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01/24/2007
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15:24 - posted
by BobBalfe |
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VB 6, Mashups, Comp Apps, and more
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01/24/2007
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05:33 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/24/2007 01:33:23
Today was a lab day for me at Lotusphere and as always I love talking
to customers, hearing their demands and attempting to give them some
information that will help them out technically. I was actually
shocked to hear how many ISV's and business partners want to leverage
Lotus Expeditor to surface VB 6 applications. Apparently there is much
concern about the move of MS to stop supporting VB6 and the
applications need to be heavily modified to go to a .NET architecture.
The other main topic was surfacing anything and having the
components "speak" with each other over the Property Broker. I am
really glad I got the opportunity to port the broker from portal to the
client - it appears to be taking off like very well and people are
really understanding it and its value.
I did however get to spend a couple of hours with the family and we did
another trip to Universal Studios - this time taking on the Mummy!
This is a great ride and if you get to Universal make sure you hit it.
I just finished the Composite Applications and SOA birds of a feather -
yes it is only 8:30am and yes it started at 7am and barely no one was
coherent. I certainly did not like closing Jellyrolls
and getting 4 1/2 hours of sleep but hey - if you fly with the owls you
need to sore with the eagles!
Tags: Lotus
Expeditor Composite
Applications Lotusphere2007
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Tuesday and Lotusphere
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01/23/2007
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06:02 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/23/2007 02:02:32
I will be in the meet the developers lab starting at 9am but I thought
I would catch the start of " ID307 IBM Lotus Expeditor Looks to the
Future (R1)" and I am extremely impressed with the turn out. It is
almost like there is a small group of attendees that are starting to
understand what Expeditor is and what it means for the future of Notes
and Sametime. At the Open Source BOF last night we got a lot of
"clarification" questions from the group. People are starting to
understand both the flexibility of Expeditor and the preservation of
their existing Notes applications. We got a lot of questions on
composite applications and how Eclipse based components fit into the
picture.
Come to the lab and see some demos and code on the Expeditor samples.
I will be in the lab until 12:30 today.
Tags: Lotus
Expeditor Composite
Applications Lotusphere2007
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Expeditor is taking off
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01/22/2007
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19:45 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/22/2007 15:45:41
With a lot of sessions today on Lotus Expeditor, Composite Applications
,and Property Broker the word is definitely out on this programming
model and platform. I gave my
talk today and it appeared to be well received by the Lotus Notes
community. This is a pretty large Lotusphere with 7K plus attendees
the halls and functions are pretty swamped with people. There is a lot
of great interest in Property broker, declarative wiring, mash-ups and
composite applications in general. Some excellent feedback and desires
have been around moving things like legacy VB 6 applications to Lotus
Expeditor. On more than one occasion in the first day in the labs this
was brought up. I am glad we can give VB developers a path to the
future that appears to be more appealing to them than a re-write to
.NET.
Tags: programming Lotus
Expeditor Composite
Applications Lotusphere2007
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Off to Disney for Lotusphere!
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01/19/2007
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05:34 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/19/2007 01:34:12
In 9 years I have never taken my
family to Lotusphere and this year is the first! See you in Florida.
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Composite Application Draft RedPaper
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01/18/2007
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13:28 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/18/2007 09:28:24
This is an IBM Redpaper (currently a draft) that I contributed to last
year. It shows really great examples of how to create composite
applications using the Lotus Expeditor 6.1 client.
Building
Composite Applications in Lotus Expeditor V6.1
Abstract
This redpaper covers composite applications for desktop solutions
that
require multiple types of applications to run in a Lotus Expeditor V6.1
collaboration environment by providing inter-communication between
components. SOA composite applications deliver high levels of business
services and this redpaper covers the architecture, available tools,
component considerations, assembling, deploying and wiring components
in Lotus Expeditor V6.1 composite applications. Lotus Expeditor is a
client platform for end-to-end smart client
application solutions. Expeditor provides services to install and
manage these applications and to allow end-users to easily launch and
switch among these applications. Expeditor leverages Eclipse technology
to provide a client solution that runs on multiple operating systems.
The benefits of composite applications include reducing the total cost
of ownership for client solutions through reusability of existing
components and the sharing of these components across applications,
migrating existing applications to run on the client platform until
such time as a business deems it necessary to fully exploit the client
platform, controlling access to applications based on roles assigned to
end-users and improving the end-user experience by allowing composite
applications components to easily communicate between them. This
redpaper is targeted to architects, developers and administrators
who need to understand the implemented architecture to develop,
assemble and deploy composite applications in Lotus Expeditor V6.1.
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Insidious Tight Coupling
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01/17/2007
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06:26 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/17/2007 02:26:09
This months Dr Dobbs has an article written by Bill Lewis ( Insidious
Tight Coupling) where he explains the good programming practice of
interface programming. This should not be news to any developer with
more than 6 months experience - or even graduated with a CS degree.
What I am hear to preach is there should be a further abstraction when
dealing with cooperative components the user interacts with. This
abstraction I am referring to is the same one developed for Portal 5+,
Lotus Expeditor 6.1 and the up and coming Lotus Notes 8. The concept
is simple, make your GUI components act like a well defined interface
using WSDL. This means if another component - or code for that matter
- wants to interact with your component they only know about the
interfaces exposed in the WSDL.
Why does this matter?
It matters because now we have given non-programmers a way to
declaratively connect these components. They can use a wiring tool
- like the one in Portal or the up and coming Composite Application
Editor - to create these applications and get these components talking
to each other. So we have not only implemented a good overall
discipline but are giving that discipline to administrators and end
users.
Take this basic scenario:
We have a date picker control that we know published a Date
object when a day is selected. We can then wire that component to any
other component that receives a Date object - like a weather report
portlet, or a blog site. This now allows a normal person - not a God
like developer - to take these components and create new contexts
(applications). Think of this as a way for someone to create an
interactive Portal where the components can drive each other for
specific results.
Tags: programming Lotus
Expeditor Composite
Applications interface component development
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The Mexican Jumping Bean
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01/16/2007
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12:48 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/16/2007 08:48:44
Very interesting write-up
in case you did not know about them.
They are a type of seed in which the egg of a small moth has been
laid. It is the moth's larva which makes them "jump".
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New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML
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01/16/2007
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08:43 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/16/2007 04:43:20
I don't know if this
is true or not but if it is I find it pretty amazing MS would give
Outlook this limitation. I might have to run this by Ed.
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Jazz is not just a type of music
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01/16/2007
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05:37 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/16/2007 01:37:17
After reading the article " Knowledge-Centric Application Lifecycle
Management" by Dr. Tieren Zhou I realized I am not so much in the
know about collaborative development initiatives in the industry.
IBM's Rational has a project called Jazz -
which is an Eclipse based extension for providing collaboration
integration with the IDE. You can search developer works for Jazz and
find all sorts of hits.
The article also mentions Visual Studio 2005 and its team
capabilities. Of course I installed the XNA development kit - which is
the express version and I really like it. The article is
interesting because while these enhancements to the IDE's are coming -
or are out now - many IBM'ers have been doing this type of thing for
years using Sametime and VNC. I do like the integration - I just don't
know if I want to know or care who is working on what piece of code any
time of the day...
Tags: IBM collaboration Rational
Visual Studio Jazz
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Collaborative Development Environments
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01/15/2007
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06:59 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/15/2007 02:59:35
If you are into collaboration and/or team development methodologies
then this months magazine is for you. It is filled with some very good articles.
 Grady
Booch has a short article (page
10) in Dr Dobb's this month where he continues his evangelism in the
collaborative development environments. While I do not think the
environment he suggests exists today, it is getting very close.
Eclipse is so open and having Lotus (and IBM for that matter) put most
of their eggs on Eclipse you will see plugins that can and will capture
collaboration at its best and be compatible with tools like basic
Eclipse, Rational Software Architect and Rational Application
Developer. Of course some of the new tools coming out - like Composite
Application Editor, Component
Designer, etc will all be easily integrated into Lotus Notes 8.
The next articles that look very appealing - which I have already begun
to read - are the ones in the section dedicated to Global Collaborative
Development. It has five short articles with some excellent material.
I will be commenting on them little later.
Tags: IBM collaboration
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XNA dev kit is pretty cool
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01/11/2007
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16:59 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/11/2007 12:59:44
I have been playing with XNA for a bit and I
am very impressed with the SDK, IDE and ease of use. The best thing I
like is the starter kit game that is included with the product. I have
always liked MS development tools and the XNA C# based kit follows the
high level of standard MS puts into their tooling.
Here is a screen shot of the different projects available - out of the
box:
The great thing is, when you create the SpaceWar starter kit you can
use this as a learning application by looking at the source and of
course debugging it - excellent for beginners. I have already started
playing around with my own objects - created in TrueSpace 6 - with the SDK. I
honestly can not believe how easy it is.
Here is a screen shot of the sample game: (click the picture to see it
larger)
Tags: Microsoft XNA C#
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MS Loves Linux - yeah right
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01/11/2007
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13:21 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/11/2007 09:20:05
In the latest Dr
Dobb's there is an article that just makes you want to puke. It
talks about how Microsoft has struck a deal with Novell where their
clients (the ones who run SUSE Linux) will not sued by Microsoft for
violation licensing fees. What is funny is Microsoft is actually giving
money to Novell so are we to assume MS is the one infringing on
Novell's IP? Anyway, interesting read and you will probably be more
confused after you read it.
Tags: Microsoft Linux Novell IP
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Introduction to OSGI
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01/10/2007
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18:57 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/10/2007 14:57:03
Chris
turned me on to a posting that is a pretty good introduction to OSGI
and Eclipse bundles. Check it out here.
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The Bloggies are back!
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01/07/2007
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16:13 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/06/2007 16:06:42
Feel free to nominate my blog for the 2007 Bloggies. I didn't place
too well last year (actually not at all) so I am really stepping up the
advertising. I am really trying to get recognized in the following
categories for the following reasons:
Best Web Application for Weblogs - Blosxom is awesome and there are
not many who use it any more
Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog - I mentioned
Steve Irwin's death - God I miss that show.
Best Asian Weblog - I like Pokemon!
Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog - I know many African
Americans, I even had one in my wedding party
Best European Weblog - One of my favorite movies is European
Vacation
Best British or Irish Weblog - I have both British and Irish
heritage
Best Latin American Weblog - I read Latin in Church many times
Best Canadian Weblog - Bob and Doug McKenzie were my childhood
heroes
Best American Weblog - Do I really have to say?
Best Photography of a Weblog - There are tons of photos on this site
Best Craft Weblog - My wife thinks I am pretty crafty
Best Food Weblog - No reason outside of I eat a lot of it
Best Sports Weblog - Go Bills!
Best Weblog About Music - I had four postings with the word music
in them.
Best Entertainment Weblog - The vote is not out on whether this is
entertaining
Best Weblog About Politics - I love Bush!
Best Web Development Weblog - This site has been a pain in my ass
with all of the perl and Javascript
Best Computers or Technology Weblog - Need I say more?
Best Topical Weblog - I probably have the most topics!
Best GLBT Weblog - Giving Losers Bottled Tequila was my passion 10
years ago
Best Teen Weblog - I know my site has thousands of teens subscribing
Most Humorous Weblog - Is this funny? Probably not...
Best Writing of a Weblog - I have gotten better...
Best Group Weblog - I think of it more as a community
Best Community Weblog - It is more like a group to me
Best-Designed Weblog - Come on, Blue - how can I go wrong?
Best-Kept Secret Weblog - I still believe my blog is the
biggest secret on the Internet
Best New Weblog - It is new - I might actually qualify for this one
Lifetime Achievement - Married 13 years, 3 kids, a dog, a bird, two
cats - I think I deserve it
Weblog of the Year - Wooo Hoo, this is what I am aiming for!
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XNA is launched
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01/06/2007
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20:09 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/06/2007 15:41:36
For all of the game creator enthusiasts out there XNA is now
launched. I am not sure of the exact date it launched but it is also
mentioned in this months gamedeveloper
on page 5.
From the XNA Faq:
XNA Game Studio Express is
a new game development solution targeted primarily at students,
hobbyists, and independent game developers. XNA Game Studio Express is
based on Visual C# Express 2005 and lets developers create games for
both Windows and Xbox 360. XNA Game Studio Express contains the
following:
- The XNA Framework, a set of managed code development
libraries that make it possible for game developers to be more
productive when creating games for Windows and the Xbox 360.
- The XNA Framework Content Pipeline, a set of tools that
allow developers to more easily incorporate 3D content into their games
- XNA Game Studio Express also contains a full set of
documentation, how-tos, and starter kits that demonstrate how best to
use the content pipeline and XNA Framework.
- XNA Game Studio Express runs side-by-side with other
versions of Visual Studio without interference
- XNA Game Studio Express has now been released, and can
be found here. It supports both Windows and Xbox 360 game development.
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Translate your site
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01/06/2007
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18:36 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/06/2007 14:16:29
You can use the Google tool to translate any site to your native language. It has some cludges but does a pretty good job.
German
French
Spanish
Italian
Japanese
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One of my favorite pictures
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01/05/2007
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11:58 - posted
by BobBalfe |
meta-creation_date: 01/05/2007 07:58:21
This is an oldy but it popped up in my screen
saver, you've got to love him.
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