Our Agenda is still being constructed - these sessions and speakers still may change. About 10 days before the conference, we shall post the complete, final agenda.
Alan Lepofsky
IBM Lotus
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Andy Porter
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| Collaboration within IBM
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| We'll talk about how we use the technology, some of the challenges we face in being a small island of top-class collaborators among a huge sea of other IBM business units, how we use the Technology Adoption Program. |
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Ben Poole
Notable Consulting Ltd.
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| A Muppet's Guide to Using Eclipse in Domino (or "Take my web service, please!")
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| A Muppet’s Guide to Using Eclipse in Domino (or “Take my web service, please!”)
Java for Domino has been hyped since Notes 4.6x, everyone’s talking about Eclipse, and even your toaster has a web service. But how do you start? We mean really start, no assumptions made, none of this “It’s dead easy, you just invert the trifold overloader…” rubbish.
We’ll be looking at stuff like where best to shove your Java files, what version of Java to use with Domino, how to get your posh enterprise Java code into Domino blemish-free, and what the hell those error messages really mean. We’ll skim over a few of the good tools out there too, so if you’ve always been dubious about “packet sniffing” (and honestly, who can blame you?), hopefully we’ll lay your fears to rest.
Start-to-finish, we will consume a web service in Eclipse, and use that service in Domino, no messing.
Join us, learn to be smug, and get up-to-date. |
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Bill Buchan
HADSL
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Bob Balaban
Binary Tree, Inc. |
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| Achieving "Peaceful" Coexistence Between Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes
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| While many organizations strive to standardize their messaging infrastructures on a single platform, many others do not. Whether through merger, acquisition or simple user preference, many organizations face a need to achieve peaceful coexistence in the messaging wars, perhaps for only a short time (while they transition from one to the other), but perhaps (if they can pull it off) for a very long time. The technical challenges involved in maintaining a well-performing dual messaging infrastructure are not trivial, but they can be met successfully with proper planning and the right technology. The big issues are all around directory synchronization, message transport, rich text, scheduling logic differences and data formats. Come to this session to learn how to overcome these technical challenges, how to keep both Notes and Exchange up and running, and how to avoid mutually assured destruction! |
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Bruce Elgort
Elguji Software
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| the Perfect Beast: Birth of IdeaJam
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| Take a look at what it took to build the IdeaJam site. From conception to production, Bruce and the gang will walk you through the whole process of making a Domino Application that doesn't look or act like a Domino Application. In less than 4 months. And all without ever being in the same room or even the same timezone. |
| Templates, Templates, Everywhere – If You Know Where to Look!
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| If you think the only application templates available for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino are the ones that are bundled with it (and even if you already know better) it's time you learned more about the many excellent free and open source Lotus Notes and Domino templates and where they come from. Join us for a fast-paced look at some of the best templates from OpenNTF.org, trade publications, bloggers, and other little known sources. While its easy to build your own applications in Lotus Notes, its even easier, and usually more rewarding, to build on top of someone else's. Whether you're a developer, admin, or both, you'll come away from this session ready to put these templates into action to become more productive, make your job easier, and impress your boss. |
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Charles Robinson
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| Mission Impossible - from single Domino Windows Server to Linux cluster in less than 60 minutes
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| Speakers: Charles Robinson and Gabriella Davis
Props: 20 laser pointers, dimmed lights, dry ice and Paul Mooney
Mission Impossible - from single Domino Windows Server to Linux cluster in less than 60 minutes
Not sure how to give your single Domino server a (cluster) mate without affecting your users? Ever wanted to find out what exactly is involved in migrating a live Domino server from Windows to Linux?
We do too, so come watch Charles Robinson and Franziska Tanner-Whitlock attempt to not only explain the whole process but also DEMO it live in 60 minutes. If all goes well, the ILUG Domino server will actually be functioning by the time we're done |
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Chris Miller
Connectria
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| Introduction to the Sametime Gateway
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| Sametime Gateway - bring your enterprise together with the public instant messaging networks (ok, not with MSN yet) by allowing your users to chat endlessly with the outside world via Sametime. We will talk about the hardware requirements, decisive versions of software that must be followed and then see some pretty pictures of what your network should look like with the Sametime Gateway in place.
Sametime Administration Tips, Tricks & Highwires - stand high above the crowd as they gasp in anticipation at your newly found Sametime administration skills from this far too brief session. |
| Lotus Sametime 8
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| Join Chris Miller as he brings you through the features and functionality of the Sametime product range, demonstrating the product and features. Then go deeper into the functionality of Sametime and see what you can make it do. |
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Daniele Vistalli
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| Portal is your friend, just give it a real chance ( AKA Portal for those Yellow Zealots }:-) )
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| Over the years portal has been the black beast in the Lotus community, pushed by IBM (often in the wrong direction), pushed back by yellow zealots that cry out loud if you just name Java/J2EE.
It's time to tame the beast and learn to live with it. Portal today has grown up is manageable and can bring value to your domino solution and customer.
Let's take an overview of what it offers, what it takes, where it can augment your domino enviroment, where it's bringing something you never imagined to be possible.
Version 6.1 is coming this year and it's bringing great stuff that will simplify the integration of domino applications. Take an early look at it and start planning your next big domino/portal solution/application. |
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Darren Adams
IBM
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| Collaboration within IBM
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| We'll talk about how we use the technology, some of the challenges we face in being a small island of top-class collaborators among a huge sea of other IBM business units, how we use the Technology Adoption Program. |
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Ed Brill
Lotus
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| Notes and Domino -- The Road Behind and Ahead
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| Now in its 18th year in market, Lotus Notes and Domino have a history longer than almost any other software product on the market today. In this session, we will journey back in time, recalling fun and frustration through the first eight releases of Notes and Domino. We'll also talk about the market for Notes/Domino today, a view of the competitive landscape, and plans for 2008 and beyond. |
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Eileen Fitzgerald
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| Delivering and managing Notes as a service and according to ITIL Principles.
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| Convince your admins to deal with the boring issues vs the really interesting technical ones, find out what it is that your developers are actually doing !!! Find easy statistics to prove to number crunching managers that you really are working hard and identify the repetitive tasks that can be automated or handed over to your service desk.
Or in professional speak J
Information Technology Infrastructure Library is a well known framework for managing and delivering IT services to your company or customers.
In this session we review how to manage your Notes infrastructure and teams according to ITIL principles to improve efficiency, reliability and quality. |
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Gabriella Davis
The Turtle Partnership
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| The Security Nip/Tuck - Tightening up your environment with Domino R8
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| Has your security been left to get old and flabby? In this comprehensive session we'll take you through the new security enhancements introduced in Domino and highlight the most common security loopholes you may not be looking out for. From upgrading your certifiers and ids with higher quality keys to effective use of policies and how to secure traffic using SSL and TLS - we will demonstrate with live examples how each feature is configured and discuss where it could be used. Leave this session with the best knowledge to ensure Domino stays secure against the latest threats. |
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Gregory Engels
Kompurity
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| Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Notes.ini But Were Afraid to Ask
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| In this entertaining session you'll get introduced to some notes.ini settings you probably never have heard of. And probably don't want to hear of again. There will be settings for the admins, for the developers, the longest and the shortest setting there is, the funniest and most bizarre and the most practical too!
Target Audience: Notes.ini editors |
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Heidi Votaw
IBM
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| Get Connected with Lotus Connections
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| Last year, IBM announced Lotus Connections, social software for business.
In this session you will get a look at the next release of Lotus
Connections. Extend person Profiles with your own set of custom metadata.
Find out how to manage Communities and synchronize membership across
external applications. Learn how to build your own custom Activities and
entries to match your own work. Understand how to use Connections from your
everyday tools, like email and instant messaging, or build your own
extensions. See what we've done with Connections 2!
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Henning Kunz
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| Notes feng shui or the art of Notes client installation
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| The Notes client can be installed in various ways. Starting at a pure CD installation answering the
questions of the installwizards ending up in a fully customized installation distributing the
clientparts as a bundle of registry keys files and scripts.
There are a lot of different needs to support in notes companies. Supporting a travelling salesmen
using a mobile notes client, never showing up at a companies location and supporting an office
worker having his notesclient in a session on a big multilanguage terminalserver farm.
After discussing the most common requirements the session will dive into detail about the client
components and on howto distribute which parts to which places to satisfy which requirements.
Expect some tips and tricks to create leanest client installations.
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Jamie Magee
MartinScott Consulting
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| Fixing application performance problems
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| Did your application with 100 test documents get reeeeeally slooowww in production with more documents and users? Prevent, identify, and fix the most common performance problems right in the design of your applications! Over 40 Notes and Web performance tips cover formulas, LotusScript, agents, views, forms, images, DB properties, security, CSS, JavaScript, GZip, and even a few server settings every developer should know. Learn how to trace slow performance in live applications, including an open source tool to reveal what Notes is waiting for when you see the yellow lightning bolt. Emphasis is placed on balancing performance, maintainability and functionality. |
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John D. Head
PSC Group, LLC
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| Lotus Symphony and You ... How to stop giving Microsoft your money!
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| For years, you have given Microsoft money for Office Licenses. Would you be interested if we could show you how you could save the money and still produce great documents, spreadsheets and presentations? This session is for you. The first half of the session will be a real-world comparison of Lotus Symphony to Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org. We will help you decide what type of workers and situations should use which product. We will transition the session to cover the Application Development story. What can you do to integrate Lotus Symphony with your applications? We will cover Composite Applications, Expeditor and Eclipse.org Plug-ins, and LotusScript support. Come to this session with an open mind! |
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Julian Robichaux
nsftools
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| Charts! Reports! Graphs! Beer (no, not for you)...
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| Need some charts, graphs, and reports from your Notes databases? We'll show you some techniques you can use right away. Turn a view into a bar chart, export data to Excel (bleh) or Symphony (yay), and even create comely (that's right, we said comely) graphs on the fly. You can display it all in dialog boxes, on Notes documents, or on the web. Heck, you could even do all three at once -- we don't care!
All of these techniques work with Notes 7 and 8, and they use free tools and free libraries that are free so you can do this stuff for free. That's free, free, free, and yet more free. That's a whole lot of free right there, so save your company some money with this spectacular - yet free - presentation. In return, we will graciously allow you to buy us beer. |
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Kevin Pettitt
LotusGuru Consulting
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| Start Your Database the SuperNTF Way
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| SuperNTF is the open-source Notes client application framework built from the ground up to enable even novice developers to embrace coding best practices. No more customized discussion databases! The feature-rich yet uncomplicated design of this template encourage wide adoption, enabling you to promote coding standards across your organization. Even advanced developers will find plenty of features to cherry pick for use in other applications. From integrated help and error handling to getting soft deletions right and providing an alternate "dashboard" interface, SuperNTF makes it easy to look like you're working hard. The session will also offer an in-depth review of the template’s advanced features for user activity and field change tracking, configuration, and data reporting/exporting, and show you how to inject new life into existing apps, or provide a strong foundation for new ones. |
| Templates, Templates, Everywhere – If You Know Where to Look!
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| If you think the only application templates available for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino are the ones that are bundled with it (and even if you already know better) it's time you learned more about the many excellent free and open source Lotus Notes and Domino templates and where they come from. Join us for a fast-paced look at some of the best templates from OpenNTF.org, trade publications, bloggers, and other little known sources. While its easy to build your own applications in Lotus Notes, its even easier, and usually more rewarding, to build on top of someone else's. Whether you're a developer, admin, or both, you'll come away from this session ready to put these templates into action to become more productive, make your job easier, and impress your boss. |
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Mark Myers
Exhilarate Ltd
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| A Muppet's Guide to Using Eclipse in Domino (or "Take my web service, please!")
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| A Muppet’s Guide to Using Eclipse in Domino (or “Take my web service, please!”)
Java for Domino has been hyped since Notes 4.6x, everyone’s talking about Eclipse, and even your toaster has a web service. But how do you start? We mean really start, no assumptions made, none of this “It’s dead easy, you just invert the trifold overloader…” rubbish.
We’ll be looking at stuff like where best to shove your Java files, what version of Java to use with Domino, how to get your posh enterprise Java code into Domino blemish-free, and what the hell those error messages really mean. We’ll skim over a few of the good tools out there too, so if you’ve always been dubious about “packet sniffing” (and honestly, who can blame you?), hopefully we’ll lay your fears to rest.
Start-to-finish, we will consume a web service in Eclipse, and use that service in Domino, no messing.
Join us, learn to be smug, and get up-to-date. |
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Mary Beth Raven
IBM
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| Connecting Notes to the World with Live Text and Widgets.
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| In Notes 8.0.1 IBM introduced Live Text and Widgets. Come see what we're
adding for Notes 8.5. It will include demos of:
Adding a Notes view, document, and frameset to the sidebar
Adding a Google Gadget to the sidebar
Hooking up Live Text in a Notes document to a form on the web
Hooking up Live Text in a Notes document to a Google Gadget
How to manage your Widgets, recognizers, and content types
How to deploy them in your organization,
We'll also take real-time requests from the audience and try to build
whatever you suggest-- right before your very eyes! |
| Customising the look of Notes 8 : coding tips and user interface guidelines
for creating a company-wide look and feel
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| Notes 8 has a beautiful new look and fee, and you can customize it! In
this session, we'll teach you how to dissect the .css files that make up
the Notes 8 look and customise them. We'll discuss style guidelines for
icons, shadows, gradients, and other visual details. We'll also show how
you can follow interaction guidelines covering menus, toolbars,
preferences, and sidebar plug-ins. You'll get the information you need to
create a custom look that conforms to the new Notes 8 style. We'll build a
theme right during the session-- maybe a green one (we'll be on the Emerald
Isle, after all), hum.. or maybe a "Malt" theme... |
| The Full Monty - 8.5
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| The shipment of Lotus Notes 8.5 is still a little while away, but you can get "the Full Monty" of information on what's in, what's out, and what is teetering on the edge, during this session. Mary Beth will show demos that may or may not include a re-designed workspace, a more scalable sidebar, Mail archiving, federated search, Quickr and Connections integration, and more. It all depends on what got in and what got cut between when she wrote this proposal and when the actual talk takes place! Learn about the politics, passion (you thought a "calendar overlay" was a new feature??) , and intrigue behind some of the feature decisions. Take the (probably last before code feeze) opportunity to provide some feedback on the new designs. |
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Matt White
Fynn Consulting Ltd
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| the Perfect Beast: Birth of IdeaJam
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| Take a look at what it took to build the IdeaJam site. From conception to production, Bruce and the gang will walk you through the whole process of making a Domino Application that doesn't look or act like a Domino Application. In less than 4 months. And all without ever being in the same room or even the same timezone. |
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Mike Roche
IBM
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| Get Connected with Lotus Connections
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| Last year, IBM announced Lotus Connections, social software for business.
In this session you will get a look at the next release of Lotus
Connections. Extend person Profiles with your own set of custom metadata.
Find out how to manage Communities and synchronize membership across
external applications. Learn how to build your own custom Activities and
entries to match your own work. Understand how to use Connections from your
everyday tools, like email and instant messaging, or build your own
extensions. See what we've done with Connections 2!
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Nick Shelness
nick@old-mill.net
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| What are Microsoft's Plans in the Collaboration Space?
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| It is common in the community to deride Microsoft, and to believe that, like IBM in the 1980s, they are a dinosaur on the brink of extinction. But Microsoft, today, is very different from the IBM of the 1980s. Yes, they are/were both monopolies, and yes, revenues from their cash cows are/were levelling off, but that is where the similarity ends. IBM's management team possessed little technical insight, which left them unable to judge the viability of their technical strategies -- remember SAA! Microsoft's management team, on the other hand are rich with technical insight. This doesn't mean that they can hold back the tide -- there is little new end-user functionality to be added to the Windows client or Office -- but it does mean that they are better positioned to tackle emerging and growth
markets.
In this session, I will present a taxonomy for evaluating Microsoft's offerings in the broad collaboration (inter-personal communication,coordination & control) space, focussing on its breadth. and the threat it
poses to other participants, primarily the telecommunications vendors. |
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Paul Mooney
Bluewave Technology
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| Admin Blast
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| Buckle-up and get ready for this explosion of from-the-trenches advice on almost every facet of Domino administration. This fast-paced, energizing session provides you with the critical insight into day-to-day tasks that every administrator needs to have, as well as little-known tips and tricks that can only make your job easier. Walk away with links to important resources as well as a full description of over 70 tips on DOMINO 8 configuration, clustering, HTTP, AdminP, iNotes, performance, and much, much more. |
| Lotus Traveller setup live
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| So what's this Traveller stuff all about then? Paul and Warren don't know either, but that's not going to stop them setting it up LIVE on stage in front of you.
Watch! as they find tab A and slot B. Gasp in awe! as things actually work (perhaps). Experience! the excitement as the internet connection fails, things don't work but somehow they get it working (maybe). With no slides, no preparation and nothing to start with, it might just work. If they're lucky.... |
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Rob McDonagh
blog
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| Charts! Reports! Graphs! Beer (no, not for you)...
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| Need some charts, graphs, and reports from your Notes databases? We'll show you some techniques you can use right away. Turn a view into a bar chart, export data to Excel (bleh) or Symphony (yay), and even create comely (that's right, we said comely) graphs on the fly. You can display it all in dialog boxes, on Notes documents, or on the web. Heck, you could even do all three at once -- we don't care!
All of these techniques work with Notes 7 and 8, and they use free tools and free libraries that are free so you can do this stuff for free. That's free, free, free, and yet more free. That's a whole lot of free right there, so save your company some money with this spectacular - yet free - presentation. In return, we will graciously allow you to buy us beer. |
| Setting up and Maintaining Domino Test Environments Painlessly
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| Hey administrators! Sick of your developers asking you to setup more users in the development environment? Tired of managing mail databases on test servers? Wish you could set it up once and forget about it? I'll show you how you can give your developers what they want without having to respond to constant requests for changes, so you can finally realize your lifelong dream: a job where the developers leave you alone so you can do the really important stuff. We'll look at best AND worst practices for lab management, and you'll go away with free utilities that will do the work FOR you. |
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Rob Novak
SNAPPS
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| How to use The Dojo Toolkit
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| It's been sneaking its way onto your servers, laying down files and scripts with each successive release. It showed up in Quickr, then Connections, and will be on your Domino 8.5 server before you know it. A virus, you ask? A Trojan horse? No! In fact, this little gem will give you developers a number of new options for interactive, dynamic web applications that - once again - will leave you thinking "that's Domino?!?!?" The Dojo Toolkit is sitting there, all lonely and barely used. Let's see what we can do with it - then give it away. Free. Like the beer. |
| Quickr according to Rob Novak
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| Join Rob Novak or a intro to deep-dive on the features and functionality of Lotus Quickr" See what it can do, how it does it and what is available out of the box and for free download. Use Quickr over the web, through Lotus Notes and even Windows / MS office. See what you can do with it. No free beer in this one (awww) |
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Rocky Oliver
TeamStudio
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| Design programming using xml and dxl
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| LotusScript is the most powerful (and and most widely used) language for all IBM Lotus Domino developers. However, there are problems lurking in the script of the applications in our organization - yet we just don't have the time to find it all. This session will help you begin hunting down those problems. We'll show you how to write applications with LotusScript, XML, and DXL, to search applications for LotusScript design problems. and manipulate the designs to fix those problems! We'll also cover XML and DXL in LotusScript - what works, what doesn't, and work arounds to these problems. We'll also explore other "nifty uses", such as enabling users to configure application design preferences. |
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Sean Burgess
ASND LLC
blog
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| the Perfect Beast: Birth of IdeaJam
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| Take a look at what it took to build the IdeaJam site. From conception to production, Bruce and the gang will walk you through the whole process of making a Domino Application that doesn't look or act like a Domino Application. In less than 4 months. And all without ever being in the same room or even the same timezone. |
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Simon Peek
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| Build or Bust - Version Management & Application Delivery: Controlling your Designs from Development to Production
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| A clearly-defined process for the versioning & delivery of applications is essential to ensure the integrity of your development and production environments. Too often developers are unsure what version of a database they are working on. And administrators can find themselves without key knowledge of the applications they are deploying.
During this session the procedures surrounding application versioning, testing & deployment will be discussed.
Despite being neither as good looking as Bill Buchan nor as funny as Paul Mooney, this session is still worth attending. |
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Thomas 'Duffbert' Duff
Regence
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| Moving from Plumber to Painter
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| Developers are quite often very adept at making great functional applications (plumbing), but rotten at making them visually appealing (painting). Travel with me as I show how I'm working through the transition from plumber to painter, learning about things such as fonts, color selection, user interface design, and all those other things you wish weren't so important. |
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Thomas Bahn
assono
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| Simply -OOP-Simply
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| Do you have objections to objects? Haven't you visited classes about classes? Is abstraction still too abstract for you? Don't you use methodic methods and proper properties?
Then come to this introductory session about object-oriented programming (OOP) in LotusScript, where you can learn:
- why delegation might be better then inheritance,
- why hiding information can be helpful sometimes and
- how you can use polymorphism to teach old dogs new tricks. |
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Vladilslavs Tatarlncevs
TietoEnator ALISE
blog
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| Improve Lotus Domino Performance
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| Lotus Domino performance is impacted by many different factors, starting from server hardware and Domino / OS configuration and ending with a particular database design.
This session will introduce drill-down approach, tested and implemented in many world wide known companies, during this session will show what and why impacts a performance.
This session will provide practical, ready-to-use tips on tuning server performance.
Session’s target audience is Administrators and Lotus Developers |
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Warren Elsmore
BE Systems
blog
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| Lotus Traveller setup live
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| So what's this Traveller stuff all about then? Paul and Warren don't know either, but that's not going to stop them setting it up LIVE on stage in front of you.
Watch! as they find tab A and slot B. Gasp in awe! as things actually work (perhaps). Experience! the excitement as the internet connection fails, things don't work but somehow they get it working (maybe). With no slides, no preparation and nothing to start with, it might just work. If they're lucky.... |
| Notes 8 - Basic or Standard?
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| For the first time, Notes 8 comes with 2 clients - Basic and Standard. But what's the difference between the two? What is all the 'Eclipse' stuff anyway? Am I going to be able to run this Standard client on my office PC's? Is it really that bad? Should I care? What is the answer to life, the universe and everything? In a shameless attempt to attract you away from free Beer, Warren will attempt to answer all these questions in just 60 minutes... |
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Although we're pretty full up with sessions and speakers, we may be able to squeeze in another one or two. Got a fantastic session ? Get in touch with Paul.