My First Jam – Application Design and Modernization for IBM Notes and Domino  

By Peter Presnell | 12/21/17 3:46 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I had the chance to participate in my first Domino Jam 2025 event this week. Due to travel commitments, I had to settle for a virtual jam rather than the face-to-face sessions conducted in North America the previous week. Red Pill Now has just started its own Webinar series in application modernization so I knew it was going be a challenge for IBM to mirror the interaction possible in the face-to-face jams. But at least it provided a way for the hundreds that attended to be part of the process.

Domino Customers 2025  

By Peter Presnell | 12/18/17 5:49 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

There are many ways to look at the market for the Domino family of products (Notes, Sametime, and Verse). One of them is to see the product from the perspective of various segments of the existing market. At Red Pill Now we have a long established market segmentation model for Domino customers.

Lessons Learned Replacing Lotus: Part 3  

By Peter Presnell | 8/28/17 6:10 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho

Let’s start by dealing with the 800 lb (363 kg) gorilla in the room. Is “Lotus Notes” dead? Well technically yes, because the official name has now been changed to IBM Notes. Many people, including most of us at Red Pill Now, have been heard to claim this is true even if it perhaps it is not an entirely true statement.

Lessons Learned Replacing Lotus: Part 2  

By Peter Presnell | 8/27/17 8:00 PM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho

For those of you who have read Lessons Learned Replacing Lotus: Part 1, I have a small confession to make. I do not really own a yellow 1989 Lotus! I wish I did, as it would have been really cool to turn up to Lotusphere each year in one of those. What I do own is a 2011 Lexus RX 350.

Lessons Learned Replacing Lotus: Part 1  

By Peter Presnell | 8/25/17 1:17 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Back around 1989 I became a Lotus enthusiast. Yellow even became my favorite color. While I never got to the point where I would dress up in a yellow suit, I would describe myself as somebody who would bleed yellow. With my Lotus I could do almost anything.

Pete Janzen: Lotus Legend  

By Peter Presnell | 8/14/16 5:54 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Many years ago I launched a web site called Lotus Legends that recognized the contributions made by many people inside and outside IBM to the Lotus Notes product. I retired the site after IBM announced its IBM Champions program. While both sought to provide recognition of the many contributions made by our community the two programs differed in three distinct ways

Beyond XPages  

By Peter Presnell | 6/6/16 9:36 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Early last year I did a presentation at several User Groups entitled “Beyond XPages”. The presentation outlined an approach for building modern Web applications for Notes data that was not based upon XPages. We believe XPages has a shelf life of (at best) 5 years before companies will become very active in seeking to migrate to other development platforms.

How Delta Lost 40 Passengers on DL80  

By Peter Presnell | 3/30/16 2:54 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

About our travels to Engage.UG as Brussels' airport was targeted by terrorist's bombing. Not the usual recap of a conference (// OB)

Running Notes Applications on a Tablet  

By Peter Presnell | 11/4/15 11:15 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Many years ago, shortly after the original iPad was released I was sitting in a meeting. In one corner of the room was my esteemed colleague Tim “XMage” Tripcony. As the meeting progressed Tim started chuckling a number of times as he “tapped” away on his new iPad.

Red Pill Now - IBM Leadership Alliance 2015  

By Peter Presnell | 10/11/15 4:46 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Each year IBM invites a group of customers and business partners to its Leadership Alliance to share its visions for the future and facilitate networking between IBM executives and attendees. Red Pill NOW was fortunate enough to have two invitees at this year’s event, Nathan T Freeman and myself.

XPages 2.0  

By Peter Presnell | 5/21/15 8:02 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Thanks to TLCC and TeamStudio I had a chance last week to see the latest version of Pete Janzen’s update on the latest plans for future enhancements to XPages. While we have all have probably been frustrated in the delays in getting the next version of Domino (9.0.2) to market Pete and the XPages development team have been busy putting together what is now a compelling list of new features for XPages.

IBM Verse: First Impressions  

By Peter Presnell | 5/8/15 6:54 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

In a yellow uniVERSE now far far away from where I live today I attended my first Lotusphere and heard of a new vision for Lotus that was called Project Vulcan. Over the years the Project Vulcan story has changed many times and some might say it has been abandoned by IBM altogether.

Life After The Notes Client  

By Peter Presnell | 1/6/15 12:51 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Lotus Notes recently turned 25. Sadly its best years are now behind it. IBM has chosen to invest in other areas such as Connections, Bluemix, and Verse. The effects of this change in focus by IBM are now obvious. In 2015 the Notes client is delivering an aging portfolio of applications in an outdated UI using programming languages that have not changed for over 10 years.

Twitter / Peter Presnell: timtripcony.com is back ...  

By Peter Presnell | 6/2/14 5:44 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

timtripcony.com is back online for all those that continue to get awesome value from @timtripcony's blog #codefortim

The History Of Lotus Notes  

By Peter Presnell | 2/25/14 12:19 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

As mentioned in my last blog post, I have invested a lot of time recently building a clearer picture for myself of the history behind Lotus Notes, including Lotusphere.

Day Of Champions - April 7  

By Peter Presnell | 1/22/14 2:54 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The ATLanta User Group for IBM Collaboration Solutions ( ATLUG ) is planning a new event to be known as ATLUG Day of Champions on Monday April 7. The goal of this event is to provide a new style of event for the local user group centered around IBM's...

Modern Domino: Booleans  

By Peter Presnell | 11/25/13 12:43 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

When it comes to staying modern, there is almost no aspect of application development that stays still for long.

Modern Domino: Icons  

By Peter Presnell | 11/7/13 12:41 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In many way Lotus Notes was a pioneer in the use of icons to display information about documents in applications.

Modern Domino: Domino 9.0.1  

By Peter Presnell | 11/5/13 12:51 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Last week IBM released Domino 9.0.1, a new feature release for IBM Notes/Domino. The following is a summary of some of the new features for application development, with specific focus on those items that assist in modernizing Notes applications.

Modern Domino: iOS7  

By Peter Presnell | 9/30/13 12:35 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

iOS 7 is the first major overall of Apple’s mobile UI since the release of the iPhone in 2007. In the first five days it is estimated 200 million devices upgraded to iOS 7.

Putting NIFTY Back Into The Nifty Fifty  

By Peter Presnell | 4/9/13 12:26 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In my last blog I talked about an experiment in which I was able to add a mobile interface to 100 Notes databases in 35 minutes.

Modernization: It’s a Journey Not a Destination   

By Peter Presnell | 12/4/12 12:35 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Ask an IT executive and the answer may be the migration of legacy systems to a more strategic (web based) platform. Ask a web designer and the answer will probably involve the term Web 2.0. Ask an IBM Lotus Notes developer and the answer will probably center on a migration of applications to XPages. Ask a user and they will most likely talk about the need to add social capabilities and provide mobile access.

The Power Of Notes - Part 18 Java  

By Peter Presnell | 10/11/12 1:07 PM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

This is likely to be the last installment in my series The Power Of Notes. A series that has taken a somewhat random look at various aspects of Notes Classic Applications and a small handful of the things that have made Lotus Notes one of the most successful application development platforms on the planet. I have chosen Java for this final part because in many ways it represents one of the technologies that bridges between the original Notes Classic development environment and the new XPages environment.

The Free Lunch Is Over   

By Peter Presnell | 9/23/12 11:53 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Research conducted by GBS suggests that there are somewhere between 10 and 20 million Notes applications in the world. Probably the largest proportion of these were written in the era of Lotus Notes in which we had a free Designer client integrated with the Notes client, and it was available to everyone.