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InfoQ: IBM's Elizabeth Woodward on Distributed Team Collaboration

2010-11-19T20:34:00.001+01:00

InfoQ: IBM's Elizabeth Woodward on Distributed Team Collaboration

Oracle and IBM Collaborate to Accelerate Java Innovation Through OpenJDK

2010-10-13T08:05:00.001+02:00

Oracle and IBM today announced that the companies will collaborate to allow developers and customers to build and innovate based on existing Java investments and the OpenJDK reference implementation. Specifically, the companies will collaborate in the OpenJDK community to develop the leading open source Java environment.IBM press release

IdeaJam: Symphony API integration in Agents

2010-08-30T17:31:00.010+02:00

A way to integrate "com.ibm.symphony.javaapi" in server-side agents (java/lotusscript)

Jumeirah The Meydan

2010-08-05T10:31:00.004+02:00

Jumeirah Hotels is an international luxury hotel chain located in Dubai, London and New York. I've been at Jumeirah Beach Hotel in 2005 and the service was really at the higher level. If you are a horse lovers you have to stay some days at Jumeirah The Meydan:Positioned at the epicentre of one of the world's most exciting destinations, Jumeirah The Meydan provides a prime location to catch the

A yellow wave's in Notes 8 and ... Office 2010!

2010-06-28T18:17:00.008+02:00

Cute!

New 'Email Triage' Technology by IBM

2010-06-17T11:27:00.000+02:00

Lufthansa A380

2010-04-28T11:14:00.001+02:00

Lufthansa A380: "The A380 the new Lufthansa flagship, a special experience, the Lufthansa A380. Find out more about the fascination of a new era in air travel. Take part, Raffles, Downloads, Photos, Video, Gallery, First Flight in 2010."

RedTurtle @ Lotusphere Comes to You 2010

2010-02-11T13:07:00.004+01:00

RedTurtle Technology at LCTY 2010 - Padova Thursday, March 4th and Milan Tuesday, March 9thWe are back from Lotusphere 2010, the world reference event for the IBM Lotus technology, and we are ready to tell you all the news, the truth and behind the scenes at the Italian event from IBM Lousphere Comes to You 2010.We will be in Padova (Thursday, March 4th) and Milan (Tuesday, March 9th)!Lotus knows

THE Domino song

2010-02-09T21:41:00.001+01:00

IBM Project Vulcan from a Google Wave point of view

2010-01-28T09:53:00.008+01:00

whatisgooglewave.com is an interesting site that talk about Google Wave. After Lotusphere 2010 and the launch of IBM Project Vulcan (Notes 9), a new section has born: stay tuned on the IBM section for a Google Wave point of view.Lars Rasmussen interview's about IBM Project Vulcan on whatisgooglewave.com:He comments regarding IBM’s Project Vulcan was very interesting. It sounded to me that they

The last version of Lotus Notes Traveler Component is ...

2010-01-20T21:22:00.001+01:00

.. the 1.4

Lotus Notes Traveler, news and photos

2010-01-20T00:45:00.008+01:00

Again, during the opening general session IBM talks about Lotus Notes Traveler. First of all they announce the support for Android platform, then a big news for people who wanted encrypted mail on iPhone: Lotus Notes Traveler Companion is available today on App Store!Lotus Notes Traveler Companion allow to read encrypted mail on the iPhone directly using the Notes ID security!Last is the

IBM Project Vulcan, photos and news

2010-01-20T00:44:00.004+01:00

On the OGS we learn about IBM Project Vulcan, as report on Ed Brill's Blog “Project Vulcan is the blueprint for where Lotus Notes is going”. During the Opening general session we have some screen shots of the evolution of the Notes client:and some concept on mobile devices like BlackBerry or iPhone:Other news comes from the keynote during the first two day of Lotusphere, one is particularly

Lotusphere in sentence, Day 2 - general and Lotus application development strategy

2010-01-19T19:27:00.013+01:00

General:My daily agenda: BP210, KEY101, BP108, BP111, BP204, ID615.“Project Vulcan is the blueprint for where Lotus Notes is going” [Ed Brill Blog]Lotus Application Development Strategy:Lotus Notes/Domino developer skills are important and remain important.For the future release Lotus will support and integrate to OpenID.For the future release Lotus will support and integrate to Oauth.Again, next

Lotusphere in sentence, Day 1 - other sentences

2010-01-19T14:18:00.004+01:00

General:My daily agenda: OGS, ID201, KEY104, AD201, BP306, AD207, BOF201.Thanks Bob for the button!Great sushi at Kimonos restaurant.Lotus Notes and Domino strategy and future:LotusLive Notes will be launchedSupport for Citrix, XenApp, VMWare client virtualization technologyLotus Notes Traveler on AndroidLotus Domino will be available as a image on Amazon EC2Lotus Business Solutions Catalog is

Lotusphere in sentence, Day 1 - IBM Lotus Server: Present and Futures

2010-01-18T20:19:00.004+01:00

In the form of "aspect - goal" that's the key sentences of the Domino server future:Database management tool improvements - Leverage a single tool that performs all application/database maintenance tasks (eg compact, index update, ...).SAML - Provide greater flexibility regarding secure authentication.Platform expansion – Lower costs, improve flexibility and scalability (64 bit, virtual env,

Lotusphere in sentence, Day 1 (Opening general session)

2010-01-18T14:37:00.012+01:00

General and vision:Lotus knows why.Lotus knows how.This year the special guest is Captain Kirk William Shatner directly form Enterprise!GM, RIM, Continental, Panasonic and Zurich are the customers presented this year by Lotus. You knew the importance of delivering on promises.18378 new customers after Domino 8 was been released.Positive disruption: capabilities for free Symphony.Collaboration

Lotusphere in sentence, Day 0

2010-01-17T21:51:00.007+01:00

General:After “Emergence” in 2008 and “Resonance” in 2009, this year the Lotusphere theme is “Lotus knows”.My daily agenda: BOOT103 (great job Franziska), SHOW105, BOOT104, JMP102 and Welcome Reception.Admin tips:DAOS and SAN? Again, be sure transaction logging is on a separate and dedicated LUN.Set all compressions "on" using console: load compact mail -ZU -n -v -CDeny access list and HTTP? Be

Lotusphere in sentence, Day -1

2010-01-17T14:55:00.005+01:00

Luckily the temperature is higher than the last two freezing years (around 20°C during the day).I have had great times with Andrea e Daniele relaxing and eating shrimp and crab in front of the ocean in Cocoa Beach.The pocket agenda is changed, now we have a tabular folder instead the traditional pocket book.The backpack is almost the same of last year.

lsonline.info on iPhone

2010-01-07T22:56:00.000+01:00

Yes it works! Just point Safari here: www.lsonline.info/m

747-8 is coming

2010-01-07T22:09:00.006+01:00

Less than 1 month from the 787 Dreamliner first flight, another great news from Boing: 747-8 is coming with more seats, new wings design (very similar that 787 Dreamliner), cleaner, quieter and more fuel efficient.747 was introduced in 1970 and until now Boing has delivered more 1400 units. Air Force is a 747 model and it is the official airplane of the Space Shuttle.Full 747-8 details here

787 Dreamliner First Flight

2009-12-12T08:42:00.001+01:00

The Boeing Company has announce that at 10 a.m. on December 15 is planned the first flight of the new aircraft 787 Dreamliner. The first flight will occur from Paine Field in Everett, WA and it's on the phase of final approve by U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.Check www.boeing.com for update and follow the event on www.newairplane.com.

Content Technologies Subway Map (2010)

2009-12-03T15:23:00.004+01:00

Again, as reported in 2008 and 2009, CMS Watch well describe how the CMS solutions are connected together in relation of the functionalities they expose. Here an extract from full CMS Watch article: To help you navigate the content technologies vendor landscape, we've created this handy map. To be sure, not all vendor stations are listed, but this should give you a sense for the major players.

Dominopoint Day 2009: teasing trailer

2009-11-25T08:36:00.004+01:00

As Giuseppe Grasso has reported here we really had a lot of fun at Dominopoint Day last 13th of November!!! The agency who has covered the marketing side of the event really did a great job. Watch the teasing trailer to catch the spirit of the day!

Dominopoint Day 2009: photos!

2009-11-24T10:05:00.002+01:00

This is my photostream on Flickr from the last Italian Lotus Users Group, the DominoPoint Day 3 event.

Dominopoint Day 3: my presentation on slideshare

2009-11-20T12:35:00.002+01:00

Check out this SlideShare Presentation. It's from Dominopoint Day 3 on November 13th 2009 in Milan.SuperenaLOTUS: 6 numeri vincenti di Lotus Domino 8.5View more documents from Fabio Pignatti.

Dominopoint Day 2009: your wait is over

2009-11-12T02:41:00.000+01:00

Tomorrow we are going live with the 3rd Italian Lotus Users Group events (aka Dominopoint.it). Right now we have 562 registration, +7% than the previous edition!Follow my session from 4:50pm to 5:45 pm: "SuperenaLOTUS: 6 numeri vincenti di Lotus Domino 8.5" ... maybe you can win! ;-)

First time in karategi together!

2009-11-11T06:32:00.008+01:00

On Monday it has been the first time for me and my little son Francesco to wear together the karate uniform 'karategi'.For almost 30 years I have spent my free time on the tatami, first as a young schoolboy, then as athlete in kumite and finally as a karate instructor. That's why 'last monday' was a big deal for me. And for Francesco as well: he really couldn't wait to wear the uniform.

After 1 week using Google Wave

2009-11-07T07:21:00.006+01:00

Like others in the blogosphere, I chose not to see the video on Google Wave or read other impressions about this. Just to be virgin.I'm really amazed about Google Wave, it's really a powerful and brand new communication tool and in the future it could change the way we collaborate (Lotus be aware!) event if right now it's clear it's experimental.I mean, I have several problems just using 1 wave

Lotus knows superenaLOTUS makes you win!

2009-11-05T16:58:00.009+01:00

In about one week we will be live! It's time for the 3rd Italian Lotus Users Group events (aka Dominopoint.it). So it's time to a little preview about my session (in italian):Lotus knows superenaLOTUS makes you win!You have to attend my session to discover the details ...

After a dive-week in Sharm El Sheikh

2009-10-06T07:55:00.007+02:00

Sunday I came back from Sharm El Sheikh where I have spent a wonderful holiday and I have met new friends. Despite the fligth back was not so confortable (the final destination was cancelled and we have landed in Malpensa airport) I still have great feeling of the week.I have visited two new dive site's in Sharm: Pinky Wall and The Temple. Pinky Wall is a dive site's full of pink alcyonarian

Lotusphere 2010 registration, something is happening?

2009-09-11T07:50:00.002+02:00

This morning opening the Lotusphere home page, I notice this:Mmm, it's seems like something is happening ... maybe they are finally moving the landing page of Lotusphere from 2009 to 2010? Maybe they are opening the registration?As reported by Lotusphere Blog, in the last of years Lotus have anticipated the registration date. For 2010 maybe today is the registration opening date?

Windows single sign-on for web clients

2009-09-03T18:11:00.000+02:00

During the last Lotusphere 2009 in Orlando, I blogged about Web SSO in a Windows Environment. As I wrote in January in the slides IBMers had talk about "future release":Hope they will release this soon, in the slides they use the term "future release". Domino 8.5.x? Domino 9? Who knows ... will see.Now what? Future release means 8.5.1!

DominoPoint Day 2009

2009-08-14T10:47:00.003+02:00

When: October 30, 2009Where: Milan, Italy What: Third edition of the Italian Lotus community. The event will address technical issues related to the Domino world and has been made in full autonomy by the community Dominopoint.it. The meeting will take place in the very open spirit: participation is open to all, Free! Call for papers and call for sponsor are open, see DominoPoint.it for more

Osteria da Adamo - Senigallia Italy

2009-07-21T14:04:00.002+02:00

During my last trip in Senigallia, I tried Osteria da Adamo a nice restaurant on the Senigallia's hills.You definitely have to try:potato chips (home made)the starter "tagliere da adamo". Ham, salame, coppa , cheese and home made piadina. (2 starters in a party of 5 are more than enough)Angus meat (45 €/Kg), cooked on emberscoffee sorbetThey have acceptable prices: about 30 € each, included wine

My 5th anniversary using Gmail

2009-06-28T18:06:00.003+02:00

Today I celebrate my 5th year using Gmail. I'm just away less than 3 months from first of April 2004 the public launch date (from Wikipedia). I'm wondering if someone used Gmail before that date outside of Google employees. Could it really be that before it went public, Gmail was available only as a payment option to non Googlers?

Zagat, worldwide resource for restaurants

2009-06-22T20:42:00.002+02:00

Zagat.com is one of the best Internet resource for restaurants all around the world. The American company define it self as the web's most trusted guide to restaurant reviews and I strongly agree since I used a lot Zagat for my last trip in Orlando last April.

iPhone OS update

2009-06-17T22:10:00.003+02:00

Uhmmm ... 230 MB for a OS phone?! No bad, no bad ...

WSJ: IBM is reportedly in talks to buy Sun Microsystems

2009-03-19T06:27:00.002+01:00

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM could acquire Sun as early as this week:International Business Machines Corp. is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., people familiar with the matter said, a combination that would bolster IBM's heft on the Internet, in software and in finance and telecommunications markets.Does it make sense? Just 1 main reason (take a look at this CNET news): open

Content Technologies Subway Map (2009)

2009-03-11T20:46:00.000+01:00

As I reported last year, CMS Watch well describe how the CMS solutions are connected together in relation of the functionalities they expose. Here an extract from full CMS Watch article:To help you navigate the content technologies vendor landscape, we've created this handy map. To be sure, not all vendor stations are listed, but this should give you a sense for the major players.IBM, Microsoft

Zimbra more popular than Gmail? But Lotus ...

2009-03-10T20:02:00.001+01:00

Some days ago Zimbra announced that has crossed the 40 million user mark. In some reports recently appeared on the web (see venturebeat.com and mediapost.com) is reported that Google has 11 million users, far away from Zimbra. A note also appeared on Google Press Center at the beginning of 2009.How about Lotus Notes? Well I quickly searched over IBM Press room and I found this press note:IBM

Communication Day 2009 (in italian)

2009-03-09T10:12:00.001+01:00

Il 9 marzo torna a Ferrara il Communication Day.Numerose le novità per l’edizione 2009L’Agenzia di comunicazione Inside btb, con la fondamentale collaborazione delle Istituzioni Pubbliche locali, delle Associazioni di categoria TP (Associazione Italiana Pubblicitari Professionisti), Unicom (Unione Imprese di Comunicazione), Unindustria e Gruppo Giovani Imprenditori di Ferrara, Fondazione Carife e

Incontro “Rapporto tra Banca ed Impresa. Fiducia: parola chiave per la ripresa” (this time in italian)

2009-02-18T17:49:00.002+01:00

Il Gruppo Giovani Imprenditori di Unindustria Ferrara è lieto di invitarVi all’incontro “Rapporto tra Banca ed Impresa. Fiducia: parola chiave per la ripresa” che si terràgiovedì 19 febbraio p.v. alle ore 15.00presso le sale convegni di Unindustria FerraraVia Montebello 33 - Ferrara.Il convegno si svolgerà in forma di tavola rotonda ed avrà la gradita partecipazione dei referenti di alcuni dei

Day 3 at Lotusphere: some pictures on Flickr

2009-01-29T00:07:00.002+01:00

Exactly a week later the 3rd day at Lotusphere 2009, follow some pictures from the Wednesday party at Universal Studios Florida. Really a freezing weather ...My "Day 3" photo stream on Flickr

Lotusphere, now is really over

2009-01-23T01:46:00.006+01:00

Just a couple of minutes and than I will be board to FRA. It was an amazing Lotusphere, and the last surprise was here at the Orlando International Airport: free Internet WI-FI. Well in Italy is not really the same, in the majority of the airports you have to pay to connect.Now they start boarding ... Buzz, Fraci I'm coming!

Windows single sign-on for web clients

2009-01-22T16:55:00.002+01:00

Yesterday during the session ID101 "New Single Sign-on Improvements for your IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Windows Environments", we had a big news for Domino: IBM are working on the Windows single sign-on for web clients. Based on spnego, it will work only between Windows system (client and server).Hope they will release this soon, in the slides they use the term "future release". Domino 8.5.x?

@If ( "You complete the conference eval form"; "You will receive this"; "It's a pityy"); @All

2009-01-22T15:59:00.008+01:00

This year we have a black T-shirt with a big yellow, "Resonance" logo on the back.You can complete the Lotusphere 2009 evaluation form online. It's here:Than proceed to Australia 3 and get your black T-Shirt!

iNotes Ulite (not only) for iPhone: screenshots

2009-01-21T14:48:00.005+01:00

After my recent post on Lotus Notes Traveler for iPhone, let's take a look at the news on the iNotes Ulite. This screenshots are not addressed in the current 8.5 release BUT they will be available soon!It will be possible to search on directories"To" field is auto completed!Multiple selections and then, mark all the docs you select as read/unread ...And now, with current 8.5, we have support for

Lotus Notes Traveler support for iPhone: screenshots

2009-01-21T14:05:00.009+01:00

Really a lot of people on the Planet, tell about big news on iPhone support. Now let's take a look at the pics.Mail:Calendar:Address book:My "Day 2" photo stream on Flickr.

More 8.5 news on the back of the CULT shirt

2009-01-21T06:08:00.004+01:00

Read the top ten bullet points not found on Notes 8.5 data sheets. Thanks Jamie for the CULT shirt!

Day 1 at Lotusphere: a bad OGS, a even more better client and DAOS+IDVault religion

2009-01-21T04:56:00.014+01:00

Today I have attend at the following sessions:Opening General SessionAs usually happen, big show: this year we have Blue Man Group and Dan Aykroyd. The new Lotus Software General Manager, Bob Picciano, announces significant grow in the yellow brand: 16 consecutive quarters of growth and more than 12,000 new customers in the last 12 months. If you put apart LotusLive.com (hey Lotus! Why named Live

Dopplr: 2008 personal report

2009-01-20T23:36:00.005+01:00

Finally today Dopplr release my 2008 personal report in PDF, it's cool! I spend 88 days traveling, longest in Pelugo for holiday and the further distance I traveled was Orlando (once for Lotusphere). My carbon for 2008 is 5,844 kg CO2 and I have the same velocity as a duck!Quack! Quack!Me and Dopplr

Special guest at OGS: Dan Aykroyd

2009-01-19T14:53:00.002+01:00

Dan Aykroyd, from wikipedia:Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi) and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.

Day 0 at Lotusphere: BDD, Designer 8.5 (and 8.5.1), Admin Jumstart and Domino on Linux 101

2009-01-19T14:45:00.004+01:00

Today I have attend at the following sessions:BDD211 You Have to Think and Act Like an Executive ....If You Want to Sell to Them!The talk in a couple of concepts:CEO is stressed by different actors (board, competition, share holders, leading team) so he get short attentions by you.Do not fall down in the attentions trick: contents get only 7% of the pike, the other preponderant factors are voice

"Show 'n Tell" session, do you think is better than "hands on"?

2009-01-18T22:47:00.003+01:00

The "Show 'n tell" track is the new Lotusphere sessions container, it replaces last years "hands on" tracks.Do you think SHOW format is better than HND format? I think is different. All the SHOW I attended today was simply great but, if I'm to be honest, I miss a little bit the interaction that HND and the use of the workstation can provide.I'm sure it's a big effort for the organization to setup

JMP102 IBM Lotus Domino Administration JumpStart

2009-01-18T21:37:00.003+01:00

A general but interesting overview of the Domino Administration client. Here are listed 3 key points that impress me more than other:New desktop policy in 8.5: you can set notes.ini clients variables in a consistent way. Do you remember this? Forget it!DOAS is not Simple Object Commostore or a sort of that. IBMers save around 20% of disk space. Do you think disk space is almost free? Yes, but

Welcome Reception: everything is (almost) ready

2009-01-18T19:41:00.003+01:00

As you can see in the picture above, everything is almost ready for this evening party: the big banner say "I love the night life". Well Americans has a strange concept of "night": the party will end at 09:00 pm. :-)In every case the early end is a good think, session at Lotusphere will start early in the morning (around 07:00 am) and is better to go to sleep early as well.

Day -1 at Lotusphere

2009-01-18T17:43:00.006+01:00

This is my 5th time in Disney Area (3 times for Lotusphere). Just sun, relax and a good Mexican food lunch at San Angel Inn. This year as well the last one I stay at Port Orleans Riverside Resort. Luckily me room is located very near to the Lotusphere bus stop located ad 85 block.My "Day 0" photo stream on Flickr

That's why we do not use Alitalia for intercontinental flights

2009-01-12T19:50:00.001+01:00

I've just listen a radio talk show who claim that the Italian airway Alitalia has really few intercontinental connections from Italy. We have just two intercontinental hub served by Alitalia: Malpensa (near Milan, the economic capital of the country) and Fiumicino (in Rome, the capital city). From Malpensa Airport, 3 intercontinental flights: daily to NY, 3 times a week to San Paolo and Tokio.

Guida a Lotusphere (this time in italian)

2009-01-10T21:17:00.008+01:00

Come ho scritto in questi post, Andy Donaldson ha pubblicato la versione 2009 della guida a Lotusphere. Per chi non è mai stato o per chi semplicemente vuole alcuni consigli utili, prendo liberamente spunto dalla guida di Andy per darle una versione in italiano.Le risorse web su Lotusphere sono numerose, un elenco veloce: Lotusphere website, The Taking Notes podcast, Chris Miller's blog, Gonzo

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 available now

2009-01-06T09:01:00.000+01:00

Point your browser, download is available through Partnerworld and Passport Advantage.

ChannelWeb: IBM Lotus Symphony is one of the 10 Coolest Open Source Products Of 2008 (and other opensource 2008 awards)

2008-12-29T19:49:00.001+01:00

As traditionally happens at the end of the years, many reports are available on open source project's trends. ChannelWeb point the focus on Symphony:IBM has taken great pains to position itself as more of a middleware company than a desktop productivity software company, but diverged from that path a bit in 2008. By launching and upgrading its IBM Lotus Symphony suite of productivity apps based

OpenGroupware alert

2008-12-24T10:07:00.000+01:00

In the open source eco-system some "Lotus Domino" like solutions are OpenGroupware, eGroupware and Zimbra (well Zimbra is not really a real open source environment ...)Today my alerts on OpenGroupware are dead. That's why:I officially demote OpenGroupware as a "dead" project.

Lotusphere 2009: first time? Follow this 2 links ... (UPDATE)

2008-12-23T22:08:00.000+01:00

Some days ago I talk about 2 interesting links to follow if you are at your first Lotusphere experience. Now Genii Software has released 1.0 version of the 9th Annual Lotusphere Agenda Database for PDA Synching and Session Planning and Andy Donaldson has released his Guide to Lotusphere, 2009 edition.So update your record and get ready to pack for Orlando!

The dark side of the soccer

2008-12-17T22:01:00.000+01:00

Claudio Ranieri looks like Darth Sidious in one Juventus's match in late November this year.

IBM second best global brands

2008-12-15T22:17:00.000+01:00

Each year the Best Global Brands generates increasing amounts of interest from companies and practitioners associated with brands. This year the IBM brand was rated the second most valuable brand in the world, second only to Coca-Cola and beyond Microsoft.Interbrand - Best Global Brands list

Lotusphere 2009 Show 'n Tell: Notes of a Symphony

2008-12-15T16:49:00.005+01:00

Today many Lotusphere 2009 abstracts are available online. This year Fabrizio Marchesano and Francesco Pellegrini from Italy will have a session titled "Notes of a Symphony". I've seen Fabrizio at the 2008 Italian Lotus User Group Conference and it's an really interesting and funny argument, especially if you are a classical music fan.Lotusphere 2009 sessions

Lotusphere 2009: first time? Follow this 2 links ...

2008-12-09T22:00:00.000+01:00

If this is your first time at Lotusphere these 2 links can save your life:Andy's Guide to Lotusphere - 2008 edition, almost the same rules are ok for 2009 edition ...Every one knows about Genii Software's 9th Annual Lotusphere Agenda Database for PDA Synching and Session Planning, don't you? Just wait until the first day of January to make your agenda as sessions (and db) can change.

19th World Karate Championships start today!

2008-11-13T01:00:00.001+01:00

From today until 16th November will take place in Tokio the 19th World Karate Championships. As you can seen in the Championships banner above Luca Valdesi (4 times World Champioship in kata) is one of the stars and the title holder for both individual and team kata competitions.Good luck to all the Italian team!19th World Karate Champioships web site

DominoPoint Day 2008: Using and understanding the NSD (italian)

2008-11-11T18:59:00.001+01:00

Study: SharePoint, Lotus in for long collaboration fight

2008-11-11T18:36:00.000+01:00

Forrester Research Inc. published a report on Collaboration fight between Lotus and Sharepoint. Today one of mine Google alert send me a link on this topic by PC World:Microsoft and IBM have been duking it out over e-mail and messaging software for years with their respective Outlook/Exchange and Lotus Notes/Domino products. As their product lines have evolved, however, a new fight is brewing

Soldati La Scolca BRUT Millesimato "D'Antan" 1993

2008-11-06T19:14:00.007+01:00

Last Saturday we tried this supreme Soldati La Scolca BRUT Millesimato "D'Antan" 1993. Some day after, I discover that D'Antan is an award winning wine: 4 foglie form Guida d'oro Veronelli Spumanti d'Italia 2007. La Scolca is a historic wineyard in Gavi area (Alessandria, Piemonte, Italy) with a personal style in making wine. D'Antan is one of the reserve, very dry with a very particular

Lotusphere 2009: airport shuttel service from Mears

2008-11-06T19:01:00.004+01:00

Form the confirmation email:GROUND TRANSPORTATION: Mears Transportation is offering Lotusphere 2009 attendees a discounted rate of $29.00 round-trip - for shuttle service between the Orlando International Airport and the WALT DISNEY WORLD SWAN and DOLPHIN. The Mears Transportation shuttle service departs the airport approximately every 30 minutes. Mears Transportation booths are located on the

World Plone Day, November 7th 2008

2008-11-06T18:55:00.000+01:00

No matter where you are, meet Plone and discover the benefits of using it in education, government, ngos, and in business.World Plone Day site

DominoPoint Day 2008: my talk

2008-10-16T17:09:00.001+02:00

| Get your Presentation Pack

DominoPoint Day 2: photos

2008-10-14T13:23:00.005+02:00

This is the badge from the last Italian Lotus Users Group, the DominoPoint Day 2 event.#flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;}#flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;}#flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;}.flickr_badge_image {text-align:

DominoPoint Day 2008: numbers

2008-10-14T12:45:00.007+02:00

Numbers about the last DominoPoint Day 2 event (aka Lotus Italian Users Group conference)more than 500 registered person2 tracks: admins and developers14 speakers13 Italian speakers1 US speakerabout 300 people still there late in the afternoon (around 6:00 PM)2 Blackberry phones wins11 sponsors9 sponsor speakers7 Italian sponsor speakers1 UK sponsor speaker1 Belgium sponsor speakertons of good

Villa Rinaldi Barricaia 1999

2008-10-13T23:06:00.001+02:00

Last Saturday we open the superb Villa Rinaldi Barricaia 1999 wine: a "Classic method" Spumante wine. I think this is one of the the best wine from this wineyard. Aged in barrique, in my little experience is not so common to find a 1999 white wine so taste full, especially in comparison with the price (around 40 €). Barricaia wins Big Gold Medal at VinItaly International wine competition in 2004.

DominoPoint Day 2, 4 to go

2008-10-06T23:28:00.003+02:00

Friday 10th of October I will join the 2nd edition of the Italian Lotus User Group Technical Conference.My talk will be titled "NSD, il tuo compagno di viaggio quando Domino va in crash" and it's about Nsd and the "dark side" of Domino named crash or hang.DominoPoint Day 2

5th Italian Agile day

2008-10-06T23:15:00.003+02:00

Friday 21th November Bologna guests the 5th annual edition of the Italian Agile Day. This is a free conference dedicated to Agile methodologies development and project management software targeted to developers, project leaders, IT managers, testers, architects and coach.Access is free after registration, the seats are limited. The event, for the third consecutive time, self-finance.Italian Agile

PloneGOV: a great success of the event

2008-09-16T17:38:00.005+02:00

More than 100 registered person at the "PloneGov" italian event. Mainly from public sector like small, big and medium municipality, local environment government agencies and many chambers of commerce.My photostream on Flickr.

PloneGOV: official launch in Italy today!

2008-09-16T07:03:00.000+02:00

The first edition of a nationwide event about PloneGov will be hosted by the Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara, Italy (the first Italian participant in PloneGov).Event title is "Public Administration and free software sharing: PloneGov, from Europe to Italy". The site will be the Convention Hall of the Chamber of Commerce in Ferrara, just in front of the Estense Castle.The topics will include a

Notes 8.5b2 client installation: some translations are missing

2008-09-02T23:34:00.001+02:00

Everything works fine except the screen shot above: "Make Notes my default calendar program." and "Make Notes my default contacts program." are not translated.

A short trip to Torre San Giovanni

2008-08-27T23:57:00.003+02:00

P1000954Inserito originariamente da Fabio PignattiGazza, thanks a lot for the invitation, we really enjoy sun, sea, food and all of you two guys! Hope this short trip to Torre San Giovanni can be a prelude to this winter.Torre San Giovanni is located in the south of Italy, in Puglia region, near Ugento. It was many years that I was not in Puglia and I forgot how wonderful and clear was the sea!

New Domino 8.5 policy in "Preference", "Window Management"

2008-08-14T21:54:00.002+02:00

The first policy is about the performance of the Notes client.

Make a Name for Yourself

2008-08-13T22:48:00.003+02:00

55 Strategies to Fast-Track Your Professional Prowess. Among these my favourites include:1. Make a name of yourself.2. People buy people first.4. Get up an hour earlier.9. Do the necesSCARY stuff.11. Walk with the wise.17. Small victories first. (as I also learned in "Our iceberg is melting")20. Boredom is the enemy.30. Networking works.33. Disarm immediate preoccupation.38. Remove what robs you

Out of office: when you will be back

2008-08-11T22:31:00.002+02:00

Quite interesting feature in Domino 8 out of office: when you will be back at the office, you will receive a summary of people that had been notified by your absence.

Human Tetris

2008-07-27T17:51:00.001+02:00

Domino 8.0.1 on Debian: it works

2008-07-25T22:36:00.003+02:00

Today we have to celebrate: Domino 8.0.1 is up and running on a GNU/Linux Debian box since 25th may 08 (mail + apps). Domino 8.0.1 works fine on Debian Lenny Release. The only problem I've encountered is on gawk and solved using:# apt-get install gawk:-)With italian languange pack and Sametime I still have some fatal error so that services doesn't work (Sametime installed but services not started

My blog in a cloud

2008-07-03T23:22:00.000+02:00

Everyone knows about Worlde. This is my blog in a cloud for today. Even if I often post about Lotus Domino, some of the most evident worlds are "pantelleria", "sharepoint" or "book". Funny!

The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious (The Pursuit of Unhappiness)

2008-07-01T23:39:00.002+02:00

This is my first book on constructivist epistemology, definitely an introductive book by Paul Watzlawick a theoretician in Communication Theory and Radical Constructivism.Watzlawick in "The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious" gives you the best way to be scientifically unhappy. We read:It's time to end the millennial fable that happiness and serenity are desirable goals of life.Many examples

Address Book in Notes 8.5 : contacts filtered by Internaional characters

2008-06-15T12:33:00.001+02:00

In 8.5 address book template, the contacts can be filtered using additional language tags.

Enterprise 2.0 conference: Lotus Connections vs MS Sharepoint

2008-06-12T23:12:00.006+02:00

This year at Enterprise 2.0 conference we had a face-to-face in the Social Software ring between Lotus Connections and Microsoft Sharepoint. CMS Watch web site reports:IBM came off looking better for various reasons. They fielded a more focused demo team -- never to be underestimated -- but also because Connections has some slick, Ajax interfaces, and SharePoint does not. Ajax does not

A sicily wine: Florio's Passito di Pantelleria

2008-06-10T00:15:00.001+02:00

Last sunday we open this wine: a wonderful Passito di Pantelleria from Florio's wineyeards.Zibibbo grapes are picked at full ripening from the wineyeards grown on Pantelleria island (Sicily, Italy). They are let to dry under the strong September sun for about twenty days. This is followed by the vinification as per the old tradition. The short contact with the skins and the slow fermentation

Ed Brill @ ILUG2008: Notes Domino the Road Ahead

2008-06-06T07:34:00.003+02:00

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Ozzie: Open Source a more disruptive competitor than Google

2008-06-03T22:01:00.002+02:00

Even if I think Google is the "new Microsoft", at Microsoft Co. are more concerned about "open source". Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, is cited in a ZDNet news:Competitors like his former employer, Lotus, and now, Google, have spurred the company to make changes to its business to stay ahead, Ozzie said. But while Google is a “tremendously strong competitor,” Ozzie acknowledged

Does open source grow? A "Yes" from a SAP research

2008-06-02T22:37:00.001+02:00

Now a day "open source" is everywhere: our old friends, Lotus Notes, now is based on open source project "Eclipse RCP", most of the advanced firewalling and networking software are based on IPTables/IPChains, Squid, or other GNU/Linux based solutions, OpenOffice is widely used everywhere (even in Notes 8 client) and so on.What does it means? More today than in the past open source is a reality in

Notes/Domino 8.5 beta will be out tomorrow

2008-05-29T23:57:00.007+02:00

Tomorrow Notes/Domino 8.5 beta will be out. Get your browser ready at IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 Public Beta Forum. One of the hottest news announced at Lotusphere 2008 is Domino Designer 8.5 in Eclipse!

"Open source" Funambol for mobile BlackBerry users

2008-05-29T07:27:00.004+02:00

Yesterday many web site (like this, this and this) report the news: Funambol, a dual licensing Italian-US powered software for mobile users, enables BlackBerry for the Mass Market. Exchange, Domino and GroupWise are already supported by Funambol but now the push email component enables BlackBerries to work with consumer email services such as Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, Hotmail and Gmail, as well as

Automatically Run Live Console in Domino Administrator

2008-05-22T22:48:00.002+02:00

In Lotus Domino Administrator 8, open File -> Preferences -> Administration Preferences and than select 'Automatically run live console' as show in the picture. It really helps!