Urs Meli has a problem with the Domino Designer in 8.5.2 FP2. It seems to crash every time he starts working in LotusScript. If you have any suggestions or fixes he’d like to hear from you.

Gabriella Davis says if you’re installing Sametime 8.5.2, take some extra time and read the documentation. She’s posted a "cheat sheet" and some additional pointers to help you get started.

Mark Barton has posted some code showing how to use XPages to create 2D barcodes, like the Datamatrix and QR Code. He’s also posted a demo program you can try out.

There have been several project updates, including the XPages Extensions library, on OpenNTF. This page includes a list, with links, of the updates.

Tommy Valand has posted a bit of code that adds the protocol and hostname to generated URLs. This lets you use xp:link to locate applications.

Dennis Ruddigkeit says it is becoming more common to use an email address, instead of a login mame, with the IBM Connections or Activities side-bar plugin. He shows you the change to make in qpconfig.xml and includes a link for more information.

Big Blue turns 100 this month. Punch cards, System 360, floppy disks, and more are featured in this slide show of technology products from IBM.

Darren Duke was seeing a lot of semaphore errors on the Domino console after an upgrade. The fix was amazingly, confusingly, simple.

Thomas Schulte thinks it would be nice to be able to capture the difference between these two events programmatically. He hasn’t been able to make it work, if you know how, please let him know.

Bruce Elgort has posted the slides from yesterday’s XPages Guru webinar. He says a recording of the whole webinar should be available soon.