Comments on: Happy 10th birthday, Notes R5

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:17:01 +0000

For those of you who don’t know him, Craig Iffert is a legend… he had me and everyone laughing for those two weeks in Boston.

By: Craig Iffert

Craig Iffert — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:35:11 +0000

Darren, thanks for your note. I learned much from that experience. Continued success!

By: Steve Ashmore

Steve Ashmore — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:36:19 +0000

Hey Darren, I remember that Docklands Arena event. Seem to remember that the steps up to the podium were not well lit, and each of us was a little nervous about tripping up the steps in front of [what was at the time] the biggest audience we’d seen.

Now what was that music clip that kept being played?

By: Brian O'Donovan

Brian O'Donovan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:03:52 +0000

>I can’t remember the exact date,
>but I know that it shipped very late in Q1 of 1999.

Actually I remember the ship date very well. We produced the build that was supposed to be the gold build on the morning of 31st of March, but we ran into some last minute glitches and by the time we managed to sort them out it was past midnight Boston time.

Someone suggested that we really ought to update the build date, but nobody was willing to ship a major release with a release date of 1st of April. Eventually someone pointed out that it was still 31st of March in Boulder Colorado where the download site was hosted so we were technically correct to leave the build date as it was.

Now aren’t I the sad individual to remember a trivial detail like that :-/

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:13:00 +0000

The kid using OpenOffice pre-dated Symphony, and she’s comfortable with it. As long as she’s not using Microsoft Office I’m not too bothered what she uses.

By: Michael Kobrowski

Michael Kobrowski — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:59:26 +0000

@10, Open Office, not Symphony?

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:57:35 +0000

@9 – oh yes Maria, I forgot the occasional bit of attitude. But she does use OpenOffice and even suggested to her Computer Studies teacher that they use it at school instead of Microsoft Office… so she’s a good girl.

By: Maria Helm

Maria Helm — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:34:54 +0000

Now I feel old.
@Darren – ditto here. My youngest was in a crib then, and today he has a cellphone and an attitude.

By: Andy Stewart

Andy Stewart — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:01:02 +0000

Goodness me – doesnt time fly. I’ve still got the T. shirt from the London Arena gig somewhere. Also, if you installed software from the launch CD it played Superman to entertain you.

By: Michael Sobczak

Michael Sobczak — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:56:58 +0000

I remember using Notes 5.0 and 5.0a on a big project. One problem that gave us a lot of grief was how turning on Soft Deletions caused major issues for views that displayed response hierarchies. It was eventually fixed in a later point release but it was several weeks of teeth-gnashing before we figured out what caused the problem and turned off soft deletions.

On the plus side, getting the ability to access view entries that represented categories and view totals was huge. I can’t even imagine how I did simple reports before then.

And how we got to use outlines instead of the horrible navigators. Big change for the better.