Book Review: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide

Roy Rumaner has posted his review of Karen Hooper’s "IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide", released by Packt Publishing. Roy considers it a very good book to recommend to users.

Posted on: September 15, 2010 9:00 am

Which Java sort is faster – MergeSort, QuickSort or Arrays.sort?

Bob Balfe was curious. So he set up an array and ran a series of tests. He’s posted both the test scenario and his results.

Posted on: September 14, 2010 9:00 am

Do you want to take your Xpage applications offline?

Mark Hughes would like your vote on getting Xpage support in DOLS. He’d like you to provide a business reason as a means of convincing IBM to make the change.

Posted on: September 14, 2010 9:00 am

Notes client 8.5.2 might be missing mail headers

Chris Miller has posted a link to the relevant Technote on this problem. It seems that some messages lose their headers after the client is upgraded to 8.5.2.

Posted on: September 14, 2010 9:00 am

Stack buffer overflow vulnerability in Lotus Domino iCalendar functionality

This is a Zero Day vulnerability in the iCalendar function of Domino 8.0 and 8.5. If you use iCalendar, you need to read this Technote.

Posted on: September 14, 2010 9:00 am

New article: Upgrading a single mail server to Domino 8.5.2 and why you might not want to do that

Vlad upgraded only one of his two Domino mail servers to 8.5.2.

Read this DominoPower article.

Posted on: September 13, 2010 9:00 am

Taking Notes Episode 120: 2010.09.13

Bruce Elgort has posted Episode #120 – Everything you wanted to know about Lotus Quickr 8.5 and more. The podcast runs about 46 minutes.

Posted on: September 13, 2010 9:00 am

Notes Plugin Dev Quick Tip: upgrading to 8.5.2

Jake Ochs provides instructions on getting plug-in apps in Eclipse to work after you’ve upgraded your Notes client to 8.5.2.

Posted on: September 13, 2010 9:00 am

Lotus Quickr for Domino 8.5 arrives

Stuart McIntyre has posted the part numbers for the different parts of the Quickr 8.5 downloads to help you get everything you need.

Posted on: September 13, 2010 9:00 am

Domino 8.5.2 changed the Directory Assistance (DA) template name

Chris Miller says, while it’s rare for Lotus to change the name of a template in a point release, they have with 8.5.2. There are also some new features in the template.

Posted on: September 13, 2010 9:00 am