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Clippings is the official newsletter for Lotus Certified Professionals. This monthly newsletter is your ideal source for news, certification and exam updates, and technical resources NOW brought to you jointly by LotusUserGroup.org, THE VIEW, and IBM Lotus Certification.
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IN THIS ISSUE
PROGRAM MANAGER'S NOTE
* Lotus Professional Certification Program Enhancements
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* Lotusphere Comes to You Online
* Book Spotlight -- DB2 pureXML Cookbook: Master the Power of the IBM Hybrid Data Server
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* Quest -- Free Notes Application Analysis Tool
GUEST AUTHOR
* Making the Most of Live Notes/Domino Data Surfaced in SharePoint by Adding Logic and Integration with SharePoint Lists by Gary Devendorf
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GURU GUIDANCE
* Random Thoughts About Date Values by Julian Robichaux, SNAPPS
EDUCATION NEWS
* IBM Professional Certification Printed Certificates
* Lotus Train, Certify, & $ave
* Retiring IBM Lotus Forms Exam/Certification
* Build Skills From Your Own Place at Your Own Pace
* NEW Lotus Technical Expert Series -- April Calendar
* Are You a Top Achiever? You Can Be!
* New Instructor-Led Online Workshops
* Five Ways to Save on Notes, Sametime, and Quickr Using Training
RESOURCES/PUBLICATIONS
* ISSL: Mobile Content Enabler for WCM V6
* ISSL: Monitoring Availability, Performance, Infrastructure, and Beyond Using IBM Lotus Sametime
EVENTS
* Portal Excellence Conference 2010 -- Americas. Registration is Open!
* Admin2010 Boston
* Lotus Developer2010 Boston
* Notes User Summit2010
INSTRUCTOR'S CORNER
* Lotus Knows You're Excellent Campaign
* Update on the Instructor Private Site
* Instructor Program Administrator Contacts
* Instructor Links
Newsletter archive! The Clippings newsletter archive is available at http://lotususergroup.org/glug.nsf/LkupView/Clippings
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PROGRAM MANAGER'S NOTE
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LOTUS PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAM ENHANCEMENTS
In 2009, Lotus Education adopted a new exam development process that relies heavily on internal resources. This significant change was implemented due to a number of factors including security, control, and flexibility. This model was piloted in the second half of 2009 and rolled out officially at the end of the year. Though no change would have been apparent to the test taker, this new process does indirectly affect the Certified Lotus Professional or the would-be Certified Lotus Professional.
Injecting flexibility into the program -- the ability to respond to industry and market trends in a more agile manner -- was something we had been working towards from a strategic perspective for some time. The new model enables us to exert more control in terms of security and aligns the business and development sides of certification more closely. This enables us to deliver tests that are more relevant to the job role in question while safeguarding our intellectual capital more effectively.
Being internally focused, the new model facilitates the collaboration between other IBM organizations and Lotus certification; again, not directly affecting the test taker, but we hope it will yield a broader range of certification titles and offerings in the long term.
The new exam development model is but one example of the ways in which the Lotus Professional Certification Program seeks to improve and enhance not just our processes, but the end results -- our tests and certifications -- so they remain relevant and meaningful not just to IBM and Lotus but also to the individuals who take the tests and the companies who employ them.
In the coming weeks, our first certification of 2010 will be released: a System Administrator certification for Sametime 8.5. Look for the official announcement on the Lotus Certification Public and Private Sites, as well as in a future issue of Clippings. Since the product is now part of the Software Value Plus program, business partners will want to ensure their professionals are certified on the newest release of this engaging product.
Sara Nicklin
Lotus Professional Certification Program Manager
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LOTUSPHERE COMES TO YOU ONLINE
Lotusphere Comes to You ONLINE (LCTYO) is a premier online event series featuring newly updated presentations from Lotusphere 2010. Designed to bring anyone who couldn't get to Orlando the critical information and the excitement they missed, this FREE online series will help viewers get more from their existing IT investment and boost collaboration across the enterprise. The sessions are hosted by LotusUserGroup.org and presented by a myriad of Lotus IBM team leaders and members as well as a select few independent experts. Sessions are one hour each and are scheduled once or twice a week between April 6 and June 1, 2010.
These free Webinars are presented by top executives at Lotus, other leading IBM team members, and several independent consultants and experts. Sessions will include a Q&A segment so viewers can ask questions and provide feedback to top decision makers inside Lotus and/or get answers to critical questions or challenges.
Sessions cover a range of topics including the messaging and collaboration product family roadmap, Project Vulcan, capabilities and roadmap for application development, Sametime and Unified Communications, Cloud computing, project management, avoiding server disasters, and more.
Presenters include:
Kevin Cavanaugh, VP of Messaging & Collaboration IBM Software Group, Lotus
Ed Brill, Director, Product Management, IBM Lotus
Brent Peters, VP Software Development, IBM
Mike Masterson, Sr. Product Manager -- Lotus Application Development at IBM
Bruce Morse, VP of Unified Communications, IBM Lotus
John Del Pizzo, Program Director, Unified Communications & Collaboration Software
Sean Poulley, VP Online Collaboration Services, IBM Lotus
Chris Price, Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Bryan Osenbach, Software Architect IBM Lotus
Wes Morgan, Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Steve Williams, Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Marie Scott, Director, Email Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University
Franziska Tanner, Business Development Director at MartinScott Consulting
Gabriella Davis, Technical Director at The Turtle Partnership
Russell Mullen, Principal Consultant, Dacoda Projects LLC
Steve Caudill, PepsiCo International Senior IT manager
A list of sessions currently scheduled (more may be added at a later date) and complete descriptions of session content can be found at http://www.LotusUserGroup.org/LCTY2010reg .
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MAKING THE MOST OF LIVE NOTES/DOMINO DATA SURFACED IN SHAREPOINT BY ADDING LOGIC AND INTEGRATION WITH SHAREPOINT LISTS
By Gary Devendorf
Displaying, sorting, grouping, and filtering live Notes/Domino data in a SharePoint "Data View" Web part is useful. However, the real value is adding calculated columns, conditional formatting, and linking the data to other SharePoint lists. Thrill your end users by combining existing Notes/Domino applications with the dynamic capabilities of SharePoint. Become a hero by extending the value of existing Notes/Domino applications. This is very easy and only takes a few minutes.
In this third article of the series, we will add value to the Notes/Domino data we surfaced in SharePoint in the previous articles (for the second article in this series, please visit http://www.lotususergroup.org/Submissions.nsf/ContentSpotlight/00ADD03D10DE2038862576DD007C26D1/?OpenDocument ). After all, why surface the data if it provides no additional value? At this point in our demo, we have live Notes/Domino data in a SharePoint "Data View" Web part using a Domino XML Web Agent as its data source.
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As you can see, end users would have no hint that this data is live Notes/Domino data. In fact, now that we have abstracted Notes/Domino data, this article's material is completely independent from the type of data source that was used (i.e., SQL Server, DB2, Lists, Web services, etc.).
We can create a rich user experience, without code, just by using the features of Data View Web parts. To access the Data View setting, we need to open our page with SharePoint Designer.
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Click the arrow at the top right of our data view Web part to display the "Common Data View Tasks" menu.
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To start, we will re-order and add to the columns. Select the "Edit Columns..." menu item. This brings up the "Edit Columns" dialog box.
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Highlight a column name in the right list and use the "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons to order the displayed columns as follows: productID, description, location, cost, quantity, reorderlevel.
Next, we add a calculated column by selecting "Add Formula Column..." in the left-hand list and clicking the "Add" button. An "XPath Expression Builder" wizard launches to help you build the calculation.
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By clicking, or just typing, we enter "quantity*cost" in the XPath expression text box. Note the Preview box at the bottom showing the result of the calculation. For now, disregard the format and click OK. A new column, "quantity*cost", now shows in our data view.
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To set the format for this column data, we click the arrow that displays when you hover over one of the new column's values. On the menu that appears, click the "Format as" pull down.
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Then select "Number" from the choices.
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The "Format Number" dialog lets us specify "Currency" and 2 decimal places.
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Click OK to see the formatted column data. You can change the column widths by dragging, and you can change the column label by just directly editing the text in SharePoint Designer.
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Conditional Formatting is a great feature for stressing important data conditions. In our scenario we want to highlight product quantities that are less than the stock re-order level. This requires a calculation and an action. To achieve this, we again click the arrow at the top right of our data view Web part to display the "Common Data View Tasks" menu. This time select "Conditional Formatting".
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Notice on the right hand side of the screen a "Conditional Formatting" panel appears.
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In this panel, click the "Create" button and select "Apply formatting".
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This opens the "Condition Criteria" dialog. Click on the "Click here to add a new clause" link.
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Use the row column pull downs to build the condition to trigger the formatting.
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In the first column select "quantity (Number)". Set the second column to "Less Than". For the third column, select "More Fields" which opens the "More Fields" dialog.
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Here we select the "reorderlevel" field and hit OK. Back in the "Condition Criteria" dialog click OK.
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Now that the condition is defined, we can specify what format to apply when the condition is "True" with the "Modify Style" dialog.
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I've chosen to make the "quantity" field, (specified in the condition clause), font bold and red to make it noticeable. The result is this:
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There is plenty more we could do with the data in our data view. However, our next step is to link this data to a SharePoint List in another Web part. In our scenario, each product has a location and each location can have one or more sales representatives. Our application will show the list of representatives for the product location you are interested in. So, Location is our key for linking the Notes/Domino data with the representatives SharePoint list.
First, we need to add another data view Web part to our page within SharePoint Designer. Put the focus just above the existing data view Web part by selecting it then hitting the up arrow on your keyboard. Now, on the menu, select "Data View" then "Insert Data View".
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A new data view Web part appears, prompts for a "Data Source", and displays the Data Source Library in the right hand panel.
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In the Data Source Library, locate the SharePoint Lists section, expand it, click on the "Representatives" list pull down button and select "Show Data".
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We can now see the fields found in the "Representatives" List.
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Select the "Region", "Rep_Name", and "Phone_Number" fields and drag them to the new data view part. This finishes the new data view part, and we need to focus back on our original data view part to set up the linking.
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Click the arrow at the top right of our original data view Web part to display the "Common Data View Tasks" menu and this time select "Web Part Connections".
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When the "Web Part Connections Wizard" appears, select the action "Send Row of Data To" and click next.
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On the following page of the wizard, select the radio button next to "Connect to a Web Part on this page" and click the "Next" button.
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With the third page of the wizard, we set the "Target Web Part" to "Representatives", the "Target action" to "Get Filter Values From", and click "Next".
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The fourth page of the wizard links the key fields in our Web parts. Here, next to the "Region" field in Representatives, we select "location" then "Next".
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We are almost done. The fifth page of the wizard lets us specify a column whose values will be displayed as hyperlinks that, when clicked, cause communication between the Web parts to happen. Here, select "location" and click "Next".
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The last page of the wizard just shows us some of the settings and we click "Finish".
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(A video showing the building of the Web part connection and how it works can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH3-6q97usY .)
Our page in SharePoint Designer doesn't appear to have any changes. To see the result, we must "Save" and "Preview" our page.
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Finally we have the finished page.
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You can see our "Notes bike parts" page with two Web parts. The top one shows Representatives information while the bottom one shows part inventory information. Look at the third row of the part inventory Web part and note there are 150 "BB Ball Bearings" in stock at a cost of $8.99 and a reorder level of 600. The calculated column we added shows the Total Value of $1348.50 ($8.99 x 150). Furthermore, the conditional formatting we added shows the 150 Quantity as red and bold because 150 is less than the 600 unit reorder level.
Because, Notes/Domino is the data source for the Data View Web part, as the data changes back in the Notes database, the data here changes as well as the calculations and formatting.
Observe the "Location" values are now links that drive the filtering of the Representatives Web part data. If I click on the "Boston" link, I will only see the "Boston" Representatives in the top Web part.
This simple SharePoint 2007 exercise can quickly provide end-user value. However, we only looked at a small set of the SharePoint features and options. Explore other menu options and consider getting SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, and InfoPath training. The Microsoft 2010 products, to be released soon, open up a whole new set of possibilities. In particular, check out Access Services 2010, SharePoint Workspaces 2010, InfoPath 2010, and SharePoint Designer 2010.
Even if this demo is very useful and compelling, there are limitations. Consider that the Notes data here is read-only and the UI is not very "Notes like", possibly making it difficult for existing Notes users. There are ways to add document-level Create/Read/Update/Delete functionality with Domino Web services, and maybe I'll create an article on it soon. Also, you can work on the way the UI looks to make it more "Notes like". Or, you could just use third-party tools like the Quest Web Parts for SharePoint to do all this for you. Like all things software, you can do it yourself or buy a tool that does it for you.
I will be presenting at THE VIEW's Lotus Developer2010 ( http://www.lotusdeveloper2010.com/ ) in Boston May 12-14. Hope to see you there!
This article is made possible, in part, by Quest Software. Visit their site at http://budurl.com/amxp .
Gary Devendorf is currently a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Lotus Notes applications at Microsoft, spending his time creating demos of integration and migration between Lotus Notes and Microsoft products. Many of his demos can be found at Interoptips.com. In prior positions Gary was a Product Manager at IBM Lotus, a Product Manager at Lotus/Iris/IBM covering the application development features of Lotus Notes/Domino (LotusScript, Domino Designer, Web service, toolkits and more). He is the author of the GaryDev blog, a frequent speaker at technical events, and a long-time Lotus technical expert with a thorough technical knowledge of SharePoint.
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RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT DATE VALUES
By Julian Robichaux, SNAPPS
Easter is here again, which is that one holiday that's on a completely different day every year, and that got me thinking about calendar dates and programming (I'm sure that's exactly what you think about this time of year too!). I considered writing a "Complete Guide to Lotus Notes Dates" kind of article for the newsletter this month -- talking about LotusScript date values and converting back and forth between LotusScript/Java and NotesDocument items and whatnot -- but that seemed a little boring and is fairly well covered in Domino Designer help anyway.
So instead, here are some random and mostly unrelated tips and bits of code that have to do with working with date and time values. I've used each of them at least once, most of them many times, over the years. You might find at least one of these things to be useful either right away, or at some random time in the future.
Calculating the Number of Days Between Two Date Values
A LotusScript Variant date (Variant type 7, to be exact) is actually stored internally as a LotusScript Double value, although you generally don't see it that way. The integer portion of the number represents the number of days since December 30, 1899, and the decimal portion of the number represents the fraction of the day that has elapsed since midnight.
For example, the date/time January 1, 2001 at 4:00 PM is represented numerically as 36892.5833333333.
As you can see, this isn't a very intuitive way of looking at a date, but it does become useful if you're doing a quick calculation of how many days there are between two dates. For example:
total_day% = Fix(Cdbl(Cdat("07/08/2009"))) - Fix(Cdbl(Cdat("02/15/2009")))
will give you the number of days between those two dates.
Calculating the Number of Seconds Between Two Time Values
We can also calculate the number of seconds between two time values, although you have to write a little bit more code. For example:
Function DifferenceOfTimes (time1 As Variant, time2 As Variant) As Long
On Error Goto processError
Dim dayDiff As Long
dayDiff = Fix(Cdbl(Cdat(time1))) - Fix(Cdbl(Cdat(time2)))
dayDiff = dayDiff*24*60*60
Dim seconds1 As Long, seconds2 As Long
seconds1 = (Hour(Cdat(time1))*60*60) + (Minute(Cdat(time1))*60) + Second(Cdat(time1))
seconds2 = (Hour(Cdat(time2))*60*60) + (Minute(Cdat(time2))*60) + Second(Cdat(time2))
DifferenceOfTimes = dayDiff + (seconds1 - seconds2)
processError:
Exit Function
End Function
Note that this doesn't account for Daylight Saving Time, so if the timespan crosses an evening when DST goes in or out of effect, you'll be an hour off.
Converting To and From a Notes C-API Date Value
If you're calling the Notes C-API from LotusScript, there is a special TIMEDATE structure you need to use in order to pass date values around. As reference, chapter 14-2 of the "Lotus C-API User Guide" ( http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/lotus/c2728430.nsf/85255d56004d2bfd85255b1800631684/ebbc9a09ec4ecd0d852562dc006c9157?OpenDocument ) has this information:
"The Domino and Notes TIMEDATE structure consists of two long words that encode the time, the date, the time zone, and the Daylight Savings Time settings that were in effect when the structure was initialized ... The first DWORD, Innards[0], contains the number of hundredths of seconds since midnight, Greenwich mean time ... The date and the time zone and Daylight Savings Time settings are encoded in Innards[1]. The 24 low-order bits contain the Julian Day, the number of days since January 1, 4713 BC."
It gets even more technical from there. The point is that a TIMEDATE structure is an array of 2 DWORD values (Long values to LotusScript programmers), the first being the date and the second being the time. Much like the Double value representation of a date Variant we saw above, it is split at the decimal point.
To get some tips on converting to and from a Notes C-API TIMEDATE value in LotusScript, please see this information I put together about this a few years ago, at: http://www.nsftools.com/tips/APITips.htm#timedatetrick (I was going to reproduce it all here, but it seemed a little tedious).
Formatting Java Date Values as Strings
Here's how to convert a Java Date value to a String. For some reason, I ALWAYS have to look this up, so now I can just look it up here!
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy"); System.out.println("Date = " + formatter.format(dateObj));
If you have a Calendar object instead of a Date, just use Calendar.getTime() to get the Date object.
Likewise, to go from a Java String value to a Date, you do something like this:
String sDate = "04/15/2009";
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date dateObj = formatter.parse(sDate);
Timers in LotusScript and Java
In LotusScript, you can calculate elapsed time by using either the Timer function or by making a call to GetThreadInfo(6). Timer gives you the number of milliseconds since midnight (as a Single value), and GetThreadInfo(6) gives you the number of processor clock ticks since boot time (as a Double value). Either way, you capture a start time and an end time, and subtract the two in order to determine elapsed time.
The only extra step you have to perform for GetThreadInfo is to divide the time difference by the number of clock ticks per second, which you can get with a call to GetThreadInfo(7). In theory the GetThreadInfo method is a little more accurate, but in practice I've found that it really doesn't matter which one you use. If you're trying to measure your timing down to the millisecond level, you're probably timing the wrong thing.
Anyway, some sample code might look like this:
Dim startTime As Double
Dim endTime As Double
startTime = Getthreadinfo(6)
'** DO SOME STUFF
endTime = Getthreadinfo(6)
Print "Elapsed seconds = " & _
((endTime - startTime) / Getthreadinfo(7))
In Java, you would use System.currentTimeMillis() to make the same sort of calculation.
Getting a Julian Date Value
This might be a little esoteric, but in the case that you ever want to find the Julian date ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_date ) for a given date value in LotusScript, here's a shortcut:
October 9, 1995 is a "known" Julian day of 2,450,000 (technically 2,449,999.5, since the Julian calendar began at noon), so you can use the difference between your given date and that date for the calculation. For example:
Dim myDate As Variant
Dim julianDate As Long
myDate = DateNumber(2009, 12, 30)
julianDate = Fix(Cdbl(myDate)) - Fix(Cdbl(DateNumber(1995, 10, 9))) + 2450000
Print "Julian day for " & myDate & " is " & julianDate
Julian dates are still used for certain astronomical calculations, it seems. I found this out a few years ago when I was writing some Formula language code to try to determine whether or not a given night had a full moon (see Carl Tyler's blog archive at http://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-78QRQD for the code, if you're interested in that sort of thing).
Calculating Easter Sunday
Since I started off talking about Easter, I'll finish up with how to calculate Easter Sunday. While you can calculate most recurring holidays pretty easily (because they either fall on a particular day of the month or a particular weekday of the month), the calculation of Easter is a little more difficult.
Technically, on the Gregorian calendar, Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, but that's not a date that's intuitively determined or easily calculated in your head. However, there are algorithms that will perform this calculation for you. Below is a LotusScript rendition of Butcher's method for calculating Easter (see http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/nature1876.html for more information about the history of this function):
Function GetEaster (Byval thisYear As Integer) As Variant
'** Butcher's method of calculating Easter - see
'** http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/nature1876.html
Dim easterMonth As Integer
Dim easterDay As Integer
'** adjust for 2-digit years
If (thisYear < 100) Then
If (thisYear < 50) Then
thisYear = thisYear + 2000
Else
thisYear = thisYear + 1900
End If
End If
Dim a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, p
a = thisYear Mod 19
b = thisYear \ 100
c = thisYear Mod 100
d = b \ 4
e = b Mod 4
f = (b + 8) \ 25
g = (b - f + 1) \ 3
h = (19 * a + b - d - g + 15) Mod 30
i = c \ 4
k = c Mod 4
l = (32 + 2 * e + 2 * i - h - k) Mod 7
m = (a + 11 * h + 22 * l) \ 451
easterMonth = (h + l - 7 * m + 114) \ 31
p = (h + l - 7 * m + 114) Mod 31
easterDay = p + 1
GetEaster = Datenumber(thisYear, easterMonth, easterDay)
End Function
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EDUCATION NEWS
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IBM PROFESSSIONAL CERTIFICATION PRINTED CERTIFICATES
Members of the IBM Professional Certified Community have exclusive access to the new on-line eStore ( https://www-304.ibm.com/certify/member/ccsc.nsf/mainForm?OpenForm&page=65 ) accessible only via the IBM Certified Professional Members Site. In the future, the eStore will provide IBM Certified Professionals the opportunity to purchase certification logo items based on community feedback.
Over the last two or three years, all IBM SWG Brands ceased issuing hardcopy certificates in order to align ourselves with more environmentally sound business practices. Sending out hard copies to every certified professional, regardless of whether or not they wanted one, was not a green way to do business; especially considering the number of certificates ending up at the wrong address.
With the launch of the eStore, IBM is offering professionals the opportunity to purchase a high-quality printed certificate. This certificate is printed on ultra-fine parchment paper featuring the official IBM Professional certification embossed seal. Included is a newly designed wallet card that highlights your status as an IBM Certified Professional. The certificate is suitable for framing in either an 8.5" x 11" document frame or an 8" x 10" frame.
Note that the PDF file certified professionals receive via email is a valid certificate, and the purchase of a printed certificate and wallet card is an option brought to you by the IBM Certification Program.
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LOTUS TRAIN, CERTIFY, & $AVE
Any student -- whether new to Lotus or a veteran -- who attends any one of our IBM WebSphere Portal Bootcamp courses or our IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5 Exploring New Features in System Administration course will receive 50% off the corresponding exam. This represents a $100 (U.S. or equivalent) savings for most students.
Though the predominant audience for this newsletter is Lotus Notes and Domino professionals, I know many of you are choosing to cross-certify and become Solution Developers or System Administrators in IBM WebSphere Portal. Those who have followed that path -- or intend to -- will also benefit.
For more information on this exciting offer, please check out the announcement on the IBM Certification for Lotus Software Web site: http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/news/lt_20090831a.shtml .
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RETIRING IBM LOTUS FORMS EXAM/CERTIFICATION
As of June 1st, 2010 the Forms Application Development exam, Test 822: Building Forms Applications Using IBM Workplace Forms 2.6 ( http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/ovrL822.shtml ) as well as the corresponding certification, IBM Certified Application Developer -- IBM Workplace Forms 2.6 ( http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/14062501.shtml ) will no longer be available. For Business Partners, the certification will continue to count toward PartnerWorld Points until September 30th, 2010.
There are no plans to release a replacement IBM Lotus Forms certification. If the community sees a demand for one, the program encourages your feedback. Send mailto:certify@us.ibm.com if you would like to see a new, updated IBM Lotus Forms certification made available.
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BUILD SKILLS FROM YOUR OWN PLACE AT YOUR OWN PACE
Self-paced e-learning courses with hands-on e-labs and live online mentoring is what you can expect with the NEW self-paced virtual classes (SPVC) from IBM Lotus Education. System Administrators and Applications Developers can take courses to gain proficiency in Lotus and WebSphere Portal technologies or learn and enhance existing skills at their own pace from their own place. Powerful scenario-based materials give you a real-world perspective on solution implementation. Taking an online course is an effective way to get up and running with Lotus and WebSphere Portal software.
Learn more about and plan on registering for an SPVC coming online in April ( http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/training/Selfpaced_training_options.html ).
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NEW LOTUS TECHNICAL EXPERT SERIES -- APRIL CALENDAR
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What's better than learning more about Lotus and WebSphere Portal technology than from the experts who have developed the software and deployed solutions for our IBM customers globally?
The Technical Expert series captures in-depth product know-how, deployment advice and tips, field-based experiences, best practices, and more from the subject matter experts across Lotus. This is a great opportunity, without having to travel, to engage directly with Lotus technical experts on how to maximize the benefits of your Lotus software investments.
These are the Webinars for April -- register today!
April 15 -- Technical Expert Series Webinar: D8M01 -- Building Composite Applications in IBM Lotus Notes 8.51.
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=course_description&includeNotScheduled=y&courseCode=D8M01
April 28 -- Technical Expert Series Webinar: D8M02 -- Creating XPages Applications in IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.x.
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=course_description&includeNotScheduled=y&courseCode=D8M02
April 29 -- Technical Expert Series Webinar: D8M03 -- Upgrading to IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5.1
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=course_description&includeNotScheduled=y&courseCode=D8M03
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ARE YOU A TOP ACHIEVER? YOU CAN BE!
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"Top Achievers" is a recognition program and is open to all individuals who take either of the IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5 Recertification exams and achieve 95% or higher. IBM will recognize your achievement by featuring YOU and your newly acquired credentials on the Lotus Certification Top Achievers Web site. Colleagues and employers alike will see you truly are a Top Achiever. Exams that qualify for the Top Achievers program are:
* Exam 951: IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5 Application Development Update ( http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/ovrL951.shtml )
* Exam 956: IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5 System Administration Update ( http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/ovrL956.shtml )
For complete program details visit the Lotus Knows Top Achievers Web site ( http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/top_achievers.html ).
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NEW INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE WORKSHOPS
With Instructor-Led Online (ILO) Workshops, students get the benefits of being in a classroom with the convenience and cost savings of online training. Take a look at these new and updated offers available to help build skills in Web Content Management or Domino Designer Application Development.
WCM 6.1.5 (Web Content Management)
WPC43 : Developing Web Sites with IBM Lotus Web Content Management V6.1.5 Workshop 1
This covers topics needed to build a Web site infrastructure and deliver content to WebSphere Portal using Web Content Management, including content libraries, workflows, workflow actions, workflow stages, site architecture, presentation and authoring templates, page design, content management, content security, user access, and content authoring. Hands-on labs will demonstrate the features of Web Content Management.
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WPC44: Developing Web Sites with IBM Lotus Web Content Management V6.1.5 Workshop 2
This course covers topics needed to build a Web site infrastructure and deliver content to WebSphere Portal using Web Content Management, including personalization, the WCM API, process flow components, interacting with the framework, custom development, and integration with WebSphere Portal. Hands-on labs will demonstrate the features of Web Content Management.
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=course_search&sortBy=5&searchType=1&sortDirection=9&includeNotScheduled=15&rowStart=0&rowsToReturn=20&maxSearchResults=200&language=en&country=us&searchString=wpc44
WPC45: Developing Web Sites with IBM Lotus Web Content Management V6.1.5 Workshop 1 and 2
IBM Lotus Web Content Management (WCM) V6.1.5 is a WebSphere application that is installed into WebSphere Portal. WCM is a collection of Portlets used to create and deliver a content-rich Web site. This course covers topics needed to build a Web site infrastructure and deliver content to WebSphere Portal using Web Content Management and is a combination of:
* Developing Web Sites with IBM Lotus Web Content Management V6.1.5 Workshop 1 (WPC43)
* Developing Web Sites with IBM Lotus Web Content Management V6.1.5 Workshop 2 (WPC44)
Hands-on labs will demonstrate the features of Web Content Management.
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IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8.5
D8C51: IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5x: Introduction to Application Development
Now running on the Eclipse platform, Domino Designer 8.5x offers many new capabilities such as XPages but still meets the demand for design and support of basic Notes applications. This course covers the basics of design needed to create and support these applications. You build and enhance applications as they apply these basics.
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=course_search&sortBy=5&searchType=1&sortDirection=9&includeNotScheduled=15&rowStart=0&rowsToReturn=20&maxSearchResults=200&language=en&country=us&searchString=d8c51
D8C52: IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5: Dojo Applications
This course introduces the developer to the essential aspects of the Dojo Base and Dijit widget libraries needed to adapt elements of existing Domino applications. It explains the role of Dojo in browser applications running on Domino and gives the Domino developer the skills to use in Domino 8.5, in iNotes, the Rich Text Editor, and XPages.
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=course_search&sortBy=5&searchType=1&sortDirection=9&includeNotScheduled=15&rowStart=0&rowsToReturn=20&maxSearchResults=200&language=en&country=us&searchString=d8c52
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FIVE WAYS TO SAVE ON NOTES, SAMETIME, AND QUICKR USER TRAINING
IT departments are expected to find cost savings to help their organizations in today's challenging economic times. One possible action may be to eliminate or reduce user training. Is this really saving your organization money? Calls to the Help Desk will increase and user productivity will decrease as they attempt to use Notes, Sametime, and Quickr without any training. What is the right solution? Classroom training is expensive and time-consuming, plus, you still need to acquire or write the class materials. Instead, how about delivering user training right to the user's desk using the Notes client and/or a Web browser? TLCC's user courses can save your organization money by:
1. Increasing user productivity by delivering training right in the Notes sidebar (shown below)
2. Creating custom user training that fits your environment with a minimal investment in both time and money
3. Maximizing your investment in Notes, Sametime, and Quickr by training users to take advantage of all the features in the Notes client, not just mail
4. Reducing calls to your Help Desk
5. Acquiring just one low cost corporate license for all the courses needed for both new users and those who are upgrading
Below is an image of TLCC's Using the Notes 8.5 Standard Client course in the Notes 8.5 sidebar:
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Try out TLCC's Notes-based user training at no charge, including our new way to deliver training right in the Notes sidebar at TLCC's Web site.
The Learning Continuum Company, Ltd. (TLCC) offers a complete selection of interactive courses that teach all levels of Lotus Notes and Domino development and administration, Java, LotusScript, JavaScript, and Web development. All TLCC courses can be downloaded onto a home or office computer for convenient learning. There is no need to travel, no scheduling conflicts, and no cancellations. TLCC customers, from over 80 countries, range from large Fortune 100 companies and government agencies to individual consultants looking to update their skills. TLCC has been the leader in providing quality distance learning courses on Lotus Notes and Domino since 1997.
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Get a 15% discount on all TLCC user, developer, and administrator courses (5% on sale priced courses.)
For more information about TLCC's user courses and to take advantage of this special offer go to:
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RESOURCES/PUBLICATIONS
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ISSL: MOBILE CONTENT ENABLER FOR WCM V6
Jen S. Wang -- IBM Software Services for Lotus
In today's fast-paced environment, we are faced with the explosive growth of mobile devices and high demand of content delivery to mobile device users. It is essential that your site content can be delivered seamlessly to these mobile devices. You can read the article here: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/Mobile_Content_Enabler_for_WCM_V6 .
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ISSL: MONITORING AVAILABILITY, PERFORMANCE, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND BEYOND USING IBM LOTUS SAMETIME
Jim Dewan -- ISSL Accelerated Value Leader
Discover how Lotus Sametime can be monitored, in terms of both function and performance, from the user perspective. This article describes (and provides) a simple lightweight proactive tool to assist administrators in better understanding the Lotus Sametime user experience to reduce outages, respond to issues more quickly, and improve the customer experience. You can read the full article here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/sametime-watchit/index.html .
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EVENTS
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PORTAL EXCELLENCE CONFERENCE 2010 -- AMERICAS. REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
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Registration is Open for The Exceptional Web Experience -- IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2010 -- Americas. An "Exceptional Web Experience is achieved when the expectations of intended users have been met-or better yet-exceeded."
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of WebSphere Portal, this is an event not to miss. The Portal Excellence Conference delivers world-class education in over 125 sessions including hands-on labs and product certifications. The sessions include a variety of business value, technical, customer solution, and industry-specific offerings designed to provide the information clients need to successfully deliver innovative, exceptional Web experiences utilizing a Portal infrastructure. You're invited to attend the IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2010 -- Americas in Chicago, July 19-22nd.
Coming soon -- details about Portal Excellence at the Congress Center in Düsseldorf, Germany, 11-13 October 2010.
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ADMIN2010 BOSTON
The premier "how-to" event for Lotus administrators, engineers, managers, and consultants. In its 11th year, this conference will cover: upgrades to 8.x; policies; security; DAOS; ID Vault; help desk management; server tuning; Lotus iNotes, Quickr, Connections, Traveler, and Protector; and much more. Find out what it has to offer for you and register today at http://www.viewadmin2010.com .
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LOTUS DEVELOPER2010 BOSTON
The premier learning platform for Lotus developers, development managers, Web designers, and other development-related professionals. In its 9th consecutive year, Lotus Developer2010 will deliver sessions on XPages, mobile application development, JavaScript, Java, @Formula, Web services, Rich Internet Application development, a hands-on XPages lab, and much more. Find out what it has to offer for you and register today at http://www.lotusdeveloper2010.com .
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NOTES USER SUMMIT2010
Get your best end users the training they need to be proficient Notes users. This one-day, hands-on training event is focused on teaching end users the ins and outs of the most underutilized features in Notes. Sessions cover customizing the Notes client and email, proper use of the calendaring and scheduling functionality, and a walk through the functionality available from the sidebar. Notes User Summit will be held on the first day of Admin2010 and Lotus Developer2010. For session descriptions or to register, please visit http://www.eview.com/summit .
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LOTUS KNOWS YOU'RE EXCELLENT CAMPAIGN
Since the launch of this campaign, we have had a number of submissions qualify for posting on the LE YouTube Channel. ( http://www.youtube.com/user/LotusTraining ). Many thanks go out to the enthusiastic members of the community who are among the first to be added to the Lotus Knows Certified Instructors are the Best play list ( http://www.youtube.com/user/LotusTraining#p/c/2138ED9A682465D3 ). The content is fresh and the quality is great. The program encourages all members of the community to check out the videos made by their peers ... some may inspire you to submit one of your own!
The Lotus Knows Excellent Instructors Campaign, announced at Lotusphere and officially launched last month, gives all Certified Lotus Instructors an opportunity to submit short videos demoing or giving a talk about a unique feature of a Lotus or Portal product. Instructors can include a bio blurb or slide outlining their expertise, qualifications, and company information. Qualifying videos are posted to the LE YouTube Channel. Please note that the duration of the submissions has been changed to less than ten minutes (originally, we announced the duration to be between 3-4 minutes).
Although a detailed outline of the submission process was sent out to all Certified Lotus Instructors via email and posted in the LE Instructor Forum ( https://www-03.ibm.com/lotusquickr/lotusinstructorforum/main.nsf?Login&RedirectTo=%2Flotusquickr%2Flotusinstructorforum%2Fmain.nsf ), do not hesitate to contact your Instructor Program Administrator with any questions you may have regarding this initiative. See you on YouTube!
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UPDATE ON THE INSTRUCTOR PRIVATE SITE
As of press time, there has been no word from the developer as to when the Certified for Lotus Software Instructor Private Site will be migrated to new servers. In the last issue of Clippings, it was recommended that folks who wanted to stay in the know leverage the Lotus Education Instructor Forum Quickr ( https://www-03.ibm.com/lotusquickr/lotusinstructorforum/main.nsf?Login&RedirectTo=%2Flotusquickr%2Flotusinstructorforum%2Fmain.nsf ). All items that would normally be posted to the private site are being added to the Forum in an attempt to lessen the inconvenience caused by the lack of availability of the private site. A Certified Instructor can check if they have access by clicking on the above link. For those who do not have access but are interested, please contact your Instructor Program Administrator for assistance.
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INSTRUCTOR PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR CONTACTS
If you have upgraded your certifications, need to add courses to your portfolio, or have a general inquiry related to teaching Lotus courseware, contact the Instructor Program Administrator for your region/geography. This contact list is also posted in the Instructor Forum, on the Instructor Private Site, and on the Instructor Public site, accessible via the Lotus Certification home page.
ASEAN
Raymond Josef Edward Lara
mailto:larara@ph.ibm.com
Australia/New Zealand
Kerry Trevethan
mailto:kerry_trevethan@au1.ibm.com
Europe
Thomas Lang
mailto:Thomas.Lang@at.ibm.com
Greater China Group
Liu Jie
mailto:liujie@cn.ibm.com
India
Vaidehi Srinivas
mailto:vaisrini@in.ibm.com
Japan
Satoru Iwasaki
mailto:E61342@jp.ibm.com
Korea
Tae-Hyung Kim
mailto:thykim@kr.ibm.com
Latin America
Eliane Vido Nadur
mailto:enadur@br.ibm.com
North America
Carol Koschak
mailto:carolk@us.ibm.com
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INSTRUCTOR LINKS
Most of these are located on the Certified Lotus Instructor Private Site. Only Instructors with an IBM ID can access this site.
IBM Certified Instructor Program for Lotus Software ( http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/lt_ibmcertifiedinstructorprogram.shtml )
Instructor Program Administrators
( http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/process/contact_ipa.shtml )
LE Instructor Forum ( https://www-03.ibm.com/lotusquickr/lotusinstructorforum/main.nsf?Login&RedirectTo=%2Flotusquickr%2Flotusinstructorforum%2Fmain.nsf )
Sneak Preview: Upcoming Courses and Instructor Certifications ( https://education.lotus.com/rw/privateed.nsf/7E6A2338DDD460558525659F005383A6/CB252628C336A8078525720C004A8C70?OpenDocument )
Purchase Instructor Guides ( https://education.lotus.com/rw/privateed.nsf/7e6a2338ddd460558525659f005383a6/bedf32615572d0e7852567dd0066e2a7?OpenDocument )
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