TimsterC

This morning I had chance to get 10 minutes of Bob Picciano’s time at the UKLUG event in Edinburgh.
Bob is the General Manager for Lotus Software and just after he delivered his keynote speech at the Opening General Session I got to talk to him about why he was here, what is important right now to Lotus Software and what he’s going to do while he’s here in Edinburgh.

Here is what he had to say.

p.s. During Ron Sebastian’s demo during the keynote he asked for a show of hands as to who still uses the workspace in Lotus Notes. Bob raised his hand too. ;o)

So the folks running the UKLUG must have been drinking some pretty hard stuff recently. They have put out the agenda and I’m on it. I mean come on. I know they weren’t hard up for session abstracts. I guess I had better get on with writing something to show now. ;o)
I have been writing something anyway and I did know that they accepted my submission. I’m working on a small XPages application that I can build in front of everyone and explain it as I go along. The target is 45 minutes for the demo and 10 minutes for intro and questions. The other plan is to get a whole bunch of screen shots or a screen video of some kind that I can post after the session.
Here are the things that I will hoping to show.

• Simple data binding to a notes doc and notes view
• Creating a single UI to use again and again
• Using an unlisted dojo control in an XPage (dojox.image.Lightbox)
• Taking all that and showing it in the Notes client
• Incorporating that into a Composite Application and wiring it to a Google search gadget

So if you think you like the sound of that session then come find me on day 1 of UKLUG (8-Oct-09) 3pm-4pm in room #4. The rest of the agenda can be found HERE