CONSULTANT | RAINMAKER | INTEGRATION EXPERThttp://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/en-usThu, 4 Mar 2010 03:34:12 PM -0500 Thu, 4 Mar 2010 03:34:12 PM -0500 Erik Brooks Iron Maiden Summer 2010 Tour - Supported by Dream Theater
CRAP.

Dude, thanks again for the heads-up with the Maiden gigs. Dream Theater too? COUNT ME IN!

UP THE IRONS! \m/]]>
CRAP.

Dude, thanks again for the heads-up with the Maiden gigs. Dream Theater too? COUNT ME IN!

UP THE IRONS! \m/]]> http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/iron-maiden-summer-2010-tour-supported-by-dream-theater?opendocument&comments#03042010033412PMPSCTAX.htm Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:00:20 PM -0500 Patrick Kwinten Welcome to the updated JohnDavidHead.com http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/welcome-to-the-updated-johndavidhead.com?opendocument&comments#25022010150020PSCSMT.htm Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:28:55 AM -0500 Alan Lepofsky Welcome to the updated JohnDavidHead.com http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/welcome-to-the-updated-johndavidhead.com?opendocument&comments#02252010112855AMPSCNHR.htm Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:16:44 AM -0500 Chris Blatnick Welcome to the updated JohnDavidHead.com http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/welcome-to-the-updated-johndavidhead.com?opendocument&comments#02252010111644AMPSCN9Z.htm Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:15:06 AM -0500 john test Social Media Makover - Slides and Wrap Up http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/social-media-makover-slides-and-wrap-up?opendocument&comments#02252010111506AMPSCN8Z.htm Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:13:28 AM -0500 Chris Blatnick Welcome to the updated JohnDavidHead.com http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/welcome-to-the-updated-johndavidhead.com?opendocument&comments#02252010111328AMPSCN7Y.htm Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:51:17 PM -0500 Michal Swietek Today is Paczki Day!
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I did a post on this a few years ago with some illustrative examples of OOXML and ODF markup showing the kinds of problems in this area:

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It is probably too late to fix this in the markup. The whole "billions of legacy documents" thing. But it should be possible for Microsoft to clean this up at the tooling level. There is no reason why their document processing API's cannot (at a sufficiently high level) paper over the syntactic differences.]]>
I did a post on this a few years ago with some illustrative examples of OOXML and ODF markup showing the kinds of problems in this area:

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It is probably too late to fix this in the markup. The whole "billions of legacy documents" thing. But it should be possible for Microsoft to clean this up at the tooling level. There is no reason why their document processing API's cannot (at a sufficiently high level) paper over the syntactic differences.]]> http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/its-time-microsoft-decide-how-serious-they-are-about-real-people-using-ooxml?opendocument&comments#02162010015953PMPSCRG2.htm Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:17:23 PM -0500 Adam Gartenberg Today is Paczki Day!
And it is definitely *not* a thing down here in Raleigh, North Carolina :)

(*I want to say they pronounced it more like "pahtch-key" than "punch-key" in Detroit, but could just be misremembering it.)]]>
And it is definitely *not* a thing down here in Raleigh, North Carolina :)

(*I want to say they pronounced it more like "pahtch-key" than "punch-key" in Detroit, but could just be misremembering it.)]]> http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/today-is-paczki-day?opendocument&comments#02162010011723PMPSCQME.htm Thu, 4 Feb 2010 07:30:04 AM -0500 Erik Brooks IBM Lotus Symphony Website gets a makeover http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/ibm-lotus-symphony-website-gets-a-makeover?opendocument&comments#02042010073004AMPSCHUC.htm Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:46:04 AM -0500 John Head Lotusphere 2010 : Lotus Symphony Development - Comparing UNO vs LotusScript http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2010-lotus-symphony-development-comparing-uno-vs-lotusscript?opendocument&comments#02022010084604AMJHEKBV.htm Mon, 1 Feb 2010 03:39:20 PM -0500 Miguel Angel Calvo Lotusphere 2010 : Lotus Symphony Development - Comparing UNO vs LotusScript
We've got a nice API and integrating with Symphony is going to be really easy. But, can Symphony be used as a server as Open Office ? I have been unable to find any information about that.]]>
We've got a nice API and integrating with Symphony is going to be really easy. But, can Symphony be used as a server as Open Office ? I have been unable to find any information about that.]]> http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2010-lotus-symphony-development-comparing-uno-vs-lotusscript?opendocument&comments#01022010153920PSCTE6.htm Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:23:25 AM -0500 nJohn Head Lotusphere 2010 : More Details about Lotus Symphony 3.0 http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2010-more-details-about-lotus-symphony-3.0?opendocument&comments#02012010112325AMJHENE8.htm Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:22:32 AM -0500 John Head Lotusphere 2010 : More Details about Lotus Symphony 3.0 http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2010-more-details-about-lotus-symphony-3.0?opendocument&comments#02012010112232AMJHENDP.htm Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:50:46 AM -0500 Roy Rumaner Lotusphere 2010 : More Details about Lotus Symphony 3.0 http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2010-more-details-about-lotus-symphony-3.0?opendocument&comments#02012010105046AMPSCMRY.htm Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:29:13 AM -0500 Kathy Brown Lotusphere 2010 : More Details about Lotus Symphony 3.0 http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2010-more-details-about-lotus-symphony-3.0?opendocument&comments#02012010102913AMPSCMCB.htm Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:30:26 PM -0500 Duffbert Time for another review ... IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/time-for-another-review-...-ibm-lotus-notes-and-domino-8.5.1?opendocument&comments#01312010043026PMPSCUE3.htm Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:34:52 AM -0500 Ben Langhinrichs Lotusphere 2010 : Lotus is taking the lead in HTML5 and other technologies
For what it is worth, I agree that the chances of IBM "integraating Midas" are exactly zero. That ship has indeed sailed. On the other hand, the idea that IBM is even moving closer to HTML content or native ODF content is laughable. I heard the same thing (though it used to be described as HTML or XML) in 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, and here it is 2010, I'm still hearing it. Any actual signs of that change? The closest they have come is that XPage design uses XML for part of its design element. Nothing I saw at Lotusphere, have heard online or have heard from any IBMers has indicated a strong move toward changing internal formats. A small move toward MIME is happening with the web based rich text editor, but even that converts back and forth to rich text for any use in the client or most programming. Like it or not, IBM will still be dealing with rich text for at least the next two to three major versions.]]>
For what it is worth, I agree that the chances of IBM "integraating Midas" are exactly zero. That ship has indeed sailed. On the other hand, the idea that IBM is even moving closer to HTML content or native ODF content is laughable. I heard the same thing (though it used to be described as HTML or XML) in 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, and here it is 2010, I'm still hearing it. Any actual signs of that change? The closest they have come is that XPage design uses XML for part of its design element. Nothing I saw at Lotusphere, have heard online or have heard from any IBMers has indicated a strong move toward changing internal formats. A small move toward MIME is happening with the web based rich text editor, but even that converts back and forth to rich text for any use in the client or most programming. Like it or not, IBM will still be dealing with rich text for at least the next two to three major versions.]]> http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2010-lotus-is-taking-the-lead-in-html5-and-other-technologies?opendocument&comments#01262010063452AMPSCGRW.htm Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:46:53 PM -0500 Bill Dorge Lotusphere 2010 : IBM Project Vulcan and thoughts I have not read elsewhere
I'm glad the customers at Lotusphere were happy to see this direction, but I wouldn't expect them to say anything else, preaching to the choir. What happens when you take this message to a non-Lotus customer, or even a Lotus cusomter that doesn't attend Lotusphere, and start talking about a vision that's going to evolve over the next 5 years. Except for KC and a few clients in St. Louis, most of my customers are in the out lying areas of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, most of them would call that pitch fertilizer(or your favoite adjective).

Don't get me wrong, I giggled and thought pretty much the same when I saw the video of Ray giving his pitch, it always appeals to the faithful in the crowd, that's why they are there. I'm just saying as someone who was looking in from the outside this time, my yellow glasses were a little fogged up.]]>
I'm glad the customers at Lotusphere were happy to see this direction, but I wouldn't expect them to say anything else, preaching to the choir. What happens when you take this message to a non-Lotus customer, or even a Lotus cusomter that doesn't attend Lotusphere, and start talking about a vision that's going to evolve over the next 5 years. Except for KC and a few clients in St. Louis, most of my customers are in the out lying areas of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, most of them would call that pitch fertilizer(or your favoite adjective).

Don't get me wrong, I giggled and thought pretty much the same when I saw the video of Ray giving his pitch, it always appeals to the faithful in the crowd, that's why they are there. I'm just saying as someone who was looking in from the outside this time, my yellow glasses were a little fogged up.]]> http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2010-ibm-project-vulcan-and-thoughts-i-have-not-read-elsewhere?opendocument&comments#01252010014653PMPSCR7U.htm