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Don't be bashful

Chris Whisonant  

We want to have everyone participating in the im.bleedyellow.com Sametime community. So after many internal discussions about how to prove this, we've released this Official Statement that we have not, do not, and will not be logging chats that occur on this Sametime community.

Don't Miss The Announcements!!

Chris Whisonant  

We've started a new shared blog: BleedYellow Site Feedback. Make sure that you subscribe to it to receive announcements on site updates, maintenance, downtime, etc... as well as some general posts to respond to questions that people may have.

The first post is about some scheduled downtime Saturday evening.

For YellowBleeders behind a firewall

Chris Whisonant  

For those of you who have had trouble accessing the im.bleedyellow.com Sametime community from behind your company's firewall, we have just opened access to the community from port 80 - port. Chat away!! :) You can still use 1533 if you haven't had problems with that.

By the way, if for some reason you need to access the web server, you'll need to go to http://im.bleedyellow.com:8088

BleedYellow.com on Taking Notes Podcast 79

Chris Whisonant  

Go check out the latest Taking Notes Podcast  where Nathan and I talk to Bruce and Julian about everything BleedYellow - past, present, and future!

Thanks for having us guys!

Custom Sametime Blackbox for BleedYellow.com

Chris Whisonant  

Thanks to Mikkel Heisterberg there is now a "Custom Sametime blackbox for bleedyellow.com" - check out his post for more details. If you're logged into the im.bleedyellow.com Sametime community and you've updated your Profile picture then it will surface in the Sametime business card. Good work Mikkel!

BleedYellow Sametime Community Icon

Chris Whisonant  

OK, don't laugh too much, but I have been using the following icon for my BleedYellow community in Sametime:



Mostly cheezy, but it's easier to differentiate that community compared to, say, a sideways blue triangle!

Adding a link to your Comments Feed on BleedYellow blogs

Chris Whisonant  

I have been thinking of this and decided to actually look into it when Phil asked me about a comments feed today. In all of the documentation, I couldn't find out what the link for the comments feeds are. The first thing I tried was modifying the Entries feed link from this:

http://bleedyellow.com/blogs/roller-ui/rendering/feed/BLOGNAME/entries/atom/

to this:

http://bleedyellow.com/blogs/roller-ui/rendering/feed/BLOGNAME/comments/atom/

and it works just fine. So the next step I did was modify my template to include the comments link beside the entries link.

In order to do this, you will need to do the following:

  1. Edit My Blog
  2. Preferences
  3. Templates
  4. Click the link to Edit the Weblog template
  5. Find the following: <div class="header">
  6. Between the first #if, I now have the following:

    #if (!$model.searchResults)
                       <a href='$url.site/roller-ui/rendering/feed/$model.weblog.handle/entries/atom/' title="$text.get('ventura.feed')" #if($utils.isIE6())onclick='showFeedTip()'#end><img src='$url.site/roller-ui/images/feed.gif' border="0" alt="Entries" title="Entries" /></a>
                                    <a href='$url.site/roller-ui/rendering/feed/$model.weblog.handle/comments/atom/' title="$text.get('ventura.feed')" #if($utils.isIE6())onclick='showFeedTip()'#end><img src='$url.site/roller-ui/images/feed.gif' border="0" alt="Comments" title="Comments" /></a>
                       #else
  7. Save the template
Now I just need to get some comments! :)

Interesting Issue With "YellowBleeders" Online Status

Chris Whisonant  

Earlier today, Mr. Tripcony pinged me saying that only a handful of people were showing up online at the BleedYellow Sametime Community. After having dinner with him (good choice, btw), I came back to the hotel and started to look at the issue. The YellowBleeders group contains a subgroup as its only member. This subgroup, in turn, contains multiple subgroups with long lists of accounts. The registration process adds people to a group and then creates another group after the previous one reaches a certain size (y'know, the whole 32K list thing...). We're up to 800 registrations! so there are 3 groups. But I digress...

Initially, I thought that the problem was the nesting of groups. However, I noticed that the first group had about 30 names sorted and then the remainder wasn't sorted. This was because I had previously modified this group to add the Org to the names, and on saving it the group was automatically sorted. It turns out that the only people I could see online just happened to be in that first group, and just happened to be in that section of sorted names. So after sorting all of the groups, some more names began to appear in the list of online users!

Let me know if you still see some issues with this. I need to modify the code to sort the groups automatically, but I don't want to mess with that code while I'm away from the office for a few days...

Lotuscript API for Lotus Connections

Chris Whisonant  

I'm so glad that Nathan has finally made this announcement. Great job Nathan, "Monster Mac", et. al. Check out all of the details over at Nathan's blog.

Chat with YellowBleeders

Chris Whisonant  

If you want to chat with others who are on the BleedYellow site, you can do this. You can add a new Sametime community to im.bleedyellow.com (port 1533). Then add the group YellowBleeders...

bada boom bada bing!

Welcome to BleedYellow!

Chris Whisonant  

Lotus 911 is pleased to announce that registration is now open at BleedYellow.com. BleedYellow is a Lotus Connections site open to all those who bleed yellow. After registering at the site, you will be able to work with all of the components.

  • Profiles - "are a directory of the people in your organization as well as information you need to form and encourage effective networks. In addition to basic information captured in a business card format, profiles catalog skills such as technical expertise, familiarity with foreign languages, and areas of interest."
  • Communities - "are groups of people with a common interest. A public community is available for all to join, while a private community is restricted to a particular group. A community provides a central spot for users to stay in touch, share information and exchange ideas."
  • Blogs - "are online journals you can use to broadcast information to a community in an efficient, dynamic style. In a business setting, blogs let you deliver timely information with a personal touch. Let users know about a product launch. Keep your sales team in the loop. Or spread the word on company events. Get the word out with a blog!"
  • Dogear - "a tool for organizing your bookmarks, extends your ability to track online sites that are of interest to you. You can optionally share collections of bookmarks to create a network of knowledge."
  • Activities - "provides a new way of Web-based collaborating that lets you organize work around what you are doing rather than what tool you are using. Activity-centric computing lets you organize, share, and reuse work, even if that work involves several types of tools."
In addition to the above, make sure that you connect the Activities sidebar in your Lotus Notes 8 client to the BleedYellow Activities server for drag-and-drop activity creation from within the Lotus Notes 8 client.

Another component of BleedYellow is a Lotus Sametime Instant Messaging server. Don't forget to add the im.bleedyellow.com server as a new community in your Sametime Client (using port 1533) and have a central location to chat with others who bleed yellow.