This is a little grim, I guess, but what have you done to prepare for possibility -- remote as it may be -- that you one day you couldn't come home? For most of us, a living will, life insurance and a list of our credit cards and other obligations are probably enough. For those of us with small businesses, customers, confidential data, and other people counting on us it may be important to go a step further. I've been working on a "just in case" packet, to be kept locked away in a safe place where my wife c.....
Successfully moved away from POSTINI to SPAMHERO - some thoughts...
Mon, May 13th 2013 12:52p Andrew Pollack It's been almost a year since Google announced the changes in their "Postini" offering. I've been looking around, and finally chose to give [Spamhero] a try. As of today, I'm 100% switched over. Here's what I found, and a tip... Accuracy: I'm can definitely tell you is that Spamhero is accurate. I've had no false positives so far, and just a few spam messages that have go through. I had many more of both with Postini. For what spam does get through, you get a custom email address to forw [read] Keywords: domino
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BLUG A3 : Stuff Andrew Thinks You Should Know - The Presentation is now available for download
Fri, Mar 22nd 2013 4:00p Andrew Pollack The BLUG conference was amazing. I had a great time, saw many people I really like, and watched a great deal of technical skill transfer take place as well as some wonderful peer to peer mentoring happening between some of the most experienced in our community and some of the newest members. Scott Souder gave a fantastic opening keynote talk that was fresh, frank, and encouraging. I love his energy and attitude, as well has his respect for the core products. Louis Richardson also did a great job [read] Keywords: domino
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Looking at SAML and OAUTH in the Notes and Domino 9 Public Beta
Fri, Mar 15th 2013 4:09p Andrew Pollack Am I reading this right? Seriously? Like many people, when I read that next release of the Domino Server and Client were going to support OAuth and SAML, I was pretty happy with that. I've been a bit late getting around to looking at the beta though -- after all, IBM has made it quite clear that my opinion isn't all that welcome any more -- and I'm just now reading the documentation on how IBM is going about this. I'll know more when I talk about this stuff next week at BLUG, by the way. Fir [read] Keywords: domino
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Can Software be Too Social to Succeed?
Sun, Feb 3rd 2013 4:08p Andrew Pollack There’s no question that “Social Software” is the big push right now. I keep seeing advertisements and slogans that claim email isn’t “Social” enough and that the more you share the better. Users, however, seem to like email quite a bit and are proving extremely resistant to switching. Why is that? I suggest that it’s a social problem. It’s true that it is human nature to work together to get a common result, and we’re at our best when collaborate. That isn’t the whole story, [read] Keywords: lotus
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Thoughts about the Opening General Session at Connect 2013 -- Do you have any?
Fri, Feb 1st 2013 4:40p Andrew Pollack For the first time since 1997, I watched the OGS from my home office. First of all, GREAT JOB to those who put the live stream together. I don't really care if it was done with IBM products or not. Someone picked the right technology this time because the sound and video were clear, crisp, and very minimally delayed. There were only two very brief pauses right near the end. I was working, but had my laptop next to my desk with the video on full screen. The session flowed well. There were no bor [read] Keywords: domino
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Who is to blame for the failure of Domino as public web server? IBM (Lotus) Product Management
Sun, Jan 27th 2013 4:38p Andrew Pollack If you were a venture capitalist and someone came into your office tomorrow with a web server that could run on a single, fairly standard, Windows or Linux machine and that had a [list of capabilities] as I’ve [described below] -- and that was actually stable and functioning right now -- you couldn’t possibly bring yourself to invest in it fast enough. The simple truth is that there is only one product on the market with even close to this full list of capabilities out of the box in a single [read] Keywords: domino
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Small progress taking the first real steps in moving Second Signal off IBM Domino
Mon, Jan 21st 2013 12:00p Andrew Pollack I've been dealing with some serious analysis-paralysis with this project. Between not having a deadline and having so many choices to look at -- with virtually no experience with any of them -- I've found it very difficult to take the next step. As a result, the site is beginning to suffer from inattention and that needs to stop. I've finally decided to break off a big chunk and get working on a back end database. You don't know how spoiled you are working with IBM Domino as a development pl [read] Keywords: domino
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Does the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government (the President) have the Constitutional Authority to _NOT_ spend money alloc
Tue, Jan 8th 2013 8:13a Andrew Pollack Congress passes the budget and spending bills. That's where all the taxes get decided, and all the spending gets decided. The executive branch is supposed to manage the organizations that go and spend that money as allocated. Suppose Congress passes a budget that includes $100 Billion for tanks for the army. The army says it doesn't need them, but the money will go to a district with a powerful congressman so it ends up in the budget. Now, the President KNOWS that in six months the budget is g [read] Keywords:
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Have made some progress in chosing a new platform.
Sat, Dec 29th 2012 8:10a Andrew Pollack The more I look at other platforms, the more saddened I am by the need to pick one. If only IBM hadn't utterly failed in the market to the extent that building a service provider application based on Domino virtually ensures it will be nearly impossible to sell as a business in the future, I would almost be willing to suffer through their horrendous service provider licensing nightmare. Even in the "legacy" state that the core Domino server platform finds itself, it's head and shoulders abov [read] Keywords: domino
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