PandaBear updated to 0.54
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 1:26p Viktor Krantz I just uploaded a new update to PandaBear: 0.54 with some small bug fixes. The update will download automatically from within the application when you open it.
PandaBear (Beta) is the code name for a desktop application of the research & development labs at SNAPPS, the company that also brings you QuickrTemplates.com. Use PandaBear for uploading, downloading and locating files stored in Lotus Quickr 8.1+. [read] Keywords: ibm
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SnappFiles: Native iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad client for Lotus Quickr
Thu, Jan 28th 2010 2:30p Viktor Krantz From Rob Novak’s blog:
Last night, amidst the buzz in Cupertino about the launch of the iPad, we at SNAPPS quietly got an email notification that the fruits of Julian’s labor for the past few months, SnappFilesTM, is now available for sale on the Apple app store. “Sale” is a bit of a misnomer, since like many of our other “SNAPPS Labs” efforts, the inaugural version of SnappFiles is free. Yep, free. Can’t think of a better price.
So what is SnappFiles? I [read] Keywords: domino
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Time for Collaboration University and visit to old country
Fri, Sep 11th 2009 9:54p Viktor Krantz First I have to apologize for not posting anything on my blog for some time. It has not been much time over for blogging lately.
Well, it’s September again and time for Collaboration University in Chicago and London plus a visit to Sweden and the family there. This year I have to leave my family, here in Kansas, for 18 days. Not something I like to do but with work the first 13 days and then being so close to Sweden make it almost impossible not to go there. Cheap airline tickets with Ryan [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Speaking at IamLUG and MWLUG
Thu, Jul 16th 2009 1:02p Viktor Krantz I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been accepted to speak at both IamLUG (North American Lotus User Group) and MWLUG (Midwest Lotus User Group) this August. Both are great events with some awesome speakers.
I made it easy for myself and I’m presenting the same topic at both conferences:
Make IBM Lotus Quickr sexier
In the session, I’ll introduce you to some innovations that make Lotus Quickr even more valuable to your teams, including tagging and integration with external [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Announcement: Collaboration University 2009 Keynote Speakers!
Wed, Jul 8th 2009 4:02a Viktor Krantz From Rob Novak’s blog:
I’m pleased to welcome two new faces to Collaboration University 2009 to help us kick off the most exciting year we’ve ever had for CU! With Sametime 8.5, Connections 2.5, and Quickr 8.2 all hitting the streets this year - and with the major technology changes there and in the near future, it’s great to have IBMers back this year to keynote the event and give us a heads-up on Lotus’s strategy in the Web 2.0 space.
In Chicago, we’ll [read] Keywords: collaboration
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PandaBear for Lotus Quickr update
Wed, Jul 8th 2009 4:02a Viktor Krantz Ability to change the drop zone image
Just updated PandaBear to version 0.53. This version adds a feature many of you have requested. The ability to select another drop zone image. In this first version of this new feature we have added two more images on top of the default panda head. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Introducing Flippr for Lotus Quickr
Thu, Jul 2nd 2009 11:59a Viktor Krantz Just weeks after the research & development labs at SNAPPS released PandaBear, we are introducing Flippr (Beta) for Lotus Quickr services for Domino.
Where PandaBear is aimed at end users for uploading, downloading and locating files from/to your Quickr server, Flippr is aimed at administrators. The application makes everyday Quickr admin tasks a breeze. Some of the functions that you can accomplish with Flippr are:
Lock and unlock places
Create and remove places
Archive places
Add persons [read] Keywords: admin
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Introducing PandaBear for Lotus Quickr
Fri, Jun 12th 2009 12:55p Viktor Krantz PandaBear (Beta) is the code name for a desktop application of the research & development labs at SNAPPS, the company that also brings you QuickrTemplates.com. Use PandaBear for uploading, downloading and locating files stored in Lotus Quickr 8.1+.
Designed on the Adobe Air framework, PandaBear runs on Windows, Mac or Linux using the same application code.
Use cases for PandaBear include:
Quickr places designed primarily for file sharing
Organizations with Mac and/or Linux desktops
Transien [read] Keywords: ibm
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Registration open for Collaboration University 2009
Tue, May 12th 2009 10:51a Viktor Krantz Today we opened the registration for CU 2009 with a special Day One discount of $100. That is in addition to any Early Bird and/or Alumni discount you may qualify for.
From Rob Novak’s blog:
As we enter our fourth year, Collaboration University is evolving, just like the collaboration software we know and love. With new versions of Sametime and Quickr released in the past 12 months, the release of Lotus Connections 2.5 (which we’re covering as well), this is going to be a great year [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Collaboration University 2009
Tue, Mar 17th 2009 12:51p Viktor Krantz Today we are announcing 2009 Collaboration University. Just as last year our venue cities are Chicago and London in September.
From Rob Novak’s blog:
I’m pleased to announce that we’ll be producing Collaboration University 2009 at the great venues we found last year in Chicago and London.
In Chicago we’ll once again be at the IBM Innovation Center, located on the Chicago River a few blocks from Michigan Avenue. It is a great place to have the size and type of conference w [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Watch D.O.G.S.
Tue, Feb 10th 2009 5:51p Viktor Krantz Watch D.O.G.S.
Yesterday for the third year in a row I was a Watch Dog at my sons elementary school.
If you never heard of this program I encourage you to check out their web site. Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students) is an organization that was started by Jim Moore in response to the 1998 middle school shooting in Jonesboro, AR. It’s an initiative of the National Center for Fathering and the program goal is:
To help every school in America be positively influenced by the committed invo [read] Keywords: administration
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BP215 - “The Great Code Giveaway”: The Art of the Possible
Fri, Jan 23rd 2009 5:52p Viktor Krantz This years version of our Lotusphere session: “The Great Code Giveaway”: The Art of the Possible, is now available for download at download.snapps.com.
Prerequisite:
This application needs to run on a Domino server version 7.0.2 or above. Some Widgets may need version 8.5 or above to run.
This application uses The Dojo Toolkit JavaScript library.
The following is only needed, but required, if you are installing this application on a version of Domino below 8.5.
Download version 1.1 [read] Keywords: acl
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Heading for Lotusphere
Fri, Jan 16th 2009 10:53p Viktor Krantz Heading for Lotusphere in the morning and I’m actually getting to bed at an okey time for the first time in weeks.
Unlike some, I wont be needing any vaccinations though. If you are/will be at Lotusphere this year and you see me, stop me and say hi. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2009
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 7:51p Viktor Krantz I have been accepted to speak at Lotusphere again. Lotusphere 2009 will be held at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida January 18-22. This year I have three sessions.
BP204 - Enhancing IBM Lotus Quickr for IBM Lotus Domino with Web 2.0 Integration
Troy Reimer, Viktor Krantz
These speakers were the driving engineering force behind the popular Lotus Quickr Templates that shipped with Quickr 8 and have been continually updated. As well, they have been working with Qui [read] Keywords: domino
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Finally a reliable server
Wed, Oct 22nd 2008 8:51p Viktor Krantz I haven’t blogged in a long time and I appologize for that. The reason is because my server has been acting up on me. Finally today I installed a new harddisk so I should be up and running now. [read] Keywords: php
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Back from CU and Europe
Thu, Sep 25th 2008 8:50p Viktor Krantz After almost three weeks I finally got back home to my family last night and it was great to see my kids and wife again. Three weeks is a really long time to be away. But wow what a three weeks it was. First a very successful Collaboration University in Chicago and then repeated in London the week after. I had three sessions on Themes, Dojo & JSON and Tags & Categories inside Quickr. I got positive reactions on all of them but maybe mostly on the Tags & Categories session. More on th [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Collaboration University, Chicago and London here I come
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 8:48p Viktor Krantz Collaboration University 2008 - Chicago & London
So I’m off to Collaboration University after the last few weeks being very hectic. Wrapping up a few customer projects needed to be finished before it all starts and of course the CU slides and demo code as well. I’m out for almost 3 weeks straight this time, first Chicago and then off to London for the repeated event there.
The last few days I get to back to the old country (Sweden) and visit with my family there. I’m also v [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Collaboration University Studios
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 10:31a Viktor Krantz This year we are producing a few pre-conference session movies for Collaboration University to get you up to speed for the 3 days packed with intense training. From Rob Novak’s blog:
Our approach the past two years has been to quickly get the basics out of the way on the first day then progress rapidly into meatier stuff by afternoon. Even so, we’d get a few complaints from those who have more experience, because they already knew all the morning content. That worked “OK” [read] Keywords: collaboration
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SNAPPS Quickr Templates updated
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 4:29p Viktor Krantz From Rob Novak’s blog:
The SNAPPS Quickr Templates at QuickrTemplates.com have been updated with various fixes and a new feature I’ll describe here. But first, a note on versions.
We elected to match version numbers with Quickr when 8.1 shipped, so 90 days ago when they were posted, our versions revved to 8.1. Now we also have fixes to the templates unrelated to the Quickr version number or hotfix level, so have taken our versioning out two decimal points - the new version is 8.1.0.1 [read] Keywords: ibm
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Collaboration University Agenda and Speakers
Wed, Aug 13th 2008 1:28p Viktor Krantz CU Agenda - with Carl Tyler
We have updated the agenda and speaker pages for Collaboration University, both in Chicago and London. It’s all done in a very “Web 2.0″ fashion by combining Domino, JavaScript, JSON and the Dojo Toolkit. Dynamic link, using Dojo Tooltip, to the speaker with photo.
Go over to Collaboration University and click on Sessions and Speakers pages and roll over things, change days, play around - it’s a very cool data-driven Domino application. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Dojo Tag Cloud Widget
Tue, Jul 29th 2008 12:11p Viktor Krantz Today's tutorial: Dojo Tag Cloud Widget using dojo.data store
So I though it was time to post another Dojo widget tutorial. This time I have written a widget for displaying a tag cloud. Even though you could use it for any kind of links, the most common use is obviously tags from your blog or other website. The TagCloud widget is using dojo.data and any kind of store to display the tags. Let’s jump into some code shall we. In the bottom of this tutorial you will find links for download [read] Keywords: collaboration
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SNAPPS is growing
Mon, Jul 28th 2008 11:49a Viktor Krantz Julian Robichaux is joining SNAPPS
For the first time in 5 years SNAPPS have hired a new member to our team. I’m thrilled to announce that Julian Robichaux is joining SNAPPS as a Senior Developer (or whatever he wants his title to be). Julian, who you know from six years of blogging at nsftools.com, the Taking Notes Podcast, and various speaking engagements at Lotusphere, The VIEW, ILUG, and others, brings 12 years of Notes & Domino experience to SNAPPS. Julian has provided companies a [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Happy birthday Rob
Mon, Jul 21st 2008 12:29p Viktor Krantz Liz & Rob Novak
Today is SNAPPS president Rob Novak’s birthday. Rocky Oliver created a post where you can write a limerick for him.
Here is my contribution:
A man named Rob was a vegetarian
He was eaten for lunch by a librarian
Said the woman, “Hello!
You’d be tastier, for sure
If you had been salted and septuagenarian!”
Happy birthday Rob.
ShareThis [read] Keywords: php
Want to learn more about the Dojo Toolkit?
Fri, Apr 25th 2008 11:27a Viktor SitePen, the primary contributer to Dojo, wrote today about “FREE Top 10 and 100% FREE Dojo FREE Resource List!“. Worth noticing is the last and final one, Dojo QuickStart Guide. A new good tutorial to get up to speed with Dojo.
From SitePen’s blog by Dylan Schiemann:
Dojo API Viewer. A full-featured API documentation tool, generated from source code comments and documentation. Features include simple navigation, complete listings of an object’s fields, clear definitions of [read] Keywords: javascript
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Find your Twitter friends’ friends with Twubble
Fri, Apr 18th 2008 10:24a Viktor I ran across Twubble today. If you like/can’t live without Twitter this is a great tool/website to find your Twitter friends’ friends. It’s written by Bob Lee that works at Google.
If you use Twitter, Twubble can look at your existing friends’ friends and recommend new people for you to follow. It’s a stupid simple idea, but I think the execution and fun factor have won people over.
I wrote Twubble in a couple nights of hacking in bed after the kid went to sleep. I used [read] Keywords: javascript
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Rock, Chalk, Champions
Tue, Apr 8th 2008 9:12a Viktor Last night in a very exciting game, Kansas University Jayhawks won the first NCAA basketball championship in 20 years. They came back to tie the game after being down 9 points with only 2 minutes left of the game. In overtime the Memphis Tigers had no chance of stopping KU from winning with the final score 75-68. Lawrence, KS (only 25 minutes from SNAPPS office) went crazy last night and all classes are canceled at the University today. The fans is expecting the team home today at 3 PM.
Congratu [read] Keywords: javascript
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Dojo Toolkit 1.1 is released
Fri, Mar 28th 2008 10:28a Viktor Today the Dojo Toolkit 1.1 was released today with huge improvements. I’ve been testing the beta of 1.1 for some time now and it’s really great.
You can read more details in the Change Log, Release Notes and Porting Guides.
Here are some of the improvements.
An easy to use and significantly improved Dojo API Viewer with some seriously great features, including the ability to easily find the original definition of a method that is “mixed-in”
A growing collection of demos, tuto [read] Keywords: document
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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from a Swede
Mon, Mar 17th 2008 7:36a Viktor I saw this video on Bill Buchan’s blog this morning and I liked it because it has the Swedish Chef singing. So a happy St. Patrick’s Day from me and the Muppet show.
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LotusScript and JSON, living together
Thu, Feb 14th 2008 8:50a Troy Hi. Troy here. Viktor has been nagging me to write something about the LotusScript JSON classes that I created, so here goes. You can read some background information about the classes here.
First a little history. I originally wrote the JSONReader to support a particular piece of functionality we were putting into one of the templates for Quickr. In that case, an agent was to read JSON and output an Excel spreadsheet. Later, I wrote the JSONWriter class with methods to create JSON text on the [read] Keywords: agent
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My album cover
Tue, Feb 5th 2008 8:30a Viktor As many out there including Adam Gartenberg I have created my own album cover. The instructions are:
Go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band.
Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of the last quote is the album title.
Go to Flickr’s Interesting photo page. Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.
Put it all together to make your album. Either crop it to CD cover size, or just use the raw image itself [read] Keywords:
Dojo data for Domino
Mon, Jan 28th 2008 9:10a Viktor At Lotusphere in my session BP212: The Great Code Giveaway: “Beyond Cool” I showed a couple of widgets and a Grid based on the Dojo Toolkit. I’m going to show you how I did those in a couple of articles the next few days. Instead of going through the code line for line I’m just going to highlight some of the changed variables and code. All the code for these examples and demos can be found here.
Extending Dojo code
One of the really powerful things you can do with a large toolkit [read] Keywords: domino
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LotusScript JSONReader and JSONWriter from SNAPPS
Fri, Jan 25th 2008 1:01p Viktor Troy Reimer at SNAPPS has created LotusScript classes for parsing and creating JSON text. These classes are contained within five script libraries. There is a JSONReader and a JSONWriter class together with some wrapper classes including JSONArray and JSONObject. The JSONWriter class is really cool. You can pass it basically anything Notes data related and let it create the JSON for you. This is really handy for passing a NotesDocumentCollection to the class and let it return perfect JSON to the [read] Keywords: document
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Lotusphere 2008 is over, see you in 2009
Fri, Jan 25th 2008 10:39a Viktor Photo by Aidy Spender
Rob, Jerald, Troy and I are back home at the office after a very exciting week at Lotusphere 2008. As always I wish I could have attended more sessions but with 5 sessions this year I just ran out of time.
Photo by Macian
Monday Carl Tyler and I had our heat in the annual Lotusphere Boat Race. Carl could not attend the final on Thursday because of his early flight back home but Troy Reimer from SNAPPS filled in and we finished in 3rd place.
Tuesday morning Troy and I pres [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere Keynote Bingo!!!
Fri, Jan 18th 2008 9:03a Viktor Rob Novak has created a Lotusphere Keynote Bingo card!
As the Keynote (Opening General Session or OGS in Lotusphere land) progresses, you simply check off the items that really do happen. If you find yourself in the lucky position of having a straight line of five, simply yell out “BINGO!”.
You can download the PDF from his site.
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Happy New Year and some updates
Thu, Jan 3rd 2008 8:09a Viktor First of all, Happy New Year. I hope 2008 will bring you good fortune.
Here at SNAPPS I’ve been extremely busy preparing for my sessions at Lotusphere. I’ve already posted about them here. If you have a chance to attend Lotusphere this year, and are using Domino, I think this will be the most exciting one in years. If you see me in the halls, come up and introduce yourself. I love meeting new people.
December ended very hectic with my youngest son Erik’s first birthday and late [read] Keywords: domino
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