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Admin2010 Europe and XPages Bootcamp for Domino Developers: 2 great training opportunities for Lotus professionals

Celia Hamilton — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:22:43 -0400

THE VIEW has announced it's fall training calendar. Don't miss out on these opportunities to get the training in the essential Lotus technologies that matter most to you!

XPages Bootcamp for Domino Developers
November 3-5, New York
November 15 -17, Las Vegas
December 8-10, Copenhangen
This hands-on event is the most comprehensive training opportunity available for learning to develop XPages. Revolutionize your Notes and Domino applications and fast-track your development efforts with the training provided by our experts. You’ll discover best practices for extending existing applications as well as creating new applications that use the technologies that XPages provide. For more information, please visit http://www.xpagesbootcamp.com/ .

AdminEurope 2010
December 8-10, Cophenhagen
This one-of-a-kind event offers you expert-led training, peer networking, and collaborative problem solving. Choose your sessions based on the tracks you are interested in, or mix and match to take advantage of training from various aspects of Administration. Tap into years of experience for the techniques to get more from the tools you already have and tips on how to automate tasks to save you time and money. For more information, please visit http://www.admineurope2010.com/ .

2 companies that "keep on Truckin'" with Louts Software

Scott Treggiari — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500

We posted 2 new case studies yesterday.

Sogeti
Sogeti, a Capgemini subsidiary that specializes in technology services, needed to find a way for its more than 20,000 employees spread across 200 offices in 14 countries to share information to speed the formation of consulting teams for customer engagements, while also driving efficiency improvements.

For more detail and links to the complete case study, go here: http://tinyurl.com/5gse3o

Iowa 80 Group
A trucking support services company in the United States increases collaboration while reducing costs when it implements a suite of IBM Lotus software solutions throughout its enterprise

For more detail and links to the complete case study, go here: http://tinyurl.com/5gse3o

IamLUG 2010 is about to begin - Join IBM there Aug 2-3 2010

Chris Miller — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Please join IBM at IamLUG, the free North American Lotus User Group event. IamLUG is once again taking place in St Louis, MO, offering two days of free technical training, networking and events in a social atmosphere on August 2-3 2010.

Please share this with your team members and your customers.   All are invited to come. Administrators, developers, support specialists as well as any decision makers involved with the IBM Lotus family of products will benefit.

Expand your IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Sametime, Quickr, Connections, Portal and other Lotus software knowledge. Sessions will cover everything from tips and tricks to deep dive technical knowledge in specific areas. Find out how to get the most out of your IBM Lotus Domino investment while networking and having fun!

IamLUG is FREE courtesy of our awesome sponsors. IBM is a premium sponsor.

To register, see a list of sessions, speakers and frequently asked questions about travel arrangements simply visit the website at http://IamLUG.org

Last year filled quickly. Register now so you don't miss out!

Tell your users about this...

Scott Treggiari — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500

LotusUserGroup.org posted an article today about a tool that is not only a great idea for our members and others in the Lotus IT community, but also somehting you can pass on to your users.

The article is about a widget called Awesync that lets Notes users sync their Notes with Google calendars and contacts. It even extendable to mobile devices like Android and iPhone.

It's a cool little widget that was well thought out. Check out the whole story here:

IDC names Lotus "All that and a candy bar" of Social Software

Scott Treggiari — Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Today IBM announced that IDC ranks Lotus Connections and LotusLive Connections as the worldwide marketshare leader in the Social Platform market, based on total software revenue for 2009.

Lotus claims some big numbers and some heavy weight Connection clients. check it out... http://tinyurl.com/2uysc6t

READING, MODIFYING, AND SAVING IMAGES PROGRAMMATICALLY By Julian Robichaux

Scott Treggiari — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Read about how to manipulate image files (like JPG or PNG files) with your code. While there are a number of third-party DLLs and applications you might tap into for this purpose, you'll probably find that you can do most, if not all, of the things you want to do using Java right out of the box.

http://www.lotususergroup.org/submissions.nsf/ContentSpotlight/E0CC293698989BBC86257746007D631E/?OpenDocument

let us know if you find the article useful

Abstract Made Simple - By Thomas "Duffbert" Duff

Scott Treggiari — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500

For one of his articles in the most recent issue of Developer Tips newsletter, Tom explains @AbstractSimple, a restricted form of @Abstract that makes it a lot quicker..

http://tinyurl.com/2arsap6

JavaScript for Programmers

Scott Treggiari — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Odd title, since who else would javascript be for? But, this book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching the client side of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) development.

LotusUserGroup.org members save 40% on this and all books from InformIT.com, plus they’ll donate 5% back to support LotusUserGroup.org when you start your book shopping experience at our member discounts page. Get more info here: http://www.lotususergroup.org/submissions.nsf/ContentSpotlight/5BB8CBBBCAA7B09C862576FD0072D209/?OpenDocument

Warren Elsemore on Notes Scriptable Setups

Demo Trial — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Have you seen this? Warren Elsemore, of BlueWave Group scribed a little article on Notes Scriptable Setups.

Hmm. Will Carl Tyler be blue for this one?

Scott Treggiari — Mon, 7 Jun 2010 16:23:09 -0400

If you've been araound more than aweek, you probably know about Carl Tyler's Blueman at Lotusphere 2009. Well, on June 10, Carl will be presenting a webcast for LotusUserGroup.org's Virtual User Group meeting entitled "Two tin cans and a piece of string? Sametime can do better than that!" It's a webcast and we're not planing on using video casting, so we'll never know, but he could get away with pointing himself blue and no one would be the wiser.

In the Webcast, he plans on walking you through different Lotus Sametime integration options and showing demos of many of the features and capabilities that customers are using to make their employees lives easier. If you attend the free Webcast you'll find out how to make a phone call without having to know a person’s number, easily mute that someone in a conference call, and easily recall forgotten conference dial-in numbers. Step through a demonstration of Sametime connect client plug-ins that illustrate hardware and software integration, as well as demonstrations of server-based telephony integration with the Sametime connect client and Sametime meeting room. If you're confused when you hear Sametime, VoIP,TCSPI, SUT, and Lotus Foundations Reach in the same sentence, then this webcast is for you. Attend to answer those lingering questions, and get suggestions on how you can move your company forward in your usage of Unified Communications solutions.

Plus, you can win a Plantronics Plantronics Voyager PRO UC wireless Bluetooth headset. Everyone who registers is entered to win.

He could do the whole thing pointed blue, but my guess is he's just about fully grown his hair back and wants to keep it

But come watch the presentation anyway. June 10 at 12:00 pm Eastern. It's a free presenation, you just have to pre-register. Sign up now at http://www.LotusUserGroup.org/VUG