I know a number of you are looking for formal IBM Lotus Forms training beyond the Proof of technologies which we run on the subject.   IBM does provide formal training and a link to the site can be found here. Course WPC70 Lotus Forms Integration Duration 2 days Numberof Students: Maximum 12 students Type of Course: [...]

Today marks the launch of the OpenInnovation in the Telco sector forum hosted by Brett Telfer and John Eyles of New Zealand Telecom.  This is an opportunity to contribute ideas and thoughts on how Telcos collaborate in these difficult times so sign-up and contribute!  Those bright minds at Telecom have also created a space in secondlife where [...]

A query was floating around recently on how to size Lotus Notes Traveler.  A colleague of mine Geoff Gates offered up a very useful resource from developerworks which has certainly helped.  If you need to size Lotus Notes traveller then start here.

With great excitment IBM Web Content Management now ships with Ephox’s Editlive Rich Text Editor. There is an up and coming webcast that explains how it all works and fits together. The session will cover: How EditLive! can help with user adoption and content creation When and how to get EditLive! Migrating from the default [...]

I am looking at ways to distribute mp3 files as part of some invesigation for a radio producer.   They have a bunch of professionally produced radio programs and I need to store, share and distribute these files.  I came across Soundcloud which seems to provide an easy way to manage these audio tracks. SoundCloud: [...]

It is clear that I am a sad old trance and techno fan – a blessing or a curse from being at University in the early 90s.  A day of documentation so a day of trance was required and here is the playlist that helped. *HOT* (Techno) Electronica Progressive/House/Hardcore/Dance

A quick guide for changing the colour of your unread email messages in LN 8.5 from black to red. Stop Lotus Notes client Navigate to /notes/framework/shared/plugins in the file system Find the file com.ibm.notes.branding_8.5.0.20081211-1925.jar Open the file in winzip or winrar You are then presented with the following file structure:   .. com Icons META-INF [...]

Why do Web Analytics? Customers who want to perform web analytics on an on premise portal environment usually want the following types of information  How effective are the new campaign initiatives? Which items have the highest clickthrough ratio?  What is the clickthrough ratio?  Which items have the highest view to purchase ratio?  What is the [...]

This is a quick blog. Enzo Stanzione has pulled together a really concise presentation for Lotus Foundations explaining all its bit and bobs in an easy to read format.  If travel through Milan in Italy now and again you should meet this guy and expand your network! Lotus Foundations Start 1 0 English Version   View [...]

Lotus Foundations is being given the full spit and polish treatment before the official launch into the New Zealand market. It’s great to see that New Zealand businesses “getting” the value of this product – an easy to use low touch, low cost IT environment which updates and manages itself. Vaughan Rivett has sold the [...]