Jumpstart Day • Sunday, June 3

Join us for this special, pre-conference day and jumpstart your educational experience. Intense 3-hour sessions get you up to speed quickly on new technologies, fortify your understanding of core Notes/Domino topics, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference.

Your Jumpstart Day fee entitles you to attend any combination of morning and afternoon 3-hour sessions, lunch, and a CD containing all of the Jumpstart materials — just $295 with your conference registration.

Morning Jumpstarts: 9:00am

Lotus Notes and Domino Administration Essentials
Rob Wunderlich, IBM

If you’re new to Notes/Domino administration, need to plug holes in your current knowledge, or just want a refresher course, then this session is for you. Dive into the basics of administration to expand your knowledge of server configuration and settings, mail routing and replication, the tools you need to manage your Notes/Domino infrastructure, and more. Walk through the tasks running on your servers, which ones to monitor, their impact on performance, and how to identify and troubleshoot potential problems. Plus get the big picture on how security works, ID’s, keys, creating and removing users, and much more. This session is also appropriate for developers who want to better understand the infrastructure on which their applications run.

Coding in LotusScript: The Core Elements
Debbie Lynd, WIS

If you’re an administrator or a developer who’s new to LotusScript, or an experienced developer just looking to refresh your coding skills, then this jumpstart is for you. From the front-end classes to the back end, you work through examples of instantiating objects, gaining access to object properties, and applying methods to manipulate data. Gain the expertise you need to read through and debug existing code, and create powerful Agents for efficient data processing. Understand the containment model and how to access Domino objects, properties, and methods so you can write solid script. Take home a script library database full of reusable code to perform many different functions – such as walking through a collection of documents, making changes to documents based on user-defined criteria, processing a document submitted from the Web, utilizing error-handling techniques, and much more.

A Comprehensive Introduction to Java
John Kidd, Kidd & Associates

This special 3-hour jumpstart will expose you to the core concepts of the Java programming language including classes, objects, interfaces and polymorphism. Get expert advice on how to think in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) terms and gain an understanding of the major impact OOP has on the traditional Domino development process. Know which development tasks, projects, and applications lend themselves to Java. Assess your current skillsets and determine the best ways to prepare yourself and your team to develop in Java. Walk away with an understanding of the basic constructs of Java and get a detailed introduction to object oriented development that will help you with this challenging transition.


Afternoon Jumpstart Sessions: 1:30pm

Server Monitoring and Statistic Collection 101
Andy Pedisich, Technotics
This essential jumpstart is for both new and experienced administrators who want to get the most out of native Domino monitoring functionality. Take a journey through server statistics, from tweaking default settings and using the proper alert methods, to exploiting advanced event capturing to customize reporting for your environment. Get the lowdown on setting the stat collection interval that makes the most sense for your domain, and configure activity logging and trending to identify heavily used or inactive apps so that you can properly load balance your servers. Discover the secrets held in every statistics document and leave with a customized Statrep.nsf that shows you what’s really happening in server clusters and on server platforms.

Sametime 7.5.x Deployment and Upgrade, Without the Aspirin
Chris Miller, Connectria

Uncover the important questions and critical answers that you need for a successful enterprise installation/upgrade of your Sametime environment to release 7.5.x. Explore the hardware, software, and bandwidth requirements, and understand the important choices and key decision points you’ll encounter along the way. Get step-by-step instructions for upgrading from previous releases, drill down to the beginning infrastructures, and find out how to avoid the inevitable gotchas and pitfalls. Discuss capabilities of the updated Sametime Connect 7.5.x client and walk away with a list of ports that Sametime can utilize, sample infrastructure designs, and the beginnings of how to fit that Sametime into your firewall and security environment.

Introduction to WebSphere Portal and Portlets
Suzanne Minassian and Sunil Hiranniah, IBM

Take a top-down approach to implementing a successful portal solution in your organization. Start by exploring the common ways portals are used, and understanding the tools available for building portals and managing their content. Then arm yourself with best practices for defining your portal architecture and designing and developing portal applications to satisfy your business’ functional and technical needs. Walk through live demonstrations on building high quality portlets, and discover the ins-and-outs of integrating Domino applications within a portal. Learn what inter-portlet communication is and why it matters, as well as the credential vault security model for portals, and the JSR 168 portal standard. Plus, take home checklists, development models, and key best practices to help you get the biggest bang for the buck in your portal project.

Build Java Applications Faster and More Efficiently with Eclipse
John Kidd, Kidd & Associates

Bolster your Java development toolkit with Eclipse, a powerful, open source tool and get specific strategies and techniques for use in building Java-based Domino applications. Examine the benefits of this tool which include, a higher level of efficiency for coding and testing, price (it’s free), extensibility and configurability. Discover how Eclipse enables developers to examine variables and expressions while executing your Java code step-by-step. Take home a number of tips and tricks that will assist you in developing Java applications faster and avoid the common traps and problems that Eclipse can foster when it comes to Java development. We will finish the time with a detailed look some of the newest Eclipse-based tools and technologies available to Domino developers including Eclipse RCP and Lotus Expeditor.


For more information on this conference, call us at 781-751-8755 or email us at info@admin2007.com