I'm in a grumpy mood this week, I guess. For some reason, this post by Serdar Basegmez just resonated with me.
I have a bunch of ideas over there. Here's a link to my ideas over there. I used to try and come up with ones that would improve IBM's product and address real issues that I see day-to-day at client sites.
You may not be aware of this, but IBM is a for-profit company. That means that it owns Notes, Domino, Portal, Connections, etc. and makes money selling licenses and (more importantly) selling hardware to run it on and consultants to install/maintain/Migrate them to new versions. It has business partners that it tolerates, and they tend to make money in the niches that IBM doesn't feel like competing in. Like greenfield Notes/Domino sales, for instance.
OpenNTFis a great thing, and IBM is finally providing them with the support they have deserved since day one.
IBM has hordes of truly brillant folks. But one thing that strikes me is that IBM doesn't listen to it's customers. They prefer to take the line that they are leading their customers. Be that as it may. I just want to point out that, for example, taking one of your leading product sets and letting it out to dry for 5 years, then saying - "folks want things that Connections and Portal provide more, see - they're buying more of it". Isn't really leadership, it's throttling one product set because you want the other to succeed.
Back to my topic. As mentioned, I have quite a few ideas over at IdeaJam. I made a cutoff at 16 votes and thought I'd review the status of them below:
Little/None For-profit IBM appears to be happy with not-for-profit OpenNTF making it's platform more palatable to potential customers.
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When pasting Rich Text into a Text field, please PASTE it... : Notes Client / paste : paste Craig Wiseman - 11 Feb 2008 / (5) : Open When pasting rich text into a text field, please either paste it as plain text or allow me to choose "paste special - as text". I really DO get that "only text can be pasted into this type of field." please help me do this.... Note: A Notes 8 client ...
Welcome Page should be completely policy control-able : Notes Client / policywelcomehomepage : policy, welcome, homepage Craig Wiseman - 24 Jan 2008 / (5) : Open You should via policy be able to completely control what application is shown when logging into Notes. This was traditionally called the Welcome Page. Example 1: When users in the '*/Bob Costas Who?' OU start notes, it should display the frameset "CMA Welcome" from the local database CMA.nsf, rep ID 1322134132:23414321. Example ...
Nope Yet another mind-boggler. (YAMB).
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I'd like contacts to be merged into the mail file : Notes Client / contactsmail : contacts, mail Craig Wiseman - 21 Nov 2007 / (11) : Open It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to have contacts in a separate database that isn't replicated to the server automatically. Sync'ing them just seems like a absolute kludge. There are ways to address the security issues with allowing delegation of contacts. Given the vast creativity of the community ...
Nope. We're actually in a far, far worse place.
Now we have local names.nsf as the only place for locations, connections, accounts, etc. AND we've got a strange sync process that works OK, for the most part. (Just remember to delete all contacts from your mailfile BEFORE you upgrade from Notes 7, unless you like having duplicates.
And journal? Used to be able to sync it to the mailfile as well. Not anymore, sorry.
Yes! This was added in a maintenance release and not really documented as far as I know.
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Please enhance To Dos and finish existing To Do workflow : Notes Client / todoworkflow : to, do, workflow Craig Wiseman - 31 Jan 2008 / (3) : Open Right now (notes 8) you can creat a To Do in your list and assign it to someone else. It will send to then and they can work on it. However, when they mark it complete, it should send back an update and update the To Do in your list ( ...
True: Don’t Blame The IQ, Blame The Carrier
Sun, Dec 4th 2011 8:21a Craig Wiseman If you're mad at Carrier IQ, then you are doing exactly what the carriers want you to. The surprising thing is that the ire has been directed at Carrier IQ themselves. Why? If someone runs you over in their car, you don't write a stern letter to Ford. Carrier IQ made and sold an invasive piece of software, certainly. But they didn't install it on your phone. Sprint [and AT&T] did. Full Story [read] Keywords:
Be careful, folks in Irene’s path. Better than careful - run away.
Fri, Aug 26th 2011 10:46a Craig Wiseman For you folks in Irene's path, I certainly "feel your pain". Yep, that lil red dot was me in 2008 when Gustav hit. In the northeastern quadrant of the storm (always the worst part of the storm). I was a bit further away from Ike (2008), Katrina, and Rita( 2005), so all we got then was heavy rain & moderate winds. The best thing to do in a hurricane is NOT be in its path. You can always rebuild a building, but people ... not so much. That's one reason I like hurricanes better than e [read] Keywords: python
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A video walkthrough of the unholy marriage of BlackBerry and Android
Fri, Jul 22nd 2011 4:01p Craig Wiseman From AndroidCentral.com: A video walkthrough of the unholy marriage of BlackBerry and Android BlackBerry fans everywhere were astonished Thursday when an early version of the Android Player for the PlayBook leaked out and their little tablets suddenly became usable. Usable as in once you've got Android running on the PlayBook, you suddenly have an e-mail app. Craziness! Pretty cool stuff, especially since it's running Android 2.3.3, and there's a good chance your phone doesn't even th [read] Keywords: application
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Lotus Notes 8.5: How to open two emails at the same time
Fri, May 6th 2011 1:50p Craig Wiseman This is a simple little tip, but since it's a new(erish) thing, I thought I'd post on it. Problem: I have two emails I want to have open at the same time so I can compare or work with them. Solution: Find the first email in whatever folder it might be right click on it. Choose "Open in New Window" Find the second email in whatever folder it might be right click on it. Choose "Open in New Window" You now have each email opened in it's own win [read] Keywords: lotus
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