Domino Designer 8.5.1 Crash Course for Admins
Thu, Mar 4th 2010 12:23p Corey Davis The release of Notes 8.5.1 brought with it a significant change to the Domino Designer client. For those admins out there (or anyone else, really) who do not have the benefit of an in-house development team to bounce questions off of, you may find yourself lost or at least somewhat confused the first time you [...] [read] Keywords: domino
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Think You Don’t Need To Defrag Your Mac? Think Again!
Tue, Feb 9th 2010 7:23p Corey Davis There are two camps of Mac users: those that think you don’t have to defrag a Mac and those that know better. I am now firmly in the “those that know better” camp.
I do not go easy on my Mac. I download, install, and subsequently delete a lot of data. I also use Parallels and [...] [read] Keywords: mac
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Book Review: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 8:24p Corey Davis “IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1, The Upgrader’s Guide” is the latest Domino related title to come out of Packt Publishing. The book promises to be your guide enabling you to quickly upgrade your existing Domino infrastructure and to assist you in leveraging the newest features of Notes and Domino 8.5.1. For the most part [...] [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
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Taking Notes Podcast #100!
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 11:59a Corey Davis Conxsys is proud to sponsor the milestone 100th episode of the Taking Notes podcast! In this episode, Bruce and Julian interview Matt White, Declan Lynch, and Peter Presnell. They discuss everything XPages from how to get started to debugging (or lack thereof). Go listen to this podcast right now and help us to continue to support wonderful [...] [read] Keywords: notes
xpages podcast
taking notes
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More Lotus Wallpapers
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 5:00p Corey Davis By rather popular demand I have re-done the Lotus Notes wallpaper from yesterday and made it fit several screen resolutions (800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 800, 1280 x 960, 1400 x 1050, 1440 x 900, 1600 x 1200, 1680 x 1050, 1920 x 1200, and of course 320 x 480 for the iPhone). [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes Wallpapers
Mon, Oct 19th 2009 8:00p Corey Davis For some reason today I was in a bit of a creative mood and decided to create a few Notes, Conxsys, and nsfRewind wallpapers. I hope you enjoy! If you have any other high-quality PNG Lotus product logos and would like similar wallpapers created just let me know.
Get all 6 wallpapers [read] Keywords: lotus
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nsfRewind v1.0.2 Now Available
Mon, Oct 19th 2009 6:58a Corey Davis nsfRewind v1.0.2 is now available to all nsfRewind customers. This version, along with the field translations for Domino Directory 8.5.1, makes it fully compatible with the recently released Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 software. Upgrading current installations of nsfRewind to v1.0.2 is recommended for all customers whether they are running Domino 8.5.1 or not because [...] [read] Keywords: domino
lotus
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nsfRewind: Domino 8.5.1 Field Translations Available
Mon, Oct 19th 2009 6:58a Corey Davis The Domino 8.5.1 Field Translation pack is now available for nsfRewind Server Document Edition and nsfRewind Enterprise Edition customers. This translation pack includes user-friendly field names for server documents, configuration documents, program documents, connection documents, group documents, and person documents for Domino versions 8.0.2 and below, 8.5, and 8.5.1.
Field translations are used to translate confusing [...] [read] Keywords: document
domino
enterprise
server
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Surprises in the 8.5.1 Press Release
Wed, Oct 7th 2009 5:55p Corey Davis Yesterday’s IBM press release announcing the pending shipment of Notes & Domino 8.5.1 contained quotes from Bruce Elgort, David Leedy, and myself. I’m pretty sure that this is the first time that IBM has quoted me in a press release before. But, cool as that may be, my real excitement over this press release was [...] [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
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Flow LotusScript Logging Engine v1.0 Beta 5 Now Available
Thu, Oct 1st 2009 8:54p Corey Davis Flow v1.0 Beta 5 has been released on OpenNTF.org. This version includes a small enhancement called Property Caching.
The Flow Engine’s new Property Caching feature allows developers to set the following properties prior to the Flow document object’s instantiation when using the Flow Engine:
LogMailRecipients
LogMailSubject
LogFileName
ViewIcon
ContinueText
Previously, code had to be written in a specific order. For example, when [...] [read] Keywords: document
lotusscript
openntf
properties
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We Sponsored Taking Notes #99
Thu, Aug 27th 2009 6:51p Corey Davis Conxsys is proud to sponsor today’s Taking Notes podcast episode #99. In this episode, Bruce and Julian interview none other than IBM’s Alistair Rennie, Vice President of Development and Technical Support, and Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President of Messaging and Collaboration Technology. They discuss the recent success of the Lotus Knows IdeaJam, how those ideas will [...] [read] Keywords: collaboration
ibm
lotus
notes
development
ideajam
podcast
taking notes
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Become a Fan of Conxsys on Facebook
Wed, Aug 12th 2009 11:56a Corey Davis Are you on Facebook? We are, so why not come and join us and become our fan! While the fan page itself is still brand spanking new, we plan to post content for both customers and non-customers, so all are welcome! You might even find exclusive coupon codes for Conxsys products that could save you [...] [read] Keywords: facebook
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Conxsys Joins OpenNTF Alliance
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 2:53p Corey Davis As further celebration of Yellow Day 2009, I am proud to announce that today Conxsys has joined the OpenNTF.org Alliance! OpenNTF was launched in 2002 as a way for developers to release open-sourced code and projects for Lotus technologies. Conxsys began participating in April 2008 by releasing our internal advanced LotusScript logging engine as an [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
lotusscript
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Flow LotusScript Logging Engine v1.0 Beta 4 Released
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 1:51p Corey Davis In celebration of Yellow Day 2009 we have released Flow v1.0 Beta 4, the advanced LotusScript logging engine, to OpenNTF.org. Flow provides a common set of classes that will allow you to easily create a log of events and/or errors for any LotusScript-based Notes application. Logs are written out in a streaming style where events [...] [read] Keywords: lotusscript
notes
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openntf
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Shhh…It’s A Secret!
Wed, Jul 1st 2009 9:59a Corey Davis It’s time for the Conxsys Secret 4th of July Sale! Details can be found on the secret page. That’s all I can say for now because they’re watching me! [read] Keywords:
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nsfRewind Video Tutorials Now On YouTube
Fri, Jun 12th 2009 5:55p Corey Davis If you are unable to view the nsfRewind video tutorials because of their distribution in the QuickTime format, you will be happy to know that we have now made the entire series available on YouTube. The tutorials web page has been updated, and the links are also available below.
The YouTube Links:
Installing nsfRewind
The Profile Assistant
The Profile [...] [read] Keywords: profile
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nsfRewind — The First Field-Level Data Backup Utility for Notes — Now Available
Mon, Jun 1st 2009 3:55a Corey Davis nsfRewind is the first tool to allow administrators and end-users to backup and restore data in Domino databases at the document’s field-level, and it is now available. nsfRewind utilizes a micro-backup architecture to achieve field-level backup and restore saving Domino administrators countless hours by bypassing the cumbersome task of restoring the entire database from tape.
With [...] [read] Keywords: document
domino
notes
database
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Conxsys.com Facelift
Tue, May 26th 2009 2:52a Corey Davis The new look for conxsys.com went live this evening (except this blog, it remains untouched). Let me know what you think. Good, bad, and all. And especially if you find any problems, typos, etc. [read] Keywords:
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nsfRewind To Be Available June 1st
Tue, May 19th 2009 4:48a Corey Davis nsfRewind, a field-level data backup and auditing utility for IBM Lotus Domino, will go Gold on June 1st. The utility tracks the entire life-cycle of documents in Domino databases and allows for alerting to be setup when specific documents or fields are modified, and also allows for individual fields to be restored from backup as [...] [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
lotus
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nsfRewind Release Candidate 1
Sun, Apr 19th 2009 3:51p Corey Davis I am happy to announce that work on nsfRewind has been moving along quickly and (knock on wood) with very little problems. Therefore, this afternoon Release Candidate 1 was made available to beta testers.
Release Candidate 1 marks the end of beta testing and signifies the first production ready release of nsfRewind. Though a release date [...] [read] Keywords:
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Talk Me Down: End-of-Life for First Generation iPhone Looming?
Tue, Mar 17th 2009 8:59p Corey Davis Today Apple held their press event for the iPhone 3.0 SDK preview. There are some great things coming to the new iPhone OS, due to launch in the summer, but a comment by Greg Joswiak near the end of the event regarding the launch date of the OS caught my attention:
And we’re going to ship [...] [read] Keywords: apple
iphone
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nsfRewind Beta 2 Released
Fri, Mar 13th 2009 1:21a Corey Davis nsfRewind Beta 2 was released earlier this evening to beta testers worldwide. Beta 2 is a significant milestone for nsfRewind as it marks the freeze of new functions. From this point forward we will be working solely on bug fixes and performance enhancements.
While the release of Beta 2 was delayed, we still aim to meet [...] [read] Keywords: bug
3
What I Took Away From Lotusphere 2009
Mon, Jan 26th 2009 3:51p Corey Davis Now that Lotusphere 2009 has ended this is a good time to wrap-up my thoughts on what I saw, learned, and look forward to. The first and undoubtedly most import takeaway for me this year is that IBM appears to be making a strong marketing push for the Lotus Software division. While talking about marketing [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
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Lotusphere 2009 Business Development Day General Session
Sun, Jan 18th 2009 2:52p Corey Davis The Business Development Day, or BDD, covered several topics and was nearly as lively as a Lotusphere Opening General Session. The theme of the show is “The New Renaissance” and this was played up fairly consistently during the entire session.
After some general opening comments we started with the entertainment: artist Dan Dunn. Dan, who is [...] [read] Keywords: lotusphere
development
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Blogger Open Tee Times Now Available
Thu, Jan 15th 2009 4:51p Corey Davis If you are joining us for the Conxsys 2009 Blogger Open mini-golf tournament then please head on over to bloggeropen.com to check out your tee time.
Haven’t signed up yet but want to join us? All sponsor-paid slots are taken but you can still participate for only $11.27 per person. Or just come on by the [...] [read] Keywords: blogger
3
Join Us For Free Mini-Golf Tournament at Lotusphere!
Thu, Jan 8th 2009 6:56p Corey Davis If you are attending Lotusphere then we invite you to come join us for the Conxsys 2009 Blogger Open, a mini-golf tournament organized by Mitch Cohen and Warren Elsmore. Whether you are the Tiger Woods of mini-golf or just a “close your eyes and pray for the best” kind of player sign up and join [...] [read] Keywords: lotusphere
blogger
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Finding Me At Lotusphere 2009
Wed, Jan 7th 2009 3:54p Corey Davis I will be at Lotusphere, will you? If so, and you see me, feel free to come up and talk with me. I love meeting new people and if you read this blog or use Conxsys products I would very much like to meet you in person. The big question is, among [...] [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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nsfRewind Beta Closes December 19th So Join Now!
Wed, Dec 17th 2008 1:51p Corey Davis Are you intertested in joining the nsfRewind beta test team but just haven’t gotten around to it yet? Are you interested in test-driving this revolutionary new document audit, monitor and backup application for Lotus Notes & Domino? If so then we encourage you to sign-up to be a beta tester today because we will stop [...] [read] Keywords: document
domino
lotus
notes
application
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Complex View Selection Formulas: Help Needed
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 8:52a Corey Davis I need your help! What is the most complex, convoluted View selection formula you have ever seen? Why do I ask? Let me explain.
As you may be aware if you read this blog, follow me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook, nsfRewind Beta 1 was released last week (if you want to be [...] [read] Keywords: formula
facebook
twitter
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nsfRewind - Rewind Your Notes Data: Beta Testers Needed
Wed, Dec 3rd 2008 7:51a Corey Davis Today I am happy to announce the release of nsfRewind Beta 1 and we are looking for beta testers!
What is nsfRewind? It is a data monitoring, audit & backup solution for Lotus Notes. With its micro-backup architecture, nsfRewind allows you to monitor any document in any Notes database for modification. Modifications will automatically trigger an [...] [read] Keywords: document
lotus
notes
database
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Help Name Our New Application Results (Finally!)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 1:52p Corey Davis All the way back on August 11th I asked you to Help Name Our New Application. In the comments I made the ridiculous statement that I would announce the result in the “coming days or weeks”. I guess months would have been more accurate. For this I apologize. It is a prime example of the [...] [read] Keywords: application
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Time Machine Crash Resolved
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 6:58p Corey Davis If you follow me on Twitter then you will know that I recently tweeted an issue in which Time Machine was failing causing my MacBook Pro to crash in what is essentially akin to the BSOD for Windows users. The first time this happened I wasn’t even using the laptop. The second time I was [...] [read] Keywords: laptop
macbook
twitter
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SnTT: Function to Determine if Addressee is Internal or External
Thu, Oct 23rd 2008 11:00a Corey Davis How familiar are you with LotusScript’s Like operator? If not very, then you are missing out because Like packs a lot of punch. To demonstrate that I am going to outline a function that I use in my applications to determine if a particular e-mail address is internal to my domain.
This function requires that you [...] [read] Keywords: lotusscript
sntt
applications
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Blog Upgrade and Resulting Problems
Thu, Oct 23rd 2008 1:51a Corey Davis This is just an FYI that after upgrading this blog to the latest version of WordPress some plugins are no longer working properly causing some functionality to this blog to be offline (i.e., categories and Popular Posts). I will work to restore this functionality as soon as possible. [read] Keywords:
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Flow v1.0 Beta 3 LS Logging Engine Released
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 2:52p Corey Davis This latest release of Flow, an open-source LotusScript logging engine, includes a speed enhancement provided by Kevin Pettitt, a fix for a rare inaccuracy in the error count, and adds new functionality such as ContinueText, a log cleanup utility, localization for easier international integration and more.
I would like to extend a sincere thank you to [...] [read] Keywords: lotusscript
integration
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SnTT: Function to Get an Addressee’s Domain
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 7:51p Corey Davis One of the little functions that I wrote some time ago yet has come in handy time and time again is the AddresseeDomain function. When given the recipient address of an e-mail, this function will pass back the recipient’s domain be it the Internet domain or Domino domain (which is useful if you are in [...] [read] Keywords: domino
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$ufr
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 2:51p Corey Davis Feeling the pain of pending economic doom? Let the world know with your $ufr (Save Us From Recession) badge! [read] Keywords:
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Is IBM Eating Outsourcers Cake With New Notes Hosted Offering?
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 4:48p Corey Davis It was announced today that IBM will be offering a Notes/Domino hosting solution targeted at the SMB market (1,000 - 10,000 seats). My immediate reaction to this was wondering how this would affect those IBM Business Partners that specialize in managing Domino infrastructures on an outsourced basis. The affect on large enterprise outsourced agreements are [...] [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
notes
enterprise
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9/11: Where I Was and Explaining it to Our Daughter
Thu, Sep 11th 2008 3:07p Corey Davis Today Ed Brill posted about 9/11, as I’m sure have others. Ed’s in particular was how to broach the subject with his daughter which of course got me thinking.
My daughter is 4, so this conversation has not yet taken place. TV in the morning is usually confined to Nick Jr. or the Disney Channel so [...] [read] Keywords:
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Notes 8.0.2: Its The Little Things
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 2:51p Corey Davis When installing Notes 8.0.1 without Symphony (embedded editors, office tools, whatever you want to call them) the Home Page taunted you by displaying their icons:
Thankfully the Home Page is now a bit smarter in Notes 8.0.2 and will only show them if they are installed: [read] Keywords: notes
symphony
office
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How To Annoy Your Users
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 12:49p Corey Davis A new machine of mine has a LightScribe enabled DVD drive. In order to use the LightScribe feature, which I have not yet, you need to have the LightScribe control panel software installed. In my opinion LightScribe has violated a major rule: do not annoy the user. While answering an e-mail this [...] [read] Keywords:
Happy Yellowday!
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 10:53a Corey Davis Unfortunately I am not in town for today’s Yellowday festivities which means I’m not online either. Well, I’m probably posting some inane comments or harassing your intelligence via Twitter, but I’m not coding today or watching the blogs or partaking in any of the Yellowday funness. However, I am wearing yellow. Or [...] [read] Keywords: twitter
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Help Name Our New Application
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 10:53a Corey Davis In celebration of Yellowday ‘08 I would like for you to help name Conxsys’s newest application.
As you likely know, if you follow this blog, I have been absent from blogging lately. Some of this is because the short items I used to post here now go up on Twitter, but mostly it is because [...] [read] Keywords: application
blogging
twitter
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SnTT: Forgotten LotusScript: NotesUIWorkspace.Prompt
Thu, Aug 7th 2008 10:51a Corey Davis From time-to-time I have come across Notes applications that customers have written that ask the user for another database. Usually this is done to export data or because some type of processing must take place against this other data source. For whatever reason this is being done, the point which the user is [...] [read] Keywords: lotusscript
notes
sntt
applications
database
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Sheep?
Fri, Jun 13th 2008 1:57p Corey Davis Chris Miller (@IDoNotes on Twitter) just tweeted about a service to track your Twitter follower count called TwitterCounter. It seems totally egotistical to me which is probably why I immediately jumped on board. ;-) When I scrolled down the page they display of the last 5 people to start tracking their count. See any familiar [...] [read] Keywords: twitter
3
The Pointless Upgrade
Tue, Jun 10th 2008 6:28p Corey Davis Today I got a popup letting me know that PGP Desktop for Mac had been upgraded. I downloaded it and looked through the readme to see what was new. Apparently nothing has changed in the last two releases:
I went ahead and upgraded, but I’m not really sure why. [read] Keywords: desktop
mac
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Dealing With Information Gluttony
Fri, Jun 6th 2008 7:05a Corey Davis A problem I have been dealing with for quite sometime now, as are many of you, is information overload. With great articles to read from online sources such as developerWorks, Gizmodo, TUAW, PlanetLotus, etc., a proliferation of blog posts that is almost unmanageable, and then introduce into that the constant flood of Twitter and [...] [read] Keywords: planetlotus
twitter
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SnTT: Adding a Database Size Indicator to Notes 8
Thu, Apr 24th 2008 7:23a Corey I have been meaning to post this SnTT for several weeks now, but have not found the time to finish it. Chris Miller’s post yesterday, Do Your Users Understand a Stoplight Signal?, points out the new and improved quota reporting in the 8.0.1 mail template and has prompted me to finish this post. [...] [read] Keywords: notes
sntt
template
database
3
Flow v1.0 Beta 2 Released…Again
Tue, Apr 22nd 2008 1:22a Corey Deja vu? Not exactly. More like stupid user. In this case, that would be me. I accidentally posted a locally encrypted database up to the Flow project on OpenNTF last week. The problem has been fixed, so if you downloaded v1.0 Beta 2 last week please try again. [read] Keywords: database
openntf
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Flow v1.0 Beta 2 Released
Wed, Apr 16th 2008 7:03a Corey This latest release of Flow fixes a bug that was causing rich-text, email, and plain-text documents to be saved and/or sent even if no events or errors had been logged. This resulted in a log document containing nothing more than the start/stop time of the application. If you always want a log document [...] [read] Keywords: document
rich-text
application
bug
email
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The Music of Battlestar Galactica Live
Mon, Apr 14th 2008 12:07p Corey Yesterday Bear McCreary, composer of the music for Battlestar Galactica, conducted a live performance of his music at The Roxy in West Hollywood. The performance was nothing less than outstanding. How you take music written for a full orchestra and condense it down to twelve musicians (plus one singer for a couple songs) [...] [read] Keywords:
3
What If Life Was Based on Your Blog?
Fri, Apr 11th 2008 6:10p Corey “Story’s centered on a shy collegian who discovers that life in 1,000 years will be based on his blog.”
Variety.com: MGM Sees Furture in ‘Bobism’ [read] Keywords:
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Helvetica
Thu, Apr 10th 2008 6:00a Corey I don’t recall how I came across this film, but Helvetica is a documentary about — what else? — the Helvetica font. On first blush this may sound not only boring, but somewhat of an insane venture. After all, someone made a documentary about a font? Or, as we learn in the [...] [read] Keywords:
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My First Computer
Wed, Apr 9th 2008 1:35a Corey This recent How I Got Started In Lotus Notes meme has me in a bit of a computer history mood. Actually, I have been in this nostalgic mode for awhile now, but it wasn’t until I was writing about how I got into Notes that I began to think about my first computer.
For me, [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
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How I Got Started in Lotus Notes
Tue, Apr 8th 2008 11:20a Corey This meme really seems to have legs. If you are interested, here’s my story (I’ll keep it short).
It started for me back in the 6th grade when the junior high schools in my area all had special programs and were competing for new students, especially those from out of the area. Some had [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
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Flow: Advanced LotusScript Logging
Tue, Apr 8th 2008 6:00a Corey Today I am happy to introduce Flow, a full-featured logging engine for LotusScript. Originally named Extended Logging and used in our Logistic and VantagePoint applications, I have decided to release it as a free open-source project on OpenNTF.org.
Now renamed to Flow, this LotusScript class-family allows for rich-text logging to documents and e-mail messages, plain-text [...] [read] Keywords: lotusscript
, rich-text
, applications
, openntf
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Underselling Lotus Notes
Wed, Mar 12th 2008 1:56p Corey I’m setting here scratching my head over this post in Business Week’s Byte of the Apple blog today. It discusses the enterprise integration of the iPhone now that the SDK is out and one piece of information puzzled me (emphasis mine):
But having crossed out one round of problems, a new crop will inevitably [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, apple
, enterprise
, integration
, iphone
I Finally Bleed Yellow!
Tue, Mar 4th 2008 6:49p Corey As always, I am way behind the curve on these things, but I have finally registered on bleedyellow.com . No, I didn’t miss it when it was first announced. After all, it was hard to miss the pre-launch marketing in its almost viral effort to attract attention (yes, that is jealousy). [...] [read] Keywords: domino
, bleedyellow
, bleedyellow.com
, viral
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We Need Smarter Pop-ups
Thu, Feb 28th 2008 11:30p Corey DominoPower’s RSS feed today had this enticing piece of link bait: “Disturbing news for Lotus Notes market: Washington thinks Notes is dead”. With the weak impulse control that I have I couldn’t help but to fall victim to this and of course clicked through to the article only to be accosted by this poorly [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
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Should I Blog This?
Thu, Jan 31st 2008 1:10p Corey As I previously mentioned, last week at Lotusphere I ended up in the blogger BOF. Even though I had no intention of setting in there I’m quite happy I did. Just another one of those fortuitous situations were bumping into an old friend lead me into a situation I had no intention of entering. [...] [read] Keywords: lotusphere
, notes
, blogger
2
Keeping Your Mac Awake
Thu, Jan 31st 2008 10:23a Corey I don’t know about you, but I keep my MacBook on a pretty tight sleep schedule to conserve battery power. Even when plugged in it is set to sleep after a period of inactivity. But, when I am deep in the middle of work I am constantly switching back and forth between multiple [...] [read] Keywords: apple
, mac
, macbook
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Loutsphere 2008: Day Four Overview
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 11:53p Corey Started the morning off with the IBM Lotus Notes for the Macintosh — Future Direction BOOM. It was a small group of maybe ten or so. It was mostly a “what do you want added” session. I couldn’t help mentioning my favorite topic, and it’s one that I always mention: the lack [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, notes
, macintosh
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Lotusphere 2008: Day Three
Wed, Jan 23rd 2008 10:55p Corey The morning was supposed to start off with BOF302 Blogging Best Practices, but I just could not get up this morning. So, I started with AD309 IBM Lotus Notes and Domino C-API. Okay, great session, but that is not the way to start the morning. Too much C too early in the [...] [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
, notes
, blogging
Lotusphere 2008: Day Two Overview
Tue, Jan 22nd 2008 7:43p Corey The morning started with another attempt at BOF109, Object-Orientated Programming (OOP) and Frameworks in IBM LotusScript. To be fair, the previous day’s issue was not the fault of Thomas or Bernd. It was, in fact, a misprint in the agenda that they attempted to rectify and thought had been properly communicated. Unfortunately, [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotusphere
, lotusscript
, oop
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Lotusphere 2008: Day One Overview
Tue, Jan 22nd 2008 7:18p Corey The first day was quite good. I previously said all I need to say about the Opening General Session . Later in the day I attended a session on the future of the Domino Designer (AD301 IBM Lotus Domino Designer). This was an excellent session presented by Mark Jourdain and Maureen Leland. [...] [read] Keywords: designer
, domino
, ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2008: Opening General Session
Mon, Jan 21st 2008 5:38p Corey As I walked into the room I could feel a buzz of energy. The Orlando Symphony Orchestra was playing very Trans-Siberian Orchestra-ish hard rocking music while yellow, blue, and red lights flashed. That combined with the fog machines and the general enthusiasm of the crowd gave an immediate sense of elation and excitement. [...] [read] Keywords: lotusphere
, notes
, symphony
Lotusphere 2008: Welcome Reception
Sun, Jan 20th 2008 10:18p Corey The Welcome Reception was quit nice, if not cold! The weather was in the low-50’s to upper-40’s and a steady wind was blowing making it feel just that much cooler. However, the food was decent but cold due to the wind despite the best efforts of the steam trays and the free drinks [...] [read] Keywords: lotusphere
Minor Blog Revamping
Fri, Jan 11th 2008 10:22a Corey Over the coming days — hopefully not weeks! — there will be some changes made to this blog. For instance, the entire category hierarchy will be streamlined and tags will be introduced to each post in order to make this site more manageable and easier to navigate. Therefore, if your RSS reader gets “spammed” with [...] [read] Keywords:
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SnTT: Using Me to Create Class Members with Reserved Keywords
Thu, Jan 3rd 2008 5:32p Corey We all know that we can use the keyword Me to refer to class variables from within the class methods and properties. (If you are not creating your own classes you should be! They are a fantastic way to create reusable, fully unit-tested code.) But, did you know that you can use [...] [read] Keywords: sntt
, properties
4
Meet Up At Lotusphere
Wed, Jan 2nd 2008 2:38p Corey I will be attending Lotusphere this year, so if anyone would like to meet up let me know. You can Twitter me (see left column for link), leave a comment here, or contact me in any way you are comfortable with. See ya there! [read] Keywords: lotusphere
, lotusphere2008
, twitter
Logitech X-240
Tue, Dec 4th 2007 3:11p Corey I just finished setting up the Logitech X-240 2.1 speaker system to my MacBook and they sound great! I am not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination, but these sound fantastic! For only $50 at BestBuy I am actually quite impressed. I am replacing a decade old Cambridge SoundWorks [...] [read] Keywords: macbook
2
IdeaJam Officially Launches
Mon, Nov 26th 2007 1:00a Corey IdeaJam , a site for Lotus community members to submit and vote on ideas for enahncements to IBM Lotus products, officially launches tomorrow. I’ve already stated that I use and enjoy the site, but apparently I am not the only one because in only a two-month period there have been over 450 ideas [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, community
, ideajam
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Lotus Redbooks Petition
Tue, Nov 20th 2007 9:40a Corey As I blogged about earlier , the Cambridge Redbooks facility was closed down earlier this year. According to the rumors, budget for Lotus Redbooks seems to have all but dried up. Stuart McIntyre of the Collaboration Matters blog has started a petition to save the Lotus Redbooks . This may be [...] [read] Keywords: collaboration
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iCal’s History and Future
Wed, Oct 17th 2007 1:02p Corey Here is yet another very interesting story from the guys at appleinsider.com. This one gives a nice historical overview of calendaring and scheduling on computers, appropriately starting with PLATO Notes, runs through the various releases of Lotus Agenda , Organizer , Notes, Exchange, iCal, and lesser known calendaring software, finally culminating in [...] [read] Keywords: calendaring
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