Per Henrik Lausten

Rational Team Concert 1.0 is now available on jazz.net. You can download a free version with a server and 3 client licenses included. Team concert “provides a development environment that allows developers to collaborate together using integrated Source Control, Work Items, Build, Dashboards, Reports, and Process support. ” I am especially interested in the support […]

Nathan Freeman has posted an impressive demo of the XPages functionality in the upcoming Domino 8.5. As Nathan writes: “The rumors are no exaggeration. Xpages are the next wave of Lotus evolution, and they will turn everything you know upside-down. Get ready to be a novice again.”

Mozilla Firefox 3 will officially be available today at 17:00 UTC. Go download Firefox 3 and help set a new Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours. If you just can’t wait then the download is already available elsewhere.

Great news for Lotus and iPhone users: Lotus iNotes for iPhone coming later this year as part of Lotus Domino 8.0.2. Via Alan Lepofsky and comments by Ed Brill.

The Lotus Notes 8.5 and Lotus Domino 8.5 Public Beta is now available for the usual operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X for the client and AIX, Linux, Windows, Solaris and i5/OS for the server). Via Ed Brill: “Notes/Domino 8.5 public beta available now”

As announced on Twitter my accreditation package was approved today and I am now an IBM accredited IT architect. This IBM accreditation can be compared to the Open Group level 1 certification called “Certified IT Architect”. Part of my package included 2 project profiles for projects that were both Lotus Domino based web projects involving […]

Andre Guirard has just published his whitepaper on “Performance basics for Lotus Notes developers”. The whitepaper “addresses the most important and most serious factors affecting IBM® Lotus® Notes® and Domino® application performance. It is intended for developers of Notes client applications, to help them maximize performance by identifying problem areas and by offering solutions.”

Version 1.1 of the Dojo javascript toolkit was released a month ago and now Dojomino has been updated to include the version 1.1 code of Dojo. The Dojomino update includes a very cool online demo site where you can try out some of the many features of the Dojo toolkit.

Rocky Oliver and John Kingsley from Teamstudio are hosting a webcast on web-enabling Lotus Notes applications tomorrow Wednesday, April 16 at 2.00 PM eastern. If you are interested in participating then head over to Rockys blog for more details on the webcast. Update April 19: if you missed the live webcast, it is now available […]

Inspired by Theo Heselmans and many others here is my version of “How I got started with Lotus Notes”. I have been with IBM since 1994 and in 1997 I worked in a support team that developed and maintained tools to support the product introduction process. IBM had acquired Lotus in 1995 so it was […]