Bob Balaban joined Lotus Development Corp. in 1987, where he worked as a software engineer on several versions of 1-2-3. In 1993, Bob began working at Iris Associates on what eventually became Notes 4. Bob authored the "back-end classes" for LotusScript (and then, in Notes 4.6, for Java as well). From 1997 to 2005 Bob was president (and janitor) of Looseleaf Software, Inc., a small consulting, development, and training company focused on Notes and other IBM products. Bob re-joined IBM in 2005, where he is now serving as Programming Services Architect for Notes and Domino. In his current role, Bob oversees issues of programmability and application development for the product. http://www.bobzblog.com