Jeff Eisen

Good first day at LS.

Changed my room this morning.  Between the beep beep sound in the middle of the night of trucks backing up at the loading dock and the swish sound about once a minute from the leaking toilet, I decided I could do better. Now, no complaints.

Never quite made it over to Business Development Day stuff, but I checked out a few hands on and jump start sessions.  As Ed Brill says in his blog on the subject, sessions are crowded and there were long lines a half hour early for the hands on sessions.

My hands on for "Customizing IBM Lotus Notes 8" went fairly well, but it became clear, no surprise, that while the Notes developers may have heard of Eclipse and heard of Java, in general, their experience with either of them is pretty limited.   But, we did a fairly straightforward Lotus Expeditor/Eclipse plug-in with no Java required that extends search functionality.   Once you get the basic concepts and UI gestures for the tooling around Eclipse and Lotus Expeditor, you can add pretty powerful functionality without breaking a sweat.   It also became clear that there is confusion about what exactly Lotus Expeditor is.   I'll try to clear that up in this space in the next couple of days.

The party tonight was fun with the IBM Westford crew for the most part ending up sitting in the sand watching the Patriots/Colts game.    Good game -- bad ending.  Such is life.

Looking forward to the opening general session tomorrow.  I demoed in it last year, but this year I haven't been much involved.  From what I've seen, though, they are showing some pretty cool stuff.  

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