Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 12 Rounds: Extreme Cut Do The Right Thing: 20th Anniversary Edition Dog The Bounty Hunter: Best Of Season #5 Eastbound & Down: Season #1 Education Of Charlie Banks, The Entourage: Season #5 Eureka: Season #3 Heroic Age: The Complete Series: Part Two Hi-5: Season #2 Human Contract, The IT Crowd, The: Season #2 Island (2005) (#38 in the DVDPS Top 40) Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience: Deluxe Extended Movie Lookin' To Get Out: Director's Cut Monk: Season #7 Parker Lewis Can't Lose: Season #1 Patton 360: Season #1 Psych: Season #3 Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: Season #2 Stargate Atlantis: Season #5 (#10 in the DVDPS Top 40) Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li: Unleashed And Unrated Twelve Kingdoms, The: Complete Series Computer Games BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Limited Edition ( Xbox 360) Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood ( Xbox 360) Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince ( Xbox 360) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ( Xbox 360)

Here is the update I just made in the IP WG Forum: 1. fix login issues with Safari (this might be a webkit issue so it could effect Chrome as well) A fix was implemented to allow Webkit login (tested with both Safari 4 and the latest Chrome). Redirect from any page other than the homepage is not implemented. We want to fix this but went for the immediate fix that prevented login. 2. fix the time out issue on the XPages forums A fix was implemented this morning via a LPTA token setting. The time out is set for over 3 hours. Should only effect postings in process. 3. fix the CSS where stuff does not display correctly A fix was implemented so that no text is cut off. There are still some issues with the views not filling the width of the pages. We consider that a bug and will work to fix this, but wanted to fix the bug that was stopping Firefox users from reading text in place ASAP. Please test and confirm or report issues for each of these. I know there is a wishlist of features -

A good friend of mine that many of you know, John Wargo, asked me to highlight his upcoming book BlackBerry Development Fundamentals. While not specifically about Blackberry development for Domino, John includes a few examples that utilize Domino data. I have know John for many years, and this is a book I will recommend to anyone! John's blog also has Blackberry and Domino content and tips. John, get yourself added to PlanetLotus.org! Oh, and get your book on the Kindle in DX format - only way I am buying books these days!

Crain's ChicagoBusiness sent out an email to it's newsletter list promoting the Crains's Chicago Golf iPhone application. What I love about this is Crain's is promoting their own website and services, but are also promoting PSC. You can see that in the picture, they highlighted that we build the application. The application also has text on the main page "Developed by PSC Group, LLC" with a page of information about us. Not only is PSC involved in developing applications for the hottest application platform today, but we have a great partnership with someone who wants to see us succeed. You can download the Crain's Chicago Golf iPhone app from the iTunes Application Store. Search for Crain's Chicago Golf or PSC Group.

I made two posts in the IP Working Group forum I wanted to make everyone aware of: Technical Issues we are working on Here is the current bug list: 1. fix login issues with Safari (this might be a webkit issue so it could effect Chrome as well) 2. fix the time out issue on the XPages forums 3. fix the CSS where stuff does not display correctly There are some feature requests like just showing top level topics, but those will come later. We are actively working on these three issues and will have them solved by Monday AM US time. We are even looking at backup plans to roll back the forum to domBulletin - whatever it takes to get the problems solved. I will update this thread as we have more information to communication. Thanks for you patience. IP Proposed Resolutions - Extending the Discussion Period I am going to extend the time period for discussion on the Proposed Resolutions and NOT bring them to the Steering Committee for vote on 7.2.2009. I will give everyone until the fo

So in the past 60 hours, there has been a huge amount of debate, discussion, and even a bit of nasty sludge being thrown around after the IP Working Group Conference Call last week. I decided to stay out of the fray and have only answered questions about technical issues outside of the IP Working Group forum until now. I decided to write this blog so people knew exactly what I was thinking and feeling around this. Hopefully an open revelation will help settle some of the issues and fears. 1. The IP Working Group Forum Technical Issues So let's get this out of the way. Yes, the new XPages forum design is having technical issues on OpenNTF.org for the General Forum as well as the Working Group forums. This sucks. We have time out issues, display issues, and more. It looks like Safari has login issues as well with the site, which has nothing to do with the XPages forum design. These issues frustrate me as much as anyone else reading or commenting - I am basically living in that forum r

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Blood Ties: Season #1 Confessions Of A Shopaholic: SE D. Gray-Man: Season #1: Part 2 Girls Next Door, The: Season #5 Inkheart Jesus' Son (Widescreen) Last Year At Marienbad: Criterion Collection Moeyo Ken TV: The Complete Series Mr. Troop Mom My Dinner With Andre: Criterion Collection Pink Panther 2, The Reba: Season #6 Tom And Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection Computer Games Fight Night: Round 4 ( Xbox 360) Overlord 2 ( Xbox 360) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ( Xbox 360) Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires ( Xbox 360) Fight Night: Round 4 ( PLAYSTATION 3) Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires ( PLAYSTATION 3) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ( PLAYSTATION 3) Overlord 2 ( PLAYSTATION 3) The Conduit ( Nintendo Wii) Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil ( Nintendo Wii) Little League World Series 2009 ( Nintendo Wii) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ( Nintendo Wii) Spore Galactic Adventures ( Windows XP / Vista, Mac OS

At a great event today put on my the Windy City Social organization covering topics of Social Media. If your interested in following along, you can watch the stream on-line or follow us on twitter at #wcsocial. Agenda 1:00 - 2:00 Registration, Networking, One on One Consulting Sessions 2:00 - 2:15 Welcome, Introductions 2:15 - 2:45 Brand Experiences that Start Conversations Get Stirred Up's David Roth and Rick Bacher on creating branded consumer experiences that generate marketing buzz—lessons from Cereality and their agency work 2:45 - 3:15 E-mail Makeovers Reagan Taylor, NCR eCommerce Consultant will make over audience emails and show you how to develop emails that increase response and customer engagement 3:15 - 3:30 BREAK 3:30 - 4:00 How to Get the Most out of the New Fan Pages Brad Keown from Facebook will show you how to use the fan pages to promote your business 4:00 - 4:30 You Call It Winner - Top 10 Tips for Improving Your Natural Search Rankings Learn

PSC is pleased to be sponsoring and hosting a free IMPACT Comes to You event on July 22nd in Schaumburg, IL. Following the successful Lotusphere Come to You model, IMPACT Comes to You brings you all the news from the IMPACT 2009 conference from this past May. Did you miss IMPACT 2009 in Las Vegas? If so, then you will want to join us in suburban Schaumburg, IL for an overview about the latest and greatest in the world of IBM WebSphere. In this one-day session we will show you how to work smarter for a Smarter Planet with IBM’s Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) enabled by Smart SOA and Web 2.0. The emphasis this year will be less on feature and function and more on applying WebSphere to reduce risks and improve ROI. Agenda: 9:00 am - Welcome & Introduction 9:15 am - Smart work for a Smarter Planet 10:00 am - Top Smart SOA projects for Today’s Economy 10:45 am - Break 11:00 am - Drive Business Agility with Dynamic Business Processes 11:45 am - SOA and WebS

I am happy to announce that PSC is one of the Gold sponsors for the first I am Lotus User Group (IamLUG) in St. Louis on August 3rd and 4th, 2009. PSC will have a booth and we hope to have some very cool friends joining us (more on that later). Alex and I are also doing an version of our Lotusphere presentation on Notes/Domino and Integration with Microsoft Technologies and Lotus Symphony: Integration and Coexistence: Leveraging Lotus and Microsoft products to build better solutions In the real world, you use both Lotus and Microsoft technologies in your environment. You do not want to be in the middle of a product selection war, you want to solve your business problems. This session will show you how to integrate Lotus and Microsoft technologies, including: - Lotus Notes - Lotus Domino - Lotus Symphony - Microsoft Office - Microsoft .NET - Microsoft SharePoint You will go home with real world samples and lots of tips and techniques. We are going to use this conference to debut s

I am super excited that I am going to be speaking at the United Kingdom Lotus Users Group (UKLUG) in Edinburgh on October 8th and 9th. I am presenting the following session: Lotus Symphony and You - How to stop giving Microsoft your money! For years, you have given Microsoft money for Office Licenses. Would you be interested if we could show you how you could save the money and still produce great documents, spreadsheets and presentations? This session is for you. The first half of the session will be a real-world comparison of Lotus Symphony to Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org. We will help you decide what type of workers and situations should use which product. We will transition the session to cover the Application Development story. What can you do to integrate Lotus Symphony with your applications? We will cover Composite Applications, Plug-ins, and Automation - UNO, LotusScript, and Java. Last we will preview Lotus Symphony 2.0. Come to this session with an open mind! Th

An update for all that is going on in the IP Working Group for OpenNTF.org. First, last Thursday, the Steering Committee passed four resolutions. Two of them were correcting language on the site that was incorrect. We also appointed Peter Tanner, IBM, as the IP Manager for OpenNTF.org. Last, we passed some language that protects OpenNTF.org when external urls (such as Twitter or YouTube) and assets are used within components. We also had our first IP WG conference call. OpenNTF.org IP Working Group Meeting 6.18.2009View more Microsoft Word documents from John Head. If you listen to the slidecast there on Slideshare, you will get the audio of the call as well. I have not done the slide timing yet - will try to get to that one evening this week. I think it was a great call, but I would like to get feedback on that. The copyright education process started and we covered quite a few topics. Yes, I know, people want to talk about licensing - and we will do that in July. I have placed a

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Bergman Island: Criterion Collection Burn Notice: Season #2 Cell 2, The Diary Of Anne Frank, The: 50th Anniversary Edition Everwood: Season #2 FBI Files: Season #3 Family Guy: Volume 7 Friday The 13th: Killer Cut Friday The 13th: Part V: A New Beginning: Deluxe Edition Friday The 13th: Part VI: Jason Lives: Deluxe Edition Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter: Deluxe Edition Ghostbusters (Blu-Ray) (#10 in the DVDPS Top 40) House Of Payne Season #4 I Can't Believe I'm Still Single: Season #1 Murdoch Mysteries: Season #1 Nightwish: End of an Era (Blu-Ray) (#30 in the DVDPS Top 40) Saving Grace: Season #2 Secret Life Of The American Teenager, The: Season #2 Sergeant Preston of the Yukon: Season #2 Seventh Seal, The: 2 Disc Edition: Criterion Collection Shooter (Blu-Ray) (#16 in the DVDPS Top 40) Spaceballs: The Animated Spoof Three Stooges Collection, The: 1949-1951: Volume 6 Tom And Jerry's Greatest Chases: Volume 2 Transformers: Season #1 Venu

Jordan Rudess, keyboard wizard for Dream Theater, has released a CD of solo piano performances of many of Dream Theater's ballads, along with some original content. Track listing: 1. Through Her Eyes 2. Lifting Shadows Off a Dream 3. Perpetuum Mobile 4. The Silent Man 5 Another Day 6. Hollow Years 7. The Grand Escapement 8. The Spirit Carries On 9. Speak To Me 10. The Answer Lies Within 11. Collision Point 12. Vacant You can purchase the CD here or order a digital version in MP3 - 128, MP3 - 256, or FLAC Lossless here.

The firth cover song by Dream Theater has been released, Larks Tongues in Aspic, Part 2 by King Crimson. Mike Portnoy talks about the new cover song here:

The IP Working Group will be having a conference call to present our initial thoughts on the following topics: 1. Copyright Education 2. Company Alliance Membership 3. Employee Copyright Waivers 4. Repository Workflow Anyone who is eligible for the IP Working Group may attend. That includes all members of the Steering Committee and anyone who is a Project Chef. For web conference and dial-in information, please visit this post (you must log in to OpenNTF.org to read this) A second on-line meeting will cover the licensing discussion.

Lotus Symphony 1.3 is now available - for Windows, Linux, and Mac!. Here are links to the press release, installation guide, and release notes. Specifically, here are the new features in Lotus Symphony 1.3: Functional enhancements: Enabled Microsoft® Office 2007 files import support. Significant enhancements in DataPilot in spreadsheets, including show/hide field items panel, drill down to details, DataPilot cache support, and default styles. Numbering enhancement in documents to improve interoperability with Microsoft Word. Enabled Microsoft Office and IBM Lotus SmartSuite® password protection support for spreadsheets. Enabled network URI access and hyperlink support that allows you to create network connection hyperlinks for URI protocols including FTP, MailTo, and SMB. Enabled envelope support which allows you to create an envelope, set envelope properties, and set printing options. Enabled Widgets Catalog server support. Improved print performance. Enabled Sumproduct's ForceA

One of the things I love most about working at PSC is that I get to work with technologies other than my passion with Lotus products. One of the areas that PSC is starting to invest in is mobile applications. Just as we do with all of our technology services, we consider mobile applications to be a strategy - and we work with multiple platforms. We have Blackberry applications we have built for customers, but the iPhone gives us a more public way to talk about these. The first iPhone application that we have on the Application Store is for Crains Chicago Business' Golf Guide. The Crain's Chicago Business Golf Guide application is an extension of the Crain's Golf website. The app allows you to located a golf course in the Chicagoland area. Enter your current location, click Find a Course! It will give you back a listing of course in your area. Clicking on a course will give you information about it. You get the course's address, phone number, and info about Fees and Reservati

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Aquarion: The Complete Series Best Of Whose Line Is It Anyway, The Cleaner, The: Season #1 Confessions Of A Shopaholic: SE Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre: Season #1 Father Knows Best: Season #3 Fired Up!: Unrated Get Smart: Season #3 Gran Torino (Widescreen) International, The Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (Blu-Ray) Last Of The Summer Wine: Vintage 1979: Season #5 Open All Hours: Complete Series Perry Mason: Season #4: Volume 1 Reaper: Season #2 Shield, The: Season #7 Spinning Into Butter Survivorman: Season #3 Waiting For God: Season #4 Woodstock: 40th Anniversary: Ultimate Collector's Edition (Blu-Ray) (#20 in the DVDPS Top 40) Woodstock: 40th Anniversary: Ultimate Collector's Edition Z Rock: Season #1 Computer Games PROTOTYPE ( Xbox 360) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 ( Xbox 360) Virtua Tennis 2009 ( Xbox 360) PROTOTYPE ( PLAYSTATION 3) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 ( PLAYSTATION 3) Virtua Tennis 2009 ( PLAYSTATION 3) Wii MotionPlus ( Nin

The third of six cover songs by Dream Theater has been released, take your fingers from my hair by Zebra. Mike Portnoy talks about the new cover song here:

So here is an E3 wrap-up linkfest: Microsoft Live Project Natal Demos and Lionhead's Virtual Child Sony Gran Turismo PSP Trailer Promotes PSP Go Gran Turismo 5 Trailer: Zooming Lovely Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Screenshots: Big Boss's Box Nintendo Red Steel 2 Gameplay Walkthrough New Super Mario Bros. Wii Hands-on Preview Other Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash Up Trailer, Turtles in Time Screenshot Assassin's Creed 2 Trailer Shows Gameplay A Tekken 6 Trio of Trailers Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Trailer Mixes It Up Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Trailer Makes It So Metal Gear Solid: Rising Trailer: Lightning Bolt Action Saboteur Screenshots Sneak up, Shoot out Homefront Media Shows You The Action Most people would tell you that this is the best E3 in many years. Lots of great news, announcements, and buzz going on.

First, here are the final versions of the press releases that IBM put out today: Companies Choosing Lotus Collaboration to Work Smarter and Lower Costs & 200+ Microsoft Partners Per Month Flocking to Sell IBM Lotus Foundations Second, there was an interview conference call with Caleb Bralow and Ed Brill for the Lotus Blogger program earlier today. Here are some thoughts based on that discussion: Foundations: Caleb Barlow: "Lotus Foundations is a change in business strategy in competing with Microsoft Small Business Server." Some people in the press have asked "Can IBM build a channel for the SMB market?" most of these customers have not purchased from IBM for many years New partners that are traditionally Microsoft partners More often than not, these new clients are a competitive replacement. Microsoft has created this situation, artificial licensing and platform decisions based on number of users. Relationship of buyer and seller is changing. partners moving to a

After our very successful and sold out Notes & Domino 8.5 Upgrade Workshop last week in downtown Chicago, PSC is announcing two more of these workshops. June 24th and 25th - 1051 Perimeter Drive, 9th Floor Conference Rooom, Schaumburg, IL 61073 August 25th and 26th - Chicago IBM Innovation Center, 71 S. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606 Here is a description of the workshop: Introduction Presentations and Hands-on Lab Exercises for a 1 or 2 day Proof of Technology, with materials focusing on Notes® End User, Domino® Administration, and Domino Application Development enhancements in version 8.5. (Please indicate which day or days you will attend in the Special Instructions box when you register.) Objective The Notes & Domino 8.5 Upgrade is intended to provide the customer with an in-depth examination of the new capabilities of version 8.5 of the products. For existing customers, this exploration will help them assess the additional value and potential impact to their exi

The Lotus Community has been asking IBM to get more serious about its marketing this year - and it seems IBM is listening. A change in attitude is what we asked for, and it seems we are getting it. Today, IBM is making two announcements: 1. IBM is announcing that signed up 1000 Microsoft Business Partners to sell Lotus Foundations. ARMONK, N.Y. -- June 4, 2009 -- Facing waning demand for Microsoft products, more than 1,000 Microsoft Business Partners have already signed up to sell IBM Lotus Foundations (www.ibm.com/lotus/foundations) "office-in-a-box" appliance for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the first five months of 2009. According to Microsoft Business Partners, sales of Microsoft's Small Business Server (SBS) software bundle have stagnated due to lack of innovation and partner dissatisfaction with their inability to add solutions and services. Microsoft partners are looking for an alternative that provides SMBs with more collaboration computing power for less

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Abbott & Costello Show, The: Seasons #1-#2 Army Wives: Season #2 Blood Ties: Season #1 Cannon: Season #2: Volume 1 Defiance Eddie Murphy: Delirious: 25th Anniversary Edition He's Just Not That Into You Hunger: Season #1 Jetsons, The: Season #2: Volume 1 Prison Break: Season #4 Quincy, M.E.: Season #3 Raising The Bar: Season #1 Reaper: Season #2 Revolutionary Road Tender Mercies Weeds: Season #4 Computer Games Red Faction Guerrilla ( Xbox 360) FUEL ( Xbox 360) Universal Rock Band Replacement Kick Pedal ( Xbox, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation, PlayStation2, PLAYSTATION 3) Logitech Wireless Microphone ( PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation2) Red Faction Guerrilla ( PLAYSTATION 3) FUEL ( PLAYSTATION 3) Wii Energizer 2x Induction Charge Station ( Nintendo Wii) Rockband Drum Shells ( PlayStation2, PlayStation, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PLAYSTATION 3) The Sims 3 ( Windows Vista / XP, Mac OS X)

The third of six cover songs by Dream Theater has been released, Odyssey by The Dixie Dregs. Mike Portnoy talks about the new cover song here:

Here is a summary of E3 Day 1: Nintendo Press Conference: New Super Mario Bros. Game Announced, supports 4 person Co-Op New Super Mario Galaxy 2 announced, trailer released Metroid: Other M announced, developed by Ninja Gaiden developers Team Ninja, Trailer released - best trailer of Tuesday Wii Vitality Sensor Revealed Mario and Golden Sun DS RPGs Announced 'Wii Fit Plus' Unveiled Sony Press Conference: Final Fantasy 14 announced - PS3 Exclusive and PC MMO - trailer released Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves demonstrated, including multiplayer and co-op, trailer released God of War 3 Detailed, Shipping March 2010 PSP Go Arriving in October at $249, Dubbed 'The Worst Kept Secret of E3' Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker announced for the PSP and PSP Go, successor to MSG 4 The Last Guardian announced, end of trilogy including Shadow of the Colossus and Ico ModNation Racers Continues 'Play Create Share' on PlayStation 3 Sony Reveals New Motion Tracking PS3 Controller with 'True

Two announcements around the OpenNTF.org IP and Governance Working Group this morning. First, the IP and Governance Working Group discussion is now open for business. I have created some entries in there, including this overview: I would like to thank everyone up-front for participating in the IP Working Group. This working group is made up of members of the steering committee and anyone who is a project owner. Anyone can read this forum, but we will limit participation to the group (note: for the time being, anyone can contribute in the forum until OpenNTF.org allows for limiting these areas. That will happen in the near future). Currently, there are two officers for the IP Working Group: John Head - OpenNTF.org Steering Committee Member and IP Working Group Chairmen - PSC Group, LLC Peter Tanner - Legal Administrator - IBM We will add more roles to the Working Group as the OpenNTF.org Steering Committee defines more structure around the Working Groups. With the launch of the IP

So if you are not following my Twitter Stream where I covered Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft press conferences, here is an overview of the announcements: Microsoft Halo 3: ODST Trailer, shipping 9/22 Halo: Reach Teaser Trailer Metal Gear Rising coming to the Xbox 360 Netflix Improvements coming: 1080p streaming, on console que management Facebook and Twitter coming to Xbox 360 Live Alan Wake coming in 2010 Left4Dead2 coming 11/17 Project Natal brings motion gaming - without a device Xbox gets Epic exclusive Shadow Complex Final Fantasy coming Spring 2010 Rock Band: Beatles trailer Modern Warefare 2 (sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare) - 2 maps hitting Xbox 360 first EA EA launching a MMA game Dante's Inferno Trailer Crysis 2 Announced and trailer Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Trailer - better than the prequels put togehter Ubisoft Working with James Cameron on Avatar movie and game Working with Pele on World of Champions: Football (soccer) Tom Clancey's Splinter Cell: Convictio

If you really want to submerse yourself into Lotus Notes and Domino this summer, the best way to that is a stretch of four days in August, starting on the 25th. August 25th and 26th is another IBM Lotus Notes & Domino 8.5 Upgrade Seminar like the one we co-hosted last week. The Midwest Lotus Users Group (MWLUG) then has it's first Conference on August 27th and 28th. Registration opened today. PSC is a sponsor and I will be speaking at it (not sure of the topic yet - any suggestions?). So come to Chicago for a 4 deep dive of Lotus technologies. Stay the weekend and enjoy the Chicago summer :-)