Connections101.Net Updated and Live
Tue, Feb 19th 2013 2:00p Gabriella Davis Paul and I are pleased to announce a week's worth of re-writing connections101.net. Now, you have (hopefully) in an educational format the steps required to deploy a pilot installation of Connections ... [read] Keywords: connections
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The Conference That Never Happened And My Slides From It
Tue, Feb 12th 2013 5:00a Gabriella Davis Apparently a conference happened two weeks' ago. I heard good things however if you saw me any time after Monday night it would be good to know what I was doing and where I was because, like many oth ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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The Conference That Never Happened and My Slides From It
Tue, Feb 12th 2013 4:40a Gabriella Davis Apparently a conference happened two weeks' ago. I heard good things however if you saw me any time after Monday night it would be good to know what I was doing and where I was because, like many oth ... [read] Keywords: ibm
Connect 2013 - New Tracks And Things You May Not Know
Wed, Oct 17th 2012 6:00a Gabriella Davis So everyone knows by now that the Call For Abstracts for Connect 2013 is open and ready for your abstract submissions. The timeline for submissions is short, they have to be in by November 1st but tw ... [read] Keywords:
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Heathrow Lost Property - Incredible Service
Tue, Oct 16th 2012 5:30a Gabriella Davis Flying out to Switzerland with my parents in September, my stepfather left his iPad at Heathrow T5 security. We didn't notice until boarding the plane and despite many phone calls around the airport, ... [read] Keywords: security
Connect Abstracts - Start Your Engines Everyone
Tue, Oct 9th 2012 12:10p Gabriella Davis At the IBM Leadership Alliance conference in Boston last week Paul and I had many conversations with people from IBM about Connect 2013 and the Lotusphere track within it. I know lots of people (incl ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Debug Days. Sametime Failing To Login
Thu, Jul 5th 2012 6:23a Gabriella Davis Here was an old problem that came back from nowhere. I built two new ST 8.5.2 IFR1 servers for a customer. With a Sametime Proxy Server and a separate Multiplexor. I set up an LTPA Token and SSO. ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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Communities and How Things Have Changed
Mon, Jul 2nd 2012 7:53a Gabriella Davis I've been thinking a lot lately about my changing world and Tom's recent blog post on user groups has encouraged me to put my thoughts into words. When I started working with ccMail I had no concept ... [read] Keywords:
Problem Solving The 1-2-3 Punch. LDAP, WAS and SSO
Tue, May 8th 2012 4:40p Gabriella Davis Last weekend I was working on a Sametime install and ran across 3 separate problems that took more time than I'd like to resolve. I thought I'd post here in case it's of use to anyone else. Problem ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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Connections101 Blog
Tue, Mar 27th 2012 8:40a Gabriella Davis This is a joint post by Paul and Gab. As posted on here a few weeks ago and due to the feedback from the community and IBM, we have decided to go live with an education site dedicated to IBM connect ... [read] Keywords: connections
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Off To Melbourne AUSLUG Jumpstarts and Travelling to China
Fri, Feb 17th 2012 4:40a Gabriella Davis Well that was sudden. I had been hoping to make it to Melbourne for the 2nd AUSLUG this March but things just didn't gel when I was trying to plan. Then about a week ago Mat contacted me to ask if I ... [read] Keywords:
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Spark Ideas Video Online - Plus BLUG!
Thu, Feb 16th 2012 4:51a Gabriella Davis For those that didn't make it to Lotusphere this year or those that did and missed out on our Spark Ideas session, or those that came to the session and loved it so much you want to see it again (we k ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Presenting at BLUG on Sametime
Wed, Feb 15th 2012 6:10p Gabriella Davis I'm delighted to say that i'll be speaking at the fantastic BLUG conference in Antwerp on March 22nd (sidebar -only 5 weeks away!). My session is on Sametime and is the only one able to be squeezed i ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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Why I love XPages
Tue, Feb 7th 2012 10:20a Tim Davis I have been thinking a lot recently about why I love developing XPages. I had a few conversations at Lotusphere around this subject, and certainly while most people consider it powerful and the right ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Social Media: Back to the 1800’s
Thu, Jan 26th 2012 9:10a Tim Davis When I read old ghost stories on my iPad, I keep tapping Define to improve my olde worlde vocab. Most of the time I think I know what a strange word means, but its fun to be able to immediately look i ... [read] Keywords:
Lotusphere Plans - Let The Panic Begin
Thu, Jan 5th 2012 6:00a Gabriella Davis Lotusphere is only 1 week away (we fly out next Thursday for other onsite meetings) so I'm putting together my plans, and commitments with the clear goal of establishing when and how often I can skip ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere Sessions Apps for BlackBerry
Wed, Dec 28th 2011 9:30a Tim Davis We are having some delays getting the LSMobile apps into the BlackBerry App World, so in the meantime the latest versions are upon our website for direct downloading. Just browse to the following urls ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Super-cooled
Thu, Dec 1st 2011 2:00p Tim Davis I was thinking about what makes a truly great superhero. What would they need? They could be super-strong, or be able to fly, turn invisible, walk through walls, or they could have armour, machine g ... [read] Keywords:
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The Great Geek Challenge Returns!
Wed, Nov 30th 2011 4:50p Gabriella Davis After the amazing success of the Great Geek Challenge at Lotusphere 2011, the Nerd Girls are delighted to throw down the gauntlet once more and announce the Great Geek Challenge 2012 . Again we chall ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
A Sad Loss - George Paglia
Sun, Sep 25th 2011 12:40p Gabriella Davis Last week our Lotus Community lost a friend. George Paglia was a well known Developer and reluctant Administrator (as he often told me laughingly) who had worked at LeCroy for the past 11 years and a ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Be careful staying at a Marriott
Wed, Sep 21st 2011 3:00p Tim Davis I realise this is all going to sound stupid. We are staying at the Marriott Grosnevor Square in London for the next six nights. We want to watch our programs using our AppleTV but the room's TV is lo ... [read] Keywords:
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Notes 8.5.3 and Embedded Sametime - A Warning
Tue, Sep 13th 2011 9:30a Gabriella Davis A quick heads up for the forthcoming Notes 8.5.3 release due October 4th. Up until now the embedded Sametime client has been version 8.0.2, which meant you couldn't benefit from many of the new Samet ... [read] Keywords: notes
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It’s Nearly That Time Again - Lotusphere Sessions
Tue, Sep 13th 2011 5:40a Gabriella Davis It’s Nearly That Time Again - Lotusphere Sessions Mid September is here, the leaves are turning, in London the Autumn weather has arrived and the kids are back at school. From here it’s ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
This stuff is harder than it looks
Fri, Aug 5th 2011 5:47a Gabriella Davis The first draft of the Sametime Admin Guide is now done and we've moved onto to the first review copy. On Chapter 3 which is about Sametime Telephony the publishers had issues with a couple of the s ... [read] Keywords: admin
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Coming up for air
Wed, Jul 13th 2011 9:50a Gabriella Davis Where to start. It's been a hectic few weeks since I last posted and I've had about 100 blog ideas, none of which were written so here's a summary of my highpoints. Sametime Installs I've completed ... [read] Keywords: sametime
Sametime 8.5.2 - Install Cheat Sheet and Forget-Me-Nots
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 5:24a Gabriella Davis If you're building a Sametime 8.5.2 environment you may be confused where to start and where to stop. Don't try and wing it without reading any documentation, you won't lose geek points for at least ... [read] Keywords: sametime
Why I’m No Evangelist
Wed, Mar 2nd 2011 7:11a Gabriella Davis There's a lot of evangelism out there right now (can I get a woo!) and seemingly more every day. On linked in I can see new evangelists popping up all the time. So clearly it's the newest, buzziest ... [read] Keywords:
One of our Dojo’s is missing
Thu, Feb 24th 2011 10:13a Gabriella Davis Received a call yesterday from a customer who we had upgraded to 8.5 and 8.5.1 with all the fixpacks in between. They were ready to get started on deploying some Xpages goodness but their Intranet se ... [read] Keywords: admin
xpages dojo
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs Once Upon a Time in the West
Wed, Feb 23rd 2011 3:30a Tim Davis I have always loved the three Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns ever since my Dad made me and my brother watch Fistful of Dollars when I was about 16 or so. Last year they were the first ... [read] Keywords:
Official Lotusphere Apps available
Thu, Jan 20th 2011 3:00a Tim Davis I got my invite to LS Online last night, and I was very excited to see that the Lotusphere team have once again produced both a mobile and smartphone versions of the sessions agenda. This year as wel ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere Plans - No Time To Lose!
Tue, Jan 18th 2011 5:10a Gabriella Davis Lotusphere is almost here - for me it's only 9 day's away and I haven't blogged my activities at all. Like Paul I made a conscious effort to dial back a bit this year but I'm very excited about what' ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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I like racing games on the iPad
Mon, Jan 17th 2011 2:10p Tim Davis I've tried a few racing games on the iPad and I have three favourites. Each one fulfils a different role, making up a range of racing styles to suit my mood. My number 1 is: Need For Speed Hot Pursui ... [read] Keywords:
News about Sessions Apps
Wed, Jan 12th 2011 4:40p Tim Davis The annoying news is that we've been having trouble getting the sessions app to work on the Torch, and have just discovered that BB6 introduced a bug in its handling of choice-type fields. We are goin ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Announcing The Great Geek Challenge - Lotusphere 2011
Sat, Jan 8th 2011 8:40a Gabriella Davis I'm delighted to announce that this year at Lotusphere we are holding the first ever Great Geek Challenge If you consider yourself a Geek or even a Nerd now's the time to test yourself and crush the ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Google thinks I’m an idiot
Thu, Jan 6th 2011 8:10p Tim Davis Every ****ing time I type something in the search, it comes back saying "I think you'll find you meant something else, moron". ... [read] Keywords: google
If you are having trouble with the BB Sessions App
Tue, Jan 4th 2011 2:10p Tim Davis We have had a few people reporting errors when trying to reload the sessions with this year's data in an existing install of the app. If you are suffering from this, can you try reinstalling the lates ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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I tried a 3D TV with the glasses
Tue, Jan 4th 2011 3:20a Tim Davis I don't see films in 3D at the cinema any more (I saw Tron Legacy in regular-vision over the New Year and liked it), but with the big push this year for 3D TVs I was interested to try one out. John L ... [read] Keywords:
Loan Shark Dot Com
Mon, Nov 22nd 2010 6:40p Tim Davis I saw a link to this site in a banner ad. https://www.wonga.com They seem very proud of having over 2600% APR. (No, this is not a typo.) ... [read] Keywords:
Sametime 8.5 Online Presence Failing
Mon, Sep 27th 2010 12:20p Gabriella Davis Over the past few months I've had several reports of customers with new 8.5 installs and online awareness problems. These have ranged from people "blipping" offline and online again to everyone appea ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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Comic Book Guys must be weird
Tue, Sep 21st 2010 6:50a Tim Davis I was trawling the interwebs yesterday looking for what's new and happening in the world of comics and I ended up on a site with this list under its 'popular searches' sidebar: I can't remember whi ... [read] Keywords:
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Christmas is coming
Tue, Sep 21st 2010 6:00a Tim Davis I took this photo yesterday in our local Sainsbury's: This was 20th September. ... [read] Keywords:
Things Tim Can Break #47
Tue, Sep 7th 2010 3:40p Gabriella Davis A Knife .... from Wedding silverware. Dropped on the floor from a great height ... [read] Keywords:
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Blizzard say I can’t play Starcraft 2 right now
Thu, Sep 2nd 2010 12:50p Tim Davis I just went to play StarCraft 2 and Blizzard's authentication servers are down so I can't play. What kind of nonsense is that? This isn't even for multiplayer, I just want to play my single player cam ... [read] Keywords:
The Final Frontier gets better with every listen
Fri, Aug 20th 2010 11:10a Tim Davis With the first run through only two tracks stuck: The Alchemist and Starblind. By the third listen, Coming Home and The Talisman had become accessible. Now (fifth? sixth?) I am loving The Man Who ... [read] Keywords:
Leaving IAMLUG And Here Are My Presentations
Wed, Aug 4th 2010 12:31p Gabriella Davis It was great being here at IAMLUG again this year and thanks to Chris and the entire team for their hard work and for the late night introduction to Ted Drewes frozen custard. I defy anyone to eat mor ... [read] Keywords:
Sometimes Lotus Blows My Mind - In A Very Good Way
Thu, Jun 10th 2010 1:09p Gabriella Davis This afternoon I got a reminder invite about LotusLive and remembered that I had been meaning to try out the new LotusLive meetings app for iPhone which shipped in early May. Since I have my shiny new ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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