Lotusphere Day 4 - Tuesday...
Category Lotusphere 2005
Who in their right mind scheduled the freaking certification breakfast for 7 am this morning???
OK... after last night's early morning hosting of the Duffbert hospitality suite, I knew that the special certification breakfast was going to come far too early this morning. Actually, I woke up before the alarm went off at 6:15 as the coughing and cold continues to plague me. After figuring out it started at 7 instead of 7:30, Joe and I scrambled to get ready and hustle over to the Yacht and Beach Club hotel. The breakfast was really a continenal affair with plenty of carbs and coffee. Honestly, I think the main breakfast would have been better. I thought that the special journal and pen was rather nice, until John Roling (who *skipped* the breakfast) pulled one out of his backpack that he had picked up at the CLP lounge. I wanted to hurt him. :-)
Off to session #1 - Leveraging Java to integrate Domino into Portal and Workplace. Snoozer. No mention of Workplace, and the Portal piece was basically how to code a portlet. Not the best session I've been to. Grabbed a couple of diet Pepsis and headed over to the Domino Application Tuning session. That was good, and there's some good stuff coming up in 7.0 that will greatly aid in figuring out how to write more efficient agents. Session #3 was Rocky Oliver's Formula Big Top. By far one of the best sessions I've seen. Rocky is a great presenter (so glad I didn't have to follow him this year), and his tips on some new @Formula uses will get some immediate applicability back home. Lunch after that, and finally got a chance to talk a bit with Chris Miller. We usually have run into each other a number of times by now, but this year it just wasn't happening. After lunch, I was hiking back over to the Swan for a DXL session. Not the best hour I've spent. The speaker had just gotten in two hours before from the storm, and the information was rather confusing if you didn't know DXL. I probably should have headed over to Henry Newberry's CSS session, but I didn't (much to my regret). Oh, well. The 3 pm and 4:15 pm sessions were no-shows by yours truly, as my body was rebelling over the cold and less-than-acceptable sleep patterns. After a bit of a rest, it was off to a 6 pm demo of the TeamStudio BuildManager product (very cool stuff) and then my 7:30 pm dinner with the e-Pro staff. That's always a highlight of my Lotusphere, and it was nice to *finally* see Libby this week. Seems like we've been orbiting on opposite sides of the sun until now.
Overall impressions... Another great day with some definite take-home stuff to try when I get back. Although you're burning the candle at both ends throughout the entire week, this is really an energizing time with other IBM/Lotus professionals. It's events like this that remind me why I made the decision in January 1997 (my first Lotusphere) to focus my career on this technology platform. I've gone places I never imagined, done things I never dreamed of, and met people who have changed my life.
That's what Lotusphere is to me...
Who in their right mind scheduled the freaking certification breakfast for 7 am this morning???
OK... after last night's early morning hosting of the Duffbert hospitality suite, I knew that the special certification breakfast was going to come far too early this morning. Actually, I woke up before the alarm went off at 6:15 as the coughing and cold continues to plague me. After figuring out it started at 7 instead of 7:30, Joe and I scrambled to get ready and hustle over to the Yacht and Beach Club hotel. The breakfast was really a continenal affair with plenty of carbs and coffee. Honestly, I think the main breakfast would have been better. I thought that the special journal and pen was rather nice, until John Roling (who *skipped* the breakfast) pulled one out of his backpack that he had picked up at the CLP lounge. I wanted to hurt him. :-)
Off to session #1 - Leveraging Java to integrate Domino into Portal and Workplace. Snoozer. No mention of Workplace, and the Portal piece was basically how to code a portlet. Not the best session I've been to. Grabbed a couple of diet Pepsis and headed over to the Domino Application Tuning session. That was good, and there's some good stuff coming up in 7.0 that will greatly aid in figuring out how to write more efficient agents. Session #3 was Rocky Oliver's Formula Big Top. By far one of the best sessions I've seen. Rocky is a great presenter (so glad I didn't have to follow him this year), and his tips on some new @Formula uses will get some immediate applicability back home. Lunch after that, and finally got a chance to talk a bit with Chris Miller. We usually have run into each other a number of times by now, but this year it just wasn't happening. After lunch, I was hiking back over to the Swan for a DXL session. Not the best hour I've spent. The speaker had just gotten in two hours before from the storm, and the information was rather confusing if you didn't know DXL. I probably should have headed over to Henry Newberry's CSS session, but I didn't (much to my regret). Oh, well. The 3 pm and 4:15 pm sessions were no-shows by yours truly, as my body was rebelling over the cold and less-than-acceptable sleep patterns. After a bit of a rest, it was off to a 6 pm demo of the TeamStudio BuildManager product (very cool stuff) and then my 7:30 pm dinner with the e-Pro staff. That's always a highlight of my Lotusphere, and it was nice to *finally* see Libby this week. Seems like we've been orbiting on opposite sides of the sun until now.
Overall impressions... Another great day with some definite take-home stuff to try when I get back. Although you're burning the candle at both ends throughout the entire week, this is really an energizing time with other IBM/Lotus professionals. It's events like this that remind me why I made the decision in January 1997 (my first Lotusphere) to focus my career on this technology platform. I've gone places I never imagined, done things I never dreamed of, and met people who have changed my life.
That's what Lotusphere is to me...
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