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I'm back from a very successful Lotusphere 2007. RIM will I'm sure look back on the conference with some satisfaction. Clearly they have a lot of customers today that use BlackBerry for email and calendering but if the show was resprensatative of the market there is a great deal of interest in BlackBerry as a development platform. Valerie Wang presented a session in the middle part of the week that showed how easy it is to extend Domino applications using the MDS Studio tool (free from BlackBerry). The session overflowed into two rooms! Just looking around BlackBerries were everywhere.
Applications written specifically for Lotusphere were popular: the sessions database from the Turtles, and more modestly craicBerry. It's been interesting hearing people talk positively about applications I coded last year and probably don't know I had anything to do with :-)
I went to two RIM events during the week. A breakfast reception and the RIM party. During the breakfast there was a little talk about a forthcoming BES 5 server for Domino that will support clustering but mainly it was a talk aimed at BlackBerry Alliance or prospective BlackBerry Alliance Partners letting them know what the programme is about. The party on the other hand was an opportunity for me to spread the word about openCOD! I got to speak to the top marketing, development and consulting people in the UK, Europe and Japan. A fabulous opportunity which I believe I made best use of. Certainly Research In Motion/BlackBerry know about this site now. As further evidence of the demand for BlackBerry applications, during the party I spoke to a number of representatives of top companies all looking for ways to extend applications to the BlackBerry.
I forgot to ask the RIM guys if there are any plans to offer a BlackBerry certification. Maybe an admin and development certification. Any credible development platform needs one don't you think? I'm going to ask and I'll let you know what the response is...
Based on the reaction at the party and throughout the week (we gained a number of new members as the week progressed) openCOD has in my view a lot of potential but it needs you. It needs you to join in and help build a community, it needs more content and it needs a little more publicity :-) How would you like to contribute? Maybe with a comment in the blog, a blog entry (mail me jasonhook@opencod.org), a code snippet, or an application or application idea?
I came back from Lotusphere having spoken to openNTF contributors and we have some ideas for new projects including:
More news on those ideas next week I hope!
For now thanks for visiting and ttfn,
Jason
Bookmark :
I'm back from a very successful Lotusphere 2007. RIM will I'm sure look back on the conference with some satisfaction. Clearly they have a lot of customers today that use BlackBerry for email and calendering but if the show was resprensatative of the market there is a great deal of interest in BlackBerry as a development platform. Valerie Wang presented a session in the middle part of the week that showed how easy it is to extend Domino applications using the MDS Studio tool (free from BlackBerry). The session overflowed into two rooms! Just looking around BlackBerries were everywhere.
Applications written specifically for Lotusphere were popular: the sessions database from the Turtles, and more modestly craicBerry. It's been interesting hearing people talk positively about applications I coded last year and probably don't know I had anything to do with :-)
I went to two RIM events during the week. A breakfast reception and the RIM party. During the breakfast there was a little talk about a forthcoming BES 5 server for Domino that will support clustering but mainly it was a talk aimed at BlackBerry Alliance or prospective BlackBerry Alliance Partners letting them know what the programme is about. The party on the other hand was an opportunity for me to spread the word about openCOD! I got to speak to the top marketing, development and consulting people in the UK, Europe and Japan. A fabulous opportunity which I believe I made best use of. Certainly Research In Motion/BlackBerry know about this site now. As further evidence of the demand for BlackBerry applications, during the party I spoke to a number of representatives of top companies all looking for ways to extend applications to the BlackBerry.
I forgot to ask the RIM guys if there are any plans to offer a BlackBerry certification. Maybe an admin and development certification. Any credible development platform needs one don't you think? I'm going to ask and I'll let you know what the response is...
Based on the reaction at the party and throughout the week (we gained a number of new members as the week progressed) openCOD has in my view a lot of potential but it needs you. It needs you to join in and help build a community, it needs more content and it needs a little more publicity :-) How would you like to contribute? Maybe with a comment in the blog, a blog entry (mail me jasonhook@opencod.org), a code snippet, or an application or application idea?
I came back from Lotusphere having spoken to openNTF contributors and we have some ideas for new projects including:
- Extending Blogging to the BlackBerry using the BlackBerry browser
- Extending the most popular Domino templates to the BlackBerry using the browser/MDS or J2ME
- Investigating ways to create a very simple toolkit for extending any Domino database to the BlackBerry
More news on those ideas next week I hope!
For now thanks for visiting and ttfn,
Jason
