Dave Hay ran into an issue where the WebSphere Portal server was unavailable while the HTTP servers were down. He discovered the problem in a "hardened" configuration.

Stephan Wissel lists several methods of protecting data and the problems each presents. Then he provides some code to help implement one of the methods.

Steven Vaughan explains the "yellow status" for Traveler, when the server says response time is above the acceptable threshold, and how you can reconfigure the defaults.

Marie Scott has learned of a problem in Notes 8.5.1 and 8.5.2 where Notes may have trouble finding the default browser and display messages as HTML text. She’s posted an explanation and a fix.

David Brown explains the "ReceiveResponse: 554" message you may get when dedicated Domino outbound SMTP servers try to connect to GoDaddy hosted domains. He has also posted the "fix" to get your servers to communicate.

Jens Bruntts has released version 2 of his Android app that lets you synchronize a Lotus Notes discussion database to your Android device. Here’s the link to the app in the Android Market.

Michael Brown has been reading John Resig’s book, Pro JavaScript Techniques. In it he came across some interesting functions. But the examples seemed to have bugs, so Michael has posted the code with his modifications.

Andy Donaldson is wondering if it’s time for IBM to drop the Lotus name from the yearly event, and the products. He’s seeking your comments on the matter.

Marie Scott was asked why iNotes users would get a browser time out after upgrading to Domino 8.5.3. She’s posted information on a couple of workarounds while IBM Support works on the problem.

Daniel Nashed wants to remind you, documentation for Traveler is in the Domino Wiki. He’s provided a link to the HTML documentation for Traveler 8.5.3.