McGarelGramming

As Yellow Day 2009 winds down later, sit down in your favorite chair, click the TV remote and enjoy the following:

1.  Madmin
This award-winning series is set during the Lotus heyday of the later 1990s. The main character is an administrator, drunk with power, who is equally adept at manipulating server settings and co-workers.

2. My dbName is URL
A client-side Notes developer (JSON Lee) turns his apps around and web-enables all his doclinks.

3. M*A*S*H*U*P*S
Contrasting tense business conflicts with clever coding one-liners, the team stitches together data for the sales people on the front lines.

4. CSI: New User
When an unknown employee calls the Help Desk asking about his mailbox, the Corporate Security Infrastructure unit starts its investigation:  When did he start? What department is he in?  What databases does he need access to?  Why didn't anyone let us know beforehand?

5. Blogfights
The History Channel and TNT ( "We know drama" ) combine to recreate past disturbances in the Yellow Bubble.

6. Dora the Internet Explorer
Junior programmers can join Dora as she solves problems caused by a non-compliant browser, i.e., IE.  Guest-starring you-know-who as the grumpy old troll.

7. True Yellow Blood
Despite myths and rumors surrounding Lotus software, the Loti are becoming more mainstream. But many in I.T. fear the software's long life and superhuman abilities. Warning: graphic data feeding.

8. U Lost
Survivors of a server crash must find the best software to collaborate and get off their data island. Can they solve the clues right in front of them?

If you have your own recommendations and don't have a BleedYellow account to comment, email them to me at mcgarelgramming at gmail.com and I'll do what I can to post them below.

By the way, if you enjoyed these, you may also enjoy last year's "8 Movie Recommendations for Yellow Day."

All of these movies get a "thumb drive up" from me:

1.  IIt's a Wonderful Database
In this holiday favorite, an executive realizes the wealth of information he has in his personal address book.

2.   8 1/2
A film within a film about the next major Notes release, from a director who prefers fractions to decimals.

3.  @Transform-ers
Two opposing sets of data modification agents cause conflicts throughout the system.

4.  Bodyfield
A monster-sized rich-text field consumes network traffic and defies attempts to export or display its data. (Visual warning: this movie was shot using a shaky Lotus Screen Cam).

5.  Old Yellow
This children's classic tells of a young admin who takes over an abandoned V3 group mail database. He slowly learns to appreciate it before it intercepts an email virus that could have infected the entire company.

6.  SharePoint Break
An FBI agent goes Web surfing to find a gang of bank robbers, who turn out to be a small IT department trying to get the money to pay for their "free" SharePoint technology. Starrng Patrick Swayedeasily.

7.  Lotus Reno 911
An irreverent look at what happens when a business partner "helps" a police department.

8.  Blog Day Afternoon
A Notes developer holds his users hostage as he spends his time reading blogs related to Yellow Day. (Reportedly based on a true story.)