Get a load of these speakers…
Mon, Mar 10th 2014 4:30a Gabriella I’m really excited by the breadth of world class speakers and moderators joining us at CSCEvent. Take a look below and visit our agenda. It’s only 2 weeks away and not only do you have us, LDC and these speakers but it’s being held at one of the most fun locations in London, The Soho Hotel (look at those seats!). There are still a few places left so please join us and register here
Tom Ball (Neardesk)
Steven Chapman (Trailfinders)
Alan Bell (Libertus Solutions)
Samu [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Video From Spark Ideas @ Connect 2014?
Thu, Feb 13th 2014 9:23a Gabriella If you missed Spark Ideas and our great speakers or just want to see them again, the videos of each talk are now uploaded to our Vimeo channel. Thanks to Chris Miller and Spiked Studios for recording producing and uploading!
Spark Ideas Videos
Get your motor running – Head out on the highway – Looking for adventure – And whatever comes our way (Debora Cole)
Fighting For Rural Internet (Bill Buchan)
Living without walls: How some goats, an orphan and a very long cup of tea changed my life [read] Keywords: community
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Something Different This Way Comes..
Tue, Feb 11th 2014 4:10p Gabriella If you’re in the UK (or visiting) and have any kind of interest or background in Collaborative technologies, we, together with our friends at LDC, are putting together a new networking event in London on March 21st. The agenda can be found on our website http://cscevent.com/agenda and you’ll see we are trying something different (and no-one, least of all us, will be selling to you.)
“This is a technologically agnostic networking event for those who work in or are interested [read] Keywords: networking
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BP304: What We Wish We Had Known: Becoming an IBM Connections Administrator
Tue, Feb 4th 2014 9:20a Gabriella This is my presentation with Paul Mooney on Connections administration. In it we attempted to cover all the key things about Connections administration we think you need to get started. I realise it’s a very heavily graphics based presentation and I will be uploading some speaker notes to go with it next week hopefully.
Tagged: Connections, IBM Connect [read] Keywords: administration
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BP104: Simplifying The S’s: Single Sign-On, SPNEGO and SAML
Tue, Feb 4th 2014 9:20a Gabriella This is my presentation with Chris Miller on Single Sign On technologies. We struggled with how to convey such complex ideas and varying technical implementations in such a short time and opted to step away from much of the low level technical detail and talk about the concepts and use cases instead.
Tagged: IBM Connect, SSO [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Connect Wrap Up
Tue, Feb 4th 2014 9:10a Gabriella Hello again.. well i’m still in the US but now fully recovered from Connect and the nasty bug that took me out and apparently used me as a carrier to take out 40% of the community. Last year I spent most of Connect down with flu so this year I thought ahead, got a flu jab and lasted until Weds night, right after the geek challenge before being wiped out by a stomach bug. Curse you random travel bugs preying on my lack of sleep and reduced immunity!!!
So how was my Connect? Truthfully [read] Keywords: calendaring
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Announcing A New Kind Of Event For The UK
Thu, Jan 23rd 2014 9:50a Gabriella I’m very happy to announce that, together with our friends at LDC we are putting together a technical networking event in London this March. This is something new and different and we hope people will come to exchange ideas across a broad range of topics, share what they are working on and learn from others.
Collaboration Stack Community Event
Do you work with collaboration platforms? Meet your peers at an informal, technical get-together. Whilst making valuable new contacts, you can sha [read] Keywords: collaboration
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One Of Our Sparks Is Missing…
Mon, Jan 13th 2014 8:40a Gabriella Stupidly amongst all my cutting / pasting last week to get the Sparks in place on the Nerd Girls blog I completely lost one of them. Apologies to Stuart McIntyre who spotted he’d been lost in the shuffle, I think you’ll agree his is one not to be missed. I’ve updated the Nerd Girl Blog as well
Is love enough? The passion to help children find a home for good (Stuart McIntyre)
Parents to two boys and two girls (currently 9-16 years old), home educators and business owners, s [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sparks Ideas Is Back – Don’t Miss It
Fri, Jan 10th 2014 10:30a Gabriella Over on the Nerd Girls Blog we have posted the speakers and topics for our Spark Ideas session at IBM Connect 2014 on Tuesday at 11.15 am in Swan Mockingbird 1&2. Susan Bulloch and I will be watching the clock and keeping things moving..
There are more great speakers and topics this year , see them all here and we will all see you in Orlando Nerd Girl Blog Spark Ideas Full Details [read] Keywords: ibm
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My Search For The Perfect Doorbell Is Over (Yes Seriously)
Thu, Jan 9th 2014 5:40a Gabriella Last March the build of our home office was completed. It sits at the end of our , not very long garden and is s our primary place to work now. We love it.
About 20m from the back of the house
The only downside to the office is that it’s the full length of the house and the length of the garden away from the doorbell. We order plenty of things for home delivery and our poor neighbours were having to take things in because we never heard the bell ring. So we tried a few things
1. Bu [read] Keywords: mobile
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Connect 2014 Sessions, Plans For The Month & Thank Yous
Wed, Jan 8th 2014 10:50a Gabriella Let’s start with the thank you’s – I was delighted to be named an IBM Champion again for 2014 and for that I have to thank the (anonymous) people who nominated me. I find the whole nomination / tell us why you’re good process very difficult to work with as I think I lot of English people do. Being self effacing is more our style but this year I made a promise to myself that if I were nominated I would take a deep breath and fill in as much information as I could on wh [read] Keywords: connections
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Dukes of Hazzard Analogy
Tue, Dec 10th 2013 5:10a Tim I was talking about development and customers today, and remembered an email I once sent to a customer a long time ago.
The customer was complaining that the system that we had developed and that he had been using for a few years did not do a certain thing. We should add it for free because it should have been included from the beginning as it was an obvious requirement.
I used this analogy in my reply:
Imagine you are the Dukes of Hazzard. You have been getting in and out of your car by the win [read] Keywords: development
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The Worst Product Apple Have Ever Released
Tue, Nov 5th 2013 5:20p Gabriella It hurts me to say this and goodness knows I’m not a fan of the “if Steve Jobs” were alive mantra but Apple have finally managed to release a product so bad, so beta, so limited and so shonky that I had to spend time working out how to remove it and that takes me back to my windows days.
So what is it? Well most of you won’t even notice but in Mavericks Apple kindly introduced iBooks for OSX. I read a lot on my iPad on my iPhone and - you know – actual books. [read] Keywords: apple
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Rethinking the iPad Air
Sat, Nov 2nd 2013 10:30a Gabriella Yesterday I switched my iPad for an iPad Air. I had an iPad and I have an iPad mini which I thought would replace my regular iPad but it’s now barely used. The iPad has two SIM cards, one for O2 in the UK (which also works in Europe at no charge which I suspect O2 don’t know) and one for AT&T in the US. Despite its size and weight (and how difficult it is to fit in a handbag) I find it more enjoyable to read books on and it’s really reliable for data connections. The iPad m [read] Keywords: connections
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A word of warning about Sametime 9 Community Server
Mon, Oct 28th 2013 9:10a Gabriella Someone on our Sametime exam team questioned this this morning and I realised it definitely needs to be publicly called out. The Sametime 9 Community Server no longer has any stpolicy.nsf database or a policies view under the old school web based admin. If you upgrade to Sametime 9 you must install the system console (and db2) to be able to manage and maintain policies going forward.
Something for your planning…
Tagged: Sametime [read] Keywords: admin
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Keeping It Clean
Thu, Oct 17th 2013 7:50a Gabriella Two recommendations for accessories for my Macbook Air extremely useful for both what they are meant to do and also as something completely different. The first was a simple privacy screen to keep things private when I’m sat in meetings making notes I don’t want seen travelling. The second is a keyboard cover to protect the keys from my aggressive typing (I wore the M and N keys away in 6 months on my last laptop).
The unexpected bonus of the privacy screen is that, because I b [read] Keywords: notes
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MOBUG 2014 – The Mobile User Group
Thu, Oct 10th 2013 12:40p Gabriella Some of you may have already heard of MOBUG from some activity this year but for those that haven’t, MOBUG is a new idea for a user group and community around all things Mobile. Designed to be entirely independent of software, hardware and service provider it hopes to bring together anyone involved in mobile strategy at strategic or technical levels to share knowledge and discuss ideas.
For this format there needs to be a different approach so alongside regular expert presentations th [read] Keywords: community
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Great Geek Challenge – Connect 2014
Sun, Sep 29th 2013 12:47p Gabriella If you’ve been to IBM Connect (formerly known as LotusSphere) in the past 3 years you may have heard of the Great Geek Challenge organised by the Nerd Girls. On Tuesday night of the conference we take over the Fountain restaurant at the Dolphin hotel (the one that sells Ice Cream) and have a fun, loud, stupid, competitive, quiz evening. Carl Tyler and Paul Mooney have been hosting the past few years and although we are limited by the capacity of the restaurant and the number of event [read] Keywords: ibm
My Webcast With Chris Miller on Sametime 9
Wed, Sep 25th 2013 10:59a Gabriella Just finished a great couple of days with the Salvation Army team here in Orlando talking about all things ICS and CCM (I do loves me some acronyms.. that’s IBM’s Collaboration products like Connections, Sametime, Notes etc plus Connections Content Manager and the Filenet engine). I don’t often get the opportunity to talk to an international group all working together on a single strategic direction so both the content and the audience (if not the location were new and fun.
[read] Keywords: collaboration
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Some Punny Title With The Word Abstract In It
Tue, Sep 24th 2013 12:30a Gabriella Davis Sorry - redirection to our new blog since PL still has the old address. Today I'm talking about the IBM Connect Call For Abstracts and changes in the Show and Tell track. Click here to read. Thanks! ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Some Punny Title With The Word “Abstract” In It..
Tue, Sep 24th 2013 12:16a Gabriella IBM Call for Abstracts is open as I’m sure you’ve heard from 100 other sources but I wanted to talk a bit about some of the tracks and especially the Show and Tell track that Paul and I have been working on with the track manager Christian Holsing at IBM since its inception. You’ll notice if you go look (oh go on, here’s a URL if you can’t wait) that the Lotusphere Technical Program at IBM Connect remains a big component of the overall Kenexa World / IBM Connect [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Sametime 9 Launch Day
Fri, Sep 20th 2013 4:00a Mike Smith Gabriella has just blogged about today being launch day for Sametime 9 and her plans - you can see it over on our new blog http://turtleblog.info ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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IBM Wiki Outage…
Fri, Sep 20th 2013 3:24a Gabriella IBM Wiki Outages Coming up
“Planned outage Friday October 4 to Monday October 7, 2013
This wiki, along with all other wikis, forums and other applications hosted on www-10.lotus.com, www-12.lotus.com, and infolib.lotus.com are expected to be unavailable from 5:00 PM EDT (9:00 PM GMT) Friday, October 4th 2013 to 9:00 AM EDT (1:00 PM GMT) Monday, October 7th, 2013 due to maintenance work at our facility” [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sametime Launch – Backing Out Of The Race
Fri, Sep 20th 2013 2:47a Gabriella Today is the launch day for Sametime 9 which means the gold code should be available to download and install. Usually on gold release day I see a rush on blogs and twitter to download the software get it installed and start talking about it which always makes me feel under pressure. Added to that is that i’m currently at the airport heading to Florida to do some presentations on Connections Content Management, Quickr migration and Filenet so the chances of me getting a) time and b) dec [read] Keywords: connections
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Fun With Domino LDAP
Tue, Sep 17th 2013 9:50a Gabriella Davis Sorry for the redirection, just whilst PL is updated. Here's where you get to laugh at the time I wasted troubleshooting something I'm fairly sure everyone else knows ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino LDAP Insufficient Access
Tue, Sep 17th 2013 9:48a Gabriella Here’s where you all get to laugh and point at me for not knowing this sooner. I was setting up Domino for LDAP access on a server with multiple directories in DA. Everything was working fine until I wanted to write values from another source into the Domino LDAP. Insufficient access. OK so let’s check
Account being use to authenticate has Editor access to the ACL in all directories in Directory Assistance
Global Configuration document in Domino is set to allow LDAP write ac [read] Keywords: acl
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Adventures in TDI – Connections and Updating Profiles
Mon, Sep 16th 2013 5:00p Gabriella Recently (well the past couple of months) I have been working on building custom Assemblylines to sync Connections data held in DB2 to LDAP data held in Domino. I really struggled with finding good documentation for doing this and that’s because the best documentation was written for 3.0.1 and hasn’t been updated since. Thanks to help from some people at IBM (who I’d name publicly here but I’m not sure they want emails from everyone) I managed to get hold of some draf [read] Keywords: connections
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A Refreshing Dose of Meh..
Sat, Sep 14th 2013 10:01a Gabriella At Malpensa (Milan) airport and heading home for a few days I really notice the Italian difference. You see although I travel a lot, about 70% is to the US and the rest to Europe but much of that’s driving. I haven’t been to Italy in 3 years since I visited Rome but I remember travelling with only hand baggage and being frustrated I couldn’t buy some perfume in Capri because I’d have to check a bag to get it home. However when we flew back from Rome no-one cared about liq [read] Keywords: security
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SAMETIME 9 – PT 2: DON’T PANIC
Thu, Sep 12th 2013 1:00p Gabriella Davis We are transitioning our blog to a new site and whilst PlanetLotus updates I am cross posting a link here . Today's blog is more on Sametime 9 Please read it here http://turtleblog.info ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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SAMETIME 9 – PT 2: DON’T PANIC!
Thu, Sep 12th 2013 12:55p Gabriella THIS IS THE BLOG I MEANT TO WRITE – CALL IT A DO-OVER
Still staying within NDA here until Sametime 9 ships, so please bear in mind there are things I can’t talk about in detail until then. I’m not leaving gaps purposefully but did want to post what is public to help people prepare. So let’s get started on what you need to know if you’re an existing Sametime customer.
As I said yesterday the Community Server, which is still based on Domino, runs on Domino 9 and isn&# [read] Keywords: domino
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Icon UK Presentations
Wed, Sep 11th 2013 12:21p Gabriella Doesn’t time fly? Icon UK is already nearly two weeks’ behind us but here, finally , are my presentation slides. I did two presentations this year both with great presenters. My first one was with Mark Myers (who, despite having a genius brain, has not grasped that I understand very little of what he says regarding development). Our presentation was on how Administrators and Developers have to work together when doing Connections customisations and developments and was based [read] Keywords: connections
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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
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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:
