Episode 115, recorded on Tuesday 30th August 2016.  We discuss the MWLUG 2016 conference, the future of IBM Domino and xPages development, what Project Toscana means for all of us, and the IDC announcement that IBM leads the Social Business marketplace for the 7th consecutive year. Oh and on our final TWiL ever, we share an exciting announcement – WTF? Hosts Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Guests Jesse Gallagher (blog | twitter) is CTO at I Know Some Guys and a second-generation Domino developer. He is on the board at OpenNTF and blogs semi-regularly at frostillic.us. Topics We’re Back! Just a one off, as we were all at MWLUG TWiL archives coming back online on a brand new site… Relive the glory days at thisweekinlotus.com! Up to episode 74 now, remainder to come very soon Introducing Jesse (0:02:17) * Frostillicus – a Simpsons reference * Asimov – Second Foundation * ‘Gidgerby’ – loosely related to World of Warcraft MWLUG (0:05:15) Details: Austin, August 17-19, 2016 Held at the Four Seasons, Austin Previous locations Overall feel and vibe of the conference Kudos to Richard Moy, family and team… Music plays a strong part Amanda Bauman was the Austin liaison Next event is pencilled in for Washington D.C. (not Washington state!) Evolution of the event – is this now the primary North American event? Icon US online-only in 2016 General discussion of event organisation San Antonio trip – the Alamo The River Walk Stuart’s Fender Bender Yes, North Pole, Alaska really is a place! IBM Design Studio tour Good intro video on YouTube – it’s a lot messier now! IBM Design Thinking initiative Session at Social Connections 10 Structure of event schedule * Special cause * Swan Songs – “Swan Songs fulfills musical wishes at the end of life by organizing private concerts for individuals with a terminal illness.”

Recorded on Wednesday 4th April 2012.  Mat Newman joins us to review AusLUG 2012, and to discuss how we can reach those Lotus and ICS advocates and users that are not part of the community today. Hosts Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Guests Mat Newman (blog | twitter | company) is the Director of Education for ISW, an IBM Premier business partner in Australia, who recently won both IBM ICS and IBM Websphere ANZ Business partner of the year awards.  ISW are also the folks behind WildFire! and Kudos Badges.  An IBM Notes user since 1992, Mat is an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions, owner of the coolest YELLOW suit around, who by day educates Users, Administrators and Developers on IBM Software and spends his spare time keeping a bunch of people amused while they organise AusLUG. Topics AUSLUG is done Was it easier or harder 2nd time around? Biggest LUG in the world? (350 registrations) So why do you do it? the team behind AusLUG: Adrian Randall, Barry Sanders, John Stockbridge, Karen Hooper, Michael Little, Scott Beattie, Steve Hooper, Terry Boyd and Tony McPhail are all very single minded in this: We want to reach out to as many people as possible and provide an excellent opportunity for them to improve their skills and gain a better understanding of the technology they work with. What’s this about the ‘bubble’? Is our world really as small as 300 bloggers and maybe 1000 readers? So how do we reach those outside the bubble? Are LUGs the primary route, or are online activities like LinkedIn groups, Connections communities, Greenhouse, Facebook, Twitter etc as important? Is the community still Notes/Domino focused, or are products like Connections and Quickr becoming more key? How do we get more ‘outsiders’to have and use their voices? Where do you go for AusLUG 2013? Tips Darren: * Right double click in iNotes closes the current tab. At least in 8.5.3….. Mat: * Sametime clients for mobile devices – check out QuipIM? Stuart: * Shock horror, an IBM tip! IBM Sametime Video Chat Plug-in for IBM Connections Technology Preview * And new release of Kudos Badges, 1.3. It rocks.

Recorded on Friday 23rd March 2012.  Simon Vaughan, Mac Guidera and Baan Slavens join Darren and I to talk Connections – roll out of a new release at Cardiff University, futures for the mobile apps, fix pack one for 3.0.1 and even Windows Explorer access to your Connections files. Hosts Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Guests Mac Guidera (blog | twitter) is a Project Manager on IBM’s Social Software Team. Simon Vaughan (twitter) is Deputy IT Director at Cardiff University and an IBM champion Baan Slavens (twitter) is a Project Manager on the IBM Social Software Team and is responsible for social mobile solutions. Topics Cardiff just upgraded to Connections 3.0.1 What’s Connections being used for? Will it be rolled out to students as well as staff? Is mobile access in demand?  Are Cardiff allowing users to access from mobile? Connections mobile clients What has the take up been like so far? What’s coming next? Multiple server access Profiles integration with address books Customisation of apps to fit organisation changes Native files access Connections as a platform for development As Social Business develops, do we see Connections as becoming more of a development platform? Developers need to understand OpenSocial Will we see Connections competing with Portal as an integration point for multiple applications Connections 3.0.1.1 released What’s included? Fixes New features MS IE 9 and Firefox 9 support Redhat Linux 6.1 support Sametime 8.5.2 Proxy support Issue with Chrome duplicate headers also fixed 🙂 Forums/Posts configuration etc Was the ‘Super Community admin view’feature incorporated in this release? How is it installed? New Update Installer required Should all customers upgrade? Connections plugin for Windows Explorer released What does it do? How is it installed/deployed? How does it compare with the Notes plugin for Files? Can you upload multiple files? Does it obey quotas etc? Can you have multiple Connections servers configured? drag and drop of files into Connections files Video by Luis Benitez Connections 4 was previewed at Lotusphere 2012 What are the highlights? When will it be available? Which features are you most excited about? Tips Darren: Veeam. Best virtual backup and replication solution on the market. And sold by STS 🙂 Baan: Open documents in Connections app on the iOS platform by pressing and holding attachments. Mac: Mac users, use the files plug-in for Notes to drag and share files from your machine to Connections.

Recorded on Friday 30th March 2012. Darren joins Mat Newman and the crew at AusLUG 2012 for live This Week in Lotus review of the conference. Darren and I discuss RIMs demise, Connections101.net and the rise of the LUG.  Lastly we have some excellent interviews made by Sean Cull at BLUG. Hosts Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Topics RIM takes a tumble Connections101.net AUSLUG 2012 (Sorry for the poor sound quality) BLUG 2012 No tips this week, back next time!

Episode 92 recorded on Friday 9th March 2012.  Mike McGarel joins Darren and Stuart to discuss the XWork Server offering  6 months on, the new OpenNTF XPages development contest, a new and improved xpages.info site and community efforts to improve IBM Connections documentation. [The XXX Episode – That’s XWork, XPages contest and xpages.info, hope that still proves arousing 😉] Hosts Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Guests Mike McGarel (blog | Twitter) , As a Collaborative Solutions Developer for Czarnowski Display Services, “XPages marks the spot”in my career right now. All of our new development efforts have been XPages-focused for over a year.  I am Vice President of GRANITE, the Chicago-based ICS user group. I also help out with various community get-togethers such as the Blogger Open at Lotusphere and the annual Midwest Lotus User Group conference. Topics XWork Server Update – TNG Ed asks what next for the newest member of the Domino family “Social Business Databases”? ISV chicken and the egg issues? “. . . awareness is lower than we expected at this point in time.”Proof that it needs its own marketing campaign? Third OpenNTF Development Content Sponsored by We4IT Deadline: June 3rd, 2012 Two categories (Controls and Applications). Each category will have 2 winners. The Control category winners will receive $800.00 each, the Application category winners will receive $1600.00 each. The winners can choose between Amazon vouchers or payment via Paypal. “New look”of http://xpages.info Fantastic work by Bruce and the team Connections Community Documentation Paul Mooney and Gab Davis are about to undertake a mammoth task Will it help? Why is it needed? IBM Connections Quickstart for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino – 3 week engagement iPad Fever Stresses the need to get up to speed on mobile development. If you’re company is still thinking about mobilizing your apps, it time to stop thinking and start doing. So how many iPad 3’s will Stuart be buying? 😉 MWLUG 2012 Dates: August 15th – 17th Location: Pittsburgh, PA at the Omni William Penn Hotel. 5 Tracks: Administration, Application Development, Business Cases and Strategy, New Technology and Integration, and Social Business YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/mwlug (videos from 2009-2011) Website: new XPages-based site plans to debut at the end of March Call for abstracts:  Planned for mid-April 2012 Tips Darren: Notepad++. Notepad they way it should have been.

Episode 93 recorded on Thursday 15th March 2012.  Sharon Bellamy and Femke Goedhart join Darren and Stuart to discuss the upcoming user groups in Belgium and the Netherlands, how to recover from Connections database failure and why Yammer’s business model is so persuasive. Hosts Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Guests Femke Goedhart (twitter | blog | company) is a Business Consultant at Silverside, The Netherlands. She specialises in Collaboration, Social Business, Document Management and Workflow solutions. IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions and enthusiast on all things Social. Sharon Bellamy (blog | twitter | company) is a Business Consultant at Applicable, working with IBM Connections implementations and anything WebSphere or Lotus related IBM Champion, iSeries fan girl and friend of Mat Newman. Topics BLUG 2012 March 22-23, Antwerp Fantastic lineup Listen to TWiL 91 for all the details What are you looking forward to? Social Panel Social Business Event NL / NLLUG 201 http://socbiz.nl/ May 15 & 16, Feyenoord stadium Rotterdam 4 tracks: Admin/Development/Best Practises/Business  both Dutch as well as international speakers Double conference: Social Business aimed both at new and existing customers – NLLUG aimed at existing user group focus in business tracks on Line of Business: HR, Marketing, Communications and Management. Lotusphere 2013 site already up, and looking good! Connections issues dealt with this week: Recovering Connections from database failure Learnt a lot this week Lose your recovery logs and next time your system restarts, the DB2 DB will not come back up Crash Recovery fails DB2 goes down when Connections connects Speak to IBM support fast! Media Widget timeout Connections custom theme issue Silverside become a Kudos partner Yammer – 500.000 users in NL makes it second biggest market for Yammer after US. Product Wiki design UXLab are looking for help on this – they need volunteers If you want to improve the product wikis please volunteer – [email protected] Tips Femke: www.yoono.com great social stream tool to have as a desktop app but for me most particular to have in the sidebar of my bro...

Episode 91 recorded on Friday 1st March 2012.  Mat Newman and Theo Heselmans join Darren and I to discuss the upcoming BLUG and AUSLUG user groups, agenda highlights, key speakers and their related social events. I suffer from some impetuosity regarding upgrading my OS, and hours of bloopers ensue.  Oh yeah, and sorry for the delay in getting this out. Work, life, what balance 😉 [An update since the show – unfortunately I will not be attend BLUG due to family commitments and hence have had to cancel my speaker slot. Apologies to Theo and the team.] Hosts Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Guests Theo Heselmans (blog | twitter | BLUG) is an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions. In 1993 he started working as a Notes/Domino consultant with version 3. He delighted (and still does) many customers with custom applications. For 4 years now, he is responsible for BLUG. Theo visits other LUGs regularly, and has been to 17 Lotusphere conferences. He is an avid believer in all things ‘Social’. He loves to talk about Notes, BLUG, Excel (and wine)!<br> Mat Newman (blog | twitter | company) is the Director of Education for ISW (an IBM Premier business partner in Australia).  An IBM Notes user since 1992, Mat is an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions, owner of the coolest YELLOW suit around, friends with Lisa Duke, Sharon Bellamy and Femke Goedhart, and lately spending a lot of his time #Mythbusting. As you might notice in the bio pic, Mat is also partial to AS400’s 😉 Topics ‘You must be mad!’ Organisers of two of the biggest Lotus community groups worldwide Hundreds of hours of effort given up free of charge Stress of running large expensive events at you own risk Why do you do it? BLUG When? March 22-23, Thursday-Friday Where? Antwerp, Belgium, and all sessions are in English! Keynote? Chris Crummey, Business Unit Executive at IBM and Lead Evangelist for Lotus Who are other key speakers? Alan Forbes, Bill Bucan, Bill Malchisky, Chris Miller, Devin Olson, Eamon Muldoon, Eileen Fitzgerald, Femke Goedhart, Florian Vogler, Frank van der Linden, Gabriella Davis, Howard Greenberg, Jess Stratton, John Beck, John Head, Kathy Brown, Luis Suarez, Martin Donnelly, Matthew Fyleman, Mikkel Heisterberg, Paul Mooney, Paul Withers, Rene Winkelmeyer, Rob Novak, Sean Cull, Steve McDonagh, Stuart McIntyre, Tim Clark, Tony McGuckin, Ulrich Krause, Warren Elsmore, Theo Heselmans, … 17 of which are IBM champions * Other highlights * Double sided badges with TwitterID and QR Code * Large twitter wall #BLUG * Social panel with Femke Goedhart, Luis Suarez and Stuart McIntyre * Nerd Girls are repeating their successful Spark Ideas from Lotusphere with other topics/speakers * Speedsponsoring: 18 booths, so fast talking is required. Paul Mooney hosting, Bill Buchan and Tim Clark are his assistants * Something new: a developers’quiz: educational and fun...

Episode 90 recorded on Friday 24th February 2012.  We meet with four IBMers about the latest XPages book, the XPages Portable Command Guide, to discuss the aims and content of the book, who should read it, which resources someone new to the technology should read and more. Oh and Darren takes questions from the audience. Dangerous! Hosts Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Guests Martin Donnelly (LinkedIn | Twitter) is a software architect and team lead for the XPages runtime team in IBM Ireland and has worked on all four XPages releases from Notes/Domino 8.5 through 8.5.3. Martin lives in Cork with his wife, three daughters, and two greyhounds. He admits to playing soccer on a weekly basis (should have hung up his boots YEARS ago) and salmon angling during the summer when the opportunity presents itself. Tony McGuckin (LinkedIn | Twitter) is a Senior Software Engineer on the IBM XPages development team working from the IBM Ireland Software Labs.  He is also co-author of the Mastering XPages and XPages Portable Command Guide books.  Currently he is focussing on XPages Mobile and Social tooling/controls for XPages futures. Maire Kehoe is a Staff Software Developer at the IBM Ireland Software Labs, where she has worked on the XPages technology for Lotus Notes and Domino since the 8.5 release. She is a co-author of the book XPages Portable Command Guide. Dan O’Connor (LinkedIn | Twitter | IBM) is the team lead for Domino Designer based out of Littleton, MA. He is a co-author of the book XPages Portable Command Guide. Dan has worked on Domino Designer since the 8.5.0, prior to that Dan worked on Lotus Component Designer and Rational Application Developer. Topics The XPages Portable Command Guide (Amazon US Paperback | Amazon US Kindle | Amazon UK Paperback | Amazon UK Kindle) Follow on to the magnificent Mastering XPages...

Episode 89 recorded on Thursday 16th February 2012.    We meet with Dave Durazzano of IBM and Elaine Murray from Applicable to discuss the planned rename of Lotuslive, announcements from Lotusphere 2012 and plans for new bundles to clear up a few confusing names… [Full title: Lotuslive becomes SmartCloud for Social Business. Longer name but less confusion?] Hosts Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Guests Dave Durazzano (twitter) is Program Director for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.  David joined Lotus in 1994 as a technical support analyst, he then went on to co-founded a Lotus Business Partner consulting company and later started a cloud computing services company.  David rejoined IBM in 1999 where he has held several technical leadership roles on the Lotus Notes/Domino, Workplace & Greenhouse teams before shifting his focus in 2007 to contribute to the IBM on-line collaborative SaaS business previously called LotusLive.<br> Elaine Murray (twitter) is IBM/Microsoft Messaging & Social Collaboration enthusiast at Applicable. A Marketing Manager with a passion to promote powerful collaboration. Topics SmartCloud for Social Business For those new to the community, what is Smart Cloud for Social Business? IBM SmartCloud portfolio Formerly LotusLive New brands to be established in Q1 (next few weeks) SmartCloud Engage to be key brand, various levels within that What happens to customers that have LotusLive contracts? New URL in Q2 – http://ibmcloud.com/social What is the proposition that SCSB represents? Many would see Office 365 and Google Apps as the main competitors What are IBM’s advantages? Will the iNotes and Connections brand confusion be cleared up? Yes! Whats coming in 2012? Will the newly named IBM Docs be part of SmartCloud too? Yes, 2H12 Applicable What does winning the Lotus Award mean for your business? Tips Darren: * There is no privacy on social networks. Yes, they steal your address book. Move on nothing to see here. * The Xpages Debug Toolbar on OpenNTF from Mark Leusink. Dave:  * Start a 60 day trial of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business – See first hand how your business (any size) can leverage the cloud to collaborate with customers, partners, vendors today.   IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Toolkit – Found in IBM DeveloperWorks.  Access the IBM SmartCloud APIs for integration development! Elaine:  * Knowledge is Power.. Keep up to date with the customers who visit your web pages and learn more about them and their areas of interest: http://www.trovus.co.uk/

Episode 88 recorded on Thursday 9th February 2012. Jason Dumont joins Darren and Stuart to discuss the roadmap for the Lotus clients – Notes, iNotes and Connections Mail – through 2012 including the exciting Social Edition release. He also fills us in on the details around ‘that plugin’ – the ability to render Notes applications in a browser as if in your Notes client.   Hosts Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Guests Jason Dumont (twitter | linkedin) is currently the Program Director for Messaging & Collaboration Client Strategy at IBM. His responsibilities include strategy development and product planning for all of IBM’s messaging and collaboration clients within the Lotus brand, including our on premise and cloud based delivery options. He also leads a new strategic effort focused on the delivery of a more social messaging experience, which will first be represented as IBM Connections Mail. His team is located in the United States with an extended team around the globe. Topics Lotusphere announcements Lotus Notes and Domino Social Edition What is Notes/Domino Social Edition? Is this the ‘Notes Foo’that has been discussed over the last year? Why ‘Social Edition’? When will it ship? Is this the equivalent of Notes Next? Lets break it down: What will Domino Social Edition offer in terms of iNotes functionality? How about Notes Social Edition? What Social features will be available in the new release? IBM Connections Mail (aka social mail) This has been explained as ‘triage mail and calendar’, can you explain the use case? ‘Picture in picture ’analogy When will it be delivered? Need Connections Next and Domino 8.5.3+ or Exchange 2007 & 2010 Works with Domino and Exchange mail?  Will it support cloud-based mail? The Plug-in What does it do? What are the use cases you foresee? What are the requirements? Which browsers (IE, FF both on Windows), which Domino release? How big is the plugin?  Will it get cached? ‘State of the Union’ Are you excited about 2012? Tips Darren: Workflow for XPages : OpenNTF project released by Phillipe Riand, Qian Liang and Niklas Heidloff. Fills a missing gap that has always existed in Domino. Also in an XPages vein, the 3rd and latest XPages Development Contest is open. More prizes this time, again from the kind folks at We4IT! Jason: Jabra headset SwiftFile Stuart: Turn off Widgets in your Connections UI if deploying for the first time – set in Homepage Admin. Auslug – feat...