February ATLUG - Live blog on Domino support by Michael Lee of the IBM SWAT team

Today's Atlanta Lotus Users Group meeting will feature Michael Lee of IBM, who is a principal member of IBM's Domino SWAT team.  The live blog will start here around 11:30 am, EST.

Topic:
Developers, you know how valuable it is to understand complex administrative issues so don’t feel left out! There
will be value for everyone in Michael’s presentation. Michael's Domino SWAT team routinely deals with the
most complex support issues related to Notes and Domino. Michael will share some of the most challenging
problems his team has faced and how they solved them and will share his insight and experience as a SWAT team
member. There will be lots of time for Q&A!

August ATLUG Meeting: Steve Heil on LotusLive and Bob Balaban on Debugging Java Agents

A little slow on set up, but here is live coverage of the August Atlanta Lotus Notes Users Group meeting.



Update: Bob has posted updated materials from the meeting:  Slides and demo code from ATLUG presentation: "Debugging Java Agents for Humans"

Lotusphere Comes to Florida!

OK, so Lotusphere was already in Florida for the big show back in January, but that's ancient history. If you missed out on the fun or just want to learn how to achieve better business results with Lotus solutions, now is your chance.

Next week, there are two separate Lotusphere Comes to You events happening in Florida!

• Hear about the latest technologies that are shaping business today, and how you can leverage these assets in your environment to remain agile and competitive in the market place without ripping and replacing your existing investments!
• See first hand how our solutions seamlessly integrate not only with each other, but with our competitors solutions as well in our Collaboration without Boundaries live demonstration!
• Discover how to leverage the power of Unified Communications & Collaboration across your enterprise to improve employee efficiency and drive down costs!
• Learn how Collaboration in the Cloud can compliment your existing infrastructure to deliver collaboration capabilities that fit the needs of your users at a price that fits your budget!

The events are free to attend, but we do ask that you register so we can ensure we have enough space and food.

June 8th:  Jacksonville  (click here to register)
June 9th:  Miami (click here to register)
June 10th: Boca Raton (click here to register) Update: The Boca event has merged with Miami.

Don't miss out. Your next chance at Lotusphere in Florida is not until next January!

Live Blog of May ATLUG Meeting: Bruce Elgort on XPages and Richard Sharpe on Teamstudio Unplugged

Contingent on getting connected at IBM's Atlanta TEC Center today, I will be live blogging the Atlanta Lotus User Group meeting featuring Bruce Elgort and Richard Sharpe.

Tune in here at 11:30 am Eastern!

The agenda is:

Bruce Elgort, president and CEO of Elguji Software, noted speaker, and co-producer of the Taking Notes
Podcasts will be doing a technical presentation on programming with XPages!

Also, Richard Sharpe of Teamstudio® will present
Teamstudio® UnpluggedTM - Mobilize your Lotus® Notes® applications
• Extend the power and reach of your Notes® applications
• Store data locally on your BlackBerry® with a lightweight Notes client
• Work remotely, with or without Internet connectivity
• Mobilize your existing applications fast, using drag-and-drop XPage technology

Ports used by Lotus Sametime 8.5 servers

With the addition of the Sametime System Console, Meeting, Media, and Proxy servers in Sametime 8.5, the configuration has gotten a little more complex.  If you have these servers running in different parts of your network, you may need to configure firewall ports to allow proper communications between the components.

Details on the port configuration is in the Sametime InfoCenter, but searches will usually lead you to a document that is specific to the Community server and does not address the new components.

The topic you want is in the Planning section: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/sametime/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.sametime.v85.doc/plan/plan_ports.html

Live Blog content fixed and a tip on CoverItLive

I did my first live blog yesterday covering Luis Benitez and David Rosenfeld's session on Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal integration at the Portal Excellence Conference.

My experience with CoverItLive was very good, with one issue:  During the session Luis talked about using an iFrame tag to embed Lotus Connections.  When I typed the tag, including the HTML brackets < >, CoverItLive did not encode the tag as text, sending it back as a real HTML tag.  This had the effect of starting, but not ending an iFrame in the middle of my session notes, and cutting off all notes after that point.  The iFrame tag also broke the edit capabilities in CoverItLive, so I was not able to correct the issue my self.

I emailed the support people at CoverItLive and they were able to resolve my issue quickly.

Here's the tip: When live blogging with CoverItLive, be very careful of typing in text that would resolve as HTML.

Side note for Blogger users: I just found out Blogger has the same issue in their rich text editor. :-)

Live Blog: Luis Benitez on Integrating Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal

I am at the Portal Excellence Conference this week and will be live blogging Luis Benitez and David Rosenfeld's session on Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal integration.