Domino Unplugged

New iPhone v. Palm Pre

I'll skip the apologies for the gap between posts ... because this topic is more fun!

Unless you've been living in a cave (and, if you have been, you're probably not reading this in a timely manner either, eh?), you can't have missed all the hoopla about the forthcoming Apple iPhone 3Gs.

So, of particular interest was this post from the Retrevo blog: Eight Differences Between the Apple iPhone and the PalmPre.

Of additional interest was another of their posts: Seven Important Things Neither the Apple iPhone Nor the Palm Pre Can Do.

Yeah, like Flash is that important!

iNotes time zone issue

Okay, stop me if you've heard this one ...

Actually, I see there's a lot of chatter about this problem, so you probably HAVE heard this one, but hadn't seen it myself until this week.

Received a meeting invitation for 1:30 PM EDT this Thursday and accepted it. I went to check my calendar through iNotes on my iPhone, and it showed up at 10:30 AM on Thursday, not 1:30 PM.

Turns out that, for whatever reason, the iNotes UltraLite version is reading directly from the server's time clock, where as the other clients (Notes itself, plus the iNotes Full and iNotes Lite) do not. In my case, the server I was using was on the west coast.

Turns out (again, as has been reported elsewhere, this is just MY first time through all this) it's incredibly easy to fix. Simply make sure that you set your timezones correctly in preferences:


This causes iNotes to NOT use the server timezone ... and everything is fine!

See, like I said, simple!

- Rob

Choosing the right Smartphone

Even though I suspect that most of the readers here - the Unplugged Army, so to speak - don't really need advice about how to pick a smartphone, I wanted to pass along this link to a CNET TV video:
http://cnettv.cnet.com/choosing-right-smartphone/9742-1_53-50070738.html

The advice is a little on the simplistic side, and kind of misses the whole "enterprise" angle, but still worth while.

What are YOUR decision points on a smartphone?

- Rob

iPhone apps for IT

Wanted to draw your attention to: 10 iPhone Apps for IT Administrators from eWeek.

It's an online slideshow offering a great collection of iPhone applications for administrators (this is network oriented, not Domino oriented) like utilities for checking whois, or ping or even just keeping track of client settings.

Even features a 'flashlight' utility (which, for the record, I've had installed on my iPhone for some time ... never know when you need to light up a dark corner under the desk).

Worth checking out ...

Resources posted for ADMIN/LotusDeveloper

Falling into the 'better late than never' category ...

I've posted the various resources, websites and other links for my three sessions at the ADMIN2009 / LotusDeveloper2009 conference.

They're all listed chronologically on the DU homepage, but you can find a "aggregation" page for all three sessions HERE.

Thanks again to all who attended my sessions, and thanks for all the evals you turned in ...

Hope you all enjoyed the conference - see you again next year!

And, while here, might have had some progress on the job-hunt front ... will keep you posted.

- Rob

Thursday - Web Application Security

Thursday was the 'middle' day of the official conference, but my last day as a presenter ... and was the day for "Domino Web Application Security."

This was a particularly well attended session (frankly, I wasn't sure how many people would be interested in this "security for developers" session,  but a lot of folks were), and there was a lot of conversation about the various topics as we went along.

I brought up a number of topics and mentioned a lot of resources along the way; here are the links mentioned:


Hackers.org (the site which shows all the malicious XSS code): ha.ckers.org/xss.html
Codestore (the site with the answers to the attacks): codestore.org

Top 25 Programming Errors: www.sans.org/top25errors/

Domino blogs that touch on the subject:
Steve Castledine – www.stevecastledine.com
Chris Miller – www.idonotes.com
Andy Pedisich – www.andypedisich.com

developerWorks wikis:
Lotus Domino Designer Wiki – www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf
Lotus Notes and Domino Wiki – www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ dominowiki.nsf

developerWorks
Various Lotus forums – they all have threads on security
www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/index.html
Security “home page”
www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/security/
Technical library
www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/lotus/library.jsp
Podcast
www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/spotlight/st-102307.html?ca=dwpodcastall

Misc:
SourceForge Domino security checker:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/dominohunter

Wednesday - Web 2.0 Primer

The week here at ADMIN/LotusDeveloper continued Wednesday (actually for most attendees, this was day one - I started a day early with the jumpstarts) with my presentation on web 2.0 and how Domino fits into this 'brave new world.'

There were a zillion sites mentioned and/or demo'd ... they are listed below. If you have any additional great resources, please leave them as comments!

Web as an application
Google Docs:  http://docs.google.com/#all
Pandora: http://pandora.com/

Technology (AJAX)
Babyname wizard: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager
Google (typeahead): www.google.com
Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/
Google Maps: http://maps.google.com

Social Sites
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com
Delicious: http://delicious.com/
Squidoo:  http://www.squidoo.com/

Knowledge Sites
Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Notes

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com

Domino Designer Wiki: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf
Domino Wiki: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf

Boeing Mashups YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xB0psBjpjI


Domino and Web 2.0 in outside world

IdeaJam: http://www.ideajam.net/
Lotus911:  http://lotus911.com/
Bleedyellow:  http://www.bleedyellow.com/
Crowded Wisdom:  http://wisdom.bleedyellow.com/

Focal:  http://www.focal.is/FOCAL/hvk/WebGuard.nsf/key2/forsida.html
Struturo:   http://struturo.com/Portal/Struturo/PortalHub.nsf/ID/home
Grey Goose Mobile: http://www.ggdrinks.mobi/8525752000566266/index?readform&agp=118
Cervelo Cycles:  http://cervelo.com/


Web 3.0

Smartlinks:  http://www.adaptiveblue.com/smartlinks.html
Pandora (again!):http://pandora.com/
Sramana Mitra (that blog about the 'personal shopper'): http://www.sramanamitra.com/blog/572




Thanks again to those who attended this session ... let's keep the conversation going!

Tuesday - Jumpstart: Moving Your Notes Applications to the Web — What You Need To Know

The week here at ADMIN/LotusDeveloper started Tuesday with what turned out to be a well-attended jumpstart session on web applications. I was delighted to have been asked to do this session, and the attendees and I walked through a 'primer' on Web development.

Here is the database I'm demoing from >>  RWDoTheRightThing.nsf  (be sure to download, NOT launch!).

Be aware that this is a variation of a database from Matt White - one of the other speakers here - and I've added a bunch of "simple" things to his db. HE, on the other hand, is using it to do a bunch of really fancy things, and hopefully anyone interested in web development caught his session(s) this week to see how he took the basics (which showed) and made them stand up and dance!

WEB RESOURCES

Lotus developerWorks - www.lotus.com/ldd
Web/Blog sites:

• Jake Howlett: www.codestore.org
• Chris Toohey: www.dominoguru.com
• Chris Blatnick:  www.interfacematters.com
• Andre Girard: www-10.lotus.com/ldd/bpmpblog.nsf

… and a zillion more great sites!

Best bet: start at planetlotus.org

Tutorials and Web casts

AJAX in Domino tutorial - www.developers.net/ibmshowcase/view/1938
Xpages tutorial - www.lotus911.com/nathan/escape.nsf/d6plinks/NTFN-7FRG79

Domino Web app whitepapers

http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=284015
www.fastlaneus.com/course/1072/Building-Web-Applications-with-IBM-Lotus-Domino-Designer-8

Books and Periodicals

The VIEW (naturally!) -www.eview.com
IBM Redbooks - www.redbooks.ibm.com
Numerous books - amazon.com  www.redbooks.ibm.com/ibmpress

ADMIN/Lotus Developer Conferences Commence

Today starts the jumpstarts for The VIEW's ADMIN2009 / Lotus Developer 2009 conferences, and I am delighted to be one of the speakers again this year.

Particularly in view of my current employment status (or lack thereof, more like it), it's great to have the opportunity to rub shoulders with the Lotus rabble, and hopefully see a bunch of old friends again.

For those of you at the conference, you'll find the resources and backup for the various sessions HERE, although I'll likely have some individual updates along the way.

If you are here, please make a point of saying hello ...

iPhone 3.0 - cut and paste coming soon!

I know this has already been reported by others, but wanted to also chime in ...

Today Apple officially announced the forthcoming OS upgrade for the iPhone and, among other things, it includes cut and paste.

Details on the whole enchileda at Engadget.

UPDATE: Bruce Elgort (Mr. Idea Jam) posted a video about the whole deal HERE.