Ideajam - Standard set of Web Services

John Turnbow June 3 2009 07:20:04 PM

I see an opportunity for a standard set of Web Services that could come with the Domino server to ease integration with other systems like Oracle, SAP,  Xi, and MS.  Here is a link if you think so as well to vote on it.

http://www.ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/0/97E83BEFD3A1170F862575CB0000B385?OpenDocument

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Remember our troops this Memorial day

John Turnbow May 25 2009 07:40:37 AM

After the hot dogs, hamburgers, steaks, and other great food.  Remember to give thanks to why you are able to indulge.  The day off is in remembrance of those who have served and fallen.

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Add a Tag Clould to your application

John Turnbow May 3 2009 07:20:11 PM

I had to add a tag cloud to an application very quickly.  I came across Ferdi Christant's post and was able to implement it very quickly although unfinished.  The only thing missing were the links when you select one of the tags.  First I modified the code to fit my application.  What I did to complete it was to add a view to search and then added a $$SearchTemplateDefault (could have specified the view - up to you).  Then, in the JSHeader I replaced the "your URL here" to  TagSearch?SearchView&Query='+ tag +'.  That was all that was needed to finish it off.

Thanks Ferdi!

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Bill Gates - Lotus Development Consultant?

John Turnbow May 2 2009 05:47:11 PM

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/homepage/web/search?use=profiles&use=communities&component=profiles&components=profiles,communities&query=lotus notes&page=2

I think we need some monitoring here...

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Qik.com - Instant Video - John Culberson

John Turnbow April 23 2009 08:42:55 PM

John Culberson congressman from Texas uses instant video to keep us all involved.  

Very cool - http://qik.com/video/1530572

http://qik.com/video/1467434?page=2  - Tea party

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Xpages issues with IE8

John Turnbow April 19 2009 08:41:06 PM

Just a quick note.  Xpages @db.. commands and other lookiup/link commands do not work with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.  Firefox, works great... Earlier versions of IE work OK as well.

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Women’s Self Defense - May 5th

John Turnbow April 15 2009 07:06:56 PM

I'll be teaching Self Defense at the local YMCA near Tomball, Tx.  In the area we've had increased violence, rapes, and a killing.  Women can fight back effectively and get to a safe place.  Teaching the class will be Karl Baltz 30 years in martial arts and myself also 25+ years martial arts, multiple styles.   We've been teaching this class for the past 8 years and we've made the class better every year through our own knowledge and learning from others.

The class starts May 5th, and goes for four weeks every Tuesday and Thursday

A short list of what you will learn:

How to know and scan your environment
Identify risks
Where to park
Going to your car
Going to your house
Getting HELP - Fire is there...
If you have done everything and can't avoid a confrontation?
Where and how to hit (never your fist)  
Fighting back practice
How to dismount someone off you

http://www.navasota-unified.com/unified/Unifiedtaekwondo.nsf/928b8169294b5e0e86256f530071f48e/b2eec1d23b25b28f86256f53007a9764!OpenDocument

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Innovation - Just a thought... pushing a noodle

John Turnbow April 11 2009 09:12:33 AM

Innovation brings change, new learning, new ways of doing work, new applications for old ideas, brings in new people and excitement to do more with these new exciting Web 2.0 tools. It becomes WORK that dreaded four letter word when you have to force someone to do something.  With these new web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, Quickr (a better Sharepoint), Connections are all very cool, management is afraid of these new tools and working to know how to "control" them (as one mgr put it to me), control?  It's not about control, it's about usage in a positive manner to support the company and help the company do more with less.  All of these tools do this.  It's up to us to educate our management.  Lance Spellman had a good analogy, remember when you could not make a phone call outside your office?, use a browser, use a browser outside your firewall? (Yes, I'm showing my age).  Studies have shown with each of these new tools the employee became more productive and effective.  I believe it is more about tracking rather than control, these new tools allow more people to participate in all areas of the corporation in a beneficial manner than ever before.

So, what about change, people are afraid of change.  With these new tools, management is no longer top down, but across areas. This means that doing more is possible and management can still monitor and give more responsibility to others and give guidance and help people give more in the work process.  Everyone likes to give of themselves, I know I do.

At work they just started blocking twitter.  I'm one of the few that blogs, does wiki's, twitters, writes 2.0 type applications.  So, I know, it's someone that has not been enlightened, and it's back to the phone thought, they just don't understand how this other new thing could be helpful in my job. So, it's an education process, like moving a wet noodle across a table pushing from the end... LOL.

If you are happy with the status quo for your company, then don't change. Don't worry, your competitor will change and your competitor will innovate, learn, do more with less and pass you by. I am never happy with the status quo, something I learned at Mobil working with some very talented people (thanks Bill Thornton and Bob Holub) always applying new ideas and working to do more with new software, hard work, and always learning.  

So, as someone asked me earlier, you have these new tools, what do you do about abuse?  It goes back to tracking and managing, if there is abuse, you have HR handle and guide the person in the right way.  You treat the abuser like a child, put them in a corner and take away his tools.  You should have HR policies in place and teach everyone the rules for these tools both inside and outside the firewall.

So where am I going?  In all of this with Lotus/IBM applications we in IT need to be the Coaches, the Charismatic, the Gifted so we can help people choose to bring forth mastery, look at circumstances and create possibilities. Don't be fixed, be open and show the way.

Here are some links on innovation and change:
http://www.bizmanualz.com/information/2007/04/30/innovation-and-change.html
http://www.innovation.cc/discussion-papers/selman.pdf
http://www.paracomm.com/articles/innovation.html

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IBM & Sun

John Turnbow April 6 2009 05:49:41 AM

Looks like there will be no buyout ==> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090406/ts_nm/us_sunmicro_shares

The big loser it seems is SUN.

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Corporate Networking, Sales, and Collaboration

John Turnbow February 15 2009 12:22:01 PM

A new frontier? What do I mean.  The affect of Web 2.0 social tools are having a profound effect on networking relationships, sales, and collaboration with our partners. Underestimate the possibilities, don't,  see the last election?  It was masterful how the democratic party and President Obama used the Web 2.0 tools and made everyone feel as if they were partners in the election, as if there was a personal connection. Corporations  need to master the same in this new era of shrinking corporate budgets, to get more done with less and still maintain those all important relationships and collaborate with our partners. These tools are for large and small companies and make a small company appear and work as effectively as a large corporation.

These new social tools in a corporation move the traditional firewall outside in  a place that can only be controlled through guidelines and corporate policies. Corporate HR and management need to develop new monitoring tools to see that employees, partners, and competitors are all working in a way that is positive for all of us. These new tools bring new possibilities and problems as well. When an employee posts something on the internet, it is now on the internet forever, for everyone to see, which is why guidelines, monitoring and training are so important.

I believe the corporate Information Technology group needs to be the group that promotes and helps our internal and external customers with these new tools in a positive manner so our companies are highly successful and flourish without exposing sensitive information to the internet.

This means the development of the following:

• Monitoring Tools – to scan the internet
• Policies and Procedures
• Development of an intake process for approved “external” applications – the best and most trusted in the industry
• Development of “outside firewall” applications that integrate internally but primarily used externally by partners and customers
• Integration into corporate applications where possible

A new specialist appears in this frontier, one that helps to create and manage these new tool relationships internally and externally, assists to create these new policies, training users and make us all successful in this new world with these tools.  

What do you think IT's role should be?

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