Archive for March, 2006

Preparing for exam 701

Monday, March 27th, 2006

I have now booked exam 701: IBM Lotus Notes Domino 7 Application Development Update for April 10 and hope to pass in order to upgrade my IBM Certified Advanced Application Developer – Lotus Notes and Domino certification from R6 to R7. In preparing for the exam I am using the resources listed on the exam [...]

Sametime Sunday

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Ted Stanton – one of the bloggers from InsideLotus – has kicked off what he calls Sametime Sunday with a presentation of the chat history in the upcoming Sametime 7.5 release. Stay tuned for more Sametime Sunday blogs.

Some news on Domino

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Some interesting news from around the blogosphere: Domingo has been released: “Domingo is a simple, consistent, object-oriented easy-to-use interface to the Lotus Notes/Domino Java-API.” (Thanks to lekkimworld). If you are interested in the Domino Java API then be sure to check out Domiclipse also. New version of Teamstudio Script Browser.

New Redbook: Security Considerations in Notes and Domino 7

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

The Redbook Security Considerations in Notes and Domino 7: Making Great Security Easier to Implement has just been published. One of the authors is Richard Schwartz who has his own blog at Power of the Schwartz.

Rational Data Architect

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Rational Data Architect has been announced: “IBM® Rational® Data Architect is an enterprise data modeling and integration design tool designed to help data architects design relational and federated databases, understand data assets and their relationships and streamline database projects.” Update: a DeveloperWorks article called “Use Rational Data Architect to integrate data sources”has been published that [...]

Why run Linux on the mainframe?

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Via the Mainframe blog I came across a post on reasons for running Linux on the mainframe. The post is very interesting and discusses the I/O difference between a mainframe and a PC based server. I am currently involved in a project that establishes several Linux servers in both a DMZ and in an internal [...]

Characteristics of a software architect

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Peter Eeles (Senior IT Architect, IBM) today published an article in developerWorks Architecture on the characteristics of a software architect. The article is an interesting read on the role of an architect in software development projects. As I see it Peter Eeles is describing the T-shape of skills that the software architect must have – [...]

Presentations from Lotusphere Comes to You

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

The presentations from the nordic Lotusphere Comes to You sessions are available on ibm.com: The danish presentations The swedish presentations The norwegian presentations The finnish presentations

Ed Brill shows the Lotus Sametime 7.5 alpha release

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Ed Brill has just posted an entry in his blog showing the latest Lotus Sametime 7.5 alpha 2 release. I am also running the alpha 2 release along with many other early adopters inside IBM. This way of mass testing a product both internally and externally before being publicly released to our customers is very [...]

Hasta la Vista?

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

There has been lots of fuzz lately around whether IBM will move away from Windows (and not use Vista at all) and instead completely switch to Linux for desktop clients used internally. IBMeye has an article on the subject that clarifies a lot on what IBM is doing with Windows and Linux. I will not [...]