Writing

Aug 16, 2010

Embers {4}

The smoke rolls across my lips
Fading like the days
Spreading wings through darkness

The night clings to me
Like an embrace in the rain

It all feels so heavy sometimes

So yet another drag
So intent on the flames
So often I want to burn this whole world down

The last notes trail off
And the silence remains
“you’re welcome” seems so empty today

Another grain tumbles down
And the coastline trails on for miles

It seems so vast sometimes

So strike another match
So intent on the flame
Solace engulfs me as the world comes down

Copyright John A. Roling 2010 – All Rights Reserved

By Greyhawk68 Category: Writing

Jan 28, 2009

Intranet Journal Lotusphere Wrap Up {0}

If you’ve followed the blog through Lotusphere, you’ll know everything I laid out in my Intranet Journal Lotusphere 2009 wrap-up ‘Lotusphere Ends with Agressive Stance From IBM“, but if you’ve kind of glossed over things, it’s not a bad summary. If your boss needs the info, you can point him or her to this article and the one I did on the opening day of the conference entitled: Lotusphere Resonates with the Lotus Faithful. Hope you dig it.

The annual IBM Lotus user conference known as Lotusphere wrapped up last week with Lotus upbeat about its portfolio and position in the marketplace. Lotus even preempted Microsoft’s annual conference spoiler by announcing that the number of global Lotus Notes licenses had surpassed 145 million.

By Greyhawk68 Category: IBM Lotus, Writing

Jan 20, 2009

Lotusphere Resonates with Lotus Faithful {0}

Lotusphere Resonates with Lotus Faithful is my latest article for Intranet Journal and is now live… It details all of the early happenings and announcements at the annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Florida.

I’ll have a summary article next week and some additional blog posts this week around everything happening here. Until then, there is a birthday to celebrate:

Lotus Notes itself turned 20 years old this week, and Lotus is positioning Notes as a hip 20 year old college student. Some of the announcements and partnerships seem to bear that out.

A hip college student indeed. Catch you on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and flickr

In addition, please vote for Lotus in any of the Intranet Journal awards that seem fitting to you. Go to the Intranet Journal homepage and click on the Product of the Year awards and let them know what you think (even if it isn’t Lotus!)

By Greyhawk68 Category: IBM Lotus, Writing

Dec 23, 2008

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 On the Way {3}

For those of you that were unaware, Lotus is prepping its 8.5 release of Notes and Domino. According to Ed, the code is done, and should see the light of day before this year’s Lotusphere. This could be one of the most significant releases of Domino ever, and check out my latest article in Intranet Journal to see why. Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 On the Way is my little holiday gift to you. Hope you enjoy it!

Now, I’m a Notes junkie, and have been a Notes and Domino administrator for over a decade, so I tend to be an early adopter and install new releases immediately when they happen. I know in most industries, there is a much more cautious approach to releases, and in many cases it can take years before a company makes a move.

That would be a mistake.

By Greyhawk68 Category: IBM Lotus, Writing

Nov 25, 2008

IBM Offers Office Productivity for a Song {0}

My latest article for Intranet Journal is now live: IBM Offers Office Productivity for a Song. If you haven’t heard of Symphony yet, it’s a free Microsoft Office alternative that runs on Windows and Linux and has a beta out for Mac OSX. In fact, I wrote the article with Symphony on the Mac. It’s based on Open Office, but a little more polished and easy to use. If you wanna save some cash, check it out. Feel free to read the article for all the details.

Also, thanks to Ed for noticing!

By Greyhawk68 Category: IBM Lotus, Writing Tags: ,

Oct 22, 2008

IBM Lotus Opens the Bluehouse {0}

The latest article for Intranet Journal is now live. It’s a quick synopsis of what you can find in the Lotus Bluehouse. For those of you that are unaware, Bluehouse is hosted collaboration software from IBM that allows you to collaborate in teamrooms with meetings, profiles, bookmarking, instant messaging, activities, document sharing, forms and charts. Basically it takes all the best parts of Connections, Quickr, Sametime and Lotus Forms and makes it into a hosted service. Bluehouse is currently in public beta, so make sure you check it out!

By Greyhawk68 Category: IBM Lotus, Writing Tags:

Oct 8, 2008

Lotus Notes Comes to the iPhone {0}

Intranet Journal has just published my latest story, Lotus Notes Comes to the iPhone. I go through all of the features and touch on some of the limitations of iNotes Ultralite mode. If you’ve had any questions on what Ultralite can do for you, hopefully they’ll be answered after reading this article. Enjoy.

By Greyhawk68 Category: IBM Lotus, Writing Tags: ,

Sep 10, 2008

SnTT: The Same Lotus App Inside Outside the Firewall {0}

My August article for Intranet Journal is out a little late, but it’s called The Same Lotus App Inside, Outside the Firewall. This one was kind of a hard article to write, because it was hard to explain it completely in an easy-to-digest article. Hopefully I did well.

The gist of the article is this: You have a web application, and inside your network, you want Anonymous access to work on your application. But, when someone accesses the same application (and same URL) from the internet, you want them to have to authenticate. You generally cannot have it both ways, but I show you how to do it with some replicas, some non-replicating ACLs, and some DNS/internet site document fun.

Hope it helps some folks out!

By Greyhawk68 Category: IBM Lotus, Technology, Writing Tags: , ,

Jul 23, 2008

SnTT: Customizing Login Forms on your Domino Intranet {0}

This month’s Intranet Journal article deals with customizing your Login Forms to your Domino Intranet using domcfg.nsf. I’m always surprised when I see logins at places that are still the default when it’s so easy to at least swap out for your own logo. So hopefully I’ve helped beautify the world of Domino web apps a little bit.

By Greyhawk68 Category: IBM Lotus, Writing Tags: , , ,

Jul 2, 2008

Collaborating in the Lotus Community {1}

My latest for Intranet Journal is out now. Collaborating in the Lotus Community is an article I had planned months ago, so it became rather timely when the whole iPhone discussion and John Head’s call to action happened.

Hopefully the article is a great jumping off point for those new to the Lotus community. If you have someone who wants to expand their horizons, please point them to the article and also point them to John Head’s community slides.

I’m really proud to be a part of this community, and the more people we can have join us the better!

You may ask yourself, why do I care about any of this? Well the reasons are simple. By becoming part of the Lotus Notes user community you can easily gain access to some of the best minds ever to wield a Notes client. You can make contacts with these people, interact and learn a lot.

For me, if you join in the fun, I get to hear another voice, another perspective and ultimately we all wind up stronger as a community. It may be pure unbridled selfishness on my part, but in this case, I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

By Greyhawk68 Category: IBM Lotus, Writing Tags: , ,

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