The Not-So-Rapid Blog | Comments

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Patrick M — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:06:54 +0100

Thank you Sir, for your very thoughtful, technically brilliant article, which opened my eyes about the true value of Lotus Notes. Despite using Lotus Notes since 1995 and it being my breadwinner for some 10 years now, I probably would never have seen the light at the end of the tunnel, were it not for your very deep insider knowledge of this product.

He talks about having a headcold that day, a(nother) brainfart is more like it. :)

Untitled

Nathan T. Freeman — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:00:12 +0100

I'm fairly certain, Philip, that no one feels terribly strongly about whether you should use a particular blog template. Steve, Declan and Ferdy have all done world-class work, and there are plenty of reasons to use ANY of those templates.

Now, if you wanted to use Sharepoint for your blog -- then I imagine some of your readers might have something to say about it. ;-)

Biometric?

Philip Storry — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:00:25 +0100

I suppose it is.

I wonder if this biological system is more or less accurate that the shiny technological ones? ;-)

Kerr — Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:23:37 +0100

Ah, so it's a biometric face recognition system? ;)

Swipe card?

Philip Storry — Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:06:49 +0100

Swipe card?

I'm afraid I live in an old building - built in the 1890's. I just tip my hat to the doorman as I walk through the door he opened.

I'm led to believe that should an intruder attempt access, he'll blow on his whistle to attract help...

:-)

A great case of missing the point...

Declan Lynch — Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:16:46 +0100

What you mean you don;t have a swipe/proximity card to open your frontdoor at home ?

Thanks very much for that information, Steve...

Philip Storry — Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:37:28 +0100

The loss of the editor could be a problem for me. I've grown used to spell-checking. ;-)

Simplifying is good, though. One of the reasons I like Blogo is that it's so darned simple... My blogging is simple, so that's all I need!

I'm grabbing the IBM Blogging Template shortly, and will probably perform an update here before I make any decisions...

Time for a change

Steve Castledine — Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:59:29 +0100

Hi Phil - I bet you will find no functionality loss when you upgrade. I mainly simplified. The biggest loss is the web clients rich text editor is now rubbish in comparison to the old one with removing the great solution that was done by a 3rd party. This will be corrected in due course.

The biggest comment ever! Thanks guys...

Philip Storry — Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:54:09 +0100

@1 Ted - Yeah, the potential loss of functionality when moving to the official IBM Blog Template might catch us die-hards on the ol' Domino Blog.

I believe Steve worked very hard to only remove all the stuff that was more, um, "faddish". The bits that were hardly used by anyone, and were put in because, well, it looked cool. The main thing I'd notice is that all logging now goes to an external database, IIRC. And frankly, that's no great problem. I'm pretty sure that for my minimal usage, DominoBlog would be fine.

@2 Bill - NAME DROPPER! *coughs* Anyway, yeah, I know that R7 isn't required to run the blogs. But I thought R7.0.2 was required to have the license for it. A small technicality, but I like to be within my licenses whereever possible. :-)

I believe my hosting provider - Domino Developer Network - runs 7.0.1 already, so I'm pretty confident that I'd have no problems there anyway...

@3 Duffbert - Thanks for the confirmation that it works fine on R6.5.3. Most useful. :-)

@4 Chris - Cheers for the offer. :-)

Ping me...

Chris Whisonant — Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:50:46 +0100

Email me if you need a copy of the 702 template...

I’ll attest to the fact that...

Duffbert — Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:28:06 +0100

... you don't need 7.0.2 to run the blog. I checked with Steve to be sure, and he confirmed. I then loaded it up on the work servers (running 6.5.3), and it runs just fine...

Bill Buchan

Wild Bill — Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:48:15 +0100

I'm in the unique position of knowing (in terms of Steve Castledine, from two weeks ago!) all three major blog authors.

Dec with Blogsphere, Ferdy Christant with Blogo, and of course Steve with the IBM blog.

I suspect that none of them will *require* you to run v7.x software.

And I suspect, that if you asked around, you could find someone to host your blog - of whatever flavour - on a v7.x server.. Possbly for next to nothing.

Now, in terms of the three blogs - three different approaches, and all very good. Sorry I cant help you choose.

All I can say is that all three guys are committed, excellent folks, who I'm sure wouldn't turn down a quick support request if you got stuck. Though not an officially supported route, etc, etc.

This comes from a chap who "rolled his own" blog back between 1999-2003.. My blog was awful. Its *hard* stuff to do, and these chaps have done it well.

So pick one that you find interesting...

---* Bill

Don’t need Dom7 for the blog template

Ted — Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:30:11 +0100

You don't need Domino 7 to use the Blog template. You do need it to get the template, but you can extract that if needed. The template is based on DominoBlog and there's no release specific code. We run a Blog on a 6.5 server and haven't had any issues.

I'll be making the same decision on upgrading my blog up to the new release. Need to see if I'm losing any functionality that I use now with the upgrade.

That seems fair enough

Philip Storry — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:39:23 +0100

I think that the 45 minutes part might be a little tough, but I don't see anything wrong with what you're saying there.

I just think that it can be easily seen as something that's more negative than constructive, and I think - no, I know - that competitors love it when that happens because they can exploit it fully. :-(

Quickr looks good. You're probably right about the deployment rate. If they can get a QuickPlace migration guide sorted, Quickr will both inflitrate new sites AND the old ones.

And I seem to recall someone in the Lotus blogsphere trying Portal Express and reporting a quick turnaround, so I do hope you'll be satisfied with it. :-)

Nathan T. Freeman — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:11:08 +0100

If it's going to be on "existing stable technologies from elsewhere in IBM's portfolio..." then those technologies need to compete with Domino on "auditionability." That is, I need to be able to install from a single source in 45 minutes to get a test environment up and running.

I'll stop complaining that the new technologies don't use Domino as their underlying platform when the rest of IBM's portfolio is as easy to get running as Domino is. Otherwise, they're just asking ME to do the work instead of them. And it's insulting.

Quickr, by the way, has no requirements for WAS or DB2. It'll run in a pure Domino environment. Which is why it's going to be deployed at about 50 times the rate of stuff like Connections. The new Portal Express can supposedly be set up by a novice in under an hour. If that turns out to be the case, then, to me at least, that'll make it comparable to the ease-of-trial of Domino.

I like it.

Philip Storry — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:11:18 +0100

"Waste Ready" I like...

:-)

Last try

Patrick M — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:16:57 +0100

You're right. First attempt is no catch.

How about

"Waste ready" ? :)

Not catchy enough...

Philip Storry — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:05:25 +0100

Patrick @5,

Not catch enough for a slogan, I think.

How about "What can you waste today?" - that has a certain catchiness to it.

Or perhaps "Your budget. Our profit." - that one seems likely...

;-)

New slogan

Patrick M — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:52:33 +0100

Microsoft helping taxpayers to get their money thrown out the window.

Grrr.

Same old, same old...

Philip Storry — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:55:20 +0100

Scott @2,

Yep, I know what you mean.

Unfortunately, Microsoft are good at this game. And because there's money in feeding fromo the scraps at their table, there are lots of people repeating their misdirections... :-(