Andrew Chapman is presenting and is displaying his sense of humor. The Slide title is “COM Based DCML API Implementation Models for Visual Basic Development Environments”. I suspect that is a an actual title from an old Developer Conference presentation.
Month: May 2009
EMC World 2009: CMA Keynote
Time to hear Mark Lewis. I’m going to try and resist commentary and hold-off until I have a chance to talk to Mark later today. Mark is a good guy, smart, and knows his stuff. I’m sure this will be up on YouTube later, and I’ll link directly then.
(Now on SlideShare and YouTube)
EMC World 2009: Integrating Documentum within Popular Desktop Applications
Moving around, trying to figure out the best session to attend and ended up here after Andrew told me to catch the next SharePoint session later today. This session is important because many users just want to work within Microsoft Office, specifically Outlook. Let’s see what Namrata Murlidhar has to say on this topic.
EMC World 2009: Documentum ECM 6.5 Architecture Overview
Victor Spivak, chief architect for the platform, is presenting on what is the most popular topic post from last year. Victor is smart and doesn’t mince words. The session was mostly packed 15 minutes before it even started.
Victor is going to breeze through many of the things that haven’t changed in a year, so supplement these notes with last year’s notes. These notes are “more accurate” if they conflict.
EMC World 2009: EMC Documentum CenterStage – The New Standard for Extended Enterprise Collaboration
Didn’t do any sessions during the second slot, everything was standing room only when I got there, at least the ones I card about. Going to take some time to see what David Le Strat has to say about CenterStage. I have a lot of eRoom clients that are anxious to move to CenterStage, when it is ready for them.
EMC World 2009: Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) – Best Practices and Real World Examples
One of my most popular session notes from last year returns for a sequel. Not a bad way to start the conference. Let’s see if Michael (MT) Mohen of EMC Professional Services can deliver on their promise to provide us with lots of new material…
The Source Code from the AIIM iECM CMIS Demo
I’ve been promising this for a while, but it is finally available. I had all these plans, but I decided to just get the code out for everyone as I seem to keep getting busy. You can tell that the code was written to work and not to be supported. All you critics can relax, I know already.
Before I go any further, I want to thank Craig Randall for his sample application that helped me get started. That application is also available on the EDN as well. Read his write-up, Consuming CMIS WSDL in Visual Studio and then go to the EDN for his code.
I also want to thank Thomas Pole for helping to write the User Interface, design the object model, and leading AIIM’s efforts around iECM and CMIS in general. Some of the code you will see is his.
EMC World 2009: Rules of the Road
Things are starting in just under a week in Orlando, but I wanted to share my plans with everyone, and lay down my Rules for EMC World. These rules are very similar to last years Rules, but I’ve updated a bit to include Twitter in the discussion as I set the expectations before I start.
All posts that follow these rules will start EMC World 2009:. This is to clearly identify them for everyone. If I write a post before/during/after the conference that doesn’t adhere to what I am laying-out here, it won’t have that prefix.
Disclaimers
I’m going to be running a basic disclaimer in all my posts. If for some reason I forget to paste it in, this disclaimer applies to all EMC World 2009: prefixed posts and you can be sure I’ll be adding the disclaimer as soon as I notice that it is missing. This is because I will be writing the posts during/after sessions and I will hear things that I may misconstrue or that talk about future events.
All information in this post was gathered from the presenters and presentation. It does not reflect my opinion unless clearly indicated (Italics in parenthesis). Any errors are most likely from my misunderstanding a statement or imperfectly recording the information. Updates to correct information are reflected in red, but will not be otherwise indicated.
All statements about the future of EMC products and strategy are subject to change at any time due to a large variety of factors.
As indicated, if I learn later that something I posted was incorrect, I will endeavor to correct it, but it may not be immediate.
Topics of Conversation
The Great Movie List of Pie
Not the post I meant to throw up here today, but life is funny that way. A month ago, I wrote a post entitled 10 Things About Pie. Item 9 was as follows:
I am intent on seeing the best 50 movies of all time. As nobody can agree, I have a list of 280+ movies, of which I have seen 89% and counting.
Kas Thomas asked if I could post a link to the list. I promised him that I would. Well it took a month, but I have uploaded the Movie List of Pie. It is an Excel spreadsheet, uploaded to Google Docs, that I use to track the movies I have watched. I took all my scores out, but I have seen 252 of the 282 movies on that list. Feel free to Export and score yourself. If you have to think about if you have seen a movie, you probably need to watch the movie again.
Tips: Don’t Depend on That Sequential Object ID
I recently ran into a situation that challenged one of my basic beliefs in the setup of the Documentum repository, object ids may not be sequential!!!
What you say? Impossible you say? Yet it happened.
What I encountered isn’t a widespread phenomenon, but it could happen to you.
Word of Pie 