Bruce Elgort / Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:09:26 -0700 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:09:26 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode177.htm Books Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode177.htm Warren Elsmore wrote a book! It's called Brick City and Warren describes it as "a celebration of the worlds' architecture, recreated solely using the celebrated toy of the century, LEGO bricks."

• In our podcast with him, we discussed:
• Is this an instruction book or an idea book?
• Who is the target audience?
• What was the book writing process like?
• How and when can people buy this book?
• And many more LEGO-rich topics...

Brick City will be in bookstores in several different countries on May 6th, and it is already available for pre-order on Amazon - check Warren's Brick City page for links. Warren's website also has more information on his large scale models and his commission-based work.

Podcast trivia: Warren was briefly a Guinness World Record holder for "Largest LEGO Mosaic" from the 2012 LEGO Show, with a mosaic measuring at 143.9 square meters (1607 square feet). ]]> Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:04:45 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode176.htm Cloud Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode176.htm On this episode we interview Mat Ellis (@matellis), CEO of Cloudability and talk about how Cloudability can help companies manage their cloud spend.

We talk about:

• How Mat got started with Cloudability
• How much cloud spend they are currently managing
• What types of things are moving to the cloud
• What newbies to the cloud should look out for
• How Cloudability helps manage cloud spend
• The services that they offer and their associated costs
• The future role of "The IT Department"
• and much more...

We would like to thank Dr. Marky Roden of the PSC Group for standing in for Julian on this show.

The show runs 25:51. ]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:38:52 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode175.htm Cloud Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode175.htm Today we interviewed Lynda.com author Jess Stratton. Jess has been a member of the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community for over decade. She has spoken at Lotusphere and other industry events. Jess now works for the online learning company Lynda.com where she helps author video training for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office and other products and technologies.

Rather than listing out all of the super cool things Jess talks about we suggest that you just push play and start listening. Jess does recommend that you "Like" the Lynda.com Facebook Fan Page where you can find out about the latest tutorials and promotions. ]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:14:55 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode174.htm Books Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode174.htm Today we spoke with Ed Brill (http://edbrill.com), Director of Social Business and Collaboration Solutions at IBM, about his new book. It's called Opting In: Lessons in Social Business from a Fortune 500 Product Manager, and it's available both on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Opting-In-Lessons-Business-Fortune/dp/0133258939) and directly from IBM Press (http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/store/opting-in-lessons-in-social-business-from-a-fortune-9780133258936).

We discussed:

• Why did you write this book?
• Who is the audience?
• What is the message of the book?
• What has surprised you about the book?
• What's going on at IBM Connect related to the book?
• And more...

If you'd like to catch up with Ed (about the book or anything else), he has posted a few places where you can definitely find him at IBM Connect next week. (http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/where-to-find-me-or-my-book-at-ibm-connect-2013) ]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:26:12 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode173.htm Cloud Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode173.htm On this episode we interviewed IBM's Paul Brunet, Vice President ISVs, startups and academic relations, IBM about the recent release of the IBM 2012 Tech Trends Report. During the interview we talked about:

• Paul's role at IBM
• What exactly does the Tech Trends Report covers
• What surprised Paul in the report
• The growing skill gaps in technology
• What IBM Is doing to help shrink the skills gap
• Paul's advice for developers and  IT admins that are trying to keep up with all of the changes in IT
• Social Business and Collaboration. Did the report uncover anything interesting in those areas?
• and much more...

On the recording you will hear the show be identified as episode 172 when in actuality it's really 173. The show runs for 28:08 minutes. ]]> Fri, 9 Nov 2012 17:59:16 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode172.htm Community Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode172.htm Today we had the pleasure of interviewing the creator of the awesome Notesin9 screencast - David Leedy (@notesin9). We were also joined by special guests Paul Calhoun and Dr. Mark Roden. We talked about:

• How and why David got started with Notesin9
• Where the name for the show came from
• What goes into producing a show
• What community resources David provides
• The XPages Cheat Sheet
• What is the "Drive to 99" Event?
• The number of shows David has published
• The number of contributors who have appeared on the show
• How people can get involved and contribute to the show and what do they need to do
• Which XPages topics do people want to learn more about
• and much more...

The show runs 31:36 and best listened to while eating Pennsylvania OR Texas BBQ. ]]> Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:06:47 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode171.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode171.htm We talked with XPages developers Jesse Gallagher (@Gidgerby) and Dr. Mark Roden (@markyroden) about::

• How Jesse got started with Notes/Domino
• How Jesse's interest in Ruby on Rails spilled over into XPages
• How a Notes/Domino programmer like Jesse has approached and been successful with XPages
• How to approach XPages app development
• What about Lotusscript?
• How to write "clean" code
• Using source code control
• Moving from Lotusscript to MVC
• Why Expression Language and Java are important
• What XPages can offer that other platforms cannot or offer in a different way
• The adaptability and flexibility of the XPages platform
• and much more...

This episode runs 37:42. ]]> Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:35:03 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode170.htm Collaboration Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode170.htm We talked to IBM User Experience Development team members Amanda Bauman, Craig Lordan, Kevin Giles, and Mike Stewart about what's going on these days with the IBM Wikis. Topics included:

• History of the IBM wikis
• Types of content on the wikis (it's not just random information spread across various pages)
• New features in the latest iteration of the wiki template
• Improvements in navigation and search
• Dynamic content control
• And more...

Bonus trivia: did you know that the short URL to the Lotus (aka ICS) wikis is wiki.lotus.com? ]]> Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:57:46 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode169.htm Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode169.htm Trevor Nimegeers of WMode and Bill McNaughton of Castlebreck talk with us about all things "Velocity AppXtender" which allows you to mobilize your Notes and Domino applications as well as those built with other technologies. This episode wraps up our "mobile mini-series".

During the 25 minute show we covered:

• Who are Trevor and Bill and what is their background with Notes/Domino
• Who are WMode and Castlebreck and what they do
• What AppXtender is and what it can do
• What kind of changes need to be made to customers apps if any at all in order to use AppXtender
• How to setup and configure AppXtender
• How to get started with AppXtender
• Which apps are best suited for mobilization
• Working offline/disconnected

The show runs 25:37. ]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:00:00 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode168.htm Collaboration Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode168.htm IBM Connections product managers Suzanne Livingston, Mac Guidera, Baan Slavens, and Luis Benitez fill us in on the new features of the Connections 4 (IC4) release, including:

• Embedded experiences and activity streams
• Improvements to the home page
• Easily sharing information from any context with the Sharebox
• What's coming in the Connections mobile apps
• Reporting and metrics (over 100 new reporting capabilities)
• Bridging content from external websites and news sources
• And more...

Don't miss the InformationWeek simulcast on IBM Social Technologies coming up tomorrow. A few more links to help get you up to speed on Connections 4:

What's new in IBM Connections 4?
IBM Connections 4 Reviewer's Guide
New Capabilities in Connections 4 (there's also a YouTube video link on that page)

This show runs 32:55 ]]> Tue, 4 Sep 2012 18:40:59 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode167.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode167.htm Giulio Campobassi and Frank Maric of IBM Business Partner Salient Solutions (@goMobilite) talked to us about their Mobilite product for mobilizing Notes and Domino applications.

We talked about:

• Frank and Giulio's bacgkround using Notes and Domino
• How and why they came up with the Mobilite product
• Why IBM Domino is a great delivery mechanism for mobile apps
• Installation, setup and configuration of Mobilite
• What customers looking for in terms of mobilizing their apps
• The business climate in Australia
• and much more...

The show runs 26:48. ]]> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:14:40 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode166.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode166.htm Russ Maher of QDiligence (@russelmaher) and Paul Calhoun (@ptcalhoun) of NetNotes Solutions talk to us about the evolution of IBM's XPages rapid application development platform. Russ and Paul are also the instructors of The View's popular XPages Bootcamp which is taking place in Las Vegas and Chicago this Fall. We would like to thank The View and their XPages Bootcamp for sponsoring this show.

We talk about:

• History of the XPages Bootcamp and how they kept the course material in-line with the XPages point releases
• Upcoming changes in Domino 8.5.4 (Niklas Heidloff's blog post)
• The new Java jar design element in 8.5.4
• Server-side JavaScript Debugger in 8.5.4
• What OSGi plugins are
• OSGi and the Extension Library and how it has evolved
• How XPages in Domino 8.5.4 has evolved since 8.5.0
• How OneUI has grown over the years
• Dojo and how it has evolved within the context of XPages
• XPages in the Notes Client (XPINC) and how it has evolved
• and much more..

The show runs 44:50. ]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:00:00 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode165.htm Collaboration Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode165.htm Steven Green, CEO of TemboSocial (@TemboSocial), tells us all about The Hive. It's peer-to-peer social recognition software that integrates with IBM Connections to help share knowledge, stories, and corporate culture among employees. Topics we covered included:

• The importance of awards, achievements, and peer recognition
• How all this ties into corporate culture and values
• 400,000+ stories on The Hive site for TD Bank since 2009
• How does this integrate with IBM Connections?
• Is it difficult to get management and/or employees to use something like this?
• The way that stories become company assets
• Analytics and reporting
• The use of promotional banners to bring employees back the site

As we mentioned in the podcast, there is a video demo on YouTube and plenty more information on the TemboSocial website. For more information, Chris Miller also has a video interview with Steven Green you can check out.

This show runs 39:32. ]]> Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:00:00 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode164.htm IBM Connections Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode164.htm We spoke with Chris Reckling (Program Manager, Mobile UX at IBM) and Rob Ingram (Manager of Mobile Strategy, Social Business at IBM) to get the inside scoop on what's new with IBM mobile apps. Topics we cover included:

• Mobile app rebranding (it's blue!)
• Principles for mobile interface design
• Mobile OneUI and consistency across apps
• Cool new stuff in Connections, Sametime, and Traveler mobile apps (see Chris Reckling's blog for more details)
• Customizing the Connections mobile app
• The IBM Worklight acquisition and what Worklight does
• IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices

Even if you don't have Connections or Sametime in-house, you can try those apps out against Lotus Greenhouse, and you can also download a version of IBM Worklight that's free to try (look for a link to the Developer Edition on the Worklight home page). Also, don't miss the upcoming IBM Connections mobile tech talk on August 15.

This show runs 41:01. ]]> Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:47:14 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode163.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode163.htm In this episode we talked about developing applications for IBM's Connections social software platform. We were joined by three very special guests:

• Luis Benitez - IBM Product Manager (@lbenitez)
• Adam Brown - ISW Director (@adambrownaus)
• Niklas Heidloff - IBM (@nheidloff)

Topics covered during the show included:

• Overview of the options available to developers (APIs, Widgets, Java)
• How widgets and apps are deployed within Connections
• Integrating apps with the Connections Profile
• Surfacing apps and widgets within Communities
• How IBM Connections Next will utilize OpenSocial and ActivityStrea.ms
• How Kudos Badges was built and how it integrates and is managed within Connections
• Why developers should use XPages to extend Connections
• How you can work with iWidgets and XPages
• How to access the Connections REST API's from XPages
• Where you can find and download sample XPages apps
• What other extensibility features might be important for XPages developers
• and much more...

Resources:
http://ibm.co/StartSocial - Landing for all things ICS development related including Notes/Domino "Next" and Connections "Next"
http://xpag.es/?ForConnections
http://openntf.org/p/xpages%20for%20connections

The show runs 41:53.

Show Rewind:

Be sure to listen to our interview with IBM's Ed Brill and Trust Factory's Wueter Aukema about the new partnership between their companies, news about Notes Social Edition and Ed's forthcoming book. ]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:43:04 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-162-2012.07.23---ibms-ed-brill-and-trust-factorys-wouter-aukema-.htm Books Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-162-2012.07.23---ibms-ed-brill-and-trust-factorys-wouter-aukema-.htm Todays show has been sponsored by Instant Technologies (@teaminstant). Be sure to check out their IMtegrity product for IBM Sametime.

On this episode of the podcast we were joined by IBM's Ed Brill (@edbrill) and Trust Factory's Wouter Aukema (@waukema) and talked about:

• The new partnership between IBM and Trust Factory first announced on Ed's blog
• Trust Factory's DNA services offerings
• What the partnership means for IBM customers
• A special offer made by Ed
• Ed's new book project
• What the book will and not be about and when it will be available
• Who else will be contributing to the book
• Notes Social Edition and what exactly it is
• Some of the new enhancements made in the Notes Social Edition
• When it will be available for customers
• How it can be deployed
• Integration with IBM Connections "Next"
• and much more

The podcast runs 33:25. ]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:31:55 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode161.htm XPages Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode161.htm Based on his recent blog entry about learning XPages, we brought Mark Myers on the show to discuss his approach to wrapping your head around XPages, especially coming at it as a person with a strong Java background. Matt White was also on the podcast to offer the perspective of someone who has been helping people learn XPages for several years now. We discussed things like:

• NOT thinking of XPages as "another Notes design element"
• Coming to XPages from the Java developer perspective
• The amount of learning resources and help available now versus a few years ago
• Using Java and server-side JavaScript (SSJS)
• Some of the struggles that newbies might face
• And more...

Mark and Matt are both members of the London Developer Co-op, and they have graciously renewed the TakingNotes discount code for XPages101 online training courses. If you go to the XPages101.net website and sign up using the discount code "taking notes", you will receive a 33% discount off the list price of your subscription. ]]> Fri, 6 Jul 2012 09:23:47 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode160.htm Community Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode160.htm A quick podcast to discuss the specifics of the IBM Collaboration Services Technical Tweetup being put together by Paul Mooney and Gab Davis on Wednesday July 18th at 6pm BST (1pm EST). The hashtag will be #icstt, and Paul and Gab will put up a page with more information next week (we will add the link when it's live).

Also discussed: Paul has announced dates for two USA instances of his Ethical Hacking course, Paul and Gab continue to add great content over at connections101.net, and don't forget to register for UKLUG!

This show runs 14:15. ]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:09:51 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode159.htm Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode159.htm With this episode we wrap our mini-series on mobile access for your Notes/Domino applications. Carl Tyler (@flyboytyler) filled in for the traveling Julian Robichaux to interview We4IT's Simon Peek (@simonspeakeasy) and Christoph Adler (@cadler80) about their docLinkr product.

In this 29 minute show we talked about:

• We4IT and what they do
• What docLinkr can do for your Lotus Notes and Domino apps
• What components are part of the docLinkr solution
• What sets apart docLinkr from the other solutions available
• How much docLinkr costs
• The free 2 user license
• We4IT's 3rd sponsorship of the OpenNTF development contests
• and much more

Please also be sure and "follow" Taking Notes on Twitter at @TakingNotesPod. ]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:24:22 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisod158.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisod158.htm Walfred Marzahn from YouAtNotes spent 20 minutes talking to us about their "Domino To Go" product. Domino To Go allows you to create native mobile apps that can access your Notes/Domino databases. We covered:

• Who is YouAtNotes and what do they do?
• Which mobile platforms are supported
• How easy it is to create apps with Appcelerator's Titanium and Domino To Go
• Which development languages you need to know
• The pricing tiers for Domino To Go Cost?
• Are there any limits to the number of databases you can access from a single app?
• What about offline access?
• and more...

Be sure to check out the Domino To Go FAQ.

This show runs 21:33. ]]> Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:18:00 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode157.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode157.htm Today we talked to Mark Roden about using jQuery in XPages. Topics included:

• Why use a JavaScript toolkit?
• Why use jQuery instead of (or along with) Dojo?
• Any considerations about using jQuery and Dojo on the same page?
• What are some good jQuery plugins to look at?
• What about jQuery for mobile web apps?
• How about documentation?

Mark's website is xomino.com and his Twitter handle is @markyroden. Other links mentioned in the show were docs.jquery.com, stackoverflow, and Matt White's XPages101 (lesson 27).

This episode runs 37:23. ]]> Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:57:49 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode156.htm Community Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode156.htm Todays show has been sponsored by Instant Technologies (@teaminstant). Be sure to check out their IMtegrity product for IBM Sametime.

Today we had Paul Mooney Blog (@pmooneynet) from Bluewave Technology on the show to talk about the "Ethical Hacking Workshop" he ran in London. We covered:

• Where the idea for the workshop came from
• What was your intention about the workshop
• Why it is important
• Mick Moignard's blog entry about the Ethical Hacking Workshop
• Who the intended audience was for
• How the event was received by the attendees
• What plans does Paul have to do it again
• Other things Paul is working on
• The upcoming Admincamp.de
• Teamstudio's Dragonfly project
• Teamstudio will be sharing some Unplugged templates on OpenNTF
• The 3rd OpenNTF Development Contest
• Jess Strattons new Notes end-user video training series (also on EdBrill.com)
• and much more...

The show runs 41:13. ]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 10:30:44 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode5000.htm Community Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode5000.htm Today we celebrate the 100th episode of the "This Week in Lotus" podcast hosted by Darren Duke and Stuart McIntyre. Special thanks to NASA for helping us broadcast this show from the moon.

The show runs 3:36 and is best enjoyed while sitting down. ]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:58:10 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode155.htm Books Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode155.htm On this show we sat down with all of the authors of the new "XPages Extension Library" book which is now available for purchase. This 537 page book was written by Paul Hannan (@pdhannan), Declan Sciolla-Lynch (@qtzar), Jeremy Hodge (@jeremyhodge), Paul Withers (@paulswithers) and Tim Tripcony (@timtripcony).

The book is also available as an eBook, on Kindle and as an iBook.

On the podcast we discussed:

• How the book came to be
• What tools they used to produce the book
• The OpenNTF Extension Library Project and the associated Upgrade Pack 1 documentation on the IBM Wiki
• An introduction to the XPages Extension Library and what it exactly is
• How the book is goes beyond being "the documentation"
• Who else was involved with the creation of the book content
• Paul, Declan, Jeremy, Paul and Tim talk about the chapters they co-authored and some of their favorite XPages Extension Library controls
• Tim's WatrCoolr project on OpenNTF
• Russ Maher and his unique way of reading this great new book
• The XSP Starter Kit Project on OpenNTF by Nathan T. Freeman
• XPages architect Phil Riand and Tim's upcoming interview with Taking Notes (Exclusive!)
• and much more....

You can also follow Julian (@jrobichaux), Bruce (@belgort) and The Taking Notes Podcast (@takingnotespod) on Twitter.

The show runs 40:10. Oh and before we forget! Be sure and listen to Episode 154 of Taking Notes to hear Paul Calhoun and Russ Maher talk about all things XPages. Thanks for subscribing. ]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 09:00:00 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode154.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode154.htm Paul Calhoun and Russ Maher have travelled to many different countries and cities over the past 2 years, training people on XPages with their basic and advanced multi-day bootcamps. Bruce and Julian caught up with them at the AdminDev 2012 conference to discuss:

• What kinds of topics are people interested in?
• Is mobile XPages development "hot" right now?
• How about XPages in the Notes Client (XPiNC)?
• Will knowledge of XPages development help you learn Websphere/J2EE?
• What are some good learning resources?
• XPages101 and TLCC
• And more...

This podcast is 21:57 in length, 21mb in size. ]]> Mon, 7 May 2012 14:00:00 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode153.htm Community Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode153.htm Gab Davis and Paul Mooney talk about their new Connections101.net website, a project to document the steps involved with building an IBM Connections server from scratch using a "module-based" approach. In the podcast they discuss:

• What motivated you to do this in the first place?
• What kinds of questions are customers asking about Connections?
• Is it really that complicated of a product to set up?
• What is the difference between Connections101 and the IBM wikis?
• Do IBM Lotus Notes and Domino customers already have an entitlement to IBM Connections?
• And much more...

You can contact Paul and Gab directly via their websites (pmooney.net and turtleweb.com) or on Twitter at @pmooneynet and @gabturtle.

Episode 153 runs 35:00. ]]> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:19:59 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode152.htm Mobile Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode152.htm We talked to Graham Acres, an IBM BP in Canada, about how to develop a strategy around mobilizing your applications in the enterprise. Graham discussed mobile strategies in general as well as his own personal experiences, including:

• Deciding which devices to support
• Working with users and business units
• Defining how the mobile app will work, and what it will look like
• Problems with networks, firewalls, and device settings
• Dealing with "bring your own device" policies
• Choosing a toolkit
• And more...

Graham gave a Lotusphere session on this topic, and his slides can be found at the Brytek Systems website. You can also follow him on Twitter at @gacres99.

This episode runs 36:48. ]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:58:15 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode151.htm Mobile Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode151.htm Learn about Teamstudio Unplugged, a tool that helps you mobilize (as in mobile smartphones) your Lotus Domino applications. We spoke with Nigel Cheshire, president and CEO of Teamstudio, and Craig Schumann, Teamstudio senior developer, about:

• The rise of Apple and iOS in the enterprise
• The rise of XPages in the Lotus developer world
• Teamstudio's approach for adding a mobile interface to Domino apps
• Replicating data to and from a device for offline use
• Choosing a strategy for mobilizing your apps, to make sure your project is successful
• And more...

This episode runs 34:00. ]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:37:05 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode150.htm Social Software Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode150.htm Today we talked with Alan Lepofsky, analyst at Constellation Research Group, about the current and future state of Activity Streams in the enterprise. Our discussion included:

• What's the difference between streams of information like Facebook and Twitter, and what we'll see in business in the coming months and years?
• Considerations about filters, and making sure important information gets seen
• How does analytics play into all this?
• Is there truly "one stream to rule them all", or does certain information need to be siloed?
• What about my inbox?!?
• Where will mobile devices fit into this picture?
• Once this all gets going, what are some of the advantages (obvious or not) with having a stream-friendly enterprise?

For more on what Alan has to say on the subject, also check out his Making Activity Streams More Manageable blog post from last week, and find him on Twitter at @alanlepo.

This show runs 41:14. ]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:32:28 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode149.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode149.htm In today's show we talk about all things OpenSocial with Ryan Baxter of IBM and Mikkel Heisterberg of IntraVision. We talk about:

• What is OpenSocial?  How did it get started?
• How is IBM involved?  How can I get involved?
• How is IBM leveraging OpenSocial?
• What is Apache Shindig and how is it connected to OpenSocial?
• What are the advantages to building OpenSocial gadgets over existing technologies?  Will I be able to leverage XPages?
• How do I get started building gadgets?
• What about the community?  Is there a community built around OpenSocial, should the ICS community become involved?
• How can we also leverage the OpenNTF community?
• Where else can I leverage OpenSocial outside of embedded experiences?
• What other companies are involved in OpenSocial?
• What does IBM need from the ICS community when it comes to OpenSocial?

Also, here are some links to a few of the things we discussed in the podcast: the OpenSocial website, the OpenSocial sandbox, and Ryan's Lotusphere slides.

The Lotusphere 2012 Social App Throwdown video.

This episode runs 43:12. ]]> Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:19:41 -0400 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode148.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode148.htm We had the pleasure of interviewing IBM Collaboration Solutions General Manager Alistair Rennie (Twitter), where we talked about:

• Lotusphere! Specifically, the evolution of Lotus/IBM products we saw demonstrated there last week.
• What's driving improvements in the Notes/Domino platform for 2012.
• Why is "social" so important to businesses right now? What has changed in the past few years to make it relevant?
• Are traditional desktop applications going away, in favor of mobile and web initiatives?
• What kind of feedback and takeaways did Alistair get from Lotusphere?
• And more...

The podcast runs 24:06 and is best listened to while eating one or more pretzel cookies. ]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:52:03 -0400 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode147.mp3 Collaboration Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode147.mp3 Today we spoke with Joyce Davis and Colleen Burns from IBM about the upcoming Lotusphere 2012 and Connect events being held in beautiful sunny Orlando, Florida NEXT week!

We would like to thank Ken "MacOSKen" Ray for the new Taking Notes intro that he graciously produced for us. Ken produces three outstanding Apple focussed podcasts including:

• Mac OS Ken daily show
• Mac OS Ken: Live (weekly)
• Mac OS Ken: Day 6 (subscription)

You can also hear Ken on MacBreak Weekly with Leo Laporte on occasion.

We also suggest you follow Ken on Twitter at @macosken.

Topics included:

• "Team Social" and how it can help you
• Which hashtags to use on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and more
• The Twitter scavenger hunt
• Social Cafe's at Lotusphere
• The social media aggregator
• The IBM Social Business blog
• Lotus Greenhouse Communities for Lotusphere and Connect
• When some tweetups will be and where
• The #ls12 Instagram photo stream developed by Elguji Software
• The Turtle Partnerships mobile session apps
• and much more!

See you all at Lotusphere in a few days. Oh, and we will be recording several live shows from Orlando.

This show runs 26:56 and goes quite well with a glass of pinot. ]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:49:37 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode146.htm Books Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode146.htm On this episode we spoke with Michael Sampson about his new book "Collaboration Roadmap - You've got the technology now what?" We talked about:

• Why do companies need to develop a collaboration strategy
• Are there any special "tricks" to making collaboration happen?
• ROADMAP and what it means
• Does the book apply to any specific technology/product?
• Are there differences in the way groups and teams need to collaborate?
• Is there one platform that can "do it all"?
• Are successful collaboration efforts based on grass root efforts?
• Michael's take on "Social Business"
• What's the future of collaboration
• What role does video conferencing play with collaboration
• What has made collaboration a topic of late
• What do you get when you buy Michael's book
• Michael attending Lotusphere 2012
• and much more...

This show runs 38:13. Oh, and be sure and go order Michael's book now. ]]> Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:13:00 -0400 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode145.htm Events Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode145.htm On Episode 145 we spoke with three members of the IBM Collaboration Solutions division about the brand new IBM Connect 2012 event being held in parallel with Lotusphere 2012. Our guests were Susan Collins, Marketing Manager, IBM Collaboration Solutions and Social Business, Dan Hauenstein, Manager, Social Business Marketing Strategy and Michelle Tuttle, Market Segment Manager, IBM Collaboration Solutions.

We talked about:

• What is Connect?
• Where and when it is.
• Why you need to go to Connect.
• What kind of sessions there will be.
• Who the Connect OGS speaker will be (Awesome choice).
• Surprises people may see/hear about at Connect.
• How attendees will be "transformed" by attending this event.
• We ask about the Lotusphere OGS speaker and get an answer.
• What attendees do at IBM Connect.
• and more...

Keep up with the latest on the IBM Connect conference by following the IBM Social Insights Blog or the Twitter hashtags #IBMConnect and #IBMSocialBiz.

You may also hear Bruce say "use the garage" during the show at some point. Obviously we need to teach him to mute his microphone when not speaking.

The show runs just under 27 minutes and is a great listen while wrapping your holiday gifts, trimming the Christmas tree or working on your P90X. ]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:40:52 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode144.htm Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode144.htm With only 46 days until Lotusphere 2012 we thought we would pull together a show with community luminaries Andy Donaldson, Paul Mooney and Stuart McIntyre. Topics included:

• Will this be the the year of the "big change" (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine)
• Tips for Lotusphere newbites
• Why we go to Lotusphere
• Who the OGS speaker will be
• Where to socialize at Lotusphere
• The quality of breakout sessions
• Expect demos, demos and more demos
• What does "social" mean at a conference like Lotusphere?
• IBM Connect
• Paul wins the "social" bingo game
• Will Lotusphere go back to being a purely technical conference?
• What are Andy, Paul and Stuart excited about being at Lotusphere?
• and much more....

The show runs approximately 46 minutes. ]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:00:00 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-143-2011.11.28---ibm-smartcamp-with-mike-regel.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-143-2011.11.28---ibm-smartcamp-with-mike-regel.htm On Episode 143 of Taking Notes we interview IBM's Mike Riegel (@mikeriegel, LinkedIn, Blog), Vice President - ISVs, Startups, Developers, and Academic Programs. We talked about IBM's SmartCamp program and what it's all about. Topics included:

• When people think about Big Blue, start up companies isn't something that comes to mind. So when I heard about your SmartCamp program and some of the other things you are doing around the world for entrepreneurs I was a little surprised. Tell us what exactly is IBM doing with StartUps and Entrepreneurs?
• Why are entrepreneurs and start ups important to IBM?
• What is a SmartCamp?
• Is it working? How successful are previous participants?
• Are you looking for companies that are doing work in collaboration and social business?
• How does a startup company qualify for SmartCamps?
• What should our listeners do if they want to participate in 2012?
• I heard the World Finals is coming up. What do you expect to see from the companies taking part?
• and much more...

The show runs 25:25. ]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:27:25 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode142.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode142.htm Today we talked with Mark Myers from the London Developer Co-op about all things NoSQL.

Topics include:

• The four different types of NoSQL databases
• Why the need for NoSQL
• Why NoSQL has become some popular over the last few years
• How the NSF has provided NoSQL type functionality for a long time
• Some discussion about CouchDB, MongoDB and other NoSQL offerings
• The role of Javascript in NoSQL
• Mark's blog entry about how to improve the NSF
• How and why Mark thinks XPages are much easier to use for development than other technologies he has used
• How the IBM XWork Server is well positioned to become a database server
• Who will be buying the first round of drinks at Lotusphere 2012
• and much more....

The podcast runs about 40 minutes and is chock full of great NoSQL goodness. ]]> Tue, 4 Oct 2011 01:00:00 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode141.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode141.htm
On the podcast today are Ed Brill and Pete Janzen from IBM, to talk about the release of Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.3 as well as the new IBM XWork Server. The discussion included:

• What is the IBM XWork Server?
• Who is the target market?
• How is it licensed, and what are the restrictions?
• How much does it cost?
• What are the changes in licenses and entitlements with Domino 8.5.3?
• What are some of the architectural changes and enhancements with Domino 8.5.3?
• The OpenNTF extension library, feature packs, and extending Domino server functionality
• Niklas Heidloff's blog post about his favorite 8.5.3 features
• Anything new with Traveler?
• and a whole lot more!

The podcast is 38.9 MB in size and 40:30 in length. For other news about the XWork Server and Domino 8.5.3, check out Chris Miller's webcast and the IBM XWork Server page on the IBM website. ]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:02:35 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode140.htm Cloud Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode140.htm In Episode 140 we sat down with Urban Airship CEO Scott Kveton. For those of you not familiar with Urban Airship here is what they do:

"Urban Airship powers the world's most successful mobile apps. Providing breakthrough technology, Urban Airship makes mobile marketing far more engaging, effective, and efficient. Top brands depend on Urban Airship's innovative platform to reach and engage target audiences and increase app revenue streams through push notification, rich messaging, in-app purchase, subscriptions and user engagement tracking."

In the show we talk about:

• Something near and dear to us all - "bacon" and specifically Scott's bacn.com project.
• How Urban Airship got started.
• What exactly Urban Airship sells.
• Why building apps that customers want and need is important. Just don't build apps because they are technically cool.
• The difference between mobile advertising services and Urban Airships "Platform-as-a-Service" or "PAS".
• Why a developer would use Urban Airship's PAS rather than adding push notifications themselves.
• How geolocation ties into push.
• How Urban Airship makes money and how customers are making money using their products and services.
• The number of push notifications served as of August 2011.
• Scott's involvement with the Portland Incubator Experiment. Listen to Episode 138 of Taking Notes to learn more about the Portland Incubator Experiment with Rick Turcozy.
• A blog post Scott wrote talking about boots trapping a startup company.
• What's next for Urban Airship.
• and much more...

This show runs about 28 minutes. On Episode 141 we will be interviewing IBM's Ed Brill about Notes/Domino 8.5.3 and more. ]]> Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:55:51 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Takingnotesepisode139.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Takingnotesepisode139.htm On this show we talk with the CEO of Appcelerator Jeff Haynie. You may have heard of Appcelerators' Titanium development platform.

"Titanium makes cross-platform native application development easy. A free and open source application development platform, Titanium lets you create native mobile, tablet and desktop application experiences using existing web skills like Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP."

We talk with Jeff about:

• Who is Jeff Haynie and how did Appcelerator get started.
• How the Titanium product has evolved over time.
• That time in history when Steve Jobs said that developers could only use XCode to develop native apps for all "iThings".
• How someone can get started with Titanium.
• What products and services Appcelerator offers.
• Where you can download Titanium.
• What the differences are between the community and paid versions of Titanium.
• The upcoming "Code Strong" Appcelerator Developer conference and "hackathon" being held in San Francisco September 18-20..
• and much more...

The podcast runs 29:43. ]]> Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:16:19 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode138.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode138.htm On this episode of Taking Notes we sit down with Rick Turoczy the Co-Founder of the Portland Incubator Experiment or "PIE".

In the show we talk about:

• Who Rick Turoczy is and his background in industry
• The Silicon Florist blog
• Some history about the www.bacn.com website and how it got started
• What is an incubator
• How ideas get turned into companies
• How things don't always go the way people envision them to go
• More about what PIE is/does and how it got started
• The Wieden and Kennedy partnership
• What companies are involved with PIE
• What companies are helping mentor PIE's classes
• What industries are participating in PIE
• The PIE application process
• Which companies have graduated PIE
• When the next round of PIE will be
• What startups get in terms of financing and office space
• and much more...

Listen to Rick Turoczy talk about the Portland Incubator Experiment > ]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:06:57 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesPodcastEpisode137.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesPodcastEpisode137.htm On this episode we talk with IBM's Jim Quill and Phil Riand about the forthcoming relational database support for XPages coming with Domino 8.5.3 and the OpenNTF Extension Library. We cover:

• What is JDBC?
• Which design elements work with RDBMS feature
• How to configure your XPages app to work with JDBC
• Working with SQL statements with parameters that can be defined at runtime
• Talk about the demonstration video created by IBM's Niklas Heidloff
• What's planned for future versions of the Extension Library and database connectivity
• Where you can download the XPages Extension Library and documentation
• We answer questions from the development community
• and much more...

I guess this idea on IdeaJam can now be marked as "Completed" :-)

The podcast runs 30 minutes. We hope you enjoy it! ]]> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:26:21 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode136.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode136.htm In this episode of Taking Notes we spoke with IBMers Dave Delay and Phil Riand about the forthcoming REST API's for Domino and XPages. We cover:

• What REST services are
• What the XPages Extension Library is
• How you can add REST capabilities to your XPages applications
• How you can get at the Domino data model using REST
• A walk through of what you need to do to start using the new services and controls
• and much more

To learn more about these REST services you should also read these posts from the OpenNTF blog:

• Teaser: EST API's for Domino and XPages
• Now on OpenNTF: REST Services for Domino and XPages

This episode runs 27:28. ]]> Sun, 8 May 2011 16:38:54 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode135.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode135.htm For episode 135 Bruce sat down with Niklas Heidloff from IBM/OpenNTF and Vanessa Hutchinson from We4IT where we talked about the first ever development contest being hosted by OpenNTF. This contest is being sponsored by We4IT and you can learn all about the contest by first listening to this episode of Taking Notes and then heading on over to the contest announcement page over on OpenNTF.org.

Episode 135 runs about 24 minutes. ]]> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:46:32 -0700 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-134-2011.04.29---introducing-the-ibm-champion-program.htm Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-134-2011.04.29---introducing-the-ibm-champion-program.htm On this episode of the podcast we spoke with IBM's Mary Beth Raven and Joyce Davis about the IBM Champion Program which has now been extended to include the IBM Collaboration Solutions division. We talked about:

• The nomination process
• When nominations opened
• When nominations are closing
• Nerd Girls are encouraged!
• How many champions will there be?
• How long will the champions be champions
• and where you can get submit nominations

The show runs 25:14 and is best listened to when not playing squash, racquetball or Angry Birds. ]]> Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:13:55 -0800 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode133.htm Cloud Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode133.htm Julian and Bruce sat down with Justin Hill (CTO) and and Jon Schultz (President) of Prominic. What we did we talk about? Well, all things "cloud" including:

• To the "cloud" - Prominic has been in the cloud business a long time. Why is everybody looking at the cloud to host their mail, apps and other servers?
• What are some of the things that people need to consider when thinking about a move to cloud services?
• What are some best practices for Notes/Domino in the cloud? Hybrid, managed replicas, etc.
• The types of apps, services people are moving to Prominics cloud?
• Who shouldn't consider a 3rd party hosting service
• Crystal Ball - predictions for the cloud.
• and much more...

This episode was brought to you by the letter "C" and your local weather station. The show runs 32:57. Enjoy. ]]> Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:51:27 -0800 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode132.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode132.htm This year at Lotusphere 2011 Brian Benz (blog) presented a session entitled "Running a Business on XPages" (slide deck, session abstract). Julian Robichaux and I spent 30 minutes with Brian discussing with him an incredible XPages app that he helped develop for Deloitte Recap. Brian also discusses things he learned during the project, recommendations for developers new to XPages, source control management and much more.

Brian also has posted a collection of excellent videos on YouTube which demonstrate the app and are required watching. Got it?

32:22 with Brian. Enjoy and code on with XPages.

This podcast was brought to you the letter X, IBM Watson and of course extra crispy bacon. ]]> Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:19:50 -0800 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode130.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode130.htm At Lotusphere 2011 Bruce Elgort spend 10 minutes with IBM's VP of Open Starndards Angel Diaz. Topics included:

• Angel's role at IBM
• The evolution of web and mobile standards
• Some advice for Notes/Domino developers
• Follow Angel on Twitter http://twitter.com/angelluisdiaz
• Challenges with the HTML5, Oauth, OpenSocial standards
• ODF and Symphony

The podcasts runs 9:57. ]]> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:06:47 -0800 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode131.htm Events Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode131.htm Just a little over a week after Lotusphere 2011 we had the opportunity to sit down with IBM'ers Ed Brill and Kat Mandelstein. During the 35 minute show we covered:

• The IBM-ification of Lotus
• Advice for the Lotus Notes/Domino developers of the world
• IBM's move to "go social"
• LotusLive
• Smarter Planet
• Why IBM's move to "social business"
• Lotus Symphony (free, free, free)
• IBM's Watson
• and much more.

This show runs 35:28. ]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:52:23 -0800 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode129.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode129.htm TeamStudio's Craig Schumann and Karen Frasca talk about the Spotlight Awards 2011 contest.  Theo Heselmans, the winner of the 2010 Spotlight Awards joins the podcast and shares his experiences with the submission process and especially how easy it is to enter this exciting contents.

These awards honor and reward the developers in the Lotus Notes/Domino community for their remarkable applications.  Take a listen and see why you should enter and have a chance at winning some really great prizes. Oh and this year there is a brand new spanking category for Mobile Apps! The DEADLINE is fast approaching, so be sure and get your contents submissions in.  It's easy to enter!

Here are some blog entries Theo wrote about the awards:

http://blog.xceed.be/Blog.nsf/dx/spotlight-award-the-winning-app
http://blog.xceed.be/Blog.nsf/dx/spotlight-award-walking-on-clouds

The show is runs 20:22 minutes. ]]> Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:50:20 -0800 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode128.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode128.htm Today Bruce and Julian interview Bob Balaban from Looseleaf Software and Andrew Pollack from Northern Collaborative Technologies about:  

• Bob's "Drain Google" project
• Andrew's Second Signal product
• The history of the Lotusphere C.U.L.T. shirt
• Why cloud computing is a lie
• Using Domino as a "swiss army knife" app server
• Bob's role as a Lotusphere track manager
• and lots more...

The episode runs 37:05. Oh and thanks for staying subscribed. ]]> Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:35:01 -0800 http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode127.htm Bruce Elgort http://www.nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode127.htm Today Bruce and Julian interview GROUP Business Software's Nathan Freeman to learn more about their "Evolution Transformer" product. The Evolution Transformer will convert Notes client apps into XPages apps. Once an app is converted it can be accessed from the Notes client using XPages or via a web browser.

We covered:

• What's the point of even writing this thing? Shouldn't this be IBM's job?
• Haven't other people tried this and failed? Big companies have invested a lot of money in trying to automate conversion to other platforms.
• Does it require the Extension Library?
• What's the balance between automation and services?
• Isn't it better to convert by hand? What about customers who are making the investment in XPages?
• What does a converted app look like?
• What about the UI? Does it apply OneUI? What about existing styling?
• What won't it convert?
• What if you want to change something in the application?
• What about Domino applications with existing browser support?
• What about the need to know Java?
• and lots more...

Evolution Transformer video: http://ntf.gbs.com/nathan/escape.nsf/Images/NTFN-8BBUCX/$File/Evolution.mp4

Nathan's  blog http://ntf.gbs.com/nathan/escape.nsf

The episode runs 43:27. Oh and thanks for listening.  You all ROCK! ]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:45:24 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode126.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode126.htm Today our guest on the podcast is Luis Suarez: Knowledge Manager, Community Builder, and Social Computing Evangelist inside and outside of IBM. We chatted with him about:

• Social software evangelism inside of IBM, and the group of 1,600+ BlueIQ Ambassadors within the company
• How you can possibly live without e-mail for over 2 years (a question Luis has probably answered hundreds of times before, and he graciously answered again)
• The difference between social networks on the Internet and social networks behind the corporate firewall
• The future of social software, and what technologies will be used to make it work across networks and vendors
• Luis' recent Enterprise 2.0 Evangelist of the Year Award

For more insight from Luis, check out his blog at elsua.net, follow him on Twitter at @elsua, or listen to him on recent podcasts with This Week in Lotus and TWiT's net@night.

This podcast runs 48:00 and is 57mb. ]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:25:37 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-125-2010.11.15---ilug-2010-wrap-up-fake-edbrill-and-more.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-125-2010.11.15---ilug-2010-wrap-up-fake-edbrill-and-more.htm Have you ever wondered what it was like to plan an event like the recent Irish Lotus Users Group meeting held in Belfast last week? Eileen Fitzgerald from GSX, Paul Mooney from Bluewave and Steve McDonagh give us some behind the scenes details on:

• How long the planning process takes
• How the almighty clipboard is Eileen's best friend
• The event sponsors
• The awesome sessions given at the conference
• The ILUG 2010 planning team
• Speedgeeking
• How the venue was selected
• Speedsponsoring
• Bacon
• UKLUG 2011 announcment
• A visit from somebody claiming he was @FakeEdBrill
• Some parting words from Steve McDonagh

Enjoy the podcast.  The show runs 38:49. ]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:57:23 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode124.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode124.htm IBM's Joyce Davis and Sharyn Richard talked to Julian and Bruce about the VideoFest event which starts on October 26, 2010. Discussion topics include:

• What is Lotus VideoFest?
• When will this event occur?
• What happens on February 3rd?
• What do you mean by recognizing contributors?
• Who can submit videos?
• How are videos rated?
• What if there's a tie?
• Can I lobby to have people rate my video?
• Will you be doing this every year?
• Where can I see the latest submissions?
• Is there a place where I can see examples of informational videos?
• Why are you asking customers to create videos? Isn't that getting customers to do IBM's work?
• Where can I get ideas for videos?
• Do I need to have special software to record screencasts?
• Do I have to have a YouTube account to participate?
• What if I have questions or need more information?
• Bacon headphones

Drop what you are doing and start creating and submitting your videos now.  Just tell your boss that Julian and Bruce said it was ok.

The podcast runs 23:19. ]]> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:21:37 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode123.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode123.htm Today Marie Scott (Blog | Twitter) and Tom Duff (Blog | Twitter) sat down with Bruce and Julian to talk about their new book "Sametime 8: A User's Guide".

We talk about:

• How did writing the book come about
• How long the book took to write
• Bacon
• Some of the challenges of writing a book
• The review process
• What versions of Sametime are covered
• What the book covers
• Bacon
• Where you can buy the book
• Where you can read a free chapter from the book
• The book has a supporting blog site

You can buy the book from these sites and other book retailers:

• Packt Publishing
• Amazon.com

The promo codes to receive a 33% discount on XPages video training "TN119" and "TN120" are still valid for another week over on the XPages101.net XPages video training site. Have you signed up yet?

The podcast runs 39:57 ]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesPodcastRewind092610.htm News Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesPodcastRewind092610.htm July, August and September brought 9 brand new episodes of the Taking Notes podcast. Now would be a good time to catch up on them:

• Episode 114 - All things LotusLive with Chris Blatnick
• Episode 115 - OpenNTF XPages Mobile Controls with Niklas Heidloff
• Episode 116 - LotusLive Notes and Notes/Domino 8.5.2 announcment with IBM's Ed Brill
• Episode 117 - The new XPages Extensability API with IBM's Jim Quill and Phillipe Riand
• Episode 118 - The new SNAPP-On modules for Lotus Quickr Collaboration University and the forthcoming book on Lotus Sametime by Tom Duff and Marie Scott
• Episode 119 - Interview with Tungle's CEO Marc Gingras
• Episode 120 - Everything you wanted to know about Lotus Quickr 8.5 and more
• Episode 121 - Evangelizing Lotus Connections
• Episode 122 - Sidebar, Plugins, and Notes client extensions with Mikkel Heisterberg

Thanks for listening and staying subscribed to the podcast! ]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:31:08 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode122A.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode122A.htm NOTE - This podcast is being re-posted due to an issue with the audio on the original mp3 download. There was a section of the podcast where the audio was inadvertently leveled.

Let's talk Eclipse plugins! It's not just an Eclipse thing, plugins can be used to extend the functionality of your Lotus Notes client.

Mikkel Heisterberg has been instrumental in helping developers wade through the murky waters of Lotus Notes sidebar app and plugin development for several years, through Lotusphere and user group presentations, blog articles, and onsite training. Bruce and Julian talked to him about how this plugin technology can be used and what's going to be in the new IBM Redbook he's been working on (HINT: it's about plugin development).

The promo codes to receive a 33% discount on XPages video training "TN119" and "TN120" are still valid for another two weeks over on the XPages101.net XPages video training site. Have you signed up yet?

The podcast runs 44:11. ]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 04:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode122.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode122.htm Let's talk Eclipse plugins! It's not just an Eclipse thing, plugins can be used to extend the functionality of your Lotus Notes client.

Mikkel Heisterberg has been instrumental in helping developers wade through the murky waters of Lotus Notes sidebar app and plugin development for several years, through Lotusphere and user group presentations, blog articles, and onsite training. Bruce and Julian talked to him about how this plugin technology can be used and what's going to be in the new IBM Redbook he's been working on (HINT: it's about plugin development).

The promo codes to receive a 33% discount on XPages video training "TN119" and "TN120" are still valid for another two weeks over on the XPages101.net XPages video training site. Have you signed up yet?

The podcast runs 44:11. ]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:40:43 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode121.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode121.htm Today we had two IBMers on the show - Sacha Chua and Luis Benitez where we talked about IBM's Lotus Connections and things like social software user adoption behind the firewall, the Lotus Connections API and app integration, open source, product evangelism, ROI, how customers are using Connections and much more.

Sacha and Luis are extremely engaging speakers and you can hear how passionate they are about social software and media and especially how IBM's Lotus software portfolio makes them look like rock stars.

"How Microblogging Drives Business Value To Organizations" blog entry that Luis talked about in the show.

Sacha's blog "Living an Awesome Life" and on Twitter @sachac
Luis's blog "Socialize Me" and on Twitter @lbenitez

This episode runs 37:35. ]]> Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode120.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode120.htm This Episode of The Taking Notes podcast is sponsored by the fine folks at XPages101.net where you can use the promo code "TN120" to receive a 33% discount on their XPages Video training series.  Over 6+ hour of videos and 30+ lessons. Sign up and start learning XPages now.

Today we speak with IBM's Kathy Holden, Rob Novak (SNAPPS) and a Quickr customer about all of the great things that are part of Lotus Quickr 8.5 including:

• Support for over 27 languages out-of-the-box
• Linux support
• Previewing files has change
• No more ActiveX required
• Quickr connectors and support for meta data
• Quickr for developers
• Lists and what they are
• Changes to how ACL'swork with folders
• Speed improvements
• The new templates
• ECM integration
• Why DAOS is a good thing for Quickr
• Integration with Lotus Notes and Lotus Connections
• and much more

This episode runs 46:11 and is 42.4mb.  Enjoy the podcast and we hope you learn a lot about Quickr 8.5. ]]> Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:01:17 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode119.htm Products and Partners Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode119.htm This Episode of The Taking Notes podcast is sponsored by the fine folks at XPages101.net where you can use the promo code "TN119" to receive a 33% discount on their XPages Video training series.  Over 6+ hour of videos and 30+ lessons. Sign up and start learning XPages now.

In this episode we interview Tungle's CEO Marc Gingras and talk about::

• What is Tungle?
• Why you need Tungle
• How Tungle makes scheduling meetings with people outside your company easy
• How Tungle solves a specific problem
• How and why Tungle uses OAuth for authentication
• The Calendar of the Future Manifesto (including several video spots by Ed Brill)
• Learn what the meaning of Tungle is (maybe).
• Tungle's series of connectors including one for Lotus Notes 8
• How Tungle got started
• What's on Tungle's roadmap
• Follow Tungle on Twitter
• Like Tungle's Facebook Fan Page

This episode runs 36:44 and is 35.3mb. ]]> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:04:45 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode118.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode118.htm With special host Tom Duff filling for Julian we spend some time talking with SNAPP's President & CEO Rob Novak where we talk about:

• The New SNAPP-On Modules for Lotus Quickr from SNAPPS
• What these modules offer Quickr customers
• Where to find the new SNAPP-On modules and get an evaluation copy
• Read Rob's blog entries (8/16/2010, 8/26/2010) announcing the SNAPP-On modules
• The new Sametime book that is being authored by Marie Scott and Tom Duff
• Collaboration University coming to Chicago and London
• Snuggies, Slap Chop and bacon addiction
• Follow Rob on Twitter
• Follow Collaboration University on Twitter
• Follow Tom on Twitter
• Follow Bruce on Twitter

The podcast runs 31:06. Perfect listening for your P90X workouts.  Bring it! ]]> Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:09:55 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode117.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode117.htm Have you heard that there is going to be a really cool XPages Extensibility API in Notes/Domino 8.5.2?  Today we interviewed Phillipe Riand and Jim Quill from the IBM XPages team where we talked about:

• What is the XPages Extensability API?
• How to get started using the API
• Where to find the XPages Extensability API documentation (on the wiki of course!)
• How to use the API
• Does the API support both Notes client and Domino XPages apps?
• What's coming in the future with Notes/Domino 8.5.3 and do we dare say Notes 9
• and much more

Many thanks to IBM's Paul Hannan for helping us put this podcast together.

The show is 32.5mb and runs 33:47 minutes. ]]> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:43:59 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode116.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode116.htm This week we spoke with IBM's Ed Brill who is the Director, Product Management, IBM Lotus Software about this weeks LotusLive Notes and Notes/Domino 8.5.2 announcements (LotusLive Notes, Notes/Domino 8.5.2). We covered:

• The LotusLive Notes product and the various ways customers can configure it and integrate it with their existing Notes/Domino environment
•  LotusLive Notes pricing options
• LotusLive Notes and LotusLive Engage and how they work together
• What the industry analysts are saying about LotusLive Notes
• Notes/Domino 8.5.2 and what users can expect
• Mobile access to LotusLive Notes
• and much more...

The show is 28.3mb and runs 30:50 minutes ]]> Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode115.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode115.htm We interviewed Niklas Heidloff (IBM), Chris Connor (BSS), Michael Gollmick (TIMETOACT), and Herbert Wagger to discuss the XPages Mobile Controls project on OpenNTF.

Niklas heads up the project so he was able to give some great background and developer information, and Chris, Michael, and Herbet gave us some perspective on using the project in "real life" situations as business partners.

The show is 43.2mb and runs 44:56 minutes. ]]> Thu, 8 Jul 2010 06:18:53 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode114.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode114.htm On this episode of the podcast we spoke with IBM's Chris Blatnick about:

• LotusLive Connections
• LotusLive Engage
• LotusLive Notes
• LotusLive iNotes
• Why customers are asking about "the cloud"
• The "hybrid" strategy
• and much more...

Sit back and enjoy Episode 114 which runs 39:40. ]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:46:52 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode113.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode113.htm Bruce and Julian talk with Adam Brown, Matt Newman and Andrew Welch from IBM Premier Business Partner ISW about their new Wildfire application available from OpenNTF.

Check out the Wildfire project on OpenNTF.

Watch a video demo Wildfire and Adam's blog.

We talked about:

• What Wildfire is and how it works
• What social networks Wildfire works with
• How a developer new to Lotus Notes developed the sidebar app in three weeks
• Their experience with the open source OpenNTF.org community and how easy it was to get their project started and publish
• How they benefit from contributing projects on OpenNTF as a business partner
• John Heads review of Wildfire
• Why they are excited about sidebar development
• Hear how Matt plays the roles of Mary Beth Raven
• Info about ISW and what they do

The show is 22.1 mb and runs 24:04 minutes. ]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:44:53 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode112.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode112.htm Bruce spends 10 minutes talking with Tim Clark the host of the brand spanking new "The XCast Podcast". Please give it up for Tim and learn about this new podcast focused on all things XPages by having a listen to what Tim has to say.

Please subscribe to The XCast on iTunes here.  You can also follow the podcast on Twitter at @TheXCast.

The show is 9.2 mb and runs 9:56 minutes. ]]> Fri, 5 Feb 2010 05:00:00 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode111.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode111.htm In this episode Julian and Bruce talk with Joyce Davis, Community and Program Manager - IBM Lotus Software and Amanda Bauman,

We talk about:

• What Joyce and Amanda do at IBM
• What is the Lotus Technical Information and Education community?
• Ways people can participate in the community
• Benefits to contributing to the wikis
• Lotusphere 2010 - what  the team did, how information was captured and presented
• Innovating in the area of information development and delivery
• Redbooks
• Plans for 2010
• How to contact Joyce and Amanda
• and much more...

The show is 28.1 mb and runs 30:35 minutes. ]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:44:25 -0600 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode110.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode110.htm Lotusphere 2010 Monday News Coverage

Please check out our Lotusphere 2010 sponsors Simplified Technology Solutions or "STS" at http://simplified-tech.com. STS also has started a new series of screencasts "TipsInTwo" at http://tipsintwo.com. Also, be sure and attend Darren Duke's Show-N-Tell Session at Lotusphere 2010 on Sunday from 4-6 PM in the Swan Osprey room.

The show is 32.4 mb and runs 35:17 minutes. ]]> Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:44:25 -0500 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode109.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode109.htm Lotusphere 2010 Sunday News Coverage

Please check out our Lotusphere 2010 sponsors Simplified Technology Solutions or "STS" at http://simplified-tech.com. STS also has started a new series of screencasts "TipsInTwo" at http://tipsintwo.com. Also, be sure and attend Darren Duke's Show-N-Tell Session at Lotusphere 2010 on Sunday from 4-6 PM in the Swan Osprey room.

The show is 23.2mb and runs 25:16 minutes. ]]> Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:44:25 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode108.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode108.htm With only a few days left until Lotusphere, Bruce and Julian talk with Tom "Duffbert" Duff and Andy Donaldson. The gang talked about:

• Tips and tricks for newbies
• A discussion about the OGS speaker
• Andy's Guide to Lotusphere
• Some of the things Tom and Andy want to learn about at the show
• much more...

Please check out our Lotusphere 2010 sponsors Simplified Technology Solutions or "STS" at http://simplified-tech.com. STS also has started a new series of screencasts "TipsInTwo" at http://tipsintwo.com. Also, be sure and attend Darren Duke's Show-N-Tell Session at Lotusphere 2010 on Sunday from 4-6 PM in the Swan Osprey room.

The show is 41.5 mb and runs 45:14 minutes. ]]> Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:15:00 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode107.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode107.htm Just in-time for Lotusphere 2010, Bruce and Julian talk about the IBM Smart Work initiative with co-presenters, Antony Satyadas and William Malchisky Jr.

The informative conversation includes these topics:

• What is the IBM Smart Work methodology?
• Defining the IBM Client for Smart Work
• Elaborating on potential target markets for the tools
• The Lotusphere 2010 customer panel at session SMART203 covering recent client site successes with IBM Smart Work
• Potential cost benefits received when adopting the Smart Work methodology
• The Lotusphere 2010 Smart Work curriculum and conference buzz\

Please check out our Lotusphere 2010 sponsors Simplified Technology Solutions or "STS" at http://simplified-tech.com. STS also has started a new series of screencasts "TipsInTwo" at http://tipsintwo.com. Also, be sure and attend Darren Duke's Show-N-Tell Session at Lotusphere 2010 on Sunday from 4-6 PM in the Swan Osprey room.

The show is 21.8 mb and runs 23:52 minutes. ]]> Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:00:00 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode106.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode106.htm Bruce spoke with Mainsoft President Yaacov Cohen about their SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes V2.5 announcment.

During Lotusphere 2010 Mainsoft will preview SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes V2.5. Built using the Eclipse Rich Clicent Platform, the Lotus Notes sidebar application makes SharePoint easy to access and easy to use from Lotus Notes. The preview introduces support for Sharepoint 2010 including integration with SharePoint-based professional networks.

Yacoov talks about how first time, IT users in mixed IT environments will be able to access a slew of information (contact details, photographs, areas of expertise, experiences, connections, and more) on the contacts they know, and the they'll be able to search for new contacts based on their areas of expertise and experience. All of this, plus SharePoint-based document collaboration and calendards, right at their fingertips, within Lotus Notes.

Please check out our Lotusphere 2010 sponsors Simplified Technology Solutions or "STS" at http://simplified-tech.com. STS also has started a new series of screencasts "TipsInTwo" at http://tipsintwo.com. Also, be sure and attend Darren Duke's Show-N-Tell Session at Lotusphere 2010 on Sunday from 4-6 PM in the Swan Osprey room.

The show is 14.8mb and runs 16:02 minutes. ]]> Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:09:53 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode105.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode105.htm In Episode 105 we Interviewed IBM's Mary Beth Raven and Julie Forgo from the User Experience or "UX" team.

We talk about:

• What is a "UX person" and what do they do?
• The UX Lab at Lotusphere 2010
• Designing with "personas" and why it's important to software design and creating great user experiences
• Group usability
• How users can influence software design
• Learn the secret code word for "user"
• Community based information dissemination and gathering.
• Learn how the UX team learns from users
• and much, much more...

Please check out our Lotusphere 2010 sponsors Simplified Technology Solutions or "STS" at http://simplified-tech.com. STS also has started a new series of screencasts "TipsInTwo" at http://tipsintwo.com. Also, be sure and attend Darren Duke's Show-N-Tell Session at Lotusphere 2010 on Sunday from 4-6 PM in the Swan Osprey room.

The show is 41.3mb and runs 45:02 minutes. ]]> Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode104.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode104.htm For our inaugural episode of 2010 we talk with John Head, Director Enterprise Collaboration at The PSC Group about Lotus Symphony. We cover:

• Some background on the version history of Symphony
• What kind of API's are available for developers to create integration points for Symphony
• Lotusphere 2010 sessions covering Symphony
• Document format support
• and much more...

The show is 35mb and runs 38:07 minutes. ]]> Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:36:34 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode103.htm Lotus Sametime Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode103.htm Carl Tyler of Epilio talks to Bruce and Julian about all things Sametime 8.5 and what you can expect when you upgrade. Carl gives great information that is a must listen for all of you running Sametime. The gang also talks about Lotusphere 2010, the new Lotusphere Sessions iPhone app from The Turtle Partnership and also includes some good tips on how to improve your English accent.

The show is 46.2mb and runs 50:21 minutes. ]]> Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:32:40 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode102.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode102.htm Craig Schumann and Mike Wetherebee at TeamStudio talk about the Spotlight Awards 2010 contest.   These awards honor and reward the developers in the Lotus Notes/Domino community for their remarkable applications.  Take a listen and see why you should enter and have a chance at winning some really great prizes.

The show is 19.6mb and runs 20:22 minutes. ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:16:41 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode101-1.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode101-1.htm Note: This podcast contains additional information about Global Business Excellence Forum that was also covered in Episode 101.  This show has been produced specifically for the people who may be considering attending the "Global Business Excellence Forum".

This short episode of the podcast covers the brand new "Global Business Excellence Forum" being held for the first time this year at Lotusphere 2010. Learn more about this exciting new event and all registered Lotusphere 2010 attendees can also attend this special event.

The podcast is 6.8mb and runs 7:17 minutes. ]]> Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:48:25 -0800 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode101.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode101.htm Are you an IBM Lotus Business Partner who will be attending Lotusphere?  If you are you should really consider attending Business Development Day according to Tim Kounadis, Director, Worldwide Channel and Industry.  In this podcast Tim and Bruce talk about what's in store for BDD at Lotusphere 2010 including the new Global Business Excellence Forum and much more.

One point to mention that was not covered in the podcast is that the BDD OGS will take place in the same Dolphin rooms as the Lotusphere OGS.

The podcast is 15.5mb and runs 16:48 minutes. ]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:39:26 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#lotusphere2010sponsorship.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#lotusphere2010sponsorship.htm The Taking Notes podcast which reaches thousands of Lotus users around the globe is happy to announce that we are offering a special sponsorship opportunity for Lotusphere 2010. If you are interested or want to learn more, please drop Bruce an email. ]]> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:15:00 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode100.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode100.htm Bruce and Julian talk XPages (in Lotus Notes 8.5.0 and 8.5.1) and Open Source Lotus Awards with XPages Blog editors:

• Matt White, author of the open source XPages TaskJam application, as well as the commercial XPages IdeaJam and IQJam apps
• Declan Lynch, author of the 54 part Learning XPages tutorial and the open source xTalk application
• Peter Presnell, co-author (with Niklas Heidloff and Steve Castledine) of the Discussion Next Gen XPages application on OpenNTF

This podcast was brought to you by Conxsys's nsfRewind and the letter "X".

NOTE: check the blog entry we linked to above for more information on due dates, rules, and suggestions for the Open Source Lotus Awards. There were two conflicting dates we found during the podcast.

The show is 42mb and runs for 44:00. ]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:21:47 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode99.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode99.htm IBM's Alistair Rennie, Vice President of Development and Technical Support and Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President of Messaging and Collaboration Technology Business Executive talk with Bruce and Julian about:

• The Lotus Knows IdeaJam
• How the ideas from the jam fit with Lotus product visions and plans
• More on the Lotus Knows initiative and why the initiative was started now
• How Lotus Knows ties in with IBM's Smarter Planet initiative
• How you can participate and help with these initiatives
• Plans for Lotusphere 2010
• and much more

The Lotus Knows Video Blitz

Lotus invites you to create short videos on how you know Lotus. The videos should showcase specific capabilities that demonstrate how end users know Lotus. Be creative, Be original, Be specific. The Video Blitz will be held on www.doyouknowlotus.com starting August 28th. Also, to help provide inspiration for the Video Blitz, the Lotus Knows IdeaJam will be available for the next 30 days for you to review the ideas this community has brought forward. Please pass the word and encourage your network to participate!

This podcast was brought to you by Conxsys's nsfRewind.

The show is 27mb and runs for 29:43. ]]> Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:35:20 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode98.htm Lotus Quickr Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode98.htm Special guests Rob Novak and Viktor Krantz tell us all about the new free SNAPPS utilities for Lotus Quickr: PandaBear and Flippr. One is for power users, one for admins; both are built on the Adobe Air platform so they run on Windows, Mac and Linux.

That's right: Adobe Air and Lotus Quickr living together in perfect harmony. Check it out.

This podcast was brought to you by Collaboration University. It is 35.1mb and runs 38:18 minutes. ]]> Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:31:05 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode97.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode97.htm Yaacov Cohen CEO of Mainsoft returns (Episode 88) to the Taking Notes Podcast to talk with Bruce about:

• Mainsoft's SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes V2.0
• Moving documents between Notes 6.5, 7.x and 8.x Lotus Notes clients and SharePoint
• Seemless integration between Notes and Sharepoint - no migrations necessary
• Support for DAOS
• Shared Calednars
• Microsoft Cloud Services
• and much more

This episode is 16.9mb and runs 18:27 minutes. ]]> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:03:08 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode96.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode96.htm This evening, Julian Robichaux and Bruce Elgort met up with productivity specialist, Eric Mack (Notes on Productivity), and IBMer Chris Blatnick  (Interface Matters)to discuss a variety of topics, including:

• What's the big deal about GTD and why should Julian (or anyone else) care?
• eProductivity for IBM Lotus Notes and how it makes getting things done in Lotus Notes easy
• How Chris Blatnick uses Lotus Notes and eProductivity to Get Things Done
• What does "GTD Enabled" mean?
• The secret sauce of eProductivity: Eliminating unconscious resistance and barriers to knowledge work in Notes
• Eric and David's very successful Lotusphere presentation: BP304: Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing personal productivity with Lotus Notes.  (Photos)
• The upcoming GTD Summit - Eric will moderate GTD at Home: From Boardroom to Living Room. Chris will blog and tweet the event.
• Julian plans to learn about GTD and take the eProductivity test drive
• Bruce asks Eric if all Taking Notes Listeners get special deal. (Eric agrees - listen for details and his email address.)

This episode runs 49:51 and is 45.7mb (128kbs). ]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:14:51 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode95.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode95.htm Paul Mooney, Julian and Bruce spend 20 minutes talking with Shawne Robinson from IBM about all of the new features in Notes Traveler and iNotes Ultralite that recently ship with version 8.5. ]]> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:19:03 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode94.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode94.htm Eight and a half minutes with Lotusphere Idol 2009 contestant Andy Donaldson. ]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:54:43 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode93.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode93.htm Listen to Paul, Bill, Tom, Bruce and Julian talk about Lotusphere 2009 including:

• Saturday parties
• Flogging
• The OGS and what we think will be announced
• The sessions we will be giving
• Ron Jeremy and Ron Sebastian
• Lotusphere Online
• Symphony Karoke
• Learn why you should secure your mini-bar
• The Turtle's session
• Lotusphere Idol
• Learn about Vitamin C
• SpeedGeeking
• Follow us on Twitter
• Lotusphere 2009 Social Networking goodness
• Mini Golf tournament
• and much more

The audio balance isn't perfect but Skype was acting wierd.  Thanks again for listening. ]]> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:46:52 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesPodcastEpisode92.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesPodcastEpisode92.htm This afternoon, Tom Duff and I met up with eProductivity specialist, Eric Mack, and best selling author and productivity guru, David Allen, to discuss a variety of topics, including:

• David Allen, GTD, how it all began, and his new book, Making It All Work.
• Lotus Notes, how David Allen uses it for collaboration and personal productivity.
• eProductivity for IBM Lotus Notes and how it make getting things done in Lotus Notes easy.
• Eric and David's upcoming Lotusphere presentation: BP304: Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing personal productivity with Lotus Notes.
• Plans for Lotusphere 2009.

This episode runs 48:24 and is 22.2mb.

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam and LinkJam (idea management and social bookmarking software for Lotus Notes/Domino). ]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode91.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode91.htm Craig Schumann VP of Development and Scott Johnsen VP of Marketing at TeamStudio talk about the Spotlight Awards 2009 contest.   These awards honor and reward the developers in the Lotus Notes/Domino community for their remarkable applications.  Take a listen and see why you should enter and have a chance at winning some really great prizes.

The show is 15.3mb and runs 33:15 minutes. ]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:37:25 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode90.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode90.htm Part 1 of a 2 part podcast with Sandra "Queen of Lotusphere" Marcus, where she tells us what to expect at Lotusphere 2009 -- only 2 months away! She talks about things like:

• The team of people who put Lotusphere together every year (do they ever rest?)
• The opening session and the various keynotes at the conference
• Hints about this year's theme and what it means
• Some of the new things you'll see this year

If you haven't bought your tickets yet, get them now before prices go up in January. There's even still a little room left for vendors on the showroom floor, but not for long.

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam and LinkJam (idea management and social bookmarking software for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 15.3mb and runs 33:15 minutes. ]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:36:57 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode89.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode89.htm Are you an IBM Lotus Business Partner who will be attending Lotusphere?  If you are you should really consider attending Business Development Day according to Tim Kounadis, Director, Worldwide Channel and SMB Marketing.  In this 22:19 podcast Tim, Julian and Bruce talk about:

• What exactly is BD Day?
• What's the theme for this year?
• What type of session are you offering?
• Can you reveal who the keynote speaker is?
• I am a new IBM partner, should I attend? What about partners that have been around for while?
• When is it, where does it take place and how do I register?

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam and LinkJam (idea management and social bookmarking software for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 10mb and runs 22:19 minutes. ]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:08:54 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode88.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode88.htm Yaacov Cohen CEO of Mainsoft talks with Bruce about:

• Mainsoft's SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes
• Moving documents between Notes 6.5, 7.x and 8.x Lotus Notes clients and SharePoint
• Lotusphere 2009
• and much more

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam and LinkJam (idea management and social bookmarking software for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 6.3mb and runs 14 minutes. ]]> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:02:44 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode87.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode87.htm Bruce and Julian had the opportunity to talk to Ed Brill (Worldwide Sales Manager for Lotus Notes/Domino) and Dwight Morse (Lotus Notes Product Manager) about changes and new features in the recent Notes 8.0.2 release. We also got to discuss a few "future directions" sort of things. Talking points included:

• Do we have any numbers yet on how many companies have upgraded to Notes 8 so far? How about customer references?
• Is Lotus comfortable with the 8.0.2 startup speed and smaller memory footprint, or will it continue to improve?
• What's the big deal about the new INI parameter that controls whether the client opens in Basic or Standard mode?
• Are the Symphony editors in the Notes 8 Standard client simply "nice to have", or is IBM aggressively pushing the Symphony product?
• Is there better integration coming between Notes and Connections, especially as it relates to Activities?
• Can we confirm or deny William Shatner as the opening session speaker at Lotusphere?

And certainly, much much more. Also be sure to check out Dwight Morse speaking about Notes 8 on the Ziff Davis Innovations podcast.

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam and LinkJam (idea management and social bookmarking software for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 16.2mb and runs 35:11 minutes. ]]> Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:55:37 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode86.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode86.htm In a podcasting cross-pollination experiment, we bring Chris Toohey and Tim Tripcony on the show -- you know them from the YellowCast podcast for Lotus Notes developers -- to talk about the pros and cons of developing Notes applications for free. Or trying to make a small profit on them.

Oh, and sorry it took so long to push this out. We actually recorded over 2 weeks ago, but we've all been busy. You know how it is.

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam and LinkJam (social bookmarking for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 27mb and runs 57:35 minutes at 64kbs. ]]> Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:15:00 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode84.htm Products and Partners Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode84.htm Bruce, Julian, and guest interviewer Sean Burgess talk to Caleb Barlow from IBM about the Lotus Foundations "Start" server, including topics like:

• What is Lotus Foundations anyway?
• The target audience is small businesses with 1 to 500 employees. Why would they want this?
• What is an "appliance" server? What does it mean that the Foundations server is "self-healing"?
• What version of Lotus Domino is included? What if I want to package up custom applications or upgrade the Domino version?
• How do Lotus Business Partners fit into this picture?
• Collaboration University 2008
• How is Lotus Foundations marketed against the legacy Microsoft Small Business Server?
• Will there be other versions besides the current Foundations "Start" server?
• Sean Burgess' Lotus Foundation blog
• Graham Dodge's blog

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam and LinkJam (social bookmarking for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 22mb and runs 47:19 minutes at 64kbs. ]]> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:42:23 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode85.htm Events Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode85.htm Get the scoop on the upcoming UKLUG conference -- September 26th and 27th in London. We talk to Warren Elsmore and Mike Smith about things like:

• Who's speaking (and which Paul Mooney will be attending)
• Are there any sponsor slots left?
• The emphasis on real Lotus customers giving sessions
• Which company that recently migrated TO Lotus Notes will be giving a session
• The beautiful location, just around the corner from Westminster Abbey

Also, if anyone can help Warren get Bluetooth working with NXT, please send him an e-mail. Otherwise, for more information on the conference, just go to http://uklug.info and you'll get all the details. See you there!

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam and LinkJam (social bookmarking for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 8.5mb and runs 18:32 minutes at 64kbs. ]]> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:15:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode83.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode83.htm Rob "Captain Oblivious" McDonagh and John Head talk about the forthcoming Domino Server 8.5 feature called "XPages".  During the show you will learn about:

• Why you need to brush up on your Javascript skills
• Why XPages are important
• What the heck XPages are
• What XPages can't do
• How XPages will change the way you design Domino applications
• Will XPages run in the Notes client?
• What are some of the new design elements in Domino Designer 8.5
• What yellow water is and much more...

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam and LinkJam (social bookmarking for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 24mb and runs 52:19 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Sun, 25 May 2008 07:07:37 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode82.htm ILUG Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode82.htm Paul Mooney and Matt White tell us all about the upcoming (less than 2 weeks away) ILUG 2008 conference in Dublin. We talk about things like:

• How the ILUG conference has grown in the last 4 years
• What it's like to plan something like this
• Who's talking about what (see also the official ILUG conference schedule)
• How big the room will be this year for Rob Novak's free beer session (hopefully not serving Bud Light and Clamato)
• Is there still time to sign up?

Listen and learn. And we hope to see you in Dublin!

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam. It is 14.7mb and runs 32:01 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:13:44 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode81.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode81.htm Bruce and Julian got a chance to talk to Mikkel Heisterberg about his new "TwitNotes" sidebar plugin for Notes 8, that allows you to access Twitter directly from the Lotus Notes client. We talked about things like:

• Where did the idea for this come from?
• How hard (or easy) is it to develop sidebar plugins for Notes 8?
• What tools do you need to get started?
• The plugin is free, but is it open source?
• Is this just one more example of how important Java is for Notes developers now?

If you want to install the TwitNotes plugin for Notes 8 -- and why not? It's free! -- go to http://lekkimworld.com/twitnotes for detailed instructions.

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software, the makers of IdeaJam. It is 15.7mb and runs 34:23 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:07:37 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode80.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode80.htm Adam Gartenberg tells us about all sorts of new Sametime goodies, including:

• Sametime Advanced (due out this month)
• IBM's $1 billion commitment to Unified Communications
• Unified telephony
• Sametime Advanced client download on Greenhouse
• The burgeoning BleedYellow IM community
• You are so fired

This podcast was brought to you by Elguji Software the makers of IdeaJam.

It is 19.6mb and runs 42:37 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:37:44 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode79.htm Notes People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode79.htm Bruce and Julian talk to Nathan Freeman and Chris Whisonant about the BleedYellow.com site, discussing things like:

• What the heck is that logo anyway? Is it Wolverine?
• Unleashing your "inner beast of collaboration"
• How the site got started and how long it took to put together and customize
• What can you do with the site now?
• What's coming next? (Sorry, you'll have to listen to find that one out)

And if you haven't visited the BleedYellow site yet, go take a peek -- registration is free and there are plenty of things you can look at without having to log in. If nothing else, it's a good look at what a Lotus Connections site has to offer.

This podcast was brought to you by the letter "L". It is 13.8mb and runs 30:07 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode78.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode78.htm At Lotusphere 2008 Bruce spent a few minutes chatting with Craig Schuuman and Ian Smith from Teamstudio.

This podcast was sponsored by Instant Technologies. It is 7.4mb and runs 16:05 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:06:35 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode77.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode77.htm At Lotusphere 2008 we had a few minutes to sit down with Arthur Fontaine and Brian Reed from IBM where we talked about Lotus Protector which was announced at the show.  Somebody had their cell phone on during the recording which caused some interference for which we apologize for.

This podcast was sponsored by Instant Technologies. It is 8mb and runs 17:26 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode76.htm Notes People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode76.htm Bruce and Julian talk with John Head from The PSC Group and John de Gorgio from Integra4Notes where we talked about:

• Using Integra4Notes to generaated pixel perfect reports from Notes
• Integra4Notes Personal Edition - FREE
• Lotus Symphony
• Some predictions about Lotus Symphony
• and much more

This podcast was sponsored by Instant Technologies. It is 20.7mb and runs 45:08 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:40:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode75.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode75.htm Bruce and Julian had actually recorded a podcast at Lotusphere about the OGS, but due to technical and vocal difficulties we needed to re-record. So...

Bruce, Julian, and special guest Andrew Pollack discuss many of the announcements from Lotusphere 2008 -- specifically, a lot of things they talked about at the Opening General Session, including:

• The "Atlantic" SAP integration effort
• What's new in Lotus Notes/Domino 8.0.1
• What's coming in Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5
• Lotus Symphony
• Some of the new products like Lotus Foundations, Bluehouse, and Protector

This podcast was sponsored by Instant Technologies. It is 24.9mb and runs 54:19 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode74.htm Lotusphere Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode74.htm Bruce, Julian, Bill Buchan, and Rocky Oliver give you the scoop on going to Lotusphere -- it's next week!!! If you listen real close at the end, you can even catch a few comments by Paul Mooney.

Good information for Lotusphere newbies (how to get around, where to go, what to watch out for) and veterans (Lotusphere Idol, new Jamfest location, new dining plan) alike. Get that yellow blood pumping...

This podcast was sponsored by Instant Technologies. It is 23.6mb and runs 51:25 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:57:45 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode73.htm Lotusphere Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode73.htm Ben Langhinrichs tells us all about the Lotusphere Session database -- how it works, what's new this year, and why he started doing it in the first place! That database is an invaluable resource for Lotusphere attendees, especially PRIOR to going to Lotusphere as you are trying to figure out what sessions to attend. And, thanks to the Turtle partnership, there is an online version of the database as well as a version you can use to sync with your Blackberry.

Ben also lets on about a new feature he'll be adding soon, to help you out with your coffee breaks. Yeehaw.

This podcast was sponsored by Instant Technologies. It is 16.6mb and runs 36:08 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:38:10 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode72.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode72.htm Julian and Bruce interview Yancy Lent the creator of the new Planet Lotus blog aggregation site.  Yancy tells us how and why he started the site, how it works and how it was built.  Take a listen to this enjoyable 35 minute interview.

This podcast is 16.3mb and runs 35:34 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:34:43 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TheTakingNotesGuys2.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TheTakingNotesGuys2.htm Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:28:27 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode71.htm Notes People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode71.htm Bruce and Julian tracked down Paul Mooney and Warren Elsmore to discuss the recent acquisition of BE Systems (Warren's company) by Blue Wave Technologies (Paul's company) -- Warren also has a very good write-up on the whole thing on his website if you're looking for even more answers.

In the podcast, we talk about not only what the motivation was behind the merger (because they're both GROWING their business, not because they're struggling), but also a little about the state of the Domino consulting market in the UK (very positive).

We then go on to talk a bit about the recent Admin/Developer 2007 View conference in Barcelona where Paul, Warren, and Julian were among the cast of speakers, and also about upcoming Lotusphere 2008 where all of us (including Bruce) are doing sessions. ]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:01:00 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode70.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode70.htm Sandra "Queen of Lotusphere" Marcus tells us all about what to expect at Lotusphere 2008 -- only 2 months away! She talks about things like:

• Attendance is up so much that they have to split the opening session into 2 groups (just like old times).
• The all new "Lotus Salon" (no, they won't style your hair). Check out the lotusphere.com sidebar links for more info.
• Fan favorites are coming back: SpeedGeeking, Jamfest, and more.
• Jamfest gets a new home -- no more tent!
• Get the real scoop on how the lunch locations will work this time.

If you haven't bought your tickets yet, get them now before prices go up in January. There's even still a little room left for vendors on the showroom floor, but not for long.

Thanks to Erica Topolski for getting this interview set up for us, and Sandra Marcus for taking time out of her day for some questions. This podcast is 18.8mb and runs 41:02 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:58:19 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode69.htm Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode69.htm Listen to Matt White, Sean Burgess, Bruce and Julian talk about the Idea Jam site which will launch on November 20th, 2007. We talk about what it is, how it was built, how it got it's name and much more. Take a listen to this 30 minute podcast.

The podcast is 14.2mb and runs 30:59 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:58:19 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode68.htm Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode68.htm Episode 68 is an interview with the enthusiastic Shawne Robinson -- IBM Domino Product Manager for Mobile Messaging -- on the upcoming Lotus Notes Traveler product. Traveler will be available with the Notes/Domino 8.0.1 release (scheduled for Q1 2008), and it allows real-time replication between Domino mail and Windows Mobile devices. Topics of discussion include:

• Is this a separate client or does it work in conjunction with the native mail apps on Windows Mobile?
• Is it push, pull, or some sort of hybrid?
• How does the administration work on the Domino side? (HINT: it's a Domino server add-in, and one of the supported configurations will allow you to access mail files on Domino 7 servers)
• Security and encryption (128-bit encryption out-of-the-box, with an option to use Lotus Mobile Connect for even more secure connections)

Also, Shawne said that there should be more information available at Lotusphere in January. You HAVE already purchased your Lotusphere tickets, haven't you?

The podcast is 9.2mb and runs 19:54 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Wed, 3 Oct 2007 06:04:10 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode67.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode67.htm Listen to seven minutes of Stuart McIntyre and Neil Burston talking about the UK Lotus User Group (UKLUG) meeting held last week in Hatfield.

The podcast is 3.5mb and runs 7:32 at 64kps. ]]> Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:03:27 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode66.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode66.htm Bruce and Julian go over the announcements made at the recent Lotus Collaboration Summit. We talk about things like:

• New features in 8.01
• Notes Traveler (mobile device client for Notes mail)  
• Lightweight DWA mail client
• Lotus Sametime 8 (in various flavors)  
• Lotus Quickr 8.1
• Lotus Symphony beta
• Hosted Lotus Notes from IBM
• Lotus Forms 3.0
• Collaboration Accelerators for Websphere Portal

Alan Lepofsky has a very good summary of the Summit on his site too. We also make mention of the IBM Composite Applications blog during our discussion. Here's the URL: http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/CompApps

In other news, the Notes/Domino 8 version of Collaboration University just finished up in London, and the UKLUG meeting/conference in Hatfield (just north of London) is about to kick off (and is sold out).

We also have a guest appearance by Paul Mooney, talking about a few of the new Admin features in Domino 8.

The podcast is 21.5mb and runs 46:54 minutes at 64kps. The IBM Anthem at the end of the podcast is available for download from the IBM Archives. ]]> Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:37:35 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode65.htm Notes 8 Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode65.htm Mary Beth Raven, Ed Brill, Alan Lepofsky, and Rob Novak talk about Notes 8, which got released today! Highlights include:

• We'll soon see lots of events and marketing efforts around the new release, including Collaboration University (the Notes/Domino 8 edition)
• We may even see some more "informal" types of marketing, like the Ron Sebastian Notes 8 demo on YouTube
• The Notes 8 Gold client may look about the same as the Beta 3 client people have been testing, but it's a lot faster
• The Notes 8 Beta forum on LDD is getting merged into the Notes 8 production forum (great idea)
• Entitlements with Domino 8 (Ed's already touched on this one, but it's worth repeating)
• Everyone's favorite features
• Is all the work for Notes 8 finally done for everyone, or has it just begun?

If you haven't yet signed up for CollabU, there's still time! Visit the CollabU website for details.

The podcast is 19.5mb and runs 42:21 at 64kps. ]]> Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:23:51 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode64.htm Events Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode64.htm Here is what we talk about in Episode 64:

• Lotus Connections 1.0 and Quickr 8.0 Released
• LotusViralMarketing.com blog launched
• UKLUG September 26, 2007 with Warren Elsmore
• Collaboration University in Kansas City and London
• Ed Brill's birthday
• Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0
• Sametime 7.5.1 CF1
• Lotusphere 2008 (no working link yet)
• Lotus Product Lifecycle (via Jack Dausman's blog)
• Bruce's new ideaExchange project being built by Bruce, Sean Burgess, Matt White and Chris Blatnick.

This podcast also features another new "Interface Matters" segment with Chris Blatnick. The whole sha-bang is 18.5mb and runs 40:12 at 64kps. ]]> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:28:36 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode63.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode63.htm Mac Guidera, Senior IT Specialist on the IBM consulting team, talks about the new (and soon to be released) Lotus Connections product, including:

• Tags and tagging
• Web 2.0-ish-ness
• The 5 "pillars" of Connections: Profiles, Communities, Blogs, Dogear, and Activities
• Activities tie-ins to Lotus Notes 8

According to the Connections datasheet on the IBM site, Connections will be available for GA electronic download on June 29th (same day as Quickr, and some Apple thing), so hurry up and learn about it.

If you want more information, listen to the Lotus Collaboration Summit Online teleconference (probably in replay as you read this), check out the Lotus Greenhouse, or watch a Flash demo. It's all good.

This podcast also features another new "Interface Matters" segment with Chris Blatnick. The whole kit and kaboodle is 27.6mb and runs 1:00:19 at 64kps. ]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:48:05 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode62.htm Events Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode62.htm Julian and Bruce talk to Rob Novak (and, just before the podcast started, we tricked Lance Spellman into joining us too). Topics included:

• ILUG wrapup
• The View Developer2007 and Admin2007 wrapup
• Dojo and Domino development (and Lance's new Dojomino blog)
• Quickr, which is going to be released any day now, and how that also makes good use of Dojo
• Collaboration University (toga... toga...), coming very soon to a Kansas City or London near you
• OpenNTF update with John Roling

If you haven't yet signed up for CollabU, there's still time! Visit the CollabU website for details.

The podcast is 25.3mb and runs 55:17 at 64kps. ]]> Thu, 10 May 2007 07:02:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode61.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode61.htm Julian and Bruce talked to Rob Wunderlich -- Technology Evangelist in the "Emerging Technology and Standards Evangelization" team at IBM -- about things like:

• Mobile applications and Lotus Domino
• Web Services
• The importance of standards
• What it's like to be a Technology Evangelist at IBM
• Redwings and mud pie

And much more. Rob was a fun interview, and we all had a good chat.

Also in this podcast, another new "Interface Matters" segment with Chris Blatnick.

Episode 61 was sponsored by Collaboration University.

The podcast is 21.8mb and runs 47:23 at 64kps. ]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:43:31 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode60.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode60.htm Mere days after Sametime 7.5.1 goes Gold, Julian and Bruce were able to get a hold of Adam Gartenberg (Offering Manager for IBM Lotus Real-Time Collaboration) to talk about all the new things in the Sametime client and server. And boy, are there a lot of new things, including:

• Video (webcam) integration
• Tabbed chat (configurable and optional)
• Mac Client
• Linux servers (Red Hat and SUSE)
• Office and Outlook integration
• Offline status integrated with Notes or Outlook calendar (i.e. -- if your calendar says you're in a meeting, your Sametime status will be set to busy)
• Lots of administrator configuration options for the client, set on the server
• Sametime Plugin Catalog and the new Sametime Code Exchange

If you want to find out more about Sametime 7.5.1, try out these links:

• Sametime 7.5.1 Announcment Letter
• Sametime 7.5.1 Flash Demo
• Sametime 7.5.1 What's New
• Sametime Product Page

Also in this podcast, Chris Blatnick's new "Interface Matters" segment.

Episode 60 was sponsored by Collaboration University.

The podcast is 29.5mb and runs 1:04:11 at 64kps. ]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode59.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode59.htm Julian and Bruce talk to a cast of [almost] thousands about using JavaScript frameworks in Lotus Domino, and specifically about the OpenNTF Domino YUI project (see it in action) and the new project that has grown out of that: ExtND. We spoke with Matt White, Jack Ratcliff, Rich Waters, Jerry Carter, and Eli Harris about:

• The kinds of JavaScript frameworks you can incorporate into Domino (prototype, Dojo, ext, etc.)
• Why create a custom framework for Domino?
• The new ExtND project -- what it does, and what it's built on

Jake Howlett and Nathan Freeman have also had a lot of impact on this project, and were mentioned in the discussion.
In addition, Bruce and Julian had a few news announcements about

• Collaboration University (Second Semester, coming up soon)
• Sametime Exchange site
• The upcoming ILUG conference in Dublin
• The upcoming View Developer2007 and Admin2007 conferences in Boston

Episode 59 was sponsored by Ytria, makers of Lotus Notes tools for development and administration. You have until April 30th to take a free test drive of their new tools: AclEZ and AgentEZ.

The podcast is 19.3mb and runs 42:16 at 64kps. ]]> Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:20:18 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode58.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode58.htm Bruce talks with Rob Novak of SNAPPS about the eleven new templates that will be available for Quickr 8.  Rob also recorded a podcast about the new templates with Megan Moyer from IBM.  More about this podcast on the Lotus Quickr blog.  Also some discussion about these new templates on Ed Brill's blog.

The podcast is 8.1mb and runs 17:51 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Quickr Taking Notes ]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:56:12 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode57.htm Notes 8 Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode57.htm Special guest Rob McDonagh acts as our "man on the street" to give us some of his reactions on the new Notes 8 Beta client, and Bruce and Julian talk about all sorts of other stuff. Show highlights include:

• What Rob likes and doesn't like about the Notes 8 Beta client
• Places you can learn about the new client, like the beta forum, the Notes 8 Reviewer Guide, and the What's New In Domino 8 article on developerWorks
• Tim Tripcony talks about using MojoPac for testing the Notes 8 client (or any Windows program, really)
• The new OpenLog 1.5 Beta (now with JavaScript logging)
• Bruce's tip on making new copies and replicas of databases server-to-server using the console
• Ben Langhinrichs' new OpenSesame product, which will allow easy Notes-to-OpenOffice linking and data sharing
• An OpenNTF update with John Roling

The podcast is 17.3mb and runs 37:55 minutes at 64kps

Technorati tag: notes8beta ]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:57:10 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode56.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode56.htm Andre Guirard -- the Project Lead for the Domino Designer client -- takes some time out to talk to Bruce and Julian about:

• His new blog on the IBM site: Best Practice Makes Perfect
• What's new with the Domino Designer 8 client (which just went into public beta 2 days ago)
• Writing components and "wiring" design elements in Domino 8 (Stephan Wissel wrote a nice summary of components and wiring based on a Lotusphere Jumpstart session)  
• Which Lotus Notes 8 client will you want: the "classic" client or the Eclipse-based one?
• How to get started in science fiction comedy puppeteering

We'll probably do several shows in the coming weeks about the new Notes 8 client, and this is a great one to start off with. Andre knows what he's talking about.

The podcast is 15.3mb and runs 33:27 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Sun, 4 Mar 2007 08:58:59 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode55.htm Events Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode55.htm Paul Mooney and Bill Buchan tell us all about the upcoming ILUG 2007 conference -- taking place on May 24-25th in Dublin -- including:

• How to register (if there are any seats left)
• Who is speaking (lots of great speakers)
• Is it really free? (yes, as long as you can get a seat)
• Who is sponsoring it? (IBM, Blackberry, Integra4Notes, Ytria and vowe.net and more)

You will also be regaled with a rousing 10 or 15 minutes worth of Worst Practices stories. It's too bad we didn't have the pre-podcast conversations recorded for you -- it was almost as amusing as the pre-session banter from this year's Worst Practices Lotusphere session.

The podcast is 15.2mb and runs 33:14 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:23:24 -0700 = Quickplace 8) * What can you do with Quickr? How do you customize it? * What's the difference between running Quickr on Domino NSF versus J2EE? * What about the document management part of the product (including connectors to Microsoft Office, Windows Explorer, and Sametime)? * What's the difference between the free (via Passport entitlement) "Personal" version and the "Standard" version? And so much more. Also, don't forget to check out Rob's Quickr FAQ, the Quickr product page, and Stuart McIntyre's Quickr blog. ... ]]> http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode54.htm Products and Partners Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode54.htm Rob Novak gives us the scoop on the new (and soon to be available) Lotus Quickr product, including:

• What happened to Quickplace? ("quick" answer: Quickr >= Quickplace 8)
• What can you do with Quickr? How do you customize it?
• What's the difference between running Quickr on Domino NSF versus J2EE?
• What about the document management part of the product (including connectors to Microsoft Office, Windows Explorer, and Sametime)?
• What's the difference between the free (via Passport entitlement) "Personal" version and the "Standard" version?

And so much more. Also, don't forget to check out Rob's Quickr FAQ, the Quickr product page, and Stuart McIntyre's Quickr blog.

Episode 54 was sponsored by Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 22mb and runs 47:50 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Quickr Taking Notes ]]> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 03:59:44 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode53.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode53.htm Bruce and Julian finally got Thomas Gumz on the podcast schedule. The interview has a LOT of densely packed information, so listen closely. Subjects we covered include:

• The evolution of the Domino Administrator Client (that Thomas leads the design for), including:
  • how it went from an oversized dialog in 4.6 to a full Windows and Web client today
  • cool things you can do with the Web client, like starting and stopping Windows services on the server
  • reusable JavaScript components in the notes\data\dfc\dfc100.nsf database (DFC = DOM Foundation Classes)
  • "hacking" the Domino Admin database code (for a cool example, see how Dovid Gross added a custom server task for ACLHelp)
• The DDM (Domino Domain Monitor) database in R7 that Thomas also led the design for, with a quick discussion of "hacking" that database to learn about tricks like rounded table corners (a technique that Ben Langhinrichs played with several times) or writing an event-driven tabbed interface
• Using a Domino server as an Eclipse Update Site, with features like:
  • managing plugins and packages for Sametime 7.5 clients as well as the forthcoming Notes 8 client
  • using the UpdateSite.ntf template on a Domino 7 server to manage Sametime 7.5 plugins right now (or, at least, as soon as the Domino 8 beta is available and we can get the template)
  • Notes replication allows you to easily manage plugins for clients on local servers, instead of one big central one
  • in the future, this may be how Notes 8 client updates are handled

Again, tons of good stuff in there. Thanks Thomas!

The podcast is 21.2mb and runs 46:27 minutes at 64kps. ]]> Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:03:12 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode52.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode52.htm A 9:25 minute podcast from Lotusphere 2007 with Jess Stratton, Jonvon, Julian and Bruce. We talk about some of the days sessions, the Product Showcase and of course the Swan Boat races.

The podcast is 4.4mb.  Enjoy.

Technorati: Lotusphere2007 ]]> Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:17:49 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode51.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode51.htm Julian, Bruce and special guest Devin Olson talk about Lotusphere 2007 Day 2.

The podcast is 6.1mb and runs 12:51 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotusphere2007 ]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode47.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode47.htm We recently interviewed Mary Beth Raven and Jeff Eisen who have been work on Lotus Notes 8. In the podcast you will hear lots of great things about Notes 8 so instead of us telling you about all the things we talked about - download the podcast and Listen Up!

Transcription of this podcast is available thanks to the efforts of Joe Litton.  Get it here.

Episode 47 was sponsored by Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 16.6mb and runs 36:03 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotusphere2007 ]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:15:41 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode50.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode50.htm Bruce, Julian and some special guests talk about Lotusphere Day 0 and 1.  Enjoy and wish you were here.

The podcast is 4.3mb and runs 9:16 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotusphere2007 ]]> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode44.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode44.htm In Episode 44 of the podcast we talk to Declan Lynch the creator of the successful OpenNTF Blogsphere blogging template for Lotus Notes and Domino.  We talk about:

• The history of Blogsphere Version 1 and 2
• A review of all the new features that are part of the soon to be released Version 3 including the all new "tag and template" engine, the new tag cloud support and the new blog themes
• Declan and Bruce kid about "BS-ing"
• How to upgrade from Versions 1 and 2 to Version 3
• Where to find and download the beta of the Version 3
• Come see Declan and Steve Castledine at their Lotusphere 2007 session "Ready, Steady, Blog!"
• and many other cool things you never knew about Declan and his Blogsphere project

Episode 44 was sponsored by Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 15.8mb and runs 34:21 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotusphere2007 OpenNTF Blogsphere podcast My Odeo Channel (odeo/1d4054bb3ab18cd7) ]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:30:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode49.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode49.htm Nathan Freeman and Chris Blatnick talked to us for a twenty minutes earlier today about what they will be presenting in their upcoming session for Lotusphere 2007 entitled  BP101: Designing the User Experience.  This one session (and podcast) you don't want to miss.

The podcast is 9.7mb and runs 20:59 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Lotusphere2007 ]]> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode46.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode46.htm Chris Miller, Julian and Bruce sit down with David Brigida from IBM and Josh Schrager from VoiceRite where we talk about something we never have discussed on the podcast - unified communications and unified messaging.

We start out the show by defining what unified communications and unified messaging are and then talk about the VoiceRite Client for Sametime 7.5.   We then learn how you never have to pick up the phone to check your voice mail change greeting since you can do all of that from your Sametime client. Whether you have an old analog or new Voice over IP PBX from any where in the world you can see who's calling your voice mail, send an IM message to Sametime which is spoken to the callers or even transfer the call to a soft phone or cell phone.

Josh then tells us about VoiceRite's Name Dialer for Domino which allows you to have an automated receptionist for your company so that caller to your company  can say the name or department of anyone in your directory and be automatically transferred to them.

You can also see a demonstration of both products at the VoiceRite pedestal (number 621) at Lotusphere 2007 in the Product Showcase.

Episode 46 was sponsored by Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 18mb and runs 38:15 minutes at 64kps.

Adam Gartenberg also blogs about this podcast.

Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Sametime VoiceRite IBM Lotusphere2007 ]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:15:00 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode48.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode48.htm

Jim Waters and Jim Vaselopulos from The PSC Group tell us about their solution that helped them win the Lotus 2007 Award for "Best People-Centric SOA Application" in addition to their plans for Lotusphere 2007. Also find out how they saved their client $3 million with a Portal solution.

The podcast is 7.2mb and runs 15:32 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Lotusphere2007 Lotus Awards The PSC Group ]]> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode45.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode45.htm In this episode of the podcast, John de Giorgio told us all about how the Integra for Notes products can generate nicely formatted reports directly from Lotus Notes. Some of the topics we touched on were:

• Analyzing and reporting on Lotus Notes data using Microsoft Word and Excel
• The problems with rolling out a custom reporting/export solution in all of your databases
• How does this product work? Do you need DLLs? Is it a reporting engine? Do you have to modify your databases or write code?
• Setting up report profiles, so users can just run a pre-configured report and have it delivered to them
• Running ad-hoc reports on the local client, including merging Notes data with other relational databases
• Running scheduled reports on the server
• Generating PDF reports
• How much does it cost?

Also, don't forget to stop by pedestal 610 at Lotusphere to talk to John and the other Integra4Notes folks in person.

Episode 45 was sponsored by Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 15.6mb and runs 33:54 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Integra4Notes Lotusphere2007 ]]> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode43.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode43.htm You have heard of Ytria (pronounced Y-tree-ah) right?  They are the guys who make development tools for Lotus Notes and Domino that make things "EZ" with their products scanEZ, viewEZ, actionBarEZ, designPropEZ and signEZ.

We interviewed Eric Houvenaghel the CEO of Ytria and talked about:

• their line of EZ Notes and Domino development tools
• several Notes and Domino development "urban myths"
• how to get started using their tools without having to pay a dime
• how consultants can rent their applications for short time engagements
• how much their products cost
• Ytria's plans for Lotusphere 2007 including a discussion about their swag that they will be giving away at pedestal 237 in the Product Showcase

Episode 43 was sponsored by Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 19.6mb and runs 42:38 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Ytria Lotusphere2007 ]]> Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:34:45 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#LS2007Swag.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#LS2007Swag.htm Be sure and track down Julian, Bruce or Chris Miller at Lotusphere 2007 to get one of these cool shirts.  Supplies are limited (250) and won't last long.






Lotusphere2007 ]]> Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:52:45 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TheKryosPodcast.htm Podcasting Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TheKryosPodcast.htm There's another great podcast out on the street that we wanted to share with you that is published by the folks over at Kryos Systems.  To subscribe to the podcast in iTunes simply click this link. ]]> Tue, 9 Jan 2007 07:07:11 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode42.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode42.htm Episode 42 of the TakingNotes podcast features an interview with Jason Hook, talking about how to get going with Blackberry development on Lotus Notes/Domino. A few of the points we discussed were:

• How to get started, even if you aren't a Java programmer
• Considerations for using Notes views and forms in the Blackberry browser (i.e. -- @if(@GetHttpHeader("User Agent");"BlackBerry"); ...)
• Using MDS Studio for drag-and-drop connections to Domino R7 web services
• Using J2ME for full-featured Blackberry apps
• Where to look for help (Jason just posted some great links on his blog, too)
• Jason's craicBerry (the Lotusphere party planner) and openCOD (the OpenNTF-ish open source Blackberry site) projects

Episode 42 was sponsored by Integra for Notes, solutions for Lotus Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The podcast is 17.6mb and runs 38:28 minutes at 64kps.

Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Blackberry Lotusphere2007 ]]> Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode41.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode41.htm

Bruce had a chance to speak with Paula Cervoni, VP of Services at Relavis where they talked about the Lotus Award that Relavis recently received for "Best Contextual Collaboration Solution" and Relavis's plans for Lotusphere 2007.

Congratulations to Paula and the team over at Relavis.

The podcast is 2.4mb and runs 4:47 at 64kps

Lotusphere2007 ]]> Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:10:54 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#InTheQueue.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#InTheQueue.htm We thought we give you a heads up of some podcasts we have in the queue:

• A techie talk with Ytria about their EZ development tools
• An interview with the folks from Integra for Notes and their line of Microsoft Office integration and reporting tools.
• A talk with Paula Cervoni of the Relavis Corporation about their Lotus 2007 Award
• Jason Hook on developing Blackberry applications with Lotus Domino
• An interview with Mary Beth Raven and Jeff Eisen talking about Lotus Notes 8
• A talk with the folks at VoiceRite
• Thomas Gumz on Domino Administrator and some cool Domino Administrator 8 stuff.
• Declan Lynch on BlogSphere V3

Did we mention that we still have all of our podcast sponsorships open? If you are interested drop us an email. ]]> Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:58:07 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode40.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesEpisode40.htm

Bruce spent a few minutes talking with Laurie Desautels, Chief Solutions Architect at Kryos Systems where they talked about the Lotus Award that Kryos recently received for "Best Portal Solution" and Kryos' plans for Lotusphere 2007.  There is also some great information about their winning "Special Wheat - The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Story" portal solution over on the Kryos site including video clips and slideshow.  

Congratulations to Laurie and the Kryos team!

The podcast is 3.4mb and runs 6:49 at 64kps

Lotusphere2007 ]]> Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:03:30 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#mbrje.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#mbrje.htm

Look out for a podcast with Mary Beth Raven, Bruce, Julian and Jeff Eisen on Monday January 22, 2007 at 12:00PM EST. ]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:16:04 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesWidgetV2.htm Podcasting Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesWidgetV2.htm Inspired by Martin from an excellent comment he left on vowe.net:



Now that we have a blog, an RSS feed, access via iTunes and now a widget you have no excuse not to listen to our podcast. :-)

Download the widget (for Macs only) here. ]]> Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:51:16 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesWidget.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TakingNotesWidget.htm ]]> Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:55:31 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-39-12.10.06---interview-with-ian-smith-and-craig-schumann.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-39-12.10.06---interview-with-ian-smith-and-craig-schumann.htm You've heard of Teamstudio, right? The guys who make those tools that allow you to do Lotus Notes source code control, and check-in/check-out, and design search and replace, and other wild things like that?

Well we got to talk to Ian Smith and Craig Schumann today and they gave us the inside scoop on the company. Ian is the President of Teamstudio as well as a competitive 800M runner. Craig is the Chief Architect and the owner of a dressed up Arizona Tea bottle named "Jar Man". Here are some of the things we discussed:

• History of the company (where did all these tools come from?)
• Some of the more popular tools like CIAO!, Analyzer, Configurator, and Snapper
• How the Teamstudio tools use advanced flux capacitor technology to help you revert to old versions of database designs
• The Teamstudio consulting arm, and how they help with compliance issues
• Craig's often neglected blog
• The ultra-cool (and free) Script Browser tool for Domino Designer, Julian's blog post that helped prompt Craig to write it (not entirely, but it's fun to say that), and what it took for a company that sells Notes tools to just up and give one away like that

Other segments in the show include:

• The launch of three free QuickPlace templates QWiki, QBlog and QDoc with Viktor Krantz and Rob Novak of SNAPPS
• A talk with Carl Tyler of Instant-Technologies where we talk about Lotusphere 2007 and their free Meeting Assistant product
• The OpenNTF update with John "Greyhawk68" Roling

Good information, and another fun interview. Thanks guys!

The podcast is 31.4mb and runs 1:05:00 at 64kps. ]]> Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:45:14 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#lotusphere2007adverts.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#lotusphere2007adverts.htm If you are interested in advertising on the Taking Notes podcast during Lotusphere 2007 please take a look at our adverbilitising brochure.  The podcast listnership is in the thousands and your advertistement will be heard for just pennies per impression.  We only have a few slots left so act quickly by dropping us a note if you are interested. ]]> Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:47:42 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-38-12.10.06---interview-with-craig-lordan-and-tara-hall.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-38-12.10.06---interview-with-craig-lordan-and-tara-hall.htm Tonight we had a fun interview with Craig Lordan and Tara Hall -- two of the honchos behind the developerWorks Lotus site (the website formerly known as notes.net). We chatted it up about things like:

• Their breathtaking new developerWorks Lotus blog
• The awesome developerWorks Lotus/LDD/Notes.net website
• Being a guinea pig for the latest versions of Domino
• What's going to happen with forums for Notes 8 and Lotus Expeditor
• Using LDD Monkey for forum browsing (heh heh)
• Submitting developerWorks articles (hint: start from this link)
• Their pedestal and BOF session at Lotusphere in January

Take a break, take a listen.

The podcast is 28.1mb and runs 30:35 at 128kps. ]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:24:13 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-37-11.20.06--Chris-Miller-Interviews-us.htm Podcasting Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-37-11.20.06--Chris-Miller-Interviews-us.htm Chris IdoNotes Miller interviews Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux in their our "Taking Ido Notes" cross-cast.  We discuss how the Taking Notes podcast got started, talked about some of the people we interviewed, podcasting at Lotusphere 2007 and a slew of other items in this 24 minute interview.

The podcast is 14.2mb and runs 24:26 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:02:30 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-36-11.18.06---domino-wiki-1dot1.htm Notes People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-36-11.18.06---domino-wiki-1dot1.htm Ben Poole Master Project Chef of the OpenNTF DominoWiki project talks about the recent updates included with V1.1.  New features include multi-lingual support, a new page difference engine, OpenLog integration and much more.

The podcast is 17.6mb and runs 14:07 at 128kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:02:27 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-35-11.09.06---interview-with-mike-rhodin.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-35-11.09.06---interview-with-mike-rhodin.htm Bruce and Julian got a chance to interview Mike Rhodin, IBM General Manager for Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software (and Lotusphere MC). We asked him a wide range of questions, touching on topics like:

• What was the internal design process for the Hannover/Notes 8 product? Was it UI-driven?
• How do I take advantage of the new Hannover technologies in my old Lotus Notes applications?
• What about Ajax? And XForms? And Activity Explorer? And the DB2 back-end data store? And the rest of the IBM software line? How will the new Notes 8 client be able to take advantage of these technologies?
• Will we be able to run the Hannover client "on a stick"?
• Who's the comedian for Lotusphere going to be?

There was also a lot of discussion around SOA and Lotus Expeditor too, and a whole lot more. Overall, a fantastic interview. Take a listen!

We also would like to thank Elana Fernandez of the IBM Media Relations Team for making the interview with Mike possible.

The podcast is 20.5mb and runs 44:30 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:31:30 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#questions-for-mike-rhodin.htm Notes People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#questions-for-mike-rhodin.htm Do you have any questions you'd like to ask Mike Rhodin? (for clarification, we're talking about the Mike Rhodin who is IBM General Manager for Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software... not some other Mike Rhodin we're trying to trick you with)

Your lovely hosts here at the TakingNotes podcast may have the opportunity to interview Mr. Rhodin in the coming weeks, and we'd like some help with topics of discussion. We won't guarantee anything, but we know that all of your ideas are good ones.

Leave us a comment or send us an e-mail. ]]> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:42:34 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-34-10.04.06---Notes-Domino-7-0-2.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-34-10.04.06---Notes-Domino-7-0-2.htm Today, Bruce and Julian talk mainly about the new 7.0.2 release of Lotus Notes/Domino. It officially came out on Friday, September 29, and it includes such features as:

• New "Blue" templates for blogging and RSS feed generation (note that the templates are available on the server upgrade, not the client)
• Support for installing and running the Lotus Notes client on a USB drive (Nomad) -- Chris Whisonant has some install instructions (but be aware that there can be huge speed differences between different USB drives, so choose wisely)
• Native iCal import capabilities
• "Run As Admin" for Smart Upgrade
• Automatic conversion (on the server) for TNEF/Winmail.dat attachments from Exchange users
• Domino Web Access (iNotes) is supported on Firefox on the Mac
• New C-API functions for HTML and MIME
• Server support for Novell SUSE Linux 10 and Windows x64 server
• Lotus Notes Access for SAP included
• DXL improvements

We also got a chance to talk to Steve Castledine about his "IBM Blog" template, to get the inside scoop. We talk about things like:

• What was involved in transitioning from "Steve's template" to "IBM's template"? (see this technote for more details)
• What's the upgrade path for users of the old template?
• How is comment spam dealt with?
• How do we get started using it?
• What's next?

In other news, OpenNTF will be at Lotusphere 2007 pedestal 324 in the Product Showcase, Chris Miller makes peace with iTunes and Feedburner, an OpenNTF update with John Roling, and a one minute tip about CGI variables by Mac Guidera.

The podcast is 26mb and runs 54:31 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:35:09 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-33-09.14.06---day-2-of-collaboration-university.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-33-09.14.06---day-2-of-collaboration-university.htm Take a listen to Chris Miller, Rob Novak, Satwik, Dan Singleton, Gabriella Davis and Carl Tyler talking to Bruce about day 2 of Collaboration University from their dorm room.  The group talks about "Wiliki", QuickPlace 8, QuickPlace 9, Sametime and much more.

This conference represents 893,000 Sametime users, 405,000 QuickPlace users and 13 countries.  Yowsa...

The podcast is 7.2mb and runs 13:43 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:20:57 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-32-09.13.06.htm News Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-32-09.13.06.htm A short podcastlet with Chris Miller who tells us about day one of Collaboration University in Kansas City, Missouri.

Photos from Collaboration University (no Girls Gone Wild, sorry).

The podcast is 5mb and runs 8:45 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Thu, 7 Sep 2006 23:06:12 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-31-09.07.06.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-31-09.07.06.htm Bruce and Julian have a nice chat with Alan Lepofsky (Competitive Marketing Intelligence at IBM/Lotus) and Eric Mack (eProductivity specialist at ICA) about the difficulty of helping co-workers and customers "get" Lotus Notes. We talk about a variety of topics around this theme, including:

• Eric's recent blog entries Why don't people get Notes and How to save a Lotus Notes customer
• Julian's related blog entry called Lotus Notes - Yeah, It Can Do That Too
• Ways to boil down the complexity of Notes into something that people can understand, like the "killer app" concept
• How big a part does the user interface and "sexiness" of an application play in user acceptance of a technology like Notes?
• When is it time to talk about the end-result instead of the technology?
• How all this relates to selling Activity Explorer when Hannover comes out
• Some links to business partner products on the IBM site and on Alan's blog
• The difference between sales and marketing (sales guys drive nicer cars?)

Episode 31 was sponsored (once again) by Collaboration University.

The podcast is 27.6mb and runs 48:08 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 06:11:18 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-30-09.01.06.htm News Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-30-09.01.06.htm The Taking Notes podcast, Episode 30 (that's XXX in Roman numerals), features discussion of:

• Chris Miller's new podcast for Lotus Domino Admins
• John Head talks about the announcements at this week's Lotus Advisor conference.  We even talk about Dr. Sara Radicati of The Radicati Group.
• Chatter on the blogs about why people don't "get" Notes
• A DXL tip from Mac Guidera
• OpenNTF widgets and latest product releases
• Damien Katz releases CouchDB as an open-source GPL project
• Bill Buchan and Paul Mooney's new "Worst Practices" website (and a Worst Practices tip... or "un-tip" perhaps)
• Sametime 7.5 launch events
• OpenNTF update by John "Greyhawk68" Roling
• and of course, news and announcements about Collaboration University

Episode 30 was sponsored by Collaboration University.

The podcast is 20.7mb and runs 42:00 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:22:52 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-29-08.22.06.htm News Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-29-08.22.06.htm Here's what we covered in Episode 29:

• Lotusphere 2007 and a fireside chat with Rocky Oliver
• Lotusphere 2007 - how much does it cost?
• DominoBlogs.com - Laurette and Tim Rynne
• Collaboration University
• The IBM vs. Microsoft FUD blog is alive!
• Websphere 6 is out
• Sametime 7.5 is out!
• Rich Schwartz has a great idea for Show-N-Tell Thursdays.
• Libby changes careers
• Workplace Forms 2.6
• Websphere Portal 6.0
• Notes Access for SAP
• Notes/Domino 7.0.2 coming within two weeks
• Toga, toga, toga
• New OpenNTF Projects, DominoRSS, !!Driver!! and Stubby
• Andrew Pollack stops by the Taking Notes studios for a chat about Advisor Devcon and Lotusphere

Episode 29 was sponsored by Collaboration University.

The podcast is 21.9mb and runs 37:47 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:23:27 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-28-08.17.06.htm Lotus Sametime Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-28-08.17.06.htm Lots of different things for you in this podcast, including:

• The Wondertwins and Gigantor  ;-)
• Interview with Adam Gartenberg on Sametime for Linux
• Ben Poole gives us a DominoWiki update
• Lotusphere 2007 registration is open! And they've also begun the call for extracts already.
• Julian gives a few favorite Show-N-Tell Thursdays posts: John Roling on default ACL entries for view templates, and Alan Bell on exporting Notes data to Excel
• There's a new Lotus Security Certification test around. Are you anxious to get certified?
• JP Ligget asks us a techie question about views and author/reader fields. Julian responds with a guess based on an old Lotus technote about readers fields and view indexes
• Carl Tyler tells us how to run an effective online meeting
• OpenNTF update with John Roling

Episode 28 was sponsored by Collaboration University.

The podcast is 20.2mb and runs 34:00 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:42:37 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#advertisewithus.htm News Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#advertisewithus.htm Julian and I have received lots of inquires regarding advertising on The Taking Notes podcast and as a result have put together a document for prospective advertisers.

Here is a copy of our advertising brochure.

Our rates are very fair and the podcast is targeted to over 1,000 engaged and passionate Notes, Domino, Hannover, Sametime, QuickPlace and Workplace listeners. ]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:21:15 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-27-08.09.06.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-27-08.09.06.htm Quickplace 8.0 is coming! Bruce and Julian talk to Rob Novak (president of SNAPPS) and Satwik Seshasai (team lead for Quickplace development at IBM) about what's coming in the new release, including:

• nifty new Ajax functionality and open JavaScript libraries
• integration with Microsoft Office AND OpenOffice
• integration with Activity Explorer
• a teaser about the upcoming Collaboration University
• and much more

Bruce also tosses in a couple of quick interviews: one with Chad Schelfhout about the OpenAudit and QuickElementer projects on OpenNTF, and another with John Head regarding the Community Samples Effort -- a push to product competitive and open templates for Notes/Domino.

The audio during the interview with Rob and Satwick is a bit choppy in places due to some problems Skype was giving us.  Sorry about that.

Episode 27 was sponsored by Instant-Technologies.

The podcast is 22.67mb and runs 38:43 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:55:23 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-26-07.20.06.htm News Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-26-07.20.06.htm Just a quick little news show for you this time. Bruce and Julian cover topics like:

• Out Of Office notification improvements in Hannover
• Ytria is offering free licenses for their Notes/Domino tools through August 18th
• Contact Karyn Rosen for information about the IBM Reference Program  
• Loads of OpenNTF updates (see the "Latest Project Releases" links on the right-hand side of the home page)
• Cool Lotus conferences coming up: the Advisor conference in August and The View conference in late October
• Sametime 7.5 Beta3 client is available for your downloading pleasure
• Julien Bottemanne has released an early version of his Ajax-based Domino multi-database search tool called Domgle
• We talk about Ramen Noodles

Episode 26 was sponsored by Instant-Technologies.

The podcast is 13.9mb and runs 24:13 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:53:59 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#ebizq_art_fontaine.htm News Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#ebizq_art_fontaine.htm Elizabeth Book of ebizQ.com has a nice podcast interview with IBM's Art Fontaine where they discuss the Notes 7.0.1 Linux announcement. ]]> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:45:55 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#NewURL.htm News Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#NewURL.htm The new URL for the Taking Notes Podcast is http://www.TakingNotesPodcast.com. Now doesn't that make more sense?

And yes, the old URL http://TakingNotes.OpenNTF.org still works. ]]> Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:39:42 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-25-07.16.06.htm News Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-25-07.16.06.htm Sorry we've been gone for a few weeks. Welcome to Episode 25 of the Taking Notes podcast. In this episode, we talk about things like:

• The new Notes client on Linux, due out on July 24! See Ed Brill's blog for information and links.
• New features in the Notes 7.0.2 client, like USB client installation, new templates, and native TNEF/winmail.dat support.
• Irish Lotus User Group (ILUG) session videos.
• Bruce talks to Rob Novak about the new Collaboration University event.
• The WinmailExtractor and DominoWiki projects on OpenNTF
• Adam Gartenberg's new blog
• Mary Beth Raven asks about F5 key functionality for Hannover.
• Discussion thread on LDD about Domino Next's handling of HTML tags.
• More cool music by Fly Me Courageous

Episode 25 was sponsored by Instant-Technologies.

The podcast is 25.3mb and runs 44:53 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:09:12 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-24-06.20.06.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-24-06.20.06.htm Taking Notes episode 24 is an interview with Rocky Oliver, longtime LotusGeek and recently pulled (back) into the ranks of IBM. Bruce, Julian, and Rocky discussed topics such as:

• Lotus Notes Access for SAP, and Rocky's involvement on that project
• How that fits in with the larger Project Harmony, which extends to both Lotus Notes and Workplace
• Is it too early to start planning for Lotusphere?
• Why did Rocky leave a successful independent consulting practice to go to work for IBM, anyway?

Episode 24 was sponsored by Genii Software.

All this and much, much more. See what you think!

The podcast is 19.4mb and runs 34:36 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:22:54 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#LotusGeek1.htm Notes People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#LotusGeek1.htm Julian and I will be interviewing Rocky Oliver a.k.a. "Lotus Geek" of IBM for an upcoming podcast.  Rocky has been a long-time luminary in the Notes and Domino world and has recently helped develop Notes Access for SAP Solutions or NaSS as it is known within IBM.

We are preparing a list of questions for the interview and would love to receive some questions from you such as "How did you become such a Lotus Geek" or "What is it like to be a track manager for Lotusphere".  Let the question submission process begin! ]]> Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:09:04 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-23-06.07.06.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-23-06.07.06.htm Episode 23 of the TakingNotes podcast is an interview with Damien Katz -- former Iris/Lotus/IBM smart guy, current heads-down coder on his own CouchDB project. We talk about things like:

• what is CouchDB?
• what is a "document oriented database"?
• you used Erlang to program this thing... what's up with that?
• when will it be ready?

For a quick intro to Couch, a good place to start is the CouchDb Wiki. We also plan to do a part 2 of this podcast, based on questions from the audience. So please leave some comments and tell us what else we should ask Damien.

The podcast is 19.6mb and runs 36:27 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Wed, 31 May 2006 22:28:13 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-22-05.31.06.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-22-05.31.06.htm In this Taking Notes podcast, Bruce and Julian have a fantastic conversation with Adam Gartenberg -- IBM/Lotus Offering Manager for Real-time and Team Collaboration -- regarding the upcoming Sametime 7.5 client. We talked about far too many features and details to list them all here in the show notes (you'll just have to listen to the podcast ;-), but here are some of the topics we touched on:

• Why is Sametime 7.5 NOT "just another chat client"?
• What are some of the reasons you'll want to upgrade from older versions of Sametime?
• Discussion of the new role-based security architecture
• The new Sametime plugin architecture, some neat things you can do with it, and talk of a forthcoming online Sametime Plugin Catalog
• Improvements in the Sametime Meeting Center
• How will we need to upgrade? Clients first? Servers first? All at once?
• Options available for telephony and connectivity to other chat networks via the RTC Gateway

Adam shared some great details with us, so make sure you listen to the whole thing. Also, here are a few links related to what we discussed:

• Taking a tour of Sametime 7.5
• Sametime 7.5 homepage, with links to plenty of product information, podcasts, and a Flash demo of the client
• The Inside Lotus blog, with "Sametime Sundays" articles

And of course the OpenNTF update with John Roling.

Episode 22 was sponsored by Instant-Technologies.

The podcast is 25.6mb and runs 46:13 (yes a long podcast) at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Mon, 29 May 2006 20:20:42 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-21-05.24.06.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-21-05.24.06.htm In Episode 21 Julian talks about his excellent OpenNTF OpenLog project. OpenLog provides a common error and event logging framework for all of your IBM Lotus Notes applications. Julian discusses how to set up OpenLog, how to configure it, how to add OpenLog to your existing databases, how to configure notifications and much more. No longer will you have to write to the Notes log file, the console or to an agent log database.

OpenLog provides you with a single database to collect all of the errors occurring in your code. We know (and hear) what you're saying so don't even say that your code is perfect and has no errors - yeah right! Only Bruce writes perfect code - NOT.

Download OpenLog Version 1.0
Download OpenLog Beta Version 1.1

Kevin Pettitt recently demonstrated OpenLog to the Washington, DC Notes Users Group. Read what Chris Byrne has to say about OpenLog.

What are you waiting for - download and listen to the podcast now, and while you are listening click and download the code.  Enjoy!

The podcast is 16.4mb and runs 29:18 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Thu, 25 May 2006 15:19:15 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TheTakingNotesGuys.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#TheTakingNotesGuys.htm For those of you who want to place a face with the voices you hear on the podcast hesitate no further.  Behold The Taking Notes guys:



Click on the photo to select a photo for your refrigerator or fish tank. ]]> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:22:36 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-20-05.18.06.htm Notes People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-20-05.18.06.htm Today's podcast is a quick interview with Andrew Pollack of Northern Collaborative Technologies, ruminating on such topics as:

• How the Workplace Managed Client technology has merged with Lotus Notes in the past 3 years
• The resurgence of Lotus Notes as an important technology at IBM
• The opportunities that lie ahead for developers and ISVs as Hannover becomes reality in the next 12 months

As always, listen and enjoy.  What are you waiting for?

The podcast is 16.1mb and runs 29:16 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Thu, 11 May 2006 19:20:59 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-19-05.11.06.htm Development Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-19-05.11.06.htm We're baaaack. ;-)

In this installment of the Taking Notes podcast, Bruce and Julian discuss topics such as:

• New developments in Notes 7.0.2 as reported on Ed Brill's blog, including Notes Nomad (the Notes client on a memory stick, formerly known as "Project Wanda"), blog and RSS templates, and better Smart Upgrade. According to the Notes & Domino Insider Newsletter, 7.0.2 is scheduled for release in September, 2006.
• Are the successful user group meetings becoming annual/quarterly mini-conferences instead of monthly meetings?
• The Hannover design team now has at least one blog (Mary Beth Raven) -- is IBM seeking input, or just doing marketing?
• Julian is in the market for a laptop, and is wondering if the new Lenovo Thinkpads are as durable and sturdy as the old IBM Thinkpads.
• Alan Lepofsky has a great Notes calendar tip.

And of course the OpenNTF update with John Roling.

The podcast is 16.6mb and runs 29:19 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:52:53 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-18-04.04.06.htm Lotus Sametime Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-18-04.04.06.htm Julian and Bruce gab about a few random topics, including:

• More Domino bloggers moving to big jobs -- Steve Castledine, Stephen Wissel and Brian Benz go to IBM, and Rich Schwartz to HP
• Sametime 7.5 demos are out. When will we get to play with the real thing?
• Domino and Java and Eclipse, oh my! (Julian blogged about this last week, with several links to people who were having this discussion)
• Will the new IE ActiveX "security patch" break Quickplace? (and a link to Julian's comment about Microsoft delaying the patch rollout)
• Lotusphere Comes To You events are still going on, and Bruce is doing some sessions at two of the events this week
• Big download month so far for OpenNTF. RealWorkflow is the featured product this month, and Julian recommended using the Chrysalis LSX for manipulating agent schedules
• Bruce interviews Brendon Upson of Puakma Software

And of course, more Talking News with Michael Sampson (where he announces Ed Brill's new job), and another OpenNTF update with John Roling.

The podcast is 20.8mb and runs 37:33 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:01:06 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#.htm News Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#.htm Show-n-Tell Thursdays, Rich Schwartz's SnTT aggregator, Lotusphere Comes To You, Ed Brill's podcast, Paul Mooney on the Microsoft Application Analyzer, Sametime 7.5, Jack Dausman on why Notes/Domino developers need to learn Eclipse for Hannover, Michael Sampson's Talking Notes segment.

The podcast is 6.9mb and runs 12:41 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:14:17 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode16.htm IBM People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode16.htm On Thursday night Julian and Bruce had a nice podside chat with Ed Brill. Ed answers some of our questions in addition to some of the ones submitted by our listeners over the last week.

The podcast also includes segments by:

• Talking News by Michael Sampson of Shared Spaces
• John Roling's OpenNTF update
• Jess Stratton's One Minute Power Tip

The podcast is 27.7mb and runs 50:36 at 64kps (variable bit rate). ]]> Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:02:17 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode16IsComingSoon.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode16IsComingSoon.htm Look for Episode 16 sometime this weekend.  We haven't had time to put all the podcast pieces together just yet. It takes from 2-4 hours, a pot of coffee and some bonbon's to produce the final recording you hear. Thanks for your patience. ]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:58:06 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode16Announcement.htm Notes People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode16Announcement.htm On Thursday Julian and I will be inteviewing Ed Brill who is the Business Unit Executive for the Worldwide Lotus Messaging Sales, IBM Software Group (just in case you didn't know who Ed was) for Episode 16 of the Taking Notes podcast.  We are currently putting together our list of interview questions and are also soliciting questions for Ed from you our listening audience. You can either post your questions here or send them to us as an MP3 audio file.

Please have your questions in by Wednesday evening. ]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:28:39 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode15.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode15.htm This short podcast talks about Show-n-tell-Thursdays which is a new effort by some of the Notes/Domino bloggers. To learn more about it please read this entry on my blog.

All posts tagged Show-n-tell-Thursdays on Technorati

• Steve Castledine talks about DominoBlog Mini.
• Julian talks about Accessing SQL Server using ADO from Lotusscript.
• Workplace Designer 2.6 on Inside Lotus Team Blog.
• Declan Lynch on Drag and Drop mail archiving.
• Ray Bilyk on storing frequently used command scripts for your Domino server.
• Vince Schuurman talks about creating PDF files.
• Rob McDonagh on Computed Text.

Gerco Wolfinskel podcasts.

The podcast is 24.7mb and runs 16:26 at 128kps. ]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:54:09 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode14.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode14.htm Sorry for the delay in getting a new episode of the Taking Notes podcast to you.  Here is what we convered in this episode:

• Lotusphere "the week after" -- what did you come back to work talking about? What took us so long to podcast again?
• Post-Lotusphere excitement (Yellow is the New Black, anti-FUD, etc.)
• Lots of downloads of the Kevin Cavanaugh interview
• Lotusphere Wiki -- lots of activity
• Sametime 7.5 -- when do we get it?
• Notes 7.0.1 is out -- lots of bug-fixes
• Michael Sampson - Talking News
• Free VMWare server -- great for testing Notes 7
• Project Wanda -- hot or not?
• OpenNTF Update

The podcast is 25.2mb and runs 55:03 at 64kps.

Related links for topics mentioned in this podcast:

• Calendar and Schedule Schema Doc
• LDD Forum Request for Comment on a Calendar and Schedule API
• Rocky's discussion of civil discourse
• Ulrich Krause's blog entry about running Notes on a USB key
• Yellow is the New Black group blog
• Lotus anti-FUD blog
• Workspace vs. Bookmarks debate: Volker's opinion and Rich's opinion (for starters)
• Free VMWare Server

]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:36:53 -0400 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode13.htm IBM People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode13.htm Today we had the privilege (and good fortune) to get an interview with Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President of Development for Domino Products. He was extremely friendly and gave us some fantastic information on things like:

• Sametime 7.5 features (including plugins!)
• Activity Explorer integration in Notes
• The difference between Hannover and "Domino Next"
• New and improved Notes client on the Mac
• Upcoming RSS/Atom feed integration in Notes
• and much more...

Thanks again to Kevin Cavanaugh for the great interview, and to Michael Shamrell and Jenn Snyder for setting all this up for us in the first place. Download, listen, and enjoy.

The podcast is 15.9mb and runs 33:28 at 64kps. ]]> Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:08:51 -0500 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode12.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode12.htm Coverage of Day 1 (and some of Tuesday's show) of Lotusphere including highlights of the Opening General Session, sessions, product showcase, JAMFest and other events. We recorded this episode in the rotunda of the Dolphin hotel and you may think you are hearing a "hiss" in the background when in fact it is actually the rushing water of the fountain behind us.

The podcast is 6.8mb and runs 14:30 at 64kps. ]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:59:11 -0500 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode11.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode11.htm It's our first day here at Lotusphere 2006. Here is a recap of Jumpstart Sessions, Welcome Reception and other pre-Lotusphere activities.  Enjoy.

The podcast is 4.4mb and runs 9:00 at 64kps.
]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:20:13 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#DiggingThePodcasts.htm News Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#DiggingThePodcasts.htm Gregg Eldred has posted a review of the podcast we did with The Turtle earlier this week on his blog. Thanks for the feedback Gregg. ]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:09:29 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Lotusphere2006TheTurtle.htm Lotusphere Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Lotusphere2006TheTurtle.htm Today we had the pleasure of interviewing Scott Wenzel better known as  The Turtle. The Turtle runs The Totally Unofficial Gonzo Lotusphere site which is a great resource for Lotusphere attendees.  During the interview The Turtle discusses how to avoid paying high prices for things you may need at Lotusphere such as food, water, and beer and he also gives you some tips on places to eat, party and to simply have fun.

The podcast is 15.8mb and runs 27:57 at 64kps. ]]> Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:47:03 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#PuakmaTeaser.htm Notes People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#PuakmaTeaser.htm Podcast coming soon.  For now listen to what Brendon has to say.



Learn more about Puakma here. ]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:53:57 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#lotusphere-podcast-ideas.htm Lotusphere Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#lotusphere-podcast-ideas.htm By the way, we'll be podcasting live from Lotusphere in a couple weeks (we're even on the official list -- yeehaw!). We have a few ideas on what we'll be doing, but we certainly welcome your ideas too.

Any requests?  Would you like us to ask a guru a question for you (free of charge)? How about some coverage of the JAMFest, ESPN party, session speaker, Product Showcase vendor?

Bring it on! ]]> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:37:28 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-9-01.08.06-large-scale-notes-deployments-with-bill-buchan.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-9-01.08.06-large-scale-notes-deployments-with-bill-buchan.htm Come and listen to our latest podcast -- this time with Bill Buchan, on the subject of large-scale enterprise Notes deployments. Topics of discussion include:

• What it is like to migrate a 100,000+ user deployment to a new version?
• Does Notes really work in such a large environment?
• What are some development mistakes you need to avoid?
• Why should developers be nice to their admins?

The podcast also includes another one-minute power tip from Jess Stratton.

Download and enjoy!

The podcast is 22.5mb and runs 42:52 at 64kps. ]]> Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:49:14 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-8-ajax-with-lance-spellman-and-dwight-wilbanks.htm Development Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#taking-notes-episode-8-ajax-with-lance-spellman-and-dwight-wilbanks.htm Today's episode of Taking Notes is a discussion of Ajax development techniques, and how to use them with Lotus Notes/Domino. Lance Spellman and Dwight Wilbanks are with us to talk about:

• What is Ajax?
• What are some cool ways we can use it in our Domino databases?
• What are some things you have to watch out for?
• What cool Ajax things will we see examples of in Ben Langhinrich's Lotusphere Sessions database?

Once again, we have another great "Collaboration News" segment from Michael Sampson. We also have a quick tip from Ulrich Krause, and some bumper music by Notes developer (and sometime blogger) Alex Hernandez.

Come download the MP3 and take a listen!

The podcast is 18mb and runs 39:09 at 64kps.

Related Links
Lance Spellman -- http://www.workflowstudios.com/lance/blog.nsf
Dwight Wilbanks -- http://www.dwightwilbanks.org
Richard Schwartz's Domino Ajax page -- http://www.rhs.com/poweroftheschwartz/htdocs/lotusdominoajax.htm
Lotus Advisor interview about Ajax and Domino Web Access -- http://my.advisor.com/doc/17019 ]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:47:07 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#chris-linfoot-talks-about-spam.htm Notes People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#chris-linfoot-talks-about-spam.htm Today's podcast features Chris Linfoot -- Domino mail guru -- talking about spam, and what you can do about it at the server level. The discussion includes:

• some Best Practices for fighting SPAM in a Domino environment
• how your company can stay off blacklists
• the importance of whitelisting in Domino 7
• some third-party tools that may be useful, like kSpam and no.Spam.Java (www.drcc.com/nsj)

One of the points he makes is that a good anti-spam measure you can take in your Domino environment is to have at least one Domino 7 server running. Interesting...

We also have another great "Collaboration News" segment from Michael Sampson and also another great song by our musical guests Fly Me Courageous.

Download now, and take a listen on your favorite MP3 player. The podcast is 19.9mb and runs 43:20 at 64kps.

Come listen! ]]> Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:54:48 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#AnnouncingChrisLinfoot.htm Notes People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#AnnouncingChrisLinfoot.htm We will be sitting down with SPAM guru Chris Linfoot this weekend to record Episode 7 of the Taking Notes podcast.  As usual if you have a question you would like to have answered by Chris you can send the question or an audio clip of the question here. ]]> Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:15:37 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#interview-with-bruce-elgort---openntf.htm Notes People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#interview-with-bruce-elgort---openntf.htm Episode no. 6 has Julian interviewing Bruce about OpenNTF. Topics include:

• How did OpenNTF get started?
• What are some of the more popular projects on OpenNTF?
• How can people get involved?
• Where can I meet Bruce at Lotusphere?

We also added a few exciting new features with this podcast:

• Professional introduction by John Roling
• Collaboration news by Michael Sampson
• Notes tip of the day by Lance Spellman
• More cool music by Fly Me Courageous

Download now, and take a listen on your favorite MP3 player. The podcast is 17.4mb and runs 37:48 at 64kps. ]]> Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:44:34 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#OneMinuteTips.htm News Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#OneMinuteTips.htm Do you have a great Notes/Domino or web development tip that you would like to share?  Have you come across a great 3rd party application that you would like to review? Do you have some questions you would like to have answered about Notes/Domino or other related product? Well if you do simply grab a microphone, record it and send the mp3 file here.  We can then include it in a podcast!

Be sure to include your name in your recording as well as any other information you want to share. Tips should run a minute or two in length and reviews can be three to four minutes.

Give it a try! ]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:10:30 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode_5_11-26-05.htm Lotus Sametime Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#Episode_5_11-26-05.htm Carl Tyler answers our questions about IBM's Lotus Sametime instant messaging/web conferencing product. Carl discusses:

• history about the product
• how Sametime differentiates itself from other IM products
• Notes 6.5 Sametime entitlement
• how to integrate Sametime with other enterprise IM products
• can Sametime be integrated with telephony systems
• arguments you can use to get your boss to let you install Sametime
• why Sametime doesn't have emoticons

Carl also answers a question from the audience and tells us about Instant-Technologies and the products they offer.

The podcast is 11.7mb and runs 25:31 at 64kps.

New music, Friction by Fly Me Courageous. ]]> Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:00:28 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#more-podcasts-on-the-way.htm Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#more-podcasts-on-the-way.htm The interview we did with Carl Tyler where we discussed everything Lotus Sametime will be posted on Sunday.  In the mean time, please listen to the attached podcast for more information. ]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:36:29 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#carl-tyler-podcast-announcement.htm Notes People Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#carl-tyler-podcast-announcement.htm Next week we will be interviewing Carl Tyler of Instant Technologies and talking about their products as well as discussing Carl's expertise with Lotus Sametime in addition to questions from the audience. Please be sure and send us your questions in the form of an audio file or simply post them here and we will be sure to have Carl answer them for you.

Following Carl will be an interview with Libby Ingrassia of LotusUserGroup.org. Stay tuned for more information on the podcast with Libby. ]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:48:58 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#interview-with-ben-langhinrichs---rich-text.htm Notes People Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#interview-with-ben-langhinrichs---rich-text.htm Our fourth podcast brings Bruce and Julian to the phone of Ben Langhinrichs, master of all things that are Notes Rich Text. Listen as Ben answers questions like:

1. What is rich text, anyway?
2. How the heck did you learn so much about this stuff?
3. Have you ever had a chance to sit down and talk to IBM about any of this?

And much, much more! Download the podcast and take a listen. It's about 20 minutes long. ]]> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:26:10 -0500 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#11092005092602PMJRO4VF.htm News Julian Robichaux http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#11092005092602PMJRO4VF.htm Bruce mentioned earlier today, we'll be interviewing Ben Langhinrichs pretty soon.

Got any questions about Notes Rich Text? Why don't you send them to us as an audio file and we'll try to work them into the podcast with Ben. ]]> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 12:21:27 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#11082005122124PMBELRVF.htm News Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#11082005122124PMBELRVF.htm here. ]]> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:29:54 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#interview-with-ben-poole---dominowiki.htm OpenNTF Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#interview-with-ben-poole---dominowiki.htm Julian and I interview Ben Poole where we discuss Ben's OpenNTF DominoWiki project. We are still working on recording logistics - Julians heavy breathing, my PowerBook fan coming on and Skype cutting out. Overall the podcast turned out great and we hope you enjoy it. ]]> Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:10:31 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#11072005031026PMBELV75.htm Web Services Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#11072005031026PMBELV75.htm of our web services podcast Julian explains how Notes/Domino 7 can play in the world of service oriented architectures. ]]> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:53:47 -0700 http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#11072005115344AMBELRC6.htm Web Services Bruce Elgort http://nsftools.com/takingnotes.htm#11072005115344AMBELRC6.htm Julian Robichaux introduces us to web services in part one of our two part series. In part two we will look into how Notes/Domino 7 works with web services.

Feedback on the podcast is also welcome. Enjoy. ]]>