Patrick Picard has been trying to get an XPages app to use a picklist with a data table with uneven results. He’s wondering if there’s something he missed.

The Lotusphere 2011 website has gone live. The dates are set – January 30 through February 3 – and sessions are being planned. Now is the time to start planning your trip to Orlando, Florida.

Tim Clark says Matt Newton is running a series of one-day Notes upgrade workshops during September and October in the U.K. The sessions are free of charge but you do need to register.

Luis Benitez says the proper way to do this is not to pull the plug on your server (dang!). The proper way to cut down on e-mail is to use Enterprise 2.0 software such as Connections. He includes an hour-long video from Luis Suarez explaining how it works.

Chris Toohey decided the only way to see if a Notes App store would work was to write some apps and see how they sold. He’s written about the process and provides links to his apps.

Declan Sciolla-Lynch doesn’t like the Recent Contacts feature in the Notes client. It remembers incorrect addresses as well as correct ones. Under 8.5.2 there is a way to turn the feature off, but it didn’t get included in the Desktop Policy, so… Declan has posted directions for doing it in the Notes.ini.

Technote 1445280 addresses a problem in Domino 8.5.2 where, when the server shows high utilization, SMTP mail hangs. There is now a fix for this problem.

This is a new article on the Lotus Sametime wiki on how to upgrade the Sametime client from 8.x to Lotus Sametime 8.5.1. The authors cover planning, deployment, and trouble-shooting.

You can send out e-mails detailing the coming changes. You can hold training sessions. You just can’t get the users to pay attention. One admin describes the after effects of an upgrade.

Paul Farris had a problem with the Public Address Book after upgrading to 8.5.2. It seems there’s an infinite loop in an agent. If you want to avoid the problem, he’s posted the "fix".