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Jan 5 2012

You know you want to chat with Davalen… So, where can you find us at Lotusphere 2012?

Only 10 days to go until Lotusphere 2012 kicks off in Orlando!

It’s an annual pilgrimage for Lotus business and technical users of all types and we’re happy to be a part of it every year.

We’ll be busy spreading the news on Davalen’s latest RapidValue Services but you can still find us at some of the great events planned for the week including: poolside for the opening reception, at SeaWorld for the Lotusphere party, during the OGS, and of course, in the showcase!

So, the easiest way to chat with one of us it to come by our Booth #312.

Here’s in the information:

Solutions Showcase and Solutions Showcase Reception

WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN Atlantic Hall

Mix, mingle, and get social with the minds behind the greatest solutions for enterprise collaboration.  All the solutions, applications, tools, and services to enable better business decisions are under one roof at the Lotusphere 2012 Solutions Showcase.

It’s the world’s largest collection of IBM software-related, real-world innovative solutions.

Days Hours
Monday 10:00 AM – 8:00 PMReception from

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Tuesday 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

And I couldn’t resist posting these fun details as well…

Welcome Reception

Sunday, 6:30 – 9:00 PM 
Poolside at the WALT DISNEY WORLD SWAN and DOLPHIN Resort

Get social means business at the Lotusphere Street Fair! This festival trifecta focuses on food, music, and art. Enjoy wandering through the fair and discover exciting activities, including interactive games, artist exhibits, and delectable food stations!

Listen for the featured live music on the main stage and be riveted by roaming entertainment. Come prepared for an evening of fun and make sure you bring your appetite!

NOTE: Attendees must check in at Conference Registration prior to entering the Reception and must wear their badge in its badge holder for admittance. Guest tickets for adults can be purchased at Registration. Children are not permitted to attend.

Lotusphere 2012 Party

Wednesday, 7:00 – 10:30 PM
SeaWorld® Orlando

SeaWorld welcomes Lotusphere guests to an evening of celebrating, connecting, and memory making all wrapped up with excitement, wonder and thrills!

Lotusphere guests will enjoy thrilling rides, amazing shows, delicious food, fantastic shopping, and unparalled animal encounters—one-of-a-kind experiences only SeaWorld Orlando can create!

  • Manta, SeaWorld’s newest mega attraction will seamlessly transition guests from the awe of encountering rays in underwater flight into the sensation of actually being one. Swooping over sea and sky, Manta will inspire riders with amazing underwater animal habitats, then soar them face-down, in a horizontal position, aboard a manta-inspired flying coaster.
  • Kraken, Orlando’s tallest and only floorless roller coaster, is themed after a massive, mythological underwater beast unleashed from the depths of the sea.
  • Ready for our amazing performances? Lotusphere guests will marvel at our talented animals and trainers in Blue Horizons, a dolphin theatrical performance about a place where sea meets sky in a world of acrobatic dolphins and whales, soaring birds, and leaping water.
  • At Clyde and Seamore Take Pirate Island, the journey begins with the HMS Pinniped setting sail to Pirate Island. This show will be customized with Lotusphere jargon and innuendos.
  • Shamu Rocks is a rock n’ roll concert of unprecedented proportions combining improvisational movements of killer whales with music remixed by some of the hottest rock stars in the industry, including Savage Garden, Cold Play, Jennifer Lopez, Rascal Flats, and Shakira.

Attendees are encouraged to take advantage of special event transportation provided to and from the Lotusphere conference hotels. Complimentary parking is available at SeaWorld Orlando.

Security at the park will inspect all bags upon arrival. Lockers are available at the Front Gate, Manta, and Kraken. There is a locker use charge of $10 – $15.

 

Oct 20 2011

The countdown begins for Lotusphere 2012

It’s official – Davalen is confirmed as an exhibitor at the upcoming Lotusphere 2012 event at pedestal #312. Now, the countdown to the event begins (cough, cough, 87 days to go, cough cough)!

The official Lotusphere blog has already been busy (you can find it here) discussing potential tags for the event (#ls12 and lotusphere2012), the new lotusphere.com website, what to check out at the future event, and thankfully, the social aggregator. Yes, the process has already began!

Don’t miss your opportunity to take advantage of all the information and register early here.

So, register and get prepared for this amazing annual event. Of course, more information to come in the upcoming months so check back soon! Per usual, Davalen will be covering the event from an exhibitor, business partner, and user standpoint on our Lotusphere 2012 Event page.

Jan 30 2011

Davalen Charts in Action at Lotusphere 2011!

Davalen Charts provide advanced charting competency from a standard WebSphere Portlet Factory builder interface. Flashed based in nature with HTML5 fine-tuning for mobile devices, Davalen Charts provides customers with even more options for delivering high fidelity dashboards. Together WebSphere Portlet Factory and Davalen Charts provide a developer with the latest Web 2.0 capabilities for charting including: Flash/HTML5 Charts, flyovers, animation and dynamic chart drill-downs.

Showcased for the first time at Lotusphere 2011 – Booth #221 – http://www.facebook.com/v/628010205579

Jan 18 2011

A Raffle for Lotusphere Attendees – Updated with Raffle Times

What would Lotusphere be without the fun giveaways?

Every day of the conference Davalen will be giving away one Remote Control Indy Car in a random raffle.

How do you enter?

Drop your business card in the fishbowl each day and a winner will be picked at random each day of the Product Showcase. Visit Booth #221 for more details or email rjarvis@davalen.com.

By the way, you’ll get a free gift just for entering! See you in Orlando!

**UPDATE 01/25/11 **

Here are the official raffle drawing times:

Raffle Schedule
MONDAY – 01/31/11- 7:00PM
Location: Product Showcase Reception, Booth #221

TUESDAY – 02/01/11 -  4:00PM
Location: Product Showcase, Booth #221

WEDNESDAY- 02/02/11 – 3:00PM
Location: Product Showcase, Booth #221

*Prize Must be Picked-Up By 4:00PM WED 02/02/11 at Booth #221*

Jan 18 2011

2010 Closes Strong and the Momentum Continues into Q1

Deborah Corcoran

by Deborah Corcoran, National Practice Manager for Resource Deployment Services to IBM

In closing out 2010, Davalen had a huge uptick in resource staffing requests across the board in all IBM software applications – everything from upgrades to new application integrations. Despite the international economic challenges, IT staffing held strong.  Davalen customers know that we are the “go to” Business Partner for all things IBM, especially when it comes to our highly skilled and IBM certified consultants.

Q1 is starting out very strong and trending toward more staffing opportunities that are longer in term. The contracting resource requests coming across are for projects that are much more expanded in length than in previous years, especially for Q1/Q2. Customers have started to focus on projects that were set to launch in Q4, but didn’t seem to either get the funding or time ran out due to holiday schedules.

The big push so far is for Lotus Notes Connections installs and integrations with various other IBM software applications such as WebSphere. The WebSphere space seems to be really taking the lead in Q1 as is Portlet Factory.  More and more of our customers are inquiring about our Portlet Factory practice and how they can integrate this application into their current environment.

Our New Years momentum brings us right into our countdown for Lotusphere 2011! Davalen will be exhibiting for the 4th year in a row at Booth # 221. Lotusphere is always such a great venue to share stories and gain important industry information, so please stop by and say “hello.”

As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us for of your IT Staffing requirements and I look forward to seeing you at Lotusphere!

Dec 22 2010

Social Networking and Lotusphere

By Len Barker, Managing Partner – Lotus Practice

Having just completed a gig where my team installed Lotus Connections 3.0 and the new Connections 3.0 Portlets in WebSphere Portal 7, I am pumped to go to Lotusphere and tell the story about how Social Networking can energize business.  And since the developer toolkit for the Connections 3.0 portlets is all Portlet Factory based,  I will also take the opportunity to trumpet the benefits of Portlet Factory development and education from Davalen.

All are invited to stop by the  booth (#221) to hear the details of the first Connections 3.0/Portal 7 implementation.

Dec 22 2010

Snow and Lotusphere

by Dave Jacob, Managing Partner, WebSphere Practice

The first snow of the season in Boston reminds me that its time to get out of town and head for Florida. Luckily, Lotusphere is waiting for me and I’m ready to go!

With the maturity of the Portlet Factory environment, I am looking forward to seeing how the product is being used with Portal, Dashboards, Expeditor and more. It’s also good to see what my Domino friends have been up to since last year. Hard to believe that this product has been around for 20 years and continues to reinvent itself to stay current in the marketplace. Remember when Lotus 4.5 came out and shortly thereafter Lotus 4.6 with html and web support, not to mention LotuScript? Seems like a long time ago.

I wonder what’s new on the horizon…

Dec 21 2010

Lotusphere 2011 Schedule & Agenda

It’s hard to believe we’re just 39 days, 18 hours and 6 minutes (give or take) away from another Lotusphere (thanks to the Lotusphere Blog for the countdown). The sessions have been announced and the agenda is published – it really is sneaking up on us.

This is Davalen’s 4th year exhibiting at the show and we are very excited about our public announcements, demonstrations and of course quality conversation! It is always a busy week full of announcements, labs, meetings and evening events and this year does not seem like it will disappoint! With added tracks, general sessions each day and more chatting about all kinds of tools that fall under the Lotus name, our entire team is working hard behind the scenes to add to the quality of your conference.

While I have you here I just wanted to let you know when we’d be at our Booth #221 for the general Lotusphere population. Here are the open showcase times where you can always find one of the team…

Monday, January 31, 2011

10:00am – 8:00 pm – Product Showcase Open

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Product Showcase Reception (we’ll be doing a raffle drawing during this time).

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

9:30 am – 5:00 pm – Product Showcase Open (we’ll be doing a raffle drawing during this time).

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

9:30 am – 4:00 pm – Product Showcase Open (we’ll be doing a raffle drawing during this time).

More information to come and have a wonderful holiday season!

Aug 18 2009

Lotus Domino Web Applications

Todd Weimer

 by Todd Weimer, Lotus Practice Area Manager

For many years Lotus Domino developers have been creating new applications that are completely web-based. Typically a developer may perform some application administration through a Notes client but the majority of an application will be accessed through a web browser. That being said, many organizations still have a significant amount of completely Notes client based applications. Lotus Domino 8.5 has added many features that make it easier than ever to enable web access for your Notes client applications along with providing the same user experience. LotusSphere has sessions every year about “webifying” client applications but I have compiled a list of key issues and strategies.

Learn basic web technologies first, a good starting point is Html, CSS, JavaScript, and Xml. Try not to focus on how and where they all fit into Lotus Domino initially.

JavaScript is integral to Lotus Domino 8.5 with the introduction of XPages. Along with client-side JavaScript libraries, you can write server-side libraries that have access to JavaScript implementations of virtually the entire Notes object model. There are JavaScript implementations of most formula language functions as well.

To efficiently deliver the same (or better) user experience in a web browser, using AJAX and Dynamic Html (DHTML) are a must. Use an AJAX framework as a starting point (the Dojo framework is part of the 8.5 server) and supply data through agents, views, and web services. Consider using JSON for data structure as opposed to Xml for a lighter payload and more understandable JavaScript.

Lotus Domino applications can be accessed through the Notes client and web browser at the same time and the security model will be the same.

Make sure the ‘Anonymous’ user is configured to the appropriate level of access on the ACL of the application.

Java and LotusScript can both be used for server-side processing so if your workflow code resides in a LotusScript library(for example), you can leverage that for notes client processing as well as web request processing.

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