Notes? Wikis? How dare you! 13 Oct, 2006
Oh dear, in having the presumption to release an open-source wiki template for Lotus Domino, I think I offended Robert Basic. He waded into that whole Boothby thing, and the comments ranged all over the place. Eventually, someone mentioned a wiki in Lotus Notes, and then Ed chipped in:
Robert, have you looked at DominoWiki on OpenNTF?
Robert didn’t like that.
is that all you can say? A DominoWiki? Oh my… i will close the thread since that was so embarrassing :(
Sorry Robert.
Anyway, for those who are interested in such fripperies, the first “release candidate” for version 1.1 is now live on my wiki. Have a tinker, please keep the testing away from non-SandBox pages, and be sure to log any thoughts on the appropriate page!
btw, interesting to hear that you have taken the trip to built a wiki based on Notes.Kudos!
RobRobert#
Dont let the Lotus Notes history get you down. Where else can you get a PKI based object database with 15 years of use ? :-)
DominoWiki is very very cool. Dont let Bens britihs understatedness fool you. He's a very very smart guy. Far better than me.
And. hey. Its a big marketplace, in permanent transition. Of course you'll find *old* products. Hell, IBM still sell the zSeries/360.
why ?
They still work in their problem space.
Lotus Notes ? Well. We still keep kicking live into it. Sorry..
:-)
---* BillWild Bill#
Robert clearly has issues with Ed, for whatever reason, so his reaction to Ed's question most likely had nothing to do with the content of the question. The fact that it was exactly the same sort of reaction as the ones for which he criticized Ed is just a small ornament on the enormous Christmas tree of irony that has been built in the last week.Rob McDonagh#
As for you Bill, you're kidding… look what I do compared with what you do man! But thank you anyway!
OK, love-in over ;-) Ben Poole#
So there you go. I think I've generally addressed the points in Robert's posting in my own http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/the-question-of-background-bias-and-arrogance . But I would still like to know if he's looked at DominoWiki :-)Ed Brill#
But 1.1. Oh, 1.1 rocks. Even though I say so myself :-)
Ed, thanks for commenting. I was somewhat puzzled at your reception over at basicthinking.de, I have to say. The post you link to on your site is a good one, and hopefully puts to bed the weirdness we’ve all experienced the past couple of weeks. Thanks for stopping by!Ben Poole#
http://benpoole.com/wiki/pages/BugsSoFarBen Poole#