Mary Beth Raven says the Lotus Tech team will spend much of the December 14 meeting listening to your input. If you aren’t a member of the community, she’s posted a link so you can join.

Carl Tyler says if your Sametime 8.5 server is behind even the most basic of firewalls, you may run into problems. He’s posted some information on the problem and the solution he used.

If you’re still trying to convince the boss to send you to Lotusphere 2011, the "early bird" sign-up discount is due to end Friday, December 3.

Stephan H Wissel needed to read HTML from a remote site and return a specific table for further processing. The usual answers to the problem weren’t desirable so he used an XPath parameter in LotusScript. He’s included some code to help explain the process.

Bruce Elgort has posted this week’s episode – Meet the Evolution Transformer with GROUP’s Nathan Freeman. The podcast runs about 44 minutes.

If you are looking for XPages training, but aren’t sure where to turn, Kathy Brown has posted a review of the new TLCC course on Developing XPages using Domino Designer 8.5 while Benoit Dubuc offers his impressions of XPage 2 Development for Notes and Domino 8.5.

Keith Brooks reminds us that R6 produced the Single Copy Template (SCT) option. With it came the benefit of saving lots of space and the terror of something happening to that single template. Keith explains how he recovered mail after accidentally overwriting that template.

Eric Mack uses CTRL+M to create new messages in Notes. But he had problems using it on his new laptop. He discovered BING was interfering with the keys and how to get it working again.

Lotus Development and Support Engineers are hosting an hour-long conference call on Wednesday 8 December 2010. You can submit your questions in advance.

Bruce Elgort has posted a 15.5-minute video of a presentation by Jason Fried on why people don’t get work done at the office. If you work in a large office, you will probably recognize much of what is said.