The Lotusphere Comes to You program has been announced so if you did not attend Lotusphere 2009 then here is your chance to see and hear some of the highlights!
Ed Brill will be visiting Denmark on March 17 in Århus and on March 18 in Copenhagen. Furthermore Ed will participate in a user group event with the Danish notesnet.dk community on March 17.
I have finally migrated from using Blogger as my blog engine to using WordPress. I used Blogger to edit and publish my posts which were then published on my self-hosted domain at per.lausten.dk via FTP. However, Blogger did not provide all the features that WordPress offers – I therefore decided to migrate to WordPress.
My blog runs on Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0. I followed a guide by Jason Boche with some modifications in order to be able to import my blog posts from Blogger to WordPress:
WordPress can import blog posts from Blogger – but only from blogspot hosted blogs. Since I used the FTP option to publish my posts on my own domain I had to switch from FTP to BlogSpot (via Publishing Settings) in order to allow WordPress to import. Furthermore, WordPress required openSSL to be installed and added as extension in PHP. I was then able to import all my 166 blog posts and the related 106 comments (and I could then delete the Blogger created HTML files from my site).
Using Blogger to publish posts via FTP creates a HTML file for each post and these post permalinks are already in the search engine indexes. So I was interested in maintaining the permalink structure of /year/month/post-name.html. To achieve this I used the WordPress plugin “Maintain Blogger Permalinks” that updates the permalink to match the Blogger permalink structure. Furthermore, IIS has to be setup to use a custom 404 header in order to redirect incoming request for the .html permalink to the matching post in WordPress.
My blog was then migrated and I have now started to explore the many possibilities of WordPress such as themes and plugins.
Erich Gamma from the Rational Jazz team has just recorded and posted a 60 minute webcast on the subject of using Rational Team Concert in a globally distributed team. Erich covers topics such as server setup, release planning, iteration planning and finishing a release.
Have a look if you are interested in agile methods.
Lotus Notes 8.5, Lotus Domino 8.5 and Lotus Enterprise Integrator 8.5 are now available for download on Passport Advantage.
Update January 7: Ed Brill has more on the 8.5 announcement – including the following presentation that introduced the 8.5 release:
Update January 17: It is now possible to download a 60 days trial version of Lotus Notes 8.5 on ibm.com.
Lotusphere 2009 kicks off in 2 weeks. The conference starts January 18 and ends on January 22. Ed Brill just shared in the LinkedIn Lotusphere group that the presentations are already online and available for all registered conference participants at Lotushpere 2009 Online.
Participants and speakers at the conference include many from the Lotus blogosphere. The Lotusphere blog has lots of interesting “Share your story” posts with some of these participants. So head over to the Lotusphere blog and read their stories.
As usual Ben Langhinrichs from Genii Software provides a Lotusphere agenda database with all the official sessions making it easy for you to plan your Lotusphere.
Unfortunately I am not going to Lotusphere 2009. Perhaps I wil see you at Lotusphere 2010! Enjoy the conference.
