Beefing up your JavaScript skills

I've been spending some idle cycles supplementing my JavaScript knowledge. I ran across a link to the YUI Theater on the Yahoo! Developer Network. The lectures by Douglas Crockford are excellent.

Notes Developer Opening in Milwaukee

A recruiter friend pinged me about a full-time Notes developer opening in Milwaukee: 3 years Notes experience; pays $65K - $95K; no travel.

Let me know if you're interested and I'll put you in touch.

Minneapolis/St.Paul Lotus Get Together

I only received a handful of responses to my previous post about a Lotus get together, so I thought I'd give it another go. Anyone interested in getting together after work and networking with other Lotus professionals in an informal setting?

Send me your thoughts on suitable days and venues. Also, please pass this along to anyone you know who doesn't follow PlanetLotus.org and wouldn't see it.

LotusBeer - Twin Cities

Any Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro area Lotusphiles interested in getting together for a beverage and some Lotus conversation? Leave suggestions here as to dates/times and locations.

Web Development in Eclipse

For the better part of the last two years I've been doing alot of Notes client development and alot of back-end Notes server work, so its been quite a few months since I have put in a concentrated effort on web development. Thankfully with my most recent project, I've found that my skills didn't get too rusty. Its great to have a chance to exercise that DHTML part of my brain. Another exciting aspect is the opportunity to incorporate a little AJAX and a little YUI into the project.

For every project I try to find a new tool to help get the work done. On this project I'm using Eclipse with the Aptana Studio plug-in. This is a very nice tool to get everything organized and functioning properly. Of course, it does not conveniently integrate with the Notes 7 Designer. I'm not complaining too much, however. I really appreciate the visual cues it provides and the code assist with all the CSS properties and JS object properties and methods. Its a good preview of what things will be like for Domino development in 8.5 and beyond.

Lotus Notes is coming to the iPhone

I think some in the Apple community aren't up to speed with what has been happening in the Notes world lately. Their impressions of Notes are stuck somewhere back at R4.

Even if Lotus is up to something (i.e. a native iPhone app. to access Notes Mail/Calendar) I'm not sure they'd release it on the Apple App Store. More likely on the Passport site, unless iPhone users find loading apps from the App Store preferable to traditional methods.

UPDATE: Not owning an iPhone myself, I have been informed that currently the Apple iTunes App Store is the only method to procure software. At the moment, I find it difficult to picture corporate IT departments deploying applications from this consumer-oriented channel when they are used to getting their Lotus downloads from Passport. I imagine this will be something that slows the adoption of the iPhone in corporations. On the other hand, sales of handy iPhone apps built by ISVs to access Notes databases through the App Store probably wouldn't appear too unusual.

Lotus Notes is coming to the iPhone

via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Christina Warren on 8/8/08

Filed under: Enterprise, iPhone

Good news for IBM Lotus users, Big Blue will bring an iPhone-compatible version of its Lotus Domino Web Access suite to the App Store later this year. The software, dubbed "Lotus iNotes," will allow businesses that utilize Lotus Domino Server to provide their users access to contacts, e-mail and calendars.

No firm release date has been set, though screenshots (which are not final and subject to change) and tentative information is available at IBM's Lotus Domino Web Access site.

Lotus iNotes is just one of the new mobile strategies IBM will be deploying in the coming months, as it looks to stave off competition from Microsoft.

And while Lotus might not be the sexiest collaboration software around, it is used by millions upon millions of people worldwide. IBM's support of the iPhone could really propel corporations to adopt, or at least consider supporting, the iPhone in IT environments.

Notes 8 Day! (8-8-08)

In honor of Notes 8 Day, I have downloaded and will be installing the Notes 8.5 beta. I have two objectives:

1. Check out XPages
2. Dig into iNotes light for the purposes of a super secret iPhone project

Now, I just have to locate something yellow to wear for Monday...