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tl;dr Chromium support for Notes (Eclipse) Client would affect backwards compatibility in some edge cases but could bring a host of benefits As I read another article about the recent IBM announcement (which was for the benefit of existing ICS customers rather than press and analysts), one word struck me as it has on a […]

A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend Social Connections 12 in beautiful Vienna. It was the third time I have attended the conference – Social Connections 3 in Dublin as an attendee, Social Connections 9 in Stuttgart as a speaker and now Social Connections 12 as a speaker. Over the years […]

Most times you take a week off work and nothing happens except a load of emails. Then there’s a week like last week: probably the most significant news for the platform since the extensibility API. For anyone who’s not glanced at Planet Lotus lately or picked up on the news. IBM have announced a strategic […]

On Friday I picked up a message on Watson Workspace from lifetime IBM Champion Theo Heselmans asking for someone to confirm an issue with private views. One of the strengths of the IBM Champion community is that everyone is willing to take personal time to help and Theo was the first to accept an abstract […]

Using Today IBM announced the launch of Watson Workspace Essentials, an enterprise-targeted offering of Watson Workspace. Watson Workspace itself has been in preview since World of Watson last October, during which time it has matured and had quite a bit of development. The product is still available free of charge, but this offering is specifically […]

Over the last few months I’ve been involved with an application that has needed quite considerable optimisation and architectural modification. A few weeks ago I published a blog post about aspects of developing for performance and then followed up with a discussion about performance and Domino. In this blog I’m going to go into more […]

This week two new releases of ODA came out on OpenNTF and also published to OpenNTF’s artifactory repository, for those wanting to use ODA via Maven. They covered a host of new developments and some minor fixes from over the last few months since Domino FP8 was released. On ODA, it’s worth pointing out there […]

There are signs you can tell summer is over. For us in the northern hemisphere, the weather starts feeling chillier (although it’s been very changeable in UK most of the “summer”). And things start ramping up as people get back from holidays and Q3 comes to an end. We’ve already seen Domino FP9 or Zircon […]

Over the last month or so, I’ve been working on an application that pushes performance quite a bit. Last week I published a blog post about aspects of developing for performance. I’ll be writing a future blog post (maybe more than one) on the approaches I’ve taken for performance. But in this blog post I […]