Cristian D’Aloisio installed Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.3 on SUSE 64bit, virtualized on VMWARE, but the installer hung. He tried a few things before hitting on the solution.

Ed Brill got to try out the new Sametime client for iOS. He’s posted a screen shot as proof, or maybe just to tease everyone. No word yet on when the client will be available.

Amy K Hoerle has been working with Domino 8.5.3 and relational database access from XPages. Apparently she was a little too thorough in writing up her findings and ran into a size limit on her post. So – if you’d like all the details, she’s posted a PDF.

Bob Balaban is posting chapters from his book on using Java with Domino. Today he’s posted Chapters 3 through 5 as PDFs.

Paul Mooney says there is a quirk with the way Traveler handles messages tagged "prevent copying" in Notes. He’s posted a screen shot showing what happens.

Just a reminder. Your abstract needs to be in by November 11 if you want to present a session at Lotusphere 2012.

If you’ve been having trouble finding where to set your preferences in Domino Designer 8.5.3, this post may be able to help. Shown are both an "approved" method and a "not approved" hack.

Suzanne Livingston has posted information on a new backup and restore tool for Connections. Along with a link to the tool, she’s posted some information on how to deploy it and where to find instructions on using it.

Victor Toal is happy to report he found this regression bug during testing and an SPR has been opened. The problem exists in Domino 8.5.2, even with FP1, but is fixed in 8.5.3. He just wants to warn you not to name any fields "eml".

This fix addresses two SPRs for iNotes. The first has to do with users being unable to log back in after logging out and the second is for users not being able to logout when Sametime is enabled.