SNAPPS at Lotusphere 2010: Never a booth, never surrender...session lineup
Category LS10 LotusphereThat time has come again - Lotusphere 2010 is right around the corner, and the gang from SNAPPS (which of course now includes veteran Lotusphere presenter Julian Robichaux) has been very busy since November putting together some great session materials. The presentations were all due Dec 14th (and proudly all of our slides were in on time!), but I'm sure you're most interested in the code and not the slides. Troy and Julian came the Galactic HQ for a week in December to do just that - work together finalizing concepts for our code examples ("finalizing" is relative - some of it will continue for another week).
Rob McDonagh joins the extended team as he will be co-presenting with Julian, and Warren Elsmore of BE Systems/Bluewave shares a hard-hitting admin session with our Jerald Mahurin.
Here's the rundown of our sessions:
BDD204: Slaying the Dragon 2010: 10 Key Strategies for Business Partners as the Economy Roars Back (Business Partners Only Session)
Rob Novak: 11:45-12:45 Sunday, Swan 4
In years past, Rob has shared with other IBM Business Partners several keys for success in client interactions - especially focused on small partners who want to grow their business with big clients. In an economic rebound, they need us more than ever! As IBM partners, we can clearly help these customers if we learn to refine our own strategy: high value for equitable fees, excellence in proposals, globalization (yes, even you, one-person shops!), and confidence-building peer relationships. One attendee from a prior year claimed this session "changed his business and his life," let's see how your own partner firm can benefit from a contrarian, yet successful, approach to big business for small partners!
BP211: IBM Lotus Quickr Development Grows Up: Now This Changes Things
Viktor Krantz and Troy Reimer: 1:00 - 2:00 Monday, Swan 1-2
For years we've been showing you top-notch development methods, tips and tricks for making the most out of Lotus Quickr and its predecessors. With some major architectural changes in Lotus Quickr 8.2 for Domino, there are some amazing things you can do that were impossible (or really expensive!) before. Learn how to leverage the new REST API, server extensions and Lotus Quickr hooks to build and extend absolutely stunning Lotus Quickr applications, or just make Quickr "your" application.
BP213: Apple iPhone Development Served Two Ways: Extending Lotus Domino Apps to the Cool Kids
Julian Robichaux and Rob McDonagh: 8:30 - 9:30 Wednesday Swan Pelican, REPEAT 8:30-9:30 Thursday Dolphin S Hem 3
Now that your executives can use Lotus Traveler, Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr and Lotus Sametime with their iPhone, they'll expect you to iPhone-enable other Lotus Notes and Domino applications as well. The question is: how do you do it? iPhone apps are either browser-based or "native'; in this session we'll uncover the mysteries of iPhone development -- both browser and native. We'll explore the challenges of webkit and iPhone CSS, and dive headfirst into the world of Objective C (the language of iPhone native apps). Your training will include toolkits, testing, and deployment. Need an app for that? You can build one!
BP113: "Making Quickr Scream": Performance Strategies for a Smokin' Fast Server
Jerald Mahurin and Warren Elsmore: 10:00 - 11:00 Tuesday, Swan 1-2
Have your users ever screamed because of a slow Lotus Quickr server? Come on, admit it. Well, it's about time those servers screamed back! In this session, you'll come away with more than fifty tips and strategies for better performance from Lotus Quickr for Domino - from caching to view indexing to transaction logging, to the simplest but most high-impact notes.ini settings, we'll cover it all. Remember, quiet users are happy users. Let us help you turn down their volume.
SHOW110: Import! Export! Write a Report! Access Lotus Notes Data in Ways of All Sorts!
Julian Robichaux and Rob McDonagh: 10:00 - 11:45 Thursday, Swan Osprey
Your boss wants reports, reports of all sorts, reports about sports, about shorts, about torts.
We'll help you to do it, we'll walk you right through it, we'll show you the way and we'll also review it.
You can use CSV, you can use OLE, you can even begin to use ODBC.
AJAX is cool, it's a fabulous tool, and with web service goodness you'll totally rule.
Build a website with charts, use the Sidebar for arts, add Lotus Notes client and cell phone reporting in parts.
You can do it you know, we can make you a pro, and your manager's smile may just literally glow.
and last but not least...
BP210: The Great Code Giveaway 9: Never Gonna Let You Down
Rob Novak and Viktor Krantz: 8:30 - 9:30 Tuesday, Swan 7-10 REPEAT 8:30-9:30 Wednesday Dolphin N Hem D-E
The commercial value of free code given away by our gang has now officially exceeded $5 billion, and we're not stopping any time soon. We've brought all the Lotus products to one UI (that caught on, we hear), played with toolkits, improved calendaring, sexed up Domino views, made Lotus Quickr templates and Lotus Sametime gadgets, and last year even added coolness to the Lotus Domino name. A lot can change in nine years, but one thing won't - we'll put 500 hours into this one session and then show, explain, and give away code worth tens of thousands of dollars. Talk about ROI on Lotusphere!
This year, in order to keep Viktor sane, we spread the development effort over the entire team. So you get 80+ years of Lotus experience in our examples and free code. I'm fairly certain each attendee - developer, admin, or manager - in this last session will be able to use one of the many concepts and tools we have developed for you!
See you in Orlando next week...!
