Ben PooleComplete RSS feed of last 8 weblog entries found at benpoole.comFeeling old(ish)- June 29, 2008 My eldest turned ten yesterday. My how time flies. I well recall the night he was born! But enough of this chatter with you whipper-snappers. I think Id better take my creaking bones and balding pate off to bed now After all, I need my rest.http://benpoole.com/weblog/200806291400 More on Salesforce.com the Notes killer- June 29, 2008 Since posting about that Salesforce.com story the other day, a little bit of discussion kicked-off on The Register site. In amongst the predictable UI stuff (although in fairness, the comments are less inflammatory than usual), theres a gem from Rob: we hear about some great new thing thats going to replace Notes. Its usually by people who dont really know what Lotus NotesDomino can really do. Ive been developing web applications using NotesDomino for about twelve years now. Id like to replace..http://benpoole.com/weblog/200806290230 IBM must be really cheesed-off with Apple- June 28, 2008 Just saw this on Eds site: 33 Well 8.5 will be coming shortly. I just heard internally it may be the last version to support the Mac platform.Ed If true… Crikey. Read more: Re Update on Notes 8.0.2 performance improvements. Update looks like this is joke by someone purporting to be Ed on his site.http://benpoole.com/weblog/200806280252 Do you want to get things done- June 27, 2008 My good friend, some-time employer and mentor, Eric Mack has got something good going on: eProductivity. Interested You should be. In just a few conference calls, Eric really switched me on to key elements of the Getting Things Done methodology, and theyve paid dividends. He has a most excellent project aimed at Lotus Notes users seeking to Get Things Done. If you fancy a piece of the action, I suggest you go to it!http://benpoole.com/weblog/200806271618 Dev. environment envy- June 26, 2008 Anyway, enough of that political crap. I studied politics for years, and after careful consideration have come to the conclusion that politicians are scum. The End. So now, now on to something more exciting and fruitful: I am suffering development environment envy… The 100% Mac is the development environment used by all the engineers (i.e. desktops and laptops). A new engineer that comes in gets a new MacPro with dual quad-core CPUs and 12GB of ram and a MacBook Pro. The down side of...http://benpoole.com/weblog/200806261320 Its official: the UK government is nuts- June 26, 2008 Not that there was really any doubt: Harriet Harman has defended plans to make it legal for firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minorities job candidates. Tinker, tinker, tinker. And so we are left with ridiculous policies and unworkable laws. I think the UK has bigger issues to resolve than perceived inequalities in the workplace. Read more: BBC news - Harman pushes discrimination plan.http://benpoole.com/weblog/200806260413 Salesforce.com has Notes in its sights- June 24, 2008 This is an interesting one. It would appear that salesforce.com are now gunning for Lotus Notes shops, and plan on offering migration tools. As with red bull, theres no actual detail as to how they propose to move content out of Notes apps into their own system, but we shall see… Salesforce.com chairman Marc Benioff, meanwhile, told The Register Notes is losing favor with CIOs after years of IBM pitching itself as a provider of e-services and not meeting expectations. According to...http://benpoole.com/weblog/200806240121 I wont give up the day job- June 20, 2008 So tight theyre scary… Via Chris Blatnick on twitter.http://benpoole.com/weblog/200806200042 |