Quickr... Tip #2 and #3 from The Notes Apprentice

Today's lessons from The Notes Apprentice will be centered around Quickr. We recently had a company tech fair where I demo'd Quickr and Notes 8.0.1 to our end users and IT. Both were very well received. I immediately had requests to create "Places" for some of the groups in IT to start playing. Thus my focus on Quickr lately. I promise to get back to my fun with the Notes 8.0.1 deployment on Monday though! But enough babble....

Tip #2 from The Notes Apprentice...
It's Quickr NOT QuickR. Now seriously, I'm not sure it matters but I was corrected so I feel the need to spread the word. It matters to someone so I decided they must have put some blood, sweat and tears (or at least some spare time) into making Quickr what it is today. Thus, it matters now to me since Quickr is a pretty cool tool. Your welcome!

Tip #3 from The Notes Apprentice...
Never add the Sametime Community Server info to Quickr unless you're sure that your Sametime server also has LDAP authentication turned on like the Quickr server (this was under the Other Options in Quickr v8.0). This is important, especially if it's right after the initial company training and you think "surely this won't effect anything and I can make the change without testing". Bad things happen... All of the sudden no one could log in to Quickr at all... including me! Luckily, I had a genuis from Workflow Studios there wrapping up his Quickr training who offered to help. He quickly started having me check various settings, patiently asking what I'd been doing before it happened. I knew I'd re-registered some places but he assured me that wouldn't cause any problems. It took at least 5 minutes of Jr. Admin panic before I remembered that I'd added that Sametime server info. However, it felt like an hour and it was very hard to think while I mentally updated my resume at the same time! However, Lance (very nicely) taught me about the differences of authenticating between LDAP and the Domain Directory while I backed out the Sametime server info, restarted http and magically everything worked again. So feel free to learn from my mistake... Your welcome!

To blog or not to blog...

Since I'm relatively new to the whole blogging world I ran into something new in the last few weeks that I didn't know how to respond to when it comes to my blog. When something so profound happens to you does it mean you automatically run to blog about it?? ...the answer is no. However, now that time has passed I feel the need to use(abuse?) my blog to tell the world about a wonderful human being. My dad :) He's one of those people that you just love to be around and always has great words of wisdom. The cool thing is he would wait to be asked his advice though when I'd run to him with problems, which is rare! Best friend doesn't begin to cover how I think about him. I can remember camping out for Star Wars premieres or special trips just the two of us to Vegas just for the Star Trek Experience. I remember him supporting me when I left for Basic Training and being just as excited at that graduation as he was when I graduated from college. Lately he's been sick with Leukemia and Lymphoma and not able to get up, so I took some time from work and I tortured him with a Battlestar Galactica 3 season marathon while he got better. Then something happened that will forever change me. On April 9th, his body just couldn't fight any longer and I lost him. He was only 57 and I miss him daily with an ache that feels horrible and feels like it will never end. I wish all of you could have known him. His inner geek would have made everyone smile! Which leads me to the blog. I finally decided that maybe that's what blogging is in a way. A chance for everyone to collaborate about Lotus and our lives and share things that others might not know. I wish I could have had my dad forever but in the end I guess the lifetime of great memories will get me through anything. Without a doubt, he knew I loved him and I knew he loved me. So for this weeks lesson from the apprentice... hug your parents, your spouse, your kids, your dog... whoever in your life means something to you and keep making great memories.