Domino Unplugged

Mobile Sessions at ADMIN/LotusDeveloper 2010

 


The ADMIN/LotusDeveloper 2010 conference is officially underway here in Boston - today is jumpstart day and I'm presenting a session this afternoon on Best Practices for Web Development. Should be fun. I don't want to give away the entire presentation, but Best Practice #1 is "Stay Away from Design Elements that Don't Work on the Web."

Simple, eh? That's it - I'm exhausted.

But, oh yes, mobile.

There are four sessions (and one "Birds of a Feather" session) this year that are specifically aimed at the "Doing Domino on Mobile Devices" topic, each with its own twist. I wanted to list them - and will try to post links to associated resources, etc., for each of them as I can.

First off, tomorrow morning, is mine:
Going Mobile - Web Development to Mobile Browsers - Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 10:00 am

Find out the tips and tricks you need to deliver world-class apps to an increasingly mobile community. Find out how to tweak your Domino databases to work correctly on a mobile device’s micro-browser and learn to steer clear of design elements that will give you heartburn.

Then, from my colleagues:

What to do when your browser apps just don’t cut it anymore — How to build Rich mobile apps for the BlackBerry and Android  - John Wargo - Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 4:15 PM

Sometimes mobile users need more than a browser version of a Domino application to access data when they’re out of network coverage or when data must be easily manipulated on-device. Get the information you need to help decide if you should use a browser version or a Rich client version of a Domino application.

Creating mobile device apps for Lotus Notes and Domino applications  - Chris Toohey - Friday, May 14, 2010 - 8:30 AM

Find out how to create mobile device apps for RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and various other mobile platforms that interact with Notes Domino applications.

Current trends in mobile application development  - John Wargo - Friday, May 14, 2010 - 10:15 AM

Get the information you need to help decide if you should use a browser version or a Rich client version of a Domino application. Get a feel for the power of Domino Web Services for mobile devices to deliver data to mobile applications. Step through a demo of how to build Windows Mobile and Blackberry Java applications that consume data from a Domino Web service. See how to build an Android Java application that consumes data from a RESTful Domino Web service.


And, last but not least, John Wargo and I will be moderating a BOF session:
Know your options for mobile application development - Thursday - 1:00 - 1:45 PM


Hope to see you at several of these sessions!

One final note - all the details about these two concurrent conferences can be found at ADMIN2010 or LotusDeveloper 2010.

In Boston for ADMIN/LotusDeveloper 2010

Welcome to Beantown, campers!

Delighted to be among those attending (and, in my case, presenting at) The VIEW's ADMIN/LotusDeveloper conference.

Resources for my sessions will be posted HERE - but I'll also try to give you a running play-by-play ...

- Rob

Delivering Domino - mobile session at Lotusphere

Today, John Wargo and I presented the "command performance" edition of our "Domino Mobile" session, but it was also a franticly busy day for your humble narrator, and I don't have the demo database ready to post. The presentation John and I gave is posted below, and please check back for the sample database ...

Meanwhile, I do want to thank the many folks who said kind things about the session that John and I did (or, on Monday, the session I did with Stuart McIntyre). Truth is, we were having as much fun as we appeared to be having ... despite the fact that John was still recovering from pneumonia or bronchitis or something likewise terrible ...

Great time this evening at Disney Hollywood Studios ... kudos to the folks who put all that together ...

BP212 Final.pdf

BP212 Final - r1.pdf

The version marked "r1" is single pages, but both versions seem to  be "sideways" and I'm not sure how to fix that. When they launch in Acrobat, simply choose View > Rotate View.  Sorry about that ...

12 Things Your Mother Never Told You About Installing Lotus Connections

Had the privilege of presenting today with the infamous Stuart McIntyre ...

Seemed like things went well (well, no one threw anything, anyway).

For those people there, I wanted to post the revised slidedeck, as well as a copy of the "cheat sheet" that we discussed.

So, both are attached here - and more comments later!


BP122 Presentation
Cheat Sheet

Never call, never write ...

There's an old joke that ends with the punchline, "but now he never calls, never writes."

I'll spare the details, but I figured that now that Lotusphere is upon us, I better dust off the ol' Unplugged Blog and get busy, if for no other reason than because someone may come looking here sometime soon.

So, perhaps I saw you at the party at the lagoon this evening, or will see you tomorrow morning at the Opening General Session - but either way, delighted to be down in Orlando, and hope to see you at one of the couple of sessions I'm involved in ... on Monday afternoon at 1:00 on Lotus Connections!

See you there ...

New iPhone v. Palm Pre

I'll skip the apologies for the gap between posts ... because this topic is more fun!

Unless you've been living in a cave (and, if you have been, you're probably not reading this in a timely manner either, eh?), you can't have missed all the hoopla about the forthcoming Apple iPhone 3Gs.

So, of particular interest was this post from the Retrevo blog: Eight Differences Between the Apple iPhone and the PalmPre.

Of additional interest was another of their posts: Seven Important Things Neither the Apple iPhone Nor the Palm Pre Can Do.

Yeah, like Flash is that important!

iNotes time zone issue

Okay, stop me if you've heard this one ...

Actually, I see there's a lot of chatter about this problem, so you probably HAVE heard this one, but hadn't seen it myself until this week.

Received a meeting invitation for 1:30 PM EDT this Thursday and accepted it. I went to check my calendar through iNotes on my iPhone, and it showed up at 10:30 AM on Thursday, not 1:30 PM.

Turns out that, for whatever reason, the iNotes UltraLite version is reading directly from the server's time clock, where as the other clients (Notes itself, plus the iNotes Full and iNotes Lite) do not. In my case, the server I was using was on the west coast.

Turns out (again, as has been reported elsewhere, this is just MY first time through all this) it's incredibly easy to fix. Simply make sure that you set your timezones correctly in preferences:


This causes iNotes to NOT use the server timezone ... and everything is fine!

See, like I said, simple!

- Rob

Choosing the right Smartphone

Even though I suspect that most of the readers here - the Unplugged Army, so to speak - don't really need advice about how to pick a smartphone, I wanted to pass along this link to a CNET TV video:
http://cnettv.cnet.com/choosing-right-smartphone/9742-1_53-50070738.html

The advice is a little on the simplistic side, and kind of misses the whole "enterprise" angle, but still worth while.

What are YOUR decision points on a smartphone?

- Rob

iPhone apps for IT

Wanted to draw your attention to: 10 iPhone Apps for IT Administrators from eWeek.

It's an online slideshow offering a great collection of iPhone applications for administrators (this is network oriented, not Domino oriented) like utilities for checking whois, or ping or even just keeping track of client settings.

Even features a 'flashlight' utility (which, for the record, I've had installed on my iPhone for some time ... never know when you need to light up a dark corner under the desk).

Worth checking out ...

Resources posted for ADMIN/LotusDeveloper

Falling into the 'better late than never' category ...

I've posted the various resources, websites and other links for my three sessions at the ADMIN2009 / LotusDeveloper2009 conference.

They're all listed chronologically on the DU homepage, but you can find a "aggregation" page for all three sessions HERE.

Thanks again to all who attended my sessions, and thanks for all the evals you turned in ...

Hope you all enjoyed the conference - see you again next year!

And, while here, might have had some progress on the job-hunt front ... will keep you posted.

- Rob