Per Henrik Lausten

Grady Booch is having his heart surgery today. Bill Higgins will be blogging on how Grady is doing at Gradys blog. I wish Grady a speedy recovery. Update May 31: Grady is online again from inside the Mayo Clinic and is sending his greetings.

Microsoft has just launched a community for IT architects called Skyscrapr. Skyscrapr is described as: Skyscrapr is your window on the architectural perspective. Discover the different disciplines of system architecture, as well as perspectives on building successful systems. Check out our architects’ blogs, learn about industry trends, download webcasts, watch videos, find training, and more. [...]

I just came across Resources for Software Architects – a very interesting site on software architecture by Dana Bredemeyer and Ruth Malan. The Software Architecture Links section of the site has lots of links to resources on software architecture including links to blogs by software architects. Ruth Malan herself has a blog called A Trace [...]

ZDNet Australia compares Lotus Notes/Domino R7 with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and the conclusion is: “If you are already use Lotus Notes for e-mail or if you are an IBM shop and can invest the time and money into developing collaborative applications, Lotus Notes/Domino 7.0 is a powerful framework on which to do so. [...]

Give Mac Guidera a visit if you want to see a screen shot of Sametime 7.5 for Mac OS X.

A new tutorial for Rational Software Modeler has been published: Visualize with Rational Software Modeler: UML 2.0 modeling. The tutorial will introduce you to some of the visual UML 2.0 modeling capabilities in RSM. A similar tutorial from March 2006 is available for Rational Software Architect: Visualize with Rational Software Architect.

In case you didn’t know: Use of Readers fields slows view performance in Notes.

If you need a comprehensive JavaScript, CSS, HTML and AJAX debugger then you should have a look at Firebug. Firebug is a Firefox extension that “lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax [...]

IBM has announced “Lotus Notes access for SAP Solutions” and Rocky Oliver and Ed Brill (among many) has been blogging about it in details. I just want to point you to a new article on developerWorks called “Introducing IBM Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions”. From the article: “Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions is [...]

Exciting news!: IBMer Maureen Leland is working on a prototype of Lotus Domino Designer in Eclipse. Lotus Product manager Chris Reckling has more on the exciting news! You should also read Ed Brill comments on Maureen Lelands post and on Chris Recklings post.