Mitch Cohen says integrating Connections with Webtrends should be really simple, but… After running into a problem, he’s posted the code he used to fix things.

A new article on the Lotus Sametime wiki explains how to use the Sametime system console to set up your Sametime environment. It includes setting up DB2, Domino, Community, Meeting, and Proxy servers.

David Greenstein says the Notes 8.5.2 client includes a Sametime 8.0.2 client. Since this may not work for you, he explains a way to install the Notes client and get the correct version of the Sametime client installed for your office.

Brian Benz is trying to pass a variable to a XPages custom control and has run into a problem. He can’t seem make a custom control work more than once on a form. If you know how to fix this problem, he’d like to hear from you.

Ferry Kranenburg would like to submit his software for the Lotus Awards 2011 contest. To do so, Ferry would like some help from developers who use Source Sniffer.

Stephan Wissel thinks all the press about Firesheep is a good thing. It makes you think about the security of your network connections. He’s posted instructions on hardening your Domino web server against attack.

Okay, this has nothing to do with Notes and Domino. Paul the Octopus has died at the ripe old age of two and a half. He gained fame over the summer by predicting the winners of the World Cup. This page includes a couple of short videos showing Paul in action.

Michael Brown thinks sequential numbering should be avoided whenever possible in distributed environments. However. Someone always seems to want it. So. He’s provided some instructions on how to make it work.

Adam Osborne explains how Multi-stage Mode works in the Defrag.NSF application to let you defrag those big databases, even when there doesn’t seem to be enough free disk space.

There are two new articles on the technical wiki for Sametime 8.5.1. The titles are: "Tuning the IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 Meeting server" & "Setting up an IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 Meeting server for LiveNames integration". This page provides links to both.