted with disbelief on Twitter, I switched my email platform from Notes to Exchange. We, at PSC, have been running both systems in parallel for quite some while: Exchange for the Microsoft team, Notes for the IBM/Lotus team. And as [...]
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In Russia, vulcanization (вулканизация) is a popular method of repairing damaged tires and, often, a profitable roadside business. So when listening to presentations on Project Vulcan, I can’t get an image of an Eastern European road tire shop out of my head. Vulcanization may be a good idea for a new tire on a commuter [...]
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Somebody asked today, “If you are using a Discussion database in your environment, have you converted it to the new XPages template?”. My answer, “Why?”. In all of the excitement around XPages, amongst numerous blog posts one message seems to be missing. Why XPages? Why should I care? The I in this question is not [...]
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The cost of email is $5 per user per month. Today, IBM unveiled LotusLive Notes, a service that delivers your email in the cloud on a server sitting in one of the IBM’s data centers. What differentiates this from other cloud email offerings is the choice IBM allows users to make: use a browser or [...]
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OK, sarcasm aside. I’ve spent the last hour playing with the new features on LotusLive. Without going into too much details, I like it. The default interface, which you can customize, looks better. The color scheme doesn’t look like iNotes that you know and love. It just feels better overall, more polished, more professional. I’ll [...]
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