In the interests of the holidays, where cookies and cakes stuff us all, we’re excited to be able to interview Greg Samuels of Interbake Foods and Mark Ramos of Granite Software. Interbake’s interesting not only because the yummy products they produce, but because they’ve managed to interconnect Notes and Domino servers with Microsoft messaging systems. In this interview, we’ll explore that connection.

It’s December, and thoughts in the Lotus community aren’t just about Christmas. We’re also looking forward to spending the last week of January 2006 in Orlando, Florida — somewhere that, for most of us from the Northern Hemisphere, will hopefully be a bit warmer than where we are now. But Sphere 2006 will be more, more than just having the thermometer a bit further up the scale. There’s a lot to look forward to.

We continue our series of interviews with Lotus Business Partners. This week, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz had the opportunity to interview Nigel Cheshire, CEO of Teamstudio, a company that specializes in developer tools for Lotus Notes and Domino.

In this question and answer session, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz speaks with Chris Lamb, IBM’s Worldwide Market Manager for IBM WebSphere Portal. David and Chris discuss Service Oriented Architectures and why SOA is important, so read on to learn more.

We continue our series of interviews with Lotus Business Partners. This week, I had the opportunity to interview an old friend, Sam Rifaey, founder of SoftQuest, a company that specializes in migration software for Notes. Given the release of R7, Sam’s perspective is particularly relevant.

Last week, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz had the opportunity to learn more about the Notes developer’s perspective from David Engasser, Software Development Manager for Logic Springs Technologies, a well-known Lotus Lotus Business Partner. Although recently at DominoPower, most of our interviews have been with senior IBM executives, we’ve been wanting to shine the light of editorial coverage on the intrepid Notes and Domino developers who make the Lotus community as strong as it is. In this in-depth question and answer session, David Engasser discusses calendaring in Notes and Domino.

Have you ever wanted to be able to sort your Domino views in the browser in just the same way that you can from the Notes Client? This article by Colin Neale shows one way to achieve column sorting on the Web using some simple JavaScript routines.

Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard build an automated signature generator for Notes. In this series of articles, he takes you through all the stages of building the application. This week, he explores how to extend the program with new fields.

Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard build an automated signature generator for Notes. In this series of articles, he takes you through all the stages of building the application. This week, he explores how the program’s code works.

Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard build an automated signature generator for Notes. In this series of articles, he takes you through all the stages of building the application. This week, he explores how an administrator can add templates.