From Spy to Try to Buy
Mon, May 13th 2013 12:20p Ben Langhinrichs One good way to introduce people to the features of a product such as the Midas Rich Text LSX is to build samples. I originally thought of this as Try first, then Buy. Or to be that simple: From Try to Buy. There are 24 available on the Midas LSX samples page, which is a mixed blessing. Sometimes it is overwhelming. The biggest problem though, is that people have to request a Midas evaluation license, download the software and sample and install just to see if it is worth it to them. If they kno [read] Keywords: lsx
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Looking for Notes/Domino books for free advertising
Tue, May 7th 2013 5:50a Ben Langhinrichs As part of my new Mini-Lessons.info tutorial site, I use the sidebar to list resources (mostly books) that are related to the topic. While I have some of the obvious IBM Notes/Domino books already, I'd like to add any others that people feel are a good fit. Also, if you've written or helped with one, let me know and I'll add that as well. If you have written or know of a good book in the other categories, GIMP, ePublishing, Web Design (esp. CSS and HTML), please let me know as well, of course [read] Keywords: domino
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Mini-Lessons.info - tutorials on Notes/Domino and more
Mon, May 6th 2013 10:58a Ben Langhinrichs I wanted to introduce my new site, Mini-Lessons.info, as a place to find brief but useful demos and tutorials on a number of topics. There are a number of mini-lessons on Gimp 2.8 (a free open source alternative to Photoshop), as well as a few on IBM Notes/Domino and on our Genii Software products. I'm not sure whether I have worked out all the issues with leaving comments yet, but there are useful tutorials there. Of course, I am always open to suggestions. I want to do a series on XPages, as [read] Keywords: domino
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Time for you to revisit Google Plus
Sat, Apr 20th 2013 9:30a Ben Langhinrichs While a number of people I know in the IBM world are active in Google+, there are many others who clearly tried it out for a while but gave it up after last posting in early 2012. It's time to revisit your profile and see how things like Communities and improved Hang Outs have made Google+ more and more useful. There are IBM-related communities such as XPages and IBM Domino Developers and IBM Connections Professionals & Power Users, as well as many, many more active communities on other top [read] Keywords: connections
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Borders without Borders - tips for table borders
Thu, Apr 18th 2013 10:49a Ben Langhinrichs It seemed about time to create another video demo on IBM Notes, so this is a short exploration of some of the things you can do with borders in tables either in documents or on a form/page/etc. (which are rich text as well). No third party tools or even Domino Designer needed. All of this can be done by any Notes user. If you are curious, you can download the image file used for the border. [read] Keywords: domino
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Cut out a figure from complex background in Gimp
Wed, Apr 17th 2013 3:55p Ben Langhinrichs It's hard to believe that it was only a month ago that I posted my Elevator Pitch demos post in which I suggested that very short Youtube demos, like an elevator pitch compared to a full presentation, might have a special appeal to people. Since then, I have produced fifteen of these short videos (plus a longer one for the Crystal Coex story) averaging under two and a half minutes. Those videos have accumulated 2500 together with momentum growing all the time. Several have been on Gimp 2.8, the [read] Keywords: lsx
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Mini-lessons and mini-demos are proving very popular
Mon, Apr 15th 2013 11:06a Ben Langhinrichs My approach of making very short demos and tutorials has been well received (in my estimation). The most popular video showing the Midas Rich Text LSX has about 500 views, while the most popular Gimp 2.8 mini-lesson has about 1000 views. I have been encouraged enough to purchase a better microphone and pop filter, so I will re-record all of the tutorials and demos when that arrives. Until then, I apologize for the scratchy audio. I created my first playlist for the Gimp 2.8 videos (see below), a [read] Keywords: ibm
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Size Matters - the video
Thu, Apr 11th 2013 11:28a Ben Langhinrichs I can't only make tutorials on tech features of Gimp, Notes and our products. It seemed about time to turn my Crystal Coex story into a video. You can find more serious information on CoexLinks and how it can help with your doclink issues either on the CoexLinks page or in the video below. You can also request an evaluation license and try it out for yourself. [read] Keywords: notes
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Find and redact credit card numbers in Notes rich text
Wed, Apr 10th 2013 12:10p Ben Langhinrichs Since Devin Olson happened to mention regular expressions yesterday in a post, I thought I'd make a very short video demo of using the Midas Rich Text LSX to find and replace strings inside rich text (in tables, text or anywhere) using regular expressions. This capability has been available since Midas 4.x was released a few years ago, and allows batch processing with all of the speed and reliability you have come to expect of the Midas Rich Text LSX. You can download the sample database from o [read] Keywords: lsx
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Do you use EPUB in your company?
Tue, Apr 9th 2013 10:00a Ben Langhinrichs One of the features in our new Midas Rich Text LSX 5.0 release will be EPUB support. I would be interested in working with a couple of companies who use, or have interest in using, EPUB format for accessing data via smartphones or ereaders or whatever. While the EPUB generation is good now, there are choices to be made regarding large scale generation, on-demand generation and generation for EPUB 3 devices. Contact me if you are interested at GeniiMail("Ben.Langhinrichs", "GeniiSoft.com"); [read] Keywords: lsx
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Kicking the Tires with GMIC filters in Gimp
Tue, Apr 9th 2013 8:10a Ben Langhinrichs I have a few Notes-related tutorials and demos in the works, but I thought I'd share this quick demo of a technique for playing with the G'MIC filters that you can add to Gimp. The filters are terrific, but there are lots and it can be intimidating trying to figure out what does what. This technique helps give you a way to compare the filters and the effect they have, as well as how to use multiple ones together. As always, I'm happy to have feedback on any of the videos I post, either as co [read] Keywords: lsx
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First test of XPages in Notes browser plugin
Mon, Mar 25th 2013 12:30p Ben Langhinrichs Please note that the result doesn't surprise me and is almost certainly well documented, but it seems an important thing to note about the Notes browser plugin. Developers will recognize that the plugin is the rough equivalent of runing nlnotes.exe directly, or running the Notes Basic interface. Because the plugin does not include Eclipse, it even makes sense when the database is local. When the database is on a server, it would be better if IBM came up with a creative way to to deal with thi [read] Keywords: ibm
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Compiled in 1999 in R5 and runs in browser plugin
Thu, Mar 21st 2013 8:12p Ben Langhinrichs I doubled down and recorded my first test ever of the Midas LSX in Notes browser plugin as it happened. It is pretty amazing compatibility when you consider the agents were compiled in 1999 in R5 and run perfectly, including use of an LSX, in 2013 in a plugin to a browser. Kudos to the IBM team. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Confidence in IBM and Notes 9 rewarded
Thu, Mar 21st 2013 7:18p Ben Langhinrichs As I mentioned earlier, I decided to record the very first time I tried the Midas Rich Text LSX in Notes 9, just to live dangerously. Both Notes and Midas came through with flying colors, and even I was surprised at the second database's compatibility. You'll see why. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Confidence in IBM - recording my first tests with Midas
Thu, Mar 21st 2013 6:37p Ben Langhinrichs I just installed Notes 9 and designer on my laptop. Since Midas was installed before, I'm going to gamble that it will work with Notes 9 as is without any changes. I'm confident enough in IBM that I will record my session and put it on Youtube. I'll have to do voice annotation afterward, because laptop screws up microphones, but otherwise you will see it as I try it. To make things interesting, I have downloaded two samples from my website that are quite old. Give me a little bit and I'll co [read] Keywords: ibm
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Instant on-the-fly reports in Notes
Thu, Mar 21st 2013 1:24p Ben Langhinrichs In this very short demo, I show how you can use the Midas Rich Text LSX to build instant reports that users can either run on-the-fly or which can load as part of a document opening. In other words, you could build a little bar chart like this based on the values in the document as the document loaded Let me know if you have any requests for demos either of Midas Rich Text LSX features or Notes/Domino tricks having to do with rich text and such. I am making plans to do videos on exporting ric [read] Keywords: domino
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CoexLinks Clipper - paste doclinks into Outlook emails
Wed, Mar 20th 2013 10:59a Ben Langhinrichs Since CoexLinks 3.0 was released, people have been asking how the new CoexLinks Clipper utility worked, and what its purpose was. I decided to make one of these "elevator pitch" demos I've been trying, and the results are below. Incidentally, if you want to subscribe to my Youtube channel, you can see my demos as I release them, as well as Gimp tutorials, general Notes tutorials, and occasional Mike Midas, Crystal Coex and other stories that I am making into videos. [read] Keywords: notes
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Progressive Disclosure - no scripts or tools needed
Tue, Mar 19th 2013 2:18p Ben Langhinrichs In keeping with these new mini-demos, I made one about the Progressive Disclosure technique I sometimes use. You may have even seen me show this at Entwickler Camp a few years back. This uses no LotusScript or formula language, so anybody can do it without even a Designer client. It can be put in a rich text field or on a form or page (though those latter would need Designer). Let me know if you enjoy this sort of mini-demo. If people like them, I can start doing them on XPage topics and other m [read] Keywords: formula language
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Elevator pitch: Sort table in rich text with Midas
Tue, Mar 19th 2013 10:50a Ben Langhinrichs As I mentioned, I am trying out a new style of very quick demo so that you can get a feel for a feature without spending a lot of time. Like most of these, the feature is available as a downloadable sample, but this shows how it works in two minutes so you can decide whether it is worth pursuing. If this is interesting to you, take a look at our Midas Rich Text LSX page and request an evaluation license. [read] Keywords: lsx
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Practicing the elevator pitch demos
Tue, Mar 19th 2013 8:35a Ben Langhinrichs I am practicing the elevator pitch demos I mentioned yesterday with a couple more on Gimp 2.8, but I hope to have my first one for Midas out a little later, and possibly also my first on a general Lotus Notes/Domino topic. I might start by doing a few rich text topics like my old Rich Text 101, or possibly something with XPages that can be shown in a minute or two. The idea is to make a specific feature or topic accessible... not to cover it in depth. Having said that, here are the two additiona [read] Keywords: domino
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Elevator pitch demos
Mon, Mar 18th 2013 12:50p Ben Langhinrichs If I made very short, concise demos of product features in Midas, CoexEdit and CoexLinks, would that be interesting to you? What about on other Notes-related topics aside from my software? I've been pleased, and a little surprised, by the number of people watching my very short demo of the Gimp 2.8 tutorial on the Perspective Clone tool. It is under 2 minutes long on an relatively esoteric subject, but people seem to like it. Would it follow that very short Youtube demos, aiming at about 2 minu [read] Keywords: ibm
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A couple of Gimp tutorials
Wed, Mar 13th 2013 10:50a Ben Langhinrichs For those not familiar, Gimp is a free open source alternative to Photoshop, and it seems to get more powerful by the day with extensions such as the terrific (and also free) G'MIC filters. Since I have been working on videos for demos anyway, I put out one Gimp 2.8 demo a short while ago, and put out another a few minutes ago. First tutorial: Second tutorial: [read] Keywords:
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My favorite customer oops
Wed, Mar 13th 2013 7:50a Ben Langhinrichs I got permission from the customer to post this, so long as I didn't use names. On a conference call regarding CoexLinks, the subject came up of the security warning that Outlook shows if you use a Notes URL the way Domino does. Look at the screenshot below, which is the example I used. We are all looking at the image and talking about it when the junior guy pops up with, "It's no problem. We can just train people to click on Yes, and it works fine." There was a pause. I could have jumped in [read] Keywords: domino
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Pardon our dust
Tue, Mar 5th 2013 6:10a Ben Langhinrichs Here at Genii Software, we've been shifting servers and routing and such this weekend, and while everything appears to be back where it belongs, if something fell through the cracks, don't hesitate to contact us again. [read] Keywords:
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Recorded my first Mike Midas story for Youtube
Tue, Jan 8th 2013 8:03p Ben Langhinrichs I tried recording this a few different ways, but landed on this approach with the story both read and shown. Let me know what you think, and whether you'd like to see more (and new) Mike Midas and Crystal Coex stories on Youtube. [read] Keywords:
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CoexLinks 3.0 - short video demo
Mon, Jan 7th 2013 5:20a Ben Langhinrichs We released CoexLinks 3.0 in December, but with little fanfare because I figured everybody was distracted. I've been working on a few video demos to show people how CoexLinks works with Microsoft Exchange/Outlook and Google Mail/GMail. The intention is to keep each video to about five minutes or shorter, but give a solid flavor of what the value proposition is. This is the first Youtube video I have done, and it is quite possible I'll re-record it when I have better equipment and more experien [read] Keywords: exchange
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Halfway to 100
Tue, Dec 11th 2012 8:20a Ben Langhinrichs At least, that is how my wife puts it. (Whether that is optimistic or pessimistic on her part, I don't know.) Yes, it is my 50th birthday, which is not one of those milestones you look forward to, but which honestly feels better than I expected. It has been a hard year, what with my father dying in July and the regular business sputtering some as I focused too heavily on specific projects, but I feel ready for the year ahead. A new version of CoexLinks came out recently, CoexEdit will be out an [read] Keywords: ibm
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CoexEdit 3.0 supports templates and more
Mon, Dec 10th 2012 5:00p Ben Langhinrichs We had a minor hold up on the release, but I wanted to show you how easy it was to support an existing application with CoexEdit. There are different options which allow you to modify the design of your XPage application easily, but you can also make CoexEdit work with an existing template. To demonstrate this, let's look at the standard 8.5.3 Discussion template. There are two forms which matter. Not the XPages or Custom Controls, but the forms which hold the data. The two that contain editabl [read] Keywords: rich text
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I will not be doing a Sessions db this year
Fri, Dec 7th 2012 10:00a Ben Langhinrichs After twelve years, it is a little hard to say this, but the changes in mobile computing and the changes in Lotusphere Connect make it clear to me that the time has come. It has been a lot of fun, albeit a lot of work, but the past couple of years have also seen a certain amount of "striving for relevancy", and I'd rather leave it as a pleasant memory than drag it into an awkward afterthought. At this point, almost everybody has access to an on-line version of the sessions during the conferen [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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I like the new LinkedIn endorsements
Tue, Oct 9th 2012 6:00a Ben Langhinrichs LinkedIn has added the ability to endorse specific skills, and it has been fun checking out friends and connections to see the skills/expertise they list. I'm being careful to only endorse people for skills I have some personal knowledge about. It is easy to endorse almost any of my connections for Lotus Notes or Lotus Domino, but I won't endorse anybody for Sharepoint unless I have dealt with them regarding Sharepoint, as I have with Duffbert for example. I appreciate those of you who have en [read] Keywords: connections
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Fans of Doctor Who and David Tennant
Wed, Sep 19th 2012 6:44a Ben Langhinrichs I saw this over on Google+, and thought I'd pass it along to Doctor Who fans. It seems to be only for U.S. (or rather North America, since Canadians can get it to from what I hear). I got it from a share by Miriam Dunn, who makes these cool spirit hoods. All the David Tennant Dr. Who for 65% off - today only U.S. only: http://amzn.to/S74oKc In this massive 26-disc collection, the BBC brings together the complete David Tennant Years as the 10th Doctor in Doctor Who! David Tennant made his debu [read] Keywords: google
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CoexLinks 3.0 - New release and new roadmap
Thu, Sep 13th 2012 6:38a Ben Langhinrichs Last night, Genii Software released CoexLinks 3.0, the next major version of our highly regarded coexistence and migration software. As part of the new release, there are now three components to the CoexLinks product, all bundled together and sharing the same license and the same cost. CoexLinks: The core extension manager product that runs on an IBM Lotus Domino server. CoexLinks recognizes doclinks created either by users in IBM Lotus Notes or by applications running in either IBM Lotus Notes [read] Keywords: domino
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My father died yesterday
Thu, Jul 5th 2012 9:34a Ben Langhinrichs I likely won't talk about it much, but I thought it might explain some of my distraction recently. He had been ill for a long time, though it didn't truly get awful until the last six months. By now, I am relieved that he is in a better place, and that my mother has survived being his primary caretaker, a grueling and difficult job. My father wasn't always the dad I wished he was, and I certainly wasn't always the son he wished I was, but relationship isn't about perfection. It's about try [read] Keywords:
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High quality conversion of Notes data as a service offering
Fri, Jun 22nd 2012 8:54a Ben Langhinrichs After a few successful engagements with specific customers, I am starting to open the door a little wider to handling data conversion/migration on a consulting basis. For years, people have used the Midas Rich Text engine for high quality conversion to HTML and MIME, but I have additional tools to convert whole databases, validate/fix broken images, validate/fix broken links, etc. I am looking at working with customers who need this handled on a project or hourly basis, and who don't have the s [read] Keywords: notes
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Where do people go for help with Lotus Notes questions?
Tue, Jun 19th 2012 8:33a Ben Langhinrichs I am curious where you think most go for help with Notes questions. Do they still go to the forums, or search blogs, or ask on Twitter/Facebook/Google+, or call a business partner? It used to be somewhat more obvious a few years ago, and I am especially curious about those companies who have let go much of their Notes staff during the past few down years. How do they figure out how and who to ask? I ask partly because I find more customers who have a need for something with one of our products, [read] Keywords: administration
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XPages and attachment icons part 3
Mon, Jun 4th 2012 1:56p Ben Langhinrichs In my last two posts on XPages and attachment icons, Part 1 and Part 2, I stayed entirely within XPages, but many XPages databases including the default discussion database template use both traditional Notes rich text for the Notes client and XPages for the web. In addition, people have years worth of documents already in traditional Notes rich text. A large part of the reason for adding attachment support to CoexEdit 3.0 is to handle this situation. The following two documents were created to [read] Keywords: notes
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Notes to Sharepoint or web - design vs data
Thu, May 31st 2012 7:43a Ben Langhinrichs I've been doing custom work with a few customers who have needed to extract data from Notes databases, either to move to Sharepoint or to preserve a snapshot of Notes data outside of Notes for archival reasons and for discovery reasons. I am planning on making this a more formal offering, but the most variable part is the export of views. Sometimes, a view is just a collection, and the view is not valuable if the documents themselves are stored. In other cases, the view has columns with complex [read] Keywords: notes
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XPages and attachment icons part 2
Fri, May 25th 2012 8:36a Ben Langhinrichs Regarding yesterday's post, the attachment icon logic in the soon-to-be-released CoexEdit 3.0 works equally well in the browser or the traditional Notes client rich text interface. When opened in rich text, the attachments return to traditional attachments with their standard icons. The following three shots are the same document, created originally in CKEditor. It is unaltered, but could have been created in any of the three places. Click on any of the images to see them full size. In the Note [read] Keywords: notes
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XPages and attachment icons
Thu, May 24th 2012 8:43a Ben Langhinrichs One of the powerful features of Lotus Notes from early days was the ability to attach files in situ, where they were relevant. For reasons that have always escaped me, other products have not followed suit, and most attachments in email and elsewhere are attached to the document as a whole rather than to a specific place. As more and more applications for Lotus Notes/Domino are created using XPages or updated to use XPages, the rich text fields are displayed using CKEditor rather than the native [read] Keywords: domino
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When life does a priority interrupt
Mon, May 14th 2012 7:30a Ben Langhinrichs The past six months have been difficult. As some of you know, my father is dying. I don't talk about it a lot (heck, I haven't been talking about anything a lot recently), but he is at the hospice stage now, so it is only a matter of time. The whole experience has been very tough on my mom as well. They've been married fifty-three years, so it is emotionally rough even imagining him gone, but the care giving role also takes a great toll. I have a brother who is a nurse who lives near them, an [read] Keywords:
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CoexEdit 3.0 Step 1 - add magic
Tue, Feb 21st 2012 10:07a Ben Langhinrichs CoexEdit has been a slow but steady product for Genii Software. It hasn't had the great success of the Midas Rich Text product line or of CoexLinks, but people have used it for many different projects in many different companies. Slow and steady isn't good enough, so I asked lots of questions of customers and developers and partners: What does CoexEdit need? The answer was fairly simple, given how many people know what I do. CoexEdit needed more magic. Developers didn't want to mess with the [read] Keywords: rich text
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Those evaluating CoexEdit will see something new
Thu, Feb 16th 2012 8:10a Ben Langhinrichs Starting today, those requesting evaluation licenses for CoexEdit will not get an eval license for Version 2.x, but instead one for 3.x. The latest interim candidate for Version 3.0 is now available for download, but it will only work with a 3.0 license, so if current customers want to give it a whirl before the gold release (due by the end of the month), you will need to request an eval license. Over the next few days, I will be posting demos of how CoexEdit works with XPages, and why you will [read] Keywords: xpages
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Stuck in Orlando - trying not to infect princesses
Sat, Jan 21st 2012 9:45a Ben Langhinrichs As some of you know, I got the "zombie flu" that Mat Newman and others had at Lotusphere 2012. By some miracle, I made it through my session on Thursday morning, though I imagine some people probably noticed that I was visibly gripping the podium so as not to fall over. At least I didn't have coughing fits, and Tim Davis did a great job entertaining and enlightening the audience by building a mobile app on the fly using the session data and XPages Mobile Controls. I was supposed to leave Frid [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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LS12: Save money and space by buying digital
Fri, Jan 13th 2012 2:11p Ben Langhinrichs Last year, a number of people took advantage of the Lotusphere Sessions database bookstore, finding books that related to topics and ordering them directly from the database. This year, we have added new books, but also added links to the Kindle versions of books where that is available. For example, the well known Guy Kawasaki is going to be giving a keynote address at IBM Connect 2012. His books are available in the Lotusphere Sessions db, but you don't have to wait for them to show up at you [read] Keywords: ibm
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One more action item for Lotusphere
Thu, Jan 12th 2012 9:06a Ben Langhinrichs As I have mentioned (incessantly), I have been adding social details into the Lotusphere 2012 Sessions db. Now, from inside the database, click an action to request your name and social details be included (see below). Or, click on the image below to go to the form directly. Get social at Lotusphere! Encourage your friends to do so as well. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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LS12 Session db getting fancier
Tue, Jan 10th 2012 1:30p Ben Langhinrichs There's more to come, but just a few tidbits you might notice if you download the Lotusphere 2012 Sessions db V1.1 or replicate the latest changes. First, inside a session there is now a bit more information than before about the speakers. Their names are linked to their profile, and they have little icons which indicate some things about the speaker. For example, below is a screen capture from BP103, given by Tim Clark and Matt White. By glancing at the icons after their names, we can see that [read] Keywords: ibm
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Dude - where is your face?
Mon, Jan 9th 2012 6:53p Ben Langhinrichs It's a social world. IBM knows it. You know it. Your customers know it. If you want to be part of the action, you need to start by getting your social ids and photo in the Lotusphere Sessions database. Do you think Carl Kriger or Carl Tyler is going to get noticed? See the bottom of this post for a reminder of how to get into the database. Dude, where's your face? Either send your photo (no more than 200px, optimal is 200x200) or let me know where I can get it. I have taken some from Goog [read] Keywords: ibm
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Two profiles in one company - LS Sessions
Mon, Jan 9th 2012 7:10a Ben Langhinrichs Chris Toohey and Nathan Freeman both work in the same company. Both have blogs. Both are active in the community, and have been for years. I know that both of them are aggressively approachable people who interact with others, share their knowledge and would by most definitions fall into the "social networker" category. I know that. You probably know that. But if a Lotusphere newbie looked into the Lotusphere Sessions db, these would be the two profiles they would see, and they would not know [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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LS Speakers: Show your best face
Mon, Jan 9th 2012 4:25a Ben Langhinrichs I know it is last minute, but due to a suggestion by Kathy Brown, I'd added a photo to the Person page. Anybody can get their photo in there, but if you want one that favors you, send it along to me via email at GeniiMail("Ben", "GeniiSoft.com"); and I'll add it. Of course, if you don't send along a photo, I might be able to use one from Facebook or Google+ or Twitter if you have those and have given me an id. Or I might just grab one from the web: [read] Keywords: email
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53 Google+ ids, 41 Facebook ids so far
Sun, Jan 8th 2012 12:30p Ben Langhinrichs People have been slowly joining the pages, but I'd love to get a lot more, especially the speakers. Please encourage your friends who use Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, as the more people with social networking ids in the Sessions db, the more we can add innovative ways of connecting with others. On Google+, go to the Lotusphere Sessions G+ page and add the page to your circles. For some annoying reason, just +1ing the page doesn't give me access to your name and id. On Facebook, go to the Lo [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere Sessions db V1.0 available
Sat, Jan 7th 2012 8:41a Ben Langhinrichs While many people downloaded the earlier versions and have been replicating in changes as they come, I decided it would be good to get a complete database into the hands of anybody who has not. Download your copy of the Lotusphere 2012 Sessions db today, and I'll see you next week in Orlando. By the way, as IBM and many of you have been focused on social networks and social business this year, we are collecting ids for speakers, attendees and exhibitors. We are using the networks themselves to [read] Keywords: ibm
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Facebook users going to Lotusphere
Fri, Jan 6th 2012 7:50a Ben Langhinrichs Last year, I added Twitter IDs for many of the speakers (and some attendees) to the Lotusphere Sessions database. This year, I am also adding Google+ ids (see yesterday's call for Google+ users) and Facebook ids as well, but I don't have a lot of time or bandwidth. So, I am asking you to help. Make sure you are logged into Facebook, and then go and Like the Lotusphere Sessions facebook page. That way, I will know to add you to the database. Also, as a bonus, other Facebook attendees and speake [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Google+ users going to Lotusphere
Thu, Jan 5th 2012 7:36p Ben Langhinrichs Last year, I added Twitter IDs for many of the speakers (and some attendees) to the Lotusphere Sessions database. This year, I am also adding Google+ ids as well, but I don't have a lot of time or bandwidth. So, I am asking you to help. Make sure you are logged into Google+, and then click on the image below to go to the +Lotusphere Sessions page. Add the page to a circle (e.g., I have one called Pages), and I will know to add you to the database. Also, as a bonus, other G+ attendees and speake [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Harry Potter Rosetta Stone
Fri, Dec 30th 2011 2:00p Ben Langhinrichs Our house has a veritable Rosetta Stone's worth of Harry Potter books. The latest edition is the first book in Russian, and it joins the ones we already have in English (US and UK), Spanish, German and Latin, reflecting the various languages of interest thus far and our family's deep affection for the books. The Russian version is completely beyond me, given the different alphabet, but my 16 year old is eagerly diving into it. I wonder what is next. Arabic, perhaps, or Chinese? [read] Keywords:
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Books/Authors at Lotusphere
Thu, Dec 22nd 2011 7:23a Ben Langhinrichs As we did last year, there will be a bookstore integrated into the Lotusphere Sessions database as additional resources. In addition to the links to order books you want shipped to your home, there will be links where you can purchase eBooks. We don't sell the books, simply pass you through to somebody who does. Authors: If you have a book you would like to be added, drop me a line or comment here with the name of the book. If you are doing a book signing, let me know that as I am incorporating [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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First rough LS 2012 Sessions db available
Wed, Dec 21st 2011 2:22p Ben Langhinrichs Twelfth Annual Lotusphere Sessions Planning DB For those who can't do anything but dream of Orlando in January... Many people have deduced the super secret URL. Unlike last year, where the URL was http://www.GeniiSoft.com/showcase.nsf/LS2011_SessionsDB or for every year back to 2001 when it was http://www.GeniiSoft.com/showcase.nsf/LS2001_SessionsDB (and so forth through the intervening years), this year the super secret URL is... wait for it... http://www.GeniiSoft.com/showcase.nsf/LS2012_Ses [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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To XPages and Beyond The Lotusphere Sessions Database
Mon, Dec 5th 2011 6:40p Ben Langhinrichs After a dozen years, the Lotusphere sessions database has become self-referential. Tim Davis and I are doing a session about the XPages redesign, which we will unveil later. We'll also show some of the other new mobile-oriented features, include EPUB files based in tags some nifty social whizbang stuff. Though we obviously don't know when and where, I couldn't resist throwing the session into the non-XPages Notes client version of the database (which will still be available): Mighty pretty [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Wisdom of Crowds - Vetting the abstracts
Wed, Oct 19th 2011 8:26a Ben Langhinrichs From various accounts, it appears that abstracts for Lotusphere 2012 will be solicited soon. It seems wise to me to throw out my ideas and let people tell me what they think before I submit the abstracts. Here are the two I have been playing with. Let me know what you think. I'd Buy That! From Concept to Commercial (BDD track)Drawing upon the experiences of seventeen years as an IBM/Lotus Business Partner developing commercial business applications, this session will discuss how to determine if [read] Keywords: ibm
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Native PNG support in Notes rich text - shhh
Wed, Oct 5th 2011 2:44p Ben Langhinrichs A lot of people over the years have asked why Notes doesn't support PNG graphics. After all, PNG as a format has been used more and more in web applications, and it would be cool to support alpha-transparency and such in the Notes client. Unfortunately, it appeared that IBM was not listening. Maybe they were listening after all. They simply weren't talking. After all, why not support PNG graphics, but make it very difficult for anybody to use them or import them? That way... actually, I have n [read] Keywords: ibm
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Amazon offers a slew of choices
Wed, Sep 28th 2011 3:54p Ben Langhinrichs Amazon made a bunch of announcements today. Details are all over, but here are the basics: Kindle Fire - Flashy color tablet based on fork of Android. Pros: color=pretty, Android=apps. Cons: wifi-only=wtf, size=7", available=US-only $199 Kindle Touch 3G - Touch screen version of classic Kindle with 3G. Pros: touch=kewl, eInk=useful. Cons: touch=fingerprints $149 Kindle Touch - Touch screen version of classic Kindle with wifi. Pros: touch=kewl, eInk=useful, price=Nice!. Cons: touch=fingerprints, [read] Keywords: wifi
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Reflowable - a word to remember
Tue, Sep 27th 2011 7:29a Ben Langhinrichs One question has come up frequently since I started talking about ePub support in Midas and our other products. Why? It is a fair question which could be answered in a number of ways, but the simple answer is: Reflowable But is "reflowable" a real word? What does it mean, and why does it matter? If you look at Reflowable document on Wikipedia, there is an extensive discuss, but the first bit says:A reflowable document is a type of electronic document that can adapt its presentation to the out [read] Keywords: desktop
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Something new for Lotusphere 2012
Mon, Sep 26th 2011 12:30p Ben Langhinrichs I mentioned this over the weekend on Google+ (follow me at http://bit.ly/blanghinrichs if you like), but wanted to share it with more of the Lotus community. I am playing with some very new and exciting features for the Lotusphere 2012 Sessions database. Some will support the database in Notes, but others are there for enhanced mobile support. This is an example of the latter. I added an agent to the Lotusphere 2011 Sessions db (which is all populated and thus handy for demos). The agent create [read] Keywords: agent
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Lotusphere 2012 Sessions db
Thu, Sep 22nd 2011 6:18p Ben Langhinrichs No, the database isn't available yet. I don't think IBM has even started soliciting abstracts yet, although I might have missed it. Nonetheless, it's time to think about Lotusphere 2012. Not the abstracts and certainly not the travel. I never plan travel this early. Instead, I need to plan the Lotusphere 2012 Sessions database. What new features should I add? Should I make my own Android app? Should I integrate with G+/Facebook/Twitter? What can I do that will wow and amaze people? I've go [read] Keywords: ibm
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Making your short links easy for customers
Wed, Sep 21st 2011 2:24p Ben Langhinrichs In a world where Twitter and instant messaging and time pressure have shortened our patience and attention spans while the complexity and size of the web has led to longer and longer links, the use of link shorteners is inevitable and necessary. The problem is, those links are often gibberish, such as http://bit.ly/nHEwr4. A customer may not feel very comfortable clicking on such a link, and certainly won't remember it. But bit.ly (and probably other link shorteners) offers a partial solution t [read] Keywords: lsx
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IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Admin Guide - Order now
Thu, Sep 15th 2011 11:20a Ben Langhinrichs You've gone to the sessions, read the blogs, followed the tweets, and generally watched in awe as Gabriella Davis, Thomas Duff and Marie Scott have demonstrated their amazing mad admin skillz. You may have even read the Sametime 8 Essentials book that Tom and Marie wrote. But now you can order the comprehensive, up-to-date IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide that you have been hearing about. You won't get it right away. But you will get it the very moment it is available. Be ready [read] Keywords: admin
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I am looking for broken images in Notes
Wed, Sep 14th 2011 6:10p Ben Langhinrichs I am working on a project for a customer, and part of it entails finding (and fixing) images in Notes rich text fields. Have any of you had problems with corrupted, partial, missing or broken images? Ever seen the following message? If you have had, or are currently having, any problems with broken images, especially on pasted in images, let me know. If you have discovered what corrupts the images (other than editing on the web or going from to MIME and back, which are different problems), I' [read] Keywords: notes
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CoexLinks: Check before processing (corrected)
Thu, Jul 21st 2011 3:10p Ben Langhinrichs Note: I accidentally posted this earlier without its content. I thought it was in draft, but no. Oops! A question came in from a customer today regarding why CoexLinks did not process a message that was already in MIME, and whether there were other flags or conditions that would prevent a message from being processed. I thought I'd share and elaborate on the answer to give an idea of how CoexLinks works. Answer (modified slightly to clarify for blog): It is a basic assumption and requirement fo [read] Keywords: agent
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Working hard to make things simple
Thu, Jul 7th 2011 9:26a Ben Langhinrichs The easy part of writing software is often "making it work." It may take a lot of time and effort, but if you plan appropriately, design carefully and develop to meet your specifications, the software will eventually work. The hard part of writing software is "making it easy." It takes effort at every stage, from planning to design to development, and still you are likely to miss the mark. So, you re-design, re-develop and keep working. Losing patience means off-loading the effort on to your [read] Keywords: notes
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Viewing Notes/Domino fixes on a mobile device
Thu, Jun 30th 2011 10:50a Ben Langhinrichs The Lotus Notes/Domino Fix List contains SPRs in various stages of the release process. I decided to use this database for a short demo of one possible use for the new GeniiRTCollection class and EPub generation. In the demo, I select certain SPR documents from the Fix List database and combine them into an EPUB file which could be sent to any mobile device that reads that format, such as an iPhone/iPad or Android device. While the Fix List database has a public web view, this demo is intended t [read] Keywords: domino
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Dynamic example why Midas is adding EPUB support
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 1:40p Ben Langhinrichs Yesterday, I wrote about the new GeniiRTCollection class, but one of the examples I mentioned should get more attention. In the new version, the Midas Rich Text LSX will allow the creation of EPUB files. EPUB is the most widely used format for ebooks, readable by the Nook, the iPhone/iPad and most other mobile devices. I will go into much more depth about EPUB in future posts, as well as other formats for ebooks which Midas may generate, but today I thought I'd give a very simple example of the [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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A different kind of collection
Tue, Jun 21st 2011 2:00p Ben Langhinrichs As I mentioned in my previous post, it has been 13 years since we have added a new class to the Midas Rich Text LSX, though obviously we have added many new methods and properties and feature sets. For our upcoming release, we are adding a new class which may seem at first to be underwhelming. Existing classes: GeniiSession (represents the entire session, but rarely used. Added for 1.00, July 1997)GeniiRTItem (represents a rich text instance and the note which contains it. Added for 1.00, July 1 [read] Keywords: lsx
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Midas released in 1997 - first time for this since 1998
Fri, Jun 17th 2011 1:06p Ben Langhinrichs The Midas Rich Text LSX was first released in July 1997. It has evolved and shifted and changed over the years, adding new methods and properties to support major new functionality, but one thing has not changed since 1998, and that is the list of classes: GeniiSession (represents the entire session, but rarely used. Added for 1.00, July 1997)GeniiRTItem (represents a rich text instance, and by extension the note which contains it. Added for 1.00, July 1997)GeniiRTChunk (represents a defined chu [read] Keywords: lsx
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Working with social media as sales tool
Mon, Jun 6th 2011 8:53a Ben Langhinrichs As many of you may know, I released a book last week called Savage Fire. It is available for $2.99 on Savage Fire and Smashwords, but this post isn't about the book. It's about social media and making your business work well with social media. The image to the right comes from Twitter. One of my followers/friends on Twitter tweeted the message on top. When I viewed the message in the standard Twitter client ("new Twitter" for those still on "old Twitter"), this is the sidebar that appeare [read] Keywords: lotus
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Beer-money book-release scavenger hunt
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 8:22a Ben Langhinrichs This is for all those who have ever promised to buy me a beer at Lotusphere (I don't drink beer), or for those I owe a beer (I will get to it). I have the distinct pleasure of announcing the release of my first ebook, Savage Fire, a collection of short stories including horror, humor, thrills and chills, with the title story about Victorian zombies. What does that have to do with beer? First, it's about the cost of a cheap American beer in a slightly seedy bar, $2.99. Second, I'll do a drawin [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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From the dept. of utterly useless trivia
Tue, May 10th 2011 11:30a Ben Langhinrichs I was chatting with Bill Buchan today, and as I looked up a fact related to his tweet, I realized that our Midas Rich Text LSX Version 1.00 was published Aug. 6, 1997, which is only 37 days after J.K. Rowling published Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (renamed for U.S. audiences as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone). The only possible connection I can find between the two, besides the fact that selling Midas worldwide has sometimes felt like a magical journey, is that both franchis [read] Keywords: lsx
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8 years, 1602 posts, 4357 comments later...
Thu, May 5th 2011 9:56a Ben Langhinrichs I'm still here, blogging away. I was quite worried when I started this blog that a) nobody would read it, or b) I wouldn't be able to keep writing it. So far, so good. I'd love to be able to pick out trends or favorite posts, but eight years is a long time. Instead, I want to thank all the people who have taken time out of their busy lives to respond 2.7+ times for each post, not to mention the far higher number who have read about software, hypothetical carrots, dating tips and more. You [read] Keywords: blogging
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Two books I couldn't pass up
Mon, May 2nd 2011 9:16a Ben Langhinrichs I am not usually a big fan of pre-ording, but there are times I make an exception. Mobile development is clearly in my future, so I have been looking at the various options for Android, BlackBerry and iPhone development. There are some excellent options out there, but I happened to see two new entries in the Head First series, which is a favorite of mine. Each is discounted at least 40% right now, and both are shipping in early July. So, sighing reluctantly at the idea of putting out money ahead [read] Keywords: applications
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Getting to the point(s) with XPages editing
Fri, Apr 29th 2011 10:11a Ben Langhinrichs While working up a demo of some of the features that our coming version of CoexEdit offers with the new discussion template in 8.5.2, I decided that at least one feature could be implemented by anybody, whether or not they have CoexEdit. This is the issue of using point sizes in CKEditor, the editor that ships with 8.5.2 to handle rich text editing on the web. The problem (at least I see it as such) is that the default font sizes in this CKEditor implementation of in pixels, not in points. While [read] Keywords: lotus
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I don't think I've ever inspired a t-shirt before
Thu, Apr 28th 2011 8:49p Ben Langhinrichs This blog is one week shy of eight year's old, so it is good to know it is still good for something, even if that something is just starting tempests in teapots. But this particular tempest led to an absolutely classic quote from Paul Mooney, who has a way with words, or at least some words. Gregg Eldred recognized the awesomeness of the quote, and had some t-shirts made up. I'm not handy with a camera, so go visit Paul's post for a picture. So, another milestone. Indirectly perhaps, but I [read] Keywords: archive
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Only a few more days for Genii's 2 for 1 server offer
Thu, Apr 28th 2011 4:22p Ben Langhinrichs People are still slipping in under the wire in our special 2 for 1 deal for Genii server licenses (see full offer details), but there isn't much time left. With major releases due out soon for CoexEdit, CoexLinks and the Midas Rich Text products, there couldn't be a better time... but only if you act now. (Don't you just love it when I sound like a used car salesman? I may have missed my calling.) Server licenses available for the offer: CoexLinks - Email coexistence for mail routed between [read] Keywords: connections
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Nice to be on top
Wed, Apr 27th 2011 8:04a Ben Langhinrichs I am pleased to see that our CoexLinks coexistence product is still the top-ranked product at MSExchange.org, even if they persist in calling it migration software rather than coexistence software. Click on the image below to get to the page, and if CoexLinks has made a difference for your company, don't hesitate to vote and let us know what your experience has been. (Psst! Remember that CoexLinks is part of our special offer, but time is running out quickly.) Just wait until CoexLinks 3.0 com [read] Keywords: archive
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Cross Reference links from web
Thu, Apr 21st 2011 8:26a Ben Langhinrichs It's Day 2 of our special buy one server license, get one free offer, so I thought I'd post a few demos. The first creates cross reference links using the Midas Rich Text LSX. Many people use the Midas in the Notes client to change rich text in the front end without hanging the back end (i.e., changes aren't saved). This demo shows that working on the web (works with traditional and XPages web interfaces). The MedXRef db has a view with 2,214 medical terms taken from WebMD.com. In this dem [read] Keywords: lsx
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Limited time 2 for 1 deal on Genii server licenses
Wed, Apr 20th 2011 9:35a Ben Langhinrichs There are ten days left in April, so I thought I'd make a special offer to celebrate the coming of Spring (I hope), Earth Day, AntiPasto Day (well, Oct 25 is World Pasta Day, so six months later must be...) Anyway, here's the offer. Buy any of our server licenses (CoexLinks, CoexEdit, Midas Rich Text LSX, Midas C++ API), and get a second of equal or lower value for free. For example: Buy CoexLinks to support your mail coexistence, and get a second CoexLinks server license free or a CoexEdit s [read] Keywords: lsx
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Book resources on Domino Limits change - any thoughts?
Tue, Apr 12th 2011 3:34p Ben Langhinrichs I have been playing around with the Domino Limits page, tweaking the presentation and such, and have now started to play with the left hand bar. I threw up some ads, but I'm not terribly interested in those, so now I am trying to use the book resources that I used for the Lotusphere Sessions database. Unfortunately, my user interface skills are only slightly better than my Russian, so I'd like to ask all of you good folks if you could visit the Domino Limits page and try the left hand book res [read] Keywords: domino
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Still sorting after all this time
Mon, Apr 11th 2011 6:20p Ben Langhinrichs I sometimes feel like the answer to every question I get asked by customer is somewhere buried in this steaming heap of a weblog. In less than a month, this blog will be eight years old, and still requests are made for "new" features that existed in our Midas Rich Text LSX before I started the blog. Today, I got a question about sorting tables from the web. Of course, there are lots of ways to do that with views or lookups, but this customer has tables which are embedded in rich text fields, [read] Keywords: agent
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Zealotry annoys me
Wed, Apr 6th 2011 4:20p Ben Langhinrichs Look, plenty of people think XPages may be the savior riding in on a camel to rescue Lotus Domino, and maybe it is and maybe it isn't. All I know for certain is that anytime somebody gets up an excess of zeal, I get nervous. Java will solve all problems, except the pile it introduces. Ruby on Rails will change the world, except when it can't. I've got a question for those who think we're ready to throw out every non-XPages app and replace all the "crap" written before. I have a website ru [read] Keywords: domino
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Don't miss new book on Classic Web Development for Domino
Tue, Apr 5th 2011 2:10p Ben Langhinrichs Just in case you were under the impression that XPages were the whole ball of wax, and that Mastering XPages was the last word in IBM Lotus Domino development, I wanted to let you know that Packt Publishing has released: IBM Lotus Domino: Classic Web Application Development Techniques Find it on Amazon.com or on Amazon.ca or on Amazon.co.uk or on Amazon.de
... or even on BarnesAndNoble.com There's a lot more to Domino web development than XPages, and a well prepared developer will be prep [read] Keywords: domino
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Added tweetable limits to Domino Limits pages
Thu, Mar 24th 2011 12:56p Ben Langhinrichs Several of you have been playing with our new Domino Limits page design, which I rolled out today right before posting my earlier post. (Compare with the old page - cringe.) Along with the ability to comment on individual limits is a matching ability to tweet individual limits. It is not included in all documents yet as I am slowly making tweetable versions, but it gives you the ability to answer a question on twitter by simply: 1) copying the person's username (e.g., blanghinrichs) , 2) search [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino Limits and the Wisdom of Crowds
Thu, Mar 24th 2011 10:18a Ben Langhinrichs Back in 2004, in a post called Limits in Notes/Domino: Living document, I blogged about taking over the Domino Limits page that Mike Woolsey had maintained in the Business Partner forum for a long time before that (with his permission, of course). Since then, multiple versions have come along, and many, many people have helped shape this dynamic list of official and unofficial limits, maintained on our Domino Limits resource page. For a long time, it was the most popular single page on our websi [read] Keywords: domino
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Best catch ever?
Wed, Mar 23rd 2011 6:15a Ben Langhinrichs I don't much like sports, and I hardly ever watch football, but I can't believe anybody would be unimpressed by this catch: [read] Keywords: application
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The joys of intellectual property
Thu, Mar 10th 2011 4:10p Ben Langhinrichs I have been developing software extensions for Lotus Notes for a long time. No, I mean a really long time. Sometimes it makes me vaguely ill to think about, but sometimes I have to feel good about the positive side of all that effort: Almost every time I set out to write something new, I already have code to do much of what I want. Even if I never anticipated that specific task, I have intellectual property everywhere, and there's almost always a solution I've written somewhere that will help [read] Keywords: lotus
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Our first winner and all he had to do was complain
Thu, Mar 10th 2011 11:50a Ben Langhinrichs I made an offer the day before yesterday: Gripe about XPages and win valuable software. Today, I'm announcing the first winner, although the offer is still open, of course. Ulrich Krause Website: http://www.eknori.de/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/eknori Ulrich suggested a few things, but the idea that definitely made sense to me was this (rephrased since I better understand his point after a follow up email): The concept to support multiple languages in an XPages based app is great and simp [read] Keywords: agent
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Gripe about XPages and win valuable software
Tue, Mar 8th 2011 7:55a Ben Langhinrichs What I've Been Doing with XPagesI have been working more steadily with XPages recently, and while it is clear there are some real deficiencies, there are also some real strengths. I am less tempted to give up in disgust that I was with composite applications, but I do feel a strong urge to make XPages better, faster, more efficient and more powerful. I have already found a couple of ways that I can use or enhance technology in our Midas Rich Text LSX to make developing XPages easier. To give o [read] Keywords: lsx
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Good deal on Quickr book an Amazon right now
Thu, Mar 3rd 2011 1:55p Ben Langhinrichs If you have been thinking of picking up IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration, follow this link and order quickly. It is 28% off on Amazon right now, which is a better deal than they have had before, as far as I can tell from checking periodically. The list price is $44.99, but since I am not allowed to list the sale price directly. check out the current price in the box below (which uses an iframe, so it pulls it directly from Amazon). [read] Keywords: administration
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Quick quiz - no peeking
Thu, Feb 17th 2011 10:40a Ben Langhinrichs In Notes/Domino 8.5.2, what are the choices given in the dropdown list for rendering your rich text field on the web (no XPages, just regular database)? What does each do in Internet Explorer 8 and in Firefox. No peeking, trying it out or looking at other people's comments. I'm just curious what level of awareness there is. [read] Keywords: domino
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Presenting three, possibly four, sessions at EntwicklerCamp
Wed, Feb 16th 2011 10:17a Ben Langhinrichs Having avoid giving presentations for a while, I'm diving deep into the pool in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. I have two scheduled sessions already, and it appears that due to the illness of another speaker, I may do one or two more. The sessions I am definitely doing are: Web Editors - CKEditor and OthersMontag, 21.02.2011 at 13.45-15.15 A version of the CKEditor is now included with Domino 8.5.x. We will discuss how to use it in your applications, how to enhance it with custom settings, and when [read] Keywords: domino
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Social business - Terrifying Leap of Faith
Tue, Feb 15th 2011 9:19a Ben Langhinrichs In my previous posts in this series, Look out the window rather than into a mirror and You should have learned it in preschool, I pointed out that when thinking about a social business, you need to remember that others are not just like you, and that not all attempts at social business will succeed. In this post, I'll expand on that. One of the reasons that becoming a social business is so difficult for a big company like IBM, as much as it believes and wants to take that route, is that being [read] Keywords: ibm
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