B's Blog

So yesterday was the first time that I did I live blog from an event, and I have to admit that it was quite exciting to do. IBM was putting on a workshop for Connections to key advocates in our business units, and I had a running blog going on the different business initiatives that could benefit from social software. It was really very interesting to see the different business units declare their use cases, and actually there was a lot of overlap between many of the business units, including Marketing and IS as well as Product Development and IS.

It will be very exciting to see the social software develop over the POV, and into the Pilot program.

Signing off,
B

So in an interesting discovery today, I noticed a strangely coincidental correlation between clicks in Connections and massive spikes in CPU usage, ranging from a 10% to an 80% spike. It was rather strange to see my clicks correlate 90% of the time with the spikes that showed on the CPU meter. Now granted we're running Connections on a single core at 3.33 Ghz and 3.75 mb of ram on a VM, but nonetheless, I would have expected a little bit better performance out of the beast. The thing that concerns me the most, is that I was the only one clicking anything on the entire site! We haven't even started the POV yet, so I'm a little concerned that the load may be too much for this little VM. We will see I suppose......

On a related note, don't try to start all the Connections services via a script at once, it looks painful to see the CPU spiked at 100% for so long and to see the page file sit at 3.80 GB.......kind of crazy. Anyway, time to go workout, I'm done with Connections for now......

Signing off,
B 

Hey everyone, it's been awhile since I last blogged, but a lot has been happening. We have been researching a lot of different things, including Enterprise Search with IBM's OmniFind tool, blogging front ends to link to multiple blogs, and finishing the branding of Connections. Given that we aren't a Notes shop (I know, I know....) we were going to try and use Microsoft Word to post blogs. Unfortunately, even though it's setup using the MetaWeblog API, it still for some reason does not want to connect via that API......has anyone else run into this issue?

After visiting Lotusphere, I've come to the conclusion that if this were a perfect world, then everything would be able to integrate with one another and people would be able choose whether they like the Notes interface or the Outlook interface. The office interface or the symphony interface. Why is it so dang hard to get things to work with another? Is it for the same reason that it's difficult to get certain people to work with one another? Hmmm.......a never-ending battle for teamwork.....BTW, has anyone successfully gotten the integration between Outlook and Sametime to work??? It really likes to crash on the two systems we've been testing with...Oh well......maybe Sametime 8.0 will resolve the issue...

Signing off,
B