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18-06-2008

Impossible is nothing

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Impossible is nothing. This was just proved again by Paul, Eileen, Bill, Warren, Kitty, Duffbert, Rob, Matt, Julian, Coatsie, the missing element and everyone who ended up helping at ILUG2008 in any way, shape or form.

Don't y'all think I just woke up from an almost two week long hang over. I've just been travelling around a lot and this post was long overdue.

The dedication and professionalism of all the people involved in organizing this event is just amazing, they keep outdoing themselves every time. They make it seem effortless, but it really isn't.

The venue was an improvement from last year's, providing better and more rooms and a much better sponsor area. One thing I noticed was that the people in the booths were also more in tune with the conference style this time. A big thank you to all the sponsors for making it possible.

Regarding the speakers, most of the usual suspects where there and there were also some first time presenters like Matt White, Ben Poole, Mark Myers and Eileen who did a great job and which I hope to be able to see presenting again.

Paul said in the opening session that all the organizing and preparation work had been done and it was then up to the attendees to make it a memorable 'user group meeting' and I think I can say we succeeded. Thank you all for coming, sharing your experiences and making it indeed a great event. It was great to see again some of the people I met last year and to finally meet some others in person like Simon Scullion, Theo Heselmans, Steve McDonagh, Stuart McIntyre, Ulrich Krause and dozens of others who I had the chance to talk to, have beer with or share a meal.

Once again thank you green shirt brigade, sponsors and attendees. Hope we can all do it again next year.


27-05-2008

Adding Sametime integration to your blog - Revisited

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Yesterday as I was reading eknori.de I found that Ulrich Krause was using stlinks on his blog pointing to the BleedYellow sametime server and decided to have a go at it myself. Before I did I checked with Chris Whisonant who also pointed me to a blog entry by Daniele Vistalli which I had somehow missed before. Using stlinks is pretty straight forward (specially if you are using someone else's sametime server and don't have to setup your own), like Daniele explained you just have to include a couple of lines in the <head> section of your pages and some more wherever you want the link on your page.

This goes in the <head> section:

<!-- Sametime BY - integration -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://im.bleedyellow.com/sametime/stlinks/stlinks.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://im.bleedyellow.com/sametime/stlinks/stlinks.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" >
setSTLinksURL('http://im.bleedyellow.com/sametime/stlinks/', 'en');
STHost = 'im.bleedyellow.com';
writeSTLinksApplet('side:notes','',false);
</script>
<!-- Sametime BY - integration -->


And this goes wherever you want to place your link:

<script type="text/javascript">
writeSametimeLink('CN=Vitor Pereira,O=BleedYellow', 'Vitor Pereira', false, 'icon:yes;');
</script>


I did change something from Daniele's example, instead of passing "side:notes" as a parameter in the call to writeSametimeLink which would have a person chatting with me identified as 'side:notes/Guest' I am using getCookie("BlogSphereAuthor") as a parameter. "getCookie" is a function included in the Blogsphere template that gets the author name if the person ever commented on this blog and checked the "Remember me" box, if not the sametime server will automatically generate a user name. You can further refine this by checking if the function returns anything and if it doesn't you can provide something else as a parameter instead of having the server generate a name.

This is what I'm using:
writeSTLinksApplet(getCookie("BlogSphereAuthor"),'',false);

If you're using the DominoBlog template or any other blog engine I'm sure there is also an easy way to get to a cookie storing the comment author's name.

If you decide to use stlinks on your blog be advised that it does have some impact loading your pages and there are also some issues with firefox.


16-05-2008

Note to self

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When leaving for a vacation don't ever let SWMBO in charge of turning off any electrical circuit switches, she'll end up turning off the wrong ones and cutting the power to all the precious equipment in the 'data center', including the state of the art piece of ancient machinery that serves this here blog. Lesson learned. Sorry for the two weeks downtime last month. I'm sure all three of you were terribly depressed for being deprived of reading the babbling going on here.


16-05-2008

Back to life

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I haven't blogged for a good 10 days now which is not that unusual but I've also been away from twitter, IM and feed readers. That feels both refreshing and weird. I really needed some extra focus in order to finish up a rather long project I was involved with. Anyway, I'm back and getting ready for ILUG. Hope to see you there.


06-05-2008

Vodafone distributing the iPhone

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Vodafone announced signing an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone to its customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey.


01-05-2008

Groove, rewritten from scratch, one more time

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Joel Spolsky just wrote his take on MSFT's most recent dump: Windows Live Mesh. Insightful as usual and funny too.


28-03-2008

Photoshop Express

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Adobe just launched it's free browser-based application offering 2Gb for storing and sharing your photos and a good set of image editing capabilities. This very slick flash based application is in Beta but already offers a very nice experience and a set of tools good enough for the photo enthusiasts. I just joined and haven't had much time to play with it but apparently there is some integration with other third-party sites like Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa, Flickr is coming soon.

This is believed to be the foundation for something much bigger by Adobe, must probably offering some sort of paid services in the future.

photoshop express


27-03-2008

Testing with different versions of IE - Revisited

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Last January I wrote about how to test with different versions of IE using virtual PC images containing a pre-activated copy of Win XP2. The images I originally linked to were set to expire on April 1 and, as I expected, Microsoft renewed their offering and are now making available six images containing pre-activated combinations of Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista, and IE6, IE7 or IE8.

This new set of images will expire on July 3.


25-03-2008

One year of blogging

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Oops! I Just realized I missed the first anniversary of Side:Notes. My first post was on March 21, 2007 in the aftermath of Lotusphere 2007 and as Ed Brill announced he was coming to my hometown for LCTY and I was getting ready to go to ILUG.
There really hasn't been much blogging around here, I only posted 58 entries which is far less than what I expected and I got some comments once in a while, which was encouraging.
Fast forward one year and Ed just announced he is coming to Lisbon again and I am registered for ILUG2008.

Thank you for reading and commenting. The overall experience as been good and I will keep this going and try to post more often.


11-03-2008

Lightning does strike twice

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Which is a good thing in this case. It means that Ed Brill will be in Lisboa again for the LCTY event. Great to hear that we will have the event and that Ed will be there.

See you next May Ed.