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OpenCL: Imagine Lotus Notes 9 built with the 'Star Wars: The Force Unleased' engine.

by Steve Tsuida, June 16

Ten second version: The things that make your kids' game console do so much, will soon help your work computer do it's thing faster too–on the cheap–by letting everything in the OS—not just whizzy graphics—put your video card to work.

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Google AJAX Libraries API. Does this mean I can delete that /js folder now?

by Steve Tsuida, May 27

I know what you're thinking. What would a graphic designer slash media guy be doing following news about Javascript libraries? It's a long story (I like a good accordion as much as the next guy). But never mind. What matters right now is that Google just announced their new AJAX Libraries API, and that means faster access to jQuery, prototype, script.aculo.us, MooTools and dojo. Easier setup too.

I'm a minimalist neat freak. Once a month I reorganize the cables under my desk, and I recycle my DVD cases so I can keep everything consolidated in one small binder, so if Google can spare me even a smattering of server clutter and make my work load faster, I'm there.

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It made an IMPACT

by Rick Hugie, April 21

I'm happy to report that I managed to survive the Impact SOA conference in Las Vegas. It was an incredible event. I've been to many of these events and this year's Impact was something special. The tone was set by the opening key note. The CIO of Harley Davidson kicked off the event by riding a Harley through the MGM Garden Arena onto the stage to introduce Drew Carey, the MC.

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Test Driving Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286)

by Martin Dang, March 31

Back in September, Jonas blogged about whether or not JSR 286 was our savior. It was a good question. And now we have the answer – kind of. The guys at the OpenPortal Project were kind enough to build a https://portlet-container.dev.java.net/" title="Portlet 2.0 Container">Portlet 2.0 Container for us to play around with. I’m not going to through all the new features in depth, but you can read about it http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=286" title="JSR 286">here and http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0803_hepper/0803_hepper.html" title="here">here. I got a chance to plug into the container and build some of my own 2.0 (err.. jsr-286) portlets.

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Rockin' it with the BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse

by Eric Cho, March 25

Here it is folks, the Blackberry JDE Eclipse plug-in has arrived. Mind you, it's in beta, but so far I really haven't had many problems with it. *knock on wood*

Check it out here.

What do I think of it? It's great! You get all the 'niceities' of Eclipse and from what I can tell, all the key functionality that JDE provides. Easy to install, and easy to import existing JDE workspaces.

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Remarkable things get us talking. Sometimes remarkable things stop us from talking too.

by Steve Tsuida, March 13

I just finished a series of lunch-&-learn talks here for the Kryos team on the New Marketing and on giving great presentations (how's that for humble?). One point I tried to emphasized was that the New Marketing relies on what Marketing guru's like Seth Godin call "word of mouse"—the rapid passalong of ideas through connected communities. Unlike word of mouth which moves at the pace of our face-to-face social calendars, word of mouse happens in a click and moves at the pace of electronic communication. A blog post. An email. A discussion thread. Even an instant message ping. With no "effort headwind", the message spreads through a connected community like a teaspoon of ink spreads through pitcher of water. [More after the break.]

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Impact Deja Vu

by Rick Hugie, March 12

It's been forever since I've posted anything on the blog. Time flies when you are busy. Lots has been happening at Kryos, some of which will likely get announced in the near future.

This year I'm once again speaking at the IBM SOA Impact conference in Vegas. Last year was the first one so I didn't know what to expect but was completely blown away by the turnout and the content. According to IBM there were 4,200 people at last years event and this year that number is expected to be 6,000+. What really impressed me at the conference last year was the focus on aligning the business and technology. It wasn't just the opening keynote but backed up in the sessions with real world success stories. This year I'm expecting even more, as SOA has really become commonly accepted as the preferred architectural direction.

Last year I spoke about the portal solution we built for Viterra (formerly Saskatchewan Wheat Pool) that earned us the 2007 Lotus award. This year I am taking a different track and will be talking about building Rich Internet Applications using portals. The session is 2481A Advanced Ajax for Portals: Creating a Rich Portal Client. I'll be talking about why to use AJAX with portals, some of the challenges, and the best practices we've come up with from our experience using these technologies on projects.

My session will be on Monday April 7th from 5:15 - 6:30PM in room 111. I look forward to seeing you there.

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Good portals don't create communities. Here's why that's a good thing.

by Steve Tsuida, March 4

Just a quick thought on communities. Great tech never creates communities. It corrals them. (That only sounds bad.)

I've heard a fair bit of talk about the power of portals to create communities. Industry communities, association communities, professional communities, political communities. But here's the thing, any community worth being a part of already existed. Our technology didn't form those sports leagues, or those social bonds between executives. What we do is build a way for those communities to talk faster, more frequently, more inclusively, and ultimately more effectively.

That's better than creating communities.

Why? If we were in the business of creating communities, you'd almost have to ask whether these new communities were contrived and exclusive things where only those in the know made it in. That's why portals have to grow on top of, and serve pre-existing communities. They gather those people to a place that's both personalized and collective, where they can enjoy an easier time of being a community. (This may cause community growth so intense that it's mistaken for community creation.) In any event, rather than sound all airy and academic with words like gatherings and a confluence of thought, I like to say we corral people and give them a place to do their thing—and do it better. Because that's what we do.

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Lotusphere 2008 - AD106: Building Composite Applications for IBM Lotus Notes 8, IBM WebSphere Portal and Mobile Audiences

by Bill McNaughton, February 4

Slides from our presentation at Lotusphere 2008.

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Lotusphere Announcements - we're looking forward to continuing to work with Lotus Foundations

by Bill McNaughton, January 22

Many exciting announcements here at Lotusphere 2008 but one that caught our eye was the acquisition of Net Integration Technologies of Markham, Ontario by IBM. Their pre-configured Lotus Domino server solution will be the "foundation" for Lotus Foundations. We met the Nitix team at last year's Lotusphere and were impressed right away with how their solution makes life easier for small businesses. Kryos worked with Nitix's team in 2007 to create a version of our TitanWEB Web Content Management product that installs onto their platform using a simple wizard and allows webmasters to change the look of their website without any coding.

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