BizzyBee’s BizzyThoughts

Today was theme park night. The biggest one to try out was The Hulk: it made a mashup out of me in less than 5 minutes! I was in doubt for a long time whether or not I would do that one. Yesterday’s hangover was still a bit in charge (I was like bleeding yellow through my mouth), in the evening I drank 2 beers with a couple of nachos. At the theme park a hamburger and fries wanted to become a part of me, resulting in a certain upside down feeling without being it yet.

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You can tell I’m tired. If you recognize me, and want to say hi, please do so. I’m very hi-able :-).

Yesterday I was at the Lotus Usergroup reception. Jake Howlett won it (congratulations, Jake, I learned a lot over the years from your blog, so you deserve this). I only drank one glass of wine, but still have a major hangover. Must be because the content of the glass was infinite: the waiter filled it over and over and over. It was great to have a chat with the bloggers and learn to know them.
Today I really look tired. I’ll make a picture and post it a little later.

Wow. The word Expeditor is the second most heard word after geek overhere. In Europe there are no geeks. We don’t use the word. We know what nerds are, but there is no flattering equivalent for a more trendy nerd. Overhere everybody is a geek and proud to be. In Europe the word for it is: “I’m doing a lot of computerstuff, I’m interested in technology, but also have a life besides it”. Which is pretty much the same I guess

Also, sometimes I feel I’m not geek enough for this place: I don’t wear IBM t-shirts and gadgets. I only use the backpack they gave me, because it’s a good one and my 17″ laptop even fits in (ok, that last one must make me a geek again :-))

Yesterday I ran out of a mashup session. Today I was in an overflow session about Expeditor for LotusScripters. I did, because I am confused as a simple Notes Developer. I came out even more confused. First thing: it’s like we’re in some in between stage, where it’s not clear yet what to do with all these new tools. Other thing: there’s so much little steps you have to take. Where’s the RAD in this? Perhpas it’s just too soon to start working in it. I don’t have that much time to spend to figure it all out, and test, and try.

Ok, have to go now, I’m in a more practical session from Rocky Oliver.

I’m at LotuSphere for the moment, and there’s too much going on, so I have to make it short. I wanted to say I was really impressed by the announcement that Designer 8.5 will be built on the same Eclipse foundations as the current 8 Client. Meaning: real LotusScript debugging possibilities (comparable to Java in Eclipse), sorted LotusScript classes, real properties boxes (to me they looked like those in Dreamweaver, at the bottom of the page), ways of dragging and dropping fields on forms, Web 2.0 integration (things like type ahead, Web 2.0 enabled views, modern layouts).

A lot of other new features and stuff were demonstrated as well, but this thing only enlightens my day. Or it’s the jet lag speaking :-).

The plan was to be totally fit before going to LotuSphere, but a customer gave his New Year’s party yesterday evening. The second best plan was to stay there until 23h00 and to have at least one night some decent sleep. I ended in bed at 2h30 instead, had to be up at 6h30 for my plane, so this was a bad start :-).

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