January 24, 2006
I had so much fun at my Jumpstart session
Posted by Jess in
Lotusphere2006
Well, it's Tuesday, and I'm taking some downtime to catch up on things.
I presented my Jumpstart, JMP101 - Administration for the Developer, Installing and Configuring your Own IBM Lotus Domino Server Playground on Sunday, and it went great. People came up to me afterwards and told me they enjoyed it, and I've gotten LOTS of requests for a repeat. Let's hope my trial version of VMWare holds out that long if need be.
Just kidding! Well, not really. It really is a trial version. I own MS Virtual PC, and had everything ready to go on my other laptop. At the last minute last Thursday, I decided that the installs were going a little too slow for my liking, and so decided to do the whole thing on my new fast lappy. Which, apparently is too fast for my old version of Virtual PC. Thus the trial of VMWare. Which so far, rocks.
But my install went great. I walked users through a complete install of a Domino server, starting with "take the CD and put it into the drive". After that, we setup and started the server, and then installed the Admin client. From there we configured and secured Domino, set up an SMTP and Web server, configured our firewall for external access, and then registered users from a text file.
If anyone from the session is reading this, the site I took the names from was the Fantasy-name generator found on www.rinkworks.com Fantasy Name Generator. Just keep hitting refresh to get new names, and these can be pasted into an Excel sheet. Instant first and last names.
The slides are available on the Lotusphere Online site, www.online2006.net. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post them here on my site, I'd love to. So please someone let me know if I can!
-Updated: Yup! Here they are, and here's a Wiki to get all the slides!
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Sadly, Tom and Julian's session, JMP201 - Java Jumpstart for the Developer was at the same time as mine. So I'm sure someone would have noticed if I had skipped out to watch it. :-)
However, it was recorded, so hopefully I can get the DVD to see it. The session has gotten rave reviews, and Julian's lightsaber laser-pointer has earned him the nickname, "The Java Jedi".
We do think we have gotten to the bottom of why our sessions were going at the same time, even though they were both targeting developers. My session was listed in the Administration jumpstart track. Possibly a mistake, but most likely a logistics error because my session was installing a server, the conference producer did not realize it was targeted for developers, and assumed it was a jumpstart for Admins. A mistake that would be understandably very easy to make!
I have a "2 minutes with" podcast with Libby on Lotususergroup.org's Live from Lotus segment, you can find those and others here.
That was fun, thanks Libby!
Much more to come...
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I wish I was at Lotusphere having fun like you this year, but couldn't make it. The best I can do is check my Bloggregator feeds a few times a day. On the subject of VMWare versus M$ Virtual PC, I had much the same experience. In my case, VPC worked ok when running Domino under WinXP, but things did not go well when I gen'd a Suse Linux and installed a Domino server on this VPC. The biggest problem was the "run away" clock syndrom and the clock would never sync correctly with the host clock. I tried a beta version of VMWare 5.0 and it worked so well and had so many more features than M$ VPC, that I ditched VPC and gladly paid the $199 for VMWare Workstation 5.0. I haven't upgraded to the new VMWare Workstation 5.5 yet as my 5.0 still works flawlessly for me. The one neat new feature of 5.5 is that you can create new virtual machines from a Norton Ghost backup image. I highly recommend VMWare over M$ VPC, especially if you have need for Linux machines.
Good info, thanks. I agree with you, even the tiny bit I've used VMWare so far makes me decide it will be worth the money. I like it WAY more than Virtual PC.
Jess,
I can't believe the organizers of Lotusphere made the mistake of putting your session and the Java Jumpstart at the same time. From everyone I spoke to at the conference, your session was a big hit. (So was the Java Jumpstart) Here lies the problem we faced this year at Lotusphere. I've reviewed your slides and I'm inspired to get VMWare and a test Domino 7 server up and running. Great idea for a session!
Thanks.
Oh, yeah. And sort of off topic, I didn't take a lot of pictures at Lotusphere but the one I posted on my blog of you, Joe, Julian and Rob is cool. Check it out.
That is the BEST picture Curt, thanks!!
