On this episode we interview Mat Ellis
(@matellis),
CEO of Cloudability
and talk about how Cloudability can help companies manage their cloud spend.
We talk about:
- How Mat got started with Cloudability
- How much cloud spend they are currently
managing
- What types of things are moving to the
cloud
- What newbies to the cloud should look
out for
- How Cloudability helps manage cloud
spend
- The services that they offer and their
associated costs
- The future role of "The IT Department"
- and much more...
We
would like to thank Dr. Marky
Roden of the PSC
Group for standing in for
Julian on this show.
The show runs 25:51.
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Today we interviewed Lynda.com author Jess
Stratton. Jess has been a member of the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community
for over decade. She has spoken at Lotusphere and other industry events.
Jess now works for the online learning company Lynda.com
where she helps author video training for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office
and other products and technologies.
Rather than listing out all of the super cool things Jess talks about we
suggest that you just push play and start listening. Jess does recommend
that you "Like" the Lynda.com Facebook Fan Page where you can
find out about the latest tutorials and promotions.
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Today we spoke with Ed Brill (http://edbrill.com),
Director of Social Business and Collaboration Solutions at IBM, about his
new book. It's called Opting In: Lessons in Social Business from a Fortune
500 Product Manager, and it's available both on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Opting-In-Lessons-Business-Fortune/dp/0133258939)
and directly from IBM Press (http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/store/opting-in-lessons-in-social-business-from-a-fortune-9780133258936).
We discussed:
- Why did you write this book?
- Who is the audience?
- What is the message of the book?
- What has surprised you about the book?
- What's going on at IBM Connect related
to the book?
- And more...
If
you'd like to catch up with Ed (about the book or anything else), he has
posted a few places where you can definitely find him at IBM Connect next
week. (http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/where-to-find-me-or-my-book-at-ibm-connect-2013)
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Giulio Campobassi and Frank Maric of IBM
Business Partner Salient Solutions (@goMobilite)
talked to us about their Mobilite
product for mobilizing Notes
and Domino applications.
We talked about:
- Frank and Giulio's bacgkround using
Notes and Domino
- How and why they came up with the Mobilite
product
- Why IBM Domino is a great delivery mechanism
for mobile apps
- Installation, setup and configuration
of Mobilite
- What customers looking for in terms
of mobilizing their apps
- The business climate in Australia
- and much more...
The
show runs 26:48.
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Russ Maher of QDiligence
(@russelmaher)
and Paul Calhoun (@ptcalhoun)
of NetNotes
Solutions talk to us about
the evolution of IBM's XPages rapid application development platform. Russ
and Paul are also the instructors of The View's popular XPages
Bootcamp which is taking place
in Las Vegas and Chicago this Fall. We would like to thank The View and
their XPages Bootcamp for sponsoring this show.
We talk about:
- History of the XPages Bootcamp and how
they kept the course material in-line with the XPages point releases
- Upcoming changes in Domino 8.5.4 (Niklas
Heidloff's blog post)
- The new Java jar design element in 8.5.4
- Server-side JavaScript Debugger in 8.5.4
- What OSGi plugins are
- OSGi and the Extension Library and how
it has evolved
- How XPages in Domino 8.5.4 has evolved
since 8.5.0
- How OneUI has grown over the years
- Dojo and how it has evolved within the
context of XPages
- XPages in the Notes Client (XPINC) and
how it has evolved
- and much more..
The
show runs 44:50.
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Steven
Green, CEO of TemboSocial
(@TemboSocial),
tells us all about The
Hive. It's peer-to-peer social
recognition software that integrates with IBM Connections to help share
knowledge, stories, and corporate culture among employees. Topics we covered
included:
- The importance of awards, achievements,
and peer recognition
- How all this ties into corporate culture
and values
- 400,000+ stories on The Hive site for
TD
Bank since 2009
- How does this integrate with IBM
Connections?
- Is it difficult to get management and/or
employees to use something like this?
- The way that stories become company
assets
- Analytics and reporting
- The use of promotional banners to bring
employees back the site
As we
mentioned in the podcast, there is a video
demo on YouTube and plenty
more information on the TemboSocial
website. For more information,
Chris Miller also has a video
interview with Steven Green
you can check out.
This show runs 39:32.
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In this episode we talked about developing
applications for IBM's Connections social software platform. We were joined
by three very special guests:
Topics
covered during the show included:
- Overview of the options available to
developers (APIs, Widgets, Java)
- How widgets and apps are deployed within
Connections
- Integrating apps with the Connections
Profile
- Surfacing apps and widgets within Communities
- How IBM Connections Next will utilize
OpenSocial and ActivityStrea.ms
- How Kudos Badges was built and how it
integrates and is managed within Connections
- Why developers should use XPages to
extend Connections
- How you can work with iWidgets and XPages
- How to access the Connections REST API's
from XPages
- Where you can find and download sample
XPages apps
- What other extensibility features might
be important for XPages developers
- and much more...
Resources:
http://ibm.co/StartSocial
- Landing for all things ICS development related including Notes/Domino
"Next" and Connections "Next"
http://xpag.es/?ForConnections
http://openntf.org/p/xpages%20for%20connections
The show runs 41:53.
Show Rewind:
Be sure to listen
to our interview with IBM's Ed Brill and Trust Factory's Wueter Aukema
about the new partnership between their companies, news about Notes Social
Edition and Ed's forthcoming book.
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Todays show has been sponsored by Instant
Technologies (@teaminstant).
Be sure to check out their IMtegrity product for IBM Sametime.
On this episode of the podcast we were joined by IBM's
Ed Brill (@edbrill)
and Trust
Factory's Wouter
Aukema (@waukema)
and talked about:
- The new
partnership between IBM and Trust Factory
first announced on Ed's blog
- Trust Factory's DNA services offerings
- What the partnership means for IBM customers
- A special offer made by Ed
- Ed's
new book project
- What the book will and not be about
and when it will be available
- Who else will be contributing to the
book
- Notes Social Edition and what exactly
it is
- Some of the new enhancements made in
the Notes Social Edition
- When it will be available for customers
- How it can be deployed
- Integration with IBM Connections "Next"
- and much more
The
podcast runs 33:25.
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Todays show has been sponsored by Instant
Technologies (@teaminstant).
Be sure to check out their IMtegrity product for IBM Sametime.
Today we had Paul
Mooney Blog (@pmooneynet)
from Bluewave
Technology on the show to
talk about the "Ethical
Hacking Workshop" he
ran in London. We covered:
The
show runs 41:13.
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Learn about Teamstudio
Unplugged, a tool that helps
you mobilize (as in mobile smartphones) your Lotus Domino applications.
We spoke with Nigel Cheshire, president and CEO of Teamstudio, and Craig
Schumann, Teamstudio senior developer, about:
- The rise of Apple and iOS in the enterprise
- The rise of XPages in the Lotus developer
world
- Teamstudio's approach for adding a mobile
interface to Domino apps
- Replicating data to and from a device
for offline use
- Choosing a strategy for mobilizing your
apps, to make sure your project is successful
- And more...
This
episode runs 34:00.
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On Episode 143 of Taking Notes we interview
IBM's Mike Riegel (@mikeriegel,
LinkedIn,
Blog),
Vice President - ISVs, Startups, Developers, and Academic Programs. We
talked about IBM's
SmartCamp program and what
it's all about. Topics included:
- When people think about Big Blue, start
up companies isn't something that comes to mind. So when I heard about
your SmartCamp program and some of the other things you are doing around
the world for entrepreneurs I was a little surprised. Tell us what exactly
is IBM doing with StartUps and Entrepreneurs?
- Why are entrepreneurs and start ups
important to IBM?
- What is a SmartCamp?
- Is it working? How successful are previous
participants?
- Are you looking for companies that are
doing work in collaboration and social business?
- How does a startup company qualify for
SmartCamps?
- What should our listeners do if they
want to participate in 2012?
- I heard the World Finals is coming up.
What do you expect to see from the companies taking part?
- and much more...
The
show runs 25:25.
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On this show we talk with the CEO of Appcelerator
Jeff Haynie. You may have heard of Appcelerators' Titanium development
platform.
"Titanium makes cross-platform
native application development easy. A free and open source application
development platform, Titanium lets you create native mobile, tablet and
desktop application experiences using existing web skills like Javascript,
HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP."
We talk with Jeff about:
- Who is Jeff Haynie and how did Appcelerator
get started.
- How the Titanium product has evolved
over time.
- That time in history when Steve Jobs
said that developers could only use XCode to develop native apps for all
"iThings".
- How someone can get started with Titanium.
- What products and services Appcelerator
offers.
- Where you can download
Titanium.
- What the differences are between the
community and paid versions of Titanium.
- The upcoming "Code
Strong" Appcelerator Developer conference and "hackathon"
being held in San Francisco September 18-20..
- and much more...
The
podcast runs 29:43.
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For episode 135 Bruce sat down with Niklas
Heidloff from IBM/OpenNTF and Vanessa Hutchinson from We4IT
where we talked about the first ever development contest being hosted by
OpenNTF. This contest is being sponsored by We4IT and you can learn all
about the contest by first listening to this episode of Taking Notes and
then heading on over to the contest
announcement page over on OpenNTF.org.
Episode 135 runs about 24 minutes.
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Julian and Bruce sat down with Justin Hill
(CTO) and and Jon Schultz (President) of Prominic.
What we did we talk about? Well, all things "cloud" including:
- To the "cloud" - Prominic
has been in the cloud business a long time. Why is everybody looking at
the cloud to host their mail, apps and other servers?
- What are some of the things that people
need to consider when thinking about a move to cloud services?
- What are some best practices for Notes/Domino
in the cloud? Hybrid, managed replicas, etc.
- The types of apps, services people are
moving to Prominics cloud?
- Who shouldn't consider a 3rd
party hosting service
- Crystal Ball - predictions for the cloud.
- and much more...
This
episode was brought to you by the letter "C" and your local weather
station. The show runs 32:57. Enjoy.
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TeamStudio's Craig Schumann and Karen Frasca
talk about the Spotlight
Awards 2011 contest. Theo
Heselmans, the winner of the 2010
Spotlight Awards joins the podcast and shares his experiences with the
submission process and especially how easy it is to enter this exciting
contents.
These awards honor and reward the developers in the Lotus Notes/Domino
community for their remarkable applications. Take a listen and see
why you should enter and have a chance at winning some really great prizes.
Oh and this year there is a brand
new spanking category for Mobile Apps! The DEADLINE is fast approaching,
so be sure and get your contents submissions in. It's easy to enter!
Here are some blog entries Theo wrote about the awards:
http://blog.xceed.be/Blog.nsf/dx/spotlight-award-the-winning-app
http://blog.xceed.be/Blog.nsf/dx/spotlight-award-walking-on-clouds
The show is runs 20:22 minutes.
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Today Bruce and Julian interview Bob
Balaban from Looseleaf Software
and Andrew
Pollack from Northern Collaborative Technologies
about:
- Bob's "Drain
Google" project
- Andrew's Second
Signal product
- The history of the Lotusphere C.U.L.T.
shirt
- Why cloud computing is a lie
- Using Domino as a "swiss army knife"
app server
- Bob's role as a Lotusphere track manager
- and lots more...
The
episode runs 37:05. Oh and thanks for staying subscribed.
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This Episode of The Taking Notes podcast
is sponsored by the fine folks at XPages101.net
where you can use the promo code "TN119" to receive a 33% discount
on their XPages Video training series. Over 6+ hour of videos and
30+ lessons. Sign
up and start learning XPages now.
In this episode we interview Tungle's
CEO Marc
Gingras and talk about::
This
episode runs 36:44 and is 35.3mb.
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Bruce and Julian talk with Adam Brown,
Matt Newman and Andrew Welch from IBM Premier Business Partner ISW
about their new Wildfire application available from OpenNTF.
Check out the Wildfire
project on OpenNTF.
Watch
a video demo Wildfire and
Adam's blog.
We talked about:
- What Wildfire is and how it works
- What social networks Wildfire works
with
- How a developer new to Lotus Notes developed
the sidebar app in three weeks
- Their experience with the open source
OpenNTF.org community and how easy it was to get their project started
and publish
- How they benefit from contributing projects
on OpenNTF as a business partner
- John
Heads review of Wildfire
- Why they are excited about sidebar development
- Hear how Matt plays the roles of Mary
Beth Raven
- Info about ISW and what they do
The
show is 22.1 mb and runs 24:04 minutes.
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Craig Schumann and Mike Wetherebee at TeamStudio
talk about the Spotlight
Awards 2010 contest.
These awards honor and reward the developers in the Lotus Notes/Domino
community for their remarkable applications. Take a listen and see
why you should enter and have a chance at winning some really great prizes.
The show is 19.6mb and runs 20:22 minutes.
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Yaacov Cohen CEO of Mainsoft
returns (Episode
88) to the Taking Notes Podcast
to talk with Bruce about:
- Mainsoft's SharePoint Integrator for
Lotus Notes V2.0
- Moving documents between Notes 6.5,
7.x and 8.x Lotus Notes clients and SharePoint
- Seemless integration between Notes and
Sharepoint - no migrations necessary
- Support for DAOS
- Shared Calednars
- Microsoft Cloud Services
- and much more
This
episode is 16.9mb and runs 18:27 minutes.
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This evening, Julian Robichaux and Bruce
Elgort met up with productivity specialist, Eric Mack (Notes on Productivity),
and IBMer Chris Blatnick (Interface Matters)to discuss a variety
of topics, including:
This episode runs 49:51
and is 45.7mb (128kbs).
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Bruce, Julian, and guest interviewer Sean
Burgess talk to Caleb Barlow
from IBM about the Lotus
Foundations "Start"
server, including topics like:
- What is Lotus Foundations anyway?
- The target audience is small businesses
with 1 to 500 employees. Why would they want this?
- What is an "appliance" server?
What does it mean that the Foundations server is "self-healing"?
- What version of Lotus Domino is included?
What if I want to package up custom applications or upgrade the Domino
version?
- How do Lotus Business Partners fit into
this picture?
- Collaboration
University 2008
- How is Lotus Foundations marketed against
the legacy Microsoft Small Business Server?
- Will there be other versions besides
the current Foundations "Start" server?
- Sean Burgess' Lotus
Foundation blog
- Graham
Dodge's blog
This podcast
was brought to you by Elguji
Software, the makers of IdeaJam
and LinkJam
(social bookmarking for Lotus Notes/Domino). It is 22mb and runs 47:19
minutes at 64kbs.
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Bruce and Julian talk to Nathan
Freeman and Chris
Whisonant about the BleedYellow.com
site, discussing things like:
- What the heck is that logo anyway? Is
it Wolverine?
- Unleashing your "inner beast of
collaboration"
- How the site got started and how long
it took to put together and customize
- What can you do with the site now?
- What's coming next? (Sorry, you'll
have to listen to find that one out)
And
if you haven't visited the BleedYellow site yet, go take a peek -- registration
is free and there are plenty of things you can look at without having to
log in. If nothing else, it's a good look at what a Lotus Connections site
has to offer.
This podcast was brought to you by the letter "L". It is 13.8mb
and runs 30:07 minutes at 64kps.
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Bruce and Julian tracked down Paul
Mooney and Warren
Elsmore to discuss the recent
acquisition of BE Systems (Warren's company) by Blue Wave Technologies
(Paul's company) -- Warren also has a very good write-up on the whole thing
on
his website if you're looking
for even more answers.
In the podcast, we talk about not only
what the motivation was behind the merger (because they're both GROWING
their business, not because they're struggling), but also a little about
the state of the Domino consulting market in the UK (very positive).
We then go on to talk a bit about the
recent Admin/Developer 2007 View conference in Barcelona where Paul, Warren,
and Julian were among the cast of speakers, and also about upcoming Lotusphere
2008 where all of us (including Bruce) are doing sessions.
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Mac
Guidera, Senior IT Specialist
on the IBM consulting team, talks about the new (and soon to be released)
Lotus
Connections product, including:
- Tags and tagging
- Web 2.0-ish-ness
- The 5 "pillars" of Connections:
Profiles, Communities, Blogs, Dogear, and Activities
- Activities tie-ins to Lotus Notes 8
According
to the
Connections datasheet on the IBM site,
Connections will be available for GA electronic download on June 29th (same
day as Quickr,
and some Apple
thing), so hurry up and learn
about it.
If you want more information, listen to the Lotus
Collaboration Summit Online
teleconference (probably in replay as you read this), check out the Lotus
Greenhouse, or watch a Flash
demo. It's all good.
This podcast also features another new "Interface
Matters" segment with
Chris Blatnick. The whole kit and kaboodle is 27.6mb and runs 1:00:19 at
64kps.
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Julian and Bruce talk to a cast of [almost]
thousands about using JavaScript frameworks in Lotus Domino, and specifically
about the OpenNTF Domino
YUI project (see
it in action) and the new
project that has grown out of that: ExtND.
We spoke with Matt
White, Jack
Ratcliff, Rich
Waters, Jerry
Carter, and Eli Harris about:
- The kinds of JavaScript frameworks you
can incorporate into Domino (prototype,
Dojo,
ext,
etc.)
- Why create a custom framework for Domino?
- The new ExtND
project -- what it does, and what it's built on
Jake
Howlett and Nathan
Freeman have also had a lot
of impact on this project, and were mentioned in the discussion.
In addition, Bruce and Julian had a few news announcements about
Episode
59 was sponsored by Ytria,
makers of Lotus Notes tools for development and administration. You have
until April 30th to take a free
test drive of their new tools:
AclEZ and AgentEZ.
The podcast is 19.3mb and runs 42:16 at 64kps.
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Special guest Rob
McDonagh acts as our "man
on the street" to give us some of his reactions on the new Notes
8 Beta client, and Bruce and
Julian talk about all sorts of other stuff. Show highlights include:
The podcast is 17.3mb
and runs 37:55 minutes at 64kps
Technorati tag: notes8beta
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Rob
Novak gives us the scoop on
the new (and soon to be available) Lotus Quickr product, including:
- What happened to Quickplace? ("quick"
answer: Quickr >= Quickplace 8)
- What can you do with Quickr? How do
you customize it?
- What's the difference between running
Quickr on Domino NSF versus J2EE?
- What about the document management part
of the product (including connectors to Microsoft Office, Windows Explorer,
and Sametime)?
- What's the difference between the free
(via Passport entitlement) "Personal" version and the "Standard"
version?
And so much more. Also,
don't forget to check out Rob's Quickr
FAQ, the Quickr
product page, and Stuart McIntyre's
Quickr
blog.
Episode 54 was sponsored by Integra
for Notes, solutions for Lotus
Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.
The podcast is 22mb and runs 47:50 minutes at 64kps.
Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Quickr Taking Notes
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You have heard of Ytria
(pronounced Y-tree-ah) right? They are the guys who make development
tools for Lotus Notes and Domino that make things "EZ" with their
products scanEZ, viewEZ, actionBarEZ,
designPropEZ and signEZ.
We interviewed Eric Houvenaghel the CEO of Ytria and talked about:
- their line of EZ Notes and Domino development
tools
- several Notes and Domino development
"urban myths"
- how to get started using their tools
without having to pay a dime
- how consultants can rent their applications
for short time engagements
- how much their
products cost
- Ytria's plans for Lotusphere 2007 including
a discussion about their swag that they will be giving away at pedestal
237 in the Product Showcase
Episode
43 was sponsored by Integra
for Notes, solutions for Lotus
Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.
The podcast is 19.6mb and runs 42:38 minutes at 64kps.
Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Ytria Lotusphere2007
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In this episode of the podcast, John de
Giorgio told us all about how the Integra
for Notes products can generate
nicely formatted reports directly from Lotus Notes. Some of the topics
we touched on were:
- Analyzing and reporting on Lotus Notes
data using Microsoft Word and Excel
- The problems with rolling out a custom
reporting/export solution in all of your databases
- How does this product work? Do you need
DLLs? Is it a reporting engine? Do you have to modify your databases or
write code?
- Setting up report profiles, so users
can just run a pre-configured report and have it delivered to them
- Running ad-hoc reports on the local
client, including merging Notes data with other relational databases
- Running scheduled reports on the server
- Generating PDF reports
- How
much does it cost?
Also,
don't forget to stop by pedestal 610 at Lotusphere to talk to John and
the other Integra4Notes folks in person.
Episode 45 was sponsored by Integra
for Notes, solutions for Lotus
Notes integration and reporting to Microsoft Word and Excel.
The podcast is 15.6mb and runs 33:54 minutes at 64kps.
Technorati: Lotus Notes Domino Integra4Notes Lotusphere2007
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Bruce had a chance to speak with Paula Cervoni, VP of Services at Relavis
where they talked about the Lotus Award that Relavis recently received
for "Best
Contextual Collaboration Solution"
and Relavis's plans for Lotusphere 2007.
Congratulations to Paula and the team over at Relavis.
The podcast is 2.4mb and runs 4:47 at 64kps
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Bruce spent a few minutes talking with Laurie Desautels, Chief Solutions
Architect at Kryos
Systems where they talked
about the Lotus Award that Kryos recently received for "Best
Portal Solution" and
Kryos' plans for Lotusphere 2007. There is also some great information
about their winning "Special
Wheat - The Saskatchewan Wheat
Pool Story" portal solution over on the Kryos site including video
clips and slideshow.
Congratulations to Laurie and the Kryos team!
The podcast is 3.4mb and runs 6:49 at 64kps
Lotusphere2007
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You've heard of Teamstudio,
right? The guys who make those tools that allow you to do Lotus Notes source
code control, and check-in/check-out, and design search and replace, and
other wild things like that?
Well we got to talk to Ian Smith and Craig Schumann today and they gave
us the inside scoop on the company. Ian is the President of Teamstudio
as well as a competitive 800M runner. Craig is the Chief Architect and
the owner of a dressed up Arizona Tea bottle named "Jar Man".
Here are some of the things we discussed:
- History of the company (where did all
these tools come from?)
- Some of the more popular tools like
CIAO!, Analyzer, Configurator, and Snapper
- How the Teamstudio tools use advanced
flux
capacitor technology to help
you revert to old versions of database designs
- The Teamstudio consulting arm, and how
they help with compliance issues
- Craig's often
neglected blog
- The ultra-cool (and free) Script
Browser tool for Domino Designer,
Julian's
blog post that helped prompt
Craig to write it (not entirely, but it's fun to say that), and what it
took for a company that sells Notes tools to just up and give one away
like that
Other segments in the
show include:
Good
information, and another fun interview. Thanks guys!
The podcast is 31.4mb and runs 1:05:00 at 64kps.
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