Mat Newman has been following some Twitter and "I hate Lotus Notes" sites with interest. Which has led him to contemplate why users hate Notes. He’s posted a short video from one user – who may have reason to hate his Notes developer.

Time to convince the boss and the travel department to let you sign up for Lotusphere 2012, running January 15-19. The call for abstracts will open soon.

30 Digits has announced beta releases of both the Lotus Notes and Facebook Extractors. The extractors are designed to pull requested information from large, complex systems.

David Leedy has posted this Extended Edition covering "XPages SplitScreen – View and Document". The video runs about 20 minutes.

This is a new white paper on developerWorks titled "Best practices for using SSO with IBM Sametime 8.5.x Community Server". It explains how single sign-on (SSO) works on the Sametime Community Server.

Ian Raffle says the official release date for 8.5.3 is Tuesday, October 4. Ian has included a link to the fix list, all 1100+ fixes, so happy reading.

This Technote explains the procedures used to collect data if you’re having HTTP performance or hang issues with your Domino servers. It covers version 6.5 through 8.5.

Patrick Kwinten is a little confused. He tried to implement a custom web authentication error page at the application level using a custom $$ReturnAuthorizationFailure form. But the form never appears. Does this actually work as he thinks it does?

Tom Steenbergen says by default (x)pages doesn’t keep the position of a view. If you back up from page 3, you’re taken to page 1, not 2. He’s posted some code to help you track pages in your applications.

Chris Miller says the webcast on "What’s New in Notes, Domino, Traveler" has been expanded to include the XWork Server. Marie Scott will also be joining the panel. Registration is open.