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How to win my vote in 2008
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Breaking blog silence for a special announcement...
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Signing Off
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Busting an Xpages Myth: Performance (includes video)
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Okay, I'll Bite: If I were GM
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The People's Front of Lotus Notes
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Breaking blog silence for a special announcement...
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This is SICK!
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Meet Domino Superior (or A Tutorial on Why Xpages Are Better Than Cake and Ice Cream)
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The People's Front of Lotus Notes
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Busting an Xpages Myth: Performance (includes video)
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Oh puh-lease
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Hacking the 8.5 Designer
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Help get Lotus and Apple working together
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Are you kidding me!??!?!?!
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Lotus marketing does not suck (but it doesn't matter)
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A note to Ray Ozzie
Apr 01, 2008 5:14p |
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I've admired you for a long time. You
are the father of a piece of software that has shaped nearly two decades
of my life, and I think you are one of the most brilliant thinkers ever
to work on software.
But, sir, you should be ashamed of yourself.
How can you be Chief Software Architect for a company
so afraid
of its own
software?
Shame on you, Ray.
I'll put you back on my hero list when
you resign in protest against this behavior. All Microsoft employees
should be embarrassed to be part of that organization. The process
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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
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How to win my vote in 2008 
Mon, Oct 27th 2008 8:28a Nathan T Freeman
My vote goes to the candidate who pledges
to end Daylight Savings Time.
That is all. [read] Keywords: |
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Breaking blog silence for a special announcement...
Mon, Oct 13th 2008 11:50a Nathan T Freeman
click through for more... [read] Keywords: |
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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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Busting an Xpages Myth: Performance (includes video)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 6:06p Nathan T Freeman
If you think that Xpages are big and
cumbersome and would be slow because they're all in Java, think again.
Watch this video for proof.
(continued...) [read] Keywords: xpages java
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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
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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
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Oh puh-lease
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 12:45a Nathan T Freeman
Gregg
Eldred commented earlier today
about a comment he saw over at Vowemart...
For some time, we
are evaluating switching to Lotus Notes from a mail and collaboration system
we put together on our own. Reading blogs like this, Ed Brill's and some
other forums discussing Notes and Domino, I see bashing Notes and IBM all
the time. Client bloated and slow, IBM unresponsive and ignoring community
requests, platform independence just an empty promise, license model intransparent,
too expen [read] Keywords: collaboration
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symphony
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bleedyellow.com
community
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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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nana nana nana nah NA! They say it's your birthday!
Wed, Sep 3rd 2008 8:52a Nathan T Freeman
Well it's my birthday too, yeah!
Happy whatever-th to Chris,
Alan,
and Rich. [read] Keywords: |
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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
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And what's even better than 8.0.2?
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 1:48p Nathan T Freeman
Notes
Domino 8.5 Public Beta 2. Come and get it. [read] Keywords: domino
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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!
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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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application
applications
bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
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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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A quick reply to Tim (or Faking Abstract Methods in Custom Lotusscript Classes)
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 8:29p Nathan T Freeman
Tim's
roadblock from last night with Lotusscript method inheritance
is exactly the kind of thing that I read and think "well, there's
gotta be a way to fix THAT." So he and I chatted this morning,
threw a couple of ideas against the wall, and got
one to stick. But we both
immediately saw the problem: since there's no way to force derived classes
to override a method (ie: declare a method abstract,) we could run the
risk of some Lotusscript n00b (or anyone who happened not to read the d [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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IBM Press Release is backwards
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 12:04p Nathan T Freeman
By now you've seen
the news
about IBM's
press release regarding their success.
I am absolutely thrilled to see this, and my fingers are crossed
that this is the first sortie of many to come from new Lotus GM Bob Picciano.
Two interesting things of note...
1) The headline is backwards. It
reads "IBM Growth in Emerging Markets Fuels Lotus Momentum."
But really, it's Lotus' growth in emerging market that's fueling
IBM's momentum. Lotii should be pleased that they're able to ca [read] Keywords: ibm
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synch.rono.us
exchange
exchange
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Too Cuil for Skuil
Mon, Jul 28th 2008 6:07p Nathan T Freeman
I'm sure you've already read about the
supposed Google-killer: cuil.com. Of course, the most important metric
for any internet service is it's ability to be used for pornography. While
others have searched for industry terms and software brand names, I figured
I'd skip right to the crucial part: naked chicks.
I think the image speaks for itself.
FAIL. [read] Keywords: google
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The Truth as I See It: Part 2
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 9:09a Nathan T Freeman
Software has a half-life. This
isn't really news; I'm hardly the first person to point out the phenomenon
of code rot. But I would describe it a bit differently. Code
rot is what happens when the core of your design is faulty -- when you
have less-than-quality code at the heart. Maybe the person that wrote
your first string handler, or Regex parser, or structured your data model
really didn't know what they were doing.
There are plenty of ways to write bad
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Are you kidding me!??!?!?!
Wed, Jul 23rd 2008 5:10p Nathan T Freeman
In the Mail8.ntf, there's a library
called DocExpProcessing. Inside, there's a function called CheckAppropriateExpiration().
In this function, there's the following code...
Set thisdb = s.currentdatabase
Set coll = thisdb.Createdocumentcollection
Are you f'ing kidding me!??!??! Over
100
votes for this on IdeaJam, and
entire
framework classes written to work
around it, Instead of encountering this in Release Notes, or in
Designer Help, there's a note at the bottom of the [read] Keywords: designer
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Some days the jokes just write themselves
Wed, Jul 23rd 2008 1:12p Nathan T Freeman
Okay, I do realize that Bruce authored
something that appears on vowe.net. Doesn't make it less funny.
And what's with writing it as if it
were a news article when it's posted by the software's own author. Full
disclosure, please! [read] Keywords: |
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The Truth as I See It: Part 1
Sun, Jul 20th 2008 8:05p Nathan T Freeman
This post is part one in a series.
Choice
of programming language is always
a hot
topic
in the Yellowverse. Precisely because we have so many options available
to us, language zealotry can be the stuff of endless debate. As we
look forward to the next evolutions in Notes/Domino, there will be even
more choices, some of which will completely and forever change the way
applications should be built.
Personally, I've always been confused
by arguments over language choice. Usual [read] Keywords: agent
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bleedyellow
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Old dog, new tricks
Thu, Jul 17th 2008 4:20p Nathan T Freeman
willisk25 is my step-father of almost
20 years.
Do you have success stories of training
your parents, grandparents, or aunts & uncles? Training someone
younger than you doesn't count... they're all smarter, faster and stronger
than us anyway. [read] Keywords: |
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My Latest Project (or Freeman 2.0)
Thu, Jul 10th 2008 1:53p Nathan T Freeman
We're using the latest in genetic algorithms
and self-modifying iterative code on this new project. Truthfully,
the approach is beyond me, so I'm strictly oversight and logistics now
that the program is seeded. The specifications aren't complete yet,
but expected ship date is 24 Feb 2009.
I'm sure Lisa will never let me, but
I'm partial to the following names: Nicholas Stuart or Natalie Sawyer. [read] Keywords: |
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What Every 20-something Knows (or How to Get Ahead in Business)
Thu, Jul 10th 2008 8:28a Nathan T Freeman
A strange kerfuffle over at Vowedemort's
non-blog, with a questioning of
whether Lotus values community based on a few departures in recent months,
leads to wonder what some of the respondents are smoking.
Anybody who's studied negotiation for
more than 60 seconds understands that the strongest position for you to
be in is when the other party comes to you. And the best opportunity
to make additional demands in a labor relationship is when the relationship
hasn't yet started. These [read] Keywords: ibm
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Land of Confusion (or Listen to Me Demonstrate My Ignorance)
Mon, Jul 7th 2008 10:40p Nathan T Freeman
Chris and Tim interview me about Xpages,
talking about stuff -- some of which is accurate, some of which is completely
wrong. The fun part is figuring out the difference. So for
all the recent OCD readers here, the challenge is: identify where I'm talking
out of an orifice other than my mouth!
Here's
the Yellowcast! [read] Keywords: xpages |
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Andrew's Allusion (or Creating Primary Keys in NSFs)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 4:06p Nathan T Freeman
Andrew mentioned something I discussed
with him regarding setting
UniversalIDs (or UniqueIDs....
the jury is still out on what the proper terminology is after almost 20
years of production Notes apps) on documents. Mr. Pollack likes the
idea for the sake of maintaining document relationship structures across
multiple non-replica instances, and I agree that it's good for that, but
I find myself using it for a bit more esoteric a purpose lately.
I was inspired to look at this more
cl [read] Keywords: document
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database
exchange
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Some Notes on Xpages (or What I Did Over My Summer Holiday)
Fri, Jul 4th 2008 10:04p Nathan T Freeman
With props to John Mackey and Andrew
Pollack for publishing tips that I leaned on in my work today. And
a deep, ingratiating bow to Thomas Gumz for taking the time to talk to
me about some tricky pieces on Thursday afternoon!
You must use Session-based authentication
for Xpages.
applicationScope and sessionScope variables
totally kick ass.
Finding all the detail controls for
things like "what to iterate over in a repeat control" is some
deep voodoo. But it's very satisfyi [read] Keywords: designer
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xpages eclipse
openntf
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server
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Missing Carlin (or How to Look Thirty Years into the Future)
Tue, Jun 24th 2008 11:05p Nathan T Freeman
I know I'm a little late, but...
Birth control pills
are still on prescription... you still need a note to get laid. You
gotta go to one guy to get the note and then to another guy. Ladies
must feel silly going 'here's my note!"
Someday birth control pills will come
off prescription.... When they do, they'll need those cute little
catchy names that the patent medicines have. Names which describe
what the product does... sleepez, no-doz, dentugrip, orafix...something
for the [read] Keywords: |
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The Law of Unintended Consequences (or Why Most of Your Workflow Apps Are Deeply Flawed)
Mon, Jun 23rd 2008 7:00p Nathan T Freeman
I've really been torn whether to write
this entry. It might be petty of me, but I can't stand the fact that
it benefits someone who doesn't deserve it. Nevertheless, it also
benefits way too many other people for me to ignore the matter. My
magnanimous tendencies seem to get the best of me again.
It turns out that there's a very
deep bug in Domino with the advanced
switch to "Optimize Table Bitmap." I'm sure many readers
know this switch. It's the one that makes all your views w [read] Keywords: document
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forms
formula
ibm
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workflow
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My First Stalker (or "lotus notes is so not being used anyore")
Fri, Jun 20th 2008 7:49p Nathan T Freeman
Just received the most amazing email
from my friend "businessadvice10@yahoo.com" Apparently,
my advocacy of "Louts Notes (sic)" has been redefining me.
I'm kind of curious whether this is
actually targeted at me personally, or if this is one of those "topical
spam" messages meant to trick me into some weird phishing scam. I
hope Chris Linfoot has some insight.
Continued... [read] Keywords: lotus
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A quick tip on how to read my blog
Fri, Jun 20th 2008 8:02a Nathan T Freeman
Always read the ALT tags for images.
You may occasionally suffer a bad pun. You may also occasionally
pick up more information. [read] Keywords: |
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Meet Domino Superior (or A Tutorial on Why Xpages Are Better Than Cake and Ice Cream)
Thu, Jun 19th 2008 3:50p Nathan T Freeman
Mutation: it is
the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled
organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow,
and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred
millennia, evolution leaps forward. - Patrick Stewart
as Professor Charles Xavier
After spending three days in meetings
and workshops in Westford, I would submit that for Domino, that leap forward
has arrived. In the form of the now-ironically-name [read] Keywords: dblookup
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iPhone and the Enterprise (or How to Read Beyond a Press Release)
Wed, Jun 18th 2008 11:54p Nathan T Freeman
When I was a kid, long distance phone
calls were expensive. My mother and I rarely had much money, so on
those occasions when we'd make a road trip, we developed a system to convey
information on departures and arrivals without paying for them.
The process was simple: after arriving
some where on a trip, we'd make a person-to-person call to where ever we'd
left to "I. M. Home" or something similar. If the someone
at our origination point needed to talk to us, they'd simply claim to [read] Keywords: connections
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John's Call to Action
Mon, Jun 16th 2008 10:08a Nathan T Freeman
John makes a call to action by providing
a set of slides to encourage
all community participants to drive visibility for the the Yellowverse
in their presentation. This strikes me as extremely important, particularly
for IBM to do. Product ecologies must be cultivated outside themselves
to grow. At the moment, we are far too insular.
John also mentions my observation to
him that was inspired by Carl Tyler's comments on his blog. Allow
me to elaborate...
If we take as an assu [read] Keywords: domino
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Most annoying sentence I read all day
Fri, Jun 13th 2008 4:05p Nathan T Freeman
Unbelievable...
"Based on Microsoft data, we
estimate that 81 of Fortune 100 companies,
along with millions of users, use Exchange as their primary messaging and
calendaring platform." -- Terry Myerson, VP, Microsoft
I have no idea whether that number is
true. It might very well be. But can anyone tell me why they
would need to estimate? It's 100 companies. If you're
going to throw a statistic like that around, CALL THEM. Otherwise
astute readers just might notice that you [read] Keywords: calendaring
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Berke Breathed on blogging -- from 1987
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 10:33a Nathan T Freeman
I found some old Bloom County books
the other day, and was howling with laughter at the author's 20-year-early
prediction of the blogging phenomenon.
I think "LHPuttgrass" needs
to become a social tagging standard for when everyday schleps start talking.
hehe
(Note: there are many occasions in which
I'd categorize myself as an L.H. Puttgrass, and certainly we eventually
got more skin on HBO, in the form of Cinemax!) [read] Keywords: blogging
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Why iPhone integration has to be driven by Apple
Tue, Jun 10th 2008 12:15p Nathan T Freeman
The comment
thread at Ed's, and some other
Yellowverse
responses,
are laying the blame for lack of Domino support on the iPhone at IBM's
feet. Clearly IBM misstepped in their relationship with Apple somewhere,
whether by pissing someone off or by allowing MSFT to secretly bargain
for an exclusivity deal. But it's also important to note that, unless
Apple decides to let someone in, there simply IS NO CAPABILITY to integrate
with the native apps on the iPhone.
Even the IBM product [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
notes
apple
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email
integration
iphone
network
server
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Help get Lotus and Apple working together
Mon, Jun 9th 2008 5:12p Nathan T Freeman
Greyhawk
wonders why we didn't hear about
more work with Lotus technologies at today's Apple WWDC keynote. Ed
Brill let's us know that IBM is,
indeed, working on this, but they need customers to pressure Apple.
Okay... let's
pressure.
And if you current support Blackberries
or Windows Mobile devices in your environment, SAY SO IN THE COMMENTS.
I forgot to on my initial signature, but we have 25 Blackberries
here that are potential converts. Make sure you say it! [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
apple
iphone
mobile
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WATCH THIS DEMO
Wed, Jun 4th 2008 12:54p Nathan T Freeman
You have to see this.
Bob Balfe demonstrates integration
of a Notes view with a Spreadsheet component with no coding
but a little @formula.
How many solutions does that empower
for you and your users? This capability alone makes all the warts
of the Notes 8 client worth it. [read] Keywords: composite
formula
notes
applications
integration
php
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The meaning of "product management"
Wed, Jun 4th 2008 10:31a Nathan T Freeman
In response to my last post, Yancy Lent
says the problem of understanding the customer's needs is really one of
product management. Developers don't need to relate to the man on
the street -- only product managers do. Perhaps I should have simply
said "decision makers" instead of engineers, but I was really
referring to the entire product team in general.
That being said, I disagree wholeheartedly.
In fact, I think the concept of "product
management" is really where the problem [read] Keywords: dblookup
domino
ibm
notes
R5
xpages applications
db2
integration
java
password
websphere
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The Gulf of Practices and Understanding
Tue, Jun 3rd 2008 2:10p Nathan T Freeman
One of the great effects of IBM's growth
into social computing has been the flattening of their development organization,
and the enormous opening of communications channels between the people
that build their software products and the people that use them.
In several recent conversations with
those software engineers recently I discovered that I was getting increasingly
frustrated talking about our needs as customers & partners, and how
they differentiate from IBM's own needs in [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
lotus
lotusphere
notes
bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
community
development
eclipse
openntf
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Hacking the 8.5 Designer
Mon, Jun 2nd 2008 4:31p Nathan T Freeman
If you follow the instructions to enable
direct
installation of Eclipse plug-ins
for a Notes 8.5 CLIENT, you can install the free version of Aptana Studio
by pointing to their Eclipse
Update Site.
This will make your Notes 8.5 client
behavior weirdly. However, it will also make the Studio plugin available
to Designer. After that, it's a question of going to your preferences
menu and setting file preference controls for .js files. Note: you
can also do this with .css and .xml and [read] Keywords: designer
document
domino
ibm
lotus
lotusscript
notes
notes client
template
archive
bug
css
database
eclipse
java
xml
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Jack Black stole my hair
Sun, Jun 1st 2008 8:35a Nathan T Freeman
Behind the scenes shots from the voice overs for Kung Fu Panda.
Get a good look at Jack's hair at about 1:44.
Now.... can I just find a panda costume for Lotusphere 2009? [read] Keywords: lotusphere
application
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Transforming the Workspace
Sat, May 31st 2008 10:23a Nathan T Freeman
This might be the longest IdeaJam description
to date.
I'm going to see if I can mock up some
kind of faked prototype of this today. [read] Keywords: ibm
javascript
notes
notes client
ideajam
ideajam.net
openntf
workspace
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OOXML Formal Appeal filed by South Africa
Fri, May 23rd 2008 1:33p Nathan T Freeman
This
says so much about the timing
of Microsoft's ODF announcement yesterday.
And frankly, of all the nations in all
the world, I am both stunned and delighted that the formal appeal came
from this one. [read] Keywords: odf
microsoft
ooxml
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Let's pretend you're Microsoft
Wed, May 21st 2008 8:27p Nathan T Freeman
You just burned untold dollars and massive
amounts of public credibility to force OOXML through an ISO vote, facing
public accusations of bribery, corruptions and documented evidence of business
representation. But you got your way, and the Office 2007 XML format
was approved as an ISO "transitional" standard with exactly ONE
change that materially affected your product.
Before the IS29500 standard is even
published, you decide to announce
that your next service pack will support re [read] Keywords: notes
odf
microsoft
office
ooxml
xml
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A pleasant surprise
Tue, May 20th 2008 5:04p Nathan T Freeman
ZDNet.co.uk has compiled a rogues'
gallery of annoying software.
Guess what didn't appear on the list?
Guess
what did?
I suppose it's faint praise to not be
ranked with RealPlayer and Norton AntiVirus. Still, it's a nice change
of pace from us yellow bleeders always having sand kicked in our collective
face. [read] Keywords: openntf
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Proof of no life
Tue, May 13th 2008 4:06p Nathan T Freeman
I had to retire my Thinkpad T60 yesterday
due to a problem with the video that had been going on for months. The
unit was about 20 months old, and I first started using it around March
of 2007.
If you're thinking "wow, that didn't
last very long" have a look at the keyboard. Note that not only
did I wear the letters off 4 keys, but the matte finish on the space bar
was polished by my right thumb.
*sigh* I need to get a hobby that doesn't
involve the computer. [read] Keywords: |
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A corollary for Bruce
Tue, May 13th 2008 2:03p Nathan T Freeman
Those
who believe it should not be done must interrupt the people doing it. [read] Keywords: |
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Mea Culpa
Tue, May 6th 2008 11:29a Nathan T Freeman
I had made the argument several times
on this
IdeaJam thread that I simply never
encountered Notes crashes that failed to invoke the NSD cleanup process.
Well, I encountered one today. I tried to Redim an array at
runtime outside of the allowable boundaries of an array in the Notes 8.0.1
client. The Notes C++ client crashed mightly, but the Eclipse context
kept running until I forcibly shut it down with the Task Manager.
This is the first time I've encountered
such an error since [read] Keywords: notes
nsd
eclipse
ideajam
ideajam.net
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Phrases I am truly tired of
Mon, May 5th 2008 6:26p Nathan T Freeman
I would so love to ban these particular
phrases from my hearing...
Perception is reality
At the end of the day.
Loosely coupled
Believe me
Emergent phenomenon
Have any you'd like to add to the list? [read] Keywords: |
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99 Ways to Die: Searching your Notes mail
Tue, Apr 29th 2008 9:23a Nathan T Freeman
Some recent articles at Ed
Brill's and Steve
Castledine's have centered around
the difficulty some people have searching in Notes. Two main themes
seem to be emerging: 1) it's easy to search your Notes mail; and 2) people
need more training on the product.
I'm going swim against the stream here
a bit (surprise, surprise) and make the claim that it really isn't easy
to search your Notes mail for the first time. It's not easy because
there are simply too many vectors to do it. Many [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
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More CSS Resplendence
Mon, Apr 21st 2008 11:10p Nathan T Freeman
Details on how this was accomplished
tomorrow, but basically, there's exactly one table and absolutely no hide-when
or border settings to turn this...
...into this in read mode
...and this in edit mode! [read] Keywords: css
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Awesome Notes Fieldsets
Mon, Apr 21st 2008 2:09p Nathan T Freeman
Over at Interface Matters,
Mr. Blatnick completely rips me off by
rehashing an article
I wrote over a year ago...
I'm kidding, of course. Chris
points to several ways to emulate fieldsets in the Notes client, and gets
some interesting results. Patrick
Kwinten responses with a rather
surprising remark.
an excellent demonstration
how BAD the support for CSS and HTML in the Notes client is.
Au contraire, quintessens! CSS
can be used for this purpose quite nicely in the Notes cl [read] Keywords: designer
notes
notes client
sntt
css
interface
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Web of Deception - Chapter 9
Sat, Apr 19th 2008 6:23p Nathan T Freeman
Finally! Sorry for the delay,
everybody. You can read
the story from the beginning here... [read] Keywords: |
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The Masters of Derision
Tue, Apr 15th 2008 9:09a Nathan T Freeman
My step-father, Ken, called me Saturday
afternoon, all excited about something...
Ken: "I'm watching The Masters,
and did you know that IBM is practically sponsoring the whole thing?"
Me: "Yeah, I heard about that."
K: "There's an IBM commercial at
pretty much every break."
M: "Really? So, what did
you learn about IBM?"
K: "Heh... that they do business."
M: "Was that news to you?"
K: "No."
M: "Did they show anything that
IBM actually did?"
K: "I think they showed a ser [read] Keywords: ibm
server
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Reusable code
Mon, Apr 14th 2008 1:07p Nathan T Freeman
Helping a customer out with some maintenance
coding today, and spotted this gem in a Javascript library...
/****************************
You can use this script freely as long
as this copyright message is kept intact
/****************************
I'm speechless. [read] Keywords: javascript
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Ben's meme
Thu, Apr 10th 2008 1:20p Nathan T Freeman
Mr. Langinrichs proposes a great game. [read] Keywords: application
, archive
, community
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How I got started with Lotus Notes
Sun, Apr 6th 2008 2:35p Nathan T Freeman
Ummmmm... my initials are NTF. I
think the answer is: destiny. (And no, I won't bore you with the
real story.) [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, ntf
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My moment of Zen
Fri, Apr 4th 2008 7:03a Nathan T Freeman
It is amazing how much better I feel
with less clutter.
This took about 30 minutes over morning
coffee. [read] Keywords: |
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The definitive case for segregation
Thu, Apr 3rd 2008 7:54a Nathan T Freeman
No, not THAT kind of segregation! I
mean segregation of data.
Ever since Notes first got calendaring
& scheduling features, a few yellow bleeders have questioned the wisdom
of putting calendar events into the same data store as email. As
features have progressed, this practice has gotten more prevalent, with
Contacts and Chat histories now stored in the mail file, and some asking
for RSS feeds and Journal entries to be included as well. There are
two reasons for this strategy. [read] Keywords: calendaring
, domino
, dwa
, notes
, notes client
, email
, server
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End user awareness in IT business
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 10:49p Nathan T Freeman
I was watching CSI: NY tonight, and I noticed a great ad that highlighted instant wireless communications. It was for Cisco, and part of a campaign called "The Human Network."
"Wow," I thought, "End-user awareness ads for IT infrastructure technology on primetime television. IBM should take note."
Then it occurred to me to wonder who Cisco's ad agency was. Turns out, it's Ogilvy & Mather. Yup... same as IBM.
So IBM's own brand management agency recognizes the power of brand awarenes [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, email
, network
, networking
, wireless
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No longer just a hype machine
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 9:10a Nathan T Freeman
Now, you too can create a chat
room! [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
, planetlotus
, planetlotus.org
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A note to Ray Ozzie
Tue, Apr 1st 2008 5:14p Nathan T Freeman
I've admired you for a long time. You
are the father of a piece of software that has shaped nearly two decades
of my life, and I think you are one of the most brilliant thinkers ever
to work on software.
But, sir, you should be ashamed of yourself.
How can you be Chief Software Architect for a company
so afraid
of its own
software?
Shame on you, Ray.
I'll put you back on my hero list when
you resign in protest against this behavior. All Microsoft employees
should be em [read] Keywords: ray ozzie
, microsoft
, php
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A quote to remember...
Mon, Mar 31st 2008 9:52p Nathan T Freeman
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From the jokes-that-write-themselves dept.
Sun, Mar 30th 2008 3:06p Nathan T Freeman
I told Alan I'd stop playing into this
tired joke, but I just can't help it... [read] Keywords: |
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Lotusscript Compiler Weirdness
Fri, Mar 28th 2008 10:41a Nathan T Freeman
Perhaps someone smarter than I am can
explain this...
Class baseClass
Private someMember as String
End Class
Class derivedClass as baseClass
Private someOtherMember as String
End Class
Class wrapperClass as baseClass
Property Get derivedObject as
derivedClass
'some code
End Property
End Class
This fails in the Lotusscript editor
when it compiles. (side note: the single most annoying aspect of
Lotusscript is that custom classes have exactly ONE error mess [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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1 common belief in the Domino community
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 10:54a Nathan T Freeman
1. Vowe is a contributor to the Lotus
community. [read] Keywords: domino
, lotus
, community
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A theory for LOST
Fri, Mar 21st 2008 6:53a Nathan T Freeman
I'm a huge Lost fan, and if you're not,
this post likely won't mean much to you. So you can stop reading
now.
Still going? Okay. I'm gonna
skip over all the setup, and just assume that interested readers are familiar
with the show and the mythology surrounding it. If you watch the
show because you think Sawyer is hot or because you want to know who gets
off the island, this probably isn't going to make any sense to you. [read] Keywords: |
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Lotus marketing does not suck (but it doesn't matter)
Wed, Mar 19th 2008 7:39a Nathan T Freeman
Every couple of months, there's some
set of posts on edbrill.com that leads to a comment dogpile about how much
Lotus' marketing sucks. The same voices jump forward and point out
all the failures of visibility for the Lotus brand, and Ed is forced to
defend the party line by pointing to double-digit revenue growth and successful
product delivery.
The difficulty here is that calling
something a success is entirely dependent on what the goal is. In
IBM's case, the definition of succe [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
, notes
, database
, db2
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