Ed Brill

Lotusphere 2005 -- Top-ranked sessions

As promised, here's a look at some of the top-ranked sessions from Lotusphere 2005.  Thank you and congratulations to these top speakers.

For quality and relevance of information, these were the top sessions of those receiving twenty or more evaluations.  3.0 would be a perfect score.

1.   BP117 Application Performance Techniques for Domino Developers	Kevin Marshall Jamie Magee	2.98
2.   HND104  Build Your Own Java 2EE Web App Using Rational Application Developer	Beverly DeWitt	2.96
2.   JMP104 Java for the IBM Lotus Domino Developer	Tom Duff Joe Litton	2.96
4.   BP114  What are your servers trying to tell you?  The Easy Route to Domino...	Gabriella Davis	2.94
5.   AD210  Error Trapping in LotusScript	Rocky Oliver	2.93
5.   ID506  Wes Morgan's Network Design for Collaboration	Wes Morgan	2.93
7.   BP102  Visit the Formula Big Top	Rocky Oliver	2.92
8.  ID 104 What's New in IBM Lotus Domino Web Access in Release 7 and 6.5.x	Jason Dumont Vinod Seraphin	2.90
8.  BP126  IBM Lotus Domino 7 and DB2 Effective Use of Access and Query Views	Dr. Ludwig Nastansky Ingo Erdmann	2.90
8.  JMP106 LotusScript JumpStart	Scott Good	2.90
8.  BP107 Best Practices for Object Oriented LotusScript	Bill Buchan	2.90
12.  ID110 Introducing the New Rooms & Resource Manager	Bruce Kahn Murray Hurvitz	2.89
13.  ID119  This isn't Charlie's Security Session--But You Still Should Attend!	Katherine Emling Dave Kern	2.88
13.  ID109  Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade -- Past, Present, and Future	John Paganetti	2.88
13.  BP103  Advanced Web Development Techniques	Scott Good	2.88
16.  BP116 Advanced LDAP Infrastructure Design (Updated!)	Chris Miller	2.87
16.  Innovators Panel (Tuesday 1-25-05) 8:30am-9:30am	Moderator: Esther Dyson	2.87
16.  BP113 IBM Lotus Domino Server Performance Best Practices	Kim Greene Daniel Nashed	2.87
19.  BP123 Improving Collaboration with Blogs and Wikis in Domino	Declan Lynch Richard Schwartz	2.86
19.  STR109  The Boss Loves Microsoft:  Where Does That Leave Lotus?	Ed Brill	2.86
19.  BP110 Best Practices Using the Lotus Domino Administrator	Andrew Pollack	2.86
19.  ID121  Leveraging AdminP in Lotus Domino 6.x	Kathleen McGivney Susan Bulloch	2.86

For quality and effectiveness of speakers, these were the top sessions of those receiving twenty or more evaluations.  Again, 3.0 would be a perfect score.

1. BP117 Application Performance Techniques for Domino Developers	Kevin Marshall Jamie Magee	2.98
1. AD210 Error Trapping in LotusScript	Rocky Oliver	2.98
3. BP102 Visit the Formula Big Top!	Rocky Oliver	2.97
3. JMP104 Java For the IBM Lotus Domino Developer	Tom Duff Joe Litton	2.97
3. ID506 Wes Morgan's Network Design for Collaboration	Wes Morgan	2.97
3. Innovators Panel	Moderator: Esther Dyson	2.97
7. ID104 What's New in IBM Lotus Domino Web Access in Release 7 & 6.5.x?	Jason Dumont Vinod Serpahin	2.95
7. BP103 Advanced Web Development Techniques	Scott Good	2.95
9. BP107 Best Practices for Object Oriented LotusScript	Bill Buchan	2.94
10. ID203 IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing 6.5.1: Technical Details and Architecture	Wes Morgan	2.92
10. HND104 Build Your Own Java 2 Enterprise Edition Web Application Using Rational Application Developer	Beverly DeWitt	2.92
10. BP114 What Are Your Servers Trying to Tell You? The Easy Route to Domino Reporting and Logging	Gabriella Davis	2.92
10. BP125 "Extreme Makeover, Lotus Edition": Customizing the Look and Feel of Lotus Products	Rob Novak Viktor Krantz	2.92
10. BP108 Admin Zero to Hero in 60 Minutes	Andrew Pollack	2.92
10. BP123 Improving Collaboration With Blogs And Wikis In Domino	Declan Lynch Richard Schwartz	2.92
16. STR109 The Boss Loves Microsoft: Where Does That Leave Lotus?	Ed Brill	2.90
16. BP116 Advanced LDAP Infrastructure Design (Updated!)	Chris Miller	2.90
16. BP110 Best Practices using the Lotus Domino Administrator	Andrew Pollack	2.90
16. BP126 IBM Lotus Domino 7 and DB2: Effective Use of Access and Query Views	Dr. Ludwig Nastansky Ingo Erdmann	2.90
20. AD501 Introduction to J2EE Application Development Using Rational Application Developer (formerly Webphere Studio)	Beverly DeWitt, George DeCandio	2.89

The Birds-of-a-Feather sessions received relatively few evaluations, so the data is a bit less reliable.  Among the top BOFs were: The Lotus Blogging Community; OpenNTF -- An Open Source Community;  Service Data Objects (SDO) Mediators and their use in Building Portlet Apps; and  Notes Plugin for the IBM Workplace Rich Client.