synchronize(this);
Fri, Mar 19th 2010 11:10a Nathan T Freeman If you're using Domino today, chances are
you're working extensively with Java code. Oh, you might not be writing
Java code yourself. But you use it when you go to work, when you go to
church, when you pay your taxes.... errr, sorry... when you open your Notes
mail, when you go to Designer, when you access an Xpages app.
Java is all around us. The very
fabric of the Eclipse user experience is based on Java code. And whenever
Java has to interact with information inside an NSF, there [read] Keywords: domino
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On the impact of social media
Thu, Mar 4th 2010 12:45a Nathan T Freeman Dear Internet,
Just because someone has a blog doesn't
make them an expert. Just because someone has a Twitter account,
doesn't make them a trendsetter. It means they signed up to a web site.
Don't kid yourself into thinking you discovered the next big thing
simply because it's on the interwebs. Expertise is determined by
peer review and concrete demonstration of results, not diatribe.
This include yours truly.
It's the real world. Judge, and be prepared
to be judged.
[read] Keywords: twitter
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The Dangers of Programming by Google
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 8:30a Nathan T Freeman The
ever-erudite Rob Weir has a marvelous
article on a fundamentally flawed implementation of order randomness at
www.browserchoice.eu. It's a great review of primary concepts in
computing algorithms, and I'd strongly recommend it to readers of all levels
of coding experience. But to summarize the basic flaw, the original
web site developer used the following technique to randomize the list of
available browsers...
var aBrowserOrderTop5
= new Array(0,1,2,3,4);
aBrowserOrderTop5. [read] Keywords: google
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OpenNTF Strategy Working Group call
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 9:50a Nathan T Freeman I'm hosting an
open conference call this Thursday to discuss any and all strategy topics
for the 2010 year. If you're
reading this, you're invited!
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010, 10am-12pm ET
GoToMeeting Invitation - OpenNTF.org
Strategy Working Group 2010 Open Planning Discussion
1. Please join my meeting.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/904523969
2. Use your microphone and speakers
(VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.
Austria: +43 [read] Keywords: openntf
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Dear Domino Spammer
Mon, Feb 8th 2010 11:18p Nathan T Freeman I know I have a visible email address.
I'm sure I've posted it on twitter, developerWorks, edbrill.com,
eview.com, my own blog, and probably about a zillion other places. So
sure, it can be harvested. Nevertheless this is unacceptable.
Note to Heather Schein: I'm a co-founder
and Steering Committee member of OpenNTF.org. I've been published in The
View. I'm a Design Partner on half of Lotus' product portfolio. I've been
blogging for over 5 years. I've done podcasts, interviews, vi [read] Keywords: domino
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Xpages Xtreme
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 1:01a Nathan T Freeman I was lamenting today that I haven't done
much technical blogging in the last year or so. It's a bit of a personal
disappointment to not be publishing as much, but it's not without reason.
I've worked for both service- and product-oriented companies over
the last 17 years, and the pattern is always consistent: working in services
means sharing more technical tips. In October I went from working
for a services company that dabbled in products to a product company that
acquired a service [read] Keywords: ibm
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Project Vulcan: The Missing Ingredient
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:01a Nathan T Freeman There are a lot of positive things to say
about the the Lotus vision on the path of Project Vulcan. It's definitely
atypical for an established software company to leap right to user experience
with an overall product vision. Certainly the Lotus of 7 years ago
regaled us with block product slides and API diagrams. It's quite
stunning that when Lotus wants to talk about the vision of 2011 through
2015, they do it with sample UIs and mentions of standards like HTML5 and
OpenID, rather th [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2010 Early Departure
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:01a Nathan T Freeman For readers that were hotly anticipating
my further blog entries from Lotusphere (all 3 of you,) I apologize for
the lack of updates. I had to leave the conference Wed evening due
to a family emergency. (Lisa and Meta are fine, thanks for asking.)
I will be collecting my thoughts into a more comprehensive picture
over the next few days. I have some excellent notes from both sessions
and interviews. Hopefully I'll be able to draw these together into a gestalt
picture that enables all o [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2010, taking a moment to breathe
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:01a Nathan T Freeman It's an interesting Lotusphere for me this
year. I had the good fortune to be invited back for the Blogger program,
so I get to experience the conference from the press perspective. Of
course, that means I have to actually BLOG, so I'd guess I'd better get
to it.
The conference in saturated with the
Lotus Knows branding, which is great. As conferences in the past
have had themes, Lotus carried the branding message all the way through
the conference, and it's on the badges, in the [read] Keywords: lotus
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Opening General Session - 2010
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:01a Nathan T Freeman Ah, it must be Lotusphere. My alarm
went off at 8am, concurrent with the start of the Opening General Session!
Special guest: Unbelievable.... it's
the Shat at last!
Click through for more stream of consciousness.
No comments allowed until I'm done... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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DON'T MISS THE DEADLINE!!!
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:01a Nathan T Freeman Remember, the deadline for submission for
the Lotus
Awards for Best
Open Source Contribution by an Individual
and Best
Open Source Contribution by a Business Partner
is
FRIDAY So if you haven't gotten your nominations
in, make sure you finish them and get them posted by
FRIDAY . No need to finish early, of course.
Just get it submitted by
FRIDAY and you should be okay. You'll be
able to compete against Tim
Tripcony's submission for Dennis,
as long as you submit your nominat [read] Keywords: ibm
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ConvertToMIME Method
Tue, Nov 24th 2009 8:51a Nathan T Freeman If you're like me, you've been wondering
for about a decade when Lotus would finally deliver this method. Looks
like with 8.5.1, the wait is at last over. Taken from the Lotus Domino
Designer Help, I give you.... NotesDocument.ConvertToMIME
Converts a document in Notes format to MIME format
similar to a mail router.
Note This method is new in Release 8.5.1.
Defined in
NotesDocument
Syntax
Call notesDocument.ConvertToMIME( conversionType, options )
Parameters
co [read] Keywords: designer
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OpenNTF Everywhere
Tue, Oct 13th 2009 10:44a Nathan T Freeman You may not have noticed, but the last
month has been absolutely tremendous for OpenNTF.org. I haven't had
the opportunity to provide much fanfare, but a few weeks ago, I was privileged
to attend the annual Lotus Leadership Alliance conference in Harvard Square.
This event offers unparalleled access to the Lotus executive and engineering
leadership, and I was attending not as an employee of Lotus 911, but as
the Chairman of the Strategy Working Group for OpenNTF.org. This
was especiall [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Understanding the Travelling Salesman Problem
Thu, Sep 24th 2009 11:39p Nathan T Freeman Another widely-known blog posits that when
the "Lotus knows" bus does its tour, it's a travelling salesman
problem. The first statement is
"Not crossing the continent twice is a quick win."
But this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the travelling salesman
problem, and that is that you must START and END from the same point.
Rudimentary geometry tells us that the
shortest distance between two points is a straight line, so therefore the
optimal solution to any travelling sales [read] Keywords: lotus
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MetaJam
Tue, Sep 8th 2009 3:58p Nathan T Freeman I try to keep my Facebook identity separate
from my work identity. But I had an idea over the weekend that lends
itself better to a larger audience, so I thought I'd see if I can get my
blog readers to help out.
I've put together a Facebook album of
my favorite shots of our daughter called "The
Cuteness of Crowds." If
you have a Facebook account, look through the 20 pictures and click "Like"
on your favorite ones. You can Like as many pictures as you want.
The picture with the m [read] Keywords: facebook
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Songs in code
Fri, Aug 21st 2009 12:09p Nathan T Freeman Timmah
picks up on a great meme.
Permalink for my offering. [read] Keywords:
Lotus Knows marketing ain't a one-way street
Mon, Aug 17th 2009 9:46a Nathan T Freeman Ed
Brill hosted a yellow community
blogger conference call today with a presentation from Lotus VP of Marketing
and Channels Kristen Lauria, to provide us with some further early insight
into the forthcoming Lotus Knows campaign. The campaign is centered
around a new audience for IBM: end-users. But not just any end-user.
Lotus has defined a specific category that they call the "Pacesetter."
Pacesetters are business users that
exert influence IT. You know them. Chances are if yo [read] Keywords: calendaring
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Yellow Day 2009 Wrapup
Wed, Aug 12th 2009 10:52a Nathan T Freeman Just a quick summary of the PlanetLotus
posts that included Yellow Day tags or mentions.
Permalink for more.... [read] Keywords: planetlotus
The Totally Unofficial Gonzo Yellow Day video
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 6:05p Nathan T Freeman In celebration of Yellow Day, we did a
special, crazy test version of Bones. But we also included some interesting
technical updates on how things are progressing.
Permalink for more... [read] Keywords:
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Yellow is her destiny
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 10:19a Nathan T Freeman The image on the right is cropped, but
the color is untouched. While my hair required considerable work,
her color is perfectly natural.
More... [read] Keywords:
Twisted pointless and amazing
Thu, Aug 6th 2009 8:23a Nathan T Freeman Get
a
real
browser.
Then go
here.
On a Design Partner call a few weeks
ago, an (unnamed) IBM exec made the comment "I'm not getting the sense
that anyone thinks Firefox is just a flat out better browser than IE."
Me (interrupting): "whoa. Let's
fix that. Firefox. is. a. better. browser. than. IE. In fact,
everything is a better browser than IE."
There should now never be a question
why. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Knows what a difference a year makes
Wed, Aug 5th 2009 3:25p Nathan T Freeman Last year around this time, folks in the
Lotus community had good reason to cheer. After years of taking it
on the chin, new General Manager Bob Picciano said "enough!"
and started publicly responding to the constant stream of FUD and smack
talk from the competition. IBM starting making active
statements about the Lotus brand
in the press, bloggers
picked it up, and the mighty Alan
Lepofsky got so excited, he asked that we
declare August 11 to be Yellow Day:
an unofficial celebration [read] Keywords: ibm
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Absolutely Insane
Thu, Jul 30th 2009 1:18p Nathan T Freeman Careful followers of OpenNTF.org will have
noticed that the Technical Committee has posted the recordings
of the Steering Committee calls.
I know that no one has listened to all these yet. How do I
know? Because there's one that's redacted, and has about 3 minutes
of silence in the middle of it where John and I introduced something to
the SC without clearance. And I'm quite sure that if anyone had listened
to the recordings, they would be asking a lot of questions about it.
That' [read] Keywords: designer
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A yellow tour down amnesia lane
Thu, Jul 30th 2009 2:00a Nathan T Freeman Peter's
post triggered a late-night walk
down amnesia lane for me last night, and it had the strangest consequence...
I went here
and for some reason, in my head, every post was read by Philip Seymour
Hoffman.
Maybe I'm tired lately. Maybe
I'm working too much. Maybe my subconscious is tell me to finally
watch "Doubt."
Nevertheless, that's just weird enough
that it's worth talking about, but not so weird I should be ashamed.
Anyway, this was an amusing review of
y [read] Keywords: ibm
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Disappeared?
Mon, Jul 27th 2009 12:32a Nathan T Freeman Tim announced
his new OpenNTF.org project on the excellent group Xpages blog yesterday.
It's called Elenchus,
and it's basically a social voting system for any questions and answers
between participants. Because it uses a karmic reputation model,
the theory is that good answers will be bubbled to the top by the crowd.
Very cool stuff, and even sites
that are usually loathe to cover activity from Lotus 911
have picked it up.
But I'm noticing something very odd... [read] Keywords: lotus
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A Tutorial for Cybervictims
Tue, Jul 21st 2009 12:39p Nathan T Freeman One of the coolest things about modern
collaborative tools is the ease with which you can filter out things you
don't want to deal with. It's come to my attention recently that
some people don't know how these filters work, so I thought I'd take the
time to provide a quick tutorial on how to use the blocking filters in
most major collaboration tools used in our community.
Click through for more... [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Compare and Contrast
Tue, Jul 14th 2009 8:17a Nathan T Freeman The most frequent and fundamental mistake
of "viral" marketing campaigns is the confusion between distribution
and content. Just because you're producing something with the intent
to put it on YouTube or some other website, doesn't mean you can get away
with poor production values. In fact, because your audience on the
web is guaranteed to be interactive and self-selecting, it's even more
important that you approach the medium with serious production and presentation
skills, especially [read] Keywords: viral
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Where's OpenNTF.org?
Tue, Jun 23rd 2009 3:07p Nathan T Freeman "Whither
goest thou, OpenNTF.org?"
someone asked (I had to look it up). Apparently, creating working
groups, committees, conference calls and forums are a bad idea. Why?
Because it's real work to create all that content and publish all
that documentation?
Apparently, some people don't like transparent
processes.
I guess we could just be opaque about
it. I hear ECMA and ISO get good stuff done that way. Surely
they're model organizations to follow. We could just decide to [read] Keywords: openntf
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You suck at Eclipse plugins
Wed, Jun 17th 2009 12:38p Nathan T Freeman Disagree? Send your resume and a
work sample to nathan.freeman@lotus911.com. Prove me wrong and get
a job offer.
And yes, we're recruiting for this
project. So bring your A
game. [read] Keywords: eclipse
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Got OpenNTF?
Tue, Jun 16th 2009 7:15p Nathan T Freeman If you have an OpenNTF.org account, we
need you. For what, you ask? Lots of things.
Let's start with John's IP
Working Group conference call on Friday.
If you've contributed to an OpenNTF project, or you're thinking about
contributing, you need to get on this call. John's going to present
some information on the current code contribution process, what changes
we're thinking of making, and why we need to have a proper process at all.
Don't know what the IP Working Group
is? [read] Keywords: template
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Cats, bags and YouTube
Tue, Jun 9th 2009 2:23p Nathan T Freeman It wasn't supposed to be public knowledge
yet that the parts of my life that weren't spent on my newborn daughter
were instead spent on this.
But it's all over the Yellowverse now, so I might as well take the
opportunity to answer a few questions that people have been pinging me
with over the last couple of hours...
There is a reason it doesn't say Lotus
911 all over it. This isn't an internal skunkworks project.
Yes, I know there's a cartoon of a naked
lady in it. It's all f [read] Keywords: composite
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Google Wave for Yellow Bleeders using the Socratic Method
Fri, Jun 5th 2009 12:09a Nathan T Freeman If you've watch the Wave presentation by
now, you've probably bumped into a few questions about how Wave works.
Lucky you, I've been digging into everything they've published so
far, and thought I'd share some of what I've been able to glean.
Click the permalink for more... [read] Keywords: google
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Google pwnz collaboration
Mon, Jun 1st 2009 2:28p Nathan T Freeman Google
Wave. If you haven't seen
it yet, it really is worth the hour and twenty minutes to sit through the
whole thing.
For yellow bleeders, here's the simple
summary: email, forums, wikis, IM, documents -- all in one seamless interface.
I feel really sorry for my friends at
IBM right now. If this stuff really works in the real world the way
it does in the demo (and let's face, it Google does tend to get these things
right) they just smacked down Notes, iNotes, Sametime, Quick [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Fun with Wolfram|Alpha
Mon, May 18th 2009 12:49p Nathan T Freeman This is a much cooler message than the
Fail Whale.
Wolfram|Alpha is way cool, and I have
some specific uses for it in mind very soon. But while it's still
new, I thought I'd have some fun, and ask it some hard questions.
Question
1
Question
2
Question
3
Question
4
The question that overloaded it was
"Who watches the watchmen?" Make of that what you will. [read] Keywords:
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I do not accept your apologies
Fri, May 15th 2009 5:19p Nathan T Freeman Please accept our apologies
Our system is currently unavailable due to system upgrades.
We expect the systems to be available by 8:00 p.m EST on May 17, 2009.
Please come back and visit us at that time.
Wait a sec.... down until Sunday? But...
my servers!
So I now have a four-hour Window to
download
the fix pack!?
Good job sucking, IBM. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Bob Picciano on IBM Lotus Smarter Work
Sun, May 10th 2009 7:29p Nathan T Freeman Friday morning I had the distinct pleasure
of participating in a blogger conference call with IBM Lotus General Manager
Bob Picciano. Bob was there to discuss
IBM's Smarter Work initiative
with specific talking points related to his
recent op-ed at CIO.com.
Bob started with a summary of the Smart
Work strategy. I won't transcribe the whole thing here, but there were
two excellent quotes from that introduction...
We're helping customers
cut out 30% of their TCO in 90 days or less [read] Keywords: ibm
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Star Trek (no spoilers)
Fri, May 8th 2009 10:11p Nathan T Freeman Just saw the new Star Trek. 5 stars.
I'm not going to give away anything of substance, but I can tell
you immediately why it's so damn good. It's simply a really great
story.
And I know exactly how they did it.
The movie is essentially based on Episodes IV and V.
That's right. From a story telling
standpoint, it borrows as much from Star Wars as it does from the original
Star Trek. It's Empire Strikes Back with a more upbeat ending.
And you will not be disappointed by [read] Keywords:
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Rob Novak is my hero
Wed, May 6th 2009 12:35p Nathan T Freeman At the risk of disclosing something covered
by NDA...
Rob Novak dropped this into today's
Design Partner call. I am in awe. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Welcome to Veridian Dynamics
Tue, May 5th 2009 10:34p Nathan T Freeman I caught some traffic in Twitter yesterday
that called my last blog post "nitpicky" and "sarcastic."
Well, yes... it was. I have a lot of nits to pick.
Read more on the permalink... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate
Tue, May 5th 2009 8:44a Nathan T Freeman Over the course of my career, my marginal
command of the English language has meant that I've occasionally been tapped
to write marketing materials. It ain't easy. One of the biggest
dangers in any writing effort is falling into habitual patterns. In
the case of IBM's
recent full page ad in the Wall Street Journal,
it seems the author is particularly fond of threesomes...
You probably work
a lot smarter today than you did twenty years ago, or ten years ago—or
even last year. T [read] Keywords: collaboration
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From the "what color is the sky on your planet" dept...
Thu, Apr 16th 2009 1:01p Nathan T Freeman A conversation about 64-bit servers led
to a pointer to this Microsoft
Exchange Blog entry from Sep 2006.
Now, I realize this was 18 months ago, so maybe I missed something,
but I'm trying like crazy to figure out if this statement was ever true...
As mentioned before,
more RAM means we can keep data in memory longer and save repeated trips
to disk. But doesn't RAM cost money? Yes it does, but it's much cheaper
than disk up to about 32 GB.
Huh? RAM prices today run about
$15/GB. [read] Keywords: archive
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Web 2.0 EPIC FAIL
Thu, Mar 19th 2009 10:24a Nathan T Freeman I have a Facebook account. (I only
use it for personal contacts, not professional ones, so unless we're related,
don't bother sending a friend request.) Facebook recently changed
their interface in a pretty dramatic fashion, and turned what used to be
a crowded but informative interface into a Twitter clone.
The users overwhelmingly hate it. And
this makes for an interesting test of social websites. Will the Facebook
team relent and change it back, as they did with their ownership [read] Keywords: facebook
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META-INF
Sat, Mar 7th 2009 1:56p Meta S. Freeman Meta Freeman here, hijacking my dad's blog
for the day. He was going to do a write up on how to override the
branding and run Notes 8.5 in kiosk mode, BOOOOOORING!! I swear
he is so lame sometimes.
Instead, you get to read about the most
important topic in the universe: ME! (Dad said something about a
global economic crisis, but his priorities have always been a little out
of whack.)
I'm 12 days old now. It's a pretty
cool age. I get to burp and fart and poop anytime I wan [read] Keywords: notes
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An easy way to improve your Designer-in-Eclipse experience
Wed, Mar 4th 2009 9:12a Nathan T Freeman There's a little toggle at the top of the
Application Navigator that controls whether the navigator automatically
jumps to the design element you've opened in the main editor window. I
can just about guarantee that your experience with DDE will be much better
if you toggle it off. (It defaults to on.)
You'll note in this image that I run
with the Navigator pane detached, because it's normally on a secondary
monitor. I typically put the Outline there as well. This gives
me as much [read] Keywords: designer
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Day 3
Wed, Feb 25th 2009 5:09p Nathan T Freeman A PHOTO ESSAY
Click the permalink to see the pictures.
And don't forget to read the tags! [read] Keywords:
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Freeman 2.0 Shipped!
Mon, Feb 23rd 2009 1:04p Nathan T Freeman Meta Serenity Freeman was born Feb 23 at
12:39am. Apparently my wife can do what I've never managed: ship
something ahead of schedule.
7lbs 10oz and 20.5 inches, ridiculously
blue eyes and blonde hair, in case you're wondering.
She's about 12 hours old, and is gently
mewing here in the delivery room. Her mother is much relieved to
be sleeping at last.
Me, I'm just sitting here trying to
keep the tears off the keyboard.
And before you ask, Lisa suggested the
name Meta [read] Keywords:
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Nigerians in Anguilla
Sat, Feb 21st 2009 11:17p Nathan T Freeman It started on Facebook, and now it's spread
to the Yellowverse. Apparently, the new "brother of the former
Deputy Minister of Oil" scam has moved on to Caribbean
vacations. The new meme
is this "raffle" to win
a 6 day vacation on Anguilla.
Supposedly, this is all to "help the children" of some
Domino
administrator who lives on some secret paradise island.
Yeah.... RIGHT! As if!
Surely, good reader, you know better
than to fall for this stuff. This is just the latest salvo [read] Keywords: domino
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On tone and civility
Wed, Feb 18th 2009 3:42p Nathan T Freeman I've heard some variation on this remark
from several sources in the last 24 hours...
"If you get past the language,
he does make some valid points."
Each time my answer is, so what?
There are two reasons to offer criticism
on any subject in public.: 1) to affect a change in behavior or outcome
on the part of whoever you're criticizing. 2) to display your criticism
for an audience for whom the criticism is an end in itself.
The difference between these two objectives
[read] Keywords: wiki
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UI EPIC FAIL
Thu, Feb 12th 2009 12:42p Nathan T Freeman I had a friend in high school who's father
is an artist and painter. He
once did a piece called Portrait of the Artist with a Migraine.
I remember walking into his living room, seeing it on the wall, and
instantly feeling like there were daggers in my eyes.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find
an image of it online, so I'll have to offer someone
else's interpretation as an example
Readers are invited to speculate on
why I'd bring this up while presenting the accompanying screen [read] Keywords:
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Inside the Lotus Studio
Wed, Feb 11th 2009 4:14p Nathan T Freeman One of the more fun events at Lotusphere
2009 was having the opportunity to be part of the Lotusphere Blogger Program.
As part of that program, I was offered the opportunity to choose
a member of the Lotus Executive team to interview. It shouldn't be
surprising that I was indecisive about who to talk to. So instead,
I made a proposition: who on the Lotus Executive team would like to be
interviewed by me?
But here's the catch: in the style of
James Lipton from Inside the Actors Stu [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Pegging out the irony meter
Tue, Feb 10th 2009 5:19p Nathan T Freeman My wife made me turn off the TV after I
heard this. But I had to
rewind the DVR so I could sample it first. [read] Keywords:
Lotusphere and the Inauguration
Thu, Jan 29th 2009 11:23a Nathan T Freeman The swearing in of our new president taking
place during Lotusphere was fascinating. Hundreds of attendees from
all over the world were huddled around TVs to watch the historic event.
And President Obama make a profound and impactful speech. But
that wasn't my favorite part.
My favorite part was seeing the President
and the First Lady descending the Capitol steps as I walked by one group
of yellowbleeders and shouting "What color is her dress!??!??!"
Yeah... the First Lady kno [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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The Greatest Moment in the History of Lotusphere
Fri, Jan 23rd 2009 2:56p Nathan T Freeman Benjamin
Zander is one of the most incredible
human beings on earth. When I first saw his presentation at the TED.com
site, I wept from the first minute until 10 minutes after it had ended.
So you can imagine my elation when on Wednesday night in Orlando,
I step forward on to an elevator that he was walking out of. When
I realized who I'd just seen, I absolutely exploded. Thanks to a
bit of perseverance by my colleague Spanky,
I was able to track him down in an empty rehearsal room a [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Nachos and News
Tue, Jan 20th 2009 7:10p Nathan T Freeman Another Lotusphere Blogger event called
"Nachos and News." Cheap snacks, good beer, and a room
full of yellowbleeders.
Ed: "This session tonight is ON
THE RECORD." So he might not be able to answer all the questions.
Ed: "That's almost as bad as Rocky's
'back hair' comment..."
ActiveSync is being added to Traveller.
No timeline for public beta yet.
You use the MSFT Exchange config to
set it up. It's invisible to the device -- so it doesn't know it's
Domino on th [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusflat
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 11:09a Nathan T Freeman I'm not sure what's not clicking this year,
but the first 36 hours of 'sphere have been a major disappointment. Maybe
my expectations -- our of us and out of others -- are just too high?
Only truly exciting news this week so
far has been the partnership with OpenNTF.org.
I am so glad I didn't do the hair this
year. *sigh* [read] Keywords: lotusphere2009
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Lotusphere 2009 OGS Not Quite Live
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 8:39a Nathan T Freeman How on earth can these people not get a
wireless network working two days in a row?
The Session opened with Blue Man Group's
Tubes, a great show made incredibly ironic to IT people by Sen. Ted Stevens
a few years back.
Bob Picciano's wife is a Notes developer,
doing ECM Integration. Bob says Notes/Domino App Dev is something
he talks about at dinner table.
12,236 new customers since the release
of N/D 8
Guest speaker: Dan Akroyd -- he's doing
Beldar from the Conehe [read] Keywords: domino
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'Sphere Day -1
Sat, Jan 17th 2009 11:39p Nathan T Freeman Absolutely blinding Saturday. I found
myself writing a song today (with apologies to Steve Miller Band).
I'm a staffer.
I'm a speaker.
I'm an exhibeetor...
I do my bloggin on the run...
No real specifics to report as a press-blogger
today except that Lotusphere is definitely just as cool as ever. And
I learned today just how much goes on behind the scenes to produce the
presentations you see in the keynotes. It's incredible.
Best line of the day comes from Mary
Beth [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lighting up
Fri, Jan 16th 2009 10:30p Nathan T Freeman Just a quick note for readers: tomorrow
begins the annual pilgrimage to Kissimmee for Lotusphere 2009. Since
Escape Velocity officially went dark until Lotusphere, and Lotusphere is
here, that means Escape Velocity will officially be lighting up again.
And hopefully lighting up in a very big way. Starting with
a sneak peek at our
Mac vs PC ad spoof.
The time away from blogging has been
pretty effective. I got new title at Lotus 911: Director of Application
Development. Which is [read] Keywords: domino
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Important Safety Tip
Thu, Jan 8th 2009 4:39p Nathan T Freeman Note to Domino developers: when in Xpages,
public static
does not mean the same thing that it does in Domino agents. Not by
a long shot.
Domino wizards, of course, understand
this instinctively. The rest of us must learn it the hard way. Or
at least have read it here. [read] Keywords: domino
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2008 Retrospective
Thu, Jan 1st 2009 3:49p Nathan T Freeman I'm not much of one for looking in the
rear view mirror, but New Year's Day seemed like a good moment to kick
back and finally watch the great Christmas gift from my wife. It's
Rush's Snakes and Arrows Live DVD, recorded at the Verizon Amphitheatre
right here in Atlanta. You should be able to tell from the picture
why I'm particularly fond of this present.
Happy New Year, dear reader! [read] Keywords:
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WORST. INTERFACE. EVER.
Fri, Dec 5th 2008 5:03p Nathan T Freeman This probably isn't worth breaking blog
silence for, but I just can't help it. I am so completely guffawed
by this screen.
If you're not a Lotusphere presenter,
then presumably you haven't read the instructions on this page. So
I therefore challenge you, dear reader, to tell me what to click on to
upload the file once you've selected it.
Please note, there is nothing hidden
except the instructions. These are all the controls that are available
to you once you've selected a fi [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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IBM in the cloud: extst.ibm.com
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 8:13a Nathan T Freeman I know that there are a lot of hard-working
smart people at IBM, but this is absolutely ridiculous. Sametime
is a rock solid product, especially on Domino 8. So the fact that
anyone trying to do business with IBM through IM ever sees this message
is an embarrassment. Seriously, if you guys can't fix this, why would
I ever trust you to run any cloud service?
Nobody ever gets that message on the
Bleedyellow IM server, do they?
IBM, here's all you have to do: pick
up a phone, di [read] Keywords: domino
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Signing Off
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 7:28p Nathan T Freeman I was hesitant to post something about
this, but ultimately based my decision on how much I hate it when someone
just stops writing with out explanation. I've thrown out too much
grief to others to do the same thing myself.
As of today, Lotusphere is 4 months
away. Last night, I was tasked by Lotus 911 with managing a huge
project to debut in Orlando. The amount of work between now and then
is staggering. Although the Lotus community has obviously been very
important to me over t [read] Keywords: lotus
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Okay, I'll Bite: If I were GM
Mon, Sep 15th 2008 6:07p Nathan T Freeman An excellent
question at Volker's site -- one
worthy of deliberate response. And since my afternoon is shot while
I recover from a root canal, I'll take a stab.
(continued...) [read] Keywords:
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The People's Front of Lotus Notes
Mon, Sep 15th 2008 7:51a Nathan T Freeman Paul Mooney proposes an excellent idea
for the People's
Front of Lotus Notes. Here's
my proposed logo. I definitely want that T-shirt.
I'd love to attend the secret meeting
where the People's Front plots their commando missions.
(continued...) [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Truth as I See It: Part 4
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 6:30p Nathan T Freeman In Part 1 of this series, we talked
about why
maintainable code was important,
and how it compares to other priorities in the software development cycle.
In Part 2, we talked about the
concept of code decay, not as
an effect of bad coding practices, but as an effect of changing environments.
In Part 3, we talked about the concept of how user
expectations can affect the phenomenon of decay.
In Part 4, I want to start looking at
measures you can take to fight decay.
If decay i [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Business Partnerships for Engineers
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 2:22p Nathan T Freeman As a software engineer, I sometimes
have to remember that the best way to explain something is to break it
down into individual logical steps, so that there's no misunderstanding
what's being said. Computers, after all, are just really fast tools
that need things described to them very specifically and very exactly so
they know what to do.
The single most powerful construct in
software languages is the conditional. If/then is the centerpoint
of every program. After all, without it [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sorry about the links...
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 10:52a Nathan T Freeman As Rich
and Vitor
point out, referrers from my blog to Vowez Hilton are redirected to the
homepage, so I can't link directly to individual posts there. You'll
have to copy the link targets and paste them into your address bar or something.
I keep forgetting that I've officially
been banished. [read] Keywords:
Spelunking in Notes 8.5 beta 2
Sun, Sep 7th 2008 8:42p Nathan T Freeman When IBM ships a public beta version, one
of the coolest consequences is that anything that's in the beta is no longer
subject to IBM confidentiality rules. So now that public beta 2 is
out, I can go digging in it and see if some things are publicly exposed
now.
So, this afternoon, I did. And
guess what I found?
...\Notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.notes.java.ui_8.5.0.20080822-1349
Hmmmm... wait a minute. That bundle
is com.ibm.notes.java.UI?!??!?!
You [read] Keywords: domino
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The Truth as I See It: Part 3
Tue, Sep 2nd 2008 11:53p Nathan T Freeman Continuing in a series. Here
is Part 1. Here
is Part 2.
Last time, we talked about the technical
causes of code decay: underlying platform & technology changes that
make formerly good approaches obsolete. But this decay phenomenon
can also be accelerated by users. As the expectations of your audience
shifts, your code has to keep up -- whether with UI standards, integration,
performance, or portability of platform. We constantly see this pressure
coming on all fronts, but e [read] Keywords: integration
8.0.2 is even better than you think
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 10:51a Nathan T Freeman By now, everyone who's likely to read
this blog knows about the performance improvements in the startup and performance
time of the Expeditor framework surrounding Notes 8.0.2. Faster startup,
better JVM, view selection gutter -- all these have been covered extensively.
But it's useful to remember, too, that
we get improvements to some of the good ol' fashioned Notes capabilities.
8.0.2 includes important fixes for @functions,
DXL,
web
server, and even unread
marks.
I wanted [read] Keywords: composite
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In the Halls of MSFT (CAUTION: POLITICALLY INCORRECT)
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 11:15p Nathan T Freeman WARNING: The follow dialog is neither
real, nor polite. Read no further if you wish for only sincere content...
Microserf 1: Man, these Mac vs. PC ads
are just killing us.
Microserf 2: Yeah, we need a campaign
to counter them. Something that doesn't make us seem like middle
management already-obsolete types.
Microserf 1: Or maybe we need a campaign
that *identifies* with already-obsolete, middle management types!
Microserf 2: Huh?
Microserf 1: Well, it's not like [read] Keywords: ibm
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Common misconceptions about DAOS
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 12:38p Nathan T Freeman More than a few articles
and posts
have appeared
around the Yellowsphere regarding DAOS, and there's always some L.H.
Putgrass responding on these threads
claiming that DAOS is somehow the spawn
of Satan.
Of course,
such claims are based almost entirely
on totally incorrect ideas about how DAOS operates, so I thought I'd clear
up a few misconceptions.
Myth 1: DAOS requires transaction logging
and transaction logging is bad. Well, it's true that you need transaction
logs for DA [read] Keywords: document
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The Measure of Day
Tue, Aug 12th 2008 10:52a Nathan T Freeman Alan has a great post with a summary
of highlights
from Ye118wDay. One thing
not in his list was our relatively
quiet upgrade of the BleedYellow
environment to Connections 2.0. We've been relatively quiet because
the upgrade did not go well, and we're still working with IBM on fixing
the outstanding problems. However, there were enough cool new capabilities
that we decided not to roll back the update, but soldier on through it.
There's a reason the site has a "beta" tag, after all!
[read] Keywords: connections
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Some Yellow Day awesomeness from the Lotus ISV Enablement team
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 5:41p Nathan T Freeman Jo Grant sent me a link to this great
demo of composite app integration from the sidebar.
It's pretty technical, in that he gets into the innards of the Eclipse
perspective finder and threading approach, but it's also a great example
of some of the powerful integration that's available.
And before anyone points it out... yes,
I realize that there are ways to do this even within the ordinary LS API
in the Notes client today. I do it all the time. However, Jo's
demo here is a great [read] Keywords: composite
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Lotus 911's Yellowbration: FREE STUFF!!!
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 10:19a Nathan T Freeman In celebration of the first annual Ye118w
Day, I've gotten the okay to make an announcement I've been waiting months
to make!
The Carousel
plugin for Notes 8.0.1+ is available
for immediate download from the right-hand download list. This package
includes the Contacts demo, which automatically installs the plugin for
you, along with a PDF document in the Using this Application page that
details how you can incorporate the plugin into your own applications.
Here's the great part [read] Keywords: document
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Join in for the first annual YELLOW DAY!
Thu, Aug 7th 2008 1:45p Nathan T Freeman Alan Lepofsky suggested that, in celebration
of Lotus's new public
proclamation
of their
successes,
that we should designate
the 11th of August as Ye11ow Day.
Since he pretty much dared Lotus 911 to do something to commemorate
the day, and me personally to create a logo for it, we decided to rise
to the occasion.
Monday, 11 Aug 2008 is hereby declared
the first annual Yellow Day. Members of the Domino community are
encouraged to celebrate in any way they see fit. Some suggesti [read] Keywords: domino
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We apologize for the inconvenience
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 12:51p Nathan T Freeman The Bleedyellow.com
site is bleeding at the moment. It appears that something leaked
over from the test environment.
Chris is working diligently to
restore order. We apologize for any problems this may cause to our
users. [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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This is SICK!
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 10:45a Nathan T Freeman More radical than the
Ribbon; probably so different
that it will scare the heck out of people. But Adaptive
Path's vision of the browsing experience of the future
is awesome. [read] Keywords: microsoft
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