This week’s podcast is on "Developing a Collaboration Strategy" with Michael Sampson, Bruce Elgort, and Julian Robichaux. The podcast runs about 40 minutes.

Anna Sandler has defined five trends to watch in the coming year regarding e-mail in general and Notes in particular.

Binary Tree has a job opening for someone knowledgeable about both Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange. This page includes particulars.

Devin Olson apparently found this quirk the hard way – when DDE crashed. Then he looked for a fix. He offers his findings on the subject.

Steve McDonagh is tired of user interfaces that depend on your color perception since he probably doesn’t see it the same way the designer did. He offers some tips for designers.

Benoit Maillet is wondering if he’s found a bug or a new feature. It seems when he looks at the list of agents in Designer 8.5.3 he sees fewer agents than he does in 8.5.1.

Manfred Dillmann has posted the highlights of Upgrade Pack 1 for ND 8.5.3 as well as links to more information.

Stuart McIntyre has posted a screen shot showing how to find the Connections version number. This is in response to a query on Greenhouse.

Marc Champoux says if you have a Dell MD3200 storage array and your VMware ESXi server starts acting up you might want to try this simple fix.

Paul Hudson has run into a problem deploying XPages onto his 32-bit Solaris Domino system. He’s tried a number of things but keeps getting errors. If you have any ideas, he’d like to hear from you.