Matt White really likes the new "Autosave Java design element on save of individual Java sources" feature in 8.5.2. He’s posted a screen shot in case you don’t know about the option.

Mitch Cohen has posted links to the different packages for Sametime 8.5.1 FP1 on Fix Central. He’s also posted a link to the Technote explaining what’s in the fix pack.

Bruce Elgort has posted Taking Notes Episode 124. In it IBM’s Joyce Davis and Sharyn Richard talk to Julian and Bruce about the VideoFest event, which starts on October 26, 2010.

Ray Ozzie arrived at Microsoft with some great ideas. While Microsoft has implemented some of them, there are signs it hasn’t given up on the old, complex systems.

Chris Miller is rather peeved at those who post things in catalogs under the wrong category. Please, pay attention, plug-ins and widgets are not the same. Chris provides a link to a video explaining the difference.

Mary Beth Raven wonders if your users actually use either of the new window management options since Notes 8? Come to think of it, how many even KNOW about them?

Bob Balaban offers some tips on using db.search() vs. db.AllDocuments vs. AllDocuments view to retrieve documents from a database.

Matt Cook tells of a user complaining about Notes 8.5.1 Standard running very slowly. The usual fixes failed. The final "fix" was quite unexpected.

Mat Newman was recently asked if there was a patch needed to put public holidays on the Notes calendar. Mat was so surprised by the question he wrote up instructions on how to import holidays in Notes 7 and 8.

Mikkel Heisterberg found a notice on LotusUserGroup.org about a live forum being held on November 8 to discuss what you find useful in XPages Help. If you’d like to participate, Mikkel has posted a link.