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A no-brainer for Lotusphere

Lumme, this looks like it could well be a massive Lotusphere highlight. I am so intrigued…

For the uninitiated, the Great Code Giveaway is a plain old Lotusphere session (BP215 this time, Monday afternoon) with a twist. About $100,000 in Domino development innovation, on a subject never done before, is presented in-depth then given away to the community. This year is no exception. And more people than ever will benefit from the session this time—we’ve built that in.

Why the secrecy? It’s fun. I like secrets. This year, like last year, I’ve even kept the Lotusphere track managers from knowing what’s really going on… vague is the order of the day on the slides!

I will tell you this: It’s Domino. Not Quickr. Not Sametime. Not purple. Domino. It’s not XPages stuff, there’ll be a lot of other coverage on that. It will, like in our past sessions, work with many versions. And I hope, at least a little, it will change the way people think of the Domino web server.

Rob gives an amazing presentation; it’s a no-brainer that if you’re a developer you need to attend this session.

Rob Novak: What to expect at the Great Code Giveaway.


Posted 00:48 PST on 07 Jan 2009   |   Categories: See other weblog entries under the 'Notes and Domino' category See other weblog entries under the 'Programming' category   |   Technorati tag icon     |    No comments yet


Resolutions? Pah!

… Don’t believe in ’em, don’t do ’em. However, if you read famous old posts like this with furrowed brow and guilty conscience, perhaps you need to make at least one resolution:

Dear Lazyweb, and also a certain you-know-who-you-are who should certainly know better by now,

I am here to tell you about backups. It’s very simple.

Jamie Zawinski, PSA: backups.

In addition to the excellent advice, this post also contains one of the best quotes about technology ever.


Posted 05:46 PST on 06 Jan 2009   |   Categories: See other weblog entries under the 'Miscellany' category See other weblog entries under the 'Technology' category   |    6 comments


Tweety wordles

Inspired by Stuart’s post I did a wordle of tweets:

A wordle of tweets

What fun! And actually interesting to see what words are most popular. It would appear that I think “that new old Domino is good”!


Posted 13:50 PST on 02 Jan 2009   |   Categories: See other weblog entries under the 'Fun' category See other weblog entries under the 'Technology' category   |   Technorati tag icon     |    2 comments


That was the year that was

Hmm. A funny old year, 2008. I can’t say I will miss it on certain levels. However there were a lot positives—or at least, notable moments:

Thoughts / notes for 2009?

So, here’s to a healthy interesting 2009 for you all, and thanks for coming back.


Posted 12:12 GMT on 01 Jan 2009   |   Categories: See other weblog entries under the 'Blogging' category See other weblog entries under the 'Miscellany' category See other weblog entries under the 'Notes and Domino' category   |    3 comments


London Developer Co-op activity

London Developer Co-op logo

So, theoretically the Christmas / New Year gap is a quiet time. Hmm, so they say. Not being ones to stand still, those of us who make up the London Developer Co-op have been busy with a few site updates, setting up the ubiquitous twitter account and some other behind-the-scenes shenanigans involving actual code, specifications and proposals, server moves, and all sorts of stuff like that. What larks!

We are also delighted to announce two new members, a certain Mr. Julian Woodward and a gentleman by the name of Kieran Green—welcome chaps! You can read about Julian and Kieran on the members page of the LDC site. We will shortly update our portfolio page for added funkiness, but in the meantime you can still read about some of the things we’ve done there.

Exciting times. Do follow us to keep up [smiley Wink]


Posted 22:49 GMT on 29 Dec 2008   |   Categories: See other weblog entries under the 'Notes and Domino' category   |   Technorati tag icon    |    No comments yet


I defy you to finish this conversation

[16:33:32] Ben Poole: more squeaking
[16:34:05] Mark Myers: not if the cow is in a rubber suit

Tricky eh? So, Christmas is done for another year, and we fast approach 2009. Hope yours was good. I am off to indulge in more jQuery goodness for the next few days.

(Oh, and more cow squeaking of course).


Posted 08:38 PST on 29 Dec 2008   |   Categories: See other weblog entries under the 'Fun' category   |    3 comments


Merry Christmas

A picture of Holly (sorry, Brit gag)(I don’t do the “Happy Holidays!” thing, sorry ;o) )

Merry Christmas to everyone out there, and thanks for dropping by. Lots of things afoot in the next few weeks, but for now it’s quiet time with family and friends, the way it should be. Good health and happiness to you all.

(P.S. did you know that Santa Gets Things Done with IBM Lotus Notes?)


Posted 13:26 PST on 24 Dec 2008   |   Categories: See other weblog entries under the 'Fun' category   |    No comments yet


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