Jake Ochs has posted a link to the full article but, in short, Google has released the Java tools from Instantiations for free. If you do Notes/Symphony plug-in development, Jake recommends you try these tools.

Keith Brooks has had to face the end-of-life for Domino Document Manager and use the ODMA to link to Microsoft Office. But. Sometimes there are errors saving documents. He provides a link to a helpful Technote on the problem.

Fredrik Norling has found event parameters retrieval is undocumented. There aren’t even many blogs or other articles about it on the web. So he’s posted his solution to the problem.

Paul Mooney acknowledges this will affect relatively few installations, but you might want to be aware that putting BES servers in a separate domain may cause problems.

Paul Hannan is letting everyone know the XPages Extension Library is now available for download from OpenNTF. The library includes information on using the XPages Extension API (ExtAPI) in Notes 8.5.2.

Chris Miller wasn’t particularly happy to hear that Notes and Domino 8.5.2 allow users to drag and drop .ZIP files into their My Widget sidebar panel. Chris includes a link to the webcast explaining the feature and why you might want to shut it down.

This is a new article in the Lotus Technical Library covering configuration and best practices. The authors assume you’re familiar with Lotus Quickr and have already installed Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino.

John Vaughan has started writing apps in dojo and XPages. But he’s run into some problems with documentation, or the lack of such. He’s hoping someone can explain some of the methods skipped in the documentation.

Mark Hughes is looking for people, with Dominio 8.5.2 installed, who might like to help him beta test his software.

Tommy Valand has posted some code to fix an issue where fields lose focus during a partial refresh. He reminds you to test this code before you put it into production.