Gregg Eldred says there is a problem with IBM’s reliance on wikis and blogs for disseminating technical information, sometimes people forget to update the databases. He uses his problem with installing the IBM Lotus Sametime Gateway as a reference.

If you’re a Certified Lotus Professional (CLP) you can get a discount when you register for Lotusphere 2012, right up to the start of the conference. For the rest of us, the Early Bird discount expires Sunday.

Mat Newman offers a tip on how to make sure all the databases created from a template get a "standard" group. Mat has posted and explanation and screen shots.

Opus Neo has built a Quickr extension that lets you add photos to business cards. The extension, Neo.PhotoManager, can be downloaded for free.

Julian Buss worked up this code a while back and things looked fine in 8.5.2. Now, in 8.5.3, messages don’t display properly. He’s wondering if anyone knows how to fix the problem.

Mark Leusink has posted the code, all five lines, needed to send an HTML message from XPages. He’s included variations for attachments and changing the sender name.

Niklas Heidloff has posted the code for using this widget and a link to a couple of demos. The widget pulls comments from Facebook using the JSONP API.

IBM has released new Sametime Chat apps for iOS and Android. This page shows what the apps look like and how to get them.

Marc Champoux runs a mix of ESXi 3.5 and ESXi 4.x Servers for Domino. During a reboot of the host server he got a message saying "The license server is not configured to perform the operation". He explains what happened and how to fix it.

Bob Balaban has been posting his book on Java as he transcribes and updates it. He’s now up to the sixth installment which includes the appendices. Part seven will include samples and JavaDoc.