Poll Results: Do you use group tabs in Lotus Notes?

Not a whole lot of participants in this past poll but I do find the stats a bit interesting.  The grouping of tabs was a pretty big user interface change in Lotus Notes 8 and I am pretty amazed that many people didn’t even know about it at all.  Tabs in Lotus Notes are actually pointers to Eclipse perspectives, the new UI for the tabs is really a perspective switcher on steroids.  If you are just seeing this topic for the first time you can check out the post where I explain what group tabs are: click here.

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New Polls Page and a little bit of JQuery!

You can check out the new polls page, the link is at the top of the site. I used a JQuery plugin for the slide show effect on the page. JQuery comes with WordPress so enabling this plugin was a snap. I can even embed the same JQuery code on this post:

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I decided to use the DIV Slide Show JQuery code that Kevin created. Make sure you donate if you use his stuff!

Poll: Do you or your customers develop or use applications on salesforce.com?

I have been checking out developer.force.com this week and it is a pretty extensive cloud based solution for developing, deploying, and using applications in the cloud.  I checked out their Eclipse based development videos and the development environment looks pretty comprehensive.  I would like to hear if anyone who reads this blog has any real experiences they would like to share about it.  I am also interested to hear how many of my readers have real exposure to SalesForce.com.

If you use SalesForce.com in any manner, application use, develop for, deploy on, integrate with or any of the above please take some time to post your answer below and possibly a comment on your experiences.

If you are a Lotus customer I would like to hear how you integrate your XPages, Domino or Notes applications with SalesForce.com.

Thanks in advance!

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Poll ends today: How do you want to preview attachments?

Link to original post.

I have been playing with the attachment viewer a lot lately and over the weekend I figured out how to show the thumbnails from files based on the Open Document Format (ODF).  I learned, thanks to some colleagues, that these files are really just zip files and showing those thumbnails is as easy as using the zip viewer I just created.  Anyway, there have been a lot of discussions on where people want to view attachments.  Lots of opinions!

So this poll is to ask you, where and how do you want to view attachments?  I hope I got all of the basic options in the poll.  Go ahead and select all that you would want to see.

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POLL: Mobile development, native or HTML 5 based?

A timely post on InfoWorld made me think of a poll that would be interesting to see how the general community feels on the subject.  I do have my own opinions however; after playing with the Android SDK and creating some basic applications for the device.  In short, until we get JavaScript libraries like jQTouch for all major frameworks like Dojo and JQuery or HTML supports such API’s it will be hard to completely develop with HTML 5 and JavaScript alone.  However, I do think HTML 5 + JavaScript should be the right answer in the long run but today I would have to go with option 3 – both Native and HTML 5 for the development choice. The good news is most of the development for platforms like Android use Eclipse for both web and native so you can essentially learn and develop everything for free!

What do you think?

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