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Killer App for iPhone: Group Text!

Bob Balfe — Thu, 24 May 2012 05:01:25 -0400

I am finding more and more I have to use group te...

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Act Now to Stop Being Spammed Via Google Groups | Blog

Jake Howlett — Thu, 24 May 2012 04:01:09 -0400

Yesterday I got some spam. Nothing new or unusual about that. What was strange was what followed. I deleted the spam but then started get dozens and dozens of replies from people asking to be removed. Some polite, some abusive but all very misguided in believing their actions would work.

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Using Campaigns and Coremetrics to drive sales on your web site

Bob Balfe — Wed, 23 May 2012 07:11:28 -0400

In this video I show how you can use campaigns in WebSphere Commerce to track content and product sales in your website. Campaigns allow you to tag things like web activities with the campaign ID and then pull reports about the performance of that web activity on your site. Web activities in WebS...

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Posted presentations from Admin/Dev 2012 in DC

Andy Pedisich — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:50:42 -0400

It was nice seeing some old friends and acquaintances at the Admin/Dev conference in DC. My hearty thanks to all who attended. I've posted the four presentations I did, along with the STATREP.NTF t ......

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Podcast: Talking with the XPages “Masters”

Bruce Elgort — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:43:47 -0400

Last week at the AdminDev2012 conference in Washington, DC Julian Robichaux and I were able to get a few minutes to talk with XPages R...

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Quick Tip Video: Getting The XPath In Google Chrome

Bob Balfe — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:21:02 -0400

In this video I show how easy it is to get the xPath from Google Chrome. You can use the xPath when processing the DOM tree in your code. I use the javax.xml.xpath in Java to process DOM tree; the API is very powerful and easy to use.

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Official contributor on The Smarter Commerce Blog

Bob Balfe — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:30:47 -0400

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Using Java to Create Rich GUI Interfaces in the Notes Client | Blog

Jake Howlett — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:40:49 -0400

This last couple of weeks I've made what I hope to be a brief return to developing for the Notes client. One of the requirements I had was to "add a form" to an existing Notes database, which allowed the user to input a few parameters and do a simple search of a remote SQL database, present the r...

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Kicking the Eclipse habit

Ben Poole — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:25:51 -0400

Eclipse is a wondrous piece of work, and extremely useful. I have cooked up many lines of code in that IDE over the years (I’ve deleted lots of lines in it too, which is as it should be), and will probably bust it out again and again in th...

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Why your blog isn’t getting enough hits, top 8 tips!

Bob Balfe — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:30:50 -0400

I just read this blog post “7 Secrets to Effective Corporate Blogging” and I think this is also a great list for the regular bloggers like myself. As a matter of fact I guess I am doing their last tip right now by “st...

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Partner Spotlight: Trifecta

Bob Balfe — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:10:54 -0400

I had the pleasure of working with the folks from Trifecta in a recent customer engagement and I am happy to report they are an excellent partner. They really know their commerce. Having several key members of the company come from the IBM lab who built WebS...

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My two most popular posts this year

Bob Balfe — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:51:10 -0400

It’s not often I get more than a few hundred hits on blog posts. I actually average between 200-400 hits per post but for some reason these two posts have received a lot of views.

The statistics come from PlanetLotus.org, an aggregation site where...

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Apathy or Retribution - Silo's Part 3

Keith Brooks — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:30:48 -0400

Continuing on with previous posts about Silos and being an ACE or an AS we now stop to think about some reas...

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Must have links for the virtual eCommerce world

Bob Balfe — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:40:41 -0400

I often get asked both internally to IBM and external how I keep up with the many trends in the eCommerce world. When I made the change over to the WebSphere Commerce team I wanted to be running in the new space (to me) very quickly. I created a few things that have helped me get up to speed very...

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Native Look and Feel With Java Swing Windows | Blog

Jake Howlett — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:00:56 -0400

A while back I talked about how I'd been using Java Swing components within code running inside the Lotus Notes client to "extend its interface" however I liked.

As an example, I showed this progress-bar-enabled outp...

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A Manager’s Guide to Resolving Conflicts in Collaborative Networks

Keith Brooks — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:50:48 -0400

Found this while searching on some other topics. It is an excellent paper, from 2007 which describes some of the obstacles we will face as we strive to a colla...

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Citrix Understands Collaboration Is About Getting Work Done

Alan Lepofsky — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:30:40 -0400

Last week Citrix held their 7th annual S...

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A decade!

Ben Poole — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:14:59 -0400

Not that you’d know it given blogging levels for the past eight months or so, but today this site hits the merry old age of ten! Crikey, how time flies. When I started, there was one other Domino chap out there writing a regular Domino dev site (hello Ben Poole - Ben Poole

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The Accidental Silo Structure

Keith Brooks — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:30:51 -0400

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Oldy but goody article: The Java XPath API

Bob Balfe — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:30:45 -0400

If you Google “Java XPath” this is one of the first articles returned. Clear and concise explanation for how to use the API:

XPath expressions are much easier to write than detailed Document Object Model (DOM) navigation code. When you need to extract information fr...

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You can read a story of mine...

Andre Guirard — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:10:18 -0400

In the recent anthology Sky-Tinted Waters from SamsDot, my story "Misprint" appears. It's about a young stage magi...

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"Reflections on Reflecting Light" - Java program

Bob Balaban — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:10:43 -0400

Greetings Geeks!

Today it is my very great pleasure to introduce to you a new guest blogger: my son David. He has graciously allowed me to prevail upon him to write about his recent science fair project, titled "Reflections on Reflecteing Light". That may sound innocuous, but to quote ...

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Silos Happen? Part 1

Keith Brooks — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:21:29 -0400

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RFC: SharePoint From A Domino Perspective | Blog

Jake Howlett — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:01:23 -0400

As a Domino developer, when you start to learn SharePoint, the first things that strikes you is how similar the two are. Well, they're quite different, but there are undeniable parallels.

As I work my way through this book I am...

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Firewalls Suck Time

Keith Brooks — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:20:42 -0400

Some days you just can't argue with simplicity. Duplicity is another story.

Junior admins remember, all is not as it appears.

While knocking off a number of issues at a client site upgrade it was reported a server was not accessible from the Domino Administration client. Fu...

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Announcing Apache OpenOffice 3.4

Bruce Elgort — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:18:59 -0400

“With the donation of OpenOffice.org to the ASF, the Foundation, and especially the podling project, was given a daunting task: re-energize a community and transform OpenOffice from a codebase of unknown Intellectual Property heritage, to a vetted and Apache Licensed software su...

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Podcast: Connections101 with Gab Davis and Paul Mooney

Bruce Elgort — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:59:27 -0400

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Solution to Java Applet Puzzle | Blog

Jake Howlett — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:01:31 -0400

Here's the explanation and the solution to the Java applet issue I mentioned yesterday.

As you saw the page combined a Domino Java View applet and an ActionBar applet. They are two separate applets. T...

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Congratulations, Devin!

Nathan T Freeman — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:39:57 -0400

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Devin Olson for his position as a newly elected delegate to the Michigan State R...

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Fancy A "Fun" Debugging Challenge? | Blog

Jake Howlett — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:01:56 -0400

Yesterday I debugged a particularly nasty issue. The solution to which I thought I'd share with the world. Before I do I thought it would be fun to reproduce the problem, by way of a challenge for you guys.

Fancy yourself as a half decent hacker? Take a look at the the following link:

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Dear everyone in the HVAC industry...

Nathan T Freeman — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:27:41 -0400

Why is it that residential and commercial climate control systems are so fucking retarded? And yes, I used that language on purpose. They're just stupid. In an age when I can tell my phone to find songs like the one I'm listening to now and play them, and it does ...

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Jives Latest Release Takes Integration To 11

Alan Lepofsky — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:10:45 -0400

Today Jive Software announced a major update to their social business platform, introducing several new features and a new free 30 day cloud based trial. Below is a summary of today's announcements and my thoughts based on conversations I had with Jive's CTO Matt Tucker and VP of Product Marketing N...

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This Friday - last day to save on Admin/Dev 2012

Andy Pedisich — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:20:38 -0400

Lots of good speakers and sessions at this year's Admin/Dev in DC. Http://www.adminsmackdown.com Easy to get to, and there will be experts you can interrogate. It's like education plus free consult ......

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Stopping those abandoned shopping carts!

Bob Balfe — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:50:58 -0400

No matter what commerce tool you use, every company has a problem with abandoned shopping carts. Hopefully your tool gives you the ability to react to this “event” and attempt to get the customer to complete the order.

Some tips on making sure you get the customer to complete t...

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Gardening Advice Needed | Blog

Jake Howlett — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:11:48 -0400

Four years ago this week I moved in to - what was then - a newly-built office, shown below:

As somebody commented back then it looks ...

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Integration Maturity Model

Alan Lepofsky — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:10:49 -0400

One of the hottest topics in social software is integration, with each vendor hyping up how they can can integrate with, or integrate into various other systems. To help position the degree of functionality and richness of each vendor's solution I've created the following integration maturity model....

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Socialtext Has Been Acquired By Bedford Funding

Alan Lepofsky — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:00:44 -0400

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IBM Commerce on the cloud is here!

Bob Balfe — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:51:18 -0400

This is really good news for the eCommerce industry. Now, the leading eCommerce solution from IBM is available in three forms – On Cloud, Managed Service, and On Premise. The video below actually touches on the many benefits of the IBM Smarter Commerce portfolio and capabilities – man...

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How I'm Learning SharePoint | Blog

Jake Howlett — Tue, 01 May 2012 04:50:51 -0400

The fact that I'm learning SharePoint development (again) might seem like an about turn, seeing as though I didn't have much good to say about it a couple of years back when I first delved in.

But back then I was using SharePoint 2007, which by all accounts, was a dog. In comparison ShareP...

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Insights from IBM: Social Mail with Ed Brill

Bruce Elgort — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:10:46 -0400

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Significant releases

Ben Poole — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:45:03 -0400

Two important releases today. First up, we have the latest instalment of the Wormworld saga from Daniel Lieske, hooray!

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Dynamic Customer Segments and WebSphere Commerce

Bob Balfe — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:40:44 -0400

One very powerful feature of WebSphere Commerce(WC) is Dynamic Customer Segments. These are customer segments that can have customers dynamically added or removed with a business rule. This means any of the targets you have in your WC tooling can be used to put customers in or ou...

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American Spring

Nathan T Freeman — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:51:24 -0400

The American media is renowned for it's biases, whether "left" or "right." Since I have a good number of readers here from outside the US, I'm curious whether media outlets in your own countries are reporting on the gathering of tens of thousan...

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A Personal Update | Blog

Jake Howlett — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:00:57 -0400

It's been a while since I posted anything of a personal nature on here. Last time I did, if I remember right, it was when I was down in the dumps, desperate for work and considering throwing the towel in.

Assuming anybody still cares here's a quick update on work, family and this site.

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Sugarcon 2012 in Review

Keith Brooks — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:00:53 -0400

This was my first Sugarcon as a SugarCRM Business Partner and user. As we saw on BP day, about 2/3 or 200 people in the room were also at their first Sugarcon, many of whom beca...

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Protect yourself, empower your audience

Nathan T Freeman — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:20:56 -0400

After Monday's post on using the lotus.notes.addins package, the mighty Ulrich Krause made an SSJS adaptation of the technique and posted it in

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SugarCRM Integration with IBM Connections

Keith Brooks — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:01:14 -0400

Over the course of the last few days here in San Francisco at Sugarcon 2012 I have had some interesting discussions around IBM, integration points, IBM SmartCloud and of course Lotus Notes and Domino.

What you probably know is there has been a few integration points for SugarCRM that ha...

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My Session on IBM SmartClud and SugartCRM

Keith Brooks — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:40:55 -0400

My slides on IBM SmartCloud and SugarCRM can be found here.

SEO made easy with WebSphere Commerce

Bob Balfe — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:31:27 -0400

In this video I show how SEO in WebSphere Commerce is a snap to configure. Short and human readible URL’s can easily be configured using the business user tooling Management Center for static pages, products, and categories. WebSphere Commerce also supports automatic 301 redirection when SE...

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It’s Not About File Sharing. It’s About Getting Work Done.

Alan Lepofsky — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:31:19 -0400

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