Finally
by Volker Weber
Last week I dropped a few hints that something interesting was going to happen on April 1st. Alas, it didn't. We had to wait until today. But now that Steve Castledine has announced that he is has joined IBM, I have one secret less to keep. :-) Steve never knew that I knew what he was up to. And actually nobody ever told me at any time.
There were some obvious vectors: At Lotusphere Kevin Cavanaugh mentioned that later this year, Domino 7 would have standard out-of-the-box RSS feed support as well as blog template support. Steve announced he had a very busy month ahead with April being much easier for him. This was a sure sign that he was finishing his ongoing projects by March 31st. The next vector was that OpenNTF had no clue where this template was coming from. I did not need more to start digging. And now it is official:
IBM is going to integrate the DominoBlog software into Domino. Congratulations, Steve.
Comments
Nobody told me either ;O)
Wow, thats impressive detective work Volker! Congrats to Steve and IBM - I look forward to seeing this pan out!
but you still haven't solved the mystery of the RSS feed support. It's not coming from Steve's template.
I'll try to write about my limited understanding of how it works sometime in the next week or two.
You're correct. Absolutely nothing interesting happened on April 1 this year (aka Internet Jackass Day).
