A quick blog post to let you know that last week I was invited to be part of This Week in Lotus episode 79 together with Stuart McIntyre, Darren Duke – and Gab Davis as the 2nd guest. We discussed Sametime, OpenNTF, XPages and very naturally the 46th DanNotes conference which took place the day after the recording.
It was great fun and I look forward to being a guest again sometime in the future. By the way, this was my 2nd appearance on the show as I was a guest on episode 24 too.
I started as self-employed full-time consultant on October 18 – and today the first 2 weeks has passed. So how did they go?
I have started working on my first XPages project for my first client. The project is currently in the design and early implementation phase and I have therefore been to a design workshop with Supermouse who is responsible for the information architecture and UI design. I find it very interesting to learn more about XPages and to apply it to a real project.
I was invited as special guest to IBM Hackday 8 at IBM in Copenhagen. It was a fun day with a lot of mobile app discussions including looking at Titanium Appcelerator and how it can be used to develop iPhone and Android applications.
I went to my first all-day Notesnet.dk monthly meeting – and it was nice to meet many of the Notesnet.dk members. I hope to have the opportunity to work with some of my Notesnet.dk colleagues someday on shared projects.
I took part in the recording of episode 24 for one of my favorite podcasts: This Week in Lotus. It was great fun to record the podcast together with Stuart McIntyre, Darren Duke and Joyce Davis.
All in all, I have enjoyed the first 2 weeks as self-employed consultant at PHL Consult.
Two years ago I blogged about podcasts that I listened to at that moment. Since then lots of new and interesting podcasts have appeared. I currently listen to a lot of Lotus related podcasts and the following are in heavy rotation on my iPhone as they provide me with insight and lots of inspiration:
I see lot of potential in the following podcasts but the authors have been quiet for a while… I hope that they will pick up podcasting any time soon:
Finally I can highly recommend Notes in 9 by David Leedy. David does a great job in teaching XPages using video podcasts. I especially like that he starting from the latest episode (the extended edition episode) now renders the video so that you can watch it on your iPhone and iPad!
I am currently listening to the following podcasts on my iPhone:
I actually listen to these while running. So thanks guys for keeping me motivated! 🙂
As pointed out by Bill Higgins developer-focused podcasts are now available over at IBM developerWorks.