#LotusKnows that there is now a mobile reference card for IBM Connections 3.0.1

Thanks to Jon Mell for asking, and to Curious Mitch Cohen for finding, this little gem.

Apparently, it was mentioned on Twitter yesterday, but sadly I missed it :-(

Thankfully, Stuart McIntyre and his oh-so-useful Skype chats for Connections/Portal and Quickr saved the day.

This PDF is a quick reference guide to the functions that you can use when you access IBM® Connections from a mobile device.

Book Review - a Work-in-Progress - Getting Started with IBM FileNet P8 Content Manager

This week I'll be starting a new book - Getting Started with IBM FileNet P8 Content Manager by William J Carpenter - from Packt Publishing: -

Overview of Getting Started with IBM FileNet P8 Content Manager

    * Quickly get up to speed on all significant features and the major components of IBM FileNet P8 Content Manager
    * Provides technical details that are valuable both for beginners and experienced Content Management professionals alike, without repeating product reference documentation
    * Gives a big picture description of Enterprise Content Management and related IT areas to set the context for Content Manager
    * Written by an IBM employee, Bill Carpenter, who has extensive experience in Content Manager product development, this book gives practical tips and notes with a step-by-step approach to design real Enterprise Content Management solutions to solve your business needs

Now I don't (yet) have a full knowledge of FileNet P8, so I'm looking forward to this as a useful learning resource.

I'll write more as I get further into the book ...

HTTPS .... Everywhere :-)

I think I picked this up a tip from the most excellent Guardian TechWeekly podcast a few weeks back, but this is a very useful plugin for Firefox, that works with 3.X and 4.X

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.

Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.

The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

IBM Whitepaper - Understanding IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 enterprise architecture and design

Saw this on Ben Williams' blog this morning, and wanted to re-share it.

Summary:  This white paper describes the various architectural possibilities for an IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 environment. It discusses how each component can be implemented in both a managed and unmanaged configuration, including example deployments, as well as caveats and restrictions for each component.

This white paper describes the various architectural possibilities for an IBM Lotus® Sametime® 8.5.1 environment. It discusses how each component can be implemented in both a managed and unmanaged configuration, including example deployments, as well as caveats and restrictions for each component.

In this white paper

• Introduction

• Architecture design considerations

• WAS component architecture

• Sametime Community services

• Sametime Classic Meeting services

• Sametime System Console

• Sametime Proxy server

• Sametime Meeting server

• Sametime Media server

• Assembling the infrastructure

• Conclusion

• Resources

• About the author

The white paper is on developerWorks here, *BUT* please go and check out Ben's blog, as it's chock-full of nuts good stuff.

Why I blog

When I first started this blog, back in the mists of January 2007, part of my rationale was to write things down in a safe place ( well, the Internet is a safe place, right ? ) to allow me to stop trying to remember everything that I have ever learned :-)

I always consider my memory to be similar to a bucket of water, once it's full, it's full, unless I empty something out first.

Well, it's not the best analogy / metaphor / simile in the world, but it works for me :-)

As my blog tagline now says: -

In the words of Dr Cathy Ryan, "If you don't write it down, it never happened". The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions. My blog is PERSONAL, and is a repository of the stuff that I learn, play with, enjoy and want to share. If you follow one of my tips, your mileage MAY well vary - Here be dragons :-)

Anyway, having switched back to using my Apple Macbook Pro in the past month or so ( partly because it's less weighty than my Thinkpad W500, which is important when you travel as much as we do ), I was struggling to remember how to take screenshots, without needing to load up the ever useful Grab application.

Well, this morning, I actually remembered (!) to Google for the answer, and found this: -

There are several keyboard combinations that can be used to take screenshots in Mac OS X. The SystemUIServer process handles these commands.

Shortcuts

• Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop

• Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop

• Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop

• Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard

• Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard

• Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

In Leopard and later, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):

• Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves

• Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region

• Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

Thanks to MacRumours:Guides for the tip :-)

(Re)enabling Pinch/Zoom in Mozilla Firefox 4 on the Apple Mac

With thanks to F Flyer for posting this.

Firefox 4 disables two finger pinch/zoom gestures on a Mac. Here is how to make pinch/zoom work again.

To enable pinch/zoom in Firefox:

• Open a new tab.
• Type in about:config and press Enter.
• In the search pane, type pinch and press Enter.
• Enter these values for the pinch.in and pinch.out prefs:

browser.gesture.pinch.in         cmd_fullZoomReduce

browser.gesture.pinch.in.shift   cmd_fullZoomReset

browser.gesture.pinch.out        cmd_fullZoomEnlarge

browser.gesture.pinch.out.shift  cmd_fullZoomReset

Well, it works for me :-)

IBM Connections - Some Useful Snippets from the people who know ... IBM Connections

Whilst browsing the excellent site that is the Connections Blog ( kudos to Sharon and Stuart for this ), I found two little gems ( no, not lettuces ! )

Customizing IBM Lotus Connections 3.0 email digests and notifications 

Summary:  One of the primary new features of IBM Lotus Connections 3.0 is the email digest capability, which provides personalized daily and weekly newsletters that are generated based on the activities and updates in the user's social network. This white paper describes how to customize the daily and weekly digests emails, ranging from changing the look and feel of emails to more complex customizations such as adding your company-specific content to the email digests. In addition, this paper also covers customizing individual notification emails sent by the Lotus Connections services. 

In this white paper

• Introduction

• Configuring and administrating email notifications

• Customizing daily and weekly email digests

• Customizing individual notifications

• Conclusion

• Appendix: Comprehensive overview of all notifications in Lotus Connections 3.0

• Resources

• About the authors

which is very timely, given that we're using email notifications in our two-node Connections 3.0.0 cluster.

IBM Connections YouTube Channel

Some really useful movies have been shared so far, covering topics such as:

• building TDI assembly lines

• using the ATOM API

• using the Admin APIs

• using sub-communities

Must get online and have a PEEK