Recorded on 7th January 2013. We meet with Mat Newman, Per Lausten and Bill Malchisky to discuss Connect 2013 sessions, announcements, tips, social events and hidden treasures, the recent openNTF contest, the Notes/Domino 9 beta and new features in Kudos Badges.  All that and more on This week in Lotus!

One little note - despite everyone's best efforts, Bill's audio was a little 'murky'.  We've done our best but can't clean it up as much as we'd like, so please bear with us during the show - hopefully it doesn't spoil your listening pleasure too much.





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Hosts:  Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests: Per Henrik Lausten (blog | twitter | company) is an independent consultant with his own one-man company in Denmark. He is working with XPages, Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino development and administration based on experience with Lotus Notes/Domino since 1997. He is chairman of the board at NotesNet.dk, member of the board at DanNotes and member of the board at OpenNTF.  He is a 2013 IBM Champion for IBM Collaboration Solutions. Mat Newman (blog | twitter | company) is the Director of Education for ISW, an IBM Premier business partner in Australia, who are IBM ICS and IBM Websphere ANZ Business partner of the year award winners.  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.   Bill Malchisky (blog | twitter | company) is an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions 2013, bringing 20 years of global Lotus consulting experience in regulated verticals along with business prowess to his sessions. He has presented at over 20 ICS/Lotus focused conferences, including Lotusphere. Previously, Bill has been published in THE VIEW journal, CLiPpings, co-authored two IBM Redbooks on Linux, plus worked with Lotus Education to re-vamp the Domino 8.5 Admin certification exam track. A thirteen year loyal business and design partner, he provides services to Fortune 1000 firms, SMB, and governments. Finally, he maintains a Lotus and Linux focused blog as well.


Topics:

IBM Champions for 2013

• Congrats to all of our guests on their awards - much deserved

Connect 2013

• Just 20 days to go...
• Who’s got sessions?
• Sounds as though the Lotusphere section of the agenda is much the same as previously?
• Best practices, Show and Tell etc are all there and all look strong?
• Any sessions you’re really looking forward to?
• Meet the Speakers

Announcements and trends.  What do we think we’ll hear about? What social events do we know are taking place? Tips for first timers at the event Read Andy Donaldson’s *essential* guide to (ah-hem) IBM Connect Hidden TreasuresWhat else?

• OpenNTF contest
• 4th XPages dev contest ended Dec 2. Winners: http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/BELT-92XKEB

Kudos Badges now supports mobile Connections app
Tips:
Darren:
KeePass - an open source and hence free password database and creator. Works with Windows, Mac, iOS, etc and can be synced with DropBox or HTTP(S) (the password DB is highly encrypted, you’re safe)
Per:
1. IBM Domino Designer 9 beta: Lots of improvements for developers
2. Try Intrapages, created by Thomas Adrian - available on OpenNTF (demo at intrapages.com). Winners of the 4th OpenNTF contest
Mat:
Keep your eye out on PlanetLotus / matnewman.com for the Unofficial, totally unsupported and non-affiliated ConnectOsphere session database.
Bill:
1. Connect 2013 - Rather than spend lots of time at the Dolphin fountain waiting for your party on Wednesday evening, either meet at your hotel and grab the bus there, or just meet your party in-front of the gate to save time getting to the park
2. Notes - Alternate way to create folders on-the-fly using the Windows folder construct. Example from ->Send and File -> Create New Folder -> type the tree on the fly. e.g. Accounts\TWiL will create automatically the TWiL folder object under your Accounts branch. Saves a lot of time with long folder lists. Note of caution: if the “Accounts” branch does not exist, you can expand it within your mail file, but you can’t place a message there until you explicitly create it. I found this to be a nice time-saver that I’ve used for many years and hope you enjoy it.
Links:
Soccer Saturday
GoSIM Card (mobile calls and data for international attendees)
LinuxFest IV - Thursday during lunch; bring your box lunch, then go straight to Ask the Developers
Stuart:
Book your Mears shuttle before travelling to Connect, else arrange shared cab.