January 2008

"Meet the Bloggers" lounge at LS09 ?

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 25th, 2008

This year, way more than ever before, I realized that Lotusphere is more than sessions, labs and the showcase. It's also about meeting people: speakers, lab-rats, exhibitors, peers. Now I'm not exact

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Lotusphere 2008: closing day

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 25th, 2008

Final day at LS08. I'm heading back to Belgium tomorrow. 3 sessions planned for today: Application Development Keynote: Kevin Cavanaugh gave an overview of the development opportunities. Starting of

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Lotusphere 2008: Day 3

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 24th, 2008

Bruce Elgort and Chris Blatnick started of my day with funny examples of bad UIs. Luckily they did have good suggestions for improvement. Next up was Rocky: a charming show-guy, but his Formula/Lotus

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Notes on iPhone: the big let down !

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 23rd, 2008

Last week the blogosphere (Notes and Apple) was talking about the supposedly official press leak about IBM announcing native Notes email support on the iPhone. I read (and blogged about) an article fr

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Lotusphere 2008: Day 2

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 23rd, 2008

Strange LS day today. I only went to 1 session, but a good one: Jack Ratcliff showed off the latest release of Ext.nd. Great framework. Still a long way to go, but it's very promising ! I did not int

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Lotusphere 2008: Day 1

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 22nd, 2008

The opening session promised a lot, delivered a lot, but was below expectation as some points. The guest speaker Bob Costas (who's he ?) was a let down. A sports presenter in the States, and thus comp

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Lotusphere 2008: Day 0: Pool Party

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 20th, 2008

For me the Sunday evening 'Pool Party' (they've been calling it 'Welcome Reception' for a couple of years now, but I prefer the old casual name), is the real start of Lotusphere. A relax get-together,

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Notes on iPhone: also for Databases ???

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 18th, 2008

Everyone already blogged about the 'rumor' of having Notes email on iPhone soon. I just discovered a news item from Information Week: "Sources with knowledge of IBM's plans on Thursday confirmed tha

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Lotusphere: 1 week to go

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 12th, 2008

One week from now I'm checking in at the airport for my yearly 'battery charging time' at Lotusphere in Orlando. It seems to me this year's LS is anticipated by far more people then ever before. Man

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Wine snobbism

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 9th, 2008

Bert Gilles, a friend of mine, and a gifted wine taster and writer, wrote a great article about the pleasure of tasting versus the arrogance of so-called professionals. I liked it so much, I translate

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SP3 for MS Office 2003 kills WK3 support

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 9th, 2008

A couple of weeks ago the Microsoft updater installed Service Pack 3 (SP3) for MS Office 2003 on my machine. Great, more bugs fixed. It appears that MS blocked some older file formats from being read

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Planet Lotus

Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 4th, 2008

Yancy Lent started a great new site called Planet Lotus: aggregating Lotus related blogs and news. What a cool idea ! Tx Alan for this tip. Go check it out. NOW !

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