Yearly Archives: 2008

Rational Team Concert 1.0 is now available

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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 for agile projects via the iteration planning and work item management feature combined with the collaboration support – and all this in the same package.

I do architect related work for a J2EE project at the moment where agile planning takes place in ScrumWorks, source control is via CVS, code development is via Rational Software Architect, overall project planning is via Rational Portfolio Manager, and remote collaboration is done via Lotus Sametime. From that perspective Rational Team Concert looks very interesting!

IT architect accreditation accomplished

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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 teaming with global resource colleagues from IBM India.

Now I will start to focus on my certification package to eventually become an IBM certified IT architect that can be directly compared to the Open Group level 2 certification called “Master Certified IT Architect”.

Performance basics for Lotus Notes developers

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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.“

How I got started with Lotus Notes

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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 natural for us to start developing tools using Lotus Notes.

I started with Lotus Notes R3.3 and worked with Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino ever since – and in the case of Domino on platforms such as Windows, Linux, AIX and z/OS.

I am a certified developer in R4.5, R5, R6 and R7 – and not yet in R8. I have to start looking at the R8 upgrade path soon 🙂

Who’s left to tell their story?