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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 1st, 2015
My 20th Lotusphere is in the can. Loved every minute of it. So much cool stuff coming up: IBM Verse, IBM Connections Next, Bluemix, and yes, some nice things for Notes/Domino in the pipeline too. Bu
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on December 16th, 2014
Did you ever pull your head out of the sand and looked at the world around you? Of course you did. But you, as a Notes developer, did you ever look at the world outside of your precious, 'I-can-do-an
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 17th, 2012
I normally write a blogpost every day at Lotusphere #LS12. Not this year though. Every year I meet more people I'ld like to hang out with, and I get more socially involved too. So nights are short and
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 13th, 2012
Let's start by wrapping up a weirdly busy (last) year, since it's been some time this blog was updated (no apologies here, follow me on my blog @theoheselmans, where I got more to say): 2011 was wei
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on April 9th, 2011
This 3rd big BLUG event is the second one I've organized, and I made 2 wrong assumptions: It would be a lot easier, because I had done it before, and all bases were covered (website, workflow &
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 23rd, 2011
5 weeks from now, our third major BLUG event is starting. Our first 2-day event, and it's still FREE. This weekend we announced the complete agenda and all approved sessions. It was tough to decide wh
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 16th, 2011
We've always complained about there being so few books about our beloved software. At Lotusphere #LS11 we were treated to 2 brand new and interesting books (which sold out very fast): Overview of
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 5th, 2011
Day 4: Thursday As there weren't that many session this morning at #LS11, I had a chance to catch up on some sleep. Sorely needed too ! At 10am the Gurupalooza was on. Susan Bulloch (track manager f
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 3rd, 2011
Day 3: Wednesday Had to wake up early again. We did a repeat BOF session re. Organizing a Lotus User Group event at 7am. Eileen was so kind as to replace Warren (he had another BOF). A few people tur
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 2nd, 2011
Day 2, Tuesday Woke up at 5h, so had 3 hours of sleep. Shower, dress, started writing these blogposts, and then off to the Swan, for my first Lotusphere #LS11 gig ever, a BOF re. LUGs, with Warren Els
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 1st, 2011
Day 1, Monday OGS at #LS11. Where to start? The opening music from the Mass Ensemble was just excellent. The huge harp was stellar. The surprise guest this year was Kevin Spacey. He was pretty engagi
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 1st, 2011
I know I normally write a blogpost every day at Lotusphere #LS11. But I got 3 good reasons why I haven't written anything for these past couple of days: I'm getting older, so I need more sleep If I
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on December 20th, 2010
Remember my delight at Lotusphere 2009, when winning the Teamstudio Spotlight Award. This year Teamstudio does it again, for the 4th time ! Bruce Elgort, Julian Robichaux from the Taking Notes Podca
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on December 20th, 2010
A couple of months ago Warren Elsmore and myself submitted a Birds-of-a-Feather session for Lotusphere 2011. Our topic: 'Organizing and Running a User group (event)'. I'm thrilled to announce that ou
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on November 15th, 2010
I've returned from Belfast, (Norn Iron) UK, where the 3 day ILUG conference was held. It felt good seeing so many familiar faces again. As I arrived before the actual start of the conference, I helpe
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on October 27th, 2010
Last Tuesday, October 26th, we had another BLUG meeting in Brussels. 2 topics were on the agenda: BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express for Domino, which will be released next week. A completely free B
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on October 13th, 2010
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on August 21st, 2010
Just last month, I asked for speakers for our BLUG meeting on October 26th. On Yellowday, Nathan T. Freeman announced some cool Extensions to Xpages he and his team are developing together with IBM. T
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on July 14th, 2010
I know it's early, as our next BLUG meeting is only for October 26th ! But I'ld like you to get a head start, and have time to prepare. It might end up being a contender for a Lotusphere session ! Her
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on June 18th, 2010
I needed to loop over all profile documents to update some stuff. LotusScript has a nice method for this, called GetProfileDocCollection. This is how you use it: ... Set dc = db.GetProfileDocCollect
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on June 16th, 2010
For almost 10 years now, I've bought my own servers (with Domino on it), and hosted them at my home office. What do I use it for: running my own business (some notes apps, website, blog, traveler, im
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on April 4th, 2010
Last Tuesday, March 30th was our BLUG event in Brussels. It seems that for the past months that's all I have been occupied with (after hours). I got the impression it paid off, as most of the 220 atte
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on March 20th, 2010
10 days from now we're having our BLUG event (March 30th). Ever since Lotusphere, we've been busy organizing. This is the first time I'm involved heavily myself. Luckily I'm not doing this alone. Tha
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 28th, 2010
A month from now, our full day BLUG event is coming on March 30th. Today we announce the complete agenda and all approved sessions. It was tough to decide which abstracts would be accepted. And as usu
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 25th, 2010
I took some picture at Lotusphere (including the Blogger Open event). Have a look:
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 22nd, 2010
The final day is usually kinda mixed: a couple of sessions, some 'closing' events, and some great networking. Let's go over the day: Julian Robichaux did an excellent session around iPhone developmen
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 21st, 2010
I woke up, without a hangover, but with a serious lack of sleep. A shower, and some juice did wonders. I spent some time in the labs, and saw some great stuff at the Innovation lab. 'XPages just keep
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 20th, 2010
First session: Viktor Krantz and Rob Novak: the great code giveway: awesome as usual. Not as 'contained' as last year, but for me way more useful. Stephan Wissel and Steve Castledine enhanced our exi
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 19th, 2010
I woke up (a bit late for breakfast :-), and went straight to the OGS (Opening General Session). I was sitting next to Rob McDonnagh, and enjoyed his twittering and the tweets he was following (damn,
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 18th, 2010
I've always registered for BP (Business Partner) day but as Sundays always has been my 'shopping' day, I've never attended. Well, I did go to the Keynote this year. It was OK, but, being a 'very small
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 6th, 2010
Lotusphere is my reward for a year's work. It's 'battery charging time' to give me enough yellow juice for another year. As a small company, it's also a rather big expense: entrance fee, flight, hotel
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on December 19th, 2009
When I was in Amsterdam, at NLLUG, I discovered a little gem from a company called Lialis. They got a cool archive solution for Notes mail. What amazed me most was that the mails remain visible in the
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on November 30th, 2009
Bart Meskens, working for a big Lotus customer, and key BLUG member, emailed me with a great initiative: let's create a Mile High Lotus Club aka 'The Yellow Flight'.
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on November 28th, 2009
http://www.blug.be"Last year I told you about the Belgian Ministry of Finance having 32.000 new Notes users. The KBC Bank will migrate from Exchange to Notes: 50.000 users in total. This was already
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on October 21st, 2009
Remember my delight at Lotusphere 2009, when winning the Teamstudio Spotlight Award 2009. This year Teamstudio does it again ! If you've created an incredible Lotus Notes application, then show the w
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on October 17th, 2009
Posted by Theo Heselmans on October 14th, 2009
http://www.uklug.info"http://www.blug.be"Last week I've been in Edinburgh for UKLUG. Not only was it a great event, but Edinburgh was a very lovely city to visit ! What can I say about UKLUG but conf
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on September 16th, 2009
http://www.blug.be"Few days after the 8.5.1 release, we are having our second Belux (Belgium-Luxembourg) Lotus User Group gathering. Mark Tuesday, October 13th at 15.30h in your agenda ! The venue: t
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on September 13th, 2009
Thanks to Jan, who's responsible for the 8.5.1 beta program, I was finally able to download this beta release. I've installed it without any problems, and so far it runs smoothly. Haven't done anythin
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on August 20th, 2009
I've been using version 8 for some time now, and I've just discovered a very nice new Section Border style (I bet, you probably knew this already): This results in the following: As you can see,
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on August 11th, 2009
Yep, the second Yellow Day is today. Let the world know that Lotus Knows !
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on March 21st, 2009
The first Belux (Belgium-Luxembourg) Lotus User Group gathering on Thursday was a big success. Around 200 people gathered at the Belgium IBM headquarters in Brussels for a rather full day. Thierry Sou
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 27th, 2009
It doesn't happen to me a lot, but this time, I'm dumbfounded. I hope it's just me, on a Friday. Please try the following little experiment (I used Notes 7): Create a new form and give it a name P
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 21st, 2009
I'm currently creating an Intranet for a customer using Notes as the client. Yes, you can do this, and yes, it can be full-featured and nice looking! There are 4 types of links we need to be able t
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 26th, 2009
After getting approval I can now share with you the (winning!) application I submitted for the Teamstudio Spotlight Award 2009. The eSurvey tool is a very flexible domino application to create, manage
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 23rd, 2009
Another 2 exciting days. Less packed (for me) than the previous ones, but definitely interesting. Here's an overview of what I did/saw: Bruce Elgort and Matt Whites session on TaskJam (building a W
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 21st, 2009
Remember I told you that I managed to get an entry submitted for the Teamstudio Spotlight Award 2009. Well, it turned out I was one of the 3 finalists ! Just incredible ! I got a phone call from Lin
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 20th, 2009
The eagerly anticipated OGS (Opening General Session) didn't disappoint (much). The Blue Man Group were just incredible (including the 3-men band). They both opened and close the session, and really w
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 18th, 2009
I know, I should have attended BDD (Business Development Day), are at least a few of the Jumpstart sessions. I didn't and never have! On a Sunday at LS I have only 2 items on my schedule: shopping an
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 12th, 2009
At ILUG 2008 I passed out about 50 of these buttons. I plan to repeat this again for LS09. Denise Shaw, a Notes 8 graphic artist, working with Mary Beth Raven, created this great artwork.
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on January 3rd, 2009
If you're into Notes and Domino, and are not aware of a new Lotusphere blog in town, you must be living on another planet. So head over to the LotusphereBlog. An interesting recurring topic is 'My Lo
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on December 20th, 2008
After listening to The Taking Notes Podcast about the Teamstudio Spotlight Award 2009, a couple of weeks ago, I decided to give it a try, and submit an entry myself. Due to a serious system overload
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on November 8th, 2008
When you need to 'collect' the selected documents in a LotusScript agent (set op for 'Selected documents'), you usually use the following: Set collection = db.UnprocessedDocuments. This works fine most of the time...
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on October 27th, 2008
Bruce is on a translation spree ! His IdeaJam is available in Dutch/Flemish as of now too: You can change the language in your profile, on the fly. The translation was not that easy. I hope I didn'
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on October 4th, 2008
Some background first: A Notes database with 2 forms (actually it's simplified here, because the db is a lot more complex) - The main form: a CV - Response documents for storing Previous Employers
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on October 4th, 2008
I've been using several Palm PDAs for the last 10 years, but I've never been happier since I bought my iPhone 3G in July. Here's my most used apps.
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on September 20th, 2008
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I found a little utility when browsing the iPhone app store: CSV Touch. Only 1.59 EUR. It allows you to browse (not edit) files (multiple !) created using a comma (or e.g. tab) delimited text file. Search is supported too.
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on August 8th, 2008
Posted by Theo Heselmans on June 28th, 2008
For those of you who use the Domino Blog, and use the Stats, I got a little tip. If you adapt the view 'Referrers/Overall' (or create a new one), you can easily monitor from which domains your visito
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on June 7th, 2008
Don't know if you've been listening to the new podcast in town: Yellowcast. For Notes geeks, by Notes geeks (sorry Adam for stealing your line). Chris Toohey and Tim Tripcony do a great job. In their
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on May 26th, 2008
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One of the UI components I need in every application is a means of letting the user enter criteria. Usually this is part of a dialogbox for exporting or (Excel) reporting data. I just wanted to share
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on May 19th, 2008
Denise Shaw, a Notes 8 graphic artist, working with Mary Beth Raven, created this great artwork for the buttons I want to distribute at the coming ILUG. Thanks again Denise. This is the idea behind
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on May 10th, 2008
I needed a function to get the list of folders within a folder/directory, from within Excel. Looked like a piece of cake, but I was a bit more complex than I thought. So I want to share it with you.
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on April 12th, 2008
Last week I blogged about How I got into Notes in 1993. It's been amazing to see how this topic spread across the Notes blogging community. I tried/try to keep track of this hall of fame: Ed Brill,
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on April 5th, 2008
Around 1993 I worked for and co-managed a company called Vers a Versa. I was responsible for the AppDev team. We developed applications for our customers, primarily using MS Access, MS Excel, 4th Dime
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on March 27th, 2008
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I suggested to set up a 'Blogger's Lounge' at LS09. I also proposed to have bloggers wear a button, to let everyone know they are approachable and love to chat. I like to try this out at the coming I
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on March 15th, 2008
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Last weekend was upgrade weekend for me. I upgraded my Domino server from 7.0.3 to 8.0.1: flawless ! Tx IBM. I installed the standard client on 2 machines. Again, no problem. I also upgraded my mai
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on February 25th, 2008
I'm registered for ILUG 2008 ! Eagerly awaiting my confirmation. Update: Thank you for registering for ILUG 2008. Your registration has been received and confirmed. Someone care to offer suggestio
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Posted by Theo Heselmans on July 21st, 2007
Canadians are cool; their software is too. I told you before that I use ScanEZ almost daily, and I love it. When the guys from Ytria ask me nicely to give them a plug, I do it. You can try out all
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