Ephox's EditLive for Quickr for Domino, implemented by PSC, is now in beta! The first implementation replaces the standard rich text editor, powered by Dojo, with EditLive! 6.5 in three places: Quickr Blog: and the custom implementations of the Insert Internal Link, Insert Wikipedia Link, and Insert Internal Image (these were in the Dojo editor) on the Insert menu Quickr Wiki: Quickr Standard Page: Some of the great features you will get with EditLive within Lotus Quickr are: Copy and Paste from Microsoft Word, which converts the pasted text into HTML Track Changes within the same page In-line Spell Check Fully featured tables with drag support for resize A much improved HTML/Code tab for viewing the raw rich text Complete Find and Replace Full Screen Editing of just the Rich Text window Format Painter much more! Ephox is also sponsoring a webinar, given by Warren Elsmore, on LotusUserGroup.org about Upgrading to Lotus Quickr. You can register here. For those interest

So Eric Otchet just told the Design Partners that Lotus Symphony 1.2 will be shipping on November 5th, 2008 and will include the first Mac build! It will be English only for 1.2 and it will have a 'beta' tag attached. The gold release will be in the first quarter of 2009 and we can expect Symphony to be bundled with the Notes client around that time as well. More news about 1.2 coming soon!

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 10 Years Of Rialto Pictures: Criterion Collection 4400, The: The Complete Series Abbott & Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection American President, The Cathouse: Season #1 Donna Reed Show, The: Season #1 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Complete Series Emma: A Victorian Romance: Season #2 Flintstones, The: The Complete Series Girlfriends: Season #5 Good Times: The Complete Series Journey To The Center Of The Earth (2008) (#17 in the DVDPS Top 40) Kit Kittredge: An American Girl L Word, The: Sesaon #5 Little Rascals: The Complete Collection (#19 in the DVDPS Top 40) Millennium: The Complete Series Mother & Son: Season 2 Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition (#3 in the DVDPS Top 40) National Lampoon's Animal House: 30th Anniversary Edition Newsradio: The Complete Series Ouran High School Host Club: Season #1 Polar Express, The: Presented In 3-D Robson Arms: Season #3 Sanford And Son: The Complete Series

Here are the slides from the PSC presentation at the Microsoft DII Workshop on OOXML from this past week PSC & OOMXLView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: psc ooxml)

At the DII Workshop on OOXML today, one of the issues that is under discussion is creating an test suite of documents that implementers can test their implementation against. My recommendation is that the OOXML (and ODF) camp create something like the ACID test. The ACID test let's browser creators test specific features and functionality and let's the user see where they stand. This is not about implementing hundreds or thousands of pages of a spec, its about meeting specific requirements. There should be a test suite of documents that you can open, edit, save, and create. And then some validator to measure how the specific implementation opens and saves these documents. The documents can be tied to versions of the specifications. What is important is that I, the user, can take a document, run it against the validator, and get a visible score myself. It needs to be transparent. I know there is the ODF Validator, but it does not work very well. There should be one place where I uploa

The Chicago Associate Board President's Council (CABPC) is having it's Fall 2008 Find Your Cause event next week, Tuesday, October 28, 2008. This event brings over 20 of Chicago's Not for Profit organizations so that you, the attendee, can learn more and get involved! If you are looking to get more involved with a NFP group, this even is perfect for you! The event is at PJ Clark's, 1141 W. Armitage and is $15. As Communications Committee Chair for the Field Associates of The Field Museum, I will be there! Hope to see people there!

I am back in Redmond, WA this week for the DII Workshop on OOXML. What is great is that this time, I have two other PSC folks with me. David Munaretto, Vice President of Microsoft Services and Andrew Schwantes, OOXML Technical Champion. We are here to listen, learn, and talk about our Case Study around PowerPoint and OOXML. I am betting that this one will be as much fun as the ODF one I attended this summer. I wonder who will attend? :)

We just posted a new case study on the PSC Website. This one talks about our first OOXML project, which uses PowerPoint as an enterprise reporting framework. I am super excited about this solution and can not wait to talk about our OOXML frameworks in the near future! If you are looking at doing any work with OOXML, please contact us!

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies According To Jim: Season #1 Casino Royale: 3-Disc Collector's Edition Charmed: The Complete Series Die Another Day: Ultimate Edition Dr. No: Ultimate Edition Dynasty: Season #3: Volume 2 Family Guy #6 Family Guy Freakin Sweet Party Pack For Your Eyes Only: Ultimate Edition From Russia With Love: Ultimate Edition Incredible Hulk, The (2008) (Blu-Ray) (#1 in the DVDPS Top 40) Incredible Hulk, The (2008): 3-Disc SE (#6 in the DVDPS Top 40) Incredible Hulk, The: Season #5 Incredible Hulk, The: The Complete Series Kenji Mizoguchi's Fallen Women: Eclipse From The Criterion Collection Knight Rider: The Complete Series L Word, The: Sesaon #5 Live And Let Die: Ultimate Edition Living Daylights, The: Ultimate Edition Looney Tunes Golden Collection, The: Volume 6 Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection, The: Volume 6 Man From U.N.C.L.E., The: The Complete Series Missing: The Criterion Collection Naked Brothers Band, The: Season #2 New Adventures Of Old Chr

This past week, I attended the IBM Websphere Portal Technical Conference in Nashville, TN. I was a guest at the Ephox booth, showing off PSC's work on the implementation of EditLive! within IBM Lotus Quickr for Domino. Here are some thoughts about the conference: The vendor's area was much smaller (under 20 partners) but the booth sizes where much larger. Each partner had what seemed like a 10' x 10' space .. with multiple tables, custom backdrop, etc. The booth setup was great The food at the event was far superior to anything at Lotusphere. Maybe it is the scale (650+ here vs the 6000+ at Lotusphere). It seemed like 1/3 of the attendees were IBM employees .. and not of the product type. Lots and lots of IGS folks there Even though Websphere Portal is a Lotus brand product, most people were surprised to see so much yellow at the conference. Lotus Quickr for J2EE, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Mashups, and even a presentation on widgets and Composite Applications was on the agenda I met

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Adventures Of Robin Hood: Season #2 Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection Alien Vs. Predator: Total Destruction Collection Back To You: Season #1 Biblical Classics Collection CSI: Season #8 Capricorn One: SE Chaplin: 15th Anniversary Edition Chris & John To The Rescue: Season #2 Halloween: 30th Anniversary Box Set Hammer Films: Icons Of Horror Holiday Inn: 3 Disc Collector's Set Home Alone: The Complete Collection Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc SE (Blu-Ray) (#2 in the DVDPS Top 40) Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc SE (#7 in the DVDPS Top 40) Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (#1 in the DVDPS Top 40) Nash Bridges: Season #1 New World, The: The Extended Cut Partridge Family, The: Season #3 Pirates Who Don't Do Anything, The: A Veggie Tales Movie (Widescreen) Rules Of Engagement: Season #2 Sarah Silverman Program, The: Season #2: Volume 1 Short Cuts: Criterion Collectio

So in a move that many will raise an eyebrow to, Silverlight 2 ships today ... with support for development within the Eclipse.org development environment. Yes, Microsoft is embracing Eclipse.org. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of The Eclipse Foundation, posted a blog entry about this. It seems that Microsoft is funding a third-party, Soyatec, to do the development. Soyatec is already an Eclipse.org member. You can read about the tools at Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight site. I think this is a great move by Microsoft. The more places someone can do development with Silverlight, the more likely people are to use it.

I am about to head to Nashville to attend the Websphere Portal Technical Conference that IBM is running this week. I am mainly there to be on the show floor with Ephox, showing off our Lotus Quickr for Domino integration with EditLive! If anyone is going, please come visit or shoot me an email so we can connect!

Is your company looking at Lotus Symphony as a replacement for other office productivity software? PSC has at Lotus Symphony Executive Jumpstart, now listed in the IBM Lotus Business Solutions Catalog. A 2 day briefing that covers the executive, end-user, and developer related topics. We will help you prepare for the move to Symphony and make sure you have all the current information to make an educated decision. Lotus Symphony can save your company quite a bit of money ... and PSC can help you start the savings!

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 30 Rock: Season #2 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, The: 50th Anniversary Edition Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection Alice Faye Collection: Volume 2 Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Collection Backyardigans, The: Escape From Fairytale Village Beverly Hillbillies, The: Season #2 Bozenka: Every Shimmy In The Book Care Bears: Flurries Of Fun Cathouse: Season #1 Grace Under Fire: Season #1 Happening, The Henry's World: Season #1 How I Met Your Mother: Season #3 Keeping Up With The Kardashians: Season #1 Le Deuxieme Souffle: The Criterion Collection Le Doulos: The Criterion Collection Lexx: Season #1 Martin: Season #5 Mission Impossible: Season #5 Naked Brothers Band, The: Season #2 Pirates: Season #1 Rest Stop: Don't Look Back: Uncut Robot Chicken: Season #3 Sarah Jane Adventures, The: Season #1 Simpsons, The: Season #11 (#10 in the DVDPS Top 40) Sleeping Beauty: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition (Blu-Ray) (#12 in the DVDPS Top 40) Sleeping Beauty: 50th Anniv

At UKLUG, as people came to the Integra booth, the topic of custom development came up over and over. We call it 'in-applicaiton development' - where you the developer write code in Script Libraries and/or Agents that connects Notes to the third-party application. Over and over, the issues of proper Notes application development and how hard it was just to add a new column to a report. I know these issues well ... since I have experienced them since 1993! I have 15 years of battle scars on the pain that in-application can cause. Products like Integra make your integration development less of a burden. Instead of having all of your code within each Notes database, Integra locates all of the code, templates, and logic with the report Profile in the Integra database. They only impact to your application is an action button or hot spot that a user can use to trigger the report recreation (which is 100% optional). If you are interested in more information about how Integra can ease your i

PSC is hiring in another position in our Collaboration team, this time specifically a Lotus Domino Administrator. Alex has the details, but we need someone who can travel. If you have Administration skills in the Sametime, Quickr, Connections (so DB2 and WAS and Portal) that would never hurt you chances :). As before, please comment on Alex's site or contact him directly.

So there has been lots of talk of people wanting some way to filter topics on PlanetLotus.org over the past couple months. With all the talk of the election in the U.S. this fall, as well as personal topics that might not be on target and posts that seem to manipulate the readership. As UKLUG, there was a discussion about this. I can no remember who came up with the idea, but I heard the best solution to this problem. Yancy should not filter anything. Nor should he build filtering tools. But sometimes when I blog, I want to make the decision to keep that post off of PL. I would like to see a tag/category that I can put on any entry, i.e. "NoPL", that Yancy will filter out when he reads the rss feed. This way, I can blog about something, and keep it off PlanetLotus.org. If you follow me via RSS, you can read it all. Also, this way, no one can claim censorship - by the site or other people. The poster makes the choice. Thoughts?

Are you reading Alex Kassabov's blog? He is on PlanetLotus.org, but you should follow him. Alex is the head of our Collaboration team here at PSC and oversees all of the consultants working on Lotus technology (except Portal, we have a dedicated Portal team that covers multiple vendor's products). He is my boss as well - so the kiss up never hurts, right? His blog has some great thoughts on the Lotus space and other thoughts about consulting and Chicago. Go ahead, follow his blog.

So how many folks in Chicago are going to the Lotus Collaboration Summit tomorrow at Navy Pier? You can still RSVP. After the event, IBM is hosting a free screening of The Dark Knight in IMAX at 3 PM. If you have not RSVP'd for the movie, just tell the folks at the registration desk. How cool of IBM to do this! Seeing the movie of the summer in full IMAX glory in the city it was filmed (at a location in the movie)!