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The evolution of the collaborative work environment - Part 2

Anna — Tue, 3 Jan 2012 01:44:40 PM -0500

looks amazing, what an incredible space in which to work and collaborate!

Standard set of Lotus Domino web services

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dfdfd — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:08:05 AM -0500

For how long will you be in Copenhagen? I understand that the Aarhus event has been cancelled.

The evolution of the collaborative work environment - Part 2

Mikkel Flindt Heisterberg — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:05:27 AM -0500

From someone who has actually been to your Living House a few times I must say that I really like it. The combination of bigger open space offices coupled with the kitchen/meeting areas so near by make for a very nice combination. It's easy to use the common areas which makes them actually being used.

This is in contrast to many of the other open space offices I know of. Often you see open office spaces but nowhere really to go for the stuff that doesn't fit there.

I really like your new offices and especially the concept of the actual big, big, big trees growing inside. There must be good money in insurance. Kidding aside - what's the price of not creating a collaborative environment and not attracting the right skills?

Looking forward to post no. 3.

The evolution of the collaborative work environment - Part 1.

francie — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:43:54 AM -0500

very interesting and something an American company would never do in a million years!

The evolution of the collaborative work environment - Part 1.

Brett Hershberger — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:42:12 AM -0500

This is fascinating mate, please keep us up to date on your company's transition. I find the whole "Living House" idea incredibly interesting.

Cheers!

Brett

My first meeting with the Danish User Group

Mona — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:21:44 AM -0500

Hi Lars - so how did your first DanNotes meeting go? Tell us about your experience :-) Curious to hear as I was not there myself. /Mona

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JasonHook — Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:27:23 AM -0500

I would recommend Applecare unless you can afford to spend close to what the laptop might cost should the logic (mother-)board, for example, go in the 2nd or 3rd year of ownership.

Someone told me that Dell make you pay more for a 3 year warranty now. If that's true then I will have to stop arguing that Applecare should be included.

Chances are you won't need it but it's insurance and peace of mind (and can be bought on ebay for nice prices go look but be careful).

Also I have just upgraded (thanks to a very kind friend) to a MBP from a 13" MB. Migrating ALLl my applications and data was as easy as starting migration assistant on both and typing "676434" on my old MB and waiting. Imagine that on Windows :-)

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Lars Olufsen — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:15:20 PM -0500

DOH! Moment. Buying one in the US would of course lose me the danish keyboard:

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Lars Olufsen — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:00:40 PM -0500

Thanks guys.

It looks like I will target something like the 15" Macbook Pro with 4Gb of memory and a decent sized harddrive.

The included iLife might be enough for starters anyway, and VMWare or Parallels for running alternative OS'es.

Notes and Symphony for productivity was almost a given, except that Keynote seems to be a very cool tool.

I don't think you can get refurbished Apple stuff in Denmark. Does one dare look at second hand?

Would I get any problems buying one in the US, except for the obvious power plug issue?

And is Applecare really needed?

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Vince Schuurman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:36:22 PM -0500

I own a 17" Pro and half of an MBA (it's stuck trying to reinstall OS X :().

My biggest issue is that if you run the Notes basic client on both OS X and Parallels or VMWare, it get's very sluggish.

Shut down native Notes before running it in a VM and it still isn't fast (but then again it is not fast on XP either).

Keynote is nice, but I hardly ever use the other iWorks components.

All and all if you have to use a VM all day (designer client) there isn't that much advantage using a Mac (for me) except for their outstanding hardware.

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Jason Hook — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:31:33 AM -0500

I made the transition a while ago.

MacBook 2.2 4gb RAM 320GB Disk (I upgraded the RAM and Disk myself using 3rd party stuff)

Biggest piece of frustration? Adapting to a new keyboard and some changes to shortcuts. I miss the disk light on Windows machines.

I use GarageBand, Cubase 4 and Guitar Rig 3 have an external keyboard via a usb midi/audio capture thingy. The MB does a reasonable job I sometimes get a drop out or two using GR3 but I suspect that's more to do with the way I'm monitoring.

Generally software for the Mac seems cheaper and more fun to use. iLife is a fantastic bundle and iwork is good value for money. VM Ware fusion is cheap and pretty good I have a license for Parallels but don't use it so can't compare.

I like OSX love the machine going to sleep and waking up reliably with the opening and closing of the lid. Setting the Mac up in the first place is a doddle. I don't like the return to the Apple store for repairs and be without a computer nature of hardware faults. I hate Vista but am encouraged by Windows 7. Won't be changing back to Windows any time soon though.

My advice would be to go to the mac store and play with one for a while, the stores often have midi keyboards. Apple have been very good and making people want their stuff, but ultimately you are the best judge of whether their stuff is right for you.

Don't forget to factor in the cost of Applecare, I wish that were included in the price. Hope that helps if you have any specific questions ask away...

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Keith Nolen — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:03:19 AM -0500

Like Henning, I use a 15" Macbook Pro. I have 4 GB RAM and the 350 Gb hard disk, which is more than adequate. I use Parallels to run Windows XP and Server 2003 and have no complaints. Can't speak to Linux or MIDI as I don't use those. Like everyone else, I recommend getting as much memory as possible.

One of my favorite things about the Mac is the keyboard. At home I connect it to a KVM to use it with my external monitor/mouse/kbd, and I find myself hesitating to plug it in because I like the keyboard so much. I can say the same about the screen - nothing compares to Mac screens.

You'll definitley like the new iLife - the face recognition feature in iPhoto is awesome. I doubt you'll need iWork, as Lotus Symphony is IMHO a better productivity package.

If you'd like to save a buck, look at Apple's refurbished machines. They offer the exact same warranty and service as the new ones and take 10-20% off the price. I've purchased two Macs this way and never had a problem.

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Henning Heinz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:27:58 AM -0500

I use a Macbook Pro 15 ". It runs well using OSX but imho it sucks as a Windows machine (native mode with Bootcamp).

If I would have to run Windows I would definetely prefer something like a Dell XPS (and it can handle OSX too).

For OSX the Pro works quite well. I really love the keyboard and am a bit disappointed that the USB version that I bought has no backlight support. The screen is just beautiful. I replaced the slow harddisk with a nice SSD and upgraded the RAM to 4 GB. This makes it an extremely expansive adventure but it is really fun using Mac OSX Snow Leopard).

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Ed Maloney — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:04:54 AM -0500

I use a Mac Mini with VMWare Fusion at home. I find that I almost never use Windows at home now. The only thing you need it for is Domino Designer, which I use my work supplied Thinkpad for.

Once you go Mac, you don't go back!

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David Leedy — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:56:03 AM -0500

Macs are great. I run several at home and with the extended family now.

The come with iLife which has iPhoto in it. Give that a good look before you buy Aperture. I have both and have not dug into either really. Aperture is great because of it's ability to work with Raw files and the non destructive editing. I just haven't figurered out how to best organize the pictures. iPhoto makes it easy because everything goes into "Events" by date. I really wish Aperture did that.

Get as much RAM as you can - But not really from Apple. Ram is easy to add and 3rd party is cheaper. I love that you can go up to 8 Gigs. Very handy especially when running VM's. I might sell a macbook pro 17inch that can only go to 3 gigs because of this.

You say in the post "probably a Macbook". You really don't want that one. That's the old plastic white one. except for that one they're all called Macbook Pros 13 inch, 15, and 17.

How portable do you want to be? If you need a laptop then you just need to zero in on screen size and price. If you want two FULL monitors then an iMac is a really nice unit. the MacPro allows you to add addition video cards and hard drives.

If you like symphony, then you really don't need iWork. I get it because I use KeyNote for my screencasts. Love KeyNote!

Of course you need fusion or paralles for designer. If only there was a native mac Designer. I wouldn't run windows at all!! Either should let you run almost any OS. There's also bootcamp...

I don't know anything about MIDI.... I LOVE the thin keyboards but don't like the wireless one since it doesn't have a numeric keypad...

I made the transition for me, and my wife and father a couple of years ago. By FAR it was one of the best computer moves I've ever made.

Do it

Andreas Imnitzer — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:59:51 AM -0500

Here I use an iMac 24" wide, which is fine to work with garageband, of course. My keyboard is a simple MIDI to control Garageband. Don't know what you would like to use your roland for, but somebody out here will.

Of course, I do Domino Development using VMWare Fusion on the mac, running Windows and Ubuntu, so testing webapps on different platforms is easy.

Take as much RAM as you can.

Whether to take a desktop machine or a laptop, depends on you. I use the same desktop in my home office and one in my official office.

Join us.

Andreas

Standard set of Lotus Domino web services

Lars Olufsen — Sun, 7 Jun 2009 01:46:57 PM -0500

Oh, I agree completely that Domino should not be the basis for a SOA platform at all. But "real" SOA is not about transactional web services - that is way to fine a granularity. Effective SOA is about mirroring business processes and business process elements, and If you dissect your business processes, you're likely to find that native Domino functionality appears a lot.

The most basic example is sending an email. How many times a day is mail sent as part as a business process in your organisation? In ours, it's quite a few. Sending an email - and I don't mean a spoofable, high-risk, low-featured SMTP message - should be available as a service on any SOA platform, including all the facilities surrounding the email, that Domino could provide, such as authentication/authorization and encryption, not to mention all the workflow that you can do with Domino.

I don't agree regarding reliability/failover. Domino can be rock solid if done right, and failover can be seamless.

But I DO agree about the lack of "easy integration". Hence the need for improvement in that area, and how better than a bunch of web services that plays well with SOA - the "integration architecture" of the hour?

Standard set of Lotus Domino web services

Axel — Sun, 7 Jun 2009 01:21:20 PM -0500

Hi,

from my allways limited experience there is a much greater demand for Domino as a Webservice Consumer than as a producer.

Specialized SOA platforms emphasize non-functional requirements like a very high grade of reliability/failover, transactions, easy integration. Those has not been the traditional strengths of Domino.

Integration with other platforms can become easier with using Webservices (REST and SOAP), though it has also some costs as a learning curve for the organization and the developers. For example SAP guys show an astounding cross-organization tendency to push requirements for their unnecesary complex SAP Error datastructures to the consumer ;-)

Have done 3 projects that used consumer Webservices on Domino 6 and 7(SOAP and REST). Have written my onw framework and am about to openSource it.

Generally agree with you that there should be a REST Webservice Producer component for Domino, though Domino will not be the best basis for a "real" SOA platform, that honours the non functional requirements mentioned above.