Blog: http://www.bobzblog.com
Bob Balaban has been a prominent developer, article/book-writer, consultant and conference-speaker in the area of collaboration technology for many years. He worked at Lotus/Iris as a development engineer on Notes (and other, less well known products) for 10 years, had his own consulting/development company (Looseleaf Software) for 8 years, focusing on Domino, Sametime and J2EE technologies (and he wrote a book too, but you can only buy used copies now). He pioneered technology roadshows/seminars for Notes/Domino audiences, and returned to IBM in 2005, where he once more did development work on Notes and Domino. He left IBM (again!) in early 2008 to join Binary Tree as Vice President of R&D. Bob's esoteric, yet somehow engaging, whimsical and educational blog can be found at http://www.bobzblog.com. He has been known to swear like a sailor in private, though (so far, at least until ILUG) never in public. We'll see.