It's now official... Joe and I are speaking at Lotusphere 2004!!! Whoo-hoo!
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We just received our email from IBM about our tentative approval based on final review and turning in our paperwork. Joe Litton and I will be presenting a Best Practices session titled Java For The Domino Developer, based on our article series that started in Lotus Advisor magazine this month...
This is very exciting for us! It's something I've wanted to do for awhile, but never thought I'd end up attempting. But based on productive networking at last year's Lotusphere, this blog, and some article work, the pieces fell into place for us. It's sorta funny... When I went to work for Enron Broadband back in 1998, the CTO-level person was convinced we'd build an incredible company based on Lotus technology, and that Dan Porter and I would speak at Lotusphere telling everyone how we won with Lotus. The thought of doing anything like that back then was rather scary. We all know how THAT turned out! Six years later, that thought is coming true, just not the way anyone envisioned.
I ran across my first Lotusphere notes from 1997 a couple weeks back. There was one page devoted to the topic "Java And Lotus Notes". My only sentence of notes... "A little too beyond me at this point in time". How times change!
We just received our email from IBM about our tentative approval based on final review and turning in our paperwork. Joe Litton and I will be presenting a Best Practices session titled Java For The Domino Developer, based on our article series that started in Lotus Advisor magazine this month...
This is very exciting for us! It's something I've wanted to do for awhile, but never thought I'd end up attempting. But based on productive networking at last year's Lotusphere, this blog, and some article work, the pieces fell into place for us. It's sorta funny... When I went to work for Enron Broadband back in 1998, the CTO-level person was convinced we'd build an incredible company based on Lotus technology, and that Dan Porter and I would speak at Lotusphere telling everyone how we won with Lotus. The thought of doing anything like that back then was rather scary. We all know how THAT turned out! Six years later, that thought is coming true, just not the way anyone envisioned.
I ran across my first Lotusphere notes from 1997 a couple weeks back. There was one page devoted to the topic "Java And Lotus Notes". My only sentence of notes... "A little too beyond me at this point in time". How times change!
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Posted by Ray "Lion King" Bilyk At 05:18:06 On 21/11/2003 | - Website - |
Posted by jonvon At 13:07:08 On 25/11/2003 | - Website - |
Posted by Thomas Duff At 11:38:32 On 25/11/2003 | - Website - |
seriously (as though i'm capable of that), can't wait to see you guys there! you have to promise not to make out though. i don't think even free books would be incentive enough to sit through that!
Posted by jonvon At 11:20:37 On 25/11/2003 | - Website - |
Why wait for LotuSphere? Isn't it time you guys kissed and made up?
"That which can be remotely misinterpreted, I will find and run with." Bas, 2003
Posted by Bas At 08:21:07 On 21/11/2003 | - Website - |
Posted by Colin Pretorius At 00:20:10 On 22/11/2003 | - Website - |
Uh, shouldn't that be "big win"?
Posted by GemPDX At 14:23:37 On 21/11/2003 | - Website - |
Posted by Ben Langhinrichs At 04:16:13 On 21/11/2003 | - Website - |
MAN, I'm glad I only had a latte for breakfast, 'cause otherwise there'd be quite a mess for me to clean up about now.
@Rob: "...just to heckle you"
My first career was as a musician - years spent as a singer/guitarist in a country music band. We played in a number of nice clubs with great folks, but also played gigs in some pretty crappy joints (fights, cops having to break up the fights, ...general yuck - some folks have no sense of humor when you miss a chord change). I'm through with hecklers. So just remember, if you heckle, no free book for you! (There have been a number of great books donated from major publishers for us to use as giveaways at the session)
Posted by Joe Litton At 11:02:55 On 22/11/2003 | - Website - |
Posted by Chris Toohey At 06:31:14 On 21/11/2003 | - Website - |
Posted by Rob McDonagh At 04:03:37 On 21/11/2003 | - Website - |
Posted by Thomas Duff At 14:40:24 On 21/11/2003 | - Website - |