I’m in the middle of what could best be described as multi-media coding. I’m working or a JSR-168 portlet for WebSphere Portal. the portlet renders graphs and tables of statistics for a cluster of Sametime 7.5 Meeting Room servers. I’m using Workplace Dashboard Framework to create the portlet and Web Charts 3D to compose [...]

It’s 8pm (EST) and I’m at my desk in my home office in Massachusetts about to perform a service upgrade on a pretty comprehensive service we installed at ServerVault in Virginia. Of course, I am ready with everything tested twice and ready to deploy (grin)
The service is hosted Sametime instant messaging, web conferencing, chat conferencing, [...]

Businesses call it “Collaboration Software” whereas the rest of the world calls it by whatever program they are using - “chatrooms” “forums”, “bulletin boards”, etc. This is definitely true of persistent chat solutions. The idea has been around longer than text messaging. The concept has roots in AOL chat rooms, message boards, BBS’s, even list-servers.
The [...]

I must be easily amused because I have been using Lotus Notes for years now and I still get a chuckle every time I forget and run the integrated spell checker and it finds “buddylist”. For those who have not added it to their personal dictionary, the recommended correction is to replace it with “Buddhists”.
While [...]

Back in part one of “building my Linux server”, I wrote …
partition the disk with four primary partitions
Source: theSalmonFarm Blog Building my Linux server - part 1
I now want to recant that recommendation. Having setup 4 servers now (mostly in anticipation of Sametime 7.5.1 for Linux), I have settled on a much more simple installation [...]

Upon reading a commentary from Irwin Lazar, Carl Tyler asks
Is instant messaging the death knell for email?
I think the answer is “no”. What I do believe is that individuals will gravitate to a single interface to whatever content they use most.
Email, IM, Blogs, Web, and applications all have their own user interfaces. When these start [...]

I use Lotus Sametime 7.5 (and soon 7.5.1) for instant messaging at work. the memory usage is a bit tough to swallow but some of the integrated features more than make up for it.
One thing has bothered me. From the start, I tried to create some informative status messages so people could better decide how [...]

I just got the latest beta of Lotus Notes 8. This is the first installation of the email / application / instant messaging / composite application / eclipse offering.
I had a few hiccups but they were my own doing - I had a very customized mail template. A little “relinquishing of control” and all [...]

I needed to develop a plug-in for the Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 client. Once again, Google to the rescue. This time, it took a few clicks but I found a great “getting started guide” in four parts.
Part 1 - setting up your machinePart 2 - building your first plug-inPart 3 - testing and debuggingPart 4 - [...]

I have settled on using Ubuntu as my primary operating system on both my personal laptop and my work machine(s). There were two three four driving forces behind the change.
First, I needed a non-Windows solution for my parents. Windows is just too susceptible to viruses, malware00% , spyware, adware, and Internet gunk. A Mac was [...]

I’ve been biting my tongue for weeks …
I’m had the enviable position of enjoying a pre-release version of Sametime 8.0.1 online meetings. I know Adam Gartenberg has already written about the latest release of Sametime but I wanted to write about three features I really like: much improved audio, the new push-to-talk option, [...]

I’ve been playing around with Lotus Sametime 8.0.1 a bit. I’ve installed both a temporary Meeting Room Server and the client. However, I still need Sametime 8.0 client for my office work. The solution has been to run two Sametime clients *at the same time* (nice pun, huh?)
Here is what my desktop looks [...]

I was invited to web conference today. I spend a lot of time in web conferences and phone conferences. This one was being hosted on the Sametime Unyte service (formerly WebDialogs). I was connecting from a new machine so I ran the “system test tool” It said I had the right browser, JVM, plugin, and [...]