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On 14 november I did a presentation about Ext.nd for the Dutch Notes User Group (SNUG) in Den Bosch. The presentation sheets you can download here. Its a very basic presentation about how to implement Ext.nd in your applications and what Ext.nd can do for you. This presentation is in Dutch and I am sorry this is a pdf file. It is not possible (yet) to upload Lotus Symphony files to the bleedyellow blogs I discovered.

"Web 2.0, Mashups and Other Collaboration Trends for the Enterprise Embracing web 2.0 for the enterprise means capitalizing on the power of participation to move ahead of your competition. It means making your experts more visible and your teams more agile. It means allowing business users to combine and share enterprise data with feeds from public sources through mashups, technology that is changing the economics for situational application development. This session explores how these technologies are other trends are allowing companies to build better business outcomes through collaboration." 

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There are three new commercials of Lotus Symphony on YouTube where IBM is attacking MS Office.
I think that this is the best of the tree commericials.
The others you cab find here: A Download Away, and Don't Look Back

For an application that I'm building, I needed to synchronise my Domino Data with Oracle. Then when the data is in Oracle I can access the data easely with Cognos for the creation of reports. There was only one thing that made me nuts, the diacritics where not correct. I looked at several ini settings and forums but I couldn't find what the problem was. Then a Oracle colleage came up with this.

Have a closer look to the Oracle Client that is installed on the (Windows) Server where also my Domino Server runs. If you click on the sever on "My Computer" whith your right mousebutton and then you go to "Properties" then to the tab "Advanced" and then to "Enviroment Variables" you will see this:

Here I had to add: NLS_LANG with the value AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8 to the System variables.
Then I rebooted the (Windows) Server and YES! It worked!
The Diacritic are now correct!

I was listening to a podcast of "The Taking Notes Podcast".