Collaboration minded people are often wondering about what the future desktop will be (well Cloudera‘s view of the future desktop).   Hadoop is software to build large scale clusters of processors for parallel processing. Check out some education on Hadoop here. Hadoop is really for processing analysis across are large data sets – similar to [...]

Question What’s new in WebSphere Application Server v7.0? Answer A short presentation. Websphere Application Server v7 View more presentations from Chris Sparshott.

1. A lunchtime beer with colleagues 2. The promise of a long weekend 3. Learning new things that refresh your working life A little kiwi music for the weekend.

I  *heart* Lotus Connections v2.5 communities and get a massive amount of personal value from being a member of the communities within IBM.  I suffer from an interesting problem in that I belong to about 25 communities which makes it difficult to access the community I want as soon as I access the communities area!  Maybe we [...]

While sending a quick email to a group of colleagues I wanted to add a simple link. e.g. Blogged it here.  I think other options might be useful. Here is a short video explain a UI option within Lotus Notes v8.5.

A few things coming up in New Zealand that I thought I should share.  We have an event called Collaboration Nation – very snappy. For me the draw card is Dominic Thurbton giving a key note along with the Commonwealth bank delivering a presentation on WebSphere Portal and Social software and then a short SaaS [...]

As an IBM employee I just received the blanket email from the Managing Director for IBM across Australia and New Zealand.  I wanted to share a slice of the internal memo to try and explain why I like this guy. Let me close by saying that I appreciate your tireless contribution to our business. Many [...]

While doing some banking with Rabobank I noticed this article and investing in your career and I found it very thought provoking.

Question How do you install Lotus Mashups? Answer Check out this quick presentation. Installation Of Lotus Mashups1.1 On Linux v5 in vmware View more presentations from Chris Sparshott.

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