The past 1 1/2 years has lead to a lot of changes in my day to day job. Aside from the usual Domino stuff, I have been involved heavily in Traveler, Google Apps and more recently security. Also connections. Quite a bit of connections recently. Aside from hating the product with a passion when it first came out (due to having to install Connections 1.0) I have come to two conclusions.
1. IMO there is little coherrant documentation on the installation with suffiient explanation to educate admins on “what” they are doing and potential implications. I like good documentation. I like to think that I write good documentation. And bad documentation drives me nuts.
2. Once Connections is installed on a site, it does provide value if championed and used correctly.
So, I have been chatting with my partner in crime, Gab Davis on an idea I have been toying with. I would like to see if there is any interest in the crowd as we both think it is a reasonable sized undertaking. What if we documented a complete installation of Connections under what we could consider a starter deployment, and explain the products as we go. By that I mean, starting with operating system level, and taking you through the installation, configuration, bolt on of moving parts and eventual administration of Connections. I reckon this would take about 25-30 blog posts to get to a production”ish” deployment. Possibly using google video for some of it too.
If you think it would be useful, let us know in the comments. If you think the documentation is good enough out there and something more advanced is needed, that’s cool too.
Heading to meet the Domino Danderers
Thu, May 16th 2013 12:50p Paul Mooney If you have been hiding from Planet Lotus, twitter, Facebook or the UK, you may not have noticed that this week a group of brave souls, adventurers, intellects, geeks and alcoholics are putting their feet where their mouths are and hiking 80 miles in 4 days. All for charity. Their efforts are impressive and you can follow their days (and nights) using this hashtag. If you want to check in on them, see how they are dealing with the fatigue, weather, each other, or if you simply want to see [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino Ethical Hacking comes to Germany
Fri, May 3rd 2013 9:10a Paul Mooney We4IT have scheduled three German “Domino Ethical Hacking” events in May 2013
14th May – Bremen
15th May – Dusseldorf
16th May – Frankfurt
So if you want to come along and play hacking for a day, with Domino in mind, go to their site and sign up. [read] Keywords: domino
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It’s the little things
Fri, May 3rd 2013 9:10a Paul Mooney Modern computing does do a lot more for us. I sometimes think about 10 years ago, and how far things have come along. On my Mac I use notifications quite a bit, as they are subtle and don’t get in the way of my work. Today I needed to mirror my screen so went to disable notifications to prevent small popups. For a change I mirrored my screen to a projector first, then went to disable. No need. [read] Keywords: mac
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A funny thing happened while repairing an iPhone
Tue, Apr 16th 2013 4:00a Paul Mooney This is new to me. I’m sure it isn’t new to many, but I felt it would be worth a quick post. Last night I was configuring an old iPhone for a friend. In order to activate the old phone and unlock it, I had to pop in a SIM for a moment. So inserted SIM, let it activate/unlock and then removed the SIM and got to work syncing music etc. I noticed that the Voicemail icon had an alert. Low and behold there were voicemails from the other SIM, accessible even after the SIM was r [read] Keywords: apple
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Speaking at IBM SpringTec13 Conference, Madrid this week
Mon, Apr 15th 2013 10:00a Paul Mooney Tomorrow I fly off to Madrid until Thursday morning, to present at the IBM SpringTec conference. Among a few other things, I will be speaking for Teamstudio and demoing their Unplugged solution. If you are an IBMr and plan on attending, be sure to say hello. I have been neck deep in mobility, MDMs, MAMs and more for the past few months, so happy to discuss products and topics, or even answer questions if I can be of use. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Gadget review – Sports Vue 360HD
Sat, Apr 13th 2013 3:10p Paul Mooney Carl Tyler has created a monster. A few months back, I bought the Swann Freestyle HD cam for using on bike/car trips. It works very well but I wanted something more sleek to connect to my helmet for longer hauls. Devin Olson teased me with his SportsVue 360, so Carl was good enough to order one for me and ship it to Belfast (they don’t ship outside USA).
When you get the SportsVue, it comes with a bag, two batteries, remote control and a list of mounts/attachments. It does not come [read] Keywords: gadget
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List databases’ adminp settings
Sat, Apr 13th 2013 10:50a Paul Mooney Mental breadcrumb for myself here as I totally forgot this command when asked a few days ago. Want to list administration server settings for all databases on a server?
Tell adminp show databases
Will list and output the data in the console and log.nsf. As from the infocentre:
Displays (and records in the server’s log file) this information:
The databases that a particular administration server updates
The locations in the database where it updates Reader and Author fields in the d [read] Keywords: admin
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Configuring a Blackberry 10 device for IBM Traveler
Tue, Apr 2nd 2013 12:46p Paul Mooney Today, for shiggles I configured a Blackberry z10 device to work with IBM Traveler 9. We have been asked about the new BES architecture many times already as companies need to upgrade/move to BES10 server to support the new devices.
Or… use activesync with Traveler. You start here, on the hope screen and go into settings.
From here, you go to “accounts”
Choose “Email, Calendar and Contacts”
Enter your email address, the get rid of the on-screen keyboa [read] Keywords: ibm
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A quick review of BLUG (with weird video)
Thu, Mar 28th 2013 4:13p Paul Mooney Only getting to post this now. Last week, a couple of days after returning from Auslug, I drove from Belfast to Leuven to present my Ethical Hacking for Domino day before the BLUG event. Don’t believe me? Enter my Swanncam freestyle (Carl Tyler may approve).
The venue, was stunning. The town itself is lively and friendly, taken from what little I saw of it. The hacking day (in my opinion) went very well with a full room and even two guests to add their opinions. Mr Bill Mal [read] Keywords: domino
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