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13/10: UKLUG was a great success
On Wednesday I drove up to Edinburgh in time for the UKLUG conference. It was a great chance to meet up with friends and catch up on all things Lotus. Timing is everything and the conference was timed with 8.5.1 about to be shipped. There was an air of confidence about recent changes to the products.UKLUG was extremely well organised and my thanks go to Warren and all those who put in tireless hours.
The 8.5.1 version is by all accounts a slicker beast than 8.5.0. Many of the chief complaints with 8.5 were about the time it took to load. Those complaints seem to have gone. The Designer client has finally got its make over and IBM have done the right thing and made it a free download. This is a good move. It may be slightly late but better late than never. Doing the same for the Notes client (without the ability to connect to servers) would be a good thing too. The POP3 and IMAP protocols might need a little attention but it would give students somewhere to try out their applications designed in their Designer download. All we need now is a port to a few games consoles (XBOX360, Playstation3, Wii) and the client will become ubiquitous.
On the way up to Scotland we accepted an offer from someone who wanted to buy our house. So we now need to go shopping ourselves and find a new home. We want to buy a home in the Peak District that gets snowed in each year with some land. Broadband connection and four wheel drive vehicle is obviously mandatory.
After UKLUG we drove up to Insch north of Aberdeen to visit my brother and his family. I spent Saturday chilling out with a chainsaw, an axe and a few beers (afterwards). We spent the whole of Sunday driving back. 10 hours in all owing to traffic on the M6.
