A Portal to a Portal

Friday, 30 January 2009

Two new portlets from the Portal Solutions Catalog ......

IBM Lotus Web Content Management Rendering Portlet

The IBM Lotus Web Content Management Rendering Portlet provided with this package is a solution which updates and improves how the rendering of Web content is performed in IBM WebSphere Portal. While the existing Web Content Viewer portlet (referred to in the WebSphere Portal documentation as a "rendering portlet") has evolved throughout several versions to implement sophisticated Web content rendering functions, it is still based on the deprecated IBM Portlet API. By contrast, the new JSR 286 Web Content Viewer has been entirely redeveloped based on the Java™ Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286). In addition to the benefits afforded by JSR 286, the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer in this package also enables other features for Web content management, such as a new Web content portal page type and support for the standard search seedlist 1.0 format.

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/portal/portal/details?catalog.label=1WP1001S6

WebSphere Portal Extension for WebDAV Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning

WebDAV for WebSphere Portal allows WebDAV clients to connect to a portal server. You can use these clients to access the portal page topology as if it were a folder structure and directly read and edit page titles, description, metadata, and static page content, rather than to use the portal administration portlets. This access point allows you to work with portal pages and directly edit content on a live portal server, for example by using HTML design tools.

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/portal/portal/details?catalog.label=1WP1001SR

IBM Lotus Foundations Start technical workshop - 25/26 March 2009 @ IBM Hursley Park

More from our friends at the IBM Innovation Centre in Hursley: -

IBM Lotus Foundations Start is a complete software appliance that provides the essential software you need to focus on running the business, not managing computer systems. It allows a small business to use e-mail; create, share and centrally manage documents; and ensure information is backed up and protected. If you need to know how to install, configure and use the new Lotus Foundations Start, this workshop is for you.

This workshop is offered in three formats—traditional classroom, virtual, and self-paced. All are no charge and cover the same content. The classroom and virtual formats have a live instructor who delivers the material. The classroom format is done in a traditional classroom setting with lab machines. The virtual format uses Web conferencing and voice over IP (VoIP) to deliver the presentations, and provides remote access to machines to run the labs.

This is a technical class and does not include a product introduction.

https://www-304.ibm.com/jct01005c/isv/spc/events/description.jsp?event=99A944C0B1E0138F8525749F005C9B64

Lotus TechJam III - The first of a series in 2009

Following on from our successes in May and September, we will be running another series of Lotus TechJam events in the next few months.

For those who have not attended before, the concept of a TechJam is an event "run by techies, for techies, with technical content". We try and avoid "Death by PowerPoint" and aim for

This time we're going on the road, and escaping from the comfort zone of Lotus Park ( Staines ) and from the M25, so will be exploring the highways and byways of the UK: -

24th February    IBM Warwick
26th February    IBM Edinburgh
3rd March          IBM Hursley Park

covering all or some of the following topics: -

Lotus Notes and Domino – An Update
XPages - Building Collaborative Web Applications in Lotus Domino and Beyond
Collaboration in Context - Lotus Mashups and Lotus Sametime Together
Lotus Quickr – Team Collaboration
Lotus Sametime – For Microsoft Sharepoint Customers !!
Portal Accelerators – From Collaboration to Mashups
Collaboration and Content – Quickr and Filenet Working Together
Lotus Connections – Social Networking – The Next Generation
Lotus Protector – Email and Security - In A Box
Lotus Foundations – The Appliance of Collaboration
LotusLive – End-to-end Communication and Collaboration – As A Service

( precise agenda will vary from location to location )

For more details, and a more proper invitation, please see here.

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Switching between chat sessions using Lotus Sametime 8.0

Following on from my "discovery" about tab switching in Firefox, I just discovered that the same trick works for Lotus Sametime e.g. that I can switch between open chat sessions ( I have them "tabbed" down the left-hand side ) using the [Ctrl] [Tab] key sequence.

Woo, keyboards rock - bring back my IBM Enhanced 5250 keyboard with 24 function keys :-)

Thursday, 22 January 2009

Useful Portal URLs

Wednesday, 21 January 2009

"Managing Portal 6.1 Environments" Redbook release

"...The following document (wiki) discusses best practices for building and managing your WebSphere Portal v. 6.1 Environment. High level information is provided about how to
set up a Portal v. 6.1 Environment, including a development, staging and production environment. Within the context of each of these environments, we cover topics related
to how to move changes through the system and successfully manage releases of a Portal 6.1 site..."

It's available on the WebSphere Portal wiki here.

Congratulations to Fernanda Gomes, Carrie Hu, Corinne Letilley, Ivan Portilla, Matthew Stokes and Rahul Vyas for what looks to be a really useful and complete document.

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

More on Notes and Citrix

Following on from my earlier post about Notes and Citrix, there is a new paper on the developerWorks site entitled IBM Lotus Notes 8.0.2 on Citrix XenApp 4.5: A scalability analysis that may be of further interest

I may be able to post more tomorrow ( Wednesday ) once I've attended Brian Gallagher's session ( joint IBM/Citrix ), ID108, here at Lotusphere 2009.