Looking forward to Lotus Symphony 3.0
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Vincent Yeung pMany people has talked about Lotusphere 2010.#160; News such as Project Vulcan is definitely makes everyone excited./p pPersonally, I am looking forward the new version of Symphony.#160; In my a href="http://onelotusdeveloper.blogspot.com/2009/11/first-week-using-symphony.html" target="_blank"previous blog/a, I have briefly talked about my observation of the current version./p pThe description from a href="http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2010-symphony-3.0-and-project-con [read] Keywords: lotus
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What do you want to see in Lotusphere 2010?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Vincent Yeung pFor me, no way I can go to Lotusphere this year (no budget, plus change in IT direction…again) .#160; Last time I went was 2007.#160; That was a wonderful year as I knew my company was planning to upgrade to Notes 8 and I was able to see everything I expected.#160; I was so excited after the conference.#160; /p p align="center"a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IlRcEcPmP5A/S0Oflv5ES7I/AAAAAAAAAj0/zVvJJjgydG4/s1600-h/IMG_30535.jpg"img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-widt [read] Keywords: domino
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11 years as Notes Developer already? A quick look back and look forward…
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Vincent Yeung I started my IT career in 1998.nbsp; When I graduated from one of those IT schools, I was hired by a company which was a Notes shop.nbsp; I was trained to write Notes applications.nbsp; I still remember the first Notes application I wrote was a bug tracking system.nbsp; My users were a bunch of internal developers and they never used my application after I completed the development.nbsp; Oh well, it was their loss… :)br /The Notes world had it up and down for the last 11 years.nbsp; The best t [read] Keywords: ibm
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Anyone running Lotus Notes 8.0.x and 8.5.1 concurrently?
Wed, Dec 2nd 2009 4:04p Vincent Yeung To the Notes Geeks out there: A blog from "assonos blog" shows us how to run Notes 8.0.x and the previous version concurrently. However, I have yet find anyone that show a possible way to run Notes 8.0.x and 8.5.x concurrently. I have searched for a while and found no where to go. If you are one of those who has successfully make this happen, please, please email me. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Vincent [read] Keywords: lotus
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Why am I still using Outlook at home?
Fri, Nov 27th 2009 7:38a Vincent Yeung As a Notes Developer, I know what Notes is good at and what it is not. I use it at work. I develop applications on it to solve my clients' problem. We use the embedded Sametime to communicate (and love it). We use it for lots of workflow and office automation tasks. The list can goes on and on, depends on how you use it. But why am I still use Outlook at home? Why can't I use Notes like I am at work? After put some thoughts (last about 5 minutes), I come up with these reasons: It began with [read] Keywords: lotus
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First Week Using Symphony...
Mon, Nov 23rd 2009 2:13p Vincent Yeung In my previous blog, I downloaded Symphony 1.3 and see if it can heal my MOA (Microsoft-Office-Addiction). Mainly I use the document and spreadsheet tool. I found couple things that worth to talk about: 1) Type-ahead in word processing? While writing an email to a client, the writing tool provide a type-ahead function in the document. If you type fast enough it probably won’t brother you that much. But I found it quite annoying because the suggested word somehow distracted me and had slow me d [read] Keywords: document
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Anyone use Notes and Documentum in the office?
Fri, Nov 20th 2009 7:50p Vincent Yeung I am very interested to hear form those who use Notes and Documentum in their companies. Based on an in-depth research (a.k.a Google Search), I found that there are a lot of sites talk about integration between Outlook / Sharepoint and Documentum. And some companies use Documentum to migrate from Notes. I also found some talk about Quickr with Documentum. But I don’t seem to find much about Notes integrate with Documentum. If you are one of those special one, I invite you to email me some les [read] Keywords: lotus
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Just Download IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3
Sun, Nov 15th 2009 10:07p Vincent Yeung Way back when, the first Windows word processor I used was Lotus Ami Pro. I remember very clear that I like that software. It got the job done, quick and easy. I still remember I was hesitated to switch MS Word. However, like a lot of us Microsoft Word becomes my default word processor for the last 15 years. Today I just download Lotus Symphony 1.3 and want to give it a try. I did try the older version of Symphony but didn’t like it. Let see if this version [read] Keywords: ibm
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Referral anyone?
Thu, Nov 12th 2009 8:13p Vincent Yeung I have submitted a request to PlantLotus.org hope that my blog can be exposed to the Lotus community. Apparently, if someone can refer my blog, I believe it will speed up the process. As indicate in the FAQ: “Things considered in posting blogs, taken from Planet Eclipse.org: * Is the blog new? If so get an informal referral from an existing blogger.” Well, let’s hope that some days, some where, I will make it to the list … [read] Keywords: lotus
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Blackberry User’s Pain – Dealing with Calendar
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 9:47p Vincent Yeung One issue I hope we can improve during the Notes 8 Upgrade Project is the Calendar synchronization between the BES server and Domino server. We got a lot of users complaint about how Domino “is screwing up“ the calendar in the blackberry. However, after getting a bit more information about the issue, I realized this is a known problem in Domino (my administrator told me it happens in Exchange as well). My manager is one of the good examples. He got a lot of meetings, I mean, a LOT of meeting [read] Keywords: domino
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So far, Windows 7 did not make me cry…
Tue, Nov 10th 2009 10:17p Vincent Yeung My confession: I do not hate Vista. In fact, I never go back to Windows XP ever since I use Vista. I was nervous about wiping my working Vista machine and upgrade Windows 7. I have spent at least 3 hours to backup the whole machines and almost kneed down and prayed to God before I start the upgrade. Well, here I am, using the Windows 7 Live Writer (the blogging tool) to write this blog. I have to say, except one minor issue, Windows 7 did not make me cry (yet). It did not surprise me either. Her [read] Keywords: notes
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Where am I?
Mon, Nov 9th 2009 7:58p Vincent Yeung I have not been blogging about my journey in Notes since May 2007. It is not because I have left the Notes platform. Rather, I am too busy of participating in the Notes 8 upgrade project in my company. Well, putting the excuses aside, I am back to the blogging world. By the end of Nov, my whole company will be completely upgraded to 8.0.2. I was quite disappointed that we are not able to upgrade to 8.5 because of the time limitation. However, knowing the perfo [read] Keywords: lotus
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Notes 8 Beta 3 is Out!!
Wed, May 23rd 2007 5:19p Vincent Yeung Check Ed's Website... I have been testing the beta 2 for a while. One thing that happened quite often is the Notes Crash... I have to admit that I can't wait for the beta 3. 50% to go!! [read] Keywords: notes
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Back To DB2 Connection With Notes 8 Beta Tomorrow...
Sat, Mar 24th 2007 8:53p Vincent Yeung It takes a week before I can get back to my DB2 connection with Notes 8 beta. I have to say it is very difficult for me to get the 2 things connect. I have followed (I believe) the >9 pages instruction and still not able to make things work. For those who successfully connect DB2 with Notes 8 Beta, please leave me a notes for some useful tips. Try to do it again tomorrow. Hope it works... :( [read] Keywords: notes
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Notes 8 Public Beta 2 - Start to get better after a clean installation!!
Fri, Mar 16th 2007 8:56a Vincent Yeung After crashing my Notes 8 Beta 2 client many times, I decided to rip the whole thing out and re-install it. And guess what, it did the magic. Now everything seems to be more stabilize. At least I can click the "Day At-a-Glance" sidebar without crashing. After playing around the mail & calendar for almost 2 hours, I start to appreciate the interface more. The mail is cleaner and look professional. Calendar is so far my favorite. It is very easy to look at and use. The meeting rescheduling fe [read] Keywords: designer
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Notes 8 Public Beta 2 - Still a long way to go?
Thu, Mar 15th 2007 8:28p Vincent Yeung After I passed my Notes 7 Recertification Exam, I immediately went home and re-installed Notes 8 Public Beta 8. The reason I re-installed the beta is because I needed to keep my Notes 7 for my exam preparation for a while and I just can't wait to see Notes 8 beta. So I installed Notes 8 beta while kept my version 7. Well, here I am, upgraded the Domino server and replace my Notes clients 7 with the beta. So far, I have to say I did not really anticipate an exciting advantage as I would expect. [read] Keywords: domino
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My Next Major Topic – User Interface Comparison: Lotus Notes 8 (beta) vs. Outlook 2007
Thu, Mar 8th 2007 3:55p Vincent Yeung I have been waiting to blog this for the longest time. Ever since I saw the Outlook 2007 beta, I thought, once again, Lotus Notes looks like a ugly cousin (sorry for those Lotus fan boys, including myself). Outlook 2007, in my opinion, is one good looking application. I was impressed how Microsoft care about the user interface. But after I went to Lotusphere 2007, I can’t help but say that there is a lot of similarities for these 2 new products. Once I successfully install Notes 8 beta and Out [read] Keywords: lotus
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My LNB Syndrome is finally over... Lotus Notes 8 Public Beta Announced
Thu, Mar 8th 2007 1:03p Vincent Yeung When I woke up after a long night of Notes R7 re-certification studying this morning, I knew something good is gonna happen... I don't know what it is, I JUST know it won't be bad... And here it is, Ed's blog announced Lotus Notes 8 Public Beta will be available early next week!! Now I have to warn everyone that, if the case of this blog is a early-April-1st joke, do not panic and perform any dangerous behavior to harm yourself... Next week is THE week!! Yahoo!! [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Importance of Training
Tue, Mar 6th 2007 10:56a Vincent Yeung If every computer user has time and willing to open the HELP file, there is no need for any kind of training. No matter how great and intuitive you design the application, the program itself does not improve the user experience or productivity unless the users know how to use it. Our company used Lotus Notes as the email platform since version 4. As far as I remember, we never offer any official training to our users. Even when we upgraded to Notes 6, again, no formal training is provided (exce [read] Keywords: lotus
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No Lotus Notes 8 Beta Yet...
Wed, Feb 28th 2007 8:54a Vincent Yeung Ok, time to really focus on my Notes 7 recertification now. Notes 8 beta is not going to be available at least 1-2 more weeks according to Ed's blog. :-( Let hope that good things come when you wait. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes 8 Public Beta - Update + Preparing My Certiication
Fri, Feb 23rd 2007 8:21p Vincent Yeung Another update about the Notes 8 Public Beta in here. I believe we are closed to the public beta... 5 days before the end of this month!! As of so many new features that are going to be seen, the one I really want to test is the "Activity" function. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I found that will be a handy function to improve the usability. I also want to know the performance under the Eclipse platform. Is 512MB RAM under XP is enough? One thing I am preparing lately is my Notes 7 cer [read] Keywords: ldd
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Lotus Notes 8 Beta - Still on Schedule?
Thu, Feb 22nd 2007 7:50p Vincent Yeung Check the ChannelTimes.com news and it said, "In addition, IBM demonstrated IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 and announced the products open beta program starting this month. The new Lotus Notes client includes major upgrades to core applications and expanded integration with the new collaboration tools announced today." Since the news is announced today in India, so is that means we are able to see the public beta this month? [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The Power of Blog
Mon, Feb 19th 2007 7:08p Vincent Yeung I start to taste the power of blogging. Two and a half months ago, I started this blog simply to put down my experiences in Lotusphere 2007. Even though a hit counter is setup, I don't really concern the number of hits. After all, this is not a paid website or IBM-sponsored blog (I don't think I'll ever get a laptop from Microsoft either!!). With the help from Ed Brill (he mentioned my blog in this article), all of a sudden I got a lot of comments / feedback from different readers. That made m [read] Keywords: document
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Lotus Notes 8 - Activites Panel
Thu, Feb 15th 2007 8:51p Vincent Yeung "Activity-centric collaboration" is one of the new features in Lotus Notes 8. Here is the link and the screen shot regarding this feature. I personally like this feature as I usually dealing with couple projects at any given time. The activity panel will provide a better way to manage my tasks. Other than using folder to centralize all the emails, "activities" can store documents, meetings, To Do list, emails, etc. However, I have been told that in order to use the "activities", a Websphere ser [read] Keywords: collaboration
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My LNB Syndrome - Lotus Notes Beta Syndrome
Wed, Feb 14th 2007 8:34p Vincent Yeung Ok, I admitted I got the Lotus Notes Beta Syndrome: - My daily Google search keyword is "Lotus Notes 8 Beta" - The above keyword is used in Google News Search, Google Blog Search, even Google Image search! - I believe I have visited lotus.com at least twice a day. - I even dreamed I got the Beta disk in my mail... When IBM announced the Lotus Notes 8 Beta released day is Feb 2007, I assume it means the released day is between Feb 1 to Feb 2. I was wrong. Today is Feb 14 and I still have yet [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Notes 8 - Memory Requirements
Fri, Feb 2nd 2007 10:57p Vincent Yeung I got an opportunity to chat with a system administrator who went to Lotusphere 2007. What really surprised me is that the minimum memory requirement for Lotus Notes 8 (the one that build on Eclipse Platform) is 512 MB. If the user also use other programs such as MS Office, Sametime, etc, 1GB Ram is recommended. Please keep in mind that this information is not from Lotus directly. This will be the major draw back for those corporations that still maintain old desktops. In my company, the majori [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2007 - Final Thought
Sat, Jan 27th 2007 4:21p Vincent Yeung After 5 days of Lotusphere, I am ready to get back to work. This trip is a fruitful trip as I got more than what I expect. Here is my final thought of Lotusphere 2007: - IBM made a clear message to the users, partners, and the competitors: Lotus Notes is not going away. In fact, based on the new Eclipse platform, IBM is fully committed to the future of the Lotus brand. - Sametime 7.5 introduction, again based on the Eclipse platform, is proved to be a mature and expandable instant message produc [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2007 - Day 4
Wed, Jan 24th 2007 10:25a Vincent Yeung - 8:25 AM –AD 305 - Application Development with IBM Lotus Domino and IBM DB2 Integration My highlights - Using DB2 data in Domino do make it easier for reporting - Dynamic Queries (Dynamic View) – based on user input! - DB2 Federation – pulling data from other data source (like Oracle) - DB2 can run on the same or different (remote) machine - Query View can do heavy lifting, reducing load on Domino and Notes After seeing all the possibilities, DB2 Integration is one of the top items on my [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusphere 2007 - Day 3
Tue, Jan 23rd 2007 3:43p Vincent Yeung - 8: 35 AM – AD 211 – Developing Plug-ins for IBM Lotus Sametime My highlights: - Buzzword around Lotusphere: Lotus Expeditor & Eclipse - Lotus Expeditor makes it easier to develop plug-ins for all Lotus Products (e.g Hannover, Sametime, etc) - Deploying any plug-in by Administrator is easy, simply put the plug-in in the Domino Update Site (and NSF that manage all plug-ins installation and update) - 11:45 AM – AD 402 – @Formulas Meet AJAX My highlights: - Using Page element, by co [read] Keywords: agent
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